TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1950
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
The Denver-Kansas game provided a proving grounds for 21 sophomores on the 38-player traveling squad. The Jayhawkers' 46 to 6 victory allowed Coach J. V. Sikes to send into action 10 sophomores for their initial college competition. The remaining 11 saw considerable action to go along with their opening game experience gained in the Texas Christian university game.
A glance at K.U. team and individual statistics against Denver reveals several interesting facts. For the second straight game, K.U.'s ground attack over-balanced its passing game . . . Kansas picked up 450 yards rushing to 73 yards through the airways . . . Against T.C.U., K.U. gained 183 yards rushing to 104 in the air.
The Jayhawkers' two-game average is 316.5 yards rushing to a mere 88.5 yards passing. This is a direct contrast to the offensive pattern K.U. used in 1948 and 1949 . . . Twenty-six of K.U.'s 36 first downs have come by rushing with only nine earned through the air.
JOHN AMBERG
LAUGHLIN
MURPHY
GISH
Five Kansas backs, including three sophomores, scored touchdowns against Denver. This well-balanced scoring indicates that Kansas is more than a one, two, or even three-man team.
On the 16th play of the game, John Amberg crashed over from 2-yard line to climax a 75-yard drive for Kansas' No. 1 touchdown. Two plays later Wade Stinson scored from the 4-yard line for No. 2. At the start of the second quarter, Amberg broke through the line and outdistanced the Denver secondary 61 yards to score.
Early in the third period, Bill Schaake scored td. No. 4 by gathering a deflected pass from Chet Strethow that covered 36 yards. Late in the same quarter, K.U.'s running sensation, Charlie Hoag, scored on a 6-yard plunge over left guard.
Touchdowns No. 6 and 7 were scored by sophomores Pat Murphy, left halfback, and Bud Laughlin, fullback, with each playing his first college football. Murphy scored from the 1-yard line on the second play of the fourth period. Laughlin bolted through the line and raced 64 yards to score with three minutes gone in the fourth quarter.
After Bill Mace punted out on the Denver 2-yard line, Merlin Gish, K.U.'s outstanding sophomore linebacker, spilled end Gordon Cooper in the end zone for the Jayhawkers' final two points of the game. . Gish's defensive work against the Pioneers was one of the game's bright spots. . He tackled hard in closing up would-be holes in the Kansas line with his effective linebacking.
Laughlin's running highlighted the K.U. win This 200-pound bulldozer picked up 121 yards in six carriers for an average of 20 yards per carry . . . Besides his 64-yard touchdown run, he almost scored on another 39-yard dash. . . The second best ball carrier was Amberg with 107 yards in 11 attempts . . .
Hoag turned in the third best total in picking up 87 yards on 15
stries. . Stinson averaged almost six yards a carry in gaining 63
yards on 11 carries. . Murphy gained 25 yards on four carries
including one touchdown. . Bob McMullen and Don Clement, soph-
more halfbacks, carried well in their first college assignments.
Two more fine ball carriers have seen limited service thus far. They are sophomores, fullback Galen Fiss and halfback Hal Cleawinger. At present, these talented players are being used almost strictly on defense, but can be counted on to really pick up the yardage when they get the "green light" on the offense.
The Jayhawkers' first two games have clearly indicated that Kansas has the best overall running attack since the Orange bowl team of 1947.
Here is a rundown on K.U.'s top four ball carriers for two games: Hoag leads the field with 188 yards on 32 carries for an average of 5.9 yards each trip. . . The No. 2 runner is Co-capt. Amberg with 143 yards on 17 carries for an average of 8.4 yards per carry . . . Although he didn't see action in K.U.'s opener against T.C.U., Laughlin is the third ranking ground gainer with 121 yards in six carries for a 20 yard average. . . The No. 4 man in rushing is hard-hitting Stinson with 103 yards in 25 carries for a 4.1 average each carry.
These above mentioned backs can go all the way anytime they get the ball, and should provide as good, if not better, a running attack as any Big Seven team.
The K.U. passing attack must definitely improve to stay anywhere close to the ground attack and give Kansas a double-barrel offense.
Ken Heintzelman May Pitch Opening Game For Phillies
Philadelphia, Oct. 3—(U.P.)—Leathery old Ken Heintzelman, a consistent failure with a team that was consistently successful, is likely to be Manager Eddie Sawyer's surprise choice today to open the World series for the Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Yankees Wednesday.
