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Experienced Grid Coaches Ready Jayhawks For Battle
Monday, Sept. 15, 1952
BY DON NIELSEN
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Jayhawk gridmen are being readied for the 1952 battle by one of the best coaching staffs in the Midwest.
Head Coach J. V. Sikes and his seven assistants, A. H. "Pop" Werner, line coach; Cliff Kimsey, backfield coach; Wayne Replogle, end coach; Don Fambrough, assistant coach; Hubert "Hubt" Ulrich freshman coach; Dick Monroe, center coach; and Dean Neesmith, trainer, are all outstanding coaches and players.
Conch Sikes, now starting his fifth season as KU football mentor, has guided the Jayhawkers to an all-time offensive peak. In the 1951 season KU was limited to 21 points only once, by Oklahoma, and the Sooners tallied the highest score against them all season. The 1951 squad scored more than 50 points once, more than 40 points once, more than 30 points twice and scored at least 4 touchdowns five times.
In the four years Sikes has been at the Jayhawk helm, Kansas teams have averaged 2.289 yards per season on the ground, and 1,140 yards per season through the air.
During his coaching career, Sikes has established a record of 55 wins against 27 losses for a .670 percentage. For Kansas, he has gotten 26 wins against 14 losses for a .650 percentage.
Coach Sikes began his coaching career in 1928 after compiling an outstanding collegiate record at Texas A. & M. He earned All-Southwestern conference honors as an end in his senior year, and won nine letters in football, baseball and track.
Before coming to Kansas, Coach Sikes was head coach at Blinn Memorial college, Burleson college and St. Mary's Pre-Flight school. His latest honor is to coach the East-West Shrine game in December.
A. H. "Pop" Werner, KU line coach, assumed his duties here in 1949, and has since fielded some of the sharpest lines in Big-Seven competition. In 1950 the Jaybawk line was so effective that the backs rambled to an all-time KU high of 3,116 net yards. This placed Kansas first in the Big Seven in net rushing and fourth on the NCAA tables on a per game average basis.
"Pop" Werner has been a coach on every level of football from high school to professional. He spent a year on the staff of the Brooklyn pro club of The All-American conference.
The Jayhawker backfields for the last four years have been coached to an outstanding level by Cliff Kimsey. KU backfield coach.
In his undergraduate days, Werner was a three time all-Southern guard for the Duke university Blue Devils.
Kimsey was one of Georgia's all-time quarterbacks. He captained the 1941 Orange Bowl champs and won all-Southeast conference honors in the same season. He also won two letters as a pitcher and thus won the Stegman trophy, awarded annually to the school's outstanding senior athlete, in 1942.
Kimsey suffered an attack of jaundice in August. During the first week of practice he was replaced by Otto Schnellbacher, former KU great. Kimsey, although out of the hospital, will not return to his duties as backfield coach , until around*Oct. 1.
One of the toughest coaching jobs on the Kansas staff will fall to End Coach Wayne Replogle. To him goes the job of replacing all of last year's four wingmen. However, since he took over the job in 1945, Kansas ends have been named to varsity all-Big Seven teams seven times.
Replogle has held coaching jobs at Douglas, Wyo., and Pikeville, Ky., high schools, and at Elgin academy.
Also beginning his fifth season on the Kansas coaching staff if Don Fambrough, assistant coach. Fambrough was head freshman coach in 1949 and 1950, and he guided the frosh to three victories in four games.
While playing for College of Emporia, Replogle was named all-Kansas fullback.
While in his playing days with KU, Fambrough co-captained the 1947 Orange Bowl club, and was a regular guard on the Big Six co-champion team on that and the previous year. He played nearly the whole game in the West's victory over the East in the annual San Francisco Shrine game in 1947.
Ulrich was an all Big Six end under Gwinn Henry in 1941, and he also captained the Jayhawker team of that year. He played professionally with the Miami Seahawks of the All-American conference in 1946.
Hub Ulrich, freshman coach, is another former KU standout now occupying a coaching post.
He was the regular center on the Kansas Orange Bowl team of 1947 and on the 1948 club which posted a 7-3 record. The big pivotman was rated one of the best in the Big Seven conference both seasons.
Dean Nesmith, Jayhawk, trainer, has built a reputation which this year won him the post of president of the National Collegiate Athletic Trainers association.
Dick "Moose" Monroe, former Jayhawk line star, has been added to the coaching staff this year to coach centers. Monroe's big job will be to find a replacement for Wint Winter who bypassed his final year of eligibility.
Since leaving KU, Monroe has spent three years coaching high school teams.
Nesmith, a one-time KU tackle, has headed two coaching school courses in treatment of athletic injuries. He had previously headed two other clinics.
CLYDE LOVELLETTE
Clyde Nominated As Township Cop
Clyde Lovellet, All-American basketball star, has the job of Lawrence township constable practically cinched, but probably won't be around to accept the "responsibilities of the office."
After graduation last June, Loyelletta said he filed for the office "just for the heck of it," and defeated J. R. Bell of Lawrence in the Republican primary election in August 2,552 to 2,436.
Since Lovellette is now an employee of the Phillips Petroleum company, in Bartlesville, Okla., it is thought he won't be here to take the oath of office. This will automatically disqualify him for the office.
Latest information indicated that Lovellette was looking for someone to stand-in for him while he is away. His job with the Phillips company will keep him out of Lawrence most of the time during the year.
Sikes Named To West Staff
Constabulatory duties are almost non-existent today. The Douglas county sheriff's office has taken over most law enforcement in the county. The job pays no salary.
Head Coach J. V. Sikes has been named to the coaching staff of the West team for the annual East-West Shrine football game in San Francisco Dec. 27.
Announcement was made recently by William M. Coffman, managing director of the event. He said Howie Odell, of Washington university and Chuck Taylor of Stanford would be the other coaches for the big game with Odell as head coach.
A star in the third Shrine game following his great season at Texas A&M in 1927, Sikes is recognized as one of the nation's top offensive mentors.
During Sikes' four years at Mt. Oread, his teams have won 26 of 40 games played with no ties. Before coming to Kansas, the former Texas A&M all-around athletic great held several other coaching positions—among them that of assistant on the coaching staff at the University of Georgia.
The year has seen two KU coaches chosen as coaches for Shrine games. Last April—after his team captured the National College championship — Basketball Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen was named coach for the West team in the first annual East-East basketball contest in Kansas City.
Allen's team, opposing an East team led by Henry Iba, of Oklahoma A & M, won the game.
Nine Law Students Pass State Bar Exams
Nine University law students were admitted to the Kansas Bar association after passing two-day examinations this summer.
The new lawyers are Charles Oldfather Jr., Robert Bennett and Laird Bowman, all of Lawrence; John Gage, Eudora; Thomas W. Boone. Leavenworth; James Bouska. Belleville; Donald Hyatt; Wellington; Gerald Leblane, Hoisington, and Hugh Kreamer, Downs.
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