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Drill On Fundamentals In Preparation For MU
Concentration on the fundamentals took up most of the practice time of the Kansas Jayhawkers last week as they continued to prepare for their final game against Missouri here Saturday.
Reyne Replogle, end coach, has scouted the Tigers this season and has briefed the Kansas squad on
'Red' Grange To Be Speaker At Grid Banquet
The Ormand Beach trophy will be presented to the outstanding senior player. The senior will be selected by the football squad. Wade Stinson was presented the trophy last year.
Harold "Red" Grange, famed Galloping Ghost of Illinois, will be the guest speaker at the annual football banquet of the Lawrence Downtown Quarterback club Dec. 19.
Arthur C. Lonborg, KU director of athletics, invited the famed gridiron star of the 1920's. He and Lonborg became acquainted while the latter was basketball coach at Northwestern university.
Gifts also will be presented to the varsity team by the Quarterback club.
Grange was a unanimous selection for All-American honors in 1923 1924 and 1925. Following his fabulous college career, he turned professional, playing several years for the Chicago Bears. He is now in the insurance business in Chicago.
Arch Ward, sports editor for the Chicago Tribune, was the guest speaker last year. Matty Bell, foot-ball coach at Southern Methodist university and Bud Wilkinson, coach at Oklahoma university, have also spoken before the club.
Mathias Tops In Grid Game
San Francisco—(U.P.)-He's such a gentleman in streetclothes that some people believe it would be impossible for him to be a champion.
But Robert "Bob" Mathias, who celebrated his 21st birthday while playing football for Stanford last Saturday, rapidly is taking his place in the sun as the "world's greatest athlete since Jim Thorpe."
"It's unbelievable what that lad can do," says George Lynn, backfield coach of the Stanford Indians. "He learned fast and he has the natural ability to do everything."
Lynn, of course, is talking about football. Matthias, at 17, won the Olympic Decathlon championship in London. Usually Decathlon champions don't reach their peak until they are at least 25 years old.
today Bobby is a star on a football team that will represent the Pacific coast in the Rose Bowl. Millions of fans in the huge bowl and watching on television who have heard of his exploits on the tracks and fields of the world now will get a chance to see him run in a football suit.
They will see a handsome lad, clean cut, standing six-feet two-inches, and weighing a trim 200 pounds. He is probably as timid a fellow as any you'll meet in a corner drugstore and he doesn't use rough language.
But put cleated shoes on him and he develops one of the greatest competitive abilities in the world of sports today.
He didn't play football at Stanford as a freshman but turned out this fall and was the greenest back on the squad. He was timid about making tackles, about blocking and about builduzing when he was carrying the ball. The complete metathesis was made one Saturday when he dragged three Oregon State players on his back for five yards to score a touchdown.
what to expect from Don Faurot and his cellar-dwellers.
Practice continued through Friday for the Jayhawkers with Coach J. V. Sikes running the team through defensive scrimmages Wednesday and Thursday. He ran them through a short non-contact workout Friday before dismissing them for the week-end.
The open date Saturday and the week's light practice allowed many sore muscles and bruises to recover with a good possibility of the Jayhawkers being in top physical condition for the homecoming rame.
Frank Sabatini, sophomore fullback, appears to be the only player who will definitely miss the game. A fractured frontal sinus suffered in practice recently hasn't healed as rapidly as expected and has forced him to withdraw from further play this season.
Schaake, ailing end and co-captain, may be back in the lineup Saturday for his last college game. He missed the Oklahoma A&M game because of an attack of glandular fever.
Minor injuries, especially the leg and ankle variety, were numerous in the A&M game. Bob Brandehane, Bud Laughlin and George Michale have been hampered by injured ankles while strained leg muscles have hobbled Dean Wells and Chet Strehlow.
Charlie Hoag may possibly be back in good running condition to close the injury has proved to be an injury-ridden season for the brilliant halfback.
Missouri also was idle last Saturday and will be at top strength with the exception of Junior Wren, who saw his last action this season against Oklahoma.
Tony Scardino and Buddy Cox, freshman passing stars, have been slowed some by injuries but should be ready by Saturday.
INS Names KU Players
George Mrkonic, junior tackle,
and Charlie Hoag, junior halfback,
were recently named to the first
team of the All-Midlands football
teams selected by the International
News Service.
George Kennard, senior guard,
was chosen to fill a position on
the second team and Orbon Tice, senior
end. received honorable mention.
The INS teams are composed of outstanding players from teams in the Big Seven and Missouri Valley conferenentes.
E—Mal Schmidt, Iowa State
W—Willie Roberts, Tulsa
T—Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma
"R—Mrkonic
First Team
G—Fred Smith, Oklahoma
TOM O'Boyle, Kansas State
C—Tom Catlin, Oklahoma
B—Hogw
Certify Bowl Games Under NCAA By-Laws
B—Johnny Bright, Drake
B—Dick Mann, Iowa State
B—Don Babers, Oklahoma A&M.
Chicago — (U.P.) — The National Collegiate Athletic association has certified 10 post-season football bowl games as meeting the requirements of new NCAA by laws.
