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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 6, 1952
ansas Defeats Buffs
Defense Stops CU Twice on Goal Line
By BOB LONGSTAFF
Kansan Sports Editor
The rugged Kansas defense again paced the Jayhawkers as a much improved offense capitalized on two Buff fumbles and paved the road for a 66-yard touchdown run by Charlie Hoag to defeat Colorado 21-12.
In conference play, the win gave Kansas a 1-0-0 record while Colorado has won none, lost one, and tied one. In all games, Kansas has a 3-0 record while the Buffalooes have a 1-1-1 record. This Saturday Kansas will meet the Iowa State Cyclones at Ames, Iowa.
Hoag's sparkling run put the game on ice for the Jayhawkers after Colorado trailing by two points had knocked on the touchdown door twice but failed to open it.
Kansas had taken over on the KU 26-yard line after Colorado had punted mid-way in the fourth quarter. On the first play, Frank Sabatini picked up eight yards on the 34. Hoag, with savage down-field blocking clearing the way for him, galloped 66 yards for the TD. Paul Leoni, right end, and George Helmstadter, right guard, threw key blocks on CU secondary men to open the way for the fleet-footed Hoag.
Hoag, unimpressive in his first two starts this season, showed his 1950 running form, as he moved off-tackle toward the center and cut down the sideline for the score.
But the defense was the turning point of the game as far as the Javhawkers and the Buffs were concerned. "That's the best defense I've ever seen a Kansas team put up," Buff Coach Dallas Ward said after the game. Coach J. V. Sikes had good words for his defensive platoon, too.
Near the end of the third quarter, Colorado marched from its 31-yard line to the KU 8 in eight plays. Carroll Hardy was thrown for a one yard loss by George Mrkonic on the opening play of the all-important four down series.
Hardy again lugged the leather on the second down as he went around right end. But Merlin Gish rushed in to throw him for a one yard loss. Bill Horton picked up seven yards on third down to place the ball on the 3-yard line. Hardy made it to the 1-yard stripe on the fourth try, just feet short of a touchdown, before he was stopped by Reich with assistance from Gish and Joe Fink.
The second Jayhawker goal line stand came in the early minutes of the final stanza. Colorado recovered a Kansas fumble on the KU 37-yard line and drove to the 8-yard stripe. Zack Jordan completed a pass to Roger Williams who made it to the 4-yard line before being downed by Reich. On the second play, Bob Hantla and Don Bracelin smashed through the Colorado line to smear Frank Bernardi for a four yard loss.
Kansas drew first blood in the game on a 36-yard drive. Dick Knowles recovered a Colorado fumble on the CU 36-yard line. Sabatini and Hoag carried the ball to the 14. Jerry Robertson passed to Leoni for four yards. Finally Hoag crashed over from the 6-yard line for the score. John Konek converted for the extra point.
Colorado roared back, though, to score. On the first play in the second quarter, with the ball on the CU 13-yard line, Jordan faked a wide run around right end. Sucking the Kansas secondary in close, Jordan flipped a pass to Bernardi on the 25-yard line. Bernardi out ran the Javhawk defenders to score. The play covered 87 vards.
But the Jayhawkers took advantage of another Colorado fumble to score. The Buffers were driving downfield mid-way in the second quarter when Hantla sneaked in to recover a Buff fumble on the CU 45-yard line. Hoag snared a Robertson pass on the 4-yard line and bucked for the TD. Konek's conversion was good.
The Buffaloes, never to be counted out, drove from the Buff 35-yard line to a score. Hardy on a double reverse, a tricky play from the single wing formation, drove over for the counter. The point after touchdown was blocked.
Hoag scored all three touchdowns for Kansas, and Konek made all three conversions. The game was played with the temperature in the 60's before a crowd of 32,500.
TWO FOR ONE — Frank Cindrich, Jayhawker offensive right halfback, spills two would-be Colorado tacklers in clearing the way for fullback Frank Sabatini, as he drove for five yards late in the game against the Buffaloes Saturday.—Kansan Photo by Phil Newman.
Three Big 7 Clubs Win Conference Openers
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Writer
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri opened Big Seven warfare with impressive victories Saturday, and all currently appear capable of giving the defending champion Oklahoma Sooners a battle for the 1952 conference football title.
This week's two-game conference schedule sends Kansas to Ames to play the Iowa State Cyclones and Kansas State to Lincoln to battle the offensive - minded Nebraska Cornhuskers.
The Jayhawkers and Cornhuskers will be heavy favorites to mark up Big Seven victories and remain in a first place deadlock in the loop standings with 2-0 records.
Highlighting the non-conference slate will be Oklahoma's annual clash with the Texas Longhorns at Dallas. Running a close second in interest will be Missouri's battle with Southern Methodist at Columbia.
Colorado, after battling the Big Seven title co-favorites Oklahoma and Kansas on consecutive weekends in Arizona at Tucson Saturday night.
Oklahoma, beaten by Texas 9-1 last year, and Missouri, shutout by SMU, 34-0, last year at Dallas, are both regarded as good bets to even the score this year. Colorado should take home a victory from the Wildcats.
Coach Jules V. Sikes' Kansas Jayhawkers scored an impressive 21-12 victory over Colorado's Buffaloes here Saturday, the same Buffalo club that forced mighty Oklahoma to come from behind to gain a 21-21 tie at Boulder the weekend before. It was KU's third straight victory this season and its eighth straight win in a row.
