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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
By JAMES RAGLIN
Baseball, "the national pastime,
is taking a back seat as football
takes the spotlight at the University
and the first grid tussle of the 1947
season draws closer. Student
interest is tied up in a Jayhawker team
that finished in a deadlock with
Oklahoma's Sooners for the Big Six
championship last year.
This year's team is on the spot. It surprised the other teams by up-setting its way to first place last year and it already has been picked to repeat.
Fifty-three sportswriters and broadcasters from Omaha to Newton have voted in the second annual pre-season poll conducted by Don Pierce, University sports publicity director, giving the Jayhawkers a narrow nod over Oklahoma. The Kansas team received 27 first-place votes with the Sooners close behind at 9. Okla-hawkers the runner-up and Coach Sauer's team received 18 votes for second place. Four writers tabbed the Jayhawkers for third place and four others have Kansas finishing fourth.
Several reasons make this year's Kansas team look even more promising than last year's. Only one starter was lost. He was Howard Fisher, center, who has been replaced by Tyler Moore from Oklahoma A. and M. Ray Evans is back. The team has one year's experience, as a unit, behind them.
There are more capable reserves in the line this year and the back-field is loaded with men who can scamper, pass, and kick as well or better than any team on the Kansas schedule. And don't forget Ray Evans is back.
Sauer, like any conservative coach, is crying somewhat about the selection of his team as the number one outfit in the conference. He still likes Oklahoma for first place honors, but, on the side, confesses that the Kansans will be tough customers for anyone they meet this year.
First game for the Jayhawkers will find them denting helmets with Texas Christian university at Kansas City, Mo., a week from tomorrow. Coach Dutch Meyer has already announced that he will introduce a new free substitution rule and substitute two complete teams using one for offense and one for defense.
This sounds as though the crafty T. C. U. headmaster is loaded with material and deserves the "dark horse" spot for which the Southwestern pressbox quarterbacks have his Horned Frogs slated. Several coaches and writers in Texas have picked the T. C. U. team to fight it out with Texas and Rice, most popular first-place choices, for the title.
Fans who saw last year's scoreless tie between K. U. and T. C. U. will remember several of the Frogs' stars. Returning this year will be two backs who gave the Kansas team plenty of trouble last year, Dave Bloxom and Jim Lucas, Evans, Hogan, Bertuzzi, French, Scott, McNutt, Baker, and Pattee will be keeping the Frogs hopping.
A special train will carry hundreds of T. C. U. rooters and the Horned Frog band to Kansas City for the game. Apparently, they think as much of their team as K. U. fans do of the Jayhawkers. Two things about the game are certain or at least we think they are: the game will be a sell out and it won't end up in a scoreless tie.
Injuries May Bench Two at TCU Game
Three members of the varsity football team have received injuries in recent practice sessions. Tackle Ed Lee and center Bob Kline suffered jammed right shoulders. Forrest Griffith, promising fullback candidate, is skipping all contact work because of a chest injury.
Coach Sauer said that he did not expect Lee or Kline to be ready to play before the Texas Christian game. Sauer expects Griffith's injury to heal in time for the Lee's Summit gridster to play against the Horned Frogs.
Team 'In Good Shape', Sauer Says, As Jayhawkers Near T.C.U. Opener
With the Sept. 20 K.U.-T.C.U. football season opened an assured sellout, coach George Sauer announced Thursday that twice-daily workouts are beginning to get the team in "pretty good shape."
are beginning to get the team in pretty good. "The team spirit is pretty good," he said. "Everybody realizes they're here for business. We don't tolerate any horseplay. Every man realizes he has a iob to do and he does it."
A capacity crowd of 21,000 will pack Blues stadium in Kansas City, to, with witness game, E. L. Finkenauer and Wednesday.
Accept. Accomidate 50,000
"We could handle 50,000 if we had the seats," he commented.
Still Few Tickets Left
Only 300 tickets to the K.U.-T.C.U. game, all for end zone and student bleachers, remain to be sold, E. L. Falkenstien, athletics business manager, announced this morning.
Tickets are on sale in Robinson gymnasium.
K. U. began its long season of upsets last year by holding T.C.U. to a 0-0 deadlock. In previous years T.C.U. had rolled over K. U. 41-7 (1942, 7-0 (1944), and 18-0 (1945). Experts and fans alike will watch this year's game with unusual interest, for K. U. is being named "team to beat" for the Big Six championship, and Texas Christian is rated a possible major contender for top honors in the Southwest conference.
All This And Evans, Too
Twenty-four lettermen have returned to Lawrence, including all of the 1946 co-championship starting lineup, except center Howard Fischer. Five of these veterans are 1946 halfback Ray Evans, conference passing leader; ends Dave Schmidt and Otto Schnellbacher; guard Don Fambrough, and quarterback Lynne McNutt.
T. C. U. boasts a tough, heavy line, but recent announcements from Fort Worth indicate that Dutch Meyer will try for a "passing circus" again this year. Lindy Berry, Carl Knox, and Jim Lucas are standout veterans in that department, and George Wilde, former Texas A. & M. back, will be there, too. **WTW** Adrian Ramos
"T" Parties Aplenty
Coach Sauer says that K. U. will stick to the T-formation again this year, and adds that he expects "a lot of passing and a wide-open game.
