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Is 1952 Club as Great As Orange Bowl Team?
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Writer
Kansan Sports Writer
Jayhawker football statistics for the first two games indicate that the present KU gridiron machine has the best overall offense-defense team balance since the famous 1947 Orange Bowl team.
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In direct contrast to Coach Jules' V. Sike's high scoring clubs of 1950 (6-4-0) and 1951 (8-2-0), this year's battling Jayhawk edition has won its first two starts largely because of great team defense.
Kansas enters its Big Seven opener here Saturday with Colorado after registering 13-0 and 21-9 defensive wins over highly rated Texas Christian university and Santa Clara. The Sikesmen have averaged 17 points per game while holding the Horned Frogs and Broncos to a combined average of 4.5 points.
In 1951, KU rushed for an average of 241.2 yards per contest. This team averaged 349.4 yards per game in total offense.
In 1950, Kansas tallied 282 points against 188 for the opposition. Last year, the Jayhawkers set a new school scoring mark of 316 points while their opponents were scoring 208.
The Jayhawkers have averaged 185.5 yards rushing and 54 yards passing against the combined defensive efforts of TCU and Santa Clara. The opposition has been held to 66 yards rushing and 104 passing per game. This is a far cry
Kansas ranked fourth in the nation in 1950 averaging 311.6 yards over its 10-game route. This same teams also set a new school record of 396.8 yards per game total offense.
Last year, KU opened with a 27-13 victory over TCU and followed with a 53-33 Big Seven opening game win over Iowa State. Kansas averaged 40 points while the opposition tallied 23 points per game.
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KANSAS STATISTICS
First downs KU Op.
17 11
Net yards rushing 371 132
Net yards passing 108 208
Net total offence 479 340
Passes attempted 32 43
Passes completed 11 2
Passes intercepted 1 2
Number of punts 13 16
Punting average 34 39
Punishment lost 5 5
Yards penalized 139 12
SCORES BY QUARTERFLAG
Kansas 6 7 14 34
Opponents 9 0 0 3-9
KANSAS SCORING
ANSA'S SCORE Td Pat Tr
Brandeberry 2 0 12
Konek 2 1 0
Reich 1 0 6
Cindrich 1 0 6
RUSHING
Te Yd Yl Net Av
Brandeberry 71 102 0 102 4.9
Hog 21 108 5 73 3.7
Konek 13 15 8 5 3.4
Cindrich 10 52 1 51 5.1
Fiss 15 63 15 51 5.1
Sabatini 7 90 1 29 4.1
Reich 8 26 4 22 2.8
Robertson 7 11 19 -8 -1.1
Totals 101 420 49 371 3.7
Opponents 68 204 12 132 1.9
PASSING
Att Com Int Yds Td
Reich 15 8 0 86 2
Robertson 14 3 1 22 0
Hoag 3 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 11 1 108 2
Opponents 43 23 2 208 0
PASS RECEIVING
No. Yds. TD.
Bogue 2 31 0
Leoni 2 33 0
Konek 2 22 0
Taylor 2 18 0
Patterson 1 8 0
Brandeberry 1 6 1
Totals 11 108 2
Opponents 23 208 0
PASS INTERCEPTION
No. Yds.
Cleavinger 2 27
Totals 2 27
Opponents 1 5
PUNTING
No. Yds. Ave.
Reich 11 375 34.1
Mrkonic 2 68 34.0
Totals 13 443 34.1
Opponents 16 628 39.3
PUNT RETURNS
No. Yds. Ave.
Reich 8 185 23.1
Clevinger 2 26 13.0
Totals 10 211 21.1
Opponents 8 51 6.4
KICKOFF RETURNS
No. Yds. Ave.
Matterson 1 25 25.0
Hong 1 22 22.0
Reich 1 17 17.0
Totals 3 64 21.3
University Daily Kansan
from last year's opening two-game record.
Here is the game-by-game 1951 Kansas record scoring:
Kansas 27 Texas Christian
Kansas 53 Iowa State
Kansas 27 Colorado
Kansas 26 Utah
Kansas 21 Oklahoma
Kansas 33 Kansas State
Kansas 27 Nebraska
Kansas 27 Loyola of L.A.
Kansas 27 Oklahoma A&M
Kansas 41 Missouri
As noted above, Kansas scored four or more touchdowns on every opponent in 1951 except Oklahoma and five or more in four contests. And in the Oklahoma game at Norman, KU's 21 points was the season's high scored on the Sooners.
Won 8. Lost 2
But on the defensive side, Kansas wasn't too strong. Its theory was "a good offense is the best defense." Only twice the opposition held to one touchdown three times in touchdowns. On another holding five occasions, KU's defense yielded to four or more touchdowns.
Kansas' highly respected defense will get its third straight acid test Saturday against Colorado. And the same goes for Coach Sikes' highly regarded but rather dormant attack, an offense that hasn't really exploded as yet. It could explode Saturday against the Buffers.
To date, Coach Sikes' club is operating on a different theory. Whereas last year's team won its games by high powered offensive tactics, this year's team is banking heavily upon a stern team defense o win its contests.
