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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1947
By COOPER ROLLOW Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas owes a vote of thanks to Track Coach Bill Easton.
Easton reported to K. U. for duty as thinclad coach only last August. Immediately he shouldered the task of moulding together a group of Jayhawker runners who hadn't been conceded much chance to gain any Big Six honors.
Last Saturday Coach Easton showed Kansas fans what he had accomplished in the three short months since he took over the reins of the Mt. Oread team. The underdog Jayhawkers completely dominated the race at Ames, Iowa, and brought home the first cross-country title in the history of the school.
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This column has consistently harped on the fact that George Sauer's Kansans have not received the national recognition commensurate with their abilities. Heretofore, this writer has placed the blame upon eastern sportswriters who—as has been intimated—seem to live in a dream world which does not regard Big Six football as football at all.
It now appears that our gripes—though well-directed most of the time — should perhaps have been pointed a little closer to home. For apparently the Kansas team has been given the well-known cold shoulder by a newspaper which definitely isn't on the eastern side of the Mississippi.
In his "Sporting Comment" Monday night, the Kansas City Star's C. E. McBride listed what he regards as the top twenty football teams of the nation. Kansas was not included in the list.
At the bottom of the list, Mr. McBride added nine more teams. These, he explained, were strong, but not deserving of a "top twenty" rating. Missouri and Oklahoma were in this group. Again Kansas was not mentioned.
This column appears, not as an argument against the inclusion of teams like Notre Dame, Michigan, and Southern Methodist, who have proven their supremacy beyond a doubt. Our distress arises from the fact that Kansas was excluded from Mr. McBride's calculations in favor of teams which could not, in any sense, be considered among the best in the nation.
Teams like Navy, for instance. The Midshipmen, with a two-year record of two wins in seventeen games, are Mr. McBride's choice for fifteenth position. Navy, victors only over Cornell this year, placed on the football honor roll, and Kansas, boasting twelve consecutive games without a defeat, is not even considered among the top twenty-nine teams.
It could be that the Star's Sports Editor has fallen victim to habit. Admittedly, this year's Jayhawker eleven is the first note-worthy football team Kansas has fielded since the inauguration of the Big Six.
But the Kansas showing this year is beyond argument. Game after game, the Jayhawkers have displayed their ability to come out on the top end of the score. Twelve games without defeat is testimonial enough to the grid supremacy of any team. And, topping all arguments, is the fact that only Kansas and six other teams remain in the ranks of the nation's undefeated.
Your selections, Mr McBride, are distressingly illogical. Coming as they did from the sports editor of the midwest's leading newspaper, they are inexcusable.
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Bill Day, Missouri's sure-toed kicker, pulled a muscle in the calf of his kicking leg Monday, and is not expected to play against K.U. Roland Oakes, Tiger end who sustained a cracked rib in the Duke game, has been mentioned as Missouri's No.1 hope in the punting department against Kansas.
Oakes was rated as the best Tiger punter at the start of the season, and Bengal Coach Don Faurot is reportedly keeping his fingers crossed that next Saturday will see the injured end in a condition good enough for light kicking duty.
OU, With Mitchell Tops Grabs Statistics Monopoly
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—The manhandling job done by the Oklahoma Sooners on Don Faurot's Missouri team Saturday also looks bad in the columns of this week's statistical summary.
The Sooners turned the Big Six conference championship race into a free-for-all when they upset the favored Tigers last week. The same upset turned the Big Six statistical sheets topsy turvy.
Jack Mitchell, Oklahoma mastermind, regained his first position in the conference ball carrying race in no uncertain manner. Mitchell picked up 53 net yards in eight trips with the ball against Missouri, while Bus Entsinger, who last week passed the Sooner quarterback in yards gained, lost a net of two yards in six carries. That setback dropped the Missouri signal-caller to fourth in the ball carrying competition. Halbert of Iowa State and Oklahoma's George Brewer both pushed between Mitchell and Entsinger.
The Oklahoma T-master also was tied for first place in the individual scoring race with Kansas' Forrest Griffith. Both boasted seven touchdowns. Ed Quirk, Missouri, was third with six tallies.
Oklahoma's Darrell Royal pushed Jack Pesek, Nebraska, off the top rung in the punting race. Royal turned in a 43-yard average for five boots in the Missouri game, boosting his average for 29 kicks this season to 40.5. Pesek, idle as Nebraska enjoyed a breather last week, coasted into second in the punting race with a 40.1-yard average.
Mitchell moved from tenth to seventh place in the passing columns in this week's statistical summary. Ron Norman, Iowa State aerialist who took over the Big Six passing lead last week when Kansas State's Bill Church quit school, boosted his lead in that division to more than 100 yards over his nearest competitor. Kansas' Ray Evans was second with two less games with Bus Entsminger a close third.
Oklahoma, pushed, closer to the Missouri ground-gaining lead with last week's upset, Missouri, with a powerful T-tack that has gained an average of 262 yards per game in nine games still led the league, but the Sooners were only 19 yards behind.
The Tigers jumped to third in total cards gained passing this week, railing only Kansas State and Kansas in that department.
New Hampshire To Bowl
Durham, N. H.—(UP)—The University of New Hampshire today accepted a bid for the Dec. 6 Glass Bowl at Toledo, O.
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