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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 4.1952
Alumni Roster To 27 For Tomorrow's Game
BY JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor
A portion of Kansas' "Who's Who" in football will be here at 2 p.m. tomorrow for the second annual Jayhawker Varsity-Alumni game in Memorial stadium. Identification cards will admit University students. To the public., the cost is $1 for adults and 50c for grade and high school students.
Twenty - seven ex - Jayhawker gridders have given their "OK" to appear for the game. Some have not been heard from as yet, and still others have sent their "regrets."
But the men who helped write Jayhawker grid history who have accepted Coach J. V. Sikes' invitation for a "head busting" session are the cream of the crop of past KU football teams.
Don Fambrough, assistant Kansas football coach, will have the chore—along with at least four other newly-turned player-coaches — of directing the Alumni gridders through their paces.
Fambrough, a member of the West team, in the 1947 East-West game
PROBABLE STARTING LINEUP
Wt. ALUMNI
175 Orbon Tice
240 Bob Talkington
208 George Kennard
196 Wint Winter
220 Dick Tomlinson
240 Mike McCormack
197 Bill Schaake
171 Jack Rodgers
198 Ray Evans
180 Henry Lamping
188 John Amberg
ALUMS HEAD MAN-Don Fam-
brough, of the 1947 Jayhawker
Orange Bowl team, will be "head
coach" for the Varsity - Alumni
game to be played in Memorial
medium at 2 p.m. tomorrow
VARSITY Wt. Pos.
Jerry Taylor 186 LE
Joe Lundy 195 LT
Dick Knowles 194 LG
Warren Woody 190
George Helmstadter 205 RG
Bill Marshall 196 RT
Paul Leoni 194 RE
Jerry Robertson 180 QB
Rex Sullivan 183 LH
Bob Brandeberry 185 RH
Frank Sabatini 190 FB
stadium at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
Place: Memorial Stadium... Time: 2 p.m. Saturday.
and two-time all-conference guard,
will act as "head coach" for the old
trads and will double as a line-backer.
Assisting the regular guard of the Jayhawker Orange Bowl team will be Ray Evans, Dick Tomlinson, Mike McCormack and Orbon Tice.
Evans, one of Kansas' greatest athletes and the only Jayhawker to be a first team all-American in football, will coach the Alumni backfield corps.
Tomlinson, now playing professional ball with the Pittsburgh Steelers and an all-league guard in 1949, and McCormack, co-captain of the 1950 Jayhawk varisty along with Johnny Amberg, will work with the Alumni lineman.
But as young as some of the returning players are, the Alumni team will also be laden with experience, some dating back to the late 70's.
Tice, who is presently assisting Coach Sikes with spring practice, will assist in the Alumni coaching ranks with the ends. Tice was voted the outstanding senior performer on last year's Jayhawkner squad.
Before he can give so much as a tentative starting lineup, Fambrough will have to see which players will be back for the game. And he probably won't know that, for sure, until tomorrow morning.
It is expected that a number of last year's Alumni players will be back. Except for our seniors, the same will be held for the same last year's winning team.
Bob Hagen, who was graduated from the University in 1939, is the 'old man' of the Alums. Hagen played end for the Jayhawks in the coaching days of Ad Lindsey and Twain Henry.
A few of the 1951 KU performers will be on hand for the game. Bill chaake and Tice, ends from last ear, George Kennard, guard, and
Vint Winter, center, are expected to how up for the battle.
The Alums took the Varsity club to task last year in the first Varsity-Alumni game, 13-6. Trailing, 6-0, at halftime, the grad ironed out their difficulties, got their second breaths, and came back to dump the Varsity in the last four minutes of play on a pass-lateral play from Tom Scott to Otto Schnellbacher to Floyd Temple.
Schnellbacher, with the pro New York Giants last season, is the only one of the trio who may return for the game. In Florida on a business trip, the great Jayhawker end hopes to be back in time for the battle.
The list of former Jayhawkers who have said they will be here for the game includes:
Backs: Johnny Amberg, '50; Gene Cox, '50; Ray Evans, '47; Bill Fisher,
'48, and Henry Lamping, '50.
