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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 15, 1952
By BOB LONGSTAFF Kansan Sports Editor
Hello.
Another school year. Another football season. But from the looks of things, it is not going to be just "another" football season. This could well be the greatest team Coach J. V. Sikes has had at KU. One thing is sure—the Jayhawks will be playing the toughest schedule in many a year.
Teams like Santa Clara, Texas Christian, and Southern Methodist university—non-league games—definitely are not going to be pushovers. TCU has been picked by the experts to repeat as Southwest conference champs. SMU is expected to follow the Horned Frogs in the No. 2 position in the conference.
The Southwest conference always has been a "free-for-all" league. Great teams are turned out from that part of the country, and the Jayhawks are scheduled to meet the two toughest teams.
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COACH BUD
WILKINSON
Competition within the Big Seven conference is becoming more pressing each year. A few years ago Oklahoma was the only team which really could be called outstanding. Today, several teams—Kansas among them—are vying for nation-wide honors.
It reminds us of what Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson said. Pointing out the tremendous improvement in Big Seven play, he said that "if the present trend continues our conference from top to bottom may soon equal that of the Big Ten."
And they play football (!) in the Big Ten.
Many persons are talking in terms of 9-1, 8-2, 7-3 won-lost records for Kansas this year. But only the more optimistic. The Jayhawks could field the best team on record this season and still end up with a 6-4 or 5-5 record.
It all depends on the breaks. Playing the Sooners and Colorado (two of the tougher teams) on home ground could give Kansas a slight advantage. But there are a lot of "ifs" confronting the Jayhawks.
IF Charlie Hoag isn't injured again, IF adequate ends are rounded out, IF a strong offensive center is found, the Jayhawks could burn up the league—providing some of the other "ifs" don't go the other way.
But whatever happens the 1952 grid season will be one to remember.
There was a sad moment in the KU locker room when Bud Laughlin turned in his equipment. Laughlin—although in AFROTC—was ordered to report for induction into the Army. As Bud fondled his game shoes a moment before turning them in, he said, "save these for me. I'll be back in a couple of years for them."
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LAUGHLIN
We're mightly glad to hear that the Amateur Athletic Union finally got around to clearing all-American Clyde Lovellette of the professional charge that was started near the end of the last cage season.
It all began when Big Clyde decided that he wanted to remain an amateur rather than play for pay with the Milwaukee Hawks. In the end the big boy from Terre Haute, Ind., turned down a fabulous sum contract to play for the Phillips 66 Oilers.
The professional boys from Milwaukee implied that since Lovellette would turn down $50,000 to $60,000 to play for the Hawks then he already must be on the Oilers' payroll.
However, the committee appointed by the AAU to look into the matter found that the two-time all-American had never received any renumeration for playing basketball.
Jayhawk Coaches To Speak
Coaches from the University of Kansas, Liberty Memorial High school, and Haskell will tell about their teams at the annual Kickoff
Luncheon sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. The luncheon is designed to give the public a better idea of how the grid teams in the community will fare in the coming season.
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