1947 Football Schedule:
Sept. 20 Texas Christian K.C.+
Sept. 26 Denver Denver+
Oct. 4 Iowa State Lawrence*
Oct. 11 S. D. State Lawrence*
Oct. 18 Oklahoma Norman*
Nov. 1 Kansas State Lawrence*
Nov. 8 Nebraska Lincoln*
Nov. 15 Okla. A. & M. Stillwater
Nov. 22 M. U. Lawrence*
(Homecoming)
Nov. 22 Arizona * Tucson*
* Jackie Gaines *
* Big Six Games
"We surprised them last year and they'll be gunning for us this time. They have the same personnel that beat Texas 14-0 and knocked them out of a share of the Southwest contest on our turtles to stay in the hall park."
Coach Sauer is unhappy about pre-season predictions that K. U. will top the Big Six this year.
"It's the easiest championship I ever won," he said recently. "Now that the other conferencere coaches have been so kind as to hand us the hat, I'm hoping they'll be just as generous as the men." A Season of Close Calls
"Only five points separated our club from a good season and a poor one last year," he pointed out. "We beat Oklahoma Aggies and Missouri State Oklahoma by three. Some of those close ones might get away this fall."
Coach Dutch Meyer of T. C. U. has said that "he wouldn't be surprised if that the Horned Frogs are right up there in the '47 football race.
"Every time we have had a good year we've had an outstanding line"
he pointed out. Uncertain On Frog Backs
Meyer indicated that he isn't quite so certain about his ends and backs, and came to the conclusion that the
cold facts point to a second division spot for T. C. U. in the Southwest conference.
"We have some fine man-power but we need another year of experience to arrive at front-rank stature." he concluded.
Whatever the setup on either team, indications are that when the smoke has cleared over Kansas City, the scorebook won't show two zero's again.
Does a cross word make you happy?
ACROSS
1 Prepares food by heat (Electricity does it)
6 Makes clothes (Electricity helps)
8 Radio entertainments (Electricity brings 'em)
11 Write that brings electricity ('em)
14 Seventh note of scale
15 Accomplish or perform
17 Trade or exchange
18 Front end of elephant (Watch out!)
19 Livelled
21 Two-shirts won (Excuse it, please!)
23 Suffix meaning condi-
tions per person
24 For instance; like
25 In what way or manner
26 Likewise not
27 Like person
28 Be it ever so humble,
there's no place like it
30 Always (Frequently the
electricity's readiness)
32 Electrical energy (And
you alarm waves you up
33 The Electric Hour
"Hour of Charm"
"comes to you by this
electrical alarm waves you up
34 North Dakota (abbrev.)
38 A useful material
matter (perhaps electrical
magnetic, chemical and
thermal effects—used in
every room in your
house)
39 Postscript (abbrev.)
40 Indefinite article
42 Listen to electricity certainly is
43 Banishes darkness
45 You get one every time
in the world to live (initials)
46 The best place in the
world to live (initials)
47 (abbrev.)—those of all
the jobs it covers!
53 What electricity helps
do to clean the laundry
54 When electricity certainly is
55 Banishes darkness
56 You get one every time
in the world to live (initials)
5
71 Greek letter; also Greek symbol for $ ^{2} $0 (Did you
know you're getting twice as much electricity you did 20 years ago? A 72 gadget that makes a battery, electricity Prepared, handy (like electricity)
DOWN
1 Your electric vacuum cleaner helps you do this
2 Single object
3 King's Exchange
4 Spanish for "yes"
7 War Department desk
8 High School (abbrev.)
10 Office of War Information (initials)
1111 Electricity helps you do on Monday, or any other day
1212 Electricity motion (Electricity comes to you that way)
1414 Electricity structure
15 Person who possesses (You're probably one, where your electric light and company is concerned)
19 Heavy book
2010 The material agency which exhibits magnetic, chemical and thermal effects. It also helps you clean your clothes, tells you the time, and in general makes life easier.
22 Latin word for "new"
25 Favorite Indian greeting message American woman can
27 A person who doesn't believe in Free Enterprise
29 Excuse attention
31 Rhode Island (abbrev.)
32 Any time between noon and midnight
34 On top of
35 Thermal unit of electric current strength
37 To put on
38 Clothing (abbrev.)
41 On, upon, close to, by,
near, or within
43 Hard-boiled (abbrev.)
44 Well-known vowels (Really), at this time we were quite desperate)
54 Have furthermore
56 Designs or plots
57 System of wires by which electricity runs you
58 Persia
69 Acquired
61 Had gadget to tell time.
61 When run by electricity, it tells the most dependable time in the world
6 A small coin can valueless these days.
6 But when you spend it carefully, it comes the biggest one-cent bargain in your budget
70 Sift Malayan vessel
71 To unite heated metal
71 The upper portion
71 Well-natured also fitted in)
76 A domestic duty loved by soldiers (abbrev.)
76 Changing to
76 Within
78 Knight Errant (abbrev.)
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