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University Daily Kansan Friday, Sept. 19, 1952
Six Big Seven Teams Open Saturday
RIGHT HALFBACK—Bob Brandeberg, halfback who may help ease the loss of Bud Laughlin at fullback, will start with the offensive unit tomorrow against the TCU Horned Frogs. A charley horse kept him in sweat clothes for several practices but he will
Saturday will find six of the Big Seven teams breaking the ice of the 1952 Big Seven conference season. Alabama sits out the opener tomorrow.
start the game Saturday.
Manhattan — The Kansas State Wildcats will battle the Bradley Braves here Saturday. The Wildcats are a slight favorite to beat the Braves in a game which should give both coaches an indication of team strength.
K-State will open the Big Seven season formally Oct. 4 against the Missouri Tigers.
Columbia, Mo. — Don Faurot's Missouri Tigers perhaps are biting off more than they can chew when they meet Maryland on the field tomorrow. Conservative betmakers are making the powerful Terrapins a 26 point favorite.
Maryland—touted as the No. 1 team in the nation—is loaded with potential all-Americans, Jack Scarbath, who is called the greatest split-T quarterback will be playing against Faurot who invented the formation.
bath on his keep-or-pitchout opposition. And against the Terrapin line holding such tackles as Dick "Little Mo" Modzeiowski and Bob "Blubber" Morgan, the Missouri team is expected to come out second best.
Generally, the Tiger defense is expected to be harrassed by Scar-
Lincoln, Neb. — With the season opener against South Dakota toorrow, the Cornhusker fans feel confident that if Bobby Reynolds—Mr. Touchdown, USA—can pick up his old pace of two years ago, Neraska may be the dark horse of the Big Seven.
However, the big question facing the Huskers is whether Reynolds will be able to keep off the injury list. Coach Bill Glassford has been stressing conditioning during the last week in an effort to keep his team at top form.
Reynolds in practice showed flashes of the form that set a new national scoring record in 1950. With success he was side-lined with injuries.
meeting the Oklahoma Sooners here the following Saturday.
Boulder, Colo. — The Buffaloa—ranked as a possible first, second, or third place club—meet San Jose State tomorrow as a prep to
Zack Jordan, senior tailback from Denver who led the nation's punters two years ago, virtually has salted away the No. 1 job with the Buffs this fall by dint of his pinpoint passing and will open the season against the Spartans tomorrow.
Ames, Iowa — The Cyclones are expected to have an easy opener against South Dakota State here this season. A state that they are favored to win without trouble..
The Cyclone junior varsity will open and close its 1552 season here today against the Buena Vista college varsity.
Norman, Okla. — Oklahoma, Big Seven conference champions and favorites to repeat, takes a vacation tomorrow. The Sooners are the only team in the Big Seven which does not open the 1982 season Saturday. The Sooners' first game is Sept. 27 against Colorado at Boulder.
Texas is a 10-point choice over Louisiana State, and Georgia is six-point choice over Vanderbilt in the other major games.
LEFT HALFBACK—Charlie Hoag, brilliant Kansas backfield star, will be on the field at the starting gun whether the toss gives the Jayhawkers the ball or the kick. Hoag will kick-off or be on the field to receive and will play most
of the game both ways.
Kansas-TCU Grid Clash Tomorrow
Horned Frogs to Use Famed Meyer Spread
The Texas Christian Horned Frogs will meet the Jayhawkers' T formation on the gridiron tomorrow with their famed "Meyer spread," the formation conceived by TCU coach L. R, "Dutch" Mever.
The spread formation drew national attention last season as Texas Christian scored three or more touchdowns in eight of its 11 games. Two types of the formation are used, the "regular spread" and the "normal formation."
PROBABLE OFFENSIVE LINEUP
In the regular spread, the fullback may be either right or left, but the end on the side the fullback is stationed is split out about nine yards from the tackle with the fullback and halfback "in the hole" about three yards apart. Only the tailback receives the ball from the center on this formation.
In the normal formation, the fullback is behind the right or left guard, where he, too, may receive the snapback from center. From these setups, the team uses all types of runs and passes. And the word from Fort Worth also is that the Horned Frogs may go into a single or double wing at times.
The tailback, of course, is the key man in the "Meyer spread." The Frogs have two excellent athletes in this position in Gilbert Bartosh.
Texas Christian Wt. Pos. Wt.
Blair, Bob 190 LE 176 Bogue, Jerry
Sikes, Bill 220 LT 204 Lundy, Joc
Ramsay, Jack 195 LG 194 Knowles, Dick
McCormack, Carlton 240 C 190 Woody, Warren
Teems, Mickey 200 RG 217 Helmstadter, Ga
Harris, Marshall 200 RT 224 Spencer, Oliver
Vaught, Ted 190 RE 188 Leoni, Paul
Bartosh, Gilbert 175 QB 187 Reich, Gill
Ray, Jack 175 LH 188 Hoag, Charlie
Harville, John 200 RH 183 Brandberry, Bob
Fowler, Marvin 200 FB 208 Fiss, Galen
Texas Christian
FISS
Officials: Referee—House, William Jewell; Umpire—Trigg, SMU; Linesman—Beckerman, Iowa, and Field Judge—Morrow, Texas A.M.&M.