Kansas' offensive performance was spearheaded by Charlie Hoag's great running, good for 130 yards, and Jerry Robertson's excellent quarterbacking and passing. Robertson's aerial work was good for 79 yards on five completions in 10 attempts. One of his passes was a 24-yard touchdown to Hoag.
Nebraska, in posting its third straight win against no defeats, shut-out the Iowa State Cyclones at Lincoln, 16-0. As in 1950, the Cornhuskers continued to show a great offense rolling up 390 yards rushing-passing total yardage.
In three games to date, Nebraska has accounted for 1,218 total offense yardage, a 404 average per game. On the basis of its performance to date, the Cornhuskers now loom as a definite title threat to Oklahoma and Kansas and possibly Missouri and Colorado.
Don Faurot's Missouri Tigers showed little respect for Kansas State's homecoming crowd at Manhattan as the Tigers rolled over the Wildcats, 26-0. After gaining nationwide fame for its wide-open spread
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formation, Missouri used its split Tricks to grind out 335 yards on the ground and added another 55 passing.
So stern was the Missouri defense, Kansas State could move only once as far as the MU 40 and never seriously threatened the much improved and fast rebuilding Faurotmen.
Off the basis of Missouri's great 10-13 showing in losing to Maryland and 28-14 loss to California's No. 2 ranked Golden Bears, (California rolled past Minnesota, 49-13, Saturday) the Tigers must be regarded as a title contender.
Missouri's biggest obstacle to the Big Seven championship is its schedule. On consecutive weekends, the Tigers play Nebraska at Lincoln (Nov. 1), Colorado at Columbia, Oklahoma at Norman, and end its season against Kansas at home on Nov. 22. This slate pits Missouri against the top four Big Seven contenders in as many weeks.
Okahoma combined a great running attack with a good defense to defeat a good Pittsburgh team, 49-20, at Norman, Saturday. No less than six Sooners got into the scoring act with Buddy Leak adding two six-pointers and six conversions.
In the individual scoring race, Nebraska's Bobby Reynolds added four points on a field and a conversion to retain a slim three point lead at 30 points.
Leake, Oklahoma's sensational sophomore halfback, added 18 points on two touchdowns and six conversions to challenge Reynolds with 27 points.
Jayhawkler halfback Hoag, KU co-captain, dominated the scoring derby in the KU-CU contest with 18 points on three touchdowns. Hoag's 18 points ties him for third.
Others with 18 points are Zack Jordan, Colorado halfback; John Bordogna, Nebraska quarterback; George Cifra, Nebraska fullback, and Stan Cozzi, Iowa State fullback.
West Teams Aim To Stop Big 10 In Rose Bowl
New York —(U.P.) The long road through six straight whippings by the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl game may have come to a turning today for the long-suffering Pacific coast conference.
The evidence from the first three Saturday's of the 1952 season gives West Coast fans real reason to hope that's true, for it shows that PCC teams have walloped Big Ten rivals five times in six meetings.
The only Big Ten team to conquer a PCC rival was Michigan State, which doesn't start competing for conference laurels until next year. And the Spartans, rated the No. 1 team in the nation, had plenty of the shine rubbed off before they beat Oregon State Saturday 17-14 when Gene Lakenta booted a 12-yard field goal on the last play of the game.
By contrast, California, rated the No. 2 team nationally, turned loose a back named Don Johnson who scored four touchdowns to pace a 49-13 conquest of Minnesota, and Olympic decathlon champion Bob Mathias sparked Stanford to a 14-7 triumph over Michigan. Add those wins to Southern California's 31-0 victory over Northwestern and Washington's 19-13 win over Minnesota a week earlier and you get a mighty impressive picture of West Coast pigskin power.
There's only one meeting between teams of the two loops this week, between Illinois and Washington, and anything can happen.
Illinois is ranked as one of the best teams in the Big Ten, but the Illini lost a big game to Wisconsin Saturday. 20-6, a win that established the Badgers as the favorites for the conference crown.
This coming Saturday, Wisconsin hopes to advance its title hopes in a game against Ohio State.
The top upset of last Saturday was Notre Dame's 14-3 triumph over Texas at Austin, quite a come-on. The team had a 7-7 tie with Pepin a week earlier.
Other important intersectional wins were scored by Oklahoma, Baylor, Tulane, Georgia Teesh, and Kentucky, while Maryland's Terrapins finally showed their power in beating Clemson, 28-0, a battle of the banned Southern conference "sinners."
Pro Football League Tied
New York — (U,P)— The San Francisco Forty-Niners, New York Giants and Cleveland Browns—the teams which scored the most points while giving up the least—held the top spots today in the National Football league with identical 2-0 records.
The Forty-Niners, who have scored 54 points while allowing 17, whipped the Dallas Texans 37-14 in the Cotton Bowl yesterday to take undisputed first place in the National conference.
New York defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 31-7 and Cleveland edged the Pittsburgh Steelers 21-20 Saturday night to deadlock for the American conference lead.
New York has scored 55 points while giving up 13 for the league's top offensive-defensive record.
In other games yesterday, the Chicago Cardinals upset the Chicago Bears 21-10, and the Green Bay Packers beat the Washington Redskins 35-20.
The Detroit Lions beat Los Angeles 17-14 Friday night at Los Angeles. The Champion Rams, with an 0-2 record, share last place with Dallas in the National conference.