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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1947
By JIM RAGLIN Daily Kansan Sports Editor
When Forrest Griffith, Lees Summit, Mo., came to the University there was a great cry of indignation from Missouri university. Some sportwriters joined the Mizzo cause believing that all native talent should play their football at home in their own state university. Griffith stuck with his choice of Kansas and the "steal," as Missouri called it, even received a few lines in Time magazine.
After all of the publicity Griffith grew speed for a fullback, had received the fans expected him to be a second Ray Evans in his first college game. He was not, but he was good. Saturday was the day Griffith showed why Missouri wanted him to enroll there. He showed great speed for a fullback and he battered his way for several long gains through the middle of Iowa State. He hit one and then two Cyclone tackles converged into Griffith lowered his head and drove into them. He was tacked but one of the Iowa State men was forced to leave the game after the collision. On defense Forrest made the fans yell with a vicious fourth quarter tackle that flipped an Iowa Stater helmet over cleats.
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Coach Abe Stuber of Iowa State told us before the game that there were 11 football lettermen roaming the I. S. campus that were not out for the team. Included in the 11 are last season's regular tackles.
"You've got a crack first string that is as good as any in the league," commented Stuber. "Your line replacements will fall short of those that Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma have."
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Hundreds of portable radios kept fans throughout the stadium informed about the World series. A new hawker's item, the heavy paper sun shield, caught on quick. One student bought one saying that it would be ideal for an all night poker game. Two scouts from South Dakota State were in the press box watching the Jayhawks preform. The only warming up that Norman did was playing catch with the Iowa State trainer. Red Hogan's flashy punt return was one the games longest runs but a pentyl nullified it.
There were plenty of thrills in the Kansas victory over Iowa State. The passing of Ray Evans; the vicious tackling of the Kansas linemen; the long touchdown run by Bud French; the excellent preformance of Forrest Griffith; and the 60-yard touchdown pass scored by Iowa State. Although that long pass by the Cyclones was not a crowd pleaser it did provide many thrills for the 18,000 onlookers. It was the first score Kansas has yielded this season.
Evans gave the crowd a short show of his passing talent. Regardless of how rushed Evans is he never throws the ball astray. His defensive play in the game was tops as it always is. Tom Scott, also playing left halfback, displayed his scatback running ability and should develop into one of the biggest yard-gainers in the conference.
Despite the heat the Kansas line charged, tackled, and blocked hard throughout the game, Ed Lee, subbing for Hugh Johnson, blocked an Iowa State punt making it the second consecutive game in which a Jayhawk lineman has done this trick. Lee, Renko, and Monroe filled in for Ettinger and Johnson most capably. Other substitute linemen who played excellent ball were Brown, in for Dick Monroe at center; Sperry, in at guard for Fambrough; Tomilinson, spelling Joe Crawford; and Dave Schmidt who alternated with Small at left end.
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Evans Stars As KU Rolls Over Iowa State 27-7
Whatever question marks existed about the University of Kansas football machine of 1947 were dissolved in the early October sunshine Saturday as the men of Sauer seconded the experts' predictions that they rank with the classiest in the Big Six.
The flashy Jayhawker backs were never flashier as they rolled up a 27 to 7 count on a plucky Iowa State eleven. After two weak offensive performances in previous games, the terrible "T" finally exploded, and (two important factors had a lot to do with the explosion. Ray Evans and favorable weather at last got together on the same field.
Evans came into the ball game to hold for Fambrighau's first conversion try early in the second quarter and played most of the game thereafter. He was never better, completing three out of six passes for 64 yards, scoring two touchdowns, blocking and tackling cleanly, and generally adding sparkle to the attack.
The weather, too, favored the Jay-hawkers. The turf was dampened just enough from the Friday night rains to give perfect footing to Sauer's shiny backs. And the heat of
the afternoon gave the many capable Kansas reserves a chance to prove their value to the squad as the Hawkers rolled over the wilted State starters in both the second and fourth quarers. Had the game been played on a cool day, the Cy-
EVAN$ _ $ clones might have been able to stave off more of the Hawkers' thrusts in these periods.
First Quarter To Cyclones
First Quarter To Cyclones
In the first eight minutes of the game the fresh charges of Abe Stuber actually played the Kansans off their feet. After seat-back Don Ferguson snaked his way to the Hawker 34 with a Pattee punt, the Staters began a march that was touchdown-bound until Scott intercepted a pass from Dean Laum. Twice more the Cyclones started offensive drives in Jayhawker territory in these eight minutes. Kansas finally began their first drive from their 26, highlighted by Dick Berutzuil's scooting the Cyclone left for 25 yards to the enemy 21. All through this first stanza the visitors were more aggressive, and had most of the 18,000 fans crossing their fingers.
