MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1851
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVE
Easton Faces Rebuilding Problems As KU Prepares For 4 Indoor Meets
By DON PIERCE
K.U. Sports Publicity Director
Big Seven Indoor track rivals may not recognize Bill Easton's Kansas club this winter—Bob Karnes and Pat Bowers won't be killing off the enemy in any event they choose to run. Karnes, graduated last June after a peerless four-year career, now is track coach at Smith-Cotton high school, Sedalia, Mo. Bowers, his collegiate competition finished, is taking postgraduate work in the School of Fine Arts.
They formed the one-two punch the Jayhawkers used for their surprise conference Indoor title win last March, and therefore left the major gap in the ranks with their departure.
This pair scored 18 points with double 1-2 finishes in the half and mile in last year's meet. Two other grades, high-jumpers Del Norris and Bill Richardson, each picked up two. If Kansas hopes to remain high in the league picture, those points must be recouped with newcomers. Easton, never a pessimistic tutor, thinks his club might be able to take up the slack by substituting more depth for individual brilliance.
1950 Grid Team Tops 3 Records
With the exception of Herb Semper, the barrel-chested red-head who smashed both the conference
Kansas established a new alltime peak in offensive performance through the 1950 football season, final N.C.A.A. statistics disclose.
Coach J. V. Sikes' Jayhawkers, despite the handicap of inexperienced quarterbacking, the spot most vital in any T-attack, finished eleventh among the nation's total offense powers and fourth in rushing. The respective averages in these departments were 396.8 and 311.6 a game.
game.
Both were new school marks, combining former figures set by the 1947 Orange bowl club which shared the Big Seven title with Oklahoma. The Jayhawkers' 3116 net yards rushing bested the Orange Bowlers' old figure of 2830 in 11 games. The aggregate total offense figure of 3968 was 133 yards more than the 1947 outfit compiled.
The 1950 crew nicked a third school mark by nailing 162 first downs, five more than the 1947 eleven.
Oklahoma's mighty Sooners nosed Kansas out of the Big Seven total offense title by bombing Oklahoma A. and M. for 445 yards in their final game of the year to bring their seasonal output to 4154. The Jayhawkers, making a rapid transition from a passing to a running team, won the conference ground gaining derby by finishing 222 yards ahead of Nebraska.
However, the Hawkers finished one notch below the Cornhuskers on the national tables since the NC.A.A. ranks its leaders by average yards a game. Nebraska played nine games, one less than Kansas.
WOLF MOUSSEY WELT
1107 Mass. Ph. 50
indoor and outdoor two-mile marks as a sophomore last year, and hurdles Jack Greenwood and Bob Devinney, Kansas can boast no one approaching the automatic-point caliber of Karnes and Bowers.
However, strength probably will be more widely dispersed through the 12-event indoor card, and also more solidly packed in individual events. It will be a more balanced clique capable, for the first time in Faston's tenure, of stout performances in indoor duals.
Kansas will present a nucleus of 10-lettermen who can be expected to deliver in capable style. Newcomers and a handful of holdovers hold the key to promised squad balance.
Don Smith, former class B state prep low hurdle champion from Belle Plaine, will join Greenwood and DeVinney in the lows and 60-yards dash. Noye Johnson, Milwaukee sophomore, is another possibility in both barrier races.
Two holdovers, JersHberger, who ran the second leg on K.U.'s crown-clinching mile relay quartet in Kansas City; and Dave Fisher, plus Bill Farney, lettered cross-country hand, will try to fill part of the huge Bowers-Karnes gap in the 880. Farnery finished ninth in the league fall two-mile迟 last November as a sophomore. Her-
shberger missed the 1950 outdoor season with an injury.
A couple of tall-striding newcomers will join Capt. Emil Schutzel in the quarter, which could forge the most Jayhawk strength in that event since 1946. They include John Reiderer, Holton sophomore, and Art Schaaf, a Washburn transfer. The latter has been nursing a charley-horse and may not be at full strength for some time. Schutzel, the fine scooter from Kansas City, Mo., who placed third in the conference outdoor quarter last May, is headed for his best season. Red Dinsmore, lettered junior, also is available here.
A pair of sophomore football ends, Marvin Rengel, former state AA high school king from Wyandotte, and Norman Steanson, Troy, will move up to help Jim Floyd, lettered junior, in the pole vault. Easton frankly believes the latter capable of 13 feet, but the husky Salinan must improve to take up his share of the slack.
Two more gridders, Buzz Frasier and Duane Unruh, a pair of sophomores have flashed considerable promise in the high jump and broad jump. Kansas lost its best man in the latter event when Al Bouchard enlisted in the Air Force.
Keith Palmquist, who helped K.U. to the fall two-mile title, will move up with Semper in that event. Two capable seniors, Cliff Abel, and Dave Breidenthal, will hold up the mile.
1951 INDOOR SCHEDULE
Feb. 10 ___ Nebraska at Lincoln
Feb. 17 ___ Oklahoma at Norman
Feb. 23 ___ Missouri at Columbia
March 2-3 ___ Big Seven Indoor Conference meet, Kansas City, Mo.
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