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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Asst. Sports Editor
Coach Abe Stuber, Iowa State's "crying-towel specialist," just couldn't figure out why Kansas was so high for last Saturday's game at Ames he told newspapermen following the game.
"We used the best defensive team we could put together—and it still wasn't enough," Stuber said ruefully. "I can't figure out why they were up so high for that game. Sometimes I think your homecoming makes the other team tougher."
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Well, Mr. Stuber, since we understand you were such a "poor loser" Saturday, or maybe just an old fashion "die hard," we'll tell you what we think helped get our Jayhawkers so high for your homecoming game.
Kansas had about 300 of the most loyal rooters any college team could ever hope to have backing it with everything they had all the way.
One thing stands out as probably the greatest morale builder. Frank McDonald, Lawrence's No. 1 downtown quarterback, got together an eight- piece pep band that was a terrific asset to the Kansas cheering section at Ames.
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Here is a little information concerning this pep band . . . It was composed of eight members of the K.U. hand. They were John Carlos, Joel Fritzgerald, Lynn Osborn, Al Long, Charlie Childers, Jim Childers, Ray Rathert, and Bill Boyle.
This group left Lawrence about 5 a.m. Saturday and arrived at the Kirkwood hotel at Des Moines about 10:45 just in time for a big rally . . . Led by cheerleaders Max Whitson, Pat Ames, Leon Clemons, and the pep band, about 75 K.U. fans staged one of the most spirited rallies we've ever attended. . . The rally started outside the Kirkwood and attracted a large group of on-lookers. . . As the football team came down from their rooms and moved through the lobby to board two busses for Ames, this noisy group moved through the lobby whooping it up.
The team watched this rally as the cheerleaders led in the singing of the "Crimson and the Blue" followed by the famous "Rock-chalk Jay-Hawk" chant . . . This was impressive and we feel added a lot to getting the team "high" as Coach Stuber called it.
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Although outnumbered by 19,200 Iowa State fans, this Kansas group did a great job of organized cheering... The pep band under the direction of "Professor" McDonald, did a good job . . . At times they made almost as much noise as the entire Iowa State band. McDonald, so some of the band members say, had an accident with his baton that added a little more "spirit" to the group.
KU
The one thing that kept the weekend from being a complete success was the failure of more students to meet the football team at the station Sunday morning at the welcome home rally. . . After a fine Friday morning send-off rally, the students let the townspeople outnumber them Sunday morning.
We see no reason why at least 750 to 1,000 students didn't show enough interest to greet the team upon its arrival home from Ames . . . Coach J. V. Sikes' team did a great job of representing our great University—a job that the entire student body should have been proud . . . When only about 100 people show up at the station to welcome the team home—and about half this number are townspeople, we feel it is time for the student body to realize they have a great team representing them each Saturday and not one that loses every week.
Sunday, the University of Miami (Fla.) returned home after upsetting Purdue, 20 to 14, and was greeted at the airport by a crowd estimated at more than 10,000 fans. . Our up the "Kaw Cousins," even through all their lean years, have managed to meet their team with much larger crowds than we have here at Lawrence when our Jayhawkers arrive home from victorious trips. . We should be happy and proud that we have something to cheer about and not a team that has won only ONE out of its last 29 conference games like Kansas State over a five and a half year span.
Merwin Hodel, Colorado's great fullback, credited the K.U. student cheering through the final quarter as the deciding factor in Kansas' thrilling 27 to 21 victory over Colorado. . . The Kansas cheerleaders are doing an excellent job. Let's try and back them at the rallies and with better organized cheering at the games.
And we might add, don't sell Coach Sikes' team short from "here on in". . . This young team owns a "burning desire to win and be great" and has shown improvement each week . . . With a break here and there and 100 per cent support from the student body, this team could "go all the way."
BEAT OKLAHOMA A. AND M.
Freshmen Win Two-Mile Race From Colorado
The Jayhawker freshman two-mile team downed the University of Colorado squad in a telegraphic meet by the perfect score of 10 to 30. Coach Bill Easton has announced. The team with the low score wins. Points are counted on a basis of how the first four men of each squad finish.
The outstanding performance of the day was turned in by Wesley Santee of Ashland who tied the K.U. freshman two-mile record of 9:33.5. This mark was established in the spring of 1948 by Herb Semper, K.U.'s all-American distance man. Santee holds the state high school record with a time of 9:26, two and four-tenths of a second better than Glenn Cunningham's best high school time.
The Jayhawkers swept the first five places in the meet and left the Buffalo contingent to bring up the rear. Finishing behind Santee were: Lloyd Koby, Sedgewick; Norman Bitner, Kansas City, Kan.; Dick Wilson, Albany, N.Y.; and Art Dalzell, Spring Hill. The first Colorado man to finish behind the Jayhawkers was 32.5 seconds slower than Dalzell's time.
The next telegraphic meet will be this weekend with the University of Oklahoma.
KU's Tennis Courts Are Best In History
The facilities for tennis at K.U are now the best in the history of the University. With the completion of eight new courts sixteen hard surface all-weather courts and seven clay courts are now available to the students.
The four courts east of the stadium are the latest thing in tennis courts with the completion of a cork-turf surface on them. These have a greenish color and cost over $5000 a piece. Henry Shenk, chairman of the physical education department, urged that no one play on these courts unless they have on tennis shoes.
In addition to the cork-turf courts there are four new asphalt courts west of Corbin hall. There are also four old asphalt courts at the corner of 11th and Illinois streets.
The University has four cement courts. Two of these are directly south of the stadium and two others are to the southwest of it.
There are six clay courts south of Robinson gym and one on 12th and Maine. All of the courts except the clay ones are enclosed with steel fence.
These 23 courts give the University of Kansas probably as good accommodations for tennis as anywhere in this section of the country.
Fine Defensive Play Highlights Practice
Sharp tackling highlighted the Varsity's defensive play. The Frosh were repeatedly stopped or thrown back for losses as they neared the line of scrimmage with "leather popping" tackles.
The Kansas football team went through one of its best defensive scrimmages of the year on Wednesday as they "bottled up" Coach Don Fambrough's, aggressive freshman team which ran the Oklahoma A. and M. plays.
The No.1 defensive unit contained Charles O'Neal and Orbon Tice, ends; S. P. Garnett and George Mrkonic, tackles; Bill Mace and John Idowx, guards; Galen Fiss and Merlin Gish, linebackers; Fox Cashel and Hal Cleavinger, halfbacks, and Pat Murphy at safety. The regular safety, Dean Wells, left practice early to take an examination.
The Oklahoma .A and M. game will be Dad's day for the Jayhawkers. Fathers or sponsors of the players will sit on the bench and wear the corresponding number of his boy.
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