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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY,SEPT 26,1947
By JIM RAGLIN Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas will be spotting an opponent a weight advantage again tonight. For the first time since the Nebraska game last season the Kansas line will outweigh the enemy forwards. The Pioneers' line averages 189.5 and the Kansas line tips the Toledoes at an average of 191 pounds.
It is a different story in the backfield now that Ray Evans is not counted on as a starter. If Tom Scott replaces the crippled Evans at left half the Jayhawk backs will have three more field averages 187.3 pounds giving the Pioneers a 2.8 pound advantage over the Jayhawkers.
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When it comes to numbers the Kansas freshman football squad ranks last. The Jayhawk fresh squad numbers about 80. The Kansas State freshman team boasts 198 members. In Lincoln 103 candidates are inaugurating their college football careers and at Iowa State more than 100 freshmen reported for practice. The Nebraska roster includes two 26-year old candidates and three who admit to 25 years.
--at doesn't mean a thing, as Kansas proved in 1946.
Oklahoma University will run into a situation at Detroit that the Jay-hawkers meet consistently during the season. The Sooners will be outweighed by the Titans. Detroit's starters, if they are not changed before game time, will average 207 per man to 191 pounds average for the Sooners. The difference in the player's weights is not much until you look at the Detroit left tackle who weighs a modest 281 and a guard, Jack Simmons, who registers 240 pounds.
In their first game Detroit gained a total of 541 yards. The Titans have always been one of the country's leading ground-gaining teams. They picked up 366 yards rushing in last week's opener against Central Michigan. Oklahoma led the nation in rushing defense last year, yielding the opposition a slim average of 54-yards rushing per game.
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Thanks to the airplane, football fans can watch a number of long range intersectional gridiron battles. Opposition from teams 1,500 miles away isn't unusual on the Pacific coast. Teams from the Hawaiian Islands are traveling more than 2,000 miles to play West coast teams.
This means of transportation has eliminated long, tiring road trips. Previously a team from the Midwest or East going to California to play in a bowl game had to spend from three to six days traveling to the game-site. Coaches moaned about the lack of exercise and practice during these long trips. Now the coaches are able to whisk off to a cross-country battle a day before the game.
Harris Will Return To Manage Yanks
Bucky Harris, snatched from the front office to boss the New York Yankees to the American League pennant this year, has agreed to manage the team next season, Larry McPhail, club president, announced Thursday.
The retention of Harris as manager of Yanks climaxes a heartwarming story.
Bucky was, twenty years ago, the "boy wonder" manager of the Washington Senators, winning pennants in 1924 and 1925.
But he had vowed he'd never "put on a baseball uniform again" when he joined the Yankees as assistant to the president.
Came the one-two-three resignations of Joe McCarthy, Bill Dickey, and Johnny Neun, and Harris was drafted as a Yankee manager. He played the Yankees to their first pennant since 1943—and his first since 1925.
Today Harris commented, "I find baseball is in my blood again."
Evans Still Rides Bench As KU-Denver Tangle
When Kansas University kicks off against Denver tonight, the Jayhawk forward wall will enjoy its first weight advantage in two years.
The red and blue line, which was outweighed for 10 games last year, will outside the Pioneer forward wall 191 to 189.5 pounds.
But sheer weight doesn't mean Outscaled from 2 to 25 pounds a man, Coach George Sauer's charges hung up a record of seven victories, two losses, and a tie to cop a half-share of the Big Six championship. KU Backfield on Light Side
With two 105-pounders, Andy Pavich and Bob Hazelhurst, on hand tonight, the Denver backfield will average 187.3 pounds against 173.5 for Kansas.
Probable starting lineup:
Kansas
Small LE Denver
Ettinger LT Reed
Fambrough LG Beauchamp
D. Monroe C Weber
Crawford RG Yates
Johnson RT Ellis
Schnellbacher RE Bakke
McNutt QB Rezzer
Moffett LH Kunz
Bertuzzi RH Hirsch
Pattee FB Pavich
These fiures will apply if Tom Scott, freshman quarterback sensation, starts in Ray Evans' usual position at left halfback. Evans is still recovering from a knee injury he suffered in the T.C.U. fractas last week.
