OCTOBER 18,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Jayhawkers Plan Husking Bee
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K. SPERRY
GRIFFITH
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MONROE
By BILL SIMS (Daily Kansan Sports Writer)
In one of the feature games in the Midwest the Jayhawkers clash with the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday in Memorial stadium. Kansas fans have been looking forward to this game for two weeks as the first real conference test for the Crimson and Blue.
The dopesters who make out the parlay cards are rating the Jayhawkers six and seven point favorites, but perhaps they aren't considering the injuries which will handicap our players tomorrow.
I'll have to pick Nebraska to win, but the game should be one of the closest in the history of competition between the two schools. I hope I'm wrong, and I'll be out there yelling for the Jayhawkers until the final gun.
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Missouri should have little trouble in beating the Iowa State Cyclones.
The Cyclones don't have the reserves to cope with the power-laden Tigers. Coach Mike Michalske has been experimenting with the Cyclones and trying to find a winning combination, but his team won't have much chance against Mizzou.
The Sooners meet Kansas State in the other conference game, and it should be a rout. Coach Jim Tatum may choose to let his reserves play most of the game and keep the score down, but the Sooners will have no trouble winning this game.
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Skipping over the nation's top contests, I'll take Yale over Cornell, North Carolina to upset Navy, Illinois to bounce back against Wisconsin, Tulane to topple Auburn, and Georgia to hand the Oklahoma Aggies their third straight defeat.
Indiana should whip Iowa, Michigan will win a close one from Northwestern, and Texas will roll over the Arkansas Razorbacks by a couple of touchdowns.
I'll pick Rice to take Southern Methodist, U.C.L.A. to topple California, Army over a fighting Columbia eleven, and St. Marys to wallon Fordham.
Both teams are undefeated, and this game will decide which is the top team in the South. It should be an exciting game and a close one, but I'll string along with the Crimson Tide and Hurlin' Harry Gilmer from Alabama.
For the Game of the Week, I'll take the Alabama-Tennessee battle.
My average took a beating the past weekend when I called 13 right and missed four for a .765 average. After predicting Big Six and outstanding games over the nation for three weeks, I have a not so good average of .792.
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Teams Will Fight For Big Six Lead; Injuries May Hinder Kansas Attack
K. U.'s determined Jayhawkers will meet the Cornhuskers from Nebraska tomorrow in the Big Six attraction of the week before an expected record crowd of 35,000 Homecoming fans.
Undefeated in conference play, both elevens will be out to hang on to the top rungs of the Big Six ladder when they kick off at 2 p.m. for the 53rd time in their rivalry. ◀
The contest will pit two former Husker teammates, George Sauer, new head ringmaster here, and Bernie Masterson, now in his first year at Nebraska, against each other for the first time.
The result should furnish the loop season with its top dog-fight and hand the Jayhawker front office a new record in patronage. The old mark is 31,200 fans who paid to see KU and Missouri tangle here in 1929.
The Jayhawkers will go into the struggle a 7-point favorite.
Although off to a striking start in which they rambled through the first four games undefeated, Kansas ran into a barrage of injuries in the 24-8 triumph over Iowa State and will go to the post sadly crippled in the backfield.
Nebraska, endowed with brawny tackles and fleet backs, has left the impression that it still hasn't changed through an entire game on all eleven cylinders. The Cornhusker opened with a 33-6 loss to Minnesota followed with a 31-0 pasting of Kansas State and a loss Saturday to tough Iowa. 21-7.
Sauer definitely will be without the services of Dick Bertuzzi, his twisting right halfback who suffered a recurrence of an old foot injury against Iowa State and has sat out drills all week in sweat clothes.
The Scarlet tuned its time-bomb offense for the first score against the Hawkeyes when fullback Tom Novak crashed into the end zone from the seven yard line. With plenty of speed at the halfbacks and one of the league's best power-runners in Novak, Nebraska is due for an offensive explosion.
Evans and Pattee, who absorbed head injuries against the Cyclones, also are doubtful starters, but are slated to see some action. Fischer,
If the injured hands in both camps come around by Saturday the teams will be exceedingly well-matched on paper right down to their highly similar T-formation attacks.
Probable Starting Lineups
KU will match this band with Bud French, their new breakaway sensation; Forrest Griffith, the fast-stepping frosh from Lees Summit, Mo., and Fullback Frank Pattee. The Jayhawks have no powerhouse like Novak, but the 185-pound Pattee has bucked lines well all season and runs like a tailback in the open.