Ends: Robert Hagen, '39; Charle-
O'Neal, '50; Bill Schaake, '51; Otto
Snellbacher (possibly), '47; Mary
Small, '47; Lyn Smith, '56; Bryan
Sperry, '48; and Orbon Tice. '51.
Tackles: Mike McCormack, '50
Stephen Renko, '47; Wally Rouse
'4': Gene Sherwood, '47, and Bol
Talkington. '50.
Guards; Joe Crawford, '47; Carl
Fillis, '49; Don Fambrough, '47;
George Kennard, '51; Ken Sperry, '48.
and Dick Tomlinson, '49.
Centers: Howard Fisher, '49; Bob Drumm, '49, and Wint Winter, '51.
Bud Laughlin and Galen Fiss, now in practice with Hub Ulrich's baseball crew, will not play tomorrow.
Coach 'Sikes' defensive platoons will run Morris Kay and Tom Bran-
ington. Coach Kyle Williams of Orville Poppe at the tackles, and Bob Hanta and Joe Fink as guards
Backing up the line for Sikes will be Merlin Gish and Wayne Woolfoll. In the halfback positions will be John Konek and Hal Clevinger Gil Reich will be the safety man for Sikes' 6-2-2-1 defense.
Jayhawker Baseball Team To Open 22-Game Slate At Wichita Saturday
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Writer
Hub Ulrich's Jayhawker baseball team will open its 22-game 1952 schedule Saturday playing Wichita university at Wichita. Kansas will play Rockhurst college in its home opener Tuesday, April 8. The Wichita and Rockhurst games are two of four nonconference clashes for KU before launching its Big Seven season against Nebraska at Lincoln with a two-game series on April 18-19.
The Jayhawkers will also play single games with Emporia State Teachers college at Emporia on April 12, and a return contest with Rockhurst at Kansas City, Mo. April 16.
Coach Ulrich, starting his second year as KU baseball coach, has nine lettermen returning from his 1951 club which finished fifth in the Big Ten tournament. He also won its only non-conference game downing Emporia State, 9 to 1.
But the nine returning lettermen are somewhat misleading as far as KU's expected lineup is concerned—at least for game experience. Coach Ulrich is expected to start the letterman against the rookie of which is subbing for a rookie regular who is out of the lineup with illness.
Coach Ulrich listed the following batting order and positions for the
Player Pos Bats
*Rank Wolf ss R
*Bill Enoch lf R
*John Trombold 1b L
*Walt Hicks rf L
*Bud Laughlin cf R
*Bill Pulliam 3b R
**Galen Fiss c R
    *urus narcis 2b R
**Jacob Stonestreet p R
**Darlene letteren.
Coach Ulrich and a 20-man traveling squad will leave Lawrence by bus at 7 a.m. for Wichita.
Jayhawkers' opening game
Pitches: Carl Sandefur. John Brose, Wayne Tiemeier and Frank Hamilton.
Besides the starters, the following players will make the trim:
Catcher: Bud Jones.
Infielders: George Voss, John
Perry, Phil Owen and Charles Appling.
Outfielders: Charles Bether and
HUB ULRICH
SURE IS PRETTY—Five Jayhawkers and Assistant Basketball Coach Dick Harp (left) look over the Olympic runner-up trophy won in the Olympic trials in New York this week. The five players—(left to right) John Keller, Bob Kenney, Bill Hougland, Bill Lienhard and Charlie Hoag—are five of the seven who will go to Helsinki, Finland, for the Olympic games, July 19 through August 3. Clyde Lovelette and Dean Kelley, who were signing autographs at the time of the picture, also will make the trip—Kansan photo by Jim Murray,
Olympic Cage Team Really Skyscrapers!
They're moving the skyscrapers from New York to Helsinki. When the 1948 United States Olympic basketball team went to London's Wembley station, everyone stared. Just wait until Uncle Sam's 1952 court giants move on the Finns.
The 6-foot, 4-inch average of the basketball team of four years was 7.3 points per game. The 14-man U.S. team average this year. The average is 6 feet, 4 11/14 inches.
But that's not all. Should Head Olympic Coach Warren Womble so decide, he could put a U. S. team on the court averaging 6 feet, 9 inches.
