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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 3,1946
BY BILL SIMS
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
The Wichita Shockers probably will have eight or more lettermen in the starting lineup against the Jayhawkers Saturday. Orte of the outstanding players on the team is Linwood Sexton, Negro halfback, who was selected on the All-Missouri valley team last fall.
Sexton is a dangerous man on the gridiron. He ranked seventh in the nation on net yards gained rushing last year with a 6.15 yard average as the Shockers won six and lost four.
Sexton caused the Jayhawkers plenty of trouble last year at Wichita. Kansas won 13-0, but the Shockers wouldn't give up and kept fighting till the final gun.
This year, with many returning veterans helping bolster the team. Wichita may give the Kansans a better battle than did the Denver Pioneers. And Sexton probably will be one of the big guns in the Shocker attack.
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Wichita university, formerly Fairmount college, played Washburn college on Christmas day, 1905, in a game which was to change the whole game's system. For it was in this game that the first forward pass was thrown and completed.
It was an experimental game, enceauaged by President Theodore Roosevelt. Members of the American rules committee were in the audience. The game was played in the wake of one of the worst fatality-ridden seasons in football history, and its purpose was to help determine whether football could be saved for collegiate competition against severe public criticism.
The pass was thrown by Bill Davis, Fairmount center, to Arthur Solter, an end, and it was completed for 10 yards. It was nothing more than a two-handed toss similar to the manner in which a basketball player shoots a free throw.
The pass play has come a long way from this primitive beginning until now it is so common that fans wonder what is wrong when a team does not pass. This play has completely changed the game because new systems had to be devised so that it could be used more effectively, and new systems had to be devised in an effort to set up a defense that would stop it.
It has been an innovation that has greatly improved the game from the spectator's viewpoint. The game has become faster and more thrilling as a long forward pass is thrown which may mean a touchdown and victory if caught, defeat if missed.
Most of us think of football as a game which has almost reached the limits as far as inventions are concerned. Many thought the same thing back in 1905, but someone came up with a new idea.
Perhaps in five or six years we'll see another innovation in the game which will make it even faster and more exciting than it is today. It's possible that someone playing or coaching today may come up with an idea, try it out, and see it put into use as was the forward pass.
Jayhawkers Stress Wichita Plays In Preparation For Home Opener
Wichita university plays were stressed in a dummy scrimmage session Wednesday. The third team ran plays from Shocker formations, and the first and second teams concentrated on ways to stop the Wichita offensive.
Coach George Sauer, who fears that the loss of Kansas' star signal caller, Bill Hogan, will hurt the Jayhawker offensive attack, expects the
Coach George Sauer, who fears caller, Bill Hogan, will hurt the Ja Wichita game to be plenty tough. He expects the Shockers to put up a stiff battle with eight lettermen in the probable starting lineup.
Except for Kansas State, its arch conference rival, Ralph Graham's revitalized Wheatshockers represent KU's most serious intra-state challenge for grid supremacy. It will be the Shockers' major collision of the season and they would like nothing better than to spoil the Jayhawkers' first home game.
The two clubs' brief but bitter rivalry plus the magnetism of a brand new Kansas club mantled with George Sauer's T-formation trickery will furnish one of the day's best Midwestern grid dishes.
Foremost item is the fact that Jayhawkier fandom, the state over, will be getting their first full-focus look at Coach Sauer's sparkling 1946 outfit. Many couldn't pack into the Kansas City Blues stadium for the Texas Christian game. Even fewer were on hand last Friday at Denver when Kansas laced the Pioneers, 21-13.
The contest also will mark the first official turnout for a record student body of almost 9,000. Wichita will furnish a severe test for most of the queries and a crowd of 16,000 is expected to be on hand to watch the show.
On the technical side Kansas will be outweighed for the third week and will be facing their second single-wing attack in three battles. The Shoackers will boast a four-pound per man pois advantage in the line and an overall weight edge of 3.2 pounds. The backfields are even at 181.3 pounds per player.
Rifle Match Officials Meet At ROTC Office Tonight
The Shockers, who gave Tulsa a terrific struggle two weeks ago before wilting 33-13, will wheel out a power-packed backfield, headed by Linwood Sexton, and one of the best end combinations in Kansas.
