FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MARK ROTHACKER Right Halfback
Passing Attack Wins For I-State
The Iowa State Cyclones have used one of the nation's best passing attacks to win two out of three games this year. This offense is built around quarterback Bill Weeks, a strong candidate for All-American honors this year.
Iowa State opened the 1950 season with a two-touchdown fourth quarter rally to down Colorado at Ames, 14 to 7. The Buffaloa did a good job of keeping the Cyclones' best weapon, the pass, pretty well bottled up by allowing Weeks to complete only five out of 17 tosses. Coach Abe Stuber's team did double C.U.'s first downs, 17 to 8, and outrushed the Buffs, 198 to 118 yards.
In its second game, Iowa State lost to Northwestern, 23 to 13 at Evanson. After holding the Wildcats to a 7-7 first half tie, the Cyclones wilted before a powerful running and passing attack in the second half.
Last Saturday, the Cyclones downed Iowa State Teachers college, 26 to 8, at Ames. Trailing 6 to 8 at halftime, Coach Stuber's boys came back strong in the final two periods via the Weeks air lift to win No. 2 of the young season.
MAURICE SCHNELL Fullback
Rushing Attack Wins For Kansas
In its second game, Kansas had little trouble in scoring an easy 46 to 6 win over the hapless Denver university Pioneers. John Amberg and his replacement, Bud Laughlin, spelled plenty of trouble for the Pioneers. Both players got away on long touchdown runs in helping to give K.U. victory No.1 of the year.
Last Saturday's thrilling 27 to 21 win over Colorado will long be remembered as one of the greatest comebacks ever staged by a Kansas football team. Kansas gained 181 yards rushing (as compared with 180 against T.C.U.) and looked impressive late in game via the air route in scoring the winning touchdown.
Kansas dropped a 7 to 14 heartbreaker to Texas Christian university here in K.U.'s opening game of the year. A late fourth quarter 89-yard run by Charlie Hoag looked to have set the stage for a K.U. win only to have a penalty strike out the play.
A well balanced ground attack has provided the Jayhawkers with a pair of wins in three starts. For the first time in three years, Kansas' running has overshadowed the passing attack.
ED GREEN Left Halfback
Jayhawkers Must Stop Cyclones' Tricky 'T' To Win
BY BOB NELSON
Kansan Asst. Sports Editor
Kansas must slow up the Iowa State Cyclones' tricky "T-V" formation at Ames Saturday if Coach J. V. Sikes' Jayhawkers are to win their second Big Seven game of the season and remain undefeated in conference play.
The game will be played before an expected overflow homecoming crowd of 20,000, the largest ever to see a game at Iowa State.
Coach Abe Stuber, now in his fourth year at Iowa State, uses the "T-V" formation which combines the better features of both the T and the short punt with a few var-
ations of his own. The key man in this formation is the Cyclones all- American quarterback candidate, Bill Weeks.
Probably Weeks' top performance last year was 281 yards on passes against Oklahoma—on a day when the running attack "helped" him only to the extent of 23 yards. His passing efforts resulted in a 20 to 20 tie with Illinois and spelled defeat for Kansas, Kansas State, and Drake.
Weeks, a 6-foot 160-pound senior, is one of the finest passers in the nation. In 1949, he ranked 11th in the nation in total offense with 1257 yards on 229 plays. He picked up all but 10 of these by completing 79 out of 176 passing attempts.
Shutout Games Continue In Intramural Football Play
Weeks is off to a fast start in the passing department nationally this year. He is ninth in the nation in total offense with 517 yards for three games. In pass yardage, he is fifth in the country with 31 completions in 65 attempts for 481 yards. In Iowa State's 23 to 13 loss to Northwestern, Weeks completed 15 out of 29 passes for 151 yards.
By ED BARTLETT Intramural Writer
Shut-outs featured Thursday's intramural mauling. Of the five independent league games scheduled, only four were played—these divided equally with two "A" team games and two "B" squad contests. The "A" team joust between Sterling-Oliver and Jolliffe has been postponed until Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Beta 18. Delts 0
The Beta and Speedr "B" aggregations held their opponents scoreless as did the "A" batteries of the AROTC and Jim Beam's Dream Team.
Against Iowa State Teachers college last Saturday, Weeks had a field day as the Cyclones downed their up state cousins, 26 to 8. His aerials accounted for 237 yards including two touchdown pitches to all-conference end, Jim Doran, who also missed two more when they were called back.
Larry Wassmer's good right arm led the Betas to the kill. He hit Harold Greenleaf, Bill Nulton, and Max Simpson for 10, 12, and 35 yards respectively to produce the winning points.
Jim Barron, of the Betas and Jim Thorn of the Delts were outstanding at their line positions.
Speedrs 2. Club 13 0
Speedrs 2. Club 13 0
The alert line play of Bill Means meant a win to the Speedrs. He scored a safety, the lone score of the game, by capturing a Club 13 back behind his own goal line.
From that point on the game was a defensive battle which both teams fought well. The Speedrs defensive line was outstanding, particularly Means, Barrett, and West.
AROTC 17. Oread 0
The A.R.O.T.C. scored in every quarter but the last to romp over an easy Oread team. Jack Dain began the scoring with a field goal after the fly-boy defense bogged down near the opposition goal line. In the second period, Haley caught an Oread man behind his goal line to chalk up two more points for the military. The third quarter saw
Beldon and Dain score a touchdown each to wrap up the game.