The shining star in the early Cyclone performance was easily that of halfback Ferguson, whom Stuber used only on defense in place of Webb Halbert, just off the injured list. The 19-year-old back from Ottumwa, Iowa accounted for 95 yards in four punt returns, an average of 24 yards per trop. Although he weighs only 156. Ferguson may develop into a great open-field runner this season.
The steam-rolling Kansas defense, which used a five-man line until after the initial Cyclone threat, kept passing ace Ron Norman busy dodging Jayhawkers every time he raised the ball to pass. These rushing tactics led to the first score, when Marvin Small recovered a Norman fumble on an end-around play early in the second canto on the State 12. An off-side penalty against Iowa State and three running plays put the ball across, Griffith carrying for the TD.
Evans Does It Again
With six points under their broad belts, it was only a matter of minutes until the Hawkers started to roll again. The place was on their own 20, but a 15-yard clipping penalty actually made it the 5. From that point the Jayhawkers marched to their second touchdown in eight yards, an unofficial drive of 95 yards. Plate caught it out of danger with a 15-yard call around his right end to the 24. Cliping the team's visitors followed, moving the ball to the 39, and then French went to work on the other end and carried to' the Iowa State 40. Here Ray Evans demonstrated why he is one of the nation's top passers when he ran to the right to elude three Cyclone linemen, leaped high, and threw a perfect 25-yard bullet pass
into the chest of Dave Schmidt, who dropped it.
After this brief pause in the march Griffith kept the Hawkers moving with an 18-yard advance to the right and a 12-yard gain to the left which took them to the enemy 10. McNutt then threaded a pass over center to Evans for the score.
Cyclones Try Again
Cyclones Try Again
Again in the early minutes of the last half the Cyclones threatened. Recovering a Patttee fumble on the Kansas 44, they shook 143-pound Jim Bean loose for 20 yards and were knocking at the door via the air route when end Jim Jensen dropped a Norman flip over the Kansas goal. With Evans sparking the drive, the locals finally began to move from their own 17 with a 35-yard pass to Schnellbacher. This drive ended with a screen-spass from Evans to Bud French who carried to the 15-yard line and then fumbled.
Bud redeemed himself a few plays later, at the start of the last quarter, when he raced 52 yards on a wide lateral around his left end for touchdown number three. That play seemed to break the remaining Cyclone resistance, and five minutes later the big men from Mt. Oread pushed across the clincher. Ed Lee blocked a State point on the latter's 35 and recovered it on the 28. Evans took a straight pass from center and rifled an aerial to Red Hogan for 22 yards to the Iowa State six, then skirted left end for the fourth Kansas touchdown.
Students Lack Interest In Driver Education
The course in driver education will not be given this fall. Hobart Hanson, instructor, said today.
Not enough students enrolled for the course, and he could not get approval for credit, Mr. Hanson said.
He is now teaching a course tor truck and taxi-drivers in Kansas City.
Sooners Still Top Big Six
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP) —Iowa State will try again against a conference foc next Saturday night after suffering a 27 to 7 set-back in the Big Six curtain raiser. The Nebraska Cornhuskers will be the visitors in Ames this week.
In the other games Saturday, Oklahoma meets Texas in Dallas, Kansas entertains South Dakota State in Lawrence, and Missouri tangles with Colorado there.
Kansas State, smarting under three successive defeats, will make a long trip—all the way to Massachusetts to tangle with Boston College.
Iowa State's highly polished aerial offensive went to pieces in Lawrence Saturday before the onslaught of George Sauer's "light horse brigade." The Kansas forwards repeatedly spilled ace hurler Ron Norman for big losses, and succeeded in chaining the Cyclone ground attack to the scrimmage line as Ray Evans sparked the Jayhawks to an easy win.
The Oklahoma Sooners piled up a two touchdown edge over the Texas Aggies at Norman Saturday, edging the visitors 26 to 14, and warning the Mid-West's big circuit that they were still very much in the running.
Nebraska lost a second start against a Big Nine eleven. Big, big, big. The cooled over Bernie Masterson's Cornerstone in Lincoln Saturday 28 to 13.
Missouri university couldn't quite punch across that final white stripe often enough to keep up with Southern Methodist Saturday night. SMU rolled over the Tigers, 35 to 19.
Big Six Standings:
W L T Pts Opp
Oklahoma 2 0 0 50 34
Kansas 2 0 1 36 7
Missouri 1 2 0 45 48
Iowa State 1 2 0 38 48
Nebraska 0 2 0 13 45
Kansas State 0 3 0 24 52
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Betty van der Smissen, College junior, has been chosen editor of the Mountainee, magazine of the Rocky Mountain council of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.
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