UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1947
Griffith Into Scoring Lead; Pulls Toward Rushing Top
Forrest Griffith had vaulted uncontested into the Big Six individual scoring lead and jumped from sixth to third in the ball-carrying race after the smoke of battle cleared Saturday at Lawrence and Lincoln.
The ball-totin' Jayhawker has an outside chance to take the conference ground-gaining honors if he can keep up the pace he has set in his last two appearances. He picked up 68 yards on leader Jack Mitchell last week but still trails the Sooner quarterback by 87 yards as both teams have one game to go. Behind Mitchell in second place is Webb Halbert of Iowa State, whose season is finished. He is now only 11 total yards ahead of Griffith.
FORREST GRIFITH, Kansas fullback from Lee's Summit, Mo., scored the winning touchdown against Missouri Saturday on a plunge from the one-yard line.
Griffith sparked the Kansas running attack throughout the game, and totaled 111 yards rushing, almost half of the Kansas ground total.
The best gain of the leading ball luggers is owned by Bud French of Kansas, who has picked up an 8.81 per rush in 36 runs, and holds 10th place in total gains.
In the passing department, Ray Evans moved closer to Ron Norman, the Cyclone ace who has finished the season. Evans pitched for 105 yards against the Tigers to pass Church of Kansas State. He is now only 26 yards behind the leader.
Otto Schnellbacher also moved to the top for the Jayhawkers in his specialty, pass-grabbing. After trailing Dean Launm most of the season. Schnelly finally passed the Cyclone flanker last week by haul-down three forwards for a net gain of 42 yards.
Individual Rushing:
Ball Carriers Rushes Yds Aver
Mitchell, O. U. 115 153 4.61
Halbert, I.S. 109 474 4.35
Griffith, K.U. 78 463 5.94
Ensminger, M.U. 89 453 5.09
Brewer, O.U. 103 451 4.38
Braznell, M.U. 67 421 6.28
Pattee, K.U. 77 357 4.64
Bonnett, M.U. 78 355 4.55
French, K.U. 36 317 8.81
Coach Sauer To Speak To Los Angeles Alumni
George Sauer, K. U. football coach,
will speak at a meeting of Los Ang-
les alumni Dec. 1 at the home of Tom
Brenneman, of Breakfast in Hollywood,
fame.
Coach Sauer will talk about University athletics and other Hill activities. A large number of Los Angeles alumni association members are planning to drive to the Arizona-K. U. game in Tuscon Saturday.
KU To 13th In Grid Poll
The Kansas Jayhawkers, who have remained undefeated in 13 consecutive games, were rated in 13th place this week by the Associated Press poll of football writers;
Kansas drew 94 votes, 10 less than 12th-place Army, and a comfortable 28 votes ahead of William and Mary, new Southern conference champ.
Notre Dame, with 97 first-place votes, remained on top, but with a hare 30-point margin over Michigan. The Irish had 1,798 to Michigan's 1,768. Michigan got 81 first-place bids.
Southern Methodist, the third undefeated, untied team to rate, took third, but lagged behind the top runners. Southern California, once-tied, was hot on the Mustang heels in fourth. Penn State, only other unbeaten, untied major team finished the week in fifth.
Sugar Bowl-bound Alabama was listed in sixth place, with Texas, Penn, Georgia Tech, and North Carolina rounding out the first 10. Others in the first 20 were California, 11th Mississippi, 15th Columbia, 16th, U.C.L.A., 17th, Rice, 18th, Minnesota, 19th, and Oklahoma Big Six co-titleholders with Kansas, 20th.
Kansas Added To Orange Bowl List
New York — (UP) — The Orange Bowl injected Kansas and William and Mary into its considerations today, and the Cotton Bowl upheld all action until Texas conceded the Southwest Conference invitation to SMU as the nation's annual bowl fever reached its peak.
Southern California and Michigan were formally declared the Rose Bowl teams, but that was a matter of routine. New Hampshire was named to meet Toledo at Toledo, O., in the second annual Glass Bowl, but that, too, failed to startle since New Hampshire replied a happy "Yes" to Glass Bowl feelers last week.
But the Orange and Cotton Bowls were still very much in the air.
The Orange Bowl committee at Miami, Fla., would say nothing definite. But it did admit that it had added Kansas and William and Mary to its list since last week's games. That was when Kansas won a half-share in the Big Six Championship by beating Missouri and W & M automatically took the Southern Conference crown when North Carolina downed Duke.
The SMU team, undefeated and untied with only TCU to play, voted yesterday on its choice for a Cotton Bowl opponent, and Penn State was believed to be the selection. Penn State cooperated by voting to accept an invitation from a "reputable" bowl.
However, the Cotton Bowl committee met for several hours last night and emerged from the closed session with this position: No team can be named, because SMU could be tied for the Southwest Championship and Texas has not conceded it rights to the bowl in such an eventuality.
Such a tie would result if TCU beats SMU and Texas downs Texas A&M this week-end. Texas already indicated it would pass up the Cotton Bowl in the case of a tie, but the Dallas, Tex., committee preferred to wait until this is official.
