FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Otto Ends KU Career
Topeck, Kan.—(UP)—Lanky Otto Schnellbacher, star football end and basketball forward for Kansas, says he's throwing aside another year of gridiron eligibility.
Now does he plan to play basketball during the month between his participation in the Orange Bowl football game and his February graduation.
"Snellly" said last night at a K.U. alumni banquet here that he will wind on his college athletic careers in the New Year's Day grid game at Miami when the Jayhawkers meet Georgia Tech. He said he definitely had decided to take his degree in February.
"I'm getting old," he said. "I'm married and I have a child. It's time I was getting out of school."
Schnellbacher, former Sublette High school athlete, was picked last week by the New York Yankees in the pro grid team's draft of college players. It it up to Schnellbacher, however, whether he will play pro ball.
Big 7 Tourney
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4 p.m.-Colorado vs. Oklahoma
7:15 p.m.-Kansas vs. Kansas State
9 p.m.-Oklahoma A. & M. vs.
Nebraska
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Underdog Jayhawkers Head For Orange Bowl
A band of 51 fighting Jayhawkers will invade the land of sunshine New Year's Day in quest of their 15th consecutive victory and the first Big Six win in a major football bowl.
After a final scrimmage session under wintry Lawrence conditions Monday, the Jayhawkers will depart for a three-day Christmas vacation at home. They are scheduled
to leave Dec. 26 by plane for Miami and the Orange Bowl, which should slow time for three full days of Florida work-outs before the game.
Kansas will take its much-feared aerial attack into the game, and the Wrecks are reportedly a trifle apprehensive about the chances of stopping the Jayhawker aerial attack.
Little Air Edge
But those Big Six partisans who are counting on a heavy Kansas air edge over the Ramblin' Wrecks may have another think coming, Coach Bobby Dodd will trot out six passers against the Big Six co-champions who boast a combined completion percentage of .586. More impressive is the fact that the lowest of the six average rests exactly at .500 and the highest, halfback Red Patton, at .800.
Patton has pitched only five passes all season, completing four. George Mathews, who snapped a leg in the Duke game, will be back on hand for the Mimi affair, tessed only 10, connecting with five. Despite the relatively low number of pass attempts, the pair combined to engineer five touchdowns. And Patton won two games outright with coydirt heaves against Navy and Georgia.
Tech Statistics Impressive
Georgia Tech statistics over the long seasonal grind are impressive. Quarterback Joe Brown is the leader at .634 with 13 completions in 19 attempts. Long Jim Still was the regular season's top gainer with 559 yards on 43 connections in 75 tosses. Jim Southard, who carried the bulk of the signal, calling, got 13 in 24 tries for 197 yards and a percentage of .541.
Tech end George Brodnex ranked sixth among the nation's pass receivers with 400 yards and five touchdowns in 31 receptions.
In leading the Big Six passing statistics, the Kansas Jayhawkers threw nine fewer passes than Georgia Tech, but gained 96 more yards, 1,212 to 1,116.
Plenty of Passers
counted for 1,110 of Kansas' total yardage and boasted a combined percentage of .483. The Jayhawker total was a percentage of .508.
The Jayhawkers fielded three consistent passers in Ray Evans, who won his second consecutive loop passing crown, and Quarterbacks Red Hogan and Lynne McNutt, who finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in league standings. This trio ac-
Kansas unwound a stunning running attack this season that ground out 2,153 yards and combined with serial tactics to bring the Hawks eleventh place among the nation's total offense powers. The Sauer team averaged 326.6 yards a game in total offense. These figures include the T.C.U. game, which was more of a swimming meet than football game.
On the Ground, Too
Coach Sauer's squad also counted for three of the Big Six's top ground gainers in Fullback Forrest Griffith, Evans, and Backfield Frank Pattee. Griffith ate up 433 yards on his way to all-Big Six honors, while Evans was gaining 420 for eighth place and Pattee 391 for tenth.
Georgia Tech is responsible for one of the Big Six's setbacks. The Ramblin's Wreck poured it on Missouri 21 to 7 in the 1940 Orange Bowl festival.
Oklahoma was the first Big Six team to play in a major bowl, dropping a 17 to 0 game to Tennessee in the 1938 Orange Bowl.
Nebraska went to the Rose Bowl in 1940, and lost a hard-fought thriller to Clark Shaughnessey's T-formation team. 13 to 20.
Georgia Tech, which has played in post-season contests four out of the last five seasons, carries a sparkling Bowl record of four victories against two losses.
The 1941 Missouri team dropped a 2 to 0 decision to Fordham in a rugged mud battle in the 1941 Sugar bowl. Three seasons ago Chauncey Simpson's Big Six champions set all manner of rushing and total offense records against Texas in the Cotton bowl, but lost 26 to 40.
Sneakers Were First
Starting with their 8 to 7 victory over California in 1929, the Engineers have cut down Missouri, Tulsa, and St. Marys in that order. They
If the Jayhawkers come home with a Georgia Tech victory, it will be the first win ever scored in any of the major bowl classics by a Big Six team. Oklahoma beat North Carolina State 34 to 13 in the 'Gator bowl last year for the league's first New Year's triumph.
OITO SCHNELLBACHER, Kansas' basket-handed pass catcher, will have his last fling at snagging Ray Evans' passes in the Orange Bowl.
Beat the Hack out of Georgia Tech!
dropped a 14 to 7 decision to Texas in the 1943 Cotton Bowl and a 12 to 26 verdict to Tulsa in the 1945 Cotton Bowl.
Track Squad Works Inside
The remainder of the indoor schedule
K. U.'s track squad is hard at work preparing for its first indoor meet with Missouri Feb. 7.
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Feb. 14, Oklahoma there; Feb. 21, Nebraska there; and Feb. 23, the Big Seven Conference Meet in Kansas City Municipal auditorium. March 6th and 7th are open dates. The final indoor meet, sponsored by the Chicago Daily News, will be held in Chicago March 20.
The Tigers are the defending Big Six Champions and have 29 letter men returning to their squad.
Distribution of the Jayhawker will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 5, in the Union bookstore, for students who did not receive their issue yesterday or today, Larry Simmons, business manager, said today.
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