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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1942
Pressbox Ramblings By J. Donald Keown
For the first time in many, many years the Big Six does not have a representative in the first thirty teams in the nation, according to many national rankings. In the past it has been unusual for the Big Six leader not to hold down a place in the first 15 squads, and the runner-up eleven also was generally ranked in the first thirty. Many explanations have been advanced for the poor showing being made by the conference. From Oklahoma comes the explanation that Big Six men are more patriotic than are the students of rival schools, and therefore Big Six athletic squads have lost more stars to the services. This would seem something of an attempt at apologizing, however, for a checkup of rosters of squads in other sections reveals that they too have lost heavily to the services. A better explanation would be, probably, just to check it off as one of those years which come ever so often when the material is somewhat below par.
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In truth, the Missouri squad looked like the real McCoy before the Tigers ran into Wisconsin, and many experts were naming them among the top five outfits in the country. Losses to the Big Ten team and to the Great Lakes squad have hurt Tiger prestige decidedly, however. It has not been so much the failure of Missouri stars to come through, as it has been the injury jinx which has dogged Don Faurrot's men. Certainly Bob Steuber has been everything they said he would be when he is in the lineup, but too often he and other Tiger stars have been on the bench with injuries or has been slowed down on the field with bad knees and such. Thus the Big Six's only squad capable of obtaining national recognition has been demoted by observers from the ranks of the great to the fair squads.
It's still too early for the Big Six conference squads to be coming out, but at least two conference backs seem already to have cinned such recognition. They are our own Ray Evans, and Missouri's Bob Steuber. It is altogether possible that both men may receive considerable mention for all-American honors. The other two backfield positions will be wide open, with at present Iowa State's fine star, Royal Lohry, seeming to have an edge on the other candidates. Perhaps the fourth backfield position will be a tassup between Oklahoma's Huel Hamm and Nebraska's Dale Bradley. In the line Kansas has two very worthy candidates for consideration—sophomore center Junius Penny and big tackle Warren Hodges. Last year Hodges enjoyed something of the reputation as being a doorstorm for opposing backs. This fall he has been one of the toughest backs in the Middle Wade to handle.
Frankly Dr. Forrest C. Allen this year has so much basketball material that his head is whirling with the problem of just what men to use. Chief worry for him is the fact that Oklahoma is also neck-deep in material, and that his charges will have only a very few days for practice after the football season closes before their opening tilts. Buescher, Evans, and Black are certainties to win starting berths. The wealth of material for the other two positions, however, creates a problem. Will they be Schnellbacher and Sherwood, Penny and McSpadden, Fitzpatrick and Turner, Roderick and Forsythe, Brill and Baker, or still another pair of the talented Jayhawks. Right now only the good doctor could know, and we've got a hunch that right at present he is far from certain.
A random: Quoting Jack Eckhart, Kansas State Collegian sports editor: "Wonder if K.U.'s Ray Evans might not be selected on several all-American teams." . . . Rival Big Six squads are heaping praises upon Nebraska tackles Schleich and Byler . . . Ralph Miller was philosophical about his failure to pass the Gardner exam, grinning: "What am I worrying about? I've always got the army Tuesday." . . . "Phog" Allen credits Marvin Sollenberger and Dick Miller with doing a bangup job with the Jayhawk freshman crew . . . The Navy squad is secretive about its starting lineup against the Hopkins Hoppers, but declares they will have several topnotch former college stars . . . Hopkins men like Bernard Passman may give them some trouble too.
"Scooper"
An Intramural
Davie O'Brien
At Hopkins hall these days, the men in residence, largely football players from the varsity and freshman teams, are beginning to refer to Phil "Scooper" Dynan of their intramural six-man team as "KU's Davie O'Brien."
The "Scooper" at present boasts of one of the most remarkable passing records ever compiled by an intramural player at this University. The Hopkins star has completed 179 out of 201 tosses this year—an almost unbelievable record in the tough intramural competition when you consider the fact that Dynan is performing with a squad which has had only a fair record in its division.