Jim Beam 14, AIEE 0
Jim Beam's Dream Team lengthened its string of victories at the expense of the AIEE Kaulman pitched spirals to Watson and Lee to "skunk" the engineers. Foster supplied the extra points for Jim Beam. The AIEE team looked rather ineffective with a weak pass defense. Its line play was good, however. In the Jim Beam line, Ed Ebee was a standout, breaking up play after play.
Jim Beam 14. AIEE 0
The other towering receiver for the Weeks aerials is Sonny Wilhelmi. This year he has caught 11 passes for 136 yards while Doran has caught one less for 159 yards. Both of these ends are big, fast, and plenty hard to haul down on their touchdown-bound journeys.
You will notice that in this story several times only the last name of a player is used—the first names weren't listed on the score sheets. We will greatly appreciate it if the scorekeepers will take the few minutes required to fill them out. List all scoring plays, the full names of all players involved in them, and any additional information needed to make the report complete.
Please Fill Out Score Sheets
The sports desk has received a few complaints about inadequate coverage on some intramural football games. The intramural stories from the Daily Kama score sheets which are stapled to the back of the official score cards.
Thus the game stories can be only as complete as the score cards are filled out.
BILL WEEKS Quarterback
Other backs making the Iowa
State offense go are halfbacks Eddie Green, Mark Rothacker, Melvin Meling, Frank Congiardo, and Jerry McGlynn. Iowa State has two fine offensive fullbacks, Maury Schnell and Don Laun, Spelling off Weeks at quarterback is Bus Steward. These backs are good runners and make the Stuber offense a threat at all times with a good mixture of passing thrown in to keep the defense loose
Fullback Schnell played a great game against Colorado gaining 114 rushing and blocking well. Halfback Meling and Congiardo, the latter regarded as one of the conference's top sophomores, played great games against Northwestern. Green ranks
No. 6 among conference punters with a 39 yard average.
With the game billed as a high-scoring affair, Coach J.V. Sikes will lead with this offensive eleven in hopes they can outscore anything Weeks and Co. muster. Bill Schaake and Lyn Smith will start at ends; Co-Capt. Mike McCormack and Bob Talkington, tackles; George Mrkonic and Dolph Simons, guards; Wint Winter at center, Charlie Hoag and Wade Stinson, halfbacks, and Co-capt. John Amberg at full-back. Quarterback Chet Strehlow will engineer the Sikes "T" and is expected to handle the K.U. aerial game.
Texas Is Favored To End Sooners' 23-Game Streak
New York, Oct. 13—(U.P.)—Army's precision-drilled Cadets were rated a 10 point favorite today to preserve their 22 game streak against Michigan Saturday but the oddsmakers predicted disaster ahead for Oklahoma, proud winner of 23 straight football victories. Coming up for Oakland, in its
Coming up for Oklahoma is ns rock - 'em, sock - 'em feud with mighty Texas, played on neutral ground at Dallas, and the Texans were favored by seven points.
The Longhorns from the Lone Star state, conquerers of Purdue two weeks ago, rested last weekend while Oklahoma was clawing from behind to down Texas A. and M. The Sooner streak almost ended right there.
Even with Chuck Ortmann back in the Michigan lineup, the Big 10 co-champs were held no closer than 10 points behind Army, the No. 1 team in the eyes of the United Press coaches rating board.
Eight major intersectional games and vital showdowns in five conference races headline the collegiate football weekend which opens tonight with Illinois a six point favorite to defeat C.U.L.A. at Los Angeles in the top feature.
Notre Dame, whipped by Purdue after 39 straight without defeat, opens a new drive at Tulane as a 13 point favorite, Rice was held at 13 over Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, Purdue was held at 20 over Miami (Fla.) at Lafayette, Ind., Michigan State was rated a 27 point favorite over William and Mary at East Lansing, Mich, and Tulsa was favored by six over Villanova at Tulsa.
the conferences with league records in parentheses:
Big 10—Ohio State (0-0) opens its conference campaign as a 13 point choice at Indiana (1-0); Wisconsin
(1-0) was favored by six at Iowa (0-1); Northwestern (0-0) by seven over Minnesota (0-0) at Evansten, Ill.
Southeastern — Vanderbilt (2-0) was held at seven over Mississippi (0-1) at Vanderbilt on Billy Wade's passing; Georgia (0-4), playing at home, was favored by 13 over Mississippi State (1-0); Louisiana State (0-1), tripped by Kentucky, was favored by 13 to down Georgia Teech (1-0) at Baton Rouge, La., and Florida (0-1) was a 14 point choice over Auburn (0-1). Non-conference: Furman at Alabama Friday night, Cincinnati at Kentucky Saturday night, Chattanooga at Tennessee Saturday.
Southern — North Carolina (1-0)
was the choice by 10 points to check
Wake Forest (2-0) at Chapel Hill,
N.C., and it was Duke (1-0) by 13
over North Carolina State (0-2) at
Raleigh, N.C. in the key games.
Virginia Tech (0-5) plays at George
Washington (2-0) and Davidson
(0-1) at Citadel (0-1).
Pacific Coast—California (1-0) tangles with Southern California at Los Angeles in its first big Rose bowl test as a seven point favorite and Washington (1-0) was favored by 13 at Oregon State. Oregon (0-2) plays at Idaho (0-0). Non-conference: Stanford a 21 point favorite over Santa Clara, Washington State at Montana.