THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1948
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Navy's Sauer United Press Coach of Week
New York, Dec. 2—(UP)—The United Press picked George Sauer Coach of the week. His Navy Midshipman never quit fighting, never gained a victory, yet engineered one of the big upsets of the year—an astounding 21 to 21 tie with Army's all-conquering Cadets.
Everybody, it seemed, gave up on the oft-mauled Midshipmen, and the legions who made the pilgrimage to Philadelphia's Municipal stadium told themselves the football game didn't much matter but that it was worth the trip to see the color, the pageantry, and the celebrities.
What they forgot, but what Sauer, the first civilian coach at Navy since 1933, remembered, was that in spite of the team's poor record, it never once quit on the field—never gave up in disgust.
Folsk also seemed to forget that in compiling that un-victorious record Navy played the toughest schedule of any team in the nation. Six of its nine opponents were unbeaten at the time they faced Navy-California, Cornell, Duke, Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, and Army. Three of them, Notre Dame, California, and Army still are unbeaten-Cornell wound up with only one defeat and as champion of the Ivy League.
Sauer, a tall, congenial Nebraska All-American of 1933 vintage, was totally unfamiliar with the atmosphere of defeat in which he found himself. For two years he had led the Kansas Jayhawkers to Co-Championship of the Big Six and as a smashing fullback and treemendous left-footed punter at Nebraska, he was key man as the Cornhuskers rang up three straight conference championships.
A man who literally breathed the lore of great gridiron feats, he had hoped his first born youngster would be a son so he could train him to be a grid star and so he could name him for his old Nebraska coach, Dana X. Bible. He has two children, a daughter, Dana, 6, and the son, George, Jr., 4, who has a great football name to live up to even if he wasn't named for Bible.
Nothing that ever happened to him in football stirred him so much as Navy's performance against Army. In the dressing room after the game, tears streamed from his eyes and he wasn't the least bit ashamed of them."
As his players hoisted him to their shoulders, he came to rest atop a uniform trunk and lifted his arms as if in a toast—"To the fightiest gang of man I ever coached."
What was most significant of all—something that bodes ill for Navy opponents next year—was his conviction that the Middies now are on the long road back.
Long weeks of hard work in which he patiently installed his new system, began to pay off. Players began to handle both offensive and defensive assignments with precision and finesse. Given last week changes in formation in which they mixed their "T" with a single wing to confuse the Cadets, they came through no nicely they had control of the ball three-fourths of the time.
Sauer admitted though, that what he had overlooked as a civilian coach was how tremendously important the Army game was to the boys.
"I never before saw a team rise so magnificently to the occasion," he said. "That was the greatest part of it all for me."
Navy Squad Miss Base,
Flight Compass Set Wrong
Greenville, N. C., Dec. 2—(UP)—Eastern Carolina Teachers college and the Norfolk Naval Air station didn't play their scheduled basketball game here last night.
The navy squad flew to Greenville, S.C., instead of Greenville, N. C.
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Next Time He'll Look Behind Him
St. Louis—(UP)—Truck driver Joseph Starr today said he wondered why no cars passed him as he drove from Kansas City to Warrensburg, Mo., until he stopped for coffee—and found 230 out of 600 auto tires he was transporting had rolled out the truck's unlatched door.
Starr speedily retraced his route, but had recovered only two tires by the time he reached state police headquarters at Lee's Summit. Mo. There officers found a few tires, and several honest motorists added to the recovery, but 200 tires are still missing.
K-State Five In Victory
By UNITED PRESS
Kansas State, whose basketball power is in no way to be confused with the puny efforts of its football entry in the Big Seven, will open a warm-up home stand tonight at Manhattan.
K-State, defending champion of the Big Seven, mopped up last night at Emporia, Kan., where Coach Jack Gardner's club choked a late Emporia State College rally and won, 60 to 49.
In another season opener, Nebraska romped to a 59 to 39 win over Northwest Missouri State (Mary-ville) at Lincoln, and in a third opener, Iowa State had it easy against Cornell (Iowa) College, 61 to 35 at Ames.
Kansas State's win over Emporia was witnessed by 4,200 fans, who saw Rick Harman, Ed Head and Jack Dean pace the Manhattan club to a 41 to 25 halftime lead.
Harman, rated the star to watch at Kansas State, hit for nine points before he pulled up lame and left the game with a charley horse at the half.
Kansas State's foe at home tonight will be Phillips University. With the University of Kansas opening its season. Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo., against Rockhurst College, the week's play will be rounded out with Iowa State as host to Coe College of Iowa.
Mikan Breaks League Record
By UNITED PRESS
George Mikan, the biggest man in the Basketball Association of America's scoring column and one of the biggest in stature, placed another season's mark in the record books today along with a tie for an all-time league achievement.
Mikan's 44 points as his Minneapolis Lakers lost to the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons last night, 84 to 74, broke his own season's record of 38, while his 16 free throws equalled the charity toss record set a year ago by Providence's Ernie Calverley.
But despite Mikan's scoring spree, Fort Wayne overcame a 43 to 39 half-time deficit and a 58-to-54 third period handicap to win. Bouch Tough paced the winners with 18 points.
In the best game of the night, Arnie Risen hooped 28 points including a free throw in the last 21 seconds to lead the Rochester Royals over the New York Knickerbockers, 73 to 72. The former Ohio State star scored 16 of his team's final 19 points. Carl Braun topped the Knicks with 22 points.
The Washington Capitols waltzed to their 13th straight triumph by downing hapless Providence, 75 to 63, handing the Steamrollers their 11th loss in 12 games. Even with Capitol reserves playing much of the game, Providence was completely outclassed. Bones McKinney and Bob Feerick led Washington with 16 points each.
St. Louis supplanted Minneapolis as the runnerup team to Rochester in the circuit's Western division by staging a second half rally to down the Chicago Stags, 72 to 61. Belus Smawley's 17 points led the Bombers while Max Zaslofsky topped the losers with 15.
Notre Dame Students Raise
$5,000 For Married Veterans
Chicago—(UP)—Notre Dame thinks it has the first "maternity fund" ever raised at a men's college.
The campaign has a goal of $5,000 to be used to defray expenses of married veterans attending the college.
The college announced that 100 births are expected in the next seven months to the 500 couples living at the college.
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