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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942
Pressbox Ramblings By J. Donald Keown
For the second time this year, the Jayhawks are seriously being given an excellent chance of coping a ballgame. Fans hope they come through toorrow in better style than they did against Denver. Certainly the Jayhawks' spirit this week has been encouraging. The boys have been giving it the old college try all week. Partly responsible for this change is one Frosty Wilson, about whom fans will hear and see a lot before the present football season is over. Keep your eyes on him tomorrow. Not only can he block with gusto, but Wilson also has loads of spirit out there on the field. He may be what the Jayhawks have been needing all fall to wake them up. If so, then it will be a bad day for the Sooners.
Fans attending tomorrow's Parents Day game may be surprised by seeing a high-scoring game, instead of a defensive struggle. The low-scoring records of both teams in past performances this fall hardly point to such a contest, but both coaches have indicated they will not be surprised at such a game. The Sooners are expected to be weak on the defense against Evans' passing, while on the other hand many observers believe the Sooner running attack will pack entirely too much power for the Kansas line to cope with. Certainly, it is a chance for the Kansas squad to put a stop to what has seemed to be a nosedive into the most disastrous season in recent Kansas football history. A victory over Oklahoma would make fans forget a lot of the past defeats.
Here is the way the bigger ones look this week: Tennessee over Alabama in the South's best game; Texas to whip Arkansas; Army to nose out Columbia; Best College to beat the North Carolina Cadets; California to rebound against UCLA; Colgate to defeat Duke; Detroit to down Manhattan; Fordham to blitz West Virginia; Georgia to take a thriller from Tulane; Georgia Tech to march on against Davidson; Illinois to down Iowa (but here is a good chance for an upset); Indiana and Pitt even up; Iowa State to rebound against Drake; Missouri to massacre Kansas State; Kentucky to beat VPI; Louisiana State to outlast Mississippi; Michigan State to top Marquette; Michigan to win over Northwestern in one of the better games.
Minnesota to finally find itself against Nebraska; Mississippi State to down troublesome Vanderbilt; Navy to beat Yale; Rice to conquer North Carolina; Iowa Cadets to nose out Notre Dame; Ohio State to continue its winning ways against Purdue; Oklahoma Aggies to overwhelm Arizona; Santa Clara to take a close one from Oregon State; Penn to down Princeton; St. Mary's to defeat San Francisco; Washington State over Southern California; SMU to rebound against Temple; Stanford to defeat Idaho; Texas A & M gets the nod over TCU; Tulsa, one of the nation's power-houses, to ride over strong Washington; Villanova to beat Florida; Wake Forest to topple North Carolina State; Wichita to defeat Washburn; Great Lakes to nose out Wisconsin.
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47 Freshmen 16 Varsity Men Now Practicing
By Paul Brownlee
The University's cage squads are working out twice a week in Robinson gymnasium, and even Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, basketball menter, admits there is no cause for the basketball blue this fall.
Dr. Allen said today that the varsity this year would be characterized by a squad smaller than those of former years.
Forty-seven freshmen are practicing under the tutelage of Marvin Sollenberger and Dick Miller, members of last year's varsity, and 16 varsity men ply their wares before Dr. Allen. Eleven varsity members are now participating in football, but as soon as the football season is finished Ray Evans, Charles Black Paul Turner, Otto Schnellbacher, and other stalwarts will be available for court duty.
Under Dr. Allen's system, the freshmen are learning the fundamentals of basketball, such as pivoting, passing, and dribbling.
Builds Individualists
"I am not trying to make a great team of five or six players, but I am trying to build a great group of individuals, whom when placed together in groups of five can click because of thorough knowledge of fundamentals." Dr. Allen explained. "My system is nearly identical with the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system. The major differences is the fact that
the Cardinals' baseball players are brought from farm teams all over the country, while my basketball players are all members of one squad here at the University," Dr. Allen added.
"I believe that this system of coaching is very appropriate during these war-times because of the ease with which it enables the player, after leaving college, to make the stiffer team of Uncle Sam's" Dr. Allen commented.
Dr. Allen believes that there are two particularly important things gained from intercollegiate athletics—the fact that the player is introduced favorably to business and society, and "the art of learning to say no a thousand times to temptation before you can say yes once to victory."
Returning from last year's varsity will be three sensations from last year—Ray Evans, Charlie Black, and John Buesccher. Around these three men the 1942-43 edition of the Jayhawk quintet will be built.
Outstanding Sooner End Will Perform Tomorrow
Can Play Football
As a toughening-up measure Dr. Allen is allowing the members of the basketball squads to participate in intramural football this fall.
