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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1951
Sooner Drills Aim For Repeat On National Title
Norman, Okla.-With only four starters returning from last year, and one of them out for baseball, Coach Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma Sooners, national collegiate champions in 1950, are in the midst of a rebuilding program in spring football drills.
Despite the loss of seven regulars from the team that bowed 7-13 to Kentucky in the Sugar Bowl, and suffered severance of its string of 31 consecutive victories, a new American record for modern times, the Oklahomaans will have better manpower than last year, provided there are no wholesale losses to the armed forces. However the 1951 squad lacks the experience of the 1950 team.
Three all-Americans are among the losses by graduation, fullback Leon Heath, end Frank Anderson, and safety Buddy Jones. The Sooners also lose center Harry Moore and guards Norman McNabb and Clair Mayes, each an all-Big Seven choice, not to mention defensive halves Tommy Gray and Ed Lisak, Dean Smith and J. W. Cole, their No. 1 and 2 right tackles, Joe Horkey, No. 2 left guard, Art James, No. 2 left tackle and Claude Arnold, whose brilliant quarterbacking pulled the team through crisis after crisis and who set a new national collegiate forward passing interception avoidance record of 0.9 to smash the former mark held by Davey O'Brien of Texas Christian.
Top men on the 1951 spring squad, with lettermen in boldface and freshmen or sophomores indicated by an *. are:
ENDS: Kay Keller, Jack Lockett,
Jerry Ingram, John Reddell, Bill
Beckman, *Hugh Ballard, Gene Ball,
Auston Ingram, *Jennings Nelson,
*Jerry Wilks, and Jim Patterson.
TACKLES: Jim Weatherall. Melvin Brown, Ed Rowland. *Joe Brock*, Darlon Hearon, Charles Goodmiller, *Mickey Imel*, *Roger Nelson*, *Jackie Brooks*, *Jim Holder*, John Teska. Neil House.
GUARDS: Bert Clark, Fred Smith,
George Cornelius, *Dick Bowman,
J. D. Roberts, *Harold Coffman,
*Ed Gilliam, Jim Davis, Bob Gaut,
*Kenneth Kindsev, *Von Worten.
CENTERS: Tom Catlin, Sam Allen,
*Ross Ausburn, Ed Sampson, Bill
Covin.
QUARTERBACKS: Eddi Crowder
*Jack Ging, *Jack Van Pool, *Bill Ballard, *Karl Keller, Blair Blair.
LEFT HALFBACKS: Billy Vessels, Frank Silva, *Larry Grigg, Jack Santee, "Scott Cummings.
RIGHT HALFBACKS: Merrill
Green, Dick Heatly, Dale Crawford,
*Juel Sweatte.* *Bill Bookout.*
FULLBACKS: Buck McPhail, "Joe Gaynor, Raymond Powell, *Buster Eoff.
Attacks Big Seven Scholarship Plan
Denver, —(U,R) — Coach Fritz Brennecke of Colorado Mines demanded of college presidents today how they could "permit a sport to operate on their campuses that does not allow its participants time enough to study, and if necessary, to work to help defray expenses."
Brennecke made his demand in elaboration of his claim that three conferences, the Big Seven, Southwest and Southeastern, were sacrificing "all ideals" for which college athletics are supposed to stand.
He based his charge on the Big Seven's new scholarship plan, similar to plans in the Southwest and Southeastern circuits, which gives board, room, tuition, books, fees and some money for incidentals. He said that because of the plans there was a good chance hundreds of small schools like Mines would have to be content with inferior athletes.
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By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Jayhawker athletic followers—present and past—may witness one of the most entertaining weekends in the school's athletic history if present plans materialize for Alumni-Varsity football and basketball games to be played on Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5.
Both contests would climax football and basketball spring drills respectively and bring together the University's greatest athletes of alltime.
At present, the basketball game looms as the most probable with the old-timers finding the gridiron torture a rather dangerous undertaking with many of its stars now resembling professional heavyweight wrestlers more than grid stars of yesteryears.
The football game tentatively scheduled for Friday night at Haskell stadium or Saturday afternoon in Memorial stadium, would match many of K.U.'s greatest football heroes against Coach J. V. Sikes' youthful charges that will carry the Jayhawker hopes in 1951.
RAY EVANS
Such a gridiron treat would match brains, experience, and knowhow against youth, excellent physical conditioning, and determination par-excellence in a battle royal.
Last year Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas State, and Iowa State staged Alumni-Varsity football games to highlight the close of spring drills. And despite the lack of conditioning by these stars of bygone years, the old-timers scored surprising victories in several of these clashes.
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getting into the pads for one more outing.
The Alumni-name boys could start several of K.U.'s most famous football elevenes of all-time—the Orange bowl team of 1947—if these fellows could be talked into again
This group included backfield stars such as All-American Ray Evans and Bud French, halfbacks; Forrest Griffith, fullback, and Bill "Red" Hogan, quarterback. Linemen would include such stars as guards Don Fambrough and Joe Crawford (now slightly out of condition at latest report), guards; Don "Red Leg" Eitinger, tackle, and Dick "Workhorse" Monroe at the pivot spot. The terminal positions would be in capable hands handled by Otto "The Claw" Schnellbadher and "Senator" Marvin Small.
This lineup would once again present the University's great passing combination of all-time, the Evans to Schnellbacher duo, to go along with the great running of French and Griffith.
With Evans, Griffith, French, and Hogan all residing in the Kansas City area, it is reported that Evans soon expects to get conditioning drills underway at some secluded spot for this famous K.C. backfield. Just what their secret plans are for getting back into shape no one seems to know, but these backs are expected to be in top form by game time.
Clearing a path for this dangerous backfield foursome would be some of K.U.'s roughest lineman of all-time. Ettinger, Fambrough, and Monroe probably dealt out more punishment to opposing linemen than any other trio in the school's history. It was nearly impossible to block these battlers out of a play and their blocking cut many defensive men down like a well handled cutlass.
Adding valuable aid and probably more playing time to the Alumni team would be players like Mike McCormack, S. P. Garnett, Bob Talkington, Wally Rouse, Tom Nelson, and Carl Ellis, tackles; Dolph Simons, Dick Tomlinson, and Bill Mace, guards; Bob Drumm and Roland Eilerts, centers, and ends Lyn Smith, Chuck O'Neal, Bryan Sperry, and Delvin Norris.
Logging plenty of backfield time would be fellows like Wade Stinson, Cliff McDonald (reports he'll be in tip-top condition after two weeks on a highly restrictive diet), and Henry Lamping, halfbacks; John Amberg, Floyd Temple, Gene Cox, and Frank Pattee, fullbacks, with Tom Scott splitting signal-calling chores with Hogan.
Just for good measure, former greats like Paul "The True Toe" Turner, Hoyt Baker, Gene Sherwood, Don "The Great White Swan" Pierce, Ralph Miller, and others could assist in pre-game activities as trainers and help Coaches Fambrough, Schnellbacher, and Evans get the old-timers ready for just one more gridiron go-around.
The proposed Alumni-Varsity basketball game would be played Saturday night, May 5, in Hoch auditorium. There seems little doubt that this game couldn't easily be worked out and played; even though the Alumni might need an extra timeout or two above the allowed quota of five.
-K.U.-
A check through the cage files of recent years reveals that the Alumni might well open with a starting five such as this; Otto Schnellbacher, '48, and Charlie Black, '47, forwards; Jerry Waugh, '51, center, and guards Ray Evans, '47, and Claude Houchin, '50.
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