ROBERTSON
Coach Meyer is beginning his 30th year of football coaching at Texas Christian with the Kansas
Ray McKown. Both will be called upon to do a lot of running and passing. Ted Vaught and Bobby Blair, at ends, and Jack Ray, John Harville, and Glen Jones in the backfield are rated the top receivers.
Ronald Clinkscale, a sophomore who runs the 100 yard dash in 9.6 seconds, also will see service in a quarterback role, and if the Frogs can shake him loose, the TV cameraman may have trouble keeping up with him.
opener.
The 30 years at the same school is believed to be something of a record for a major college coach. Others have spent more time in coaching but very few have operated so long at the same stand. It's no wonder that the rugged little tutor is nationally known as "Mr. TCU" where football is concerned.
KNOWLES
Actually, Dutch has been a "Horned Frog" much
When his Horned Frogs take the field tomorrow, it will make his 19th varsity team in an unbroken line to start a fall campagin. Prior to taking over the upper-class clubs, "the Dutchman" spent 11 seasons as skipper of the freshman teams.
longer than 30 years. He used to hang around the FCU practice field in Waco, Texas, where Texas Christian was located until 1910, when he was little. Then during his playing days from 1917 to 1922, he earned no less than 11 varsity letters as a Frog in three major sports.
The Horned Frogs are still smarting over the surprise victory KU pulled on a favored TCU team last year. The Frogs leaped to an early 7-0 lead, but Jerry Robertson crumpled the Frogs' pass defense by scoring six out of six passes for 126 yards and two touchdowns.
Watch for anything to happen in the Kansas-TCU game Saturday. It might!
It is going to take about four touchdowns or more to beat the Jayhawkers any Saturday afternoon, and tomorrow will not be any different. Coach J. V. Sikes' crew is turning into a fine ball club. The players are ready for the season—mentally and physically.
But the Horned Frogs are going to be a tough team to beat. Speculation has it that the score will be high with just a hair's breadth between the two teams. The United Press has picked TCU as a three-point favorite over Kansas. Of the major tilts of this weekend, the KU-TCU clash is figured to be the closest.
Defensively, Kansas should rank with the best in the Big Seven. If the offensive line holds up under pressure—with a backfield with such stars as Hoag, Reich, Robertson, and Brandeberry—the offensive side of the ledger will rank high.
If the Dodgers and the Yankees meet in the World Series, there is a good chance that one or both of the league races will be settled before the last day of the season. If it happens, it will be the third time in the last 11 years that there has not been a final day hub-bub.
-KU-
The 1951 Giants, the 1950 Phillies, the 1949 Yankees and Dodgers, the 1948 Indians, the 1946 Cardinals, the 1945 Tigers, the 1944 Browns, and the 1942 Cardinals either had to win the flag on the final day or go into a playoff as was the case with the '51 Giants, the '48 Indians, and the '46 Cardinals. Maybe it'll be quiet this year.
REICH
Jayhawker Attack To Be Aerial Show
Kansas' chief offering in tomorrow's game with TCU will undoubtedly be the usual fare of plenty of passes.
KU probably will operate from the standard T formation, with Gil Reich and Jerry Robertson, both exceptional passers, alternating as quarterbacks. Since the Jayhawker line is considerably weakened offensively, the chances are they will pick on the two halfbacks as receivers. Charlie Hoag and Bob Brandeberry, left and right half-backs respectively, both are expert receivers.
Last season one of the big factors that helped the Jayhawkers win over a powerful TCU team was the fact that the Horned Frogs' pass defense crumpled against the sustained aerial attack by Robertson. This year the TCU defense is a little more mobile, but lighter in the line. Their aerial defense is expected to be somewhat stronger tomorrow afternoon.
Defensively, the Jayhawkers are prepared both in the line and backfield for anything that TCU Coach "Dutch" Meyer's spread formation may offer. As linebacker KU will have Galen Fiss, and Merlin Gish. Fiss will most likely be going both
When Kansas has the ball, watch for flankers to move out of the backfield, into the line, and then speed downfield to take a pass. Hoag specializes in this. The record shows that the Jayhawkers are pass-happy. In the four years that Coach J. V. Sikes has been at the KU rudder the team has made more than 1,000 yards through the air, and has scored at least 13 touchdowns each season on passes.
Hoag and Brandeberry can run, too, but since Kansas has no really experienced ends starting tomorrow, chances are that they will spend most of their time skirting the ends.
HELMSTADTER
WOODY
One problem facing Coach Sikes tomorrow will be the selection of an offensive center. Gish may start, but Warren Woody and John Anderson, are also well into the contest for the starting slot.
ways for KU and Gish may start as offensive center, in which case he, too, probably will go both ways.
The Jayhawker defensive line is in good shape for tomorrow's contest with both of last year's regular defensive guards, George Helmstadter and Bob Hantla, returning to the lineup. Starting
HELMSTADTER linemen from last year's squad also will include
The weakest links in the KU defensive wall, as in the offensive line, are the two terminal spots. None of the four regular starting ends are returning from last year's squad. But Morris Kay, a converted fullback, and Duane Unruh, a returning two-year letterman, may take the starting berths.
the starting defensive tackles, George Mrkonic,
all Big-Seven tackle, last year, and Oliver Spencer,
All-in-all, the Kansas defense is back pretty well intact and ready to handle anything a spread formation may throw at them.
SPENCER