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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 20,19
Bv BILL CONBOY
Coach Sauer has taken quite a beating from the weather this spring. Through the winter months the days were generally clear, and only a few snow flurries marred what could easily have been described as perfect football weather.
Now that spring has come, the weatherman seems to be unloading all his unused rain and snow. Football players profit by chalk talks and moving pictures, but no fullback ever drove five yards through tackle without having physical condition to back him up. Coach Sauer's charges need more time out on the field to limber up those pigskin muscles. But before snowballs can give way to footballs, the Jayhawker grid boss may have to bribe the weatherman.
Football suits have been checked out to 132 prospective bone crushers. Of this number, 36 are backs and 96 are linemen.
It is as yet too early for the Kansas coaches to have a line on any of their new talent, but special attention is already being turned to uncovering possible first line strength for the middle of the crimson and blue line. Capable replacements for the center, guard, and tackle spots were all too few last season.
In sessions to date, the backs and linemen have worked separately till near the end of the practices. The backs have been working out their steps and timing while running through plays.
The linemen have been drilling on stance and blocking tactics. The last half hour of eath daily workout this week has been spent in signal practice, the backs and linemen working together.
Actual contact work is now in store for the men after these first few days of limbering up. Blocking and tackling will be on the schedule from here on out.
The scrimmage under game conditions which was listed for March 22 has been cancelled. The men are not yet ready for such a contest. Coach Sauer said Tuesday that the players will have a hard scrimmage session Saturday but not under full game rules.
Full practice games will still be held on March 29 and April 12 as originally scheduled.
Speaking of snow, tennis coach Gordon Sabine is one man who did something about it. The Kansas racket swings wanted to practice even when several inches of whipped ice covered the court several weeks back.
Coach Sabine prevailed upon Dek Davidson, custodian of the stadium, to see what he could do. The result was that tractors cleared the tons of snow from 13,000 square feet of court space and tennis balls began to fly even before the sun had begun to thaw other parts of the campus.
The Jayhawker tennis players deserve the winter's top award for perseverance. Several team members played through the cold months, often in 30-degree weather with long pants and gloves.
Eastern Play-offs Of NCAA Tonight
New York—(UP)—Wisconsin, is favored slightly over City College of New York and Holy Cross is rated as two points better than Navy in games tonight opening the Eastern regional of the N. C. A. A. basketball tournament.
The Big Nine champion Badgers, who won 15 of 20 regular-season games, were given $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ points over C. C. N. Y.
Winners of tonight's game will play for the Eastern title Saturday night, and then meet the Western regional winner for the national title on Tuesday. The Western regionals, matching Texas, Oregon State, Wyoming and Oklahoma, will be played at Kansas City tomorrow and Saturday.
With No Indoor Practice Facilities Jayhawkers Lag Behind In Training
"If the conference football race is as tough as this spring practice weather, next season sure will be a rough one."
The speaker was George Sauer, pilot of last year's co-champion Kansas football club who gave the school its best grid season in 35 years. The big coach meant every word of it too as he looked out his office window on the second floor of Robinson gym at another mid-March snow flurry.
Unlike Nebraska or Missouri, Kansas has no inside facilities for football and already is lagging far behind the Tigers in March preparations.
Most of Sauer's experimental gardening this spring will center around the backfield. Fullback will get the most attention with newcomer Ralph Brown, the 210-pound mastodon from Newton and Forrest Griffith, last season's second string right half, slated for thorough trials at the spot.
Bud French, who rattled off five touchdowns as a freshman, also will be on trial at right half. The lean Kansas City played well offensive and defensively behind Capt. Ray Evans last year at left half but may be more valuable on the other side of fullback because of his natural ball-toting ability.
This pair will have a tough fight on their hands from Hoyt Baker, last year's alternate varsity bucker and Leroy Robison, who held the first string berth in 1944 and 1945. The latter probably is headed for a permanent stand at right half since he performed capably at that spot late last year. This is almost a certainty if Griffith joins the fullback corps as his switch would leave Dick Bertuzzi the only experienced right sider.
Another reason is that T. A. Scott, tailback off last year's Little Rose Bowl Kilgore, Texas Junior college club, is expected to measure up completely to the left half requirements. The 175-pound Texan is a first class double threat on the ground and in the air.
Sauer also faces the problem of fitting an all-Big Six tailback named Charlie Moffett into the picture somewhere. The clutch performer from Peabody is a cool passer and slashing runner, two credentials which will earn him a trial at both quarterback and left half. Moffett earned his all-conference spurs in 1944 as a sophomore.
Along the line, where the chief problem is lack of reserve strength, Sauer already has put the finger on three new tackle tryouts, Steve Renko, a regular end in 1938 and 1929; Ed Lee, reserve guard on last year's varsity, and Bob Drumm, a 200-pounder up from the B team ranks.
One hundred and thirty-two candidates, a record Kansas spring practice squad, have checked out suits.
Renko, now a 27-year-old 210-pounder, was a better than average end before the war. Lee, switched to tackle during the last two weeks of the 1946 season, is a bruising 202-pounder who progressed steadily last autumn after a transition from full-back. Drumm also was a bucker when he came in from Centralia high school but showed marked improvement when switched to center and then to tackle.
The number of births in Sweden this year has been higher than any time since 1920, with the exception of 1945.
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