Page 4 University Daily Kansan Monday. Oct. 20.1953 Sooners Stop Kansas Crowder Fools Fans, Jayhawks With Deception By BOB LONGSTAFF Kansan Sports Editor Mighty, infallible Oklahoma showed its supremacy of the Big Seven conference Saturday as it rolled over the highly touted Kansas Jayhawkers 42-20 to take probably permanent control of the conference lead. Eddie Crowder, deceptive Sooner quarterback, played the part of a magician as he hid the ball from the fans and the Kansas defense alike in leading his team to victory. The Jayhawkers fought hard to the every man but the Oklahoma depth proved too much for them. Kansas lacked the scoring punch when it was needed while Oklahoma could reach into its bag of reserve strength and come up with someone as good as the starters. The Oklahoma backfield composed of Crowder, Billy Vessels, Buck McPhail and Buddy Leake rushed for 304 yards against the stout Kansas defense. Crowder, Vessels and Leake passed 181 yards for the Sooners. Merrill Green stepped into Buddy Leake's shoes when Leake left the game with an injury in the second quarter. Green, who hasn't been heard from much in playing behind the nation's leading scorer, racked up 35 yards in 8 carries and scored two touchdowns. Kansas got off to an early start as Galen Fiss dropped on a Vessels fumble in the first quarter. Vessels had started around left end only to be met by a bone-jarring tackle by Joe Fink. The ball popped loose, and Fiss gathered it on the OU 8-yard line. Charlie Hoag punched over from the 6-yard line, and John Konek made the conversion good to put Kansas in the lead 7-0. Oklahoma recovered a Kansas fumble on the KU 19-yard line to set up the first OU touchdown. Leake on a pitch out drove wide around left end to score for the Sooners. His kick tied the score. Crowder—with McPhail faking a run—tossed a long pass to Max Boydston. Boydston gathered the ball in on the 25-yard line and raced for the TD with 1:28 left to play in the first quarter. After intercepting a Kansas aerial as the first quarter gun sounded, Oklahoma marched from its own 36-yard line to score. McPhail made the conversion good, and the score was 21-7. Kansas—pulling such surprises out of its bag as putting Gil Reich in the backfill slot and George Mrkonic in the offensive line—showed its scoring power in drive from the hometown score. Jerry Robertson plunged over for the TD, and Konek missed the point after touchdown attemt. Coming back strong in the second half, Kansas drove for its third touchdown with Bob Brandeberry snaking over from the 6-inch stripe. Konek made the conversion, and Kansas trailed by one point 21-20. Konek gathered in a stray Oklahoma pass that bounced out of McPhail's hands on the OU 40-yard line. The Jayhawkers drove to the Sooner 5-yard line but were unable to add the final punch for a TD. Had the Jayhawkers been able to push over for a score the final outcome might not have been as low-sided as it was. A few minutes later, Oklahoma—featuring a fine piece of broken field running by Billy Vessels—came back to score. The Sooners added two more TDs in the fourth quarter to complete the scoring. Charlie Hoag turned in an all-American performance against the powerful club from Oklahoma. Brandeberry drove hard throughout the clash. SETTING UP SOONER TD—Max Boydston, sophomore end for the Oklahoma team, snags a Billy Vessels pass and races to the Kansas 2-yard line before Hal Clevinger, Jayhawker safety, (not in picture) finally dragged him down from behind. Galen Fiss (33) and Arch Unruh (11) are pictured in pursuit.-Kansas photo by Darten Sarten. By BOB NELSON Kansan Sports Writer "The greatest offensive team Oklahoma has had during Bud Wilkinson's six years at OU," is the way Dick Monroe, KU assistant coach, summed up the Jayhawkers' 42-20 defeat at the hands of the fabulous Sooners. $ \textcircled{*} $ And Monroe certainly is in a position to know what he's talking about. Rated as one of KU's greatest linebackers of all-time, Monroe held down the double-duty center spot on the 1947 and 1948 Jayhawker elevenes. He has seen the Sooners play at least one game every year since '48. In Wilkinson's first year at OU, 1947. Gorge Sauer's KU Orange bowl team battled to a 13-13 deadlock at Norman, Kansas, paced by all-American Ray Evans, tied the Sooners for the title that year and finished the season with an overall 8-0-2 record. And the score, Oklahoma 60, Kansas 7. This was the worst defeat for KU in conference history. Monroe was center on that badly humiliated field, a team that thought it had a fine chance of defeating OU for the title. 