FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THIRTEEN
O'NEAL
MOFFETT
KLINE
JACK FINK
LEE
BOB DRUMM
ROBISON
MENDENHALL
KU Seeks Big 6 Title Again
DICK CHANNELL
SMALL
MESTER
ETTINGER
H. JOHNSON
FAMBROUGH
SCHNELLBACHER
DICK MONROE
EHRLICK
STRICKER
FOULKS
DELVIN NORRIS
Final Conference Status To Be Decided Saturday
By ROBERT E. DELLINGER
Assistant Sports Editor
When Kansas and Missouri clash here tomorrow, the game will be half of an important doubleheader which will decide the football standings.
The other half of the twin bill will be played at Lincoln, where the Nebraska Cornhuskers entertain the Oklahoma Sooners. The games will be equally important in the final standing.
The Oklahomaans go into their contest favored to win and earn at least a share in the conference championship. The Sooners are in better physical shape than at any time this season, and the return of 146 all Big Six fullback Eddy Davis gives the Southernners a powerful ground-gaining weapon.
McNUTT
Nebraska will have a few factors in its favor. The game will be on the Huskers' face field, and Oklahoma faces a jinx there. Although the jinx is much milder than the one shattered by Kansas two weeks ago, the Sooners face the stigma of only two Oklahoma victories in the last 13 games at Lincoln.
Nebraska will have two weeks of rest before the game. The Huskers will have a chance to recover from minor injuries and get their big, powerful grid machine well oiled.
Kansas can win or share in the title by a victory over Missouri, but will sink to second or third by losing. If both Oklahoma and Kansas win, the race will end in a tie. If both lose, Missouri takes the crown.
At times this year, Nebraska teams have shown signs of brilliance. The Huskers rushed 203 yards against Notre Dame, the season high against the Irish, and extended Minnesota and Kansas to the limit before losing.
Oklahoma had a tough tussle with Missouri last week, and the Sooners are certain to be tried. A let-down against Nebraska is entirely possible.
The best Kansas hopes lie in K. U. and N. U. victories, which would hand the title to the Jayhawkers and pull the Huskers into third.
Each of the first division clubs can finish in any of the top three spots after tomorrow's games.
37,000 Expected For Jayhawker-Tiger Clash
EVAN9
GRIFFITH
By COOPER ROLLOW
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
FRENCH
Kansas University's light but deadly Jayhawkers, undefeated in 12 consecutive games, will run into big, streamlined Missouri at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Memorial stadium before a record-breaking crowd of 37,000 fans.
Probable Starting Lineups
MISSOURI
Roland Cakes (193) LE
Chester Fritz (206) LT
Verlie Abrams (187) LG
Bob Fuchs (212) C
Bob Stone (220) RG
Gene Pepper (199) RT
Kenny Bounds (206) RE
Bus Entsminger (181) QB
Howard Bonnett (177) LH
Dick Braznell (179) RH
Wilbur Volz (184) FB
KANSAS
Marvin Small (185)
Don Ettinger (204)
Don Fambrough (184)
Dick Monroe (200)
Joe Crawford (203)
Hugh Johnson (188)
Otto Schnellbacher (178)
Lynne McNutt (181)
Ray Evans (190)
Bud French (168)
Forrest Griffith (184)
Line average: Missouri (200.7), Kansas (191.0); backfield average, Missouri (180.3), Kansas (180.8); team average, Missouri (193.3), Kansas (187.3).
Watch These Reserves, Too
HOGAN
SCOTT
R. BERTUZZI
PATTEE
The contest will mark the 56th renewal of the ancient Jayhawker-Tiger feud.
Anyway you care to look at it, the game should be a natural. The Tigers will be shooting for a revenge triumph to atone for the 20-19 setback they absorbed from the Javawkers a year ago in Columbia. The Jayhawkers have as their motive for second successive Big Six championship
A nationwide CBS hookup will carry the tussle via the voice of Red Barber to the far corners of the country, and a record number of nine local radio stations will air the important Kansas-Missouri clash.
On paper, the teams possibly are the two most evenly matched in conference circles. Kansas is pacing the league in total defense and trails only Missouri in overall offense. The Tigers boast a wide edge in attack and rank second only to the Jayhawkers in total defense. Both teams rank high nationally in their respective departments.
Tiger quarterback Bent Entsminger and halfback Dick Braznell are the keymen in the atomic Missouri aerial attack which has given Missouri Coach Don Faurot his best passing offensive since 1940.
With Ray Evans, Lynne Mcutt, and Red Hogan all riding among the loop's top six throwers, the sizzling Kansas air attack is probably the most efficient in the conference.
In eight games so far this season, the Sauer men have completed 43 passes out of 97 attempts for a total of 864 yards gained via the aerial route. This figures up to a percentage of 443.
Kansas, like Missouri, boasts three of the league's top ground-gainers in Halfback Bud French and Fullback Forrest Griffith and Frank Pattee.
All of which should add up to one of the most terrific football games the Big Six has seen in some time.
MALLON
THOMPSON
EILERTS
SHERWOOD
DARRELL NORRIS
BRAY
ROUSE
MORROW
SCHMID7
K. SPERRY
TOMLINSON
T. MONROE
B. SPERRY
BROWN
BAKER