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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1950
Four Men Seek KU Fullback Spot
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles about the 1950 Kansas football prospects).
A four-way scrap continues right down to the finish line for the starting fullback spot on Coach J. V. Sikes' varsity football team as the squad continues drills in the final week of spring practice.
Saturday's annual intra- squaq game in Memorial stadium may largely determine the way the fullbacks will rank at the start of fall practice. Probably no other position has been so evenly matched this spring as has been the fullback slot.
The furious battle is throwing Johnny Amberg, the compact co-captain elect, against a field of three sophomores, Galen Fass, 211-pound builder, Bud Laughlin, a 200-pounder, and a well built 5-foot 11-inch 190-pounder, Bob Brandeberry.
At first glance it would seem that Amberg should have a couple of lengths head start over the youngsters. However, all four candidates have been running a near dead heat, after shifting up and down the ladder from starter to No. 4 almost every day.
Amberg, a hard - hitting 178- pounder, will carry the inside track next autumn because of his experience. As a sophomore fullback behind Forrest Griffith in 1948, he gained 138 net vards in 40 carries.
During the 1949 season, he played right half until late in the season when he went back to his old slot at full in what Coach Sikes called his "running backfield." His combined efforts at these two spots accounted for 236 yard inches in 42 carriers. He was particularly effective in K.U.'s 27 to 14 win over Nebraska, spearheading the fourth quarter drive for the clinching touchdown.
Fiss and Laughlin are cut from the old-fashioned workhorse mold.
The oaken-legged Fiss already has laid claim to the first string defensive assignment, which he held last year on Don Fambrough's unbeaten freshman squad.
Tabbed as a slow starter, Fiss has shown noticeable improvement in this department since spring drills started. As a matter of fact, he has been running with enough power to force himself into the offensive picture next fall even though he may carry most of the defensive load.
Laughlin is another player that will be hard to keep out of the offensive picture. He runs with fine speed and mobility in the open as well as with bruising power. He is also a creditable linebacker and will help the Jayhawkers strengthen one of their biggest defensive problems encountered during the 1949 season.
Brandeberry was a squad member the past year but did not see a single minute of varsity action. He carries the quickest start of the four and is high in the coaches' book as a ball carrier. He also can lend a hand with the line-backing duties.
A fifth performer in the picture is junior Gene Cox, a sturdy 175-pounder, who missed the past sea-sea accidently because of an ankle injury.
There isn't another spot in Chif Kimsey's backfield as well fortified as fullback, but competition for the halfback spots is almost as intense. On the left side, Charley
Haag seems to hold a slight edge over Henry Lamping's early spring play and the injury jinxed Dean Wells. Lamping is now playing in the outfield for Coach Bill Hogan's baseball club.
Wells, the slender blond who gained Varsity stature the past year with outstanding defensive play, has looked good in offensive play this spring and is expected to play in both departments this fall. He is one of the top broken-field runners on the team and a tough man to haul down in the secondary.
Wade Stinson, the sharp little veteran with speed to burn, is out in front at the right half position, but is being pushed by sophomores-to-be Clarence Cain and Don Clement. Clement was one of the top runners on the undefeated frosh team in 1949 and Cain showed well before being k.o.ed by a leg injury in the Missouri game.
An even more serious threat is Hal Cleavinger, converted fullback, who scored four times in the Jayhawkers' first intra-squad game this spring. Like Wells, Cleavinger has been trying to stay away from the injury jinx, but it has tagged him a couple of times this spring.
Coach Sikes' club unfold one of the best KU. running attacks shown in recent years when they take the Memorial stadium field in the opener against Texas Christian university. Sept. 23, 1950.
If the Jayhawkers line play continues to improve and the passing shows improvement every opponent on the Kansas schedule will know they've been in "a real ball game."
