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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 10, 1952
KU Travels To Ames Aiming For 4th Win
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Writer
After posting three straight home victories, Coach Jules V. Sikes and staff will attempt to get the Jayhawkers over the first of four road trip hurdles Saturday at Ames when Kansas tangles with Iowa State in a Big Seven conference clash.
Kansas enters the Iowa State game with several offense-defense lineup changes. But overall, the KU team is in its best physical condition since its opener with Texas Christian university.
With Kansas and Nebraska tied for first with 1-0 Big Seven records, the Jayhawkers must updend the Cyclones to keep pace with the surprising and undefeated NU Cornhuskers. While KU is trying to deflate the Cyclones, Nebraska will be trying to tame the not too potent Kansas State Wildcats at Lincoln.
Probable starters in the offensive line will include Jerry Bogue and Paul Leoni, ends; Joe Lundy and Oliver Spencer, tackles; Dick Knowles and George Helmstadter, guards, and Warren Woody, center. Backfield starters will be Jerry Robertson, quarterback; Charlie Hoag, left halfback; Bob Brandeberry, right halfback, and Frank Sabatini, fullback.
Bogue rejoins the active ranks for the first time since injuring his knee with a spectacular circus catch in the TCU opener. Brumberberry, all-Big Seven halfback last season, sat out the Colorado game after picking up a charley horse in the Santa Clara fracas.
On the defensive side, the picture is much more questionable and less
encouraging. The biggest question mark is, who will replace Morris Kay's left end spot, or rather, who'll be able even to come close to filling the big junior's shoes who was sidelined with polio?
Following practice Thursday, Coach Sikes indicated Kay's starting spot would be filled by one of three highly spirited competitors. This trio included senior end Duane Unruh, regular defense left guard, Joe Fink, or reserve senior guard, Dick Rossman.
Should Fink draw the starting nod, or when he's in action at left end, Bud Bixler, a highly promising 6-4, 232-pound sophomore battler will take over at Fink's guard spot.
Here is the probable Kansas defensive lineup: In the line, Fink or Unruh, left end; George Mrkonic, left tackle; Bixler or Fink, left guard; Bob Hantla, right guard; Orville Poppe, right tackle, and Don Bracelin, right end.
The Jayhawkers' defensive secondary, a much improved unit over last season, will include Galen Fiss, left linebacker; Merlin Gish, right linebacker; Gil Reich, left halfback; John Konek, right halfback, and Hal Cleavering, safety.
forward wall functions will depend largely upon the performance turned in at Kay's vacated left end spot.
How well the Kansas defensive
To date, Kay and Bracelin have given KU par excellence outputs in turning inside nearly every wide end sweep sent their way. Outstanding defensive end play has been a key factor in Kansas' three defensives wins over TCU, Santa Clara and Colorado by 13-0, 21-9, and 21-12 scores respectively.
The Jayhawker ground offense picked up last week as Hoag's 130- yard output paced a 271 yard rushing attack, this year's single game high.
After missing last year's 53-33 KU win over Iowa State because of a leg injury, Hoag will be out to duplicate his great show at Iowa State as a sophomore in 1950. Hoag stole the show with his flashy running. He set a new school rushing record of 140 yards, later broken by Wade Stinson against Utah in '50 with 239 vards.
With the Kansas offensive line beginning to clear a path, opponents had better keep a close eye on Mr. Hoag, a guy capable of crashing the 100-yard rushing mark in any and every game.
Hog could hold the key to KU's much hoped for and expected offensive improvement—an improvement that must come quickly if Kansas is to defeat such worthy opponents as Oklahoma, Southern Methodist, Nebraska and Missouri between now and Nov. 22.
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Writer
A Big Seven win over the Iowa State Cyclones at Ames, Saturday, is listed as a must in the Jayhawkers' victory column for at least three reasons.
No. 1, Kansas will be out to lengthen its eight-game winning streak that dates back to last year's mid-season 21-33 setback to Oklahoma at Norman. Following the Sooners' fourth quarter victory, KU went on to finish the 1951 season with five straight wins. The Jayhawkers have added three more victories this year.
No. 2, the Jayhawkers need an impressive performance against Abe Stuber's Cyclones to uphold their high national ranking.
Coach Jules V. Sikes' crew is currently listed in the No. 9 spot in the Associated Press grid poll. Kansas holds down the No. 10 position in the UP poll. These rankings are the highest ratings a KU football team has ever been accorded. Both are higher than any received by KU's famous Orange Bowl club of 1947.
And No. 3, the Jayhawkers must win this week's contest to set the stage for next Saturday's big game here with Oklahoma's
mighty Sooners. A reverse at the hands of Iowa State would take the keen edge off what is frequently referred to as the '52 Big Seven championship game.
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For the third time in four starts, the Jayhawker defensive secondary will be facing one of the nation's top collegiate passers in Rich Mann, Cyclone quarterback.
As a sophomore last year, Mann ranked first in Big Seven passing with 1,296 yards. However, he did have 17 tosses intercepted—a KU defensive hope and aim Saturday.
