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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1947
By COOPER ROLLOW
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
With sights already set on the Orange Bowl and a battle royal with Georgia Tech, the Kansas Jayhawkers barrelhoused past Arizona Saturday night in a pass-packed game which was a fitting climax to a near-perfect season.
When the Jayhawkers take the field against the Ramblin' Wrecks New Years Day, they can look back on a season in which an amazing total of 290 Kansas points was chalked up on scoreboards, against 82 tallies for Mt. Oread opponents. The Kansas 290 point total figures up to average of 29 points a game, or a touchdown and extra point a quarter-
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The New York Sun and Grantland Rice are the latest to jump on the "Ray Evans for All-American" band wagon. The Sun recently named Evans as the outstanding college football player of the season, in announcing its All-American team for 1947. The Sun first team backfield was composed of Evans, Lujack of Notre Dame, Chappuis of Michigan, and Cloud of William and Mary.
In a syndicated column last week, Grantland Rice said that Evans was the player most sought after by professional football scouts. Rice praised Evans for his all-round skill in running, passing, kicking, blocking, and tackling.
--the Cats.
Kansas jumped to a quick 14 to 0 lead in the first quarter, and added another seven at the start of the second period, but Arizona's Fred Enke, firing passes like a carbon copy of the 1942 Ray Evans, tossed a couple touchdowns toward the Cats, and put Arizona temporarily back in the game.
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Note to C. E. McBride: A couple of significant weekend scores—Kansas 54, Arizona 28; Navy 0, Army 21.
Fred Enke, Arizona's needlethreading aerial wizard, proved his right to All-American claims Saturday. Enke completed 18 passes in 24 attempts, and was the chief reason why the Wildcats were able to score more points against Kansas than any team has managed to rack up since the embarrassing Tulsa episode of 1946.
Dean Bark, former University of Kansas student now attending Chicago university, recently wrote to register a justifiable gripe with this writer. Said Mr. Bark:
"It seems that just because a national hookup carries a game is no indication that the contest will be heard throughout the nation. I was greatly disappointed at not being able to hear the broadcast of the Kansas-Missouri game as it had been announced in the Daily Kansan.
"None of the eight CBS stations within range of Chicago carried the game. Three of the local Columbia stations sent their own men to South Bend for the totally unimportant Notre Dame-Tulane game, three more stations carried the Northwestern-Illinois contest, and two others broadcast Purdue and Indiana.
"The only way I could follow the Kansas game was to wait for the quarter scores which were given with distressing irregularity. With haphazard covenage such as this, it is no wonder that the Big Six is seldom scrutinized nationally for players of All-American caliber."
Chicago's lack of coverage of the Kansas-Missouri game, though unfortunate, was not representative of the entire national situation. After the game that weekend, Coach Sauer received numerous messages of congratulations from fans and alumni in Hollywood, New York, Atlanta, Detroit, and many other localities.
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Although the Big Six basketball season will not swing into action until January, the month of December will be a busy one for all conference teams.
During this month, Kansas takes on Emporia Teachers, Notre Dame, San Francisco, Oregon, and three Big Six teams in the pre-season tourney in Kansas City.
The Jayhawkers will open their conference season here Jan. 6 with Oklahoma University.
KU Whips Arizona 54-28 For Orange Bowl Warmup
A chronograph is an instrument noting time within the fraction of a second. By the electrical chronograph used by astronomers, the transit of a star can be recorded to within one-hundredth of a second.
Kansas University's bowl-bound Jayhawkers unleashed an offensive sample at the University of Arizona at Tucson Saturday night, and buried the Wildcats under a 54-28 score.
The Wildcats fought like the proverbial cornered feline, and doubled the previous high score against Kansas for the season with four touchdowns and four extra points. Kan-sa' 54 was the season high against down 20 seconds before the final Cats.
Enke, who ranks third among the nation's offensive stars, accounted for 357 yards, completing 18 of 25 passes, and gaining 69 yards on the ground.
Kansas, not to be denied its first undefeated season since 1923, rolled out a powerful team attack which Arizona couldn't stop, and piled up 509 yards and eight touchdowns with little trouble.
As usual, it was Ray Evans on the top of the heap, with a record of two touchdowns scored and four more set up. Evans scored the first on a 46-yard jaunt and the third, passed 42 yards to Otto Schnellbacher for the second, and set up the fourth and fifth with another pass and a pass interception.
Red Hogan added a couple of scores in the last half by throwing to Bryan Sperry, and Bud French, Forrest Griffith, and Frank Pattee each contributed points. Pattee scored twice.
