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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1947
BY COOPER ROLLOW Daily Kansan Sports Editor
A badly battered Kansas football team will take the field at Stillwater Saturday. Coach George Sauer pushed the unbeaten Jayhawkers through a hard drill yesterday in preparation for the Oklahoma Aggie game with three men sidelined in sweat clothes and another griddler on crutches.
Tackle Hugh Johnson has an injured knee buried in a cast, tackle Red Ettinger is out of action with a bruised face, and reserves Ed Lee and Terry Monroe were injured in scrimmages with the frosh.
--over LAWRENCE
Any doubt about the supremacy of Notre Dame has now vanished. By virtue of their thorough tromping of Army, the Irish justified preseason predictions that the 1947 team would be the most devastating since the days of Knute Rockne.
The South Benders are now rated at the top of the heap in every weekly poll in the country. Grant-land Rice declared Monday that college football has never known a team "so big, so fast, and so experienced."
--over LAWRENCE
Kansas is rated twenty-third in the nation in the weekly Associated Press poll. The Missouri Tigers occupy the number seventeen spot, as a result of their upset victory over Duke. C. E. McBride, Kansas City Star Sports Editor, placed the Missourians in seventh place in his weekly rating.
--over LAWRENCE
Mighty Michigan meets Wisconsin Saturday in the game which should decide the Big Nine title. Always a dangerous opponent, the Badgers look to be the only team with a chance of upsetting the flying Wolverines. Unbeaten in league play, Wisconsin has lost only an intersectional game to California.
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Missouri probably will be given a two touchdown edge over Kansas November 22, if the Tigers beat Oklahoma and the Jayhawkers take the measure of the Oklahoma Aggies Saturday. If the Faurot team is favored, it should be a bad weekend for the bookies. Nothing delights the Jayhawkers more than to be conceded the role of underdog.
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If Southern Methodist continues its winning ways, the Mustangs will be the first undefeated, untied Southwest conference team ever to appear in the Cotton bowl.
Only seven major elevens have managed to retain their undefeated and untied status. Penn, Notre Dame, Michigan, Southern Methodist, Georgia Tech, Penn State, and Utah still boast unspoiled records.
--over LAWRENCE
The announcement that Red Barber will broadcast the Kansas-Missouri game over CBS is cheering news to Kansas alumni fans. The nationwide hook-up should help to increase the prestige of the Big Six in the eyes of the national football public. The broadcast will be the first time a Kansas-Missouri game has been aired over a major network since the 1938 contest at Columbia.
Aggie Officials Deny Report Of Lookabaugh Discharge
Stillwater, Okla.—(UP)—Officials at Oklahoma A. & M. College today belittled student newspaper reports which suggested Football Coach Jim Lookabaugh might be handed his walking papers at the season's end.
The effigy was saved from the burning last week and will be brought out at a football rally here Friday night as "Mr. Jayhawk," the O'Collegian reported.
Admitted To Hospital
Del L. Woolworth, engineering senior, was admitted to Watkins hospital for acute appendicitis Monday. He was transferred to Winter General hospital in Topeka late Monday.
FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM
Schnellbacher, Kansas End Pesek, Nebraska
Goad, Oklahoma End Tyree, Oklahoma
Johnson, Kansas Tackle Samuelson, Nebraska
Walker, Oklahoma Tackle Paine, Oklahoma
Abrams, Missouri Guard Burris, Oklahoma
Fambrough, Kansas Guard Stone, Missouri
Rapacz, Oklahoma Center Novak, Nebraska
Entsminger, Missouri Quarter McNutt, Kansas
Mitchell, Oklahoma Half Brinkman, Missouri
Evans, Kansas Half Halbert, Iowa State
Thomas, Oklahoma Full Griffith, Kansas
1947 Daily Kansan All-Big Six Team
HONORABLE MENTION: Ends, Jensen, Iowa State; Oakes, Missouri; Laun, Iowa State; Branch, Kansas State. Tackles, Ettinger, Kansas; Converse, Kansas State. Guards, Lorenz, Nebraska; Crawford, Kansas. Center, Monroe, Kansas. Backs, Pattee, Kansas; Day, Missouri; Royal, Oklahoma; Fisher, Nebraska; French, Kansas; Atkins, Kansas State; Bryan, Kansas State; Ferguson, Iowa State.
The team was chosen by six members of the Daily Kansan sports staff. Schnellbacher, Fambrough, Rapacz, Mitehell, and Evans are repeaters from the 1946 all-Big Six first team, and Abrams moved from the 1946 reserve squad to the first team. Novak, first team fullback in 1946, was barely nosed from the center spot by Rapacz.
Big Six Basketball Coaches Already Eye Winter Race
Colorado, new member of the conference this season, is the darkhorse, Gardner believes. All that is known about Colorado this year is that Coach Frosty Cox consistently comes up with good teams and is always ready to spring a surprise if possible.
