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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOV. 15, 1949
Two-Pronged Air Attack Pays Off
Most of the coaching fraternity will tell you there's nothing new off the T-formation. Show them flanking or splitting variations and they'll tell you they've seen it before. However, Kansas ringmaster J. V. Sikes has come up with a genuine eye-opener in his double quarter-back alignment.
Shooting two quarters at the opposition simultaneously is odd enough. The fact that one of them is employed as the club's top passing threat from fullback is the real brain-prodder. If there's another T-club in America using this deployment with such abandon, let it step forward. Halfbacks often are employed for aerial thrusts off the T but a flinging fullback is more than a collegiate field goal.
Featured in this double exposure are Jerry Bogue, sophomore quarterback, and Dick Gilman, last year's all-Big Seven signal-caller who now is first string fullback.
Here is the way they work. . . Bogue plays it like a regulation T-formation quarter, spinning, faking and handling off. He'll throw himself and has become masterful on Sikes' now famous bootleg swing which is a run-pass option.
Gilman can drift either way from his middle spot in the Jayhawker backline after taking a pitch-out from Bogue. He also is allowed to run if the situation takes shape to his liking.
Jayhawker patrons almost fell out of their seats when Sikes unveiled his twin-bladed passing unit in the final quarter against George Washington. "How can they run off that", was the no. 1 question.
The "new" Jayhawkers quickly wiped out the skeptics. In five plays they manufactured the winning touchdown against the Colonials with Gilman hitting passes twice from his new spot, and Bogue elbowing the clincher to end Bill Schaake.
Since that quarter Kansas has been on the upgrade, winning three in a row and four of its last five games. The backfield switch has been the big reason for the club's overnight change from a stumbling start to a poised confident outfit.
Since beating G.W., 21-14 here on October 8, K.U. also has victimized Oklahoma A. & M., 55 to 14, Kansas Stake, 38 to 0, and Nebraska, 27 to 13. Only loss since the change was a 26 to 48 thumping by mighty Oklahoma and Kansas actually came out of this one looking pretty good. This point total is the most a Big Seven team has scored on the craggy Sooners in eight seasons. The Jayhawkers were supposed to go down by 34.
Gilman, the B-29, drops his lofts in with altitudinous artistry. He is second among league passers with 744 yards in 41 completions on 101 heaves. He ranks sixteenth nationally in total offense. Bogue, the P-38, buzzes his swift throws in a low trajectory just above or through the secondary. He is fifth among conference peggers at 447 and the only sophomore in the top seven.
Although trailing Iowa State on the conference tables, Kansas passing has hit an all-time high of 1222 yards, and there are still two games to go. Ten flips have paid off in touchdowns.
The Winners -
CARL'S 'PICKEM'
CONTEST
Week of Nov. 12
First place—Harry Kirshner
Second place—E. P. Gerharter
Third place—Rita Carl
Fourth place—Natalie Delord
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Sikes' imaginative grid brain has set forth other benefits. He had the courage to shift Forrest Griffith, two-time all-league fullback, to left half. The mobile blaster is running better than ever from his new post. He moved John Amberg over from right half and the hard-hitting junior has responded with knockout blows in the last three games. Against Kansas State he put the game on ice with a 29-yard touch-down spurt off tackle in the final minute of the third period. Against A.A.M. he mowed 57 yards spear-heading K.U.'s two closing touch-down drives in the final quarter. Against Nebraska he set up the final counter with bolts of 12 and 18 vards up the middle.
Another cagey shift was that which sent Mike McCormack, 228-pound right tackle, to defensive guard. The big junior has been playing all-conference football with his blocking from tackle and defensive play from guard.
Biggest shot in the arm has been a solid flow of confidence throughout the squad. This is a loose outfit which may be in a jocular mood right up to the eve of a ball game. It likes that two-pronged air show and employs it with bewildering efficiency.
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Swartzell Wins IM Tennis Crown
Bob Swartzell, Independent,
won the fall intramural tennis
title by defeating Charles Craw-
ford. Phi Gamma Delta, 6 to 4
and 6 to 1 in the finals Monday.
Swartzell defeated Bill Thompson, Phi Gamma Delta, in the semi-finals and Crawford defeated Dale Ferguson, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
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CAP Plans To Spot Stills
Walterboro, S. C., (U.P.) Apparently bored with inactivity since end of the war, a local civil air patrol unit of 15 planes has offered its services to help track down moonshine stills by spotting them from the air.
Tattooed Pig Solves Theft
Currituck, N. C. —(U.P.)—When his 27th mishap pig turned up in a neighbor's pen, U. J. Dixon, farmer, had sure proof the porker belonged to him. He had tattooed the pig on the nose and both ears.
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"Old Pal Reginald! He said he'd show up with transportation."
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