With 7-foot Bob Kurland, 6-foot,
11-inch Marcus Freierberger, 6-foot,
9-inch Clyde Loveillette, 6-foot, 8-inch
Frank McCabe, and the shorty,
6-foot, 5-inch Bill Lienhard, Womble's team would tower* a whopping
8-foot. 9 inches on the average.
Should Womble decide to sacrifice size for speed, he has plenty of that, too. The "scoteters" would stand a palty 6 feet, 13 5 inches, but could run rings around nearly anything any other team could put on the court.
Frank Mischlich.
Actually, Kansas is opening its season with only three lettermen; as Curtis Harris is filling the gap at the keystone bag for regular, Ferry who is on the shelf with the three-day measles.
As usual, Ulrich's Sawhawkers have been confronted with adverse spring training weather and are far behind in hitting and defensive play in limited, infield, which has had only limited practice on the Varsity density.
Kansas has been able to get in only one regulation intrasquad game thus far. This means that KU's hurriers are really untested and the hitters have only taken their swings in batting practice.
"Although we're inexperienced as far as actual playing time is concerned at all positions except right field and in the catching department," Coach Ulrich said in a good team." Coach Ulrich said Friday in summing up practice to date
"Even with our untested players, we should have a better balanced team; especially in depth. Our pitching is stronger, catching more experienced, and the hitting should be improved. Considering the limited amount of workouts we've had, I'm well satisfied with the team's condition and performance to date," Ulrich added.
With weather permitting, Ulrich's men could be in pretty good shape by the time they get their four non-conference clashes under their control. National works before starting Big Seven play against Nebraska.
Although KU finished fifth in the Big Seven in 1951, the Jayhawkers faced the league in hitting with a 257 mark. But defensively 50 errors in 14 games placed Kansas in the cellar with a 912 fielding average.
The failure of KU to plug up the gaps with men on bases resulted in several losses for the under-manned hurling staff—composed namely of two big righthanders, Sandefur and Jack Stonestreet.
Making up the "rapid runs" would be Ron Bontemps, the tallest of the five at 6 feet, 3 inches, Bob Kenney and Charlie Hoag, both at 6 feet, $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches, Dan Pippin at 4 feet, 1 35 inches, and the pygmy, Dean Kelley at 5 feet, 11 inches.
Phog Allen, 67-year-old coach of the Jayhawkers, will be assistant to Womble of the Diesels for the U. S. Olympic team. The 32-year old Peoria coach was selected head coach of the Olympic team on the strength of his team's 62-60 win over Kansas in the Olympic trial finals.
The 1948 U. S. Olympic squad was made up of players from Kentucky, the Phillips Oilers of the AAU and four other players. This year the team is picked from Kansas college kings and Peoria's Caterpillar Diesels of the AAU, plus Kurland and Glasgow of the Oilers.
Here is a list of the 1952 United States Olympic basketball team, complete with heights, weights and teams from which the players were selected:
But the team most sportwriters think would be the ultimate in speed, poise, shooting power and ballhandling, would average a healthy 6 feet. 5 inches.
The policy in 1948 was to choose five players from the collegiate champion Kentucky Wildcats, five from the AAU champion Oilers and four players at large.
This year there are seven players from Kansas, five from the Caterpillars and Kurland and Glasgow.
On that one would be Bontemps, Lovellette, Lienhard, Howie Williams, 6 feet, 4 inches, and Wayne Glasgow, 6 feet, 3 inches.
Kansas
Ht. Wt.
Clyde Levellette (6-9) 240
John Keller (6-3) 185
Bill Lienhard (6-5) 180
Bill Hougland (6-4) 182
Bob Kenney (6-2½) 185
Dean Kelley (5-11) 185
Charlie Hoag (6-2½) 188
Peoria Caterpillars
Felea Caterpillars
Marcus Freherberg 6-11 220
Frank McCabe 6-8 210
Howie Williams 6-4 170
Ron Bontemps 6-2 170
Dan Pippin 6-1 185
Phillips Gillers
Bob Kurland 7-0
Wayne Glasgow 6-3