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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951
Seven Orange Bowl Starters To Play In Alumni Football Game Saturday
SMALL
ETTINGER
FAMBROUGH
TOMLINSON
By BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Seven starters on the Jayhawkers' most famous football eleven of all-time, the 1947 Orange Bowl team, will be among the 41 Alumni players who will attempt to defeat Coach J. V. Sikes' Varsity at 2 p.m. Saturday in Memorial stadium.
SCHNELLBACHER
Another 17 players who will help
Another 17 players who will help carry the "has beens" victory aspirations, played on the 1947 K.U. team. This George Sauer-coached club finished the regular season as Big Six co-champions (4-0-1) with Oklahoma before dropping a 14 to 20 heartbreaker to Georgia Tech, Jan. 1, 1948, in Miami's annual Orange Bowl classic.
Five of the seven Orange Bowl starters returning to Memorial stadium Saturday were linemen. The left side of the Jayhawker line will return intact. Included are Marvin Small, left end; Don "Red" Ettinger, left tackle, and Don Fambrough, left guard. Otto "The Claw" Schnellbacher and Dick Tomlinson started at right end and tackle respectively.
Ray Evans, only first team all-American football player in the school's history, and Forrest Griffith round out the seven starters. Evans and Griffith played left halfback and fullback respectively on this famed team.
The 1947 team, noted for its "never-say-die spirit," was co-captained by Fambrough and Schnellbacher. It was a highly competitive club that just wouldn't be beaten.
1946 Season Record
0 Texas Christian 0 *
21 Denver 13 V
14 Wichita 7 H
14 Iowa State 8 V
14 Nebraska 16 H
0 Tulsa 56 V
14 Okla, A. and M. 13 H
14 Oklahoma 13 H
34 Kansas State 0 V
20 Missouri 19 V
145
Won 7, Lost 2, Tied 1 Big Seven-4-1-0
157
*Played in Kansas City, Mo.
EVANS
GRIFFITH
Kansas tied a powerful Oklahoma team 13 to 13 at Norman to gain a tie for the Big Seven championship and then went on to snap a 31-year-old Nebraska jinx at Lincoln by coming from behind to down the Cornhuskers, 13 to 7.
Schnellbacher scored both touchdowns in the N.U. victory including a perfect 9-yard pitch from quarterback Bill "Red" Hogan just before the final gun.
Orange Bowl Team
The following is a breakdown, position by position, of the 24 ex-Jayhawkers who played on the 1947 Orange Bowl team.
Ends: Schnellbacher, Small, Delvin Norris, Chuck O'Neal, Bryan Sperry, and Joe Mendahl.
Tackles: Ettinger, Tomlinson, Ed Lee and Wally Rouse.
Guards: Fambrough, Ken Sperry,
and Charlie Hawkins.
Quarterbacks: Tom Scott and Ken Morrow.
Halfbacks: Evans, Cliff McDonald, Arnold Stricker, Bill Fisher, and Charlie Mottett.
Center: Bob Drumm.
Fullbacks: Griffith, Frank Pattee,
and Hoyt Baker.
After downing a strong Oklahoma Aggie game, 13 to 7, at Stillwater, the Jayhawkers won the most important victory in the school's history, a 20-14 victory over Missouri—the key to the Orange bowl invitation.
key to the team.
Kansas again had to rely upon its magic finish to vault into its second straight Big Six title share with Oklahoma. (K.U. tied the Sooners—1-4 in 1-94). Fullback Griffith scored the winning t.d. just 63 seconds before the final gun, hurdling over from the 1-yard line on fourth down to climax a 94-yard march.
Most of the Orange Bowl club also played on Coach Sauer's 1946 club that finished with a 7-2-1 overall record.
And only a conference eligibility ruling in May, 1948, that cut down Fambrough, two-time all-league guard; Tom Scott, No. 1 quarterback through spring drills; Gene Sherwood, regular left tackle, and Small, regular left end, probably kept Coach Sikes 1948 club from winning the title in his first year at Kansas
Students will have an opportunity to see 24 of the same fumed Orange bowlers play against the Varsity Saturday afternoon.
This 1947 team will linger on in the minds of yesteryear fans for many years to come, and several of its players and their individual performances will never be forgotten.
1947 Season Record
0 Texas Christian 0 *
9 Denver 0 V
27 Iowa State 7 H
86 South Dakota State 6 H
13 Oklahoma 13 V
55 Kansas State 0 H
13 Nebraska 7 V
13 Okla. A. and M. 7 V
20 Missouri 14 H
54 Arizona 28 V
14 Georgia Tech 20**
304
102
Won 8, Lost 1, Tied 2
Big Seven, 4-0-1
*Played in Kansas City, Mo.
*Orange Bowl game, Miami, Fla.
WREN To Air Varsity-Alumni Grid Game
Radio station WREN, Topeka, will broadcast Saturday's Varsity-Alumni football game starting at 1:45 p.m. Max Falkenstien will present the play-by-play description.
Falkenstien, one of the Midwest's top sports announcers, described 14 Kansas and Kansas State football games last fall, and 35 top basketball attractions involving the two
The University's first annual All-Sports Weekend schedule for Friday and Saturday is as follows:
Schedule Announced For Sports Weekend
FRIDAY
7:30 p.m.: Basketball, Varsity-
Alumni game in Hoch aud.
SATURDAY
3:00 p.m.: Baseball, Kansas vs.
Kansas State, Stadium field.
10:00 a.m.: Baseball, Kansas vs.
Kansas State, Stadium field.
schools during the 1951 cage season.
As program manager of WREN,
Falkenstien has maintained a policy
of attempting to provide his radio
listeners tops in sports by his on-
the-spot coverage of all major athletic attractions involving K.U. and Kansas State.
2:00 p.m. Football, Varsity-Alumni game in Memorial stadium.
4:00 p.m.: Track, Kansas vs. Kansas State in dual meet, Memorial stadium. (Track meet will immediately follow the football game).
His highly successful achievements toward this goal have provided many hours of listening pleasure to thousands of sports fans throughout the Midwest.
A son of Earl Falkentienst, K.U. athletic business manager, Max is a native Kansan and graduated from K.U. in 1947.
MAX FALKENSTIEN
Tickets To Alumni Games Now On Sale
Tickets for both the AlumniVarsity football and basketball games are now on sale in the athletic business office in Robinson gymnasium.
Earl Falkenstien, business manager, said that students should make their purchases at the athletic office to avoid last minute delays at the games. The ticket office is open from 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Student prices are 25 cents for the basketball game and 50 cents for the football game. Tickets to the general public will be 50 cents and $1 for the basketball and football games respectively.
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