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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. October 23. 1951
Track Coach Sounds Call For Fall Prospects
Are you one of the hundreds of boys who were first string material in high school or junior college, football, baseball, and basketball—and who went out for track—on the side?
And feel that you lack the qualities demanded by "big time" football, basketball, and baseball teams of today?
looking for. He wants to make a track man out of you. Providing you'll give him a chance to look you over.
You're just the man Bill Easton is
As far as Coach Easton is concerned, there is no season for track men. And if there is one, it would be in the fall.
"It's true that one becomes a Wes Santee or a Herb Semper,
Vols Replace Trojans
New York—(U.P.)—Power-packed Tennessee, scourge of the South, replaced California as the nation's No. 1 college football team today, while Southern California made the longest stride of the week by moving into fifth place of the top 10.
Taking cognizance of the wave or upsets which rocked the gridirons last weekend, the 35 leading coaches who make up the United Press rating board reshuffled their rankings extensively from the previous week.
Illinois jumped from seventh to third place behind runnerup Michigan State; Georgia Tech advanced from sixth to fourth; Maryland from eighth to sixth; Baylor from ninth to seventh, and Princeton moved up one notch to ninth place in other significant changes.
Meanwhile, California, the top team for the three previous weeks, dropped to eighth, Texas from fourth to 10th, and Texas &M from fifth to 13th after suffering their first setbacks of the season.
Tennessee, which beat Alabama, 27-13, for its four straight victory last Saturday, received 22 first place votes and a total of 311 points in the coach's weekly ballot. The Volunteers, who achieve remarkable results from their "old-fashioned"
single-wing offense, were ranked tops in the pre-season and first weekly listings.
overnight." Easton told this department. "There are few 'naturals' in this game."
"It takes work—lots of it. But any boy who participated in every sport but track in high school—or another college, owes it to himself and this school, to give his heart a chance," Easton sincerely felt.
"People continually marvel at the endurance and style of better track men, but only seldom are these stars much in their frush and soph years at college. It takes time. And legs, lungs, and a great heart," he continued.
"It's a sport where a guy is on his own. You run a couple of miles and it's the boys who have it inside that have that last spurt that knocks seconds off each attempt."
He didn't say it, but one received the impression that Easton was disappointed in the small turnout this
fall. Not that he doesn't have plenty of boys out, but its just that the vet-eran coach wants to help more boys —help themselves.
rather, incidentally was a KU man; Hugh Mann; Warren Difendorf; Frank Cheskey; and Hillary Oden are looking particularly good."
He picked out a lad by the name of Bob Rader—for an example, who came out this fall unannounced and unheralded. He is giving Charles Crook, last year's high school cross country champ, a whale of a battle in his specialty.
All that's necessary to go out for track is to report, any afternoon, to the stadium. You'll hear Coach Easton, hollering instructions to "his boys," long before you reach the cinder track around the football field.
Or give him a ring at KU 464. And as Easton said, "any work you may do now—will pay off this spring."
'No Action' On Slugging Incident But Feuding Isn't Over At Drake
"All my frosh are going to improve tremendously," Easton felt, "but boys like Fitzgerald, whose
A&M coach J. B. Whitworth said Monday he planned no action against Aggie tackle Wilbanks Smith, who Saturday hit the Negro halfback twice with his forearm, sidelining Bright with a broken jaw.
Stillwater, Okla.—(U.P.) The slugging of Drake football star John Bright appeared to be a closed incident at Oklahoma A&M today, but not at Des Moines, Iowa, home of Drake University.
Whitworth's announcement brought this response from Drake coach Warren Gaer:
"I feel that Mr. Whitwort should take some action. I feel I would if
Athletic director Jack McClelland said at Des Moines that Whitworth's statement along with other information on the game would be presented at a meeting of the Drake Athletic council tonight.
But Whitworth explained last night he arrived here from Oklahoma City barely in time to attend football practice and had a chalk talk scheduled last night. The call, he said, would probably be made early today.
Gaer also denied that Whitworth had telephoned him to apologize for the incident as the A&M coach had announced he planned to do.
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Soiled 'Stars' May Reveal Sad Details Of 'Fixed' Kentucky Games In Past
New York—(U.P.)—The details of other "fixed" college games involving former Kentucky players Alex Groza and Ralph Beard were expected to be revealed today as they faced New York police authorities.
Both players arrived last night from Chicago, where they already confessed accepting bribes to shave points in Kentucky's National Invitation Tournament game with Loyola of Chicago in 1949. They were to be arraigned today, along with Dale Barnstable, another former Kentucky player, involved in the Loyola "fix."
Vincent A. G. O'Connor, assistant district attorney of New York County, hinted last Saturday that other games played by Kentucky during the 1948-49 season were "fixed," but gave no details. However, Beard and
Groza readily admitted "fixing" two other games that season.
Groza corroborated Beard's statement on the other games but said, "I don't remember which games they were, either." The giant center also had a bitter comment on the recruiting of college basketball players.
"How he went out and got us is going to be a great story some day," Groza said.
"Some day when I'm gray I'd like to write the story of all this recruiting," Groza said.
The six-foot, 10-inch player declined to elaborate on the subject, although he grinned sarcastically when it was suggested that Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp might be able to help with the details.
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