MONDAY: JANUARY 5. 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Tech Aerials Beat KU n Miami Orange Bowl
By COOPER ROLLOW Daily Kansan Sports Editor
A weak pass defense and a last-minute fumble cost the University of Kansas Jayhawkers an Orange Bowl victory in their New Year's Day game at Miami.
Silent Jim Still, Georgia Tech quarterback, tossed three touchdown passes over a solid K.U. secondary to give the Engineers a 20 to 14 victory. A fourth quarter Jawhawker rally $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $
was cut short inches from the goal when Lynne McNutt, Kansas quarterback, fumbled with only 37 seconds remaining.
If a moral victory ever has been scored, the Jayhawkers did it against George in Tech. In everything except the final score, they had the upper hand. They ran, passed, and tackled brilliantly, and the record crowd of 59,573 loved it.
The Jayhawkers played bonecrushing ball, every man on the team turning in an excellent performance. Evans Shines in Last Game
Ray Evans was truly an all-American in his final game. He scored the first Kansas touchdown on a 12-yard drive through the line, in which he had to knock down two defenders and plough through another to score. He caught Bill "Red" Hogan's fourth quarter pass in the end zone to put the Jeyhawkers back in the ball game.
Evans ran his string of passes without interception to 67 for the season and 72 since Kansas State grabbed one of his passes in 1946. Both marks are national collegiate records. He completed two passes in seven attempts for 64 yards, and one of the two—which measured 43 yards from scrimmage—traveled a full 60 yards in the air.
Horton's passing was almost perfect, although many times he was rushed by the hard-charging Engineer for-wards. Otto Schnellbacher caught passes with the sureness which made him an all-Big Six end for three seasons. Pattie and Griffith, as usual were the powerhouses of the Jay-hawkers' ground attack, and Bud French completed the season without losing a yard.
Hogan Outwits Tech Defense
Probably most surprising to Miami fans and most gratifying to Kansas followers was the excelent play of the K.U. line. If there was an all-American in the Engineer line, Kansas forwards apparently didn't know it. From flanker to flanker, the Jayhawker forwards manhandled the supposedly invincible Tech line at will.
Dave Schmidt and Don "Red" Etinger were defensive mainstays. Each drew roars of approval from the crowd by consistently throwing Tech plays for losses.
Rally Almost Turns Tables
Kansas displayed the clutch tac-ties which had made it famous as a great team in a pinch. Behind two touchdowns in the final period, the Jayhawkers refused to give up, and a Eagar to Evans touchdown pass put Kansas back in the ball game. Minutes later, after a series of crushing line plunges by Griffith, Evans, and French, the Jayhawkers were on the Tech one-half yard line.
Then it happened. Only inches away from a sure tie and possible victory, McNutt fumbled. He fell on the ball immediately as a mass of linenen piled on top of him. Amidst "boos" and groans from the crowd, Referee T. G. Kain handed the ball to Tech and the last 37 seconds of the game ticked away with the Engineers in possession.
Jachtaviers Nut Perfect
The game was not without costly errors. Probably because of the extreme tension under which the game was played, the Jayhawkers committed bobbles, which might not have occurred in the regular season. The effects of the terrife Florida heat showed up most in the play of the Jayhawkers in the third quarter, when the Kansas pass defense wilted enough to allow the Engineers to slip over two decisive touchdowns.
Each team had one apparent winpickdown, called back. Jim Jordan, each left end, outraced the Kansas secondary to sing a scoring pass in this third quarter, but the play was recalled because he had been off-side. In the fourth quarter, Schnell-bacher caught a McNutt pass, weaved
down the right sideline, and crossed the goal. Officials ruled that the lanky Kansas end had stepped out on the 10. Schnellbacher ruefully admitted after the game that they were right.
Squad Is Despondent
On being told that he had completed a pass traveling 60 yards in the air Evans' only comment was "Sperry sure made a nice catch of that one, didn't he?" The Kansas all-American attributed his first touchdown drive to the "huge hole" opened by the line, and added, "Well, we just had to score."
When the final siren sounded, the Jawwhower sounded, filed dejectedly into the dressing room. Ray Evans sat without expression, repeating to himself, "I sure wish we hadn't lost that ball game."
