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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 12,1946
BY BOB DELLINGER Daily Kansan Sports Writer
Devious ways and means have been figured by the Monday morning quarterbacks for the Jayhawkers to win the Big Six title uncontested.
If Kansas can win the remaining two games, and Missouri ties Oklahoma, the Jayhawkers will be "in," barring a Nebraska upset of the Sooners.
Another way for the Jayhawkers to wind up all alone at the top is for (take a deep breath) Iowa State to beat Nebraska, Nebraska to beat Oklahoma, Oklahoma to bet Missouri, AND Kansas to win its last two games.
The chances are pretty slim, aren't they? But not completely nonexistent.
A more likely possibility is for Kansas to wind up in a first-place tie with either Missouri, Nebraska, or Oklahoma. This will come about merely if the Jayhawkers win their last two games, one of them against the Tigers.
But don't forget, in all the long-range planning, that Kansas must lick the Wildcats from Kansas State. A loss to the Manhattan eleven would wreck the whole picture as far as Mt. Oread is concerned.
The Wildcats won their last conference game in 1944, but it was an upset win, 18 to 14, over Kansas. So watch out!
Kansas has already assured herself of a winning season, the first since 1933. That year, the Jayhawkers, under Ad Lindsay, finished with a record of 5-4-1.
The Jayhawkers already have a season record of 5-2-1, and a pair of wins in remaining games would not only bring at least a share in the title, but seven wins for the first time since 1909 when A.R. Kennedy's eleven chalked up an 8-1-0 record.
Four times in the history of the grid squad have the Jayhawkers finished the season unbeaten. The most recent was in 1923 when a five-win record was marred by three ties. Kennedy's eleven of 1908 went through a nine-game season unbeaten and untied, second only to the 10-0-0 season of 1839. That greatest of all K. U. squads was coached by the point-a-minute master who fielded the Michigan Wolverines after the turn of the century, the late Fielding H. "Hurry-up" Yost.
Yost's only stay with the Jayhawkers proved to be a profitable one for both coach and team. His loss to Mt. Oread was evident as the '00 team would up with a 2-5-2 season.
Can Kansas repeat? We hope so.
Kansas' only championship came in 1930, during which season an attendance record was set which lasted until this year. Two losses, both non-conference, failed to spoil the Javahwicks' grasp on the title.
Basketball Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen is now regarded as something of a minor football oracle.
At basketball practice last Friday afternoon, Paul Turner was watching from the sidesides. Allen walked over and asked him how he was doing in football.
"Not so hot," Turner replied, "but just let me kick that ball once more and I'll really do some good."
So when Allen, surrounded by a section of "old grads" at the football game Saturday", saw Turner race onto the field with the situation ripe for a field goal, he began jumping up and down, yelling, "Til bet he makes it."
Most of the surrounding fans thought Allen was slightly out of his head, but the basketball mentor kept insisting Turner was going to make good his big chance.
Allen's faith was rewarded—Turner's field goal brought plenty of back-slapping from the previously skeptical alumni.
Archery Club To Meet
The Archery club will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 203 Robinson gymnasium.
The group did not shoot last week because of bad weather.
Allen May Have Strong Team, But Still Fears Gerald Tucker
While the Jayhawker eleven is getting all the limelight down in Memorial stadium, Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen is using Robinson gym to put together what may be one of the strongest basketball teams in University history.
He has 15 returning lettermen and an impressive list of budding new talent, but the veteran cage mentor still thinks his 1946-47 squad will have trouble in the Big Six.
"Oklahoma was pretty salty last year," he said, "and now they have the whole team back, a total of 23 lettermen, and Gerald Tucker to boot."
Tucker is the ex-Winfield high school star who holds the Big Six scoring record.
Allen is now working with ten lettermen—Owen Peck, Gib Stramel, Don Auten, Charles Black, Dean Corder, Wendell Clark, Herb Heim, Ray Frisby, Harold McSpadden, and Homer Sherwood.
