MONDAY, MAY 21, 1951
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Edwards Repays Ex-Coach in Spring Drills
By BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Dan Edwards, an all-pro end with the New York Yankees last season, repaid his former end coach at Georgia, Jules V. Sikes, by passing along valuable football knowledge gained during his 12-year career to K.U.'s ends during the spring drills recently completed.
Before departing for his Gatesville, Texas, home and a much deserved vacation, the 6-foot 1-inch 195-pound Texan expressed to this writer how much he enjoyed his six-weeks stay here at Kansas. We'd like to pass along some of his comments about Jayhawker football and Coach Sikes.
"Coach Sikes' invitation to help him in spring practice came as a real thrill," Edwards said proudly, "for it gave me an opportunity to repay Coach Sikes for the many fine things he did for me when I was at Georgia.
"I owe my success to Coach Sikes who coached me as an end at Georgia." Edwards said, "for he knows end plays and pass patterns backwards and forwards.
"Much of our success at Georgia was achieved through the untiring efforts of Coach Sikes. He was a key factor in helping Wally Butts mold our fine bowl clubs in 1945, 1946, and 1947.
"His decision to come to Kansas in 1948 as head coach was a real blow to Georgia's football program and an excellent addition for K.U." Edwards said as he talked over past experiences as a player under Coach Sikes.
"Sikes is a great guy," Edwards will quickly tell you, "one of the finest men I've ever been associated with. He's a friend of all and I've never known him to be so busy that he wouldn't talk football with anyone at anytime." Dan added.
Edwards compiled his outstanding collegiate record at Georgia during the 1944-45-46-47 seasons. Dan Magill, Jr., sports publicity director at Georgia, passes along the following information on Dan, who helped the Bulldogs with their spring drills from Jan. 28 to March 10 before coming to Kansas.
Edwards is regarded as one of Georgia's all-time greats along with such players as all-American halfbacks Frank Sinkwich (1941-42) and Charlie Trippi (1946), and all-American ends George Poschner (1942) and Joe Terishinski (1946), both coached by Sikes. Poschner was badly wounded in action during World War II and Terishinski played pro ball with the Washington Redskins last year.
Another Georgia end, Van Davis, gained all-Southeastern conference honors under Sikes in 1942 and is
Major League Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
| | W. | L. | Pct. | G.B. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| New York | 20 | 9 | .690 | ___ |
| Chicago | 16 | 9 | .640 | ___ |
| Detroit | 16 | 10 | .615 | ___ |
| Washington | 12 | 10 | .556 | ___ |
| Boston | 14 | 13 | .519 | ___ |
| Cleveland | 13 | 15 | .464 | ___ |
| Philadelphia | 9 | 21 | .300 | 111 |
| St. Louis | 8 | 22 | .267 | 123 |
NATIONAL LEAGUE
| | W. L. | Pet. | G.B. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Brooklyn | 18 | 13 | 581 |
| Chicago | 17 | 14 | 548 |
| St. Louis | 17 | 14 | 517 |
| Boston | 14 | 16 | 515 |
| Philadelphia | 16 | 17 | 485 |
| New York | 16 | 18 | 471 |
| Pittsburgh | 14 | 17 | 452 |
| Cincinnati | 14 | 18 | 438 |
RESULTS SUNDAY
National League
Philadelphia 17-12, Pittsburgh 0-
New York 7, St. Louis 8
Brooklyn 10-14, Cincinnati 3-4
Boston 3-4, Chicago 4-5.
American League
Eastern League
Cleveland 1-5, Philadelphia 2-3
Detroit 8, Boston 4
St. Louis 3, New York 7
Chicago 5, Washington 4
DAVIS PROBABLE PUT
American League
St. Louis (Overmire 0-1) at New York (Reynolds 2-3) night
Detroit (Trout 2-2) at Boston (Nixon 1-0)
Chicago (Dobson 2-0) at Washington (Moreno 1-0) night
rated by K.U.'s coach as probably the finest all-around terminal he ever coached. He formerly played pro ball with the New York Yanks.
The development of such ends as Edwards, Poschner, Terishinski, Van Davis, and others gained for Sikes the title of "builder of all-American ends" at Georgia.
Edwards captained Georgia's 1947 team which tied Maryland 20-20 in the Gator bowl, Jan. 1, 1948, the same day Kansas lost to Georgia Tech. 14 to 20. in the Orange bowl.
Dan also starred on two other bowl teams at Georgia. The 1945 team defeated Tulsa in the 1946 Oil bowl and the 1946 unbeaten (11-
0) crew defeated North Carolina in the 1947 Sugar bowl.
