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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948
By OZZIE BARTELLI Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The game that may attract more attention than a five-star general's point-making salute to a lowly second "louie" is shaping up to the Sugar bowl.
Oklahoma has shown the more voracious offense but North Carolina is superbly balanced in all departments, season's statistics reveal.
Oklahoma's savage rushing game almost doubles the Tar Heel attack. But Coach Carl Snavely's Tar Heels have the better defense against rushing.
The tougher the foe the more savagely do Coach Snavely's Tar Heels defend against rushing. They really put the clamps on the rival Orange bowl teams holding Texans to 38 net yards and Georgia to 28. They choked off William and Mary's Delta Bowlers with 19 net yards rushing. They throttled Tennessee with only 42.
The Sooners are anxious to win and destroy the bowl jinx of Big Seven conference teams. Oklahoma beat North Carolina State 34-13 two years ago in the Gator Bowl for the league's only extra-curricular win.
A dry field is necessary to Oklahoma's hopes to play evenly with the powerful Tar Heels at rainy New Orleans. The Sooners use the same split-T system Missouri employed in the Sugar Bowl game of 1942 when Missouri's speed was tragically blunted in the mud, Ford. ham winning 2-0.
Since Oklahoma adopted the fast-hitting split-T vogue three years ago. Sooner teams have played only three games in the mud, looking bad in all three. The Sooners shaded Texas Christian 14-2 in the mud at Fort Worth in 1946, lost 13-16 to Kansas on a muddy field at Lawrence the same year, barely defeated Oklahoma A & M 19-15 at Stillwater this year.
It promises to be a great day at New Orleans no matter what the outcome. We aren't overlooking the Mizzou-Clemson tussle, in fact things look mighty bright for the Big Seven conference this coming New Year's day. Both teams, Tigers and Sooners, are a compliment to any league, and we're counting on victory for the Big Seven this time.
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Gardner, Drake Speak Up
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New York. Dec. 21—(UP)—Drooping attendance and poor officiating today concerned Midwestern basketball coaches visiting the East as they pulled no punches against the ills currently affecting college basketball.
Husky Jack Gardner of Kansas State and lean Bruce Drake of Oklahoma took a healthy swipe at those items. And then they added that perhaps basketball is scheduling too many games per team; that television is becoming an increasing problem; and that maybe they and other coaches are teaching the wrong type game.
Gardner, whose team just has completed a cross-country jaunt, was particularly outspoken. Commenting on plans everywhere to build larger field houses, he said:
"We may have seen our hey-dey as far as crowds are concerned. The people just don't have the money and aren't spending."
Gardner also was bitter about officiating generally. "It's been pretty poor and the only answer is that we need younger men to handle our games; men just out of school who recognize contact."
One of the "too big" spots, according to the Kansas State coach, was the San Francisco Cow Palace.
"It's so big there that it clouds up and rains inside." he chuckled.
Having played across the nation, Gardner had things to say which might not please the fans in St. Louis. He insisted that San Francisco and Santa Clara were as good as highly-touted St. Louis and that Ed McCauley, star of the St. Louisans, couldn't "carry the shoes" of Kentucky's Alex Groza.
Drake, the Oklahoma pilot, emphasized that court coaches probably are too offense minded now but asserted that this probably is the last year for such type play.
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