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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 27,1950
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Asst. Sports Editor
Two senior members of the 1950 Jayhawker football team, right guard Dolph Simons, Jr., and right tackle Mike McCormack, have been named "All-America Specialists" in the annual Collier's all-star feature in the Dec. 9 issue of the magazine.
DOLPH SIMONS
Co-captain McCormack was selected as one of the All-America defensive linemen. Big Mike played both offense and defense, a rare feat in today's modern football, but we hardly think his defensive play overshadowed his offensive work. Regardless, we don't think the Midlands produced a better all-around lineman this year. On offense, he was as good as they come.
Simons was selected as an All-America kicker. He played every minute of offense for K.U. this year except in the Denver, Oklahoma A. and M., and Kansas State games where one-sided scores placed the regulars on the bench.
MIKE McCORMACK
Simons remained among the nation's leading kickers all season with a 40-yard plus average. For the season, he averaged 41.2 yards a kick on 32 boots and for his entire college career a mark of 37.4 for 84 punts. Many of his kicks were pin-point side-line variety that nicked inside the 5-yard line. Against Missouri he booted one of his two kicks 50 yards and out on the 3-yard line.
McCormack and Simons have played side-by-side on the K.U. offensive eleven this year. Together they have opened many holes that allowed right halfback Wade Stinson to pick up his record total of 1129 yards rushing, the second highest total ever run up in the Big Seven conference.
in San Francisco.
Big Mike, ranked as one of the greatest offensive linemen ever to play for Kansas, is expected to play in the annual East-West Shrine game on New Year's day
The honors received in Collier's magazine are only the start of many honors expected to be received by K.U. football players following a successful season.
ATO's Trounce Dix For "A" Crown
The vaunted Alpha Tau Omega passing attack kept up a touchdown-a-quarter pace as the fraternity team took a sluggish 27 to 6 victory over the Dix Club, Independent “A” champs, to win the all-University intramural “A” league title. The game was played Nov. 20.
It took only a few minutes of playing time for spectators to realize that the Independent entry was no match for the powerful and elusive ATO offense. Such veterans as Chet Laniewski, Bob Hucke, and Bob Trego, not to mention other standouts on the ATO team, kept up a constant barrage of aerials that completely befuddled the Dix Club defense.
Bill Brooks was a standout in the ATO line from his center position and he, together with teammates Jim Brunson and Kenny Howard, gave the Dix Club passer plenty of trouble throughout the game.
Dix Club kicked off and it wasn't long before the eventual victors had their first touchdown. ATO scored
Dix Club, Independent "A" champions for the last three years, put up a stiff fight, but they found themselves defenseless against the varied ATO offense.
3 Major Teams Survive Saturday
By OSCAR FRALEY U.P. Sports Writer
New York—(UP) It's all hail to Oklahoma (one to go) and Wyoming today, along with a feeble roar from the Princeton Tiger, for surviving "Uuset Saturday."
Oklahoma's souped-up Sooners and the Wyoming Cowboys tramped over their opposition of the weekend in expected style to remain unbeaten and untied. But Princeton, a 20-point favorite, barely squeezed past Dartmouth, 13 to 7; Kentucky was bounced out of the select circle by Tennessee's seven-point underdogs, 7 to 0, and California went out as a 13-point choice against Stanford—and came back tied, 7 to 7.
Kentucky's demoted Colonels might be the chief of the Monday mourners, but they've got a lot of company-Penn, Ohio State, Illinois, SMU, North Carolina, Indiana, Rice, and Iowa State just to name a handy few.
Let's look over the fate of two other 13-point favorites who, along with California, blew the Duke:
Penn, conqueror of Wisconsin, had a Cornell red face after a line from far above Cayuga's waters, led by tackle Jim Jerome, held the vaunted Quaker attack to 59 yards in beating Penn, 13 to 6.
