WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
The Jayhawkers' future football fortunes look encouraging thanks to the successful coaching records turned in this year by 19 former University graduates now head football coaches in Kansas high schools.
These coaches compiled a grand total of 102 wins, 53 losses, and seven ties for a .651 percentage mark. Included were four of the state's top ten teams in the final A.P. poll, four league championship clubs, and one undefeated untied team. Six teams lost only one game and 17 of the 19 clubs finished with .500 marks or better.
HENRY SHENK
This excellent over-all coaching record is a fine tribute and evidence that Henry Shenk, head of the University's physical education department, and his staff are doing a good job of providing Kansas high schools with topflight coaches. In return, Coach Jules V. Sikes and his staff should reap dividends by receiving more college grid prospects from K.U. coached prep schools.
Five of Sikes' former players. Ralph Brown at Sublette (4-3-1). Howard Fischer at Medicine Lodge (5-4), Dick Monroe at Columbus (5-4), Ken "Red" Morrow at Peabody (5-3), a n d Bryan Sperry at Hiawatha (4-4) compiled a combined 23-18-1 record.
Brown, Fischer, Morrow, and Sperry started head football
coaching assignments this year at Class A schools. Monroe started with a successful season at Atwood in 1949 before moving to the Class AA job at Columbus.
The most successful coach was Otto Unruh at Clay Center with an undefeated and untied 9-0 record and a Central Kansas League championship. Coach Unruh, father of K.U.'s twin footballers—Archie and Duane, quarterback and end respectively—steered his Class A club over a rough nine-game schedule that included wins over four Class AA schools. Clay Center, ranked fifth in the state's final A.P. poll, defeated Salina 25 to 0, Manhattan 12 to 7, Junction City 20 to 7, and McPherson 14 to 7.
He also gave ex-Jayhawker Paul Turner's 10th ranked Abilene team (6-1-2) its only defeat of the season, a 0 to 6 setback. Unruh's team rolled up 221 points while a great defense held opponents to 33 points. Four teams were shutout and five more could score only once each. Salina, who had tied a good Wichita East team 25 to 25, could get only 16 net yards rushing at Clay Center.
Two former K.U. football stars, Marvin Vandaveer,' 41, at Wellington (7-1-1) and Ed Hall,' 40, at Garden City (8-1) followed Clay Center's Unruh for runner-up honors for the most successful season. Both coaches tackled tough schedules, especially Vandy at Wellington in the Ark Valley league.
Vandaveer's Wellington club, ranked sixth in the state, was the only team to beat second ranked El Dorado, 12 to 6, which knocked them out of Ark Valley and state No. 1 titles. In four years at Haskell Institute, two at Ottawa, and two at Wellington, Vandy has compiled an impressive 48-15-7 record for an average of only two losses a season.
Hall's Garden City club ranked in a 10th place tie and barely missed a perfect season as Liberal scored a 13 to 7 upset victory in the final game of the year. This former K.U. fullback has compiled a successful record at Garden City.. This year's team included an allstate tackle, Don Huelskamp.
Hoyt Baker's Paola club finished as league champs with a 6-1-2 record. He was assisted by last year's K.U. fullback, Floyd Temple. Baker had two successful years at Belleville before taking the Paola job.
Two more coaches lost only one game. Denzel Gibbens at Washington (7-1) won a league championship. Merle Spring completed another successful season at Williamsburg with a 6-1 record. Dick Rosenfield at Onaga completed the season with a 7-2 record.
Warner "Tony" Coffin at Haskell completed the year with a 6-3 record, the best in his four years at the school.
Verl Anderson finished with a 5-4 record at Russell. At Riley 4-3 record was good enough to give Vernon championship in six-man football.
Other coaching records were Dale Pittenger at Blue Rapids (5-5) Art Lawrence at Rosedale (2-5-1), and Bruce Henoch at Horton (2-7).
Ezzard Charles Craves Another Title Defense
Cincinnati—(U.P.) —Sleek Ezzard Charles, unmarked after his 11th-round knockout of bullish Nick Barone, craved another heavy-weight-title defense soon today to keep his weapons as lethal as they appeared in his hometown last night.
Making his first hometown fight as champion, dusky Ezzard delighted 10,085 fans in Cincinnati Gardens by smashing Barone of Syracuse, N. Y., to the canvas for the full count with an explosive straight right to the temple.
temple.
Although Ezzard had been a lepsided betting favorite to beat the rugged, black-haired ex-marine, his knockout performance was notworthy because Barone never had been knocked off his feet in 51 previous professional fights. He had been stoponed once, seven years ago, because of face cuts.
