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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 29, 1951
Jayhawkers Complete Heavy Grid Workouts
Coach J. V. Sikes sent his high-spirited Jayhawkers through their final heavy workout Wednesday night before they close their season Saturday with Missouri. $ ^{\dagger} $
The head man started his first-stringers out on an offensive and defensive dummy scrimmage, while the second team went through pass defense drills. The practice session was climaxed with a 30-minute scrimmage.
Bill Schaake is still not in top condition since his attack of glandular fever but will be available for limited duty come Saturday. The veteran end is anxious to play against the Tigers as it will be his last game for KU.
Dean Wells, halfback. Don Mudloff, tackle, and George Michale, end, sat out the scrimmage. Wells is still favoring a leg injured against Oklahoma A&M, but he will be ready to go Saturday. The other two are on the "doubtful" list.
Charlie Hoag came through Tuesday night's scrimmage without reinjuring his bothersome groin muscle and continued to play last night.
He is approaching top form and will
Considerable work has been done against the spread formation which Coach Don Faurot's team will use. The Jayhawkers, however, are fairly experienced when it comes to playing against the mile-wide formation. Texas Christian used it as did Oklahoma A&M before going down in defeat.
Coach Sikes seemed pleased with his teams performance during practice. The team's spirit is at a high pitch for the 60th renewal of the old rivalry with MU.
help the KU attack Saturday.
Coach Sikes plans to run his squad through plays today and tomorrow without their pads in an effort to add further polish to their plays.
Following Friday's light practice, he and the team will go to Topeka in an attempt to avoid the Homecoming excitement and noise. They will make their headquarters at the Jayawaker hotel, returning to Lawrence Saturday morning.
Villanova, Pa.—(U.P.)A mantle of mystery lay today over the sudden, campus death of Villanova college football hero Domenic "Nick" Liotta.
The big co-captain from Everett, Mass., died in or near his dorsitory yesterday. But the cause of his death was clouded by conflicting statements of police, the coroner's office and college authorities.
Radnor township investigators said the 22-year-old paula clad guard was found hanged with a length of telephone wire from a water pipe in his dormitory basement. They said the 22-pound Liotta had committed suicide in a fit of despondency, apparently over his team's three losses this year. The Wildcats won five games.
Delaware county coroner Joseph Tercha said Liotta died from a "heart attack" while leaving the dormitory. Villanova officials said only that big Nick had been ill for the "past few days" and the cause of the death was unknown.
Late last night, Dr. C. I. Pontius,
president of Tula, announced that the game with Villanova had been set back to Dec. 8
Bradley Also Drops League
Peoria, Ill. — (U,P) — Bradley shopped for a new conference today after announcing it would follow Drake out of the Missouri Valley conference at the end of the academic year.
Bradley's faculty athletic committee announced yesterday that it "felt its our duty to support the Drake position" in the controversy over the slugging of Drake's star Negro halfback, Johnny Bright.
David Blair Owen, president of Bradley, said the vote of the faculty's athletic committee was unanimous in severing its connection with the league, which it joined in December, 1948.
Drake quit the conference Tuesday because the conference refused to take action. Bright, the nation's all-time ground gainer, suffered a broken jaw Oct. 20 in the Drake-Oklahma A&M game at Stillwater, Okla.
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KU To Open Cage Season By Playing Baylor Bears
One of the most promising basketball seasons in Jayhawker history opens when the KU cagers play Baylor in Hoch auditorium Monday night.
Coach Forrest C. Allen will have six of his nine returning lettermen to draw upon. Charlie Hoag and Dean Wells won't report for practice until Monday as they are currently playing football.
Who will be the fifth member of the starting team remains in doubt
John Keller, senior guard, cuts the list of available lettermen down further. A severe charleyhorse has limited his playing for several days. It will keep him from playing either against the freshmen tomorrow night or against Baylor Monday night.
Four positions on the KU starting lineup against Baylor will be filled by the same players that have held them down since their sophomore year—Clyde Lovellet at center, Bob Kenney and Bill Lienhard at forwards and Bill Hougland at guard.
with Dean Kelley, 5 feet 11-inch junior, probably holding the inside track. He lettered last year and has shown considerable improvement.
The Baylor Bears, coached by Bill Henderson, have been picked to finish towards the bottom of the Southwest conference this season. Last year the Bears won 8 while dropping 16 contests as they finished seventh. They averaged in their 8-team league 51.9 points a game to their opponents' 56.7.
Coach Henderson has six other lettermen in addition to Mullins on his squad.
Norman Mullins, 6 feet 2-inch guard, was the team's leading scorer last season with 310 points in 23 games.
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