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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCT. 2, 1947
By JIM RAGLIN Daily Kansan Sports Editor
How can intramural football injuries be eliminated, or can they? Answer these questions and you will learn more about Intramural department a real favor.
Den Powell, now full time director of men's intramurals, has done a terrific job in setting up this year's program. He has tried to institute a football program that will keep injuries at a minimum. So far this season there have been less injuries than last year but one player received a brain injury in this season's first game.
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Powell lowered the number of players from 11 to eight. The "clear pass" rule was designed to stop injuries. This year no player can throw a cross-body block, and any blocker who has both hands in contact with the ground while making a block is subject to a stiff penalty. You must be careful to help call the games. The most recent word from Don is that he hopes to make each team take five minutes of hard calisthenics before playing.
"Too many players enter the game cold and they are just asking for an injury," he said. "The calisthenies before playing should help eliminate pulled ligaments and similar injuries."
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Iowa State's football team has convinced its followers that it will not be denied a victory or two in Big Six play. Fans like the spirit of the game, the touch of razzle-dazzle that Coach Stuber has started.
There is, to our knowledge, no sure-fire method of stopping intramural football injuries. The elimination of trophies won't do it. American athletes play hard and play to win regardless of the reward. The use of equipment would only intensify the already rugged played. Perhaps, the injuries will disappear as the season progresses and the new rules become more familiar to the participants.
--in my book. Either you win, you lose, or you tie."
The Cyclones stopped the heavy Colorado line in their tracks last week. Although the statistics favored Iowa State, the Iowa team lost 7 to 0. A tackle who played an excellent game for the Cyclones is Tom Sardin. With Santard's first try at college football but he was an all-state (Iowa) tackle in 1944. He is expected to start Saturday against Kansas.
Boxing fans will not have the chance to see another Graziano-Zale fight if the ban on Rocky stays at its present pace. "The Rock" has been barred from boxing in more than a dozen states as the result of a war department release revealing that Graziano was dihonorably discharged from the United States army.
Each fighter has scored a knockout in his two fights to date. Zale blacked out Rocky in the sixth round in the first fight. The better from Gary, Ind. had to get off the canvas twice before rocking Rocky to sleep with a terrific left hook to the belt line. Graziano took Zale's crown away from him in the ninth match last fall. It was what the talif affair from the start to finish—the sixth round. Until the ban on Rocky for his army record got started, plans were underway to rematch the fighters sometime in February.
Women's Picnic Is Cancelled
University Head Visits KU
The all-University women's picnic scheduled for tonight has been cancelled, according to Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women. Instead of the picnic, another social program will be substituted sometime this month.
S. A. Watson, new president of Friends university, Wichita, visited the University of Kansas Wednesday. He was a guest of E. B. Stouffer, dean of the University, at a luncheon in the East room of the Union.
KU Needs Secret Practice Field, Team Still Under Par, Says Sauer
The Kansas Jayhawkers must have an enclosed practice field for secret scrimmage if they are to hold their own in Big Six football, Coach George Sauer told a University Daily Kansan reporter Wednesday
"A football team needs two closed practices a week," Sauer said. "The way things stand now, a person can drive up in an automobile and
"A football team needs two clf "The way things stand now, a perse learn everything we are doing without even getting out of his car. And don't think it's not being done!"
The Jayhawker coach apparently was still smarting from Kansas close shave last weekend. A heavy favorite prior to whistle-time Kansas barely managed to come out on top 9-0.
Sauer emphasized that he had no grudge against student bystanders. "It is not my wish to keep our workouts from the people of Lawrence or University students.
"Our problem is in differentiating between loyal University fans and the practically professional scouts who drive hundreds of miles and then receive a free ticket to our practices."
The Jayhawkers have played under par so far this season, the Kansas coach said. "We haven't hit last year's stride at all. We haven't approached the finesse or effectiveness we showed in knocking off two Oklahoma teams, Kansas State, and Missouri.
"And speaking of Missouri, the Tigers' showing against Ohio State was no surprise to me. They're going to be hard to handle again this year."
"I was glad to win the Denver ball game," Sauer said as he breathed an audible sigh of relief "Something happened out there that the average student didn't realize. The Kansas game has evidently become the most important one on the Denver schedule.
"That was proved by the 28,000 persons who attended the game. It was the largest night crowd in Denver history. The Pioneers had been keyed up for the game and they gave us a hard time."