Thus far, the defensive Jayhawker line has halted the enemy inside the KU 20-yard line no less than four times. This year's team appears destined to become one of the school's greatest defensive elevens.
The Jayhawker's aerial defense also has been outstanding. Texas Christian and Santa Clara both turned to the airlines in an attempt to score on Kansas. Twenty-three completions in 43 attempts have provided only 208 yards and no touchdowns to date.
Raleigh, N.C. —(U.P.)— A second University of North Carolina football player came down with polio today as the Southern conference gridiron schedule was thrown into confusion.
Southern Football Disrupted by Polio
contribution.
The university cancelled its next two games—Saturday against Georgia and the following week against North Carolina State. The new case—fifth reported on Carolina's Chapel Hill campus—possibly could cause further changes.
CHARLIE HOAG
Can Hoag Repeat 50 Performance?
Can Co-captain Charlie Hoag repeat his 1950 performance and lead the Jayhawkers to victory over Colorado's powerful Buffaloes here Saturday?
Eleven Buff seniors are determined to stop Hoag and company and take home a victory and a possible Big Seven title or at least a share of the forthcoming championship honors.
As sophomore in 1950, they were well on the road to posting a major upset over the Jayhawkers when Hoag, also a highly heralded sophomore, opened the KU floodgates and swept the victory from the Buff's grasp.
With 20 minutes remaining, Kansas trailed 0-21. Following the third Colorado touchdown, Hoag returned the kickoff 86 yards to break the ice.
From there on, it was all Kansas. The Jayhawkers' 27-1 win ranks as one of the greatest camebacks ever scored by a KU team. Hoag's inspirational play led the way.
Hoag went on to win an all-Big Seven berth as a sophomore. He rushed for 940 yards and tallied nine touchdowns. Playing less than half the time last year, and then on an injured leg, Hoag added 505 to rank seventh in rushing.
This year he is again in top form and ready to go.
The KU co - skipper gained 48
yards against TCU and added only
25 in the Santa Clara game. Both
totals are far below for Mr. Hoag,
Me
Who knows, maybe the Oak Park comet will again lead the Sikesmen to victory over Colorado with one of his near 100-yard rushing outputs, a rather frequent occurrence in 1950.
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Phi Gam, Beta, Sigma Chi Triangle Shut Out Opponents
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Fall intramural football was initiated at the University yesterday afternoon as eight Fraternity A teams clashed on the intramural gridirons. ___
Powerful Phi Gamma Delta pointed toward another hill championship by rolling over a hapless Acacia squad 55 to 0 in the leading Division I encounter.
Led by the deadly passing arm of Jim Dotts, the Phi Gam's capitalized on Acacia's weak secondary to account for most of their tallies through the air. Phi Gam also showed a strong running attack, with some neat double laterals executed by Potts and Wally Beck
With the ball in play on the Beta 30 yard line, Strawn surpassed his first heave as he found Jim Flags open on the Lambda Chi 30 yard line. Being rushed by Lambda Chi defensive men, Strawn flipped a desperation pass to the waiting Flags, who coated home for the second tally. The Beta's went on
In Division II, the outstanding contest was a 32 to 0 rout Beta Theta Pi handed Lambda Chi Alpha. Plays that racked up 50 and 70 yards at a time were the deciding factors in the one-sided encounter. Early in the first quarter John Strawn, Beta tailback, shot a 30 yard pass to receiver Jim Floyd who sprinted 20 vards for the first tally.
Hopelessly outclassed, the spirited Acacia offense couldn't cope with the rugged defensive line of the Phi Gam's. Bennie Dalton and Dick Penfold, 'Phi Gam linemen, gave no end of trouble to the Acacia backfield. Phi Gam waltzed on to shut out Acacia.
to score once in each of the remaining periods as they racked up victory No.1 of the season.
Sigi Chi chied out a 9 to 0 victory over a fighting Alpha Kappa Lambda team in the other Division clash. Both teams remained deadlocked at nothing to nothing until the final eight minutes, when Don Johnson, Sigma Chi lineman, trapped Roy Burke AKL passer in his end zone for a safety.
Lack of depth showed in the AKL team after this, for its tired pass defense couldn't stop the fresh offensive platoon of Sigma Chi. Stan Ball passed Sigma Chi to its only touchdown with one minute remaining in the contest. The conversion by Ball was good, and the final tally was 9 to 0, Sigma Chi.
Triangle posted a 15 to 0 defeat over Kappa Alpha Psi in the season debut. The Division II teams remained at a stalemate during the first half, but Triangle unleashed a canny aerial attack in the final half to hit pay dirt twice. Roscoe Graham, and Gary Walker accounted for the scoring for the engineers as the Kappa Alpha Chi secondary fell apart.
Giffin, Buehler Attend Clinic
Professors Kim Giffin and E. C. Buehler will go to Hays, Kan. Oct. 10-11 to speak before the high school debate clinic there.
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Before that long trip home after the game come in for a complete auto check up.
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