1948
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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By COOPER ROLLOW Daily Kansan Sports Editor
With the greatest Orange Bowl game in history now a thing of the past, K. U. students are looking forward to the 1948 football season. Speculation around the campus as to the Jayhawkers' bowl chances in 1949 already is raging.
The best answer to questions concerning the possibility of Kansas being invited to a post-season classic next year may well be the remarks of John G. Thompson, Orange Bowl president. Mr. Thompson told this writer in Miami that "if the Jayhawkers play next season as they did in 1947, you may rest assured that they will receive top consideration on the Orange Bowl priority list."
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"Rey Evans is by far the best back we have seen in Miami all season," wrote Jimmy Burns, sports editor of the Miami Herald. Burns rated the Jayhawker All-American as a greater player than Harley Gilmer of Alabama, because "Evans doesn't only run with the ball, but can throw it, and is a power on defense." The Miami sportswriter said Evans's 12-yard line jaunt for the first Kansas touchdown was "one of the greatest runs he had seen all season."
Bunns rated Dave Schmidt, Kansas left end, as the best defensive player on the field. "He turned back plays around his flank like a dog herding sheep."
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The "ball-stealing" episode in the Orange Bowl has had the effect of placing the blame for the lost of the game upon that one fatal play, in the minds of many sports fans. Jayhawker Coach George Sauer wants it known that Quarterback Lynne McNutt, who dropped the ball at that crucial moment, was "merely a victim of an unfortunate instance over which he had no control."
Coach Sauer said after the game that McNutt fell on the ball almost immediately after it slipped from his hands, but that "someone dug a shoulder under him and kept digging so that by the time the whistle blew, the ball had been wrested away. The referee was standing outside to the left, and couldn't see all of what was taking place."
The Kansas coach said that he feels worse about the feelings of McNutt than about losing the contest. Mr. Sauer tabbed the Jayhawkier quarterback "one of the finest ball players we have," and called McNutt and Center Dick Monroe the "most reliable quarterback and center combination we can put on the field."
We quote from a column which appeared recently in the Raleigh News and Observer, written by Sports Editor Dick Herbert, and sent this way by an enraged Kansas alumnus:
"Officials of the Orange Bowl received a lot of criticism for not landing Carolina for their game, Kansas, because of a weak schedule, was regarded as a second-rate team, but the Jayhawks turned out to be real scrappers and gave the fans an afternoon of thrills.
"Carolina probably would have dominated the game so completely that it wouldn't have been interesting. The general belief that Tech was overrated was substantiated by the close call it had against Kansas."
This corner will attempt no rebuttal of Scoors Editor Herbert's obviously "slanted" column. We seem to remember a game played not so long ago in which North Carolina lost to Texas by such a stupendous score as to eliminate the Tarheels from Bowl consideration. So we'll let Kansas' Orange Bowl performance speak for itself.
Ed Danforth, sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, home of Georgia Tech, said after the Florida contest: "Kansas goes back, defeated 20 to 4. But the wound was eased by the knowledge that they had made the Miami show memorable by as fine a comeback as any bowl ever produced.
Louis Signs With Jacobs For Last Defense In June
New York—(UP)—The 20th Century club attained a victory over other fight promoters about the country today when heavyweight champion Joe Louis assured acting club'director Sol Strauss that he would defend his title at New York in June—probably at Yankee Stadium.
However, it still remained for Strauss and his associates to line up Joe
Walcott as an opponent. Walcott, who gave Louis the hardest tussle of his title career at Madison Square Garden last month in a bout which most ring observers figured he had won, wants more than the 20 percent of the gross gate reportedly offered by Strauss.
Louis, whose contract calls for him to be under the exclusive services of the 20th Century club agreed to fight for 40 per cent of the net gate.
'Bomber' Will Retire
The Brown Bomber, who has announced he will retire after this title defense, came to terms late yesterday in a conference in which his manager, Marshall Miles, and his attorney, Truman Gibson of Chicago, met with Strauss in Louis' Harlem hotel suite. during the conference, Mike Jacobs, head of the 20th Century club, who has been in a long period of convalescence, listened in by telephone from Miami Beach, Fla.
Strauss said he "took it for granted" that Walcott could be brought to terms, but at Camden, N.J., promoter Felix Bocchicchio said he wasn't so sure. Bocchicchio, who has exclusive call on Walcott's services, said he "would not consider" the 20 per cent of the gate gate.
"We're open to the best proposition, but under no condition will we agree to 20 per cent in New York." Boechicchio said. He added that he had talked twice in the past three days with Herman Taylor, Philadelphia promoter, about a Louis-Walcott match there next June and that "I am now waiting on Taylor's reply."
APO Moves Lost And Found To Union
The lost and found department, operated by Alpha Phi Omega, has been transferred from 228 Frank Strong to the second floor in the Union.
Free to all University students and staff members, the department is open from 11 a.m. until 12 noon and from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Identification is necessary in order to recover lost articles.
Lost objects that are found may be turned in to any office at any building on the campus. Pick-ups are made by the lost and found department each day.
Coaches Sift Grid Rules
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Matty Bell of Southern Methodist wants to eliminate the point after touchdown, Jimmy Phelan of St. Mary's thinks the team trailing in a game should be given the option of kicking off or receiving after a score has been made, rather than giving the option to the team scored against.
Those and more than a dozen other suggestions came out of a survey by Lou Little of Columbia, chairman of the rules committee of the American Football Coaches association, and the 20-man coaches' committee will decide which changes to recommend to the National Collegiate Athletic Association now in session as its annual convention. Would Widen Goals
New York—(UP)—Twenty of the nation's top collegiate football coaches went into a huddle today to sift the rules of the game and determine what's needed to make it better than ever.
But that suggestion and others which tamper too much with the present rules may receive little more than full discussion before being tabled for future use.
Other suggestions included a proposal to widen the goal-posts to increase field goal kicking and conversion percentages; elimination of the free substitution rule in effect for the first time last season; making a T-formation quarterback eligible to receive a pass, regardless of whether he stands one yard behind the line of scrimmage as required at present; clarification of the kick-off rule; permitting either team to run with a fumble instead of limiting it to the offensive team.
Basketball Results
St. Johns 88, C.C.Y. N.34
Long Island 65, Kansas State 47
Columbia 55, Harvard 53 (2 OT)
So. Dakota 69, Dakota Wes. 54
KANSAS 39, OKLAHOMA 38
Iowa State 55, Nebraska 44
Virginia 73, Wash. & Lee 54
Marshall 87, Baltimore 40
Georgia 49, Furman 44
Davidson 44, Duke 42
Tulane 62, Florida 35
Okla. A. & M. 49, Tulsa 25
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The University High Eagles defeated Baldwin High school 31 to 25 in a non-league game played in Robinson gymnasium annex yesterday. Cochran and Christian led the scoring for the victors with eight points each.
The U.H.S. "B"队 also won, 19 to 13, from Baldwin's second team. The Eagles go to Basehor Friday for a Tri-County League contest.
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