Dub Lamb of Oklahoma, a beefy, blond boy who often beats the Sooner punts down to the enemy safety, is delighting Oklahoma fans with thrilling end play this season.
Punt coverage has been Lamb's speciality. Sooner kickers rarely bother to boot the ball out of bounds. Instead they save yardage by the old-fashioned method of powering their punts far down the field and letting the speeding Lamb smack the safety squarely in his tracks. And Lamb seldom misses.
Although Lamb's wolfish punt coverage was outstanding in both the Oklahoma Aggie and Tulsa games, the chunky Sooner game captain was at his best in last week's hard-tought Oklahoma-Texas clash in the Dallas Cotton Bowl which Dana X. Bible's Steers won 7 to 0.
On the last play of the first quarter, Huel Hamm, Oklahoma's tailback, lofted a high spinning 52-yard punt. It was a great race between Lamb and the spiraling ball. Down on the Texas 10-yard line, fleet Jackie Field, Texas safety, gathered in the kick and started running laterally only to have Lamb nail him around the ankles with a quail-high tackle that dropped him on the Texas five-yard line.
Lamb also rushes the passer viciously. He set up Oklahoma's best offensive opportunity in the Texas game, a Sooner drive that went to the Texas eight-yard line just before the first half ended, by sweeping in to
O'Leary and Amerine To Speak Saturday at Game
capsize Travis Raven, Texas forward-passer who was fading back to pass. Lamb's rush jolted the ball from Raven's hands, Oklahoma recovered on her 47-yard mark and the Sooners were on offense the rest of the period.
Lamb is also Oklahoma's finest pass receiver. Last year he grabbed nine passes for 168 yards, running the broken field cleverly as a halfback to score the winning touchdown against the Oklahoma Aggies on a pass from Jack Jacobs.
The straw-haired Sooner end is indispensable in other ways. He acts as Sooner game captain and also as drillmaster when Oklahoma's red-garbed squad first trots out on the field to do its calisthenics.
The Rock Chalk Co-op, one of last season's six-man finalists, served notice that they have winning ideas again this season by soundly trouncing Triangle 30 to 0.
The defending champions using an excellent assortment of plays could pull nothing out of the bag to slip past a wily Sigma Chi squad. A Sigma Chi offense that would have measured up to their defense would have been the deciding factor in the thriller.
A break produced the score with Johnson rushing in from his tackle slot, intercepting a pass in the Sigma Chi backfield, and running 50 yards down the field to score.
Lieutenants Ted O'Leary and Dick Amerine of the Naval Reserve will speak over station WREN for five minutes between halves of the Kansas—Oklahoma football game Saturday, it has been announced.
Led by Captain "Long John" Reber, the Rock Chalk men scored a few minutes after the opening whistle and left no doubt as to the outcome as they completely dominated play.
Polka and CanCan ★★★ Gay Nineties
"Gay Nineties Day," to be staged at half time of the Kansas-Oklahoma game tomorrow, has added an act by the University Band baton twirlers. The twirlers will fling their batons aside and swing their ladies.
Phi Gam's Score 6 to O Victory Over Sigma Chi
O'Leary, a Kansas alumni, is associated with the naval aviation cadet selection board, and will be at the University Saturday for Kansas Editor's Day. Amerine is to be the guest of honor at the game.
The drum majorettes will then break into the old burlesque favorite, the "Can Can."
Phi Gamma Delta eked out a 6 to 0 victory over a fighting Sigma Chi eleven in the main attraction on yesterday's intramural program.
When the band struck up the "Beer Barrel Polka" during practice, the twirlers high-stepped right into an old fashioned polka. The band liked it, so it's part of the show. One thing led to another and presently the cake walk was added. As Casey would waltz with his strawberry blonde, George Rhoades will one-two-three around the field with Doris Kyle, while Bill Sears does the same with Dorothy Nicholson.
Lee Sanks, all-star center of last year, playing a usual bang-up game blocked a kick and recovered to core a safety for the Rockies.
Both officers are former Jayhawk athletic stars.
NEW ARRIVALS AT CARLS---
Teachers of Japanese in colleges and universities throughout the United States met recently at the University of Michigan to compare notes on latest methods and techniques.
The two majorettes will be dressed in bonets and bustles while their partners will do the honors in plug hats, checkered vests and dangling handle-bar muscles.
Zelon Jackets
Corduroy Slacks
Wear these to the game tomorrow.
Jay Hawker "T" Shirts
Arrow Shirts
Knit Ties Ties
"K" Sweat Shirts
Rugby Sweats
Flannel Slacks
Zelon Jackets
All other scoring was accounted
All out for the Frosh Shirttoil Parade tonite.
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