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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1951
Spring Grid Practice Resumes Today In Preparation For Saturday's Game
Sixty-seven Jayhawker football hopefuls resume work this afternoon after a week's lay-off during spring vacation. Head Coach J. V. Sikes is expected to drill his charges on fundamentals with healthy lots of full-dress scrimmage used to emphasize his points.
We have a long, long way to go in all departments." Sikes said Saturday after a morning of play-mapping with his nine assistants.
"The boys worked pretty hard the first week and they won't find the tempo lessened any for the remainder of spring practice. We have a lot of young boys and, naturally they have a lot to learn."
Several changes have been instituted in an attempt to plug up the center of the Kansas line which was hit hard by graduation last year.
Shifted have been Jack Cole, 194-pound Park Ridge, Ill., freshman, from tackle to guard; Ron Hammel, Clay Center sophomore, from iett to right guard; Bob Hantla, freshman fullback from Meade, to guard, and Howard Thompson, another yearing bucker, also to guard.
Coach Sikes divided his squad into units of Red and Blue Saturday, which will work as separate clubs through the final five weeks. The division will be used for the weekly intra-squade games played in Memorial stadium each Saturday.
On May 4th or 5th a full-dress game will be played, probably between the Reds and Blues, but an
REDS
ENDS: Orbin Tice, Hutchinson; Duane Unruh, Clay Center; Marvin Rengle, Kansas City; Bill Schake, Lawrence; Ron White, Kansas City; Howard Covey, Wichita; Ray Pierson, Burlington.
alumni contest has been given some thought.
TACKLES: Bill Schaben, Ness City; Joe Lundy, Roscoe, Pa; Bob Zahner, Kansas City, Mo.; George Helmstadter, Wilmette, Il; Orville Poppe, Fairbury, Neb.; Fran Austin, Owatomie.
GUARDS: Don Aungst, Harrisburg, Pa.; Dick Rossman, Paola; Howard Thompson, Dravosburg, Pa.; Keith Jensen, Kansas City; Ron Hammel, Clay Center; Don Beyer, Chicago; Ralph Correll, Topeka; Hugh Armstrong, Kansas City.
CENTERS: Warren Woody, Wil-
mette, Ill.; Merlin Gish, Kingman;
Craig McMichael, Kansas City.
QUARTERBACKS: Chet Strellow, Kansas City; Dick Gatz, Carnegie Pa; Don Anderson, Lawrence
HALFBACKS: Dean Wells, Great Bend; John Simons, Lawrence; Bob Brandenberry, Yates Center; Frank
Cindrich, Kansas City; Norman Steanson, Troy.
BLUES
FULLBACKS: Bud Laughlin, Kansas City, Mo.; Morris Kay, St. John.
ENDS: Jerry Taylor, Carrotlo,
Mo.: Mo Brannan, Crete, Neb.; Ed
Kruger, Fairbury, Neb.; George Mi-
chale, Chicago; Clarence Bender,
Russell, Bob Mayer, Chicago.
TACKLES: George Mrkonic, McKeesport, Pa; John Greisser, Winnetka, Ill.; Dick Myers, Garnett; Tom Johnston, Mission; Oliver Spencer, Ulysses; Bill Marshall, Kinsley; Clark Bumgarner, Coffeyville; Tom Pratt, Colby.
GUARDS: Jack Luschen, Mission; Frank Hawkins, Kansas City, Mo.; George Kennard, Kansas City, Mo.; Wayne Woolfolk, Protection; Jack Billingsley, Kansas City.
CENTERS: Harold Stroud, Bonham, Texas; Joe Fink, Oxford; Bud Roberts, Kansas City.
QUARTERBACKS: Jerry Robertson, Dallas, Texas; Arch Unruh, Clay Center.
HALFBACKS: Charlie Hoag, Oak Park, Ill.; Pat Murphy, Kansas City, Mo.; John Konek, California, Pa.; Hal Cleavinger, Manhattan; Clyde Walthall, Coffeville.
FULLBACKS: Galen Fiss, Johnson: Frank Sabatini, Chicago
KU Baseball Team Opens 20-Game Season Thursday
Hub Ulrich's Jayhawker baseball team opens a 20-game 1951 schedule Thursday playing Emporia State Teachers college at Emporia. Kansas will play a return game with the Hornets on Friday in the Jayhawkers' home opener on the Varsity diamond.
Coach Ulrich faces a full-scale rebuilding job—probably the biggest in the conference—with only two regulars returning plus the conference's top hurler in 1950, Carl Sandefur, big right hand fast-baller.
Ulrich, starting his first year as K.U. baseball coach, will build his club around seven returning lettermen with four of these players seeing limited service as reserves last year.
The two returning regulars off Bill "Red" Hogan's 1950 fourth place K.U. club include shortstop Frank Koenig and right fielder Walter Hicks. This team won eight and lost eight in the Big Seven competition and finished the season with an over-all record of 10 victories in 18 games.
