Tuesday, October 23, 1951
University Daily Kansan
Page 5
By DON SARTEN
Except a victory for our side.
There's good news to day. Movies of the Kansas-Oklahoma game will be shown at 8:30 o'clock tonight in Strong auditorium. And we feel the game will prove to be the best of the '51 season. It has everything.
We'd like to say the best team won. Maybe they did but . . . So they did come back in the fourth quarter to overwhelm us with their ground game. We had just done the same thing to them. Who's to say that we couldn't have come right back down the field to score again, on the ground?
There is action *plenty*. Savage tackling is the rule. Sparkling line play and spectacular runs occur constantly. Plenty of passing reveals odd formations. And controversial decisions are a dime a dozen.
So they'd come right back. Maybe a fumble? Maybe lots of things. If the passing game we selected had paid off they'd still be raving about the coaching strategy. Unfortunately the reverse occurred. So now it can be said that a lot was asked of Jerry Robertson. He was supposed to find five possible receivers in a defense where seven of the opposition were fanned out.
Sure we're second guessing. Trailing by 5 points with around six minutes of play remaining, Coach J. V. Sikes thought that "two touchdowns were needed" is undoubtedly right. Still our line might have surprised—even the coach.
We sure wanted that one bad. Our ends took a terrific pounding all afternoon. We should say, all our pass receivers took a-beating. Our pet pass play seems to be a little book affair, where the player gets apples, shirts, his back is to defensive players, and catches the pass.
Generally, they were smeared from behind from at least two directions. At least once they were flattened from behind before the ball even got near them.
Oh, they have a good team. But not a great team. We weren't outplayed. We were outsmarted.
All of which is only an attempt to explain why we can't strike a "best team" won attitude. But you be the judge. See you at the movie.
AFTERTHOUGHTS...
Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma's top lineman, and an all-American in several lineups last year—wasn't be behaving like one last Saturday. He was moved out several times by Oliver Spencer, a purty fair tackle in his own right. Why the grapevine is saying that the Sooner lad used his elbows more than his head...
But there was more than one pair of elbows flying around loosely in that game, George Mrkonic, our tackle on the other side, was knocked loose from his upper bridge. But latest reports say that he won't lose any of his molars. We're glad.
And while we're on the subject of meme, how about a cheer for another boy whose name seldom appears in newsprint. Anybody happen to notice that in the Colorado game, their star tackler never made a stop all afternoon? Carl Sandefur played on offense that day.
It was Sandefur, Orbon Tice and George Kennard who did the lion's share of our blocking Saturday. With Merlin Gish catching plenty of rough stuff on his linebacking assignments.
Bud Laughlin's single-game effort against Iowa State, which included touchdown lopes of 65 and 68 yards is the second highest in Kansas annals. Only Wade Stinson's 29 against Utah last year is better.
THREE FORMER Kansas University football players are now on the roster of the New York Giants football team. Left to right are Forrest Griffith, halfback, Otto Schnellbacher, end and defensive halfback, and John Amberg, 2105 W. 50th, Westwood Hills. Amberg is a halfback and was captain of last year's KU team. All three are seeing lots of action with the Giants who are expected to win the pro title this year. Amberg starred at Shawnee-Mission high school in football, basketball and track.
Regarding Johnny, the New York Herald-Tribune recently had this to say:
"John Amberg, five-foot eleven and 195 pounds of football player from Kansas University, is a rookie the New York football Giants are counting on for the coming season. Amberg, who has done a topnetch job for the Giants in the just-concluded Southern exhibition tour, made his local debut at the Polo Grounds on Sept. 20 in the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund game against the Los Angeles Rams.
"Johnny cuts sharply, changing direction with small loss of speed and he runs very hard as befits a former fullback. On defense he is agile
and to date has had great success in covering more experienced players going out for passes. When he has to come up to make a tackle he makes it hard and true.
"Amberg will stick with the club. He is a rarity in this day of platoon football which sends boys out of college able to play a good game only one way. He can go both ways—offense and defense—and Polo Grounds fans should like him."
