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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1951
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Battle Of Backs Seen In Big 7
Shunting the championship selecting into the background, a record number of 71 sportswriters and sport casters predicted a terrific battle of backs through the 1951 Big Seven football campaign as they went to the polls in the sixth annual preseason canvass conducted by Kansas Athletic Publicist Don Pierce.
Spraying All-American adjectives as easily as teen-agers spout major league batting averages, the experts forecast tremendous deeds for Bobby Reynolds, Nebraska's sophomore all-American of '50; Charlie Hoag of Kansas; Billy Vessels, Oklahoma; and Merwin Hodel, Colorado. Colorado tailback Zack Jardian and Jerry Bogue, KU's comingback quarterback also drew much notice.
Along the way the predictors found space to vote Oklahoma's defending champions their fourth undisputed conference title. Some of the clairvoyants, however, admitted Nebraska might spill the Sooners in their title role at Lincoln on Nov. 24.
*Bud Wilkinson's Sliding-T brigade drew first place votes against 17 for the Cornhuskers and one each for Kansas and Missouri. OU's point total, determined by multiplying the number of each position times the number of votes for that position, was only $91\frac{1}{2}$ despite the all-time high number of participants. Nebraska hit 144. Kansas 220.
Missouri, a two-time poll winner, was forecast in a tight race with Colorado for fourth place at $310_{1/2}$ to 325. Iowa State drew 437 votes, Kansas State 481.
50 Jobs For 10 Teachers
Champaign, Ill.—U(L.P).—The University of Illinois reports that jobs outnumber teachers five to one in the mentally-handicapped teaching field. The university said it will graduate 10 teachers certified under state law to teach the mentally handicapped but that it had 50 job requests.
Watch For Better Aerial Attack As Jayhawk Passers Sharpen Up
High on the list of missions to be accomplished in K.U.'s football camp is the redevelopment of Jayhawker aerial gunnery.
Nevertheless, Jayhawker passing dipped from a lofty average of 1302 yards and 15 touchdowns per season to 852 and nine last season. Kansas got home with a swift, sharp-blocking running attack in corraling six of 10 decisions.
The latter turned in a highly respectable job as a sophomore, himself, dropping eight scoring bombs and dealing 651 yards to finish sixth on the league passing tables.
It is the expected absence of similar ground power, as much as any factor, that will focus the re-concentration on passing. Not only did Kansas graduate its top ground-gainer, Wade Stinson, who lanced for 1,129 net yards but the Jayhawks bid goodbye to three fine tackles, Mike McCormack, Bob Talkington, and S. P. Garnett, who were the cornerstone of a tremendous blocking job in the game, and his staff, Roy
With regular quarterbacks from the past two seasons returning, Coach J. V. Sikes owns the most important figures for an encore of his famed Aircapades which strafed opposing secondaries so destructively in 1948 and 1949.
Bogue, assuming the first string quarterback chores in the fifth game of '49, accounted for eight of the touchdowns and 521 yards. He will be coming back after missing last season and undergoing a knee operation at Christmas time. And the deft Wichitan will be a welcome compliment for the long-spiraling Strehlow.
Dick Gilman was the trigrammer in Sikes' first year, pitching over 900 yards of completions and 14 of the Hawkers' 16 airborne touchdowns. Bogue and Gilman collaborated in '49 in twin-engine raids which produced 14 aerial markers and a new Big Seven high of 1,533 yards. The latter figure was toppled last year when Iowa State's triangular circuit reached 1574 yards.
Werner, Cliff Kimsey, Wayne Replogle, Hub Ulrich, and Don Fambrough, will move into the new season shorthanded in the receiving corps.
Hoag, who threw only 19 times last season, is going to get a lot of target practice in early drills. He showed last season that he could panic the defense off Sikes' run-pass options and the tall tactician plans heavier employment of this thrust
This means that Sikes may look to his backfield to fill out the receiving ranks. He could unleash two dangerous hands here in Charlie Hoag, the Oak Park, Ill., All-American candidate, and John Konek, the multi-talented sophomore from California, Pa.
for 1951. Sikes has called back 51 holdovers, including 22 lettermen, for opening day.
Only proven pass-grabber is big-handed Bill Schaake, 197-pound Lawrence end, who has gained 575 yards for the Jayhawks in his first two seasons. Jerry Taylor, rangy 6 ft. 3 in. sophomore from Carrollton, Mo., showed promise in this department as a freshman last season, but of course, has not been tested under varsity fire.
Unless some of the youngsters like George Michale, 6 ft. 3 in. Chicagoan; Clarence Bender, 6 ft. 3 in. Russell, or Tom Brannon, 6 ft. 1 in. Crete, Neb., come through, Schake and Taylor well could be the only dangerous terminal targets. Another hope is Orbon Tice, the veteran from Hutchinson, who will get a chance to play offensively after two years of strict defensive chores.
The Jayhawks still have Aubrey Linville, Salina veteran, available, but he probably will be limited to safety duty on defense because of a spring practice knee injury. Swift and elusive, Linville was good enough as a sophomore to rank sixth among conference receivers. A mid-season injury shelved him for almost a month last autumn, after which he was thrown into the desperate pass defense situation. He flashed high ability from the start and will open the season at that post providing his knee holds up.
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