MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Asst. Sports Editor
The Kansas football team finished greasing the skids under Kansas State's Coach Ralph Graham Saturday at Manhattan by scoring a 47 to 7 victory, the Wildcats' most humiliating setback ever administered them by a K.U. team.
Just how sorry can a major college football team get? Well, we found out Saturday at Manhattan. What seemed like a possible upset in the making turned out to be nothing but a practice session for Coach J. V. Sikes' Jayhawkers as they limbered up for their Turkey day clash with Missouri at Columbia. Instead of the Wildeats' football program improving, it seems to get worse by the game. But how much poorer can it get?
Snowy Simpson, sports editor of the Manhattan Tribune-News, has been calling the Wildcats "the purple pumas" all season. A check in Webster's dictionary defines a pumas as follows: "Puma, plural . . pumas. The cougar; also its fur, of some value for rugs."
Could it be that Noah Webster was born 292 years too soon? Why not change the Wildcats' name to the "mewing milktoasts" or in view of eight straight last place finishes, simply the "whales?"
And their best food seems to be akin to that of whales, referring to their record of ONE victory over a major foe in the last 47 games (Colorado) and the others over Jonesboro (Ark.) State, Ft. Hays, and Baker university. It looks like Simpson would be more accurate with the usage "purple rugs" than his worn out "purple pumas" title for Graham's team.
Another thing that makes you wonder about the K-State football program was an unidentified player fighting in the crowd at the north end of the field in a goalpost fracas. Surely that is bush-league to say the least. In fact, we were surprised when K.U backers decided to topple the K-State goalpoasts. Had the game been a bit closer—instead of a practice session—we can see some reason for Kansas fans wanting the goal posts, but not as things were Saturday.
If you doubt the game was anything but a practice session, take look at these facts. In the second half, K.U. used reserves to net 197 yards rushing while the K-Staters could muster only FOUR yards.
Kansas State's star was probably Ross Estes, apparently the only Aggie to make a second effort. His effort was to boot the Wildeats' extra point and give him team a 7 to 0 lead after a holding penalty nullified his first attempt. The one thing that Estes didn't know was the ball he was booting was a timebomb scheduled to blow up in the Wildcats' faces for five touchdowns.
Ball control—considered good defense in present day football backfired on the K-Staters. Starting with Lyn Smith's 40-yard pass catch in the second quarter, K.U. ran five plays for four touchdowns and 206 net yards. During this same time, K-State ran nine plays for 12 net yards. Kansas State controlled the ball 64 per cent of the time in that stretch, but was outscored 0 to 26.
Charlie Hoag and Wade Stinson, K.U.'s rambling wizards, each outrushed the entire Wildcat team the first half. With Hoag watching the scrimmage from the bench the second half, Stinson carried once for three yards before joining him. It took the Aggies the last 30 minutes to outrush Stinson 4 to 3 in net yards.
What the future holds for Kansas State in football we hesitate to say. With their star backs Elmer Creviston and Hi Faubion back in action Saturday, we figured K.U. was in for 60 minutes of roughtough-football. The losers could have made a successful season out of Saturday's game by upsetting K.U. regardless of the seven weight losses suffered since the Baker victory in the opener.
With the Aggies still scheduled to play Oklahoma A. and M and Wichita, we see little chance of them winning either. Barring an upset, this would give Coach Graham a three-year record of four wins and 27 losses. In conference play, they have won ONE and lost 17. In fact, the Wildcats have lost 32 of their last 33 conference games . . . and 41 of their last 43 games—being outscored 272 to 1401 points.
During the football season, why not rename the conference the Big Six and K-State? Of course, the conference basketball teams will soon have to play Jack Gardner's Wildcats, rated as one of the nation's top cage clubs. They should fight it out for the championship with Kansas and Missouri. The Wildcats' basketball success could help regain some of the school's lost prestige.
All in all, Jayhawker fans had a great day at Manhattan. Headed by the University band, about 400 persons paraded through the downtown district Saturday morning from the U.P. railroad station to the Wareham hotel. Here one of the biggest and noisiest post-war pep rallies was held that must have been impressive to the win-hungry Aggie fans.
We think Ernie Quigley, former K.U. athletic director, best summed up the average Kansas fan't sentiment. Following the fourth Kansas touchdown, Mr. Quigley visited the pressbox and someone greeted him with, "How are you Ernie?" He said, "I never felt better," which was the case with many K.U. fans.
Simons Punts With The Nation's Best
By BOB NELSON Asst. Sports Editor
Dolph Simons, a 6-foot 200-pound Jayhawker guard, is one of the nation's leading punters. He provides Coach Sikes' club added offensive power when the K.U. offense bogs down—a rare occasion on the 1950 team—with his long and high punts.
For Dolph, the Missouri game on Thanksgiving day will mark the end of his colorful and exciting football career that has covered seven years.
years.
As a regular offensive right guard, Dolph is enjoying his best all-around year of football. He missed active duty most of last year with a knee injury.
hince no.
As a second team all-state guard selection at Lawrence high school in 1946, Dolph's punting ranked him as one of the greatest kickers in Kansas high school football history. His punting average for that year was 46.7 yards, better than the nation's top college punter.
At 17, Dolph started his college grid record as one of 104 K.U. freshmen. He played guard, the only spot he has ever played. Out of that large group, only 10 remian today as seniors. "When we started practice that fall, Wayne Replogle, our freshman coach, told us only about 10 would finish the long and tough grind, and he hit the nail on the head," Dolph said.
the neck. Dolphin sain-
ture.
In 1948 as a sophomore, Dolphid had a great job of relief punting after Frank Pattee broke his jaw in the George Washington game. In the last five games, Simons punted 34 times for a 37 yard average to rank sixth in the conference.
Let year was Dolph's poorest year. His punting assignment came to an abrupt end after a punt on the side of his foot traveled only one yard against Oklahoma at Norman. From here on, Bill Maced did the kicking. His season mark was a 31.7 average for 18 boots.
31.7 average
This year Dolph's average has been above the 40-yard mark all season. Only in the Oklahoma game has he failed to top this average, and yet this game was probably his best single game performance. He averaged 36.4 on 10 punts.
Here is a game-by-game summary of Simons' punting for this year.
year:
No. Yds. Avg.
Denver 2 84 42.0
Colorado 3 145 48.3
Iowa State 2 97 48.3
Okla. A&M 7 289 41.3
Nebr. 3 122 40.7
Utah (No Kansas punts)
Oklahoma 10 364 36.4
K-State 3 137 45.7
1950 Punting 30 1238 41.3
Three-year Totals
No. Yds. Avg.
1948 34 1256 36.9
1949 18 571 31.7
1950 30 1238 41.3
92 2065 37.4
"I think the 1948 Oklahoma team is the strongest K. U. has faced during my three years of Varsity
Big Seven Standings Big Seven Games
W. L. T. Pts. Op.
Oklahoma ... 5 0 189 45
Nebraska ... 4 1 0 161 122
Kansas ... 3 2 0 146 115
Missouri ... 2 2 1 110 127
Iowa State ... 2 3 1 88 107
Colorado ... 1 4 0 127 114
K-State ... 6 0 0 48 229
Oklahoma ... 8 0 0 255
Nebraska ... 6 1 1 232
Kansas ... 6 3 0 278
Colorado ... 4 4 1 196
Missouri ... 3 4 1 137
Iowa State ... 3 5 1 148
Kansas State ... 1 8 0 116
All Games
Nov. 25
Games This Week
Kansas at Missouri, Nov.
Thanksgiving day.
Colorado at Colorado A. and M.
Iowa State at Arizona
K. State at Oklahoma A. and M.
Nebraska at Oklahoma.
Last Week's Results
Colorado 21, Oregon 7
Oklahoma 41, Missouri 7
Kansas 47, Kansas State 7
Nebraska 20, Iowa State 13
DOLPH SIMONS
ball". Dolph said, "but this year's O.U. team was mighty good.
"I consider the Colorado line one of the strongest we've faced, and boy, I'd sure like to meet Nebraska again." he added.
Dolph is following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather in seeking a career in journalism. He will graduate from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information in June.
After spending an expected hitch in the Army following his graduation, Dolph hopes to get a job on a newspaper as a reporter and later get into public relation or promotional work.
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