Co-Captain Otto Schnellbacher would make no excuse for the Kansas loss. "You can't blame it on the heat, although it did take something out of us. Georgia Tech played a fine ball game; they have a team, as good as any we faced. Davis is all-American, there's no doubt about that."
But Dave Schmidt didn't think as highly of Davis' performance, "He didn't show much against us," said the Jayhawker end who faced Davis on defense. "It was our line that did the pushing around today."
Coach George Sauer also said that the game was a "tough one to lose." The Kansas coach was already looking forward to next year. "We'd surely like to come back in 1949." Dodd Calls It Even
Coach Bobby Dodd of the Engineers rated the contest a "toss-up ball game." He said that both teams played about the same brand of ball although "Kansas played badly in the third quarter, and we did poorly in the fourth." Dodd singled out Kansas fullbacks Frank Pattee and Forrest Griffith and end Dave Schmidt for high praise.
The Engineer coach explained his last-minute strategic plan, in case worst had come to worst. "We would have taken a safety before punting to Kansas there at the end."
Dodd apparently was well satisfied, "Before you guys leave, I want to say one thing," he told University Daily Kansan reporters in the Tech dressing room. "The fans around here have been screaming about last year's dull game. Well, if they weren't satisfied with this one, they never will be."
All-American Georgia Tech tackle Bob Davis was disgusted. "We all played lousy ball, and I was the worst. That Kansas line ran us off our feet. They were much better than we expected. Those Kansas fullbacks are the best today, but that Evans is a swell球 player."
Had Underrated Kansas
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount newsreel services brought "Zoomar" lenses, newest type in existence, for their cameras. All major newsreel companies covered the game. The National Broadcasting company televised the contest, which was released from New York last Friday. Walter "Red" Barber broadcast a running description for CBS
One of the largest groups of news photographers ever to cover a bowl game was on hand for the Orange Bowl classic. Acme Newspictures, International News Photo, and Associated Press all were shooting pictures of the contest. Sam Jones dashed up and down the south sidelines getting pictures for the University Daily Kansan.
The Kansas band arrived early at the game, and played until most of the spectators had left. As the Engineers took the field for warm-ups at 1:03, the band played the famous Georgia Tech marching song.
Penn State Coach Blames Dissension
State College, Pa.—(UP—Penn State's football team was torn by dissension in the Cotton Bowl game and most of the squadmen cut some lively capers while in Dallas, Coach Bob Higgins revealed reluctantly today, but he said he would never tell which players caused the trouble. The boys resented being quartered in a naval air base there and began asking him for special favors almost at the moment of their arrival.
Kansas cheerleaders made their first appearance at Burdick stadium
at 1:07, and the friendly crowd showed its appreciation of the northern guests by hilarious rears of approval.
Throughout the afternoon, the attention of the crowd was focused alternately upon the playing field and the Kansas cheerleaders and band. At least five times during the game, the public address announcer directed the attention of the fans toward "the famous University of Kansas band."
When the game ended the Miami crowd which filed dejectedly down the ramps and out of the stadium could have been from Kansas City, Topka, or Wichita. One fan whose lapel button tabbed him a Georgia Tech root, remarked that "this was probably the only bowl game in the country in which the better team lost."
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University Coaches Get Pay Raise
Pay raises for the University coaching staff were approved by the physical education committee of the state board of regents, Dec. 19.
It is the policy of the University not to disclose the amounts of such increases said Chancellor Deane W. Malott. The full board will vote on the increase in Topeka Friday.
There is no definite word that an increase for Ernest C. Quigley is being sought, but a board member said that if the coaching staff received one-the athletic director would also.
In Topeka it was reported that Georgia Sauer's salary is now $10,-
000 and that Mr. Quigley is $10,500.
Peace Officers To Train Here
Traffic Safety and Police Science will be offered at the University in the second annual peace-officers training school Jan. 28 to Feb. 2, 1948, said Ethan P. Allen, head of the bureau of government research which will sponsor the school.
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Teachers for the school will be federal bureau of investigation representatives and Kansas officers of long experience, Mr. Allen said.
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