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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1951
KU Gridders Meet Iowa State In Conference Opener
Off and running at the head of the pack for the first time in 9-years our Jayhawk Eleven faces a stiff challenge from another quick starter, Iowa State, this weekend. Coach Abe Stuber and his Cyclones needed but a small breeze to sail past Wayne university S3 to 21 last Saturday. How effective they'll be against a team which will extend them to their nickname proportions, remains to be seen.
Small Town Boy Making Good On K-State Football Squad
Manhattan, Kan.—You don't often run across a football case like that of Veryl (Joe) Switzer, a 19-year-old sophomore who is one of Kansas State's most promising gridders this fall.
Joe, that's the name tacked on him by teammates, is an honest-to-gosh "find". And, football men will admit that is something unique in these days of high-pressure bidding for the best high school football stock.
The talent scouts overlooked Switzer in his high school days and it isn't any wonder. The well-built little Negro lad played six-man football for Bogue, Kan., high school because his home village, Nicodemus, Kan., didn't have a team. But, last fall as a Kansas State freshman, Switzer became the talk of the campus with his jarring tackles and piffy ball running.
He was lightning proof that not all football players come from the "big" schools and that a high school reputation isn't a prerequisite for making a college team.
Switzer, playing halfback, scores both touchdowns as the Wildcat frosh downed the University of Kansas yearling 13 to 7 last fall. But the fans who saw the game left the stadium talking more about his driving tackles than they did about his brilliant offensive show.
They'd never heard about the two-platoon system at Bogue, Kan., and six-man football had taught Switzer that a good halfback knows how to tackle as well as score.
This fall, K-State coach, Bill Meek, has described Swisser as the "most vicious tackler I've ever seen." That is quite a compliment coming from a coach who played three years with a rib-busting Tennessee team.
It remains to be seen how Joe Switzer will fare in big time football. But, he won't have to wait long. Meek used the Nicodemus scooter against Cincinnati Saturday and will use him again in the Iowa game at Iowa City Sept. 29.
If Joe does make it in the big time, he will be an inspiration to lots of high school "unknowns" who think a book of press clippings necessary for a position on a college football team.
Boy Shoots At Hog; Hits Sister, Mother
Atlanta —(U,P) —Four-year-old Danny Wood started out chasing a unaway hog and ended up shooting his mother and sister.
Police said little Danny picked up a rifle and tried to shoot the animal. The 22 caliber bullet passed through the arm of his two-year-old sister Janice and struck his mother, Mrs. Margaret Wood, 23, in the stomach.
Vols Ranked Nation's Best
New York—(U.P) —The United Press football ratings (first place votes in parenthesis):
Team Points
1. Tennessee (23) 268
2. Texas (4) 235
3. California (1) 222
4. Oklahoma 163
5. Ohio State (3) 157
6. Michigan State (3) 137
7. Texas A. and M. 100
8. Kentucky 96
9. Washington 92
10. Illinois 75
Second 10—Alabama (1), 53; Notre Dame, 18; Michigan, 16; Baylor and Georgia Tech, 28 each; Maryland, 23; Pennsylvania, 20; North Carolina, 18; Southern California 17; Wisconsin, 15.
Others: Cornell, 14; Kansas, 11;
Arkansas and Duke, 10 each; Mississippi State, 8; Cincinnati, Fordham and Indiana, 7 each; Stanford, 6; Florida and Georgia, 5 each; Navy and Princeton, 4 each; Colorado and Oregon State, 3 each; Purdue and Wyoming, 2 each; Miami (Fla.), Northwestern, Utah and Yale, 1 each.
Durocher Shooting Works In NL Race
New York — (U.P.) — Shouting that there was "No half way about it, we're shooting the works for all or nothing" manager Leo Durocher made it plain today that he still thinks his incredible Giants can win the National League pennant.
Merwin Hodel, University of Colorado fullback, has been the Buffs top rusher for the past two years. Hodel ran for 748 yards as a soph and 757 as a junior.
The Giants had just pulled out another dramatic victory on game Eddie Stanky's two-out single in the last of the ninth that provided a 4 to 3 series-sweeping decision over the tough Braves. The victory put the Giants within $2_{1/2}$ games of the jittery Dodgers—a pretty big lead to overcome with only four more games on the Giant schedule.
First state high school two-mile meet in Colorado prep history will be run off under the direction of the University of Colorado's Frank Potts October 27 at Boulder.
Observers of their romp over Wayne University said the Iowa Staters have a "better balanced" team than last year's mediocre squad. A new hand, sophomore quarterback Dick Mann, is guiding Stuber's "T" and new feet, belonging to sophomore back Stan Cozzi, pacing it.
Seven lettermen will be in the visitor's offensive platoon, and against KU there may be eight. Dick Brown, a split-T formation quarterback, who has been out with an injured ankle, may be ready to go in the conference opener.
