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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, JB41
Mountaineers Shoot at Kansas
Dick, Vandaveer,
Githens Revive
Starting Lineup
With high hopes of salvaging one road victory from an otherwise sorry away-from-home record, the Kansas Jayhawkers move into Morgantown, West Virginia, to take on Bill Kern's Mountaineers. West Virginia will go into the game as favorites due to the absence of two of Kansas' best players, Don Ettinger, fullback, and Hubert Ulrich, end.
Kansas has a season record of two wins in six starts, the four losses all being contracted on foreign soil. The Jayhawks are unbeaten at Lawrence, having downed Washington 19-6 and Iowa State 13-0 in Memorial Stadium.
PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS:
KANSAS Pos. W. VA.
Dick (181) LE (197) Kimble
Meade (228) LT (185) Harris
Fluker (208) LG (179) Peelish
Githens (191) C (180) Benjamin
J. Kern (184) RG (171) Corum
Long (204) RT (190) Goodman
Hagen (188) RE (178) Spelock
Miller (174) QB (185) Barnette
Evans (189) LH (168) McElwee
Vandaveer (182) RH (176) Gardner
Niblo (184) FB (176) Martin
Officials—Referee, J. R. Trimble, Dubuque; umpire, A. H. Slack, Pittsburgh AC; head linesman, D. B. Fawcett, Westminster; field judge, D. P. Muckey, Pittsburgh AC.
In comparison, West Virginia has three triumphs in six games for .500 rating. The Mountaineers defeated Waynesburg 13-7, West Va. Wesleyan 20-0, and Washington & Lee 7-6. Kern's boys outgained Kentucky, only to fall by a count of 18-6. Navy and Fordham, two of the land's finest aggregations won from West Virginia by scores of 40-0 and 27-0 respectively.
Replacing Ulrich at left end for Kansas is George Dick, 180-pounder who played well in his brief appearance against Iowa State and Oklahoma. Bob Hagen will hold down the other Jayhawk flank. Chester Spelock and Andy Clark or Kimblee will handle the Mountain-ear wing posts.
Charles Harris (190) and Hank Goodman (185) will be outweighed by the Jayhawkers' tackles, Steve Meade (229) and Gene Long (204). Starting guards for West Virginia are Peelish (179) and Corum (171) in contrast to Fluker (208) and Jay Kern (184). Henry's starting middlemen. Bob Githens will be back at pivot post for Kansas for the first time in three weeks. A sophomore star, Leo Benjamin, will handle the Mountaineers' center duties.
With Ettinger out of the lineup, Coach Henry has shifted sophomore Ray Niblo over to the fullback spot, and moved letterman Marv Vandaveer into Niblo's customary right halfback position. "Riffling" Ralph Miller and Ray Evans will be at quarterback and left half as usual.
THE ALL-AMERICAN FAD
In about three weeks, every press association and sportswriter in the land will come out with an All-American football selection. Walter Camp started the all-star cycle 51 years ago in 1889. The first All-American teams were made up of lads exclusively from the Big Three—Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.
Gradually the honors have been spread around so that today the highest publicized (usually the best) player of each respective league rates All-American. The Big Six and Southwest conferences, however, were the last to be recognized and can look back, with a few exceptions, only ten years for All-Americans.
There is no official All-American selection. The All-American Board of Football calls itself official, but its no more authentic than any other, except that it does award blankets and sweaters to its choices. Grantland Rice's team, which appears annually in Colliers, is probably the most widely accepted although his team is no more official than the Board's, the United Press's, or the New York Sun's. When the All-Americans appear this fall, look them all over and pick the one you like best.
BIG SIX ALL-AMERICANS
Nebraska's Guy Chamberlain and Kansas's Tommy Johnson are two Valley immortals who swept the gridiron plains before the Eastern sports writers knew that the West took part in football. Playing today, either would be a headline hero.
Big Ed Weir, Nebraska's All-American tackle in '25 and '26, brought the notice of the East to the Missouri Valley when he led the Cornhuskers to victory over Notre Dame's Four Horsemen and Illinois's Red Grange.
Next Big Six man to be named to America's honor eleven was Lawrence Elv, Husker center who was a unanimous choice in 1932.
Since Ely, many Big Six stars have been honored as first team All-American selections. Listing them in order, Ely's successors are George Sauer, Nebraska fullback ('33); George Maddox, Kansas State tackle ('34) none in 1935; Sam Francis, Nebraska fullback ('36); Pete Smith, Oklahoma end, and Charles Brock, Nebraska center ('37); Waddy Young Oklahoma end, and Ed Bock, Iowa State guard ('38); Frank Ivy, Oklahoma end, Paul Christman, Missouri quarterback, and "Cactus-Face" Duggan, Oklahoma tackle ('39); Warren Alfson, Nebraska guard in ('40)
This autumn the Big Six has two candidates for the All-American choices. Roger Eason, Oklahoma tackle, and Darold Jenkins, Missouri center, loom as the most likely candidates for national recognition.
SIDE-LINES
Up Nebraska way, the Monday morning quarterbacks are hollering for "Biff" Jones scalp. They must have forgotten last year's Rose Bowl trip and eight wins in ten starts . . . Fred Thomsen, Arkansas's coach who wan the Southwest title in 1937 with Jack Robbins and "Paddle-foot" Sloan starring, stopped the cry of the wolves temporarily Saturday with a grand showing against the nation's No. 3 team, Texas A. & M. Texas A. & M. won 7-0 on an intercepted pass. . . .
Northwestern, ranked in the country's first ten for six weeks, rests in a fourth place tie in the Big Ten standings. . . . Oklahoma seems to have recovered from the 40-7 track meet with Texas. The Sooners' recent impressive triumphs over Kansas State and Santa Clara should be ample warning to Missouri that they will be plenty tough next week. . . . Wichita University, in the throes of a disastrous season, has won 68, lost 33, and tied 5 under the guidance of Coach Al Geber since 1930. . . .
Quoting the sports editor of the Baker Orange in regard to the outcome of the Kansas-Kansas State game—"Personally, It wouldn't give a
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Victory No.4 Chalked Up By Siqma Chi
Continuing their winning ways, Sigma Chi chalked up victory No. 4 by edging out Kappa Sigma 12-7 in yesterday afternoon's feature intramural football game. In the other contests, Sigma Nu defeated Delta Tau Delta 6-2, Kappa Eta Kappa trounced A.K. Psi 20-0, and battenfeld piled up a 37-0 score on John Moore Co-op.
Putting over two touchdowns early in the game, Sigma Chi whipped the Kappa Sig "hard-luck" team. Eldridge King passed to Bill Hyer for the first six points, and then Hyer took over the throwing assignment, and flipped a short aerial to Van Hartman for the second Sigma Chi tally.
Larry Spencer shot a short 10-yard flip to Larry Hensley who caught it on the deed run and sprinted 15 yards to scoring territory. Hensley, an all-star two years ago, has been a brilliant standout in every game this season. Van Hartman and Dick Keene starred for the Sigma Chi's.
Bob Brown's second quarter plunge from the one-yard line gave Sigma Nu a well-earned triumph over Delta Tau Delta. Five plays after the Sigma Nu's had scored. Ward Benkelman, Delt lineman, blocked Sigma Nu Jim Russell's punt, and Russell recovered in the end zone for a safety. Delt Dick Learmont was the game's defense ace.
Warren Lowen went on an individual scoring spree of 31 points, in pacing Battenfeld to a 37-0 breeze by John Moore Co-op. Ben Matassarin of Battenfeld threw the five touchdown passes to Lowen.
For the third straight time, the McKale brothers, Vernon and Clyde, led Kappa Eta Kappa in winning. Yesterday, A.K. Psi was the K.E.K. victim, losing by a score of 20-0.
Steve Meade, left tackle who tips the scales at 231 pounds, is by some 20 pounds the heaviest man on the Jayhawk team this fall. Although his friends know him to be gentle and likeable enough off the gridiron, "Big Steve" has fought himself into a first-string tackle berth on the '41 varsity squad.
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Aggies Are Underdogs
With spirits still high after last week's victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Kansas State Wildcats wind up their home schedule tomorrow with the South Carolina Gamecocks. South Carolina, which uses a tricky Notre Dame system of plays, has gone undefeated this season except for Georgia. Two weeks ago, South Carolina upset Clemson 18-14.
Max Timmons, Wildcat blocking back, was named game captain yesterday by Coach Hobbs Adams who also indicated that Lyle Wilkins will start at fullback in place of Kent Duwe, and Jim Watkins will replace Bill Engelland at right end in the starting eleven. Bill Quick will be at the right halfback post again, in place of John Bortka.
Mike Zeleznak, star Wildcat back, will be on the bench at kickoff time watching Ray Rokey at quarterback, Coach Adams asserted. However, Zeleznak will probably see plenty of action before the final gun, Adams added.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers wound up preparations for the mighty Minnesota Gophers and departed without Vike Francis, first string fullback. Francis was declared ineligible for the Minnesota game because of a scholastic deficiency and it is not certain he will regain eligibility for remaining games, school officials asserted. Francis will be replaced in the Gopher game by Wayne Blue, another 200-pounder.
The Oklahoma Sooners drilled on pass defense to meet Iowa State's most potent attack.
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