Games approved yesterday were the Sugar Bowl, New Orleans; Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.; Refrigerator Bowl, Evansville, Ind.; Gator Bowl, Jacksonville. Fla.; Presidential Cup, Washington, D.C.; Orange Bowl, Miami, Fla.; Cotton Bowl, Dallas; Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas; Salad Bowl, Phoenix, Ariz., and Pear Bowl, Medford, Ore.
It was the first such action by the NCAA in the history of bowl games and followed authorization to screen such games granted by the NCAA convention last January in Dallas.
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Illinois Favored To Beat Indians In Rose Bowl
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San Francisco — (U.R)—University of Illinois will be favored to whip Stanford in the Rose Bowl and give the Big Ten its sixth consecutive victory over the Pacific Coast conference in the New Year's day Pasadena classic.
That's how things stand today in the wake of the Indians' 20-7 shellacking from the California Bears Saturday.
The formal selection of both Illinois and Stanford will be announced today but Stanford clinched its bid 10 days ago; and Illinois assured itself of the Big Ten championship on Saturday by edging Northwestern. 3-0.
Neither the unbeaten Illini nor the once-beaten Indians are rated as "great" football clubs—and even Coach Chuck Taylor of the Stanford admits his team had been lucky to go through the first nine games without a loss.
The Stanford club, which some like to compare with famed Indian elevens of the past that were nicknamed the "Vow Boys" and the "Wow Boys," have earned the name of the "How Boys" this season—for "how do they do it?"
"Shucks, we played a good game," said All-American End Bill McColl who was great even in defeat Saturday. "California just played better. In fact, the Bears played like the team they were built up to be earlier in the season, and we played like the team we were supposed to be at the beginning."
In their traditional game with the Bears the Indians were "flat," as the coaches like to say. California's ground game worked to perfection as Coach Pappy Waldorf sent an assortment of backs ripping through the line for huge gains that gave the Bears 316 yards net on the ground for the day.
All season long they have been expected to be knocked off the unbeaten list. But week after week they continued to be just good enough to beat the opposition. Taylor did a wonderful job of keeping his boys "up" game after game by telling them the next one was a tough one on the schedule. But after they clinched the Rose Bowl assignment by upsetting Southern California 27-20, the players just relaxed. That may account for their upset at the hands of California.
"Gee Whiz! Why didn't they schedule Kentucky, too? Then we could play against Babe Parilli."
Illinois and Stanford have defeated three mutual opponents this season. Stanford whipped Michigan 23-13 while Illini beat the Wolverines 7-0. Stanford won over Washington 14-7, and Illinois beat the same club 27-20. Illinois trimmed UCLA 27-13 and Stanford got by the Bruins with the same margin, but with a 21-7 score.
JayhawksStop Top Passers
In successive weeks KU encountered Don Klosterman of Loyola, the nation's No. 1 passer, and Oklahoma A&M'S Don Babers, No. 3 man. Parilli is currently rated second.
This could well be the sentiment of Coach J. V. Sikes' pass-pestered Jayhawkers, who have stopped four of the five leading passers in the nation.
Prior to the tussles with those slingers the Jayhawkers met Gil Bartosh of TCU, Dick Mann of Iowa State, and Utah's Tom Dublinski. Dublinski and Mann are currently the fourth and fifth leading gainers through the air.
This week the Jayhawkers are preparing to face Tony Scardino, Missouri's freshman passing star. He has made a fine showing for a freshman and turned in a sterling performance against the mighty Oklahoma Sooners. In that game his passes netted 365 vards.
Monday, Nov. 26, 1951
Scardino was injured in the OU fray and saw only limited action in the Tigers' loss to K-State. He will, however, be ready to give the KU pass defense a stiff workout.
Santee's Good Will Awards Displayed In Union By SUA
Many of the gifts and medals received by Wesley Santee, KU track star, while on his recent good will tour of Japan with other American athletes are now on exhibit in the Union lobby.
It is one in a series of displays sponsored by the Student Union Activities of trophies won by University athletes and debaters.
Included in the display are lanterns, vases, several elaborate dolls, painted silk fans, a ladies komona, a nickel spoon, cuff links, a salad bowl and two albums. On a plate in the exhibit are painted the names of the 12 athletes, the tour manager and the coaches who went on the tour. Each member of the group received one of these plates.
In cases on top of the largest glass case, are all the medals which Santee won in Japan and three medals which he won in AAUW meets last year. One of the medals from Japan was for breaking the international record in the 3,000 meter race.
"The 12 athletes on the good-will tour entered and won 11 meets. Generally the Japanese would win one event in a meet, an event in which we were not entered," said Santee.
In addition to promoting good-will the tour was intended to help the Japanese learn American methods in athletics and to help them to begin preparing for the Olympics, said the KU track whiz.
The Olympics will be held in Helsinki, Finland, next summer. Olympic tryouts for American athletes will be next June in Los Angeles. Wes Santee, an education sophomore, plans to enter the tryouts. If he wins first, second or third he will go on to the Olympics.
Laughlin Up For All-American
Bud Laughlin, Jayhawker's hard-hitting fullback, was nominated for the Associated Press All-American team over the weekend. Laughlin scored three times against the Oklahoma Aggies, bringing his season's total to 72 points.
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