Illinois was dreaming sweet dreams of the Rose Bowl as a 13-point favorite over Northwestern when Gene Miller marched 14 yards to a touchdown which bounced the Illini, 14 to 7, and gave them a perfume hangover.
California salvaged the coast's Rose Bowl designation but the honors in its tie went to Stanford end Bill McColl and guard Norm Manoogian.
End Doug Atkins sparked a Tennessee line which throttled Babe Parilli and gave Tennessee it's 7-0 win over Kentucky; Chuck Ortmann's punting was phenomenal and center Tony Momsen blocked a punt for the winning touchdown as Michigan upset Ohio State, 9-3; Henry Dickerson's 20-yard field goal provided Baylor's 3-0 conquest of Munson and Jack FLOYd's four touchdowns allowed TCU to flatten Rice, 26-14.
Four seven point choices who took it on the chin were Kentucky, Ohio State, SMU, and Indiana.
Wyoming wound up its first undefeated season as Eddie Talbroom scored three touchdowns, passed for another and kicked six extra points. And Oklahoma, with a longer run that it had on Broadway, scored its 30th win as Billy Vessels scored 18 points and gained 208 yards in 18 tries to spark a 49-35 victory over Nebraska.
Iowa State earned its spot on the mourner's bench as, heavily favored, it went down to a 27-26 defeat when Arizona's Jim Donarski booted home the final extra point.
on a pitch-out play that saw Lanchewski draw in the defenders and then toss a flat pass to John Brose, still behind the line of scrimmage. Brose's beautiful spiral settled in the waiting arms of Hucke and the ATO's had their first one.
Weidensaul missed the extra-point try, something he rarely does, and the score stood at 6 to 0 as the ATO's began sprinkling their line-up with substitutes.
The kick-off was followed by several interceptions and just before the first quarter ended Laniewski speared a Dix Club pass and galloped to the Dix 38-yard line.
Army probably is lucky it wasn't playing.
A Laniewski pass to Weidensau carried to the Dix 4 and again Laniewski hit Haucke in the end tone for a second downdown.
This time Weidensaul's kick split the uprights and the score stood at 13 to 0 as the half ended.
Dix Club came back after the brief intermission like an entirely new team. They moved on short passes, mostly from Lou Ferguson to Gerald Punteney, and suddenly found themselves on the ATO 20. An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty carried them to the 5 and a pass from Ferguson to Punteney accounted for their first touchdown.
The biggest part of the ATO line slashed through to block the try for points.
The ATO's came roaring back to score again as their passing attack gained momentum. Laniewski tossed to Huckle on the Dix 30-yard line and a penalty moved the ball to the 15. Again Laniewski passed, this time to Bob Trego, and the score mounted to 19 to 6.
Weidensaul's kick boosted it up one more point.
The remainder of the third quarter was spent in midfield as both teams jockeyed for position. The period ended with ATO on the long end of a 20 to 6 count.
Midway in the fourth quarter the Dix Club opened up on short passes, their favorite weapon, in a vain attempt to move into enemy territory. Weidensaul couldn't see it that way so he intercepted one on the Dix 15.
It didn't take long for Laniewski to throw his fourth scoring pass to Hucke who was sidling unnoticed down the side line.
Weidensaal booted another end the score was 27 to 6.
the score.
Although the game wasn't officially over as yet, it might as well have been. Neither team had much success from then on, although Ferguson deserves credit for his short passes. The scrappy Punteney caught a high percentage of them for short distances but by this time it was long passes or nothing and the Dix club failed to complete any aerials for appreciable gains.
ROTC Cadets May Pick Up Tickets To Ball
All R.O.T.C. cadets who have paid their fee for the Military Ball to be held Dec. 1, should pick up their ticket invitations for the dance, as soon as possible.
These are available in the office of Comdr. W. A. Mann, Room 115, Military Science building, Air Force cadets may pick up their tickets from M/Sgt. Harold Swartwood.
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