1951
Friday, Nov. 30, 1951
University Daily Kansan
Page 3B
SENIOR JAYHAWKERS REST A MOMENT in the locker room following one of their last practices before playing in their final KU game tomorrow. Front row (left to right) Ron White, end, Dean Wells, halfback. Second row, Dave Schmidt, Orbon Tice, ends, George Kennard, guard, and Bill Schaake, end and co-captain. Carl Sandefur, tackle, wasn't present when the photo was taken.-Kansan photo by Don Sarten.
Seven Jayhawkers Finish College Football Careers
The curtain will come down on the college football careers of seven members of the Kansas team when they play the Missouri Tigers in the Homecoming game here Saturday.
Four of the seven seniors, Orbon Tice, Dave Schmidt, Bill Schaake and Ron White, are ends.
Dean Wells, defensive halfback, is the lone backfield man to be lost by graduation.
Carl Sandefur, offensive tackle,
and George Kennard, offensive
guard, are the only other linemen
playing their final game.
Tice has played what probably has been his best season this year. He played in seven games his freshman year in 1446 before serving two years in the armed services. In 1494 and 1550 he was a defensive regular but switched to offense this year.
Bill Schaake, Jayhawker co-captain, has been a leading KU receiver for three years and has been regarded as one of the conference's best receivers. He has been named to the United Press's All-Big Seven team this year. An attack of glandular fever caused him to miss the Oklahoma A&M game but he will probably play against the Tigers.
raying in his third position, Carl Sandefur has done his best work at his present tackle post. The 6 foot 3-inch, 220-pound player has lettered two years at tackle after playing at fullback and end. He has improved considerably this season to add to the strength of the
Tom-Tom Rests In MU Trophy Case
George Kennard has been a letter-winner for two years and was picked for the second team of the UP's All-Big Seven. He also has received honorable mention from the International News Service when it chose an All-Midlands team.
Jayhawker forward wall.
Dave Schmidt, the oldest and lightest man on the squad, is finishing his college football after an absence from school. He played on the Orange Bowl team of 1947 his sophomore year but dropped out of school following his junior year.
He has done a commendable job on defense, making many tackles deep in enemy territory. His experience has proved valuable.
By JEANNE FITZGERALD
Ron White, also a defensive end, has played considerable this season at right end. He lettered last year and has continued to improve.
Dean Wells, defensive halfback, is completing his third season of varsity play. He has been a mainstay in Coach J. V. Sikes' defensive backfield and has done well on punt returns.
Kansas fans haven't seen the Osage Indian tom-trophy, for the winner of the KU-MU football game, for the last three years.
Aubrey Linville, a halfback, was elected to share the captain's duties with Schaake but an injured leg forced him to drop from the squad after the Texas Christian game.
The tom-tom is displayed in a trophy case in Brewer fieldhouse at the University of Missouri as a retaliatory consucU MU victories over KU.
The Osage Indian tom-tom, supposedly made in 1890, replaced the gold painted football in 1937 as the trophy for the winner of the game each year.
KU fans weren't very happy about giving up the old gold painted football in favor of the new tom-tom. That ball, with its splashes of crimson and blue paint, had been an object of rivalry between the two schools for 26 years.
George Bowles, writer of the "I'm a Jayhawk" song, and Lyle Kendig, then in the insurance business, were instrumental as members of a committee of the KU alumni association of greater Kansas City in setting up the new trophy.
Bowles and Kendig bought the drum in rather delapidated condition in a pawn shop on Main street. One head of the drum was autographed by several KU alumni, and several MU alumni autographed the other head.
The football was used in the KU-MU game in 1911 at Columbia, the first game played on a campus of one of the schools. Prior to that
KU Table Tennis Team Prepares To Defend Big Seven Championship
time, the contest was held in Kansas City.
Chester L. Brewer, coach of the Missouri Tigers at that time, gave the football as a trophy to be used in years to come. The Mystical Seven, MU men's honor society, and Sachem, KU men's honor society, were appointed caretakers of the ball.
The University Table Tennis association, defending Big Seven champion, is preparing for its first defense of the title in the 1952 conference tournament.
Each organization had charge of the ball while it was on its respective campus. These same organizations are "keepers of the tom-tom" today.
The drum was revived at the KU-MU game at Lawrence in 1947 when Kansas beat Missouri, 20 to 14. The following year, Missouri won the contest, and the drum has been at Missouri ever since.
KU fans settled the dilemma in 1937 over the two trophies, by deciding to offer both trophies to the victor at the Thanksgiving game in Lawrence that year. Students beat the tom-tom at the homecoming rally that year in front of radio station WREN.
The following year, Kansas and Missouri tied. The drum was at KU, since the game was played there. KU hoped to keep it, on the theory that possession is nine-tenths of the law.
However, the Missouri alumni association began clamoring to have the drum moved to neutral ground. Kansas City was suggested tentatively as a neutral location for the drum.
An added feature this year will be a bridge tournament along with the table tennis matches. Doubles will also be played by the tourney competitors as only singles were played last year.
Scheduled for the first weekend in March, the tourney will draw players from all the conference schools to Nebraska university, host for this year's contest.
In addition to Herrington, the champions will be represented by Fred Chen, winner of the recent association tournament, Richard Lewis, David Wong, Dean Darling and Churky Clowers.
Leading the KU team will be Al Herrington, club president and one of the charter members of the club when it was organized two years ago.
The team has split two matches this fall with a Topeka club on scores of 12-8.
The players, however, believe they have a good chance of copping the conference trophy for the second straight year.
This will be the second annual Big Seven tournament. It was started last year by the KU association. Invitations were sent to all conference schools, with four showing up for the contest.
The KUTTA also has scheduled matches with Kansas State and the Kansas City, Kan., YMCA club. Dates have not been set for these matches.
A traveling trophy was purchased and awarded to the winning team. After three titles, the winning team keeps the trophy permanently.
The host Jayhawks blasted their way to a 3-1 won-lost record and the title.
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