THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Man From Mars' Mace Is A Key Man In Improving Defense
By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Writer
Probably the outstanding defensive player in last week's heart stopper with Colorado was a 205-pound giant wearing a "Man from Mars" head gear who arrived on the K.U. campus via a junior college and the University of California.
The lad with the fantastic helmet is Bill "Bear" Mace who turned in as fine a defensive game as has been seen in Memorial stadium in many a day. In the words of Coach J.V. Sikes he was, "Great, just great."
Uncle Sam claimed Bill upon graduation and the next 32 months
BILL MACE
were spent in the navy with 22 months overseas in the South Pacific. It was while in the navy that he suffered the head injury which makes it necessary for him to wear the heavily cushioned helmet.
Mace's ship, a navy transport, was lying still and
a bunch of the boys were swimming. One of Bill's buddies dove from the ship 60 feet into the water. When he got back up on deck he dared Bill to do it.
"Right then I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life," Bill says. "I sailed off that ship and hit the water like a concrete block. Ever since then I have been bothered some by recurrences of that injury."
After receiving his discharge Mace returned to Coffeyville and played two years for the Coffeyville Junior College Red Ravens. While there he returned to his old high school position, fullback, on offense and backed up the line on defense. The Red Ravens won the Kansas championship one year and were runner-ups the next while Bill was playing. Bill's senior year was the first year that a junior college All-American was picked and he was tabbed as first string fullback. He was also picked by the girls of Pasadena, California as the junior college football player they would most like to date.
Bill decided to enroll in the University of California at the close of his junior college career so he entered summer school there. However after driving home from Berkeley at the close of the summer session he decided it was too far so he enrolled in K.U.
After playing three games in 1948 Bill was declared ineligible as the result of a letter from a non-conference school squawking about his trip to California. After forcing Mace to ride the bench all year the powers that be reconsidered and gave him his two years of playing time back and this year marks the last of these.
The game that thrilled Bill more than any other since he has been at K.U. was last year's harum-scarum affair with Missouri which the Tigers finally won 34 to 28.
"Coming from behind and going ahead of Missouri in the second half was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me in college football." is the way Bill puts it.
Of this year's Jayhawk eleven Mace has this to say "I think we have a good ball club. I'm not going to say we will win the conference or anything but it will be a long afternoon for anyone we meet.
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I-M Schedule
FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE
Fraternity "A"
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Beta vs. Triangle
Kappa Sig vs. A, Phi A
Phi Gam vs. Lambda Chi
TKE vs. Acacia.
Sig Ep vs. Delta Chi.
Delts vs. A, E. Pi.
Five Of Six I-M Games Are Shutouts
By RANDALL BARRON
Intramural Writer
One - sided scores again featured Wednesday's intramural games. In five of the six fraternity "B" games the losers were held scoreless. The ATO team
was the only losing team which
roared as it lost to the Sigma
Chi's, 37 to 7.
Phi Gam, Sig Ep, Phi Psi, Beta and Phi Delt were the unscored on victors in the other games.
Sigma Chi 31, ATO 7
Mahon Ball threw a pass to Jim Hershberger on the old "sleeper" play for the first Sigma Chi score. Sigma Chi scored two safeties in the first half and cut loose for four touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Steve Mill's interception of an ATO pass for a touchdown highlighted the drive.
Art Smith, outstanding ATO line-
man, ran back Ball's intercepted
pass for the only ATO score.
Phi Delt 37, Sigma Pi 0
Chuck Owen intercepted a Sigma Nu pass in the first quarter and ran 10 yards for the first Sig Ep six-pointer. Dean Glasco kicked the extra point.
Sig Ep 19, Sigma Nu 0
The Phi Delt team scored three times in the opening quarter, twice in the third, and once in the fourth as it rolled to an easy win over Sigma Pi.
"Beeb'e" Haverty tossed a second-quarter pass to Doug Fenity for the second Sig Ep touchdown. The Haverty-Fenity passing combination clicked again in the fourth quarter for the final score of the
game. Glasco's try for the point was blocked.
Blaine Scheideman threw five scoring passes for the Phi Delts. Charlie Appling scored two Phi Delt touchdowns and passed for another. Fred Six and Buddy Jones stood out in line play for the Phi Delts. The Sigma Pi team never threatened.
Phi Gam 38. SAE 0
The Phi Gams ran rough-shod over the Sig Alphs who have yet to score a point in two games.
Tom Payne caught three touchdown passes to lead the Phi Gam scoring. Hervey McFerran, Bob Roth, and Woody Davis also joined in the pass-catching parade with one touchdown each. Bill Porter and Bill Mitchener were on the throwing end of the Phi Gam passing attack.
Phi Psi 12, Kappa Sig 0
Phi Psi won its second game without defeat by dint of scoring passes in the first and fourth quarters.
Beta 6, D Tau D 0
This was by far the closest game of the afternoon. The Betas scored early in the first quarter on a Bob Dunne to Wayne Attwood pass but failed to get by the tight Delt defense for the remainder of the contest.
Lawrence High Plays Shawnee Mission Tonight At Haskell In Top Prep Game
High school football fans will be treated to one of the state's top games when Lawrence and Shawnee-Mission, both undefeated, meet at 8 p.m. at Haskell stadium in a game that will probably decide the Northeast Kansas league title.
In the Associated press poll this week, Lawrence was rated in a first place tie in the state rankings with Wichita North with Shawnee-Mission sixth. But in the Topeka Capital ratings Shawnee is first and Lawrence fifth.
Coach Harold Reade's Indians have been scored on only once in beating Southwest 21 to 0, Wyandotte 18-6, and formerly unbeaten Argentine 18 to 0. Lawrence beat Manhattan, Central Kansas league title favorites, 26 to 12 in its opener, then settled for a 7 to 7 tie with unbeaten Topeka on a 100-yard fourth quarter pass interception
Ed Grandle and Neil McNeill were outstanding in lineplay for the winners.
The game looms as about a toss-up. Shawnee-Mission has a fast backfield, good reserve strength and each of its victories has been at least as impressive as the score lindcates. Shawnee will be seeking its first victory over Lawrence since the first meeting in 1941. Since then in eight games Lawrence has won seven, with a tie in 1944. Lawrence has won or tied for eight, straight league championships.
return by a sub Topeka quarterback.
The Lions easily ran over Atchison
35 to 6 in their opener opener last
week.
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Since coming to K.U. Bill has been used at fullback, center, guard and tackle, in addition to his linebacking chores. At present he is playing offensive right tackle and defensive left guard and right linebacker. He is used mostly on defense however and likes linebacking better than any other position he has ever played.
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Bill thinks Charlie Hoag's kickoff return in the third quarter of last Saturday's game was the turning point that enabled the Jayhawker's to go ahead and beat the Buffs.
In addition to lettering in football last year Mace earned a "K" in baseball. He started the season as an outfielder but ended the year behind the plate catching. He also played semi-pro ball with the Lawrence Colts this summer while he was employed at the Lawrence Paper Company.
Bill is 25-years old, stands 6 feet tall, and is married. He is a senior in education and will graduate this spring. Upon graduation he plans to coach and teach.
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