Sauer already is worrying about the Iowa State tilt Saturday. Star halfback Ray Evan's chances of playing are "very slim" unless his injury responds to treatment by Friday. The Jayhawker All-American has been resting since the Texas Christian game, but his condition has not improved noticeably.
All things considered, Sauer has been pleased with the performances of his squad, particularly halfback subs Charlie Moffett and Tom Scott.
"Moffett is improving every day and Scott is going to be more ef-
ficient as soon as he becomes more familiar with his blocking assignments."
The Kansas head mentor considers himself in a tough spot this season. It's not easy being handed the conference championship on a silver platter and then dared to take it.
Whether or not to send Paul Turner into the Sooner fray to try for a field goal was one of the tougher decisions Sauer had to make last year.
But he still has hopes that 1947 will go along the same general lines as his 46 season, when Kansas batted in Oklahoma for the Big Six crown.
"Most important was the strong probability that if the kick was blocked, our boys would have been mired down in the mud, and we would have lost a chance of catching an Oklahoma man if he had picked up the ball.
"And the third factor to consider was that Turner might make a successful kick and save the day. We took a chance on that. Paul Turner believed in himself and we needed him to decide whether we wanted to play it safe and settle for a tie or gamble on a victory.
"Second possibility was that the ball might slither off to the left into the arms of Joe Golding, as it had done twice already that day.
"There were three things we had to consider in that Oklahoma game when we were tied 13 to 13 in the final quarter. Sauer said.
"We gambled and won."
From Sauer's viewpoint there is no glory in "almost winning" a close one. "There are no moral victories
The Kansas coach, who played professional football in 1935 and 1936 for the Green Bay Packers, thinks College stars should step into pro football with both eyes men.
There is no comparison between professional and college football, according to the Jayhawk mentor. "The pros have a star in every team," he said. "The team usually has only two or three headliners at the most."
"Pro football should be merely a stepping stone to the field of coaching or some other allied occupation. A man is foolish to play more than two years of it."
"An inexperienced squad probably could accomplish more in a shorter period of time by using the "T" with some other formation.
Sauer was asked whether he considered the "T" formation the best offense in football. "If I didn't know, Kansas could not be using the "T." he answered.
"But the meat and potatoes of football are not the style of offense. Too many people forget that block-ing and tackling are the hardest things to do. Almost anyone can pass and run."
Semantics Club Elects Persky
Phillip Persky, College senior, was re-elected president of the General Semantics club at its first meeting Wednesday.
S. I. Hayakawa, author of "Language in Action," has been invited to lecture to the group this winter.
Other officers are: William A. Conboy, vice-president; Margaret Furnish, secretary, and Evan Stevens, treasurer.
The next meeting will be held 7:30 Wednesday, Oct. 8 in 111 Frank Strong hall. Persky will report on a seminar on general semantics he attended this summer in Lakeville, Conn.
"The purpose of the group is to study the techniques, principles and applications of scientific methods presented by postemester semantics," Fersky explained.
The first railroad in the state of Iowa was constructed in 1855.
Baker, Evans On Injury List
Hoyt Baker, hard driving Kansas fullback, entered Watkins hospital Wednesday with an injury that will keep him sidelined in the Iowa State game Saturday.
"Hoyt definitely is out for the Iowa State and South Dakota State games," George Sauer, coach of the Jayhawkers said. "I hope he will be ready by the time we meet Oklahoma."
Other injured players include Ray Evans, still a doubtful starter due to a severe knee bruise; Tom Scott, also suffering from a knee injury, and Joe Crawford, stellar guard, who was hurt in scrimmage.
I-M Volleyball Game Tonight
Alpha Delta FI will play Hopkins hall at 7:15 tonight in Robinson gymnasium in the women's intramural volleyball tournament.
Results so far are Kappa Alpha Theta 50, Sleepy Hollow 15; Gamma Phi Beta 53, Foster hall 13; Sigma Kappa 48, Templin hall 24; Miller Kappa 48, Templin hall 24; Hallhall 44, Delta Delta Delta 18; Pi Beta Phi 49, Campus house 17.
Delta Gamma 42, Harmon Co-op 20; Chi Omega 58, Monchonsia hall 19; Locksley hall 63, Ricker hall 14; Kappa Kappa Gamma 61, Joliffe hall 45; Alpha Delta Pi 54; I.S.A. Hawks, 13; Briar Manor forerun
First rounds of both badminton and tennis tournament should be completed by Saturday, Miss Ruth Hoover, associate professor of physical education, said today.
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