To date, Kansas shutout TCU's Ray McKowan, currently ranked second nationally in passing, and kept Colorado's Zack Jordan bottled up much of the afternoon after he fired his second quarter 7 yard touchdown toss to Frank Bernardi.
After restricting three opponents to a mere 21 points, with all the oppositions' points coming in the second quarters, Kansas hopes to get its high-powered offensive attack under way this week. The offense still needs improvements to catch up with the defense's great displays to date.
36 Jayhawkers Leave for Ames
The Jayhawkers entrained at 7:52 a.m. today for Ames, Iowa and the clash with Iowa State college Saturday. Coach J. V. Sikes club worked out this afternoon at Drake university in Des Moines.
The traveling roster included the following 36 players-the number allowed for a Big Seven road game by conference rules:
Ends: Jerry Bogue, Don Bracelin,
Paul Leoni, Harold Patterson, Jerry
Taylor and Duane Unruh.
Tackles: Bud Bixler, Joe Lundy,
Bill Marshall, George Mrkonic,
Orville Poppe, Dean Ragon, and Co-captain Oliver Spencer.
Guards: Hugh Armstrong, Joe Fink, Bob Hantla, George Helmstadter, Dick Knowles, Dick Rossman and Wavne Woolfocal.
Halfbacks: Frank Cindrich, Co-captain Charlie Hoag, John Simons, Bob Brandeberry, Hal Cleawinger and John Koneck.
Centers: John Anderson, Merlin Glover Bud Roberts and Warren Woody.
Quarterbacks: Gil Reich, Jerry Robertson and Arch Unnub.
Fullbacks: Galen Fiss, Frank Sabatini and Pat Murphy.
$200,000 Pact Awarded Stengel
New York — (U.P.)— The highest-priced managerial contract in baseball history—a two-year $200,000 pact—awaits Casey Stengel as soon he is ready to sit down and sign it.
Flushed with the success of four straight World Series victories, the grizzled, grey-haired New York Yankee manager presumably only is delaying his signing to determine how much of the sum he wants as a base salary and how much as a bonus.
"I'm going to give Bob Hantla a backfield number for the rest of the season," Earl Carrol, Kansas property-man, laughed after watching the raging Jayhawk guard bounce Colorado backs all afternoon.
"Retire, hell," he snorted at the Yankees' victory party Tuesday night.
Stengel, who dropped vague hints about retiring before his Yankees lander the World Series against Giants last year, no longer gives quitting a thought.
Hantla, Jayhawk Terror Aims To Deflate I-State
"He'll be easier for the customers to identify that way."
Carroll, of course, was enjoying a joke. But the opposition is finding nothing humorous in the wide-ranging play of the Jayhawkers' blond, muscular mid-line fury. He has spent so much time in enemy backfields he'll be eligible for a handoff any-coming Saturday.
He hopes to add to this aggregate Saturday against pass-minded, clever Iowa State, at Ames in the Jayhawkers' first road start of the season.
To be brief, the Madman from Meade has spun three consecutive stinkout performances as J. V. Sikes' forces rolled past Texas Christian, Santa Clara and Colorado in their first three starts. Playing almost every minute of defense, he has pounced on ball-carriers for a total of 96 yards in losses.
Hantla was an all-Big Seven defensive selection last year as a sophomore. He was just a few months removed from a spring practice conversion from fullback. The brawny junior's rugged success is not a question of technique. It is the result of immense desire propelling natural talents of speed, quickness and power.
As Sikes will tell you . "Bob simply loves to play football. His hustle and spirit on every play of every game is amazing. And he's improving every week."
Hantla is an ace of pursuit, which makes him particularly poisonous to the wide stuff. He pounces on any delay in the attacking secondary like a mountain lion grounding a wounded stag. Linemen assigned to close a hole in front of him may not have caught cold from the draft of his lightning charge, but some of them are still looking for him. Tremendous body-english frequently buffets him through the thick milling of two locked lines,
allowing him to get a hand on many a ball-carrier.
Another prime asset is the rarely-seen second effort. Like any other lineman, Hantla is handled completely now and then. But he'll keep banging and flailing until he breaks free. For example, Missouri frequently pulled a lineman out of its strong side off the Spread to cut down the barging guard when he burst thru the middle in last year's wild fracas here. The torpedoing Kansan simply would scramble up, give chase and more time than not get a piece of the tackle.
This total physical effort on every down plus speed has given Hantla perhaps the widest range of any Big Seven interior lineman.
Unlike most high school backs, Hantla was happy when the Jayhawker coaching staff shifted him into the line after a dreary season as a freshman fullback.
"I'm getting the biggest boot I ever got out of football this fall. We're having a lot of fun on defense. (The Jayhawkers gave up only 21 points in their first three games). It's a great feeling to move in and know everybody else in the line is going to do a good job. We have developed a lot of pride on our unit."
Light Contenders Seek Title Bout
New York — (U,P) — Contenders Georgie Arauoj and Joey Brown will fight in a television 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena tonight for a probable shot at the lightweight crown.
Brown of New Orleans, rated No. 6, will be making his New York debut. Nevertheless, he was an even money bet against Araujo of Providence, R. I., the No. 3 contender.
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