FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
THREE C
J. V. Sikes Is Well On Way To Another Successful Season
By Forrest Miller
J. V. Sikes, the passing master from Texas A. and M., is well on his way to his third successful season as head football coach at the University of Kansas.
Going into Saturday's game, the "Tall Tactician" has provided victories in 16 of the 25 games Jayhawker teams have played under his tutelage.
COACH J. V. SIKES
Coach Sikes came north from Georgia to fill the shoes of George Sauer, who went to Navy and is now at Baylor. He found a lot of names missing from the 1947 Orange Bowt队 that dropped a 20 to 14 decision to Georgia Tech. An additional burden was thrown on "Siki" when the Big Seven conference kayoed four regulars with a late spring eligibility ruling.
In 1948, Sikes first season on Mt. Oread, Jayhawker teams won seven of 10 games, losing the season's opener to Texas Christian and bowing to Missouri and Oklahoma later in the season. Last season the mark dropped to 5-5 when the squad bowed in its first three outings. High spots included an upset 55 to 14 win over Oklahoma A. and M. and a near upset over Missouri before bowing, 28 to 34.
This season the genial gentleman may be on his way to the most successful season in his career. The Jayhawkers will be shooting for their fifth consecutive win Saturday after dropping the season's opener, again to Texas Christian.
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His combination ground and aerial attack has accounted for 153 points so far this season.
Sikes began his coaching career at Blinn Memorial college, Brenham, Texas in 1928. The next year he shifted to Burleson college, Greensville, Texas. Two years later it was East Texas State, then Texas A. and M., and finally Georgia where he helped mold five bowl teams, none of which was defeated in a post-season classic. He doubled as baseball coach at Georgia.
During the war, Sikes was head coach at St. Mary's Pre-Flight school. He was discharged from the Navy as a lieutenant-commander.
Sikes graduated from Texas A.
and M. in 1928 and was one of the
Cadets' all-time athletic greats. He
earned a "total of nine letters in
football, basketball and baseball.
Playing under Dana X. Bible, he
earned all-Southwest honors at end in his senior year, 1927, as well as a place on the 1928 all-West team. Sikes' Head Coaching record:
W L T
1928 Blinn Memorial ... 8 2 0
1929 Burleson college ... 6 3 0
1930 Burleson college ... 7 2 0
1935 Texas A. and M. fresh 2 1 0
1936 Texas A. and M. fresh 2 1 0
1947 St. Mary's Pre-Flight 4 4 0
1948 Kansas ... 7 3 0
1949 Kansas ... 5 5 0
1950 Kansas (to date) ... 4 1 0
Totals 45 22 0
Many Are Called, $25 Chosen
Warsaw, Ind. —(U.P.)— Pastors of three local churches wondered if their "everyone welcome" signs were advisable. About $25 was stolen one Sunday from churchgoers' pursues lying in corridors and choir rooms.
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Lynn. Mass.—(U.P.)-While Police-
man Fred Forni was trying to untangle a couple of locked bumpers, two men he had just arrested escaped in his police cruiser.
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