When football season ends, Ray Evans, Otto Schnellbacher, Paul Turner, Hoyt Baker, and Don Ettinger, all former cage lettermen, will report for practice.
Evans and Schnellbacher, although busy with gridiron duties, are already worried about their basketball berths, Allen reports. They asked Allen last week if they couldn't practice Nov. 29 and 30, right after the Missouri football game on Thanksgiving.
Five men are back from the famous "Iron team" of 1942-Black, Evans, Schnellbacher, Turner, and McSpadden.
Allen's newcomers include some rangy players. Among the bigger boys are Bob Van Citters, Jack Eskridge, Harold England, Bill Sapp, and Al Lukken.
These starlets provide plenty of new speed to the Allen squad--Myron Enns, Kenny Thompson, Ted Bean, Bob Clark, and Grant Clothier.
Allen's current court drills are designed primarily to knit together his team of 55 "A" squad members by teaching them the basic type of play he uses and working them out on set plays.
Allen says he will again work on the principle of employing the fast break when his players outnumber the defense and falling back on set plays when the numbers are even.
The first basketball game will be with Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia.
Speakers Observe Education Week
Four professors representing the School of Education will give a series of talks on KFKU this week in observance of National Education week.
At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, will talk on "Should A Young Person Go Into Teaching?"
A one-half hour round table discussion led by Dr. J. W. Twente, will be heard at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The topic is "Developing Better Communities."
The program schedule includes:
Dr. C. B. Althaus, speaking on "State Aid for Kansas Schools," at 9:45 tonight.
Miss Maud Ellsworth will speak at 9:45 p.m. Friday terminating the program for the Education week period.
Topeka. (UP)—Among the state's historical treasurers today were 13 battle flags carried by Kansas soldiers in two world wars.
Battle Flags To Kansas
The flags were presented by the war department yesterday in a military ceremony in conjunction with Armistice Day.
Most of the battle flags were used by the 35th division in both the European and Pacific theaters of war.
Prof. John Ise of the economics department is to speak today on a forum of the Y.W.C.A. public affairs series in Kansas City.
Ise Speaks In Kansas City
Rothrock Returns To K-State Lineup
Manhattan, Kan. (UP)—Kansas State hopes for an upset in the battle against the University of Kansas here Saturday soared today with the announcement that Norman Rothrock will be back in the line-up.
The ace freshman fullback from Kansas City, Kan., a former high school teammate of Ray Evans, Joe Crawford, Willie Micklick, and Ed Egnatic of the Kansas team, suffered a fractured ankle six weeks ago in a practice session.
"Rothrock's return to the lineup will strengthen our squad," smiled Coach Hobbs Adams. The injured fullback returned to practice yesterday and immediately was put into the first string backfield.
Swimming Meets Begin In December
Invitational swimming meets for men, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, will begin Dec. 4, Russell Brown, chairman of the arrangements committee, announced.
Participation in the meet will be by teams from independent or organized groups. Winners will receive plaques.
KuKu To Meet Tomorrow
Winners of the invitationsals will compete in the spring in a championship meet. The winning team will receive a silver cup.
A practice will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov.20 at the pool in Robinson gymnasium for independent teams.
Members of KuKu, men's pep organization, will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union. New initiates and active members are asked to bring money for tickets to the K.U.-Kansas State football game, William Wood, president, said.
Y.M.C.A. Installation Tonight At Myers Hall
"How Etiquette Affects the Social Life of Men and Women on the Campus", a talk by Miss Martha Peterson, Pan-Hellenic league secretary, will highlight the freshman Y.M.C.A. installation program at 8 tonight in Myers hall.
All freshman Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.-
C. A. members may attend.
Officers to be installed are; Robert Thayer, president; Arthur Johnson, vice president; Owen Wright, secretary-treasurer; Vernal Scheuerman, projects chairman; Don McIlrath, social chairman; George Sheldon, publicity chairman; Orville Bobo, music chairman.
The weight of a cubic mile of granite rock is 12,500,000,000 tons.
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