Referee Tony Wamdorf counted out the 24-year-old challenger at 2:06 of the 11th round, and thus ended an uneven contest in which the game but outclassed New Yorker failed to win a single round—according to the votes of the three judges.
In Cincinnati, three judges are used to score a fight. The referee, serving merely as a ring policeman, has no vote.
At no time was Charles in trouble. After the fifth round, the only question in the fight was "How long will Barone last?"
Charles, 29, was impressive in his first defense since winning general recognition as champion by outpointing Joe Louis on Sept. 27. He boxed skilfully; he hit with power and accuracy, and he evaded or blocked most of Barone's shots at the body.
will Barone last.
Charles, 29, out-weighed the challenger, 185 pounds to $178\frac{1}{2}$.
Barone a light heavyweight, earned his shot at the heavyweight crown by beating middleweight Jimmy Beau at New York recently. His television performance against Beau impressed members of the Cincinnati boxing commission.
West Coast League To Higher Status
commission.
The gross gate of $53,334 was good,
although at least $15,000 less than
promoter Sam Becker had expected.
His next challenger was expected to be picked from Joey Maxim, Light Heavyweight Champion; Lee Oma, heavyweight of Buffalo, N. Y.; Rex Layne of Lewiston, Utah, or Omelio Agramonte of Cuba.
Because Ezzard and co-managers action—another title defense next month if possible—they were scheduled for a huddle here today with matchmaker A. Weill of the International Boxing Club.
St. Petersburg, Fla.—(U.P.) The Pacific Coast league, which long has been battling for a higher status, appeared on the verge of victory today at the Minor League Baseball convention.
convention.
President Clarence "Pants" Rowland announced that he was "reasonably sure" that the minor leagues would put the Pacific Coast league apart from its Triple A sisters, the International League and American Association.
College Football Attendance Drops From 1949 Peak
Under the amendment, the Pacific Coast circuit would be permitted to sign players with the stipulation they will not be eligible for the major league draft.
New York—(U.P.)—College football attendance, hit by television, poor weather and tightening economic conditions, dropped 6.3 per cent per game in 1950 from its record 1949 peak, a United Press survey of 111 schools disclosed today.
Under present rules, after a player has been in the Coast league four years, he can be claimed by a major league club for the draft price of $10,000. Other players, upon whom there are no four year restriction,
are subject to draft at that time. If the amendment is voted upon favorably by the minors in their executive session tomorrow, it is a foregone conclusion that it will be accepted by the major leagues.
The survey, which covered 548 games, revealed that only the Southwest area, where live football telecasts are permitted only when a sellout is assured in advance, enjoyed an increase in attendance. The gate in the Southwest was up 17.84 per cent game, marking the third straight season that attendance increased in the area.
In the East, where television is most widespread and where the Nov. 25 storm cut attendance at many traditional games, the drop was the biggest-14.88 per cent per game.
Attendance in the South decreased 9.23 per cent per game; the Rocky Mountains fell off 7.47 per cent; the Far West declined 6.01 per cent, while the Midwest, where telecasts of games generally are banned, had a negligible drop of .68 per cent.
For the third straight year, the University of Michigan's Big Ten champions, with their vast 97,000-seat stadium, led the nation in attendance with a total of 506,163 fans for six home games. The figure, however, was 57,200 less than in 1949 for the same number of games.
Ohio State, with a stadium seating 83,000, was second with a reported paid attendance of 357,868 for five games, although approximately 33,000 ticket purchasers stayed away for the Buckeyes' finale against Michigan because of a blizzard.
California's Pacific Coast conference champions were third with a reported attendance of 356,000 for seven games, barely edging Pennsylvania, which drew approximately 355,000 for seven contests. After
Penn came Southern Methodist win 309,000 for five games, Rice with 305,000 for six games, Illinois with 266,027 for five games, Minnesota with 265,599 for five games, and the University of Miami with 255,623 for seven games.
Denver university led the sparsely-populated Rocky Mountain area with crowds totalling 118,648 for eight home games.
Oklahoma, with its undefended national championship team, drew 209,000 fans in five games compared to 216,000 for the same number of games last season.
Maryland. playing in its new 53,000-seat stadium for the first season, and two Big Seven conference colleges—Nebraska and Kansas—reported new attendance records. The Terrapins played before 97,835 in four games; Nebraska drew approximately 174,000 in five games and Kansas about 128,000 in five games.
In the 548 games covered by the survey, the average crowd per game was 23,889, compared to an average turnout of 25,495 for 542 in 1949. The overall attendance was 13,091,401 in 1950 against 13,813,805 for 1949.
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