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Jayhawkers To Meet Wildcats In Dual
A track and field meet that pits the Sunflower state's best on the track against its best in the field is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at Manhattan. The Kansas Jayhawkers, specialists on the cinder paths, will meet the Kansas State Wildcats, a team capable of taking first place in every field event but one come the Big Seven meet May 19 and 20
This unusual confinement of strength to their different specialties by the two teams caused Kansas' Coach Bill Easton to say earlier this season, "If we had Kansas State's field men to go with our runners, we could whip any team in the nation!"
Spearheading the Jayhawk team are Capt. Bob Karnes, All-American Pat Bowers, sophomore sensation Herb Semper, and game Cliff Abel. But the Jayhawks also offer top dashmen in little Emil Schutzel and Bob Devinnein, and a good hurdler in Jack Greenwood.
The Manhattan crew presents a stout field team in weightman Rollin Prather, high jumper Virgil Severns, broad jumper Herb Hoskins, and javelin thrower Don Frazier. They are lacking only in the pole vault.
What the K.U. squad has in field events amounts to little compared to the K-State strength. But high jumpers Del Norris and Bill Richardson are not novices. And Coach Easton will put ace Bob Drumm into the javelin, A Bouchard in the broad jump, Jim Floyd in the pole vault, Ed Lee in the shot put, Bob Broady in the discus, and Jim Potts in the javelin and pole vault.
Kansas State's main threat on the track is Earl Elliott, hurdler. His matches against Greenwood in the highs and against Greenwood and Devinney in the lows should be the day's top races.
Coach Easton may field two new
men on his squad—Jerry Waugh, Phog Allen's court veteran who is working out at the dashes, and Bob Kline, a top prospect in the discus who placed in that event in the past year's Big Seven meet. Kline has just turned out for practices only recently and is just getting in shape.
Elliot and Greenwood are old odes. A year ago at the Kansas Relays, Greenwood won the high sticks with Elliott in third place. But in the Jayhawker-Wildcat dual and the Big Seven outdoor it was a different story. The K-State ace won both. At the Big Seven it was a photo finish.
The Wildcats may be without the services of Hoskins, champion of the 1949 Mt. Oread Olympics. He pulled a muscle in this year's Relays in finishing third and didn't compete at Drake a week ago. He has a top-flight running mate in Jim Danielson.
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Both of those marks are better than the existing Big Seven standards. But the shot put measure doesn't exceed the K.U.-Kansas State record of 55 feet 11 inches set by Elmer Hackney, the Wildcat "one-man gang," in 1939.
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HEAD FRESHMAN COACH DON FAMBROUGH, (holding ball) is giving these sophomore-to-be running aces some instructions as to ways of beating the Whites in the annual intrasquad football game to be played at 2 p.m. Saturday in Memorial stadium.
Playing for the Reds will be (left to right) Don Clement, 180-pound right halfback, left halfback Charley Hoag, 190-pound triple-threater, and Galen Fiss, 205-pound bulldozing fullback.
These frosh backs have been impressive this spring and are expected to log plenty of playing time this fall. Hoag and Fiss are going to be hard to keep out of the starting eleven and both are capable of playing on defense as well as offense.
Hoag, Fiss, and Clement played prominent roles on the undefeated 1949 freshman team that downed Missouri, 12 to 7, and rolled over Kansas State yearlings, 25 to 6, to rank as one of the Jayhawkers' top frost clubs of all time.
Coach Fambrough's freshmen used a high-powered ground attack in rolling up 345 yards on Missouri and 386 via the ground route against Kansas State. Hoag and Clement turned in outstanding ball carrying performances in both games while Fiss ran wild against the Wildcats.
Quack Club Ballet Will Be Tonight
High school girls, who saw a "sneak preview" of the ballet at their play-day Saturday, pronounced it "terrific."
Quack club will swim out the calendar year in their water ballet 8 p.m. today in the Robinson gym pool. Each routine represents a different month and groups of various sizes perform the routines.
Women only are invited. Money earned by the admission price of 50 cents each is to be used for the benefit for club members as a group.
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