One of the biggest problems facing the Jayhawk nine this year will center around the green and still untested catching department where five candidates have failed to catch a single collegiate pitch.
Leading catching prospects include footballer Galen Fiss and Dean Smith, a pair of sophomores. Another untested grid sophomore. George Mrkonic, received a badly split finger injury the past week and will be on the inactive list at least the first half of the season. Two more catchers, Bob McMullen and Don Bell, round out the backstopping department.
The Jayhawkers' strongest spot appears to be in the pitching department where Sandefur and a big sophomore righthander, Jack Stone-street, should match any other hurling duo in the Big Seven.
1951 Jayhawker Baseball Schedule
Here is the 1951 Jayhawker baseball schedule which includes 18 conference and two non-conference games. Included are 11 home games and nine road games.
April 5—Kansas at Emporia St.
April 6—Emporia St. at Kansas
April 13-14-Iowa St. at Kan.
 April 18-19-Nebraska at Kan*
April 28—Kansas at Iowa St.
April 30-May 1—Kansas at Mis-
*...
May 4-5-Kansas St. at Kansas*
May 11-12-Missouri at Kansas*
May 14-15-Kansas at K. St.
May 18-19-Colorado at Kans*
May 21-22-Kansas at Ocla*
* Big Seven conference games
But back of this pair the Kansas hurling looks extremely green and questionable. Stonestreet has compiled an outstanding record in semi-pro ranks.
Bill Honan is the only K.U. southpaw listed among Ulrich's pitching hopefuls. Other hurlers include Charles King, Neal Harr, Bob Londerholm, and Ralph Lamb.
Leading outfield prospects are Darrel Houk in centerfield and Frank Mischlick in left with Hicks holding down the sunny outfield spot. Houk lettered last year as a sophomore seeing limited duty mainly in pinch-hitting roles.
Other outfielders include Jim Johnston, John Huber, Clyde Walthall, George Kennard, Stanley Hallman, Wayne Woody, and Charles Bether.
Letterman George Voss will open at firstbase against Emporia State Thursday and is expected to add hitting strength to a club that fails to list a 250 returning hitter from last year. Voss is a classy fielder and is regarded as a keyman in K.U.'s rather doubtful inner defense.
Except for Koenig at short, Kansas will open with an entirely new and inexperienced infield this year.
Other infielders include Don Peele and Glenn Davis, firstbase; Curt Harris, Bob White, and Kenneth Buller; secondbase; Bill Champion, Phil Owen, and Don Stephenson, shortstop, and Al Row, Bill Wiglesworth, and Lyle Jenkins at the hotcorner.
Two more lettermen, John McConnell and Jim Sunye, will hold down the second and third base spots respectively after watching from the bench in 1950.
"The team is in pretty fair condition," Coach Ulrich said, "considering the damp cold weather the boys have had to practice in. They've done a lot of running to get their legs in shape but have had little opportunity to get in adequate batting practice.
Twenty-eight of Ulrich's 37 baseball players remained over spring vacation to work out twice daily whenever the weather permitted.
Razorbacks Enter Relays
Texas, Texas A. and M., and Rice, which have monopolized Southwest conference booty annually in the Kansas Relays, may be obliged to make room for a fourth loop member, Arkansas, this month when the cowboyboot brigade goes to the post on April 21.
Rapidly improving under the guidance of Johnny Morriss, one-time Olympic hurdler from Southwestern, La. Institute, the Razorbacks, for the first time, must be considered in early reckoning of the distance events.
The Porkers did not compete in the Border Olympics, first major outdoor carnival of the season, but showered solid strength through the 880, mile and two-mile in the Southwestern Recreational affair March 10 in Fort Worth.
Arkansas' dominance of these events was so potent that the Pigs gathered all but four places out of a possible 12. Jim Brown, 1950 Southwest Two-Mile king, set a new record of 4:20.3 in the mile. Teammate Joe Harding ran second.
The Porkers ran 1-2-3-4 in the two-mile with Jim West, runner-up to Brown in last year's Southwest trials, who loped home first in 9:47.4. The latter was the unfortunate lad who found himself blazing a 9:24.0 effort last June in the Big Seven-Southwest dual at Dallas then failing to place. Three Midlands runners finished ahead of him with Colorado's George Fitzmorris setting a new meet record of 9:18.7.
Oliver Gatchell and Rick Heben duplicated this performance in the half, the former winning in 1:58.1.
Morriss, who took over the Fayetteville reins last year after a whirl in the sporting goods business, immediately adopted a policy of force-feeding. He loaded his hands profusely into as many events as they could endure at Texas, Kansas and Drake.
They got paid off in thirds and fourths behind such pulmotor powers as Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan. But the grind will put them in sight of the gold medals this spring.
Arkansas' lone Kansas Relays title is the 1948 Decathlon title which Charles Baker gathered on a respectable point harvest of 6730, third highest on the Jayhawk books.
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