Sexton, the 185-pound Negro break-away artist, gets plenty of blocking support from such jarrers as Kenny Hedrick, Art Hodges and Freshman Fullback Fred Silverthorn.
Officials for the intramural rifle matches will meet at 8 tonight in the R.O.T.C. office, Military Science building. Sgt. A. W. Millard will be in charge.
K. U. scouts have described Tom Allen and Paul Walker, 195-pound ex-Indiana end. as "good in all departments." Walker smashed enough Kansas plays last season to earn a berth on the Jayhawkers' all-opponents team.
Those chosen were Dan Ragle, Lloyd Thurnau, George MacCurdy, Jack Markle, Norman Wilson, Urban Schwappach, Don Vaughn, Bill Vaughn, D. E. Woods, John Roth, Bill Lancaster, and Myron Rake.
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A half-time card display will be presented at the Wichita game by 900 members of the student body. Bill Spicer, chairman of the traditions committee of the All-Student Council, announced today.
Card Display Planned For Wichita Game
Members of the Ku Ku's and the Jay Janes will assist in directing the display. Six colored cards will be at every seat in the 50-yard line section on the east side of Memorial stadium, from rows 6 to 36, inclusive. Instructions for the use of the cards in forming the displays also will be left at each seat.
Sign up in Y.M.C.A. Office in the Union building.
Intramural Rifle Teams Will Compete
As seats in the student section are not reserved, students in that section are asked to read instructions carefully before the half. They also are asked not to play with the cards until time for the display.
The displays will include a red and blue "KU," a greeting to Wichita, a good luck message to Coach George Sauer, a K.U.-Jayhawk display, and an American flag.
An opportunity is being offered here this year for all men who desire to participate in intramural rifle activities.
Independent organizations and fraternities may form teams of six men who will fire against other teams starting next week. The competition will run approximately two months, and the rifle range in the Military Science building will be used for all intramural matches.
Teams will comprise five men and one alternate, and each individual eam should include a team captain, team manager, and team secretary for a total of nine men.
'Them Brooklyn Fans Is Non-Perdictables'
By DIZZY DEAN
Ebebts Field--Here I am in enemy territory. Be-in I went and picked them Cardinals to win, and be-in I wuz the best pitcher the Red Birds ever had, the Bum fans didn't give me a very big house when we got into town. In fact, I think them bum fans is fantastics.
Jest because the Cards went and licked the pants off the Bums in the first game of the playoff aint no reason for them Brooklyn fans to give me the Flatbush cheer.
They done a lot of hootin and hollerin when we got here but it was all for Leo Durocher, the manager of the Bums and not for me. Or nobody else.
I aint pitchin no more. Maybe they wuz some oldtimers in the crowd which remembered how I used to send them Bums back on their hawnches when me and my brother Paul was pitchin for the Cardinals.
Them Brooklyn fans is non-per- dictables.
It always give me serpreme pleasure to whop the heck out of them Dodgers, brother, and I shore did it many a time.
Somebody let the cat out of the sack that I been broadcastin all season and sorta pluggin for the Cards, to hold my job. So what? These Flatbush guys is sore. \
One of 'em tried to trip me when I wuz walkin into the lobby of the hotel. Hard enough to git a room without havin to put up with that stuff. Lucky they wuz a couple of strong bell whoppers around, or sombody's been hurt.
I git so worked up over this gittin the strawberry in Brooklyn that I plum almost forgot about this here playoff.
Gittin back to Tuesday—back up a little, like. That there Pollet of the Cards shore pitched hisself a game with a sore arm. I know how he was a-sufferin out there. I remember that long last mile to the showers when I pitched my last game, for the Cubs, after the Cards had sold me off the river. My arm was a-achin from the first inning and it ached for weeks.
Thats baseball, for ya. Howie'll bounce back.
I aint got much to worry about. I'll be a-bouncin back, too, and see you tomorrow.
Basketball Squads Will Perform If Asked
Plans for an inter-squad basketball game, to be played after the rally Oct. 18, are being considered by the Homecoming committee.
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen has said that he will be glad to comply with the wishes of the homecoming committee and provide a game-between the "A" and "B" squads, if asked.
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