Thanksgiving is still two weeks away, but already Big Six basketball coaches are beginning to put the polish on their charges, most of whom have been practicing daily since the middle of October.
Gardner believes that the loss of Charley Black will hurt Kansas, but expects the Jayhawkers "mighty potent B team" to mold with the returning regulars into a hard-fighting team.
It's anybody's guess as to who will walk away with basketball honors in the Big Six this year, and many coaches have refused to make predictions this early in the season. $ \textcircled{4} $
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, Kansas coach, said recently that he expects Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado to be the strongest teams this year, but would not venture a guess as to the loop winner.
Gardner last year correctly predicted the championship and eventual national honors for Oklahoma University. This year, he rates the Kansas Jayhawkers and Oklahoma in a deadlock for second and third place honors. Iowa State should finish fourth, Gardner says, and his own Wildcats and Nebraska should scrap it out for the fifth position.
Colorado Is Darkhorse
Gardner Picks Tigers
Coach "Sparky" Stalcup's Missouri Tigers will win the Big Six hardwood race this winter if the prediction of Jack Gardner, Kansas State head coach, comes true.
Gerald Tucker, twice All-American, Dick Reich, Allie Paine, and Jack Landon, all stand-outs on the '47 team, are gone.
Tucker, Paine, Reich Leave
Colorado Is Darkhorse
Clayton "Chick" Sutherland, Iowa State basketball coach, has reduced his varsity squad to 20, the last cut until after football transfers have had a chance to try out.
Only veteran Paul "Lefty" Courty, famous for his savage rebounding has returned.
Coach Bruce Drake, whose 1947 Oklahoma team captured the Big Six flag, broke its 13-year Stillwater jinx, and battled Holy Cross in the national collegiate finals, has lost every starter but one off last year's club.
Seven men, including three lettermen, are expected to report to Sutherland from the football squad.
But Drake isn't too discouraged. He still has big Bill Waters, Ken Pryor, Paul Merchant, and several other capable and experienced players around to polish into what he hopes will be another championship outfit.
Sutherland Molds Squad
The K-club, Kansas lettermen's group, will hold a reorganization meeting at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in Lindley hall. New officers will be elected.
K-Club To Reorganize
Coach's Dummy May Burn Friday
Oklahoma Aggie students plan to bring football coach Jim Lookabaugh's dummy to a homecoming rally Friday night before the Kansas game, where they will complete the "burning in effigy" ceremony which was foiled Saturday night, the O'Collegian, campus newspaper, said Tuesday.
The dummy was "rescued" by three student senators Saturday before a proposed hanging ceremony and taken to the senate office. One of the students said he believed the scheme had little support because nobody was on hand to protect the dummy.
Feeling on the A. and M. campus has grown increasingly bitter this year as the Cowboys have waded deeper into a soggy season. Their record so far is three wins and five losses, the latest to their old rival, Tulsa, last week.
Lookabaugh came to Stillwater 10 years ago and reached his peak as a successful coach when his Aggies trounced Texas Christian in the Cotton Bowl in 1945, and defeated St. Mary's in the Sugar Bowl in January 1946. Since that time the Aggies have been a hot and cold team.
Intramural football team managers are asked to submit all-opponent team selection to Don Powell, intramural director, at 107 Robinson gymnasium.
Football Managers Will Pick All-Stars
Using these selections as a basis for their choices, a group composed of intramural sports writers for the University Daily Kansan and the intramural executive board will select touch football all-star teams
Powell has urged that these selections be turned in at the earliest possible date.
Separate teams will be chosen for the Fraternity "A" league, Independent league and Fraternity "B" league.
Bob Jensen, 6-foot, 3-inch, 204 pound end, has been named Athlete of the Week at Iowa State College
End Bob Jensen Named
Cyclone Athlete Of Week
Jensen has snared a total of 11 passes this season for 212 yards. He is also an outstanding defensive end.
Jensen was all-Chicago end while attending Lane Tech in 1944. He entered Iowa State in 1944 as a V-12 student and has been playing for the Cyclones since then.
Abel, Crowl Win Numerals
Cliff Abel and Dwane Crowl qualified for freshman track numerals last week as they paced the freshman team to a 6 to 15 victory over the sophomores in an inter-squad cross-country meet, Bill Easton, head track coach, said today.
Abel ran the difficult two miles over hills in 12:02.5. Crowl was second with 12:28, and Dave Breidenthal was third, covering the distance in 12:30.5. To qualify for the freshman award, a man must run the course under 12:30. Easton said.
The freshman will be given two more chances to qualify before the fall season ends, he added. The next meet will be Thursday, Nov. 13.
Student Union Board Dinner Will Be Held Tonight
The Student Union Executive Board dinner will be held at 5:45 tonight in the Union. The dinner will be held in the East room instead of the English room as previously announced, said Luanne Powell, activities vice-president.
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