TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1950
Kansas State Historical Society
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By RAY SOLDAN Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The great job of punting turned in by Dolph Simons was somehow overlooked in the excitement of Kansas' thrilling comeback victory over Colorado. Actually Dolph's kicks played a big part in the game.
He boomed three punts for an average of 48.3 yards, an excellent mark. However, this figure doesn't tell the true story. His first punt traveled 60 yards from the 20 to the 20. The second one was booted from the Kansas 39-yard line and went into the Colorado end zone on the first bounce. An automatic touchback placed the ball on the Buff 20, and Simons was credited with a 41-yard kick. His last punt measured 44 yards. Dolph's three punts actually averaged better than 55 yards.
Saturday's effort ran Dolph's season record to 228 yards on five punts for a 45.6-yard average. He averaged 31.7 yards on 18 punts last year.
Bill Rinehart, dubbed "The Toe" by his teammates, also turned in a good kicking job against Colorado. He converted three of three extra point attempts and with them may have won the place-kicking position from sophomore Fox Cashell.
Rinehart was Kansas' place kicker all last year, but he lost his spot this fall to Cashell, who kicks a longer ball. However, Cashell has had trouble straightening out his kicks and Coach J. V. Sikes may decide to turn to his extra-point specialist from Pittsburg to handle every seventh point for the Jayhawkers.
RINEHART
After a slow start last year, Rinehart succeeded on 20 of his last 27 conversions and had a season's mark of 25 for 37. This made the 20-year old fullback K.U.'s second leading scorer for 1949, although he didn't once carry the ball. Only Bud French who sped for 11 touchdowns topped Bill.
Cashell will still take care of the kickoffs. Against the Buffaloes, Fox got off some fine boots which allowed his teammates to swarm down the field and put a quick halt to the kickoff return. His first four kickoffs Saturday averaged to the nine-yard line and were returned an average of nine yards to the 18-yard line. A fifth kick, made after the last Kansas touchdown, raises these figures somewhat because it was a flat kick—intended to be hard to handle so the Buffs couldn't get blocking organized in front of their ball carrier.
The following note, written by a Kansas graduate who now lives in Colorado, was posted in the Jayhawker dressing room all during the past week for the players to see: "I understand at the C.U. quarterback club luncheon yesterday (Oct. 2), Marshall Wells (Colorado line coach who scouted Kansas in the Denver game) said they weren't too concerned about K.U. Said K.U. had no long passing, just fair short passing and extremely poor quarterbacking. They don't know if Hoag can pass."
Kansas of course completed its last three passes—its only completed passes of the day-for 14,24 and 23 yards in the winning touchdown drive.
Colorado Coach Dal Ward praised Sikes and his team following the game: "Jules Sikes is a fine coach, and he has a fine group of players, we really think alot of him. We always enjoy playing Kansas. Of course, I'm disappointed in losing—with a lead like that we should beat Notre Dame."
Bud Wilkinson, Oklahoma's young football coach, said that Texas A. and M. would beat his Sooners last Saturday. Few people believed him, but the Aggies did nearly win. This week when he exercises that very old coaches' perrogative of pessimism and picks the Texas Longhorns to beat his Sooners, he will have alot of followers. Texans just don't get beat two years in a row as have the Longhorns without getting mad, and this year they have the material to do something about it.
KU
When Notre Dame's victory streak was snapped at 39 by Purdue Saturday, Oklahoma became heir presumptive of the longest winning streak in the nation—23 games. Army is a notch behind at 22.
Oklahoma's winning ways go back to the opening game of 1948 when Santa Clara surprised them 20 to 17. In conference play the Seniors have gone 19-consecutive games without defeat. Their last conference defeat was to Kansas in 1946 when Paul Turner's field goal beat them, 16 to 13, with 85 seconds remaining in the game. The only blot on Oklahoma's 19 game conference streak is a 13 to 13 tie with Kansas in 1947.
Kansas Must Stop Weeks To Win
Kansas will face one of the nation's top passers, Bill Weeks, 6-foot 160-pound senior quarterback, when they play Iowa State Saturday at Ames in the Cyclone's homecoming game.
well when he gets the ball in the opponents' secondary. He also is a center on the Iowa State basketball team.
The Cyclones' ace passer will also find good receivers in big Jim Doran, All-Big Seven choice at end last year; sophomore end Bud Voetberg, end Howard Jensen, and Iowa State's sophomore right halfback star, Frank Congiaro.
In 1949, Weeks completed 79 passes for 1247 yards in 9 games to land himself an all-Big Seven berth at the quarterback spot. He will be shooting for All-American honors this year and is rated a good chance of joining this elite group.
Iowa State and Kansas enter the game both resting in first place in the Big Seven standings with one win in as many conference starts. Each team had to make "story book finishes" to beat Colorado at home. Iowa State had to push across two fourth quarters touchdowns to win 14 to 7. Kansas rallied for 27 points in the final 20 minutes Saturday to down the Buffaloes, 27 to 21.
Weeks' favorite target Saturday will be Sy Wilhelmi, 6-foot 5-1inch 198-pound left end. This towering terminal is a fine receiver and runs
The Jayhawkers and Cyclones each have 2-1 season records. Iowa State opened the season with its win over Colorado and then dropped a 23 to 13 game to Northwestern after playing them a 7-7 first half. Last Saturday the Cyclones rolled over Iowa State Teachers college by a 26 to 6 margin in getting ready for this
week's big homecoming game with Kansas.
SONNY WILHELMI Iowa State College
Kansas opened the season by dropping a heartbreaker to Texas Christian university, 14 to 7, after having an 89-yard run by Charlie Hoag erased by a penalty. The Jayhawkers easily rolled over Denver, 46 to 6, in their second game.
Iowa State, with 21 lettermen returning off the 1949 team that tied for third with Nebraska with a 3-3 record, will be out to beat K.U. for the second straight year. They downed the Jayhawkers here last year, 19 to 6. The Cyclones finished the season with a 5-3-1 record.
Although the east wing of Strong hall was completed in 1911, it was seven years more before the west wing was finished. The entire building was not completed until 1923.
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