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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1951
Hoag To Work Against Colorado; Key Game On Jayhawk Schedule
Kansas hopes to have its Colorado hoo-doo man, Charlie Hoag, back on the firing line Saturday when the Jayhawkers tackle the Buffaloes in an important Big Seven football battle Saturday in Boulder.
Kansas is going to, need every gun in its arsenal if it is to win this one and Hoag is the major ground threat. Even though he will be below par because of a groin injury, he is a constant menace in the passing and receiving departments as well as rushing.
He brewed particularly virulent poison for the Herd last year. It was his 85-yard kickoff return which ignited a Kansas rally against the Buffs last October which turned a 21-0 defeat into a 27-21 victory in the last 20 minutes.
The length of Hoag's availability at Boulder remains to be seen. He has coasted through practice all week in an effort to give the injury more healing time. A re-pull of the wound, however, could occur any time the Kansas Hurricane carries or stretches for a pass.
Meanwhile Knasas is more concerned over defense than attack. The Cyclones' hard-running backfield rolled for 241 net yards, 181 of them in the first half, furthermore State ran 96 plays, exclusive of punts, to only 51 for Kansas. Kansas scarecly can count on long touchdown thrusts every game to offset this kind of enemy ball-control.
If Hoag is unable to go his spot will be filled by Dean Wells, Great Bend senior, and Frank Cindrich, sophomore flyer from Kansas City, Kan., who impressed against Iowa State in his brief appearance. Bob Brandeberry and John Konek, both improving in every outing, will split duties at right half.
More significant is the fact that CU, will trot out the most potent and diversified attack the Kansans have yet faced. Although beaten by Northwestern, 35-14, the Bouts outgained the Wildcats in total offense despite the fact that Merwin Hodel, the swift bucker who keeps the middle honest, played little because of the flu.
Coach Dallas Ward has exceptionally well-fitted personnel for his single wing. In addition to Hodel, Tailback Zack Jordan is a bona-fide triple-threat. Wingback Woody Shelton is an excellent reverse runner and Quarterback Roger Williams a fine blocker.
Unless Kansas line play improves, particularly at end, the invaders will face a long afternoon against a
GEORGE MRKONIC WILL LEAD the Jayhawk line into battle Saturday against the Buffs. He is to the line what Hoag is to the backfield. It'll be up to the streamlined tackle to open holes in one of the toughest lines Kansas will see this year. If past performances are accurate measuring instruments, he'll hold his own.
double-teaming line which fronts the traditional single-wing power drives.
An injury marred practice session was called to a halt by Coach J. V. Sikes last night, just before darkness would have made orders to quit unnecessary.
CHARLE HOAG READY for limited action against Colorado. After a two week layoff, the University of Kansas candidate for All-American honors, is looking forward to playing Saturday. Hoag has been taking it easy since the T.C.U. game, two weeks ago, when he aggrivated a groin injury he sustained before the opener
It was the third straight night this week that emphasis was placed on defensive line play and practice "called on account of darkness."
Although noncommittal as to whether or not his linemen have achieved the sharp edge he's been honing all week, Sikes didn't appear unhappy after last night's session.
with the Texas team.
Freshmen "fodder" will be glad to hear the word. Three were helped off the practice field last night, with two of them taken to the hospital.
Two fullbacks, Keith Ross and John Anderson, were hurt trying to crash through the varsity defenses. Anderson has a badly wrenched knee, while Ross dislocated his left shoulder.
"That's the last of the hard work on" announced in the dressing room later.
All three were among the better frosh candidates appearing in "B" games this season.
Dave Schmidt, defensive end, returned and took care of his defensive duties. Galen Fiss is a doubtful starter this weekend. The hard hitting defensive lineback wasn't even in uniform last night, and finds it difficult to hobble around.
An oil painting "Night," by Albert John Pucci, has been given to the museum of art by the National Academy of Design, New York City.
Oil Painting A Gift To Museum Of Art
The painting was one of 11 bought from contemporary artists and presented to universities and colleges throughout the United States this year.
The gifts are made possible by annual income from the Henry W. Ranger fund. The total value of the 11 purchased this year is $10,000. Since the Ranger fund was established in 1917, the National Academy has purchased 136 paintings and presented them to 110 public institutions in 39 states.