With his touchdown, Griffith pulled away from Jack Mitchell, Oklahoma quarterback, to take the Big Six scoring crown. Mitchell scored once against the Oklahoma Aggies Saturday afternoon.
Don Fambrough, number eight scorer in the conference, added six points on conversions.
The teams were even on first downs with 18 each, but Kansas held the edge on offense, and all important score. The Jayhawkers rushed for 288 yards and passed for 214 for a total of 502; Arizona picked up 140 yards rushing and 295 through the air for a 435-yard total.
Kansas kicked off to Arizona, and held the Cats on the first try. The Jayhawkers scored in six plays, with Evans furnishing the points on a 46-vard run off tackle.
The second touchdown was set up by a 42-yard pass from Evans to Schnellbacher and the glue-fingered end grabbed the ball amidst three tacklers. He was knocked out of bounds on the 12, and Griffith bulled over, showering tacklers into the end zone.
Evans came back with his second touchdown as he cut seven yards off left tackle with blocks by Ken Speery and Red Ettinger paving the way.
Arizona came racing back with Enke throwing to anyone open. The first Arizona touchdown came on a pass to John Smith, right end, and six minutes later his running mate Bob Larsen grabbed another pass for the second touchdown.
Evans, who completed seven of 11 passes, tossed to French, Schnellbacher, and French again to move the ball to the one where Pattee took it over with 40 seconds left in the half.
Evans threw a wrench into the Arizona attack by intercepting the first Cat pass in the third quarter. With the ball on the Arizona 30, Evans passed incomplete, and then handed off to Pattee on a lateral and the Kansas fullback scored standing up.
Bud French added another on the first play of the fourth quarter on an off-tackle slant, and Fambrough's kick put the Jayhawkers out in front 41 to 14.
Red Hogan took over for Kansas and passed twice to end Bryan Sperry for touchdowns to put Kansas completely out of reach. The first toss was from the 23 and the second from the 22.
Arizona came back against the second and third-stringers to score in eight plays. Enke passed on fourth down from the two to Charles Hall, fullback.
Enke got the final Arizona touchdown 20 seconds before the final gun as he ran 19 yards after faking a pass.
The starting lineups:
Kansas Arizona
Small LE Larsen
Ettinger LT Varner
Fambrough LG Richardson
D. Monroe C Converse
Crawford RG Morrison
Renko RT Hunsaker
Schnellbacher RE Smith
McNutt QB Peterson
Bertuzzi RH Goff
Evans LH Enke
Pattee FB Hall
Scoring: Arizona: Smith, Larsen,
Hall, Enke (6 each); Goff (4). Kansas:
Evans, Pattee. B. Sperry (12
each); Griffith, French, Fambrough,
6 each).
Kansas 14 14 6 20-54
Arizona 0 14 14 14-28
This Prison 'Lawyer' Didn't Like 'Stripes'
Score by quarters:
Jefferson City, Mo.—(UP)—Inmates of the Missouri Penitentiary miss their legal "counsel"—a convict who has "sprung" himself on a write of habeas corpus.
The prisoner was Clyde Meeks, 46, self-styled prison "lawyer." Meeks was not a member of the bar, claiming only a ninth grade education. But he studied hard in his cell and became an expert at habeas corpus, successfully using that legal outlet for the release of numerous fellow prisoners.
Meeks "reviewed" countless cases and gave advice free. Meeks himself gained freedom by pleading his own case in circuit court.
Rules Need Work, Says Coach Sauer
Coach George Sauer of the University of Kansas has called on the National Football Rules committee to clarify the section of the rules that has led to a series of statements from coaches that illegal plays have been used.
Coach Don Faurot said that his movies of the Kansas-Missouri game showed that the last play used by Kansas in the first half was illegal.
Sauer said that his movies of the game have arrived but have not been shown to the squad.
"We don't coach illegal plays and that if the one Don refers to was illegal, it was purely an accident," said Sauer.
"I do know that the play used was not in our system. I asked about it at half-time and learned 'Red' Hogan and Ray Evans had cooked it up. Hogan said he was a yard behind the line of scrimmage when the ball was snapped."
Whether the Kansas quarterback was or was not, Sauer said he would withhold a definite statement until he sees the film.
"The rule," he added, "should state that the quarterback is or is not eligible and eliminate the one-yard back stipulation."
Pro Football
National League
Philadelphia 21. Pittsburgh 0.
New York 35. Chicago Cardinals 31.
Boston 27. Washington 24.
Green Bay 30. Los Angeles 10.
All-America Conference New York 35, Buffalo 13. Baltimore 14, Chicago 7.
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