A freshman, Dick Lizabeth, will see double duty at a halfback post, reports indicate. Lizabeth received his spring training at Wayne University, and then transferred to Iowa State this fall.
Cyclone faithful are looking for a better record than the team's 2-7 showing last year. A strong rookie crop this year, than ran roughshod over Wayne, may reward Iowa followers with a surprise or two before the season's over.
Cozzi, who has put in frosh seasons at both Iowa and Colorado, has tremendous potential as a breakaway runner, and grid fortunes of the school ride heavy on his shoulders.
On the other hand, Coach J. V. Sikes has more of a mental problem. His boys were "up" for Texas Christian University last week, and some letdown against Iowa is inevitable.
Hilltoppers had Jerry Bogue tagged as the passer Sikes needed to round out a great team. But in the TCU encounter, it was another "Jerry"—Robertson, who stole theerial show.
Now Sikes has two passers. And in Bogue he has experience plus a strong ground game. His "green" line held up surprisingly well against the Texas team.
A pair of sophs, Bob Hantla and Orville Poppe, along with George Mrkonic, a junior, stood out on the line against TCU.
Injury Sidelines Cole For 3 Weeks
Only one KU casualty occurred in the TCU fracas last weekend, Dr. Maurice Gross, team physician said Monday.
Guard Jack Cole, an offensive starter, suffered a knee injury in the last play of the game that will keep him out of the lineup for at least three weeks.
Charlie Hoag will see only limited action during workouts this week. His groin injury was aggravated against the Texas team.
It was at first feared that Cole's knee was broken.
There are only eight seniors on the University of Colorado's 94-man football squad. They are: Bill Allen, Jack Jorgenson and LaVerne Rickels, tackles; Hugh Davidson, Merwin Hodel and Bob Wilson, backs; and Hilary Johnson and Chuck Mosher, ends.
Only Way To Lose Was To Drop Dead -- It Did
New York—(U,P)—Fearless Fraley's facts and figures:
77
Maybe it's because the hapless Athletics have been giving the New York Yankees such a tough time in the stretch, but Casey Stengel insists that A's manager Jimmy Dykes "has done as good a managerial job as anybody in the league."
"That Dykes," sighed Stengel, "he keeps switching the hit and take signs so often that we never know what he's going to do." . . it shows, too, Casey . . .
The professional golf brigade predicts that either Cary Middlecoff, the Memphis dentist, or Jackie Burke, Jr., the Texas terror, will be the big man of the wedge and wallet
Expel Gridders In Fryer Thefts
Tucson, Ariz.—(U.P.)—Star fullback Arnold Burwitz was expelled from the University of Arizona Monday and three other Wildcat football players were placed on "permanent disciplinary probation" in connection with the reported attempted theft of chickens from the university's experimental poultry farm.
Burwitz' explosion and the action against the other three athletes was announced by Dean of Men A. L. Slonaker following a closed-door investigation conducted by university officials.
Burwitz, of Oak Park, III., suffered minor leg injuries from flying cement when a Deputy Sheriff fired a warning shot during the alleged raid on the chicken pen early Sunday morning.
The probationary status will not prevent the three from playing football, Slonaker explained. Implicated along with Burwitz, were Jim Donarski, 19, All-American candidate from Green Bay, Wisc.; Johnny Tonz, 19, Milwaukee; and Bob Matock, 20, Phoenix, Ariz.
brigade next season. The reason is age.
Middlecoff is only 30 and Burke only 29, but they're among the first five this year. And rounding out the top seven, the ages are: Lloyd Mangrum 37, Jim Ferrier 36, Ben Hogan 39, Sammy Sneed 37 and Jimmy DeMaret 41.
Allie Reynolds of the Yankees, who has calcium deposits in his pitching elbow, was telling his mates it made a noise when he throws the ball. Yogi Berra nodded that he could hear it clean behind the plate.
"That's just added proof." needed Phil Rizzuto, "that you ain't human." . . .
Notre Dame tub thumpers claim that the South Benders once more deserve the nickname of "The Fighting Irish." Sixty per cent of the football squad this year is of Irish descent with a liberal sprinkling of Callaghans, Kellys, Murphys, Rileys, O'Briens, and O'Haras—sure, and now let's be winning some . . .
No reply has yet been received from Satchel Paige, but he has been invited to appear on the TV program "Life begins at eighty," a bid extended only to people of that age.
Al Johnson, west coast racing official, knows how high some owners can get on their horses. Like when he rode a horse named Popee at New Orleans in 1918.
Memory Lane: It was 43 years ago Wednesday that Ed Reubach of the Chicago Cubs beat Brooklyn, 5-0 and 3-0, to post the only doubleheader shutout by one pitcher in the history of the National league...
"The only way this mare can lose," the owner told him, "is to drop dead."
The mare lost. It did!
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