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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1950
Ends Are Not 1950 Question Mark
The same corps of ends that was tabbed as questionable this time last year is becoming increasingly important in Kansas' 1950 football blue-print.
The Jayhawkers opened the 1949 season against Texas Christian with satisfactory end play their biggest worry. They will meet the Horned Frogs here September 23 with the terminals as strong as any position on the club.
High improvement throughout the past season by four performers, Aubrey Linville, Bill Schake, Chuck O'Neal, and Lyn Smith, plus the comeback of Orbon Tice, who lettered as a freshman in 1946, have wrought this wide change. Linville and Schake were playing their first varsity season last year and Smith and O'Neal both were unlettered when they reported. All four proved their right to Big Seven status while Tice gradually shook the rust which had accumulated over a two-year layoff.
This is the quintet that will carry most of the load this autumn with occasional aid from sophomores Duane Unruh the 175-pound Clay Center swifty, and Lyman "Buzz" Frasier, of Silver Springs, Md. None of the septet can be called brilliant, but each has shown enough during the steaming early days of practice to please even Head Coach J. V. Sikes, a one-time all-West wingman himself at Texas A. & M., who later made a habit of turning out all-Americans at Georgia.
As a matter of fact, Sikes, an End Coach Wayne Replogle think so well of them, that at least three may be handed additional responsibilities this season. Sikes is toying with the idea of using Linville, O'Neal as defensive halfbacks. Linville, from Salina, has shown particular adaptability on pass defense and secondary tackling.
Plating ends in the tertiary isn't anything new in Big Seven football since Oklahoma employed Jack Lockett there last year. But nobody yet has used two or three concurrently as Sikes has done during short periods of scrimmage.
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Sikes also is giving four guards, George Kennard, lettered junior; junior squadman Rw White, and sophomores Art Spratt and Jack Luschen trials at defensive end. This would be a bizarre alignment indeed, but the head man doesn't care if it will improve a Jayhawk defense that was the most porous in the conference last year.
The jury is still out on the guard-to-end maneuver, but the wingmen look like they will make it.
"We are simply experimenting with these two changes," Sikes explains. "Of course, we don't know how they are going to work out but it won't take long to find out. We have plenty of problems and will try to solve some of them by getting the most out of our personnel even though it means a lot of shifting."
Off the basis of their early shining in practice, the ends also may be due for another change which would be abolition of the platoon system that Sikes employed last year. Tice and O'Neal went almost the way on defense through 1940 with the Army. Schaake carrying the offensive load. Now all five are ticketed for reversable jobs.
This may make the scrap for team pass receiving honors even tighter. Smith finished strong to win this derby last year in somewhat of a surprise by latching 20 heaves for 358 yards, good enough for third place on the conference tables. Schaake despite a late start, caught 22 for 344 yards in addition to setting two new records against Oklahoma A. & M. and was fourth in the league standings. Linville's 276 yards on 17 hooks was good enough for sixth among loop leaders.
With quarterback Jerry Bogue returning to throw it doesn't take Knute Rockne to figure the Mount Oreadans again are likely to move best by air in 1950.
The most worrisome factor, improved defense, which the ends must contribute along with every other position, won't have to wait long for a major test. T.C.U. is being tabbed as at least the Southwest's third-best club.
Find Huge Snake Fossil
St. Charles, Va—(U.P.)—Fossilized remains of a prehistoric monster snake were discovered in a mining stream here. A bulldozer being used in strip-mining operations turned up the snake fossil. It measures 20 feet in length and eight to 10 inches in diameter.
Before it reaches Pittsburgh, the entire flow of the Monongahela river is used 19 times for cooling purposes by the steel mills and other industries located along its banks.
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