1948, Coach J. V. Sikes' first year at Mt. Oread, Kansas lost seven in a row before meeting Oklahoma here for the title. This '48 OU team was regarded by many grid experts as the greatest blocking and offensive minded Sooner team ever to play Kansas. When asked to compare the great '48 club with this year's Sooner club, Monroe was quick to reply, "There's no comparison. This year's team is easily the greatest offensive eleven Wilkinson has ever had at Oklahoma. OPEN SUNDAYS 711 MASS. LAWRENCE, KANSAS PHONE 2045 "For that matter, it's the greatest Sooner-Jayhawker Statistics KU 19 OU 19 First downs 130 Net yards rushing 131 304 Net yards passing 240 181 Net total offense 371 485 Passes attended 24 14 8 Passes completed 14 5 Number of punts 4 4 Hunting average 32 48 Fails lost 2 2 Yards penalized 11 25 SCORE BY TEAM KANSAS 7 6 7 0-20 OKLAHOMA 14 7 7 14-42 Scoring-Kansas: Touchdowns; Hong Robertson, Brandeberry, Conversions; Bodston, Vessel, Leake; Bodston, Vessel, 2, Green, 2, Conversions; Leake, 2, McPhail, 4. THE LINEUPS OKLAHOMA ROBERT, KIRPF, ENU LT: Davis, Don Brown, Bynum, Necalm LG: Bowman, Burris, Gaut LG: Calthan, Calthan RLG: Roberts, J. Ingham RT: Rowland, Melvin Brown, Hearon, Littlejohn RE: Renee Daddel, A. Ingham, Calame Crowder, Grigg, Ewbank LH: Vessels, Santee, Ging RIH: Leake, Green, Lane FB: McPhail, Powell KANSAS LT: Mrkonic, Lundy LG: Knowles, Bixler, Rossman, Arm- offensive team I've ever seen, Monroe said. This writer has witnessed the OU-KU game each year since Wilkinson took over except for 1949. We'll have to agree with Monroe that this year's club tops' em all. Jayhawker football fans, well even go further. This year's Oklahoma team is the greatest offensive powerhouse we've ever seen and probably the conference's finest offensive-minded club of all-time. As far as the writer is concerned, our die-hard and still mighty potent Jayhawks were beaten by the nation's NO. ONE TEAM Saturday. Although they'll probably never reach the No. 1 spot (because Sooner-land is located out West in the sticks), we'll stick along with Wilkinson's boys as the best collegiate eleven until proven otherwise. There is much second guessing just where KU will land in this week's grid poll. shuffle. Kansas certainly isn't three touchdowns weaker than mighty Oklahoma. It's too bad injuries slowed up or forced out secondary defensive aces Galen Fiss, Gil Reich and John Konek. Had they been going "full speed" in the mill, the game probably would have been much closer. Don't sell the Jayhawkers short this week against fast rising SMU in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. The Jayhawkers' team spirit is good—and they're out to start a new win streak Don't Wait Until It's Too Late N-O-W! Buy Your Anti-Freeze WINTER 738 N.H. CHEVROLET Phone 77 C: Gish, Woody, Roberts RG: Helmstalter, Hantla, Woolfolk, Aunget RT: Spencer, Poppe RE: Rammelman, Patterson QR: Robertson, Reich, Clevinger LI: Hoag, Cindrich, Murphy LRH: Brandeberry, Konek, Simons, A. Unruh. FB: Sabatini, Fiss INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS OKLAHOMA RUSHING KANSAS RUSHING Back TC Net Av Vessels 10 105 7.0 McPhail 16 72 4.5 Crowder 11 63 4.7 Green 8 35 4.4 Leake 5 29 5.8 Ewbank 3 10 3.3 Back TC Net Av Hong 13 70 5.4 Brandeberry 10 35 3.5 Reich 6 19 3.1 Robertson 6 -24 -4.0 Fog 4 21 5.0 Sabatini 2 9 4.2 OKLAHOMA PASSING KANSAS PASSING ORLANDO CITY Passer PA PC PI TD Yds. Crowder 4 2 1 0 91 Vessels 3 2 0 1 76 Leakage 1 1 0 0 14 Passer PA PC PI TD Yds. Robertson 18 12 2 0 18 Hong 3 2 0 0 35 Reich 2 0 1 0 0 OKLAHOMA RECEIVING KANSAS RECEIVING Receiver C TD Yds Boydston 3 1 116 Reddel 1 0 33 Vessels 1 0 32 Receiver C TD Yds Brandeberry 3 2 78 Loaml 3 0 10 Hoag 2 0 54 Taylor 2 0 22 Reich 2 0 14 Bogue 1 0 14 Peterson 1 0 18 OKLAHOMA KICKING Kicker No. Yds. Ave. McPhail 4 192 48 Kicker No. Yds. Ave. Becky 2 84 Mikonic 2 27 13.5 Going To Town? FOR SAFE DEPENDABLE Transportation Ride The BUSSES A Bus Leaves The Campus Every Ten Minutes . . . 112 TRIPS DAILY. Rapid Transit Phone 388 For Schedule Information