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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 24,1946
By BILL SIMS
(Daily Kansan Sports Writer)
The Jayhawkers will meet the Tulsa Hurricane eleven Saturday. Kansas has failed to score a point in the previous three Tulsa encounters, but the Jayhawkers hope to upset the Hurricane this fall.
If Kansas maintains its present scoring rate, this year's eleven will be the highest scoring Jayhawker team in history.
The Hurricane is coached this fall by Buddy Brothers, who took over when Henry Frnka resigned to go to Tulane as head coach. Frnka had coached the Tulsans to five bowl bids during his tenure as head man.
Brothers has done a good job this fall. He has several veterans of previous campaigns around which he has built his team.
The most versatile of these is Clyde LeForce, an excellent passer and runner. He is a good field general and one of the outstanding backs in the midlands.
The Tulsa team also boasts a fine passer-back and line backer in Bob Hellinghausen, a veteran center from last year's Oil bowl loser. One of the best blockers in Missouri valley history is Hardy Brown, who returned to the Hurricanes this fall.
Brothers changed the Tulsa offense this fall to the "T," and the players seem to have adapted the style easily. The Jayhawkers will face a tough foe when they journey down Oklahoma way Saturday.
While most of the Tulsa effectiveness seems to be in the aerial department, the ground attack also rolls smoothly with some explosive breakaway runners.
Kansas will counter with one of the best aerial combinations in Big Six history, Evans to Schnellbacher. This team started clicking the past two weeks, and it is expected to produce a lot of yardage in the remaining games.
The Jayhawkers will present a better-than-expected line. Don Fambrough and Red Ettinger, converted fullbacks who drive from guard and tackle positions respectively, and Hugh Johnson, the other tackle, have shown up well in all Kansas contests this fall. Howard Fischer has improved considerably at center.
The Tulsans use a lot of reverses and laterals and mix their plays well. The Jayhawkers looked bad on the reverse Nebraska used for its second touchdown.
Both teams will be trying to bounce back on the victory road after defeats last week. Let's hope the Kansas team roars back to upset the Hurricane.
Fambrough Prefers 'Rough, Tough' Line Position To Blocking Back Spot
Smitty's boss isn't the only one with an educated toe. Someday the K.U. coaching staff may have to call for help to teach the art of kicking points after touchdown.
Right now, however, there's an expert in the Jayhawker camp. Don Fambrough has control of the extra point department for Kansas with 10 consecutive boots over the cross- box.
"I keep my eye on the ball, kick,
and hope it goes over," Don said.
"I don't look at the opposing line
trying to block the kick."
That may be the secret of the hard hitting Texan's success, but whatever it is, he's a valuable man to have on a team.
The 22-year-old 190-pound Fambrough who drives from the left guard position formerly was a back-field man. He was graduated from Longview, Texas, high school in 1940 as an all-state fullback. During his freshman year at Texas university he was switched to blocking back, a position at which he lettered in 1942.
Don's army career began at this point. After basic training he spent six months in Puerto Rico. From there he came back to the States and resumed his football with the Second Air Force.
Fambrough was a regular in 1943 with Salt Lake City Army Air field along with Bob Ingalis, the K. U. line coach. Then he moved up as a regular with the Second Air Force Superbombers and played in the same backfield with Ray Evans during 1944 and 1945.
Don has been in his new guard position for five games and is rapidly becoming one of the better lineman in the Big Six.
"It was hard to get used to the line," he recalled, "but I like it now. It's rougher and tougher and it's more fun than the backfield."
He has been accustomed to a single-wing formation but likes the T because of the speed and deception.
Don married his Longview high sweetheart, Del Few, in Austin, Texas. They are the parents of a 22-pound, 6-month-old kicker, James Preston "Buckwheat" Bambrough.
"Ray Evans tagged the nickname on him." Don drawled, "but I don't know why unless it's because Jim is so bad."
Del likes to see Don in action on the gridiron, and his parents keep tab on his football career from Longview. Fambrough speaks the language of Texas. His accent would brand him as a Lone Star product anywhere.
"It had me worried for a while," he said, "but I guess it must have been more mental than anything else because all I had to do was kick the ball a little harder."
Don was concerned about the try for extra point when the score was 6 to 6 in the Nebraska game. Kansas had been penalized 5 yards and Don stepped back for the kick.
Six Teams Win Volleyball Games
Six teams trampled their opponents in easy victories in the women's intramural volleyball tournament Wednesday night.
Closest victories were Sigma Kappa over Harmon Co-op, 32-27, and Kappa Kappa Gamma from Watkins hall. 31-26.
Sunnyside Residents
Locksley hall defeated Delta Delta Delta, 47-33; Gamma Phi Beta beat Miller hall, 52-26; Corbin hall trounced Alpha Chi Omega. 47-25; I.W.W. pulled ahead 53-22 from Sleepy Hollow.
High scorers Wednesday night were;
Some of the teams have only one more game to play in their divisions, while others have two more. The team with the best runs away, next week will be decisive.
Sigma Kappa--Rothrock, Morris,
Vermillion; Harmon Co-op-Shepherd,
Stinebaugh, Holsinger; Kappa
Kappa Gamma-Gray, Stuckey,
Hoffman, Gunsolly; Watkins hall-
Strowig, Bice, French, Prettman,
Bolas, Stout; Locksley hall-Williams, Bedell, vanderSmissen.
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