Such a selection would be the most unusual since another Philadelphia manager, Connie Mack, stunned the baseball world, starting supposed has-been, Howard Ehmke, in the 1929 World series for the Athletics against the Cubs.
Ehnke, in turn, stunned Mack's critics by setting an all-time World series strike out mark of 13 in the last big league game he ever pitched.
Sawyer said he would name his pitcher today and the betting was good that it would be Heintzelman—who won just three games all year ong.
For the Yankees, it was definite that Manager Casey Stengel would go with his 21-game winner, big Vic Raschi, who had exactly seven times as many victories as Hentzelman. Not only did Stengel name Raschi for the opener, but he also picked Allie Reynolds for the Thursday game in Philadelphia and Lefty Ed Lopat for the opening game in New York's Yankee stadium on Friday.
That Sawyer would go with a man who on the record is so undependable as Heintzelman, made good sense. For the prematurely gray southpaw from the "little Dixie" town of Pereque, Mo., has just the type of pitching repertoire that has given the Yankee batters capital letter trouble the entire year.
He throws soft curves, a rinky-dink slider, and a fast ball that doesn't even make a loud thwack in catcher Andy Seminick's mitt. But he has good control, he is a steady veteran, and the swing-from-the-toes Yankee batters just haven't been able to get their timing right against guys of his stripe.
Even the cagey Stengel said he fully expected Sawyer to use Heintzelman "in either the first or second games."
"Those kind of guys have ruined us," he said. "Take that lefty Stubby Overmire of the St. Louis Browns. He beat us three times and then one day we got real lucky and beat him 1 to 0."
The Yankee Clipper, Jolin't Joe Dic Maggio, whose bat caught fire
Notre Dame Heads United Press List
New York, Oct. 3—(U.P.)The second weekly ratings of the United Press football coaches board (number of first place votes in parenthesis):
Team Points
1—Notre Dame (17) 291
2—Army (8) 255
3—Michigan State (5) 235
4—Southern Methodist (2) 206
5—Oklahoma (3) 108
6—Texas 128
7-California 186
8-Kentucky 83
9-Stanford 78
10-U.C.L.A. 65
Second 10— Cornell, 44; Michigan, 43; Duke, 40; Alabama, 35; Iowa and North Carolina, 28 each; Illinois, 21; Washington, 19; Princeton, 16; Tennessee, 10.
A meeting of Varsity golf candidates has been set for 7 p.m. Wednesday by Coach Bill Winey. The meeting will be held in 206 Robinson gymnasium.
FLYING?
No golf is scheduled for this fall, but attendance at this meeting is important, Winey said. Those unable to attend should make some arrangement to have their name put on the Varsity roster.
Golf Meeting Set For Wednesday
See
The Jayhawkers won the Big Seven golf title in 1950 and placed ninth in the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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belatedly in the stretch run, with an average near .400 for the final six weeks, just hates "Dump Chuckers" like Heinzzelman.
Sawyer said Heintzelman definitely would be used in the series but that he hadn't made up his mind just when. If he doesn't go with him in the opener, he will almost certainly bank on strong-armed Robin Roberts, his right-handed bonus "beauty" who pitched three games in the final days of the season, and who won the clincher on Sunday, a five-hit, 4 to 1, brilliant job against the Dodgers in Brooklyn.
But Roberts, rebounding for one supreme effort, came through to win his 20th game after failing five times previously to achieve that milestone.
The kid Phillies, who took it easy all day Monday after a victory celebration that gave some of them the first hangover of their young lives, were to work out at Shibe park after Sawyer names his pitcher today.
The contemptuous Yankees disdained the usual pre-World series workout in the opposition park. They had a workout Monday in New York and another one was scheduled today after which the Bombers will pack their long range guns and head for the dingy little park in the north end of town.
Warm Indian summer weather was expected to prevail for at least the opening game and probably for both of the contests here. The long range forecast was for fair and warm weather with some cloudiness Wednesday afternoon.
The madness that overtook this staid metropolis on Sunday night when the Phillies clinched their first flag in 35 years had only partly subsided today.
Today's Intramural Football Schedule
Field:
1. Beta vs. Lambda Chi
2. Kappa Sig vs. Triangle
3. Phi Gams vs. A Phi A
4. TKE vs. A E Pi
5: Sig Eps vs. Acacia
7. Delta vs. Delta Chi
Monday's games were postponed because of wet grounds. They will be made up on Friday.
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