Along The Jayhawker Trail
By DON SARTEN
Atlantic Monthly has published an article by Allen Jackson, a former wheel on the University of Michigan football squad. In it Mr. Jackson has based his premise on "What is big time football doing to players attending college in honest search for education?"
It looks to us like the learned gentleman is not only biting the hand that fed him, but undoubtedly provided the connections he used to find his present niche in the world.
However, the article is well worth reading. A three-year letter-man at guard, and a veteran of one Rose Bowl game, the author knows of that which he speaks. Unfortunately, his conclusion isn't as strong as his premise.
Back inside again the klei
lights gave his smiling face a
dead-man's pallor. He was hugged
some more, mobbed, rumpled,
nearly christened by a bottle of
champagne.
He began by quarreling with a modern tendency to emphasize "winning" as an end in itself, and a tendency to "kick him when he's down" attitude which this emphasis fosters.
In using his Alma Mater as an example he said, "Michigan's maize and blue players are not encouraged
And so Thomson stood outside the clubhouse door in centerfield for a minute while the crowd milled and cheered like something back in the days of Mussolini's speeches.
Then, as somebody showed a bottle of beer into his hand, a wiry blond kid with a short crew-cut fought his way through the crowd.
"Gee, thanks." Thomson shook
hands. "What's your name again?"
Pleased To Meet Cha
"Labine," said the kid. "You know, I pitch for Brooklyn!"
The following bit of by-play was buried in UP coverage of yesterday's game.
"Nice goin', Bobby," he said. "Good luck in the series."
o gang tackle, they are simply ordered to cover the opposing ball carrier with a "blanket of blue."
Later he mentioned that long hours of practice on specialties, took all the fun out of the game. "Put in order to win games, tackles, ends, backs, punters and what have you must spend many hours doing the same thing with monotonous regularity."
Then he blasted coaching staffs for encouraging boys who lacked physical attributes necessary to ever make the varsity, to keep coming out. He called them "cannon fodder." "Presstige of a varsity player is ennormous," he said, "so only a little encouragement is needed to keep a mediocre boy around."
Instead of simply saying alumni pressure was behind it all, he took a longer way around. "The perverted bigness of football today has produced people with perverted interests in the sport."
Shall we term it "human nature?" A desire to better ourselves in any endeavor, whether we ever become proficient or not?
We were forced to smile sympathetically when he announced that all he learned in traveling all over the nation with the team was that "in every stadium the grass is more or less green."
Everybody knows the situation, including the greenest of the frosh. But there's a reason they keep trying.
One trouble with the entire article is that it isn't news.
Looks to this corner that all of us who are playing the game of life are "cannon fodder." There just isn't room for all of us on top.
Somebody always has to lose, or nobody wins. . . .
Hero Of Giant Win Thrilled; 'Rode Around Bases On Cloud'
(Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning homer with two on gave the Giants a 5-4 victory over Brooklyn yesterday and the National League pennant along with it in one of the most storied finishes of all time. In the following dispatch, Thomson tells how he did it.)
By BOBBY THOMSON
As Told to the United Press
As Told to the United Press New York— (U.P.) —I didn't run around the bases— I rode around 'em on a cloud.
Wow. I still don't know what time it is or where I am. Frankly, I don't care.
Going around those bases in the ninth inning, I just couldn't believe
That's A Joke Son
Merwin Hodel's reported reduction to third string on the University of Colorado football team had sideline quarterbacks chuckling last night.
One observer put local reaction to the news neatly when he said, "Third string, huh? Anybody wanna set what 'string' he'll be on come Saturday?"
There were no takers.
those middle-of-the-night dreams,
what was happening to me. I felt
as if I was actually living one of
You know, everything was hazy.
I heard vells . . . I saw paper flying. . . I noticed people jumping in the air but through it all, I just kept 'idging high on that cloud.
The pitch I hit off Ralph Branca for that home run was a high, inside pitch. I mean it was real high—high and bad, almost up to my head—but it's the best pitch I ever hit in my life, the best, by far.
Everything seemed to come out all eight yesterday, even though I certainly was looking for a place to hide after I overran first base and got caught in the second inning. That was just a bad mistake on my part and I'm glad I did something to help the fans forget that bit of bad base-running.
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