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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1950
Championship Playoffs Begin Today In Intramural Football
By RAY SOLDAN
Kansan Sports Editor
Weather permitting, the intramural touch-football playoffs will get under way at 4 p.m. today. Rain postponed play Tuesday.
The eight top fraternity "A" teams—the champion and runnerup in each of the four divisions—start the playoff action. Defending champion Beta Theta Pi plays Sigma Chi today, Phi Kappa Psi meets Phi Gamma Delta, Tau Kappa Epsilon plays Delta Upsilon, and 1949 runnerup Alpha Tau Omega goes against Delta Tau Delta.
Beta, Phi Psi, T. K. E., and A.
T. O. are division champions with
the other four teams second-place
finishers.
Five of the teams were in last year's playoffs, while three are newcomers. The three that didn't make it a year ago but did this year are Phi Gam, the Delts, and D.U. They replace non-repeaters Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Sigma, and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
The fraternities will all be bunning for champion Beta. It has built an impressive football record the past few years: Hill championships in 1944, 1948, and 1949, runuper in 1945 and 1946, and semi-finalist in 1947. Phi Delt sneaked into the throne room in 1945, Phi Gam in 1946, and Sigma Chi in 1947. Beta has lost only one game in four years.
However, Beta must bow to Phi Gam as the all-time champion. In the 19 years touch football has been on the I-M program at K. U., Phi
Gam has won six championships, Beta five, Phi Delt three, Sig Alph two, and Delta Chi, Phi Psi, and Sigma Chi one each. No fraternity has ever won three consecutive titles—a feat Beta is striving for this year.
Four teams will fight for the fraternity "BF" championship later this week—Phi Gam, Phi Psi, Beta, and Phi Delt. Phi Gam is champion of division I with Phi Psi runnerup, Beta and Phi Delt, both still undefeated, will battle Thursday for the division II crown. The winner will draw Phi Psi and the loser Phi Gam in the first round of the "B" playoffs.
A new fraternity "B" champion will be crowned as Sigma Chi, last year's winner, didn't make the playoffs. Beta was runnerup in 1949.
Fearless Fraley Picks OU, Buffs, Huskers
New York, Nov. 8—(U.P.)-Still working on the thankful theory that it's your money-Fraley's Follies and the weekend football "winners."
GAME OF THE WEEK
GAME OF CALIFORNIA over UCLA—the winner will go to the Rose Bowl, and we'll go with the team nobody believed. The Uclains are rugged and could do it, but the pick is based on that mauling California line and a newly-disclosed passing attack.
THE EAST
Darnorthier, her Columbia — if Johnny Clayton is available.
Army over New Mexico--should have been played in Albuquerque.
Princeton over Harvard—another Tiger track meet.
Tulane over Navy—Green Wave
gaining tidal proportions.
gaining bairnry, Also: Penn over Brown, Clemson over Boston college, Cornell over Colgate, Boston U. over NYU, W. & L. over Delaware, Fordham over Georgetown, Penn State over West
Virginia, and Rutgers over Lafayette
THE SOUTH
Georgia over Florida—both bouncing back.
Kentucky over Mississippi State— Colonels still uncollared.
Coach Bill Easton's two-mile team will meet Kansas State at 4 p.m. today in Manhattan. The meet was originally scheduled for Oct. 28, but Kansas State asked for a postponement because several runners were ill.
Kansas Two Milers To K-State Today
LSU over Vanderbilt—the Blueplate special.
Maryland over North Carolina too many guns.
SNAP THE STREAK
K. U. defeated Oklahoma in its only meet so far this year. K-State has lost to the Sooners. The Jayahawks will run against Missouri and Colorado in a triangular meet at Columbia, Mo., Saturday. Missouri is expected to be Kansas' chief competition this year in the Jayhawkers' attempt for a fourth straight conference two-mile title.
THE SOUTHWEST
With Wade Stinson, K. U's right half running sensation, the only experienced hand ready to go at that spot, Coach Sikes said he would skip junior left halfback Dean Wells and quarterback Fox Cashell behind Stinson in today's practice to give added depth at the right half spot.
Texas over Baylor—on sheer mo mentum.
SMU over Texas Aggies—vengeance bound.
Rice over Arkansas—but the Razorbacks are rough.
Also: Tempe State over Arizona,
North Texas over Houston, Tulsa
mmois over Iowa—by two touch-
lowns.
over Texas Tech, and Hardin Simmons over Texas Western.
THE MIDWEST
KU Loses Two Right Halfbacks
Ohio State over Wisconsin—apparently at will.
Northwestern over Purdue—unless Purdue regains form.
Michigan State over Minnesota— no contest.
Brandeberry re-injured an already weak ankle and Cleavinger suffered a back injury when tacked hard while running plays against the freshmen who used Oklahoma defensive formations. The extent of both injuries was not immediately known ut it was hoped by Coach J. V. Sikes that both players will be ready to go by kickoff time Saturday against Bud Wilkinson's undefeated mighty Sooners.
The Kansas right halfback manpower situation hit a new season low Tuesday afternoon as injuries received in offensive scrimmage felled sophomores Bob Brandeberry, No. 2 offensive player, and Hal Clevinger, defensive right halfback.
Also: Michigan over Indiana, Notre Dame over Pitt, Nebraska over Kansas State, Holy Cross over Marquette, Cincinnati over OIP, IowaState over Drake, Oklahoma over Kansas, and Colorado over Missouri.
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In independent "A", the Dix club will play A. F. R. O. T. C. and Don Henry Co-op will play Jim Beam's Dream Team in the opening round. Dix, independent champion in 1947 and 1949, and Don Henry are the division titlists. Jim Beam's Dream Team was champion of the independent "B" league last year, losing to Sigma Chi in the Hill championship game.
The independent winner will be pitted against the fraternity champion for the Hill championship. In the three years this system has been in effect, the frat champ has slaughtered its independent opponent—26 to 7, 37 to 1, and 40 to 1. In fact
no independent team has ever won the all-University championship in football, although they do occasionally sneak in a winner in basketball, softball, and some of the minor sports.
There is only one division in independent "B", but the title is still not settled. The Beta "C" team knotted up the race the past week by edging the previously undefeated Speedrs, 6 to 0. This closed the regular season with each club having a 3-1 record.
Beta "C" and the Speedrs will be re-matched in a few days for the independent "B" crown and the right to meet the frat "B" winner for the Hill championship.
KU-Utah Movies Shown Tonight
The movies of the K.U.-Utah football game will be shown at 7.15 tonight in Strong auditorium. Students and faculty are invited to attend. The showing is free. This week's movies are very clear and should be of particular interest because it was a high-scoring, wide-open sort of game. Kansas won of course, 39 to 26.
On the other side of the ledger, students can see the passing of Dave Cunningham of Utah, who went in the game third in the nation in passing and came out of it leading the nation.
The spectacular running of Wade Stinson and blocking of Mike McCormack stand out in the film. Stinson set a new K.U. single-game rushing record in the game. His total was 239 yards—99 yards more than the previous record. His total includes a brilliant 73-yard run—the longest from scrimmage by a Kansas player this season.