Playing both offense and defense, Edwards caught a 67-yard touchdown pass from Trippi that still stands as the longest completed pass in Sugar bowl history.
In 1947, Edwards was an all-Southeastern conference first team end and second team all-American selection on the American Football Coaches' association eleven.
Edwards caught 44 passes for 565 yards and four touchdowns to rank second in the nation in 1947 in pass receiving. In his junior year, 1946, he caught 14 passes for 272 yards.
At the tender age of 24, likeable Dan has already played three years of professional football and expects to don the pads for the New York Yankees again this fall. He started with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948 and played the following year with the Chicago Hornets. Edwards, who was a tackle in high school (Gatesville, Texas), expects to enter the
COACH JULES V. SIKES and DAN EDWARDS talk over football experiences at the University of Georgia where Edwards was an all-American end in 1947 under Sikes, the Bulldogs' end coach.
Ashburn's Singles Pay Off As Phils Drub The Pirates
coaching profession following his pro career.
It was the second biggest shutout in National league history, the worst since 1006 when the Giants won 19 to 0, from the Cubs, Robin Roberts also had no trouble winning his fourth game in the nightcap. The Phillies got eight walks in the opener in which Mike Goliat homered. Eddie Pellagrini, Andy Seminick, and Del Ennis hit second game Philly homers.
New York (U.P.)—Richie Ashburn, strictly a "single hitter," has to take a lot of kidding and pay off a lot of cokes as his mates bet for distance in pre-game batting practice—but the blonde little speedster looked today like the guy to lead the Phillies out of the wilderness.
Brooklyn stayed on top and sent Cincinnati into last place by defeating the Reds, 10 to 3 and 14 to 4, the Cubs remained a game behind in second by winning two squeakers from the Braves, 4 to 3 and 5 to 4.
He caught a 65-yard touchdown pass from Bob Waterfield as his Nationals lost a 27 to 28 game to the Americans in the pro all-star game at Los Angeles in January.
They were getting into it pretty deep, too . . . those proud National league champs who had tumbled into eighth place in the mad current scramble, through it all Ashburn, with his one-base blows and a rare double or triple, was the only consistent hitter on the club.
What was even more encouraging in the opener was the pitching of Russ Meyer, who turned a five-hit shutout, his first blanking since Sept. 28, 1949.
Sunday everybody finally broke loose in a 35-hit spree as the Phillies drubbed the Pirates, 17 to 0 and 12 to 4, at Pittsburgh before 36,166 fans, the largest crowd there since 1942. And Ashburn set the pace all the way with eight hits—all singles, to be sure—reaching base 10 times out of 11 and eight times in a row.
During his six-weeks stay here, Dan made many friends and his coaching efforts proved helpful to his former coach in assisting him with K.U.'s talented but inexperienced ends.
St. Louis topped New York, 8 to 7.
In the American league, the Yankees heat St. Louis 7 to 3, Chicago topped Washington, 5 to 4, Detroit won from Boston, 8 to 4, and the Indians ended a six game losing streak by edging Philadelphia, 5 to 3, after losing, 2 to 1.
Homers by Jackie Robinson and Cal Abrams accounted for five runs and ended ace Ewell Blackwell's five-game winning streak in Cincinnati. Carl Erskine pitched five scoreless relief innings to win his second game. Clyde King, given a 14 to 0 margin in seven innings, found life beautiful in the second game when Abrams set the 15-hit pace with three singles and every Dodger starter got at least one hit. Ted Kluszewski and Red Stallcup homered for the Reds.
"I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of my stay here," the former all-American end said, "and was impressed by the friendliness of the people and the fine time they showed me.
Dutch Leonard, at 41 the oldest pitcher in the majors, had a lovely day in Chicago—he was credited with both victories in relief roles. Late rallies beat the Braves both times. The Cubs made two runs off Johnny Sain in the eighth of the opener on singles by Bob Ramazzotti and Mickey Owen. They put across the tying and winning runs in the ninth in the second pame off reliever Vern Bickford on singles by Bob Borkowski and Ransom Jackson. Bob Elliott, Roy Hartszield, and Sid Gordon hit Boston homers for the day.
"Before coming to Kansas, I had always thought of the place as a big dust bowl. Boy, what a surprise I got when I first saw K.U.'s beautiful campus," he said.
Dan, here's wishing you the best of luck in pro football this year. You can rest assured that your many acquaintances made here during your short stay will be watching the papers to read about you and the New York Yankees this fall.
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