Dynan yesterday morning set a new intramural record for the year, when he faded back 51 times for passes, and connected with 37 of them as he and his teammates lost to Delta Chi 46 to 6. Hopkins hall played the game with but five men.
Appearance Counts A Lot --ms went through final warm-up drills yesterday and
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Dynan amazes opposing teams in the coolness with which he drops back, calmly waits for his receivers to get clear, and then, still unhurried, pegs the pigskin acurately to a teammate. In the touch football game, ends rushing in fast are a constant threat to touch the back before he can get rid of the ball.
OPEN SECOND FRONT--ms went through final warm-up drills yesterday and
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Rumors that a powerful Allied fleet was moving eastward from Gibraltar had been broadcast by the Axis nations all day Saturday, but no confirmation was made until announcement was made at 8 p.m. last night from the White House. Lt. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower has been placed in command of the American expeditionary forces. Invasion Kent Secret
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Residents of England went to bed last night without word of the American invasion although they had been anticipating it, and were jubilant over their own success, and the further successes that the American action forecasts.
No warning that the announcement of the second front would come from this side of the ocean was forthcoming, and it was a curious group of newspaper men who were called to the White House last evening by Secretary Stephen Early who read the announcement which evidently was dictated by the President.
Star-Studded Navy Squad Is Favored
BULLETIN — The Hopkins Hall - Naval Training station touch football game has been postponed until a later date because several of the Navy team stars are scheduled to be on duty at the game time set for this morning. The new playing date will be announced later.
The Navy Training Station touch football team will meet Hopkins Hall in a game this morning at 10:30 o'clock at Memorial Stadium. It will be the first grid contest ever played between the Sailors and University men. No admission will be charged.
Both teams went through in Navy squad reported in excellent condition, but a number of injuries hampered the Hopkins "Hoppers," Bob "Fireball" Pierce, Johnny Spencer, and Al Capito, all members of the Kansas freshman squad, counted on to start against Navy will be unable to play. John Monroe, first class lineman and a member of the Kansas varsity, will also be unable to play today.
Although weakened, the Hopkins line-up should give the Navy men a real battle. Filling in for the injured players on the Hopkins eleven will be, Bun Hardin, Harlan Shuyler, and Phil "Scooper" Dynan. All are members of the Hopkins intramural team. The Hopkins line will have a weight advantage but the Sailors will balance this with a more experienced squad.
The Navy eleven is led by Jack Ross of the third division who will be acting captain today. Ross would not name a starting line-up, but said the Navy would be out to win by the largest margin they could make. "We have practiced a long time for a game like this and I believe we can show the University men some real football," Ross stated. "Many of our fellows played big time football when they attended college, some played for Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, and Colgate, and they know the game inside and out," Ross added.
Maurice Baringer, captain of the Hopkins team, declined to make any predictions concerning the outcome
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"Most of our fellows are in the Army and Army Air Corps reserves and you know how Army men love the Navy," Baringer added.
The Hopkins line-up:
Ends—Passman and Shuyled or Savery; tackles—White and Talley or Shirley; guards—Voigt and Hardin or Oakes; center—Meyer; quarterback—Dynan or Baring; halfbacks—Culbertson and Barnes; full-back—Manion.
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Sigma Chi-Theta Pinning Last Friday
Other guests for dinner and the pinning were Shirley Binford's grandmother, Mrs. Bert Rogers, Olathe, and son B. H.
In a formal ceremony Friday night at the Theta house, Nancy Neville, college sophomore, received the pin of Kenneth Adams, Sigma Chi. Shirley Binford, Miss Neville's roommate, assisted in the pinning.
Parents of Miss Neville, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Neville, Kansas City, Mo., were present for the occasion. She received an orchid corsage and other gifts.
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