Texas had little reason to fight for the Dallas bid, since a win over the Aggies Thursday probably would put it in the Sugar Bowl anyway against Alabama, no matter what happens to SMU.
On the debit side of the bowl ledger, the University of Oregon turned down an invitation to meet the University of Hawaii at Honolulu Jan. 1. Hawaii insisted that a return match be scheduled for the mainland next season, but Oregon Athletic Director Leo Harris said this proposal was not the reason for rejecting the invite.
Forrest Griffith is the name on the lips of every Jayhawker fan this week. The 184-pound sophomore battering ram has endeared himself to Kansas boosters by climaxing a series of brilliant performances with a stunning show of speed, power, elusiveness, and guts against Missouri.
BY PAUL ZEH Assistant Sports Editor
Griffith is not a one-game football hero, nor a flashy long-run hero. His play has been consistently of star caliber all season on running, blocking, and tackling. The current acclaim heaped on the Lee Summit lad simply means that for the first time this season there has been enough enthusiasm to go around after Ray Evans received his usual quota of praise.
This does not imply that Evans has not deserved every word of exaltion heaped upon him. Riflin' Ray has become legendary to followers, as well as opponents, of Kansas, and those who have seen him in action agree with one voice that he is much more valuable to the team than statistics indicate. Jayhawker supporters have fallen into the habit of placing most of their hopes each week on big Number 42.
With the illustrius career of Ray Evans now in its waning minutes, fans have begun to look to the future and ask themselves, "Will we ever have another Evans?" Forrest Griffith now looms as a likely successor, not because his talents are similar to those of Evans, but because he shows promise of being as great in his own special way.
Griffith cannot handle the same chores as Evans. He will not fill in as one of the nation's most deadly passers, and may never reach the Evans standard for consistent, all-around dependability which is Number 42's greatest asset. But Griffith's specialty is running, and in this department he may prove to be as dangerous a weapon offensively as a Golding, or a Steuber, or a Blanchard. As a blocker and a linebacking fullback, the sophomore is already cased as an expert. He is also a capable punter.
Griffith may be the successor to Evans, in other words, because he, too, is of All-American caliber. The Lee Summit battering ram has two years in which to polish the rough edges. If he can continue to improve as he has during the past year, Number 66 may some day hang alongside Number 42 in the Jayhawker's football hall of fame.
Navy Commissions Await Graduates
A representative of the navy will be in 102 Frank Strong hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to interview anyone interested. The navy prefers men who will graduate in February or June. No previous military training or service is required.
The navy wants college graduates between the ages of 21 and 25 for the supply corps, Lt. Comdr, R. S. Bradley said today. Commissions as ensigns will be offered.
Interested students unable to attend may see Commander Bradley at the Military Science building.
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Feelers Come From Bowls
Coach George Sauer has announced that Orange bowl officials have asked if the University of Kansas would be interested in a bid and that officials here replied the Jayhawkers would.
Nothing more has been heard about the matter, the Kansas coach added.
Kansas has received a similar inquiry from Cotton bowl officials and the same answer was given. However, nothing further has been heard from Dallas, either.
Van C. Kussrow, chairman of the team committee for the Orange bowl game, said that no announcement of teams selected will be made until after Thanksgiving.
The committee first decides which teams it would like to have play in the bowl, then finds out if these teams would accept a bid, and finally sends formal invitations.
William and Mary, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Mississippi, and the University of Texas are also being considered for bids.
One member of the team committee said that the group was "very much interested" in the Kansas team.
Getto Is Chosen On All-Time Squad
Mike Getto, assistant football coach, was recently selected on the all-time all-Italian grid team of the Unico-Nationals club.
Mike, who was an all-American tackle at Pittsburgh in 1927 and 1928, holds down a first string tackle post on the all-Italian team. Harry Stella, former Army star, is in the other tackle spot.
Also on the first team were: Ends—Bill Daddio, Pitt. and Gene Ronzi, Marquette; Guards—Bruno Banducci, Stanford and John Mastrangelo, Notrer Dame; Center-Louis DeFilippo, Fordham; Backs—Frank Carideo, Notre Dame, Charlie Trippi, Georgia, Paul Governalli, Columbia, and Joe Savoldi, Notre Dame
The L. N. Flint Chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, mens' advertising fraternity, held formal initiation following dinner in the English room recently.
Alpha Delta Sigma Holds Initiation
"Advertising is a rough game" emphasized George Bowles, advertising manager of the Hotel President in Kansas City, Mo., after he was introduced by L. N. Flint. Mr. Bowles was initiated as an honorary member. Three others were also initiated: they are John R. Malone, Harold Addington, Journalism department instructors, and Ted Gray, Kansan make-up man.
Undergraduate initiates were Paul Warner, Roger James, Kenneth Bellamy, George McLaughlin, Gregg Stock, George Tamblyn, Bert Morris, Harold Sandy, Wister Alderson, and Harold Lulcens.
Alumni members from Kansas City present for the ceremony were Abe McCool, Cal Arnold, Tom Cadden, Mel Adams and Frank R. Schulthers. The faculty advisor is Lee S. Cole.
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