The Huskers hope to trump Capt. Ray Evans, KU's great passer, with a sharp aerial named Sam Vacanti. For the first time in five starts, Kansas will face its equal in backfield speed in Nebraska's Cletus Fischer, Dick Hutton and the 162-pound Bill Mooney.
Kansas Nebraska
Schmidt L.E. Hazen
Wygle L.T. Samuelson
Fambrough L.G. Lorenz
Fischer C Partington
Crawford R.G. Schwartzkopf
Johnson R.T. Stiner
Schnellbacher R.E. Cochrane
Evans Q.B. Vacanti
French L.H. Hutton
Griffith R.H. Mooney
Pattee F.B. Novak
OFFICIALS
Ted O'Sullivan (Missouri), referee.
Cecil Mullerleil (St. Louis), unr-
mittled.
Carl Kopelk (Emporia), head linesman.
Pierce Astle (Emporia), field judge.
rerce Astle (Emporia), field judge.
Average weight of teams: Kansas
18.4 lb
Average weight of lines: Kansas 190. Nebraska 187.6.
Average weight of backs: Kansas 187. Nebraska 178.8.
who injured a knee against Iowa, mav remain on the Husker bench.
Kansas' line has furnished one of the major surprises of the conference season. Built chiefly from converted fullbacks and blocking backs, it has held the opposition to an average of only 128 net yards rushing per game, a tribute to both the players and line tutor Bob Ingalls and his lieutenants, Mike Getto and Dean Nesmith.
The battle of fleet-footos is expected right into the line where Sauer and Masterson both favor speed and mobility over brawn. With 230-pound Bill Wygle taking over at tackle, the lightweight Jayhawker line will come in with a 190 pound per man average.
Records of teams this season:
Kansas 0, TCU
Kansas 21, Denver 13.
Kansas 14, Wichita 7.
Kansas 24, Iowa State 8.
Nebraska 6, Minnesota 33.
Nebraska 31, Kansas State 9.
Nebraska 7, Iowa 21.
Statistically, Kansas holds an offensive bulge of 311 yards per game against 186 for the Huskers. NU has a defensive margin of 212 to 221.
In guard Don Fambrough, tackle Hugh Johnson and end Otto Schnellbacher, Jayhawker partisans believe they have a forward wall threesome headed for all-Big Six nomination. They'll run into their severest test Saturday when they trade blows with Eddie Schwartzkopf, the two-time all-Big Six pre-war guard; center Joe Partington, and tackles Carl Samuelson and Mike DiBiasi.
Tomorrow
It's Kansas To Win; Oklahoma Aggies, Kansas State To Lose
WINTER
BY OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer
The East
New York (UP)-Fraley's Follies or looking for smiles with football winners after a dolorous trip home from the World series aboard the Red Sox suicide special.
Army over Columbia—Oh those St. Looie Blues.
Penn over Virginia—Checking out was easy.
North Carolina over Navy—The Bostons really had 'em.
Pitt over Marquette—They'd taken back the key to the city.
Yale over Cornell—So we just ran like thieves.
Penn State over Michigan State
—Only faster.
The Mid-West
And also; Princeton over Rutgers, Temple over West Virginia, and St. Mary's over Fordham.
Illinois over Wisconsin—They had everything aboard.
Michigan over Northwestern—The line formed to the right.
Indiana over Iowa—Bandages, arsenic, splits, etc.
Ohio State over Purdue—Joe Cronin was given preference.
nff was given preference.
Kansas over Nebraska—He took
Drake over St. Louis—(But watch that Slauncher.)
Missouri over Iowa State-Then came the real payoff.
Minnesota over Wyoming—Presi-
dence Ford Frick of the national
league
Tulsa over Detroit—Imagine the gall of the guy.
The South
Alabama over Tennessee—Quite a kidder he was
North Carolina State over Wake Forest—He went hitless for the series.
LSU over Florida—Hall Wagner took it worst.
Kentucky over Vanderbilt—Then a long night of discussion.
Mississippi State over San Francisco—And more tears.
Tulane over Auburn--They kept the doors locked.
Duke over Richmond—But there's a rumor.
Georgia over Oklahoma A. & M.- That four jumped anyhow.
The West
USC over Washington—It was the longest inning in history.
Washington State over Oregon— We started at 7 p.m.
UCLA over California--And finished playing it at 5:30 a.m.
B. SPERRY
Rice over SMU—So the tears floured like wine
The Southwest
Oklahoma over Kansas State— And the wine like tears.
BRAY
Texas Tech over Baylor—With a sobbing breakup at Albany.
H. JOHNSON
Texas A. & M. over TCU—Belle-
vue, driver, and fast!
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