19, 1949
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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McDonald Has Played Last Game For Kansas
Bv WILLIAM S. STRATTON
Cliff McDonald has played his last football game for Kansas. The senior halfback received a fractured wrist in the Kansas-Oklahoma game Oct. 15. This is his last year of eligibility.
A weak ankle had confined Cliff to defensive duties all season. Playing in an usually unheralded position, the 6 feet 1 inch, 180-
pound McDonald, nevertheless, distinguished himself as a deadly tackler and a superb pass defense man. Three times this year McDonald snuffed out enemy drives by intercepting passes in the end zone.
Averaged 4.7 Yards in '48 Coach Jules V. Sikes revealed this week that he also had offensive plans for McDonald to strengthen the Jayhawk passing atock. Described by Sikes as "the most outstanding pass catcher on the team." Cliff is also a hard and elusive runner. In 1948 he scored four touchdowns, averaging 4.7 yards on 23 tries. In his sophomore year he averaged 4.5 yards a try.
Kansas coaches kept a watchful eye on McDonald long before he entered school in 1945. He lettered three times each in basketball, football, and track at Lawrence High school. In 1942 and 1943 he was named to the Northeast Kansas all-conference football team, leading the loop in scoring both years. He was also selected quarterback and captain on the all-state eleven in 1943. He received honorable mention in 1945 his junior year.
Played Varsity Basketball
But Cliff's athletic prowess has not been restricted to football. He was an all-Conference basketball forward in high school and performed for Coach F. C. Allen's basketball team in 1947 and 1948. Cliff also placed second in the state high school track meet in the 200-ward low hurdles and still holds the Lawrence record of 22.2 seconds for that event. He played first base on the Sigma Chi all-school intramural softball championship team during the past spring.
Cliff describes his greatest thrill as the '48 Nebraska game when he raced 36 yards through three opposing backs for a touchdown to break a scoreless shortly before the end of the first half. He also vividly recalls the Orange Bowl classic two years ago.
McDonald's close contact with athletics even followed him in the army air corps where he served two years as a physical training instructor. Cliff, a business major, will be graduated in February. He says he has no definite plans for the future, but you can bet that he will never be too far removed from some form of athletics.
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Whittington tells of seeing a new way to test a tire for air pressure.
She watched two men put on a spare tire and pump it up. To find out if the pressure was right, one got in and drove slowly down the street. The other trotted alongside holding the pump, still connected with the tire. Every few feet the driver stopped and the man in the street pumped in more air.
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Aggies Hold Secret Sessions
Oklahoma A. and M.'s football staff, fearing blistering aerial attack such as Kansas used against the University of Oklahoma Oct. 15, mapped out a plan Tuesday which they think will stop the Jayhawkers cold.
Meanwhile Kansas expected to slosh through another muddy practice session this afternoon, its second in a row.
Three More Injured
The Jayhawkers lost three more men to the injury list Tuesday after the squad worked on offense until derk. Added to the hospital list were Howard Fischer, center; Dale Mallon, a right halfback, and Johnny Amberg, Kansas' number two full-back.
Fischer has a hip injury, Mallon a shoulder wound, and Amberg an elbow injury. They did not work out Tuesday.
Already on the injury list, the largest of the season, are three of the top Kansas star.-S. P. Garnett, defensive left tackle; Bob Drumm, ace offensive center, and Aubrey Linville, first-string defensive right end. None of the three is expected to see action Saturday.
Aggies In Secret Practice The Aggies are spending the week in secret practice, concentrating on ways which Jim Lookabaugh, head coach, and his assistants think will throttle Kansas passing.
At any rate the Aggies are worried about the Kansans. Adam Esslinger, assistant coach, who saw the K.U.-O.U. game Oct. 15 said, "any team scoring 26 points against Oklahoma is capable of giving anybody a tussle."
Harris Signs With Senators
Washington, Oct. 19—(U.P.)—Stanley (Bucky) Harris signed a three-year contract today to manage the Washington Senators baseball team. It marked his third time as manager.
Clark Griffith, owner of the American league club, announced the signing.
Harris succeeds Joe Kuhel, who was fired by Griffith Oct. 3.
No details of the contract other than its length were announced. But Griffith said it was "very safe" to say Harris will receive more than the $17,000 the former "boy wonder" of the Senators got for managing the San Diego Pacific Coast club league last season.
Harris managed the Senators in the middle twenties. His club won the American league pennant in 1924 and 1925. It won the World Series in 1924.
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Minnesota Aims For Rose Bowl
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New York, Oct. 19—(U.P.)—He's an old fashioned as a handle-bar moustache, but he has that horse and buggy football team of his galloping in a bee-line toward the Rose bowl. For awhile he fooled around with that new-fangled 'T-formation but "after looking at a lot of that fancy stuff we just decided to go back and run 'em through tackle like we always did."
He's the United Press coach of the week, stern Bernie Bierman of Minnesota's Golden Gophers, who met their toughest test with colors flying, beating Ohio State soundly, 27 to 0.
Bierman, whose deep freeze personality goes nicely with Minnesota's rigorous climate, is a homegrown white-haired veteran of 55—a fellow now battling his way back to the top after some post-war years of frustration and disappointment.
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The Gophers, only perfect record team left in the Big Ten, had to beat Ohio State to retain their ranks as best bet for the Rose Bowl game, and they did it going away.
Typically, and most truthfully because that is the way his boys are trained, Bierman described it as "a team victory—and I wouldn't single out any player as the best in the game."
A master belittler, Bierman then promptly added that "this present team hasn't shown me as much stuff as our national champions of 1941
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"Yes, I still teach about the same kind of football I've always taught," he said. "Naturally, there's been some evolution but it has been very gradual."
1 Lambda Chi Alpha vs. Sigma
Phi Epsilon, Fraternity "A."
Then he came face to face with a very touchy subject—the Rose Bowl. Minnesota's faculty strongly disapproves of that or any other post-season game and Bierman himself has never been enthusiastic about extension of the season because with the school's rigid academic program the boys need all the time they can get in the classroom
"I don't care to answer any questions as to whether I really want to take my team to the Rose Bowl," he said. "But as far as President James Morrill is concerned, if we win the Big Ten title I don't think he would object to our going out there."
T.K.E. vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.
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Bierman right now is worried about catching Michigan's oncewondrous Wolverines on the rebound when they meet Saturday at Ann Arbor. Michigan bumped off successively by Army and Northwestern, hasn't lost three in a row since 1937 and Bierman thinks that is a bad omen.
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6 Acacia vs. Delta Tau Delta.
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7 Phi Delta Theta vs. Phi Gamma Delta. Fraternity "B."
8 Kappa Sigma vs. Beta Theta Pi. Fraternity “A.”
Games Postponed
Rain again has washed out the intramural schedule. The same eight games rained out Tuesday were rescheduled for today, and now rain again has spoiled the plans of Don Powell, University intramural director. Mr. Powell says he does not know when the games will be played since heavy schedules are set up for Thursday and Friday.
Not necessarily on the basis o their showing Sankrat, Bierman said that two of his linemen, center Clayton Tonnemaker and All-America tackle Leo Nomellini "with the greatest players I ever coached."
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