MONDAY. NOVEMBER 8.1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE KANSAS
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By OZZIE BARTELLI Daily Kansan Sports Editor
We can think of no better time to slip into this column, especially with everyone so slap-happy over the result of the Missouri-Oklahoma game Saturday. In fact, as long as that tickled feeling persists no one will notice the change. A change which, though not for the best, is the best we could do since Murphy's big brogans would have been hard to fill under any circumstance.
To get on with the story. After listening to the broadcast of the game and reading about it in the papers, we wonder what happened. The Tigers were quoted as a high-scoring bevy. Some odds-makers went so far as to quote Missouri as eight point favorites. Yet, the Bengal scoring effort totaled less than the margin they were to have won by.
The only M.U. score came after recovering a fumble on the Sooner 36. Oklahoma actually seemed capable of scoring at will. It seems hardly worthwhile to offer albis with such a point difference at overcome. And no albis were offered. Except to mention that the Missouri team was worn down by a powerhouse Oklahoma line.
This comes as a surprise. The experts were chirping about the THREE first teams Faurot could throw into the game. A bigger surprise is that the wear came so early in the third period. After a half-time rest. It just doesn't make sense. Wasn't it a hard-charging Mizzou line which wrecked Southern Methodist not many games ago?
According to the results of Saturday's game, it would seem the Bengals are at one team outfit. All of which should make it worthwhile for the Jayhawks to play out their string after all. Maybe Faurot does have three teams, but forgot to use the right one against the Sooners. And maybe he may not use the right one against Kansas. Well, miracles can happen.
Working on the "miracle" theory a little longer sort of clears up a lot of muddy water. Just a guess, but Sikes may come up with some clever pass plays which could scuttle the Sooners and notch a Kansas win.
Comparison of scores against a mutual opponent gives Oklahoma a four point edge over Kansas. The Sooners twisted the horns off the T.C.U. Frogs by a close 21 to 18 score for a three point margin. The Frogs were just able to slip through a green Kansas team 14 to 13 in the season opener. All of which should hint at a close contest between the Sooners and Kansas.
Looking deeper into the pool gives us another slant on the possible outcome of the Oklahoma-Kansas game. Kansas is a scoring team. It scored only twice against T.C.U., George Washington University, and the Oklahoma Aggies. Then there's a picture of three or more touchdowns against Iowa State, Nebraska, Colorado and Denver. This should prove a point. The point being an average of plus 23 points a game for the season.
To further clear a muddy scene, Kansas plays State before its O.U. tussle while the Sooners tangle with a tough Aggie team from the Territory. This does make a difference. One game is a breather and the
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“A” teams:
P K P vs. A T O, field 2.
P D T vs. Triangle, field 5.
B T P i vs. S P E, field 1.
S Chi vs. P G D, field 3.
Battenfell vs. A K P, field 6.
“B” teams:
P D T vs. S A E, field 4.
D T D vs. Pi K A, field 8.
other a rough-and-tumble battle of power-teams. Also, we know from experience, Kansas has a fighting team which doesn't like to lose. Hates losing so much it fights right down to the wire and still musters enough fight to want to return match if they do lose. This makes it all the harder to sell this team short just because of press publicity and advance knowledge of Sooner might.
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Kansas chances you say? They look good from this corner. Of course, Kansas will have to play the type of game it is capable of playing when the chips are down. If the bogey about Sooner power causes the Sikes' boys too many 'anxious moments and loss of sleep, then look for a high-geared Oklahoma team to lampoon the daylights out of our favorites.
With Monroe, Johnson, the Sperry boys, Schmidt et al in the line-up the Sooners will find their wheels too great—greased to do any high-powered churning on Memorial turf. And if the "Grif" continues his galloping ways, or the Gilman riffle arm is constant enough to find such targets as McDonald and Norris within firing range, and if Dick can succeed in hiding his hand-offs to Bertuzzi, Amberg or "Heads-up" Moffet, the picture will be worth buying after-all.
We aren't overlooking French and the possibility of shaking him loose or of a returning Pattete to the line-up. It's just that it takes a lot of remembering to get everything on paper.
Also, we don't want to do too much remembering or a certain Jack Mitchell may pop into the picture. You see, it was lots better, dreaming without getting the dream cluttered up by a Mitchell galloping into the dream and turning it into a nightmare. And that Oklahoma line pops up again forcing us to face the issue. Well, we don't have to face it alone. We've a tough Jayhawk line making holes for us, a scat-backfield running interference and Sikes calling the plays. Maybe, just maybe, we'll set-off the fuse that can spell defeat for Oklahoma.
Hornets Still Top Central League
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The honors will be split this coming weekend between conference and intersectional games in the Kansas Central Intercollegiate conference.
Emporia State, the current undefeated, untied league leader, will entertain cellar-dwelling St. Benedict's, while the Pittsburgh Teachers play Arkansas State Teachers on the Kansas grid Thursday.
Washburn draws Southwestern to the Kansas capital Friday, while Fort Hays State journeys to Las Cruces, N. M., for a contest with New Mexico A. and M.
Emporia State retained the lead in the Central conference last week-end, and with only two CIC games left to play, appeared a virtual 1948 winner.
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12 East Eighth
Iowa State won a thin, non-conference decision from Drake at Ames, 2 to 0, and Colorado took a 28 to 14 thriller from Utah State at Boulder to round out the Saturday slate.