Kansas can expect a tight battle with Cae Hubbard's troup, if past Jayhawker-Pioneer games can be used as a measuring stick. The six-game series with Denver is the closest on the non-conference books, with the exception of the Alabama Aggie contests. KU: 74-65.
Go In There And Win One For The Little Fellow
Kansas has won two one-point victories and one seven-pointer from the Pioneers. Denver won, 17-0 in 1942, 19-6 in 1943, and the clubs tied 14-14 in 1944. The Jayhawkers hold a 3-2 edge in victories.
The Jayhawkers will be one game ahead of their Colorado opponents in experience. The Pioneers were full of excitement as the players Kansas opened last Saturday.
When Coach Sancer sends T. A. Scott into tonight's game, he can tell him to "go in there and win one for the little fellow." The Scotts are parents of a boy, born Wednesday at Lawrence hospital. The boy weighed 7 lbs., $7 \frac{1}{2}$ ounces, and was named Thomas Arthur Scott III.
Coach Sauer has drilled the Jayhawkers this week on defense against the expected thrusts of the Pioneers off the T and Tennessee Bills, which were employed by Denver last season. Experience May Count
Terry Monroe, who missed the T.C.U. tilt because of a sprained ankle, is still out. Ed Lee, who broke into the Texas Christian waterfront for a few minutes, will probably take over Monroe's role as replacement for tackle Red Ettinger. Tom Scott May See Action
But any advantage the Sauer men may have gained by playing while their opponents rested is sure to be offset by the Kansas injury list.
Charlie Moffett, who showed up well against Texas Christian, is the only other experienced left half besides French. Scott's switch from the quarterback roster will leave Sauer with two capable performers in that position, McNutt and Hogan.
Tom Scott will handle the difficult left halfback chores with only three days practice at that job. With Bud French earmarked for reserve duty behind Bertuzzi at right half, Scott was the only logical choice for the Evans position.
Washington — (UP) — President Truman told a news conference today that he would be too busy here to attend the world series, which opens Tuesday in New York. But he said he might watch a game or two by television.
No Baseball For Truman
All members of the Pershing Rifles are urged to attend the first general meeting. 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Military Science building. An extensive membership campaign was discussed at the executive council meeting Thursday evening.
Pershing Rifles Hold First Meeting
Robert Franklin, Business junior and captain of the club, outlined a plan for a pledge week to be held early in October. Dean Jordan, College senior, first lieutenant, and Jack Campbell, Business junior, second lieutenant, discussed with Capt. W. V. Hensel, club sponsor, plans for several social events to be held in the near future.
Gorham—(UP)—Perched contentedly on the front bumper, one of Clarence E. White's roosters clucked a greeting when White stepped out of his car after a four-mile trip from South Windham.
KFKU Needs Radio 'Hams'
Calling all "ham" radio operators!
Can you bring in Moscow, Amsterdam, Istanbul?"
Rooster Rides Car Bumper
If so, you are the person Miss Mildred Seaman, program director at KFKU, is looking for. One of her proposed program series requires short-wave contacts with cities all over the world.
She plans to have foreign students at the University listen to news broadcasts from their own countries once a week, and to comment on the news and the interpretation it is given in their native countries.
If you can help out, see Miss Seaman at KFKU.
APO Purpose Told At Group Meeting
Service to the University and fellow students is the main purpose of Alpha Phi Omega, Dr. Lawrence C. Woodruff, dean of student affairs, told prospective members last night at a campfire meeting at Rock Chalk cairn.
"Through service Alpha Pha Omega members can reach their other goals of leadership and friendship," he said.
Robert L. Whee, APO president,
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will be held Oct. 4. Pledges will be
honored at a steak fry Oct. 8.
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