PAGE FOUR UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY,OCTOBER 9,1950 Along the JAYHAWKER trail By RAY SOLDAN Daily Kansan Sports Editor The whole story of Kansas' amazing comeback victory over the Colorado Buffalooes Saturday can be told in two words: team play. Everyone on the K.U. team was a standout during the final 27-point 20 minutes. It's difficult to single out for special mention the outstanding and unusual plays in a game which had so many, but here are a few of the more prominent notations in my scorebook: In the first half Merwin Hodel gained 98 yards rushing for the Buffs—exactly the amount gained by the whole Kansas team. He soored both of Colorado's first half touchdowns—his fourth and fifth of the season. Kansas' blocking and tackling was good in the last 20 minutes, after a hard-charging Buff line had controlled the game up to that time. Linebacker-guard Bill Mace played an outstanding game all the way through, but until Hoag's 86-yard run lit the fire, he and Big Mike McCormack were the only consistent performers Kansas had. Sophomores Merlin Gish, Galen Fiss, and George Mrkonic were defensive stars in the Jayhawker's late surge. GISH BILL MACE Good blocks were a common thing Saturday. Hoag took out two Buffs at one crack to aid a 40-yard, second-quarter gallop by Wade Stinson. He was shaken up on the play, but stayed in the game. Fox Cashell laid the final and key block, "one of the best blocks I've ever made," on Hoag's all-the-way kickoff return. Chet Strehlow and Lyn Smith also chipped in important blocks to break Hoag loose. Johnny Amberg took out the final man as Stinson sped around left end for K.U.'s second score. MRKONIC Cashell, whose father came up from Longview, Texas, to see the game, made a game-saving tackle on the Buff's slippery sophomore, Woody Shelton, with seven minutes left. With the score 21 to 20 Colorado took a handoff and raced into the Kansas secondary. He had severel blockers in front of him if he would have used them, but he didn't cut just right and Cashell nailed him. Shelton just missed being a Colorado hero another time. On the last play of the game, he took a short pass from Zack Jordan and zig-zagged 41 yards before three Kansans finally downed him on the K.U. 32. Several times it looked as if Shelton could go all the way, but each time he lacked just one block, and thus was slowed up until finally the trio of Jayhawkers hemmed him in. Collaborating on the game-ending tackle were Hoag, Gish, and Fiss. At the final gun, Jayhawker Coach J. V. Sikes started across the field to extend his best wishes to Dal Ward, the Colorado coach. But Sikes never got there. His Jayhawker players intercepted him near the center of the field and carried him to the drssing room. And th K.U. band paraded up and down the field for more than 10 minutes after the game. Cliff Vandeverenter, who played a prominent part in the Buff pass defense which held Kansas without a completion in the first half, was injured on the second play of the second half. A Colorado player I talked with said that "Vandy's" loss ruined their defense and that K.U. wouldn't have won if he'd been in the game. "That lost the game for us," seconded Coach Ward. The consensus of the Colorado players was that Stinson was Kansas' best all-around back. And that Hoag was an exceptionally fine blocker, and a good runner, but not as hard a runner as Stinson. They agreed that it was Hoag's run that set the Jayhawkers off. Ward gave his kicker instructions to keep the ball way from Hoag, respecting his ability as a broken-field runner. As a result the first four Colorado kickoffs were angled toward the sidelines and were rather short—fielded on the K.U. 34, 12, 28 (out of bounds), and 26. The Buff coach seemed to know what he was doing because, contrary to his instructions, the fifth Buff kick sailed right to Hoag and he raced untouched for Kansas' opening score. Following the Jayhawker's winning touchdown, Cashell kicked off to Colorado with the ball laid flat on the ground. This was to make the ball harder to handle and lessen the chance of a long runback. Look Out For Nebraska, Experts Warn Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 9—(U.P.) Having surveyed the results of football competition as applied to big seven teams to date, this department is reminded today of the fact that, while Missouri was picked as the No.2 team in the conference, Nebraska rated more first place votes by the coaches than did the Tigers. That pre-season balloting took place here at the coaches meeting in mid-August. Whoever those coaches were who cast their first choice for Bill Glassford's Huskers begin to appear more and more as if they had mastered the art of reading tea leaves. Not that Nebraska, at this juncture, looks like the conference winner. But it is beginning to assume significance of the challenger of Oklahoma. That was the role to which Missouri was dedicated. Then Kansas was right in there, too, with Nebraska as the dark horse. Currently Missouri appears hardly of challenge, and they have gone against two clubs in Clemson and SMU which probably will rate quite highly nationally come Turkey day. Kansas will do a lot of damage but, unless Charlie Hoag gets to grabbing the leather more tightly, it may not reach its full potential this year. Which makes the Nebraska challenge appear more likely, particularly in view of the young Huskers' two games to date. Saturday the Huskers beat Minnesota, at Minneapolis, 32 to 26. That was the first time a Nebraska team has turned that trick since 1904. Bob Reynolds, the 175-pound sophomore, looked sharp again. Oklahoma took a hurdle which Coach Bud Wilkinson has been worrying about—and rightly so—when the Sooners drove 69 yards in the last two minutes to beat Texas A. & M. 34 to 28 with just 37 seconds remaining. Leon Heath carried a tackler across the double-stripe as he hit for that one. That touchdown followed one less than four minutes from the finish mark which whittled the Texas A. & M. lead to a single point. It was victory No. 23 in a row for Oklahoma. Missouri remained in its touchdown famine, although playing a better game against SMU than it did against Clemson. SMU ran far ahead in the statistics chart in winning 21 to 0 from the Tigers. Kansas State continued to sag with a 46 to 6 defeat at the hands of Marquette and Iowa State won 26 to 6 from Iowa State teachers. Notre Dame, Leahy Licked, Next Comes Death, Taxes New York, Oct. 9—(U.P.)-And now that we've licked Notre Dame, what about death and taxes? Surely nothing was inevitable today after the Irish football supremacy was dragged into the mire by a Purdue team which already was licked once this season. The 28 to 14 upset snapped the Notre Dame string at 39 games without a defeat—and, even more, it puffed out of existence the aura of invincibility which formed around this team since it was last beaten in 1945 by Great Lakes Naval Training station. The Notre Dame string, marked by ties with Army in 1946 and Southern California in 1948, was by no means football's longest. Washington went 58 games without loss (three ties) from 1908 to 1916. And as recently as 1948, Missouri Valley of Marshall, Mo., completed a 41-game winning streak without any ties. How did it happen—this upset of upsets? "They came here to beat us" Coach Frank Leahy said at South Bend. "and they did. We were outcoached and outplayed—but not outfought." Coach Stu Holcomb of victorious Purdue said "Dale Summers stood up smiling under that pressure and played a wonderful game." Sophomore Samuels' passing out-distanced N.D.'s Bob Williams, 185 yards to 46 in the air. While the Notre Dame dame rocked the football world on what was once its foundation, Oklahoma saved its 23-game victory string by scoring a touchdown in the last 37 seconds of play. That beat Texas A&M, 34 to 28. Army made it 22 without a loss by bawling Penn State, 41 to 7. Patronize Kansan Advertisers -SAMPLES- "Jewelers For Jayhawks" 914 Mass. Phone 368 We maintain a modern up-to-date repair department to handle your needs promptly in— - Watch Repair - Diamond Setting - Jewelry Repair - Clock Repair - Free Estimates While You Wait - C3