Intramural
Local pigskin fans may have trouble identifying Amberg from the photo as his father and mother did, but the Giant's headquarters insist No. 12 is John.
Round-Up
Sigma Phi Epsilon rolled over Phi Kappa Tau 18-0 and Delta Tau Delta edged Delta Chi 7-0 in intramural football last week.
But it was a 13-12 contest won by Beta Theta Pi over Phi Gamma Delta that was the thriller of the week.
Two plays after the kickoff, the Beta team scored. A pass interception set up the scoring play. The second Beta score occurred on a pass play.
Lee Pemberton caught a Jerry Jaquith aerial from 8 yards out to score the only touchdown of the Delta Tau Delta vs. Delta Chi contest.
Jim Devlin and Pemberton were on the receiving end of many passes.
In the Sigma Phi Epsilon tilt,
stubborn resistance by the Phi
Kappa Tau players kept the first
quarter scoreless.
But in the second Sig Eps scored twice on passes from Herb Rettig to Don Freely and Bob Mathers respectively.
In the third quarter the Sig Eps scored their final td on a short pass over center from Rettig to Larry Manweiler.
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The third week of the women's intramural volleyball program provided no major upsets, but it did place several teams within one game of a division championship.
Several Teams Within Game Of Taking Volleyball Honors
Eleven games and two forfeits were registered in the two nights of play.
Monday evening the Cohops defeated Chi Omega, 44 to 35; Sigma Kappa and Temtruh tied at 43 points; Freshman BL won over Freshman MK, 45 to 28; Watkins defeated Freshman MJ, 6 to 9 and Alpha Delta Pi won over Theta Phi Alpha, 81 to 14.
The Cohops held a 22 to 8 lead at the half in their game, but several substitutions in the second period allowed Chi Omega to score freely and pull within nine points of the victors.
The Freshman BL team had too much defensive power for the MK squad and won easily by 17 points.
Watkins hall, one of the better teams, had no trouble with an inexperienced Freshman MJ team. They averaged 34 points per half to the MJ's four.
Alpha Delta Pi scored the highest number of points in a game this season as they swamped the Theta Phi Alphas, 81 to 14. The outstanding play of Marilyn Hanson, Jane Schindling and Pat Schrader proved too much for a weak defense.
In play Wednesday, Freshman MJ forfeited to Alpha Delta Pi; Freshman BH forfeited to Kappa Alpha Theta; Kimmelman MKM defeated Delta Gamma, 41 to 40; Foster won over Freshman BA. 33 to 19.
Kappa Kappa Gamma defeated Alpha Omicron Pi, 48 to 22; Miller won over Alpha Phi, 46 to 34; Delta Delta defeated Locksley, 60 to 15 and Freshman AA won over Gamma Phi Beta, 37 to 18.
The KMM team showed a better offensive than previously and won their first game while handing the DG's their second defeat.
Kappa Kappa Gemma continued undefeated as they coasted to a 26 point victory over Alpha Omicron Pi. This team should reach the finals.
Foster continued to improve, winning over the BA squad by 14 points. The play of Ernestine Dehlinger and Virginia Brooks was a major factor in Foster's success.
Delta Delta Delta showed their usual sparkling teamwork in an easy 60 to 15 win over Locksley hall.
New York — (U.P.) — Wide - eyed Willie Mays, who jumped from the backwoods sandlots to the green pastures of the majors in almost record time, was named United Press National League rookie of the year today after just two seasons in organized ball.
The 20-year-old rookie center fielder of the pennant-winning New York Giants received 19 votes from the 24 veteran baseball writers—three from each league city—who made the selection.
Giant Star Is 'Best Player'
Mays came to the Giants last May 25 after setting a fabulous 477 batting pace in 34 games with the Minneapolis farm club. Durocher took one look at him and said, "that boy is going to win the pennant for us."
Manager Leo Durocher, who called Willie "the best rookie I ever have seen in baseball" emphaasizes the Giants couldn't have won the pennant without him. But it took some stout faith by Durocher even to keep the 20-year-old growing boy from the Alabama woods in the lineup at all.
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