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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950
THREE REMAIN of the speedy Jayhawker quintet that raced to the 1949 Big Seven cross-country championship. Returning to bid for a fourth straight crown are, from left to right, Herb Semper, Forest Park, Ill., junior, who is the reigning conference king in the indoor and outdoor two-mile races, and who also owns the league records for those events; Cliff Abel, Perry senior, who has led the squad in workouts this fall; and Dave Breidenthal, Kansas City, Mo., senior, who is a veteran of two championship outfits.
Lost through graduation are Bob Karnes (fourth from left) and Pat Bowers (extreme left)—the famed twin engines of the K.U. team. Their loss leaves two huge vacancies for sophomores to fill.
KU Two-Milers Prepare For Season Opener Oct.21
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Bv ART SCHAAF
A Nebraska Cornhusker invasion of Memorial stadium on Saturday, Oct. 21 is the chief concern of track coach Bill Easton and his squad of 10 distance runners as they train for the first cross-country race on the Jayhawker schedule.
The Nebraskans in recent years have been weakest in the long distance runs, but have been strong enough in the field events, sprints, and hurdles to make them a power in the regular indoor and outdoor track and field competition during the spring semesters. The Cornhuskers piled up enough points in the above mentioned events to win the Big Seven indoor championship in 1949 and the outdoor crown the past spring, but their distance runners have not been threats in the fall two-mile competition.
The current campaign should bring a considerable improvement of the Cornhusker harrier fortunes. Returning to the squad are veterans Esrif Aydin who finished ninth in last year's conference race; Dean Barnell, 26th; Blaine Runner, 31st; and Terry Gillies, the greatest boost to the Cornhuskers are sophomores who last year led the Nebraska freshman team to a second place finish in the conference freshmen telegraphic meet.
Newcomers Wayne Judds, third in the freshman meet; Bob Kissinger, sixth; and Hobe Jones, seventh are the runners who Nebraska coach Ed Wier is counting on to build his distance corps to the prominence it held in the pre-World War II days when little Bobby Ginn was king of the college milers.
Low score wins in cross-country races, with only the first four men on each team included in the scoring. Score is computed by adding the place finish of the first four men on each team—one point for first place, two points for second, etc. A perfect score, or big slam, is 10 to 30—that is, one five man team wins the first five places.
Coach Easton has been holding time trials for his runners each week-end over the cross-country layout on the campus, but Oct. 6 he held the trials on the cinders of Memorial stadium where the actual races will be held. Easton ran the freshmen with the Varsity to give them race experience. Varsity veteran Cliff Abel led the field to the tape, closely followed by freshman star Wesley Santee. Abel's time was 9:51.5—a good early season performance.
Big Seven indoor and outdoor
champion and record holder Herb Semper was third in the race. The chunky Forest Park, Ill., junior is at present bothered by 12 pounds of extra weight which slows him considerably. Semper expects to be down to his running weight of 150 pounds in time for the Nebraska invasion.
Dave Breidental, Kansas City, Mo. senior letterman, is starting his third season as a K.U. cross-country team member. Breidental has been slow in rounding into shape this fall, but should be ready to go against the Nebraskans.
Two promising sophomore runners from the 1949 freshmen squad are Bill Farney, Hutchinson; and Keith Palmquist from Minneapolis, Minn. With continuing improvement Easton expects this pair to go a long way toward filling the gap left by the graduation of Bob Karnes, three-time Big Seven cross-country champion, and his running mate, all-American half-miler Pat Bowers.
The Jayhawker 1050 schedule is as follows: On Saturday, Oct. 21 Nebraska is here, with the race beginning at 11 a.m. to avoid conflict with the Oklahoma A. and M. football game. Friday, Oct. 27 Kansas travels to Manhattan for a duel with Kansas State. The Oklahoma Sooners are in Lawrence on Saturday, Nov. 4 for a duel meet, and on Saturation Colorado and Kansas invade Columbia. The Angular meet with the Tigers. On Saturday, Nov. 18 all seven of the conference squads congregate in Lawrence for the Big Seven championship meet in Memorial stadium. Monday, Nov. 27 Easton's crew will compete in the National Collegiate cross-country championships at East Lansing, Mich.
Rounding out Easton's probable starting team is Dave Fisher, junior from Mission, who is a regular season quarter and half miler. Fisher will stretch out to the two-mile distance if any of the other five falters. Other squad members are Paul Ayward, junior from Ellsworth; Leon Leen, senior from Dunlap; Roland Cain, a Coffeyville Junior college transfer from Sedan; and Dick Callebresi.
1949 Champion Dix Wins Its First Game
By DAVE TODD Intramural Writer
The Dix club, 1949 Independent champion, and Don Henry Co-op ran up one-sided scores against their opponents in Monday's intramural play. Navy, Oread, and AFROTC also scored victories in Independent "A" play.
Dix—38. Unknowns—0
Dix ran roughshod over the Unkowns to swamp them, 38 to 0. Two kicks and one intercepted pass were returned for touchdowns in the rout. Blocking by the Dix club was good, and allowed for three more touchdowns.
Frank Koenig played an outstanding game for Dix, converting two extra points, and making consistently long kickoffs. Jerry Punteney scored a pair of touchdowns to be high scorer for the Dix club. Koenig carried the ball over for a T.D., and also had two extra points to his credit. Lou Ferguson, quarterback, and Carl Engwall, end, each tallied six points.
Don Henry----25. Y.M.C.A.----0
ruh intercepted a Navy pass on Navy's 15-yard line and scored.
Navy-12. Battenfeld-6
Y. M.C.A. suffered a smashing defeat from the accurate passing of the Don Henry's touchdown, 25 to 0. All four of Don Henry's touchdowns were scored by aerials. Y.M.C.A. seemed unable to stop the attack which penetrated their end zone so regularly. Don Henry started strong in the first quarter of the tussel, scoring 13 points, Gordon Jarchow heaved the pigskin to Haney for one T.D. A few minutes later, Jarchow's pass connected with Charles Shara for another tally. The extra point was good. Unruh then took over the passing duties of the Don Henry team and threw the ball into the arms of Jarchow, in the second period, and Gish in the third quarter, for a pair of T.D.s.
The one game Monday which provided spectators with thrills was the fight between Navy and Battenfeld, with Navy coming out on top, to 12 to 6. Battenfeld gained an early lead in the game when Gene Un-
Navy retaliated in the second period with Gillette blocking a kick on Battenfeld's two-yard-line. Jenkins passed to Johnson in the end zone for the first T.D. Late in the third quarter, the Jenkins-Gillette combination worked once again, with a pass from Navy's 10-yard strip to Gillette on the 40. Gillette then galloped all the way for the last touchdown of the game. Battenfeld continued to give Navy something to worry about, however, by driving to Navy's 12 in the second stanza, and deep into Navy territory in the third quarter. Wearies of Battenfield intercepted a Navy pass to stop a last minute drive.
Oread—6. A.I.E.E.—0
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Oread hall eked out a 6 to 0 win over A.I.E. in another close game. The game was void of much action, with most of the play centered around the 50-yard marker. The spark of the Oread squad was Angell, who performed some remarkable running. He also scored the only touchdown of the game by returning an A.I.E. punt 50 yards, through the entire opposing team.
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Sterling-Oliver and the Air Force have on even terms for a 0 to 0 tie at the end of the regulation four quarters of play. The rules call for each team to have possession of the pigskin for four downs—the team making the most yards is the winner, 1 to 0.
Stering-Oliver's attempt to gain yardage resulted in the loss of 13. AFROTC then took over. It also had trouble, but held its losses to a minus six yards to edge Sterling.
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