Oklahoma's bone-crushing forwards and slick backs today eyed the Big Seven championship, but faced a wait of two weeks for their showdown with Kansas, only other team unbeaten in conference play.
Kansas State lost its fifth straight conference game last weekend when it was trampled. 32 to 0, by Nebraska at Lincoln.
But the headliner was at Norman. Oklahoma spotted Missouri a quick touchdown in the first period and then slammed the gates in one of the greatest demonstrations of power in many a conference year.
There was little likelihood that Oklahoma's record (3-0) would suffer next Saturday against Nebraska at Norman, or that Kansas (3-0) would meet more than token resistance from Kansas State at Manhattan.
The big blast came in the third period when Oklahoma, a seven-point underdog, scored four touchdowns. Les (Bingo) Ming, Oklahoma's extra point specialist, converted five times in six tries to run his string for the season to 27 in 31 attempts.
After Missouri's scoring thrust from the opening kickoff, Oklahoma refused to budge. Its roaring line checked Missouri's ground-gaining machinery to 114 yards by rushing
Kansas was idle last Saturday as Oklahoma wrecked Wreckon, 41 to Not Nomain in a contest that left Mississippi manned and everybody else surprised.
Offensively, quarterback Jack Mitchell, halfback George Thomas and fullback Leon Heath scored two touchdowns each, with fine assists all the way from halfback Darrell Royal.
Oklahoma's offense was explosive, it was no better than its tremendous line play. First dwells were even, 12-12, but the statistics didn't show how tackle Howard Paine and guard Budd Bury Rumis-gump up Missouri's attack, nor did they tell of the jobs turned in by linebacker Myle Greathouse and ends Eddie Anderson and Bobby Goad.
Oklahoma Nails Tigers, Must Face Kansas
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The Oklahoma-Missouri clash made Iowa State's meeting with Drake appear to have been a Sunday outing. Iowa State cashed a Drake bobble in the fourth period for its margin of victory.
By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer
North Carolina, Penn Georgia Tech Beaten
New York, Nov. 8—(UP) — There was more than the usual moaning and groaning on collegiate gridirons today and the chief Monday mourners held the classiest wakes in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chapel Hill, N.C.
An elusive young man named Francis Rogel was the villain from once-tied Penn State who romped 43 yards for one touchdown and then added injury to insult by taking the clincher on an end zone pass to bump Penn out of the ranks of the undefeated and untied.
In Chapel Hill, they probably had a point. The slippery footing derailed N. Carolina's express, "Choo Choo" Charley Justice. But you have to credit an assist to that rugged William and Mary line led by tackle Louis Creekmur and center Tommy Thompson.
At Atlanta they blamed a muddy field for Georgia Tech's 13 to 6 trimming by Tennessee and they had the same complaint at Chapel Hill for North Carolina's 7 to 7 dead heat with William and Mary.
The good citizens of Atlanta might case up on the weather man and put some of the blame on Tennessee's Hal Littleford and Bobby Lund. Hurryin' Hal booted Tech into constant trouble and fired the winning touchdown pass to Lund, who ran 47 yards to defeat the engineers and spoil their perfect record.
Some of the mighty enjoyed the weekend, however. The weather was fine for Army, Michigan, Notre Dame, California, and Clemson.
Iowa State threatened to score in the final period, but a pass from Don Ferguson was intercepted in the end zone, where the ball was fumbled and recovered by Drake for a safety.
Bobby Jack Stuart rated a saliva test as he went 6 and 60 yards for touchdowns as Army murdered Stanford, 43 to 0, to give the Cadets their seventh win.
Nebraska's drubbing of Kansas State was entirely anticipated. It was K-State's 20th loss in a row in Big Seven competition since the 1944 season. Fullback Phil Young scored three Nebraska touchdowns, half-back Dick Hutton added another, and Don Bloom, substitute half-back, turned in the day's dazzer with an 82-yard punt runback for the fifth and final touchdown two minutes before the end of the game.
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Notre Dame took its seventh, 19th straight and 21st in a row belting bouncing Indiana, 42 to 6. Emil (Pinkie) Sitko was much in evidence again, handing out bruises to rival teckles.
Doak Walker went 40 and 12 yards for touchdowns, tossed another and kicked two points as S.M.U. smothered Texas A. & M. 20 to 14.
Michigan, too, copped its seventh straight and 21st in a row belting oarless Navy, 35 to 0. Charlie Ortmann was one of many standouts as he scored one touchdown and heaved a 60-yard pass for another.
Two other heroes, or villains if you were on the other side, were Jack Mitchell of Oklahoma and Mike Sprock of Wake Forest. Mitchell trucked 34 and 74 yards for touch-downs as Missouri was mauled, 41 to 7, and Sprock bolted 10 yards for the Wake Forest touchdown which upset Duke, 27 to 20.
Frosh Two-Milers Defeat Wisconsin
The Jayhawker freshman two-mile team won its third telegraphic meet of the season by defeating the University of Wisconsin distance men 10 to 2 in a race run recently.
The Jayhawker freshmen scored a clean sweep of the first four positions with Herb Semper finishing in 9 minutes, 47 seconds, Pat Bowers in 10 minutes, 7 seconds, Bill Kazmer in 10 minutes, 10.5 seconds, and "Red" Dinsmore in 10 minutes, 17 seconds. The young Jayhawkers have placed one-two-three in every race run this fall.
The first men to finish for Wisconsin sin were Ward, Firchow, and Curran, who tied for fifth position in 10 minutes, 27.6 seconds.
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