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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1949
Wally Rouse Big Factor In Kansas' New Defense
By RICHARD DILSAVER
The Kansas football team was taking its lumps—three straight defeats in as many games. Part of the trouble lay in Jayhawk offensive which wasn't up to expectations, but the defense of Coach J. V. Sikes' squad was also disappointing. K.U. opponents were gaining too many vards and scoring too many points.
Coach Sikes met the situation by revamping his line. And there appears to be little doubt that the forward wall which held back George Washington and the touted Oklahoma line with surprising resistance is much improved over that which crumbled in the three opening tilts.
Wally Rouse, defensive tackle, is one reason for Kansas' recent improvement. Standing 6 feet 3 inches and weighing 215 pounds, the 22-year-old Rouse has become a vital factor in Sikes' defensive platoon.
He demonstrated this in the early minutes of the K.U.-O.U. game when he broke through the "impregnable" O.U. line on two important occasions. The first time he left the Sooners with their backs to the wall, downing Darrel Royal behind the Oklahoma 10-yard line. A few minutes later he recovered a Sooner fumble near the 15-yard stripe.
Rouse came to K.U. in 1944 in time to earn a letter before departing for service with the army air corps. He was fresh from Wichita East's mythical state champion eleven of 1943. During his 18 months of service he played on the strong Kessler field team.
Is A Senior
He returned to plav for Coach
George Sauer and his Orange Bowl squad for one season and served under Coach Sikes in 1948. Now playing in his final year, Wally is studying to be a civil engineer. He expects to be graduated this spring. He is unmarried, and a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity.
Games Postponed
Rouse rates the 1949 Sooners as a mighty rugged football team, but still not quite of the caliber of the 1948 OU. Sugar bowl champs. However, he's really not very concerned with the Sooners after the game Oct. 15. Right now, he's planning on helping the Jayhawks win a few games before ending his collegiate football days.
Heavy overnight rains have kept the University intramural fields flooded, forcing postponement of games today and probably tomorrow. Only plenty of sunshine this afternoon and all day tomorrow would get the fields in playable shape for tomorrow. Don Powell, intramural director, said today. Games had already been postponed on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Until this week no games had been postponed this season.
The modern version of football has eliminated the days of "no coaching from the sidelines." Today, the coach is the 12th man in the lineup. He no longer has to sit on the bench making signals, squirming and tearing his hair to keep the officials from detecting his gestures and penalizing his team.
The Coach, Too, Is A Quarterback
In the old days before the adoption of free substitution rule, the quarterback was entirely responsible for the diagnosis of the resulting plays employed by the team. Now the coach is at liberty to send in a substitute at will and he, in turn, can instruct the quarterback which play to use. Formerly, a substitute was restricted not to speak until one play had elapsed after his coming into the game.
How important the coach is, is reflected in how well-trained his signal callers are and the amount of confidence the coach has in their abilities to diagnose and set up the strategy the team will use. This can be easily detected by observing when substitutions are made and seeing if the nature of play is changed. A good coach diagnoses such changes, relaying his findings to the team.
By watching some of the outstanding teams in the nation you will notice just such tactics being employed.
Usually a quarterback is not often replaced or substitute sent in on each crucial play. The spectators notice the splendid work of the quarterback and realize what a good job of instructing, the coach has done.
Local Football Team Rated Best In State
The Lawrence high school football team, with four consecutive victories, rates first in the state according to ballots cast this week by sports writers over the state.
Lawrence had 74 points. Hutchinson, also undefeated in four games, was close second with 67 points. Wichita ranked third with Wichita East fourth.
Voted the mythical state championship in 1947, the Lions now have turned in impressive wins over Manhattan, Topeka, Atchison and Shawnee-Mission.
The Lawrence Lions will play the Leavenworth high eleven Friday evening at Haskell stadium.
Last year Leavenworth won 13 to 6 in the last minute of play to end the Lion's 39-game streak. The loss is the only league defeat in the last eight years for the locals.
Otis, Mass.—(U.P.) A 100-year-old cowbell is used to call pupils into session at the new Otis consolidated elementary school.
And KU Has Its Whistle
DUCK'S TAVERN
Our oysters are shipped directly from the Atlantic seaboard. They have that genuine fresh sea taste that is so different from ordinary oysters.
Reds Will Choose New Manager Soon
New York, Oct. 20—(U.P.) T h e Cincinnati Reds today indicated they will select a new boss within the next 10 days, filling the past opening for a major league baseball manager.
Luke Sewell, who guided the St. Louis Browns to their only American league pennant in history, and Jewell Ems, who managed the Pittsburgh Pirates briefly, were the Reds' leading prospects, with Al Vincent of the club's farm system also a possibility.
The new Reds' manager, whove he is, will be the second signed since the end of the 1949 season, for grizzled Bucky Harris Wednesday cast caution to the winds and became boss of the Washington Senators for the third time in his career.
Meanwhile, the Chicago White Sox were supposed to fire Jack Onslow Wednesday and announce his successor, according to most reports. However, it didn't work out that way. The Sox simply announced that Onslow will be back next season to fulfill his two-year contract despite his bitter differences with general manager Frank Lane this year.
Clear Skies Here Again
Chicago. III.—(U.P.)—Chicagoaos no longer need to journey miles to get a "breath of fresh air." Frank S. Chambers, who heads the smoke department here, reported the dust fall in these parts during August was the lowest in the history of the department. A mere 34 tons a mile, he said.
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