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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1941.
Kansan's Big Six Teams
BOB STEUBER—Missouri
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RALPH MILLER—Kansas
NORM WALLACH—Missouri
ROGER EASON
RAY EVANS
GEORGE ABEL
FRED PRESTON.
By CLINT KANAGA
The dashing Harry Ice of Mizzou, star-running back, forward passer and field general, is paired up with
Kansas's chunky pair of low slung guards, Bob Fluker and Jay Kern, were hard to upset and splendid in goal line stands. Other stellar guards
Mythical all-star teams are just the creation of a sports editor's own ideas and opinions. In substance, the only qualification given to these selections is that the writer saw every Big Six team and player in action at least once this fall, and the Daily Kansan's all-Big Six teams for 1941 are based on these personal game observations.
They grew almost half of the all-star team down in Tigerland, somewhere in the vicinity of Columbia, Missouri. Five of Don Faurot's Bengals are named to this all-star to form its nucleus. Rounding out this first eleven are three Kansas Jayhawkers, two Nebraskaans, and one Oklahoma Sooner. It may seem odd to see three of Gwinn Henry's boys on the first team, but it should be no more of a surprise than the showing of the Jayhawk team this fall. Kansas was picked, by pre-season experts, from the cellar position in the conference standings, and also predicted as too weak to win a league start. The Jayhawks upset the dope chart by knocking off Iowa State and Kansas State. So here's the Kansan's choices.
DAILY KANSAN ALL-BIG SIX TEAMS FOR 1941
FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM
Ulrich, Kansas end Barnhart, Kansas State
Eason, Oklahoma tackle Brenton, Missouri
Jeffries, Missouri guard Fluker, Kansas
Jenkins, Missouri center Hancock, Kansas State
Abel, Nebraska guard J. Kern, Kansas
Wallach, Missouri tackle Teeter, Oklahoma
Preston, Nebraska end Tyree, Oklahoma
Miller, Kansas quarterback Jacobs, Oklahoma
Evans, Kansas halfback Zeleznak, Kansas State
Ice, Missouri halfback Bradley, Nebraska
Steuber, Missouri fullback Golding, Oklahoma
No rushing attack is any stronger than its running guards. George Abel and Bob Jeffries are two of the finest in this respect. It was Abel who blazed the touchdown trail for breakaway runner Dale Bradley on Major Jones's murderous reverse, used so effectively in crushing Kansas 32-0. Jeffries is extremely nimble for a man of his size and stature, keeping his feet against Kansas in convoying Ice and Steuber down the sidelines with nudging shoulder blocks. Both are defensive standouts.
HARRY ICE—Missouri
Darold Jenkins, ranked with the nation's best at the pivot position, is given the superior rating at center over K-State's wrestling champion, John Hancock, due to more consistent all-around play. A pulverizing line-backer, a good downfield blocker, and a boomeranger of aerials, Jenkins emerges with top honors.
Lined up on paper in front of a backfield equipped to challenge and meet successfully every requirement, are Darold Jenkins, an All-American candidate, at center, a pair of strapping 200-pounders that rank with the best, in guards Bob Jeffries, Missouri, and George Abel, Nebraska; brilliant Roger Eason of Oklahoma, and huge Norm Wallach of Missouri at tackles; and Fred Preston, Nebraska's ace wingman, and the rugged, aggressive Hub Ulrich of Kansas at ends.
dynamic sophomore Ray Evans of K.U. at halfback posts, Ralph Miller, the conference's ablest passer and kicker, is the quarterback, while slashing Bob Steuber, the greatest back in the Big Six, completes the backfield.
DAROLD JENKINS—Missouri
were Mitch Shadid, Oklahoma's sawed-off midget; thick-set LaVerne Lewis of Iowa State; and K-State's prize first year man, Don Shaffer.
Roger Eason of Oklahoma typifies the crafty modern tackle who combines brawn with brains. The mainstay of the Sooner line, Eason starred in victory or defeat. Eason's colleague on the all-star is the giant Wallach from Missouri. Wallach has been the kingpin of a two-fisted Tiger line all season. Ciaence Herndon, Nebraska's old dependable, could match the play of Wallach or Eason at any given time, but Herndon was injured most of the year and thus is left off this all-star. Second team tackles are Howie Teeter of Oklahoma, brilliant but inconsistent, and Bob Brenton of Missouri, a heady boy and smart, but not yet great
Hub Ulrich of Kansas, is the fastest flanker in the history of the school. Ulrich, not flashy, is a "football player's player"—a coach's dream. Against Oklahoma, Nebraska, and other fine teams, Hub did the impossible time and time again, wrecking the opposing interference and then making the tackle. The other wing position was a tossup between Preston and Barnhart; Preston looking the better against Kansas, rates the nod. The remaining second team end is sophomore Jim Tyree of Oklahoma, a vicious tackler and a
good ball carrier on an end-around play.
Good backs were a dime a dozen this fall. The elusive Ice, quicksilver in human form, couldn't be left off any mythical eleven. An erratic pass thrower, Ice reached perfection when it came to carrying the ball or directing its progress. Bob Steuber, Ice's terrific running mate, ran like a whirlwind, blocked and plunged, as robustly, and was a magnet on pass defense. It is hard to say which is the best, Ice or Steuber.
For the other two first team backfield spots, one could pick any one of seven high-class men and not be far wrong. The Kansan's two remaining backs are both Jayhawks, Ralph Miller and Ray Evans. Both were great stars on a mediocre team and either one would have rated with the country's best, if they had
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