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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1950
KU Likes To Beat Sooners In Last Few Seconds
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG
If Kansas does upset Oklahoma and its 27-game winning streak in the 48th annual meeting Saturday at Memorial stadium, the Jayhawkers will probably do it in the last few seconds of the game.
At least they will if history repeats itself. In 47 previous meetings Oklahoma has won 23 games, Kansas 19, with five ties. But Kansas has defeated the Sooners only three times in the last 15 years, each time in the late seconds. And four of K.U.'s last six triumphs were won in the last few plays.
Latest and most memorable thriller to the vast majority of present-day fans' the 16 to 13 victory in 1946 here in the rain and mud over Jim Tatum's highly-favored Sooners. Paul Turner won that one with an almost unbelievable 41-yard field goal from a difficult angle. With 85 seconds left Turner, looking almost out of place with a clean jersey, came in to kick it with Ray Evans holding.
The game gave Kansas a tie for the '46 championship and marks the last time O. U. has lost a conference game. Oklahoma's last tie in conference play came in 1947 at Norman when KU's Orange Bowl club led by the redoubtable Ray Evans, battled Bud Wilkinson's first
OU team to a bruising 13 to 13 tie and a share of the championship again. Many Okhlahomans will tell you that was Evans' best game. It was a major factor in his winning five first-string All-America awards.
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Evans
K. U.'s only other victories in the last 15 years came in 1935 and 1937, both played at Norman. A perfectly-executed 50-yard pass play, George Hapgood to Rutherford Hayes, won the 1935 game 7 to 0 in the last 50 seconds.
A pair of substitute sophomore halfbacks, room mates Don Ebling and Dick Amerine, teamed to win the '37 contest 6 to 3 with a 48-yard pass in the last 10 seconds. The intended receiver, Rus Chitwood, was
held up at the line of scrimmage, and the pass was deflected by the O.U. safety man. Amerine caught it about three feet off the ground, juggled it, then tucked it away and raced on to score.
Kansas' undefeated 1923 team won 7 to 3 at Norman on a 30-yard end run late in the third period by team captain Charley Black (no relation to Charley "The Hawk" Black, basketball All-American of 1942-47. First Charley Black was also basketball All-American).
1923 Forrest "Frosty" Cox, later a successful basketball coach at Colorado university, blocked an OU punt on the five-yard line in the second quarter, then carried it over in two plays as KU won 7 to 0. The 1930 Jayhawks won 13-0 here to take the undisputed conference title.
Kansas' other hair-raising victory came in 1926 here in a big upset, 10 to 9. George Mackie, full-back, booted a 23-yard field goal with 30 seconds left to win it. A long pass from Melvin Thornhill to Wilbur Starr and a seven-yard run by Starr set it up.
The series started in 1903 and has continued without interruption. Kansas won the first eight meetings, and piled up 126 points to Oklahoma's nine in so doing. Oklahoma
finally won 3 to 0 here in 1911 on a field goal by Fred Capshaw in the first two minutes at old McCook field. The Sooners won 6 to 5 the next year and they were tough from then on.
Oklahoma leads in total points, 639 to 416. Kansas' highest score came in 1905 when they won 34-0. Next highest Jayhawker total was the 26 compiled last year in losing 26 to 48. The highest Sooner total was their astounding 60 to 7 rump in 1948. Both clubs went into that '48 game with seven-game winning streaks after losing their openers.
Second highest OU total came last year.
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A former KU star, little Bennie Owen, put OU football on the map. He coached the Sooners for 22 years starting in 1905 end the present Oklahoma stadium is named for him.
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Mrkonic Helps Make KU Offense Go
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Ass't Sports Editor
One of the chief reasons Kansas is a contender in the Big Seven football race is George Mrkonic, a highly talented 207-pound sophomore guard from McKeesport, Pa.
At the start of the season, Coach Jules V. Sikes frankly admitted the Jayhawkers' 1950 hopes hinged heavily on a promising group of sophomores that would be required to man several key positions.
Mrkonie is one of only two Jayhawker linemen who is called upon to play both offense and defense. His partner is workhorse McCormack.
"Mrkonic not only is a fine athlete." Pop Werner, line coach, will quickly tell you, "but he is the type of player you don't find too often these days—a boy with lots of desire and consistent hustle."
As a rangy 6-foot $2^{1/2}$-incher, Mr-konic owns fine speed, is quick starting, and exceptionally hard to take out defensively because of his fine maneuverability.
Big George has exceeded even the most hoped for performance from him and only Mike McCormack, co-captain and right tackle, has played a more prominent role in the Kansas forward wall to date.
Along with sophomores Charlie Hoag, left halfback; Chet Strehlow, quarterback, and center Wint Winter, Mrkonic will be in the starting lineup against the mighty Oklahoma Sooners Saturday for the eighth straight week.
Not only is big "Mr. 74" doubling on offense and defense, he has adapted himself to playing two positions in his two-sided assignment. On offense, he plays left guard and alternates with McCormack at right tackle on defense. When they both see defensive action, big Mike moves toward the middle a notch.
Few high school footballlers have had a more colorful and exciting
This agile Pennsylvanian, after playing outstanding ball as a tackle on Don Fambrough's undefeated 1949 frsh club, was shifted from tackle to guard just two weeks before the Texas Christian university opener.
Mkronicis's great all-around play at this unfamiliar post, plus intensive and improved efforts from Dolph Simons, his right-side guard mate, and center Winter has given K. U. much stronger strength down the middle than was earlier expected.
"Big George is probably our finest all-around natural athlete in the line," Sikes said recently, "this big fellow is not as strong and powerful as McCormack, but he is a great athlete."
career than this former Pennsylvania prep star. As a sophomore he played fullback, and end and tackle his junior and senior years for McKeesport Tech.
With George the only junior on
an otherwise all-senior 1947 team,
McKeesport finished the season with
an impressive 12-0-0 record to rank
as the North's No. 1 high school
team. This honor sent them to Miami,
Fla., where they were defeated in
the Orange bowl Christmas night by
Miami Edison high, 34 to 14, before
31,000 fans.
Following the game, George and two of his teammates (now stars on Miami university's team) stayed over as guests of Miami U. to see the Kansas-Georgia Tech Orange bowl game. Big George thought it was a terrific game and was impressed with the play of All-American Ray Evans and Co.
The remaining four are playing at Clemson, Navy, Lehigh, and Marquette.
Mrkonic's fine all-around play gained him all Western Pennsylvania plaudits as a tackle in 1947 and 1948. George also ranked as the state's No. 1 punter through these two years with an average of slightly over 42 yards a boot. With Simons, the nation's No. 4 punter, graduating this year, George will probably split punting chores with Hoag next year.
Regarded as a leading candidate for the Big Seven's "sophomore lineman of the year" award, Mrkonie takes great pride in telling about his 10 teammates on the great 1947 McKeesport Tech high team. All eleven starters are playing major college football this year. Six are playing three as starters on Miami (Fla.) university's great team ranked ninth in the nation.
Before Mrkonic graduates in 1953, Jayhawker fans can well expect to
see big George's name listed high among All-American linemen.
Although happy that he came to K. U., this likeable athlete admits only a last minute change of plans kept him from enrolling at Purdue university.
mikronic also seriously considered attending Pittsburgh, William and Mary, and several southern universities.
GEORGE MRKONIC
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