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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1941.
K.U. Plays West Virginia Next
Sports Slants By Clint Kanaga
By BILL PORTER Guest Conductor
The story of Clark Shaugnessy's spectacular football successes at Stanford after his disastrous experiences at Chicago University has been worn out by writers already, but still an additional comment may be made upon his recent grooming of a Rose Bowl team from a squad that lost six conference games the year before and averaged only 4 5-7 points a contest. He is a living example of Gwinn Henry's famous proposition that a football coach is either a "hero" or a "bum" in the eyes of sports fans.
Observers believed that Shaugness, who had previously put Tulane on the football map, and had later coached at Loyola of New Orleans, was past his prime when he assumed the mentor's reins at Chicago. His grid records at that school seemed to bear out their expectations. Working with mediocre material in a school where football was being de-emphasized, and meeting some of the strongest schools in the country every season, the record became poorer each year. As one Phi Beta Kappa lineman at Chicago put it, "This is getting to be positively futile."
Now that Shaugnessy is a hero again, and is responsible for the widespread comeback of the T formation this year, his followers once more are numerous. And they'll all tell you they were right behind him all the time.
PRO AND COLLEGE
Speaking of Chicago University, the recent rumor to the effect that that school was considering "adopting" the Chicago Bears professional team suggests that commercialism of big time athletics might take another step. The proposition was that the Bears would continue to play their professional schedule, and not college teams, of course; but yet this possible situation shows what the condition of the inter-collegiate sport world is.
Chicago, which considered it beneath its dignity to subsidize players and represent them to be amateurs on one hand, or to schedule contests which had about the same "natural" material on the other, finally abandoned all pretense of supporting an inter-collegiate football team. If this suggestion concerning the Chicago Bears is carried through, it will demonstrate the final step in the defeat of the inter-collegiate football plan.
University students, for whose recreation the game was originally instituted, will be banned from taking part in the contests. The most active part that any of them will be able to fill will be that of sitting in the stadium and witnessing a gigantic athletic spectacle.
Cordonier Makes Cue Nationals
University of Kansas is western section winner and Louis Cordonier, college junior, is individual section high scorer in the National Telegraphic Billiard tournament which was played Friday night.
Florida was national winner with a score of 373. Kansas had* 323 points. National individual winner was Bonine of Cornell with 104; Cordonier had a 95 total in 15 innings, making an average of 6.33 per inning.
Cordonier will make the trip to Philadelphia for the national playoff November 15. The National Intercollegiate Individual Pocket Biliards Championship tournament will be held at Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.
The University of Kansas team and their scores are: Cordonier, 95; Greene, 92; Keyser, 54; Kenneth Reed, 49; Bob Reed, 33.
The tournament was sponsored by the Association of College unions and the Billiard Association of America. The Kansas team was sponsored by the Student Union Activities board.
Jayhawk Ends Are Versatile
Few ends on the University football squad started their grid careers at that position. Hubert Ulrich of Quinter, first string left end, played blocking back as a freshman. Bob Hagen of Lawrence played that same position both as freshman and sophomore, before being shifted to end last spring.
Mountaineers Are Favored Over Kansas
Paul Hardman of Topeka was a guard in high school and as a K.U. freshman. Ralph Schaake of Williamstown was a tackle his first two years on Mount Oread.
Morgantown, W. Va.,—(Special)—The Jayhawks of the University of Kansas, on the upgrade again in the Middlewest under the tutelage of Gwinn Henry, invade West Virginia University's Mountaineer Field for the first time in history next Saturday to tackle Bill Kern's Gold and Blue gridders in their homecoming clash.
The turn-out for this next home clash is expected to be by far the largest of the home season to date, and may be the largest homecoming throng since the Michigan State fray of 1938, which drew 9,000.
A number of factors support this belief. For one thing, the 1941 homecoming game is being played much earlier in the season and the chances are that the weather will not be of the ice, near zero aspect that it was in '40 for the homecoming battle with Kentucky, which the Mountaineers won, 9 to 7.
Secondly, it is a feared opponent that the Mountaineers must face in this clash. With perhaps the most dangerous passer in the Middle-west in "Rifling Ralph" Miller, coupled with a ground attack that has been improving noticeably with each game, the Jayhawks are expected to give the Mountaineers about all
Mountainees Expect Battle
they can handle in one afternoon. Miller led the nation in passing percentages in 1939, as a junior, when he compiled the brilliant season's percentage of .622. He isn't doing quite as well this year, but for three of Kansas' games this fall "Rifling Ralph" had connected on 26 of 48 attempts for a .542 mark, which isn't at all bad, as percentages go.
Sophomores Are Clicking
A third factor is that Kern's sophomores seemingly have found themselves even without a passing threat and a backfield running threat in the open field—and the chances are that all remaining opponents will feel plenty of fury in the Mountaineer attack.
Last Saturday, in the losing game with Kentucky, the Mountaineers had possession of the ball 53 of the 60 minutes, had 17 first downs to 5 for Kentucky, and outgained the Wildcats rushing, 247 yards to 128. In the words of Coach Kern, "there wasn't any excuse for this."
Lack of a passer with any accuracy about him, coupled with a pass defense that frequently has lapsed into a lethargy, has hurt the Mountaineers no end, and Coach Kern hopes to correct these weaknesses, if at all possible. Too, he hopes to stop the mechanical mistakes that have been cropping out.
Riding Club Will Elect Officers Tomorro w
The Spur club, newly-formed riding organization, will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson gym to elect officers. The group will ride later in the week.
The Spur club is composed of members of the present and former equitation classes, and will be under the direction of Henry Shenk, instructor of physical education.
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Third Round Play Ends Wednesday
All entrants who have reached the third round in the annual fall table tennis tournament must play off their games by Wednesday or drop from the tournament.
Women have been given an extra week to catch up with the men, Bob Hodgson, intramurals chairman said today.
Men are paired off as follows:
Men are paired on as follows:
Ise vs. Tihen, J. Smith vs. L.
Jaguerie, B. Kirby vs. K. Harden,
B. Martin vs. bye, Magrath vs. J.
Doores, Helgeson vs. Voelker, G.
Roberts vs. bye, M. Black vs. bye,
Davison vs. bye, Dawson vs. M.
Hulett, Mathews vs. Kerdorf,
Stimpson vs. V. Staebler, Cordonier vs. J. Beal, T. Gray vs. B. Vermillion, Mize vs. T. Curry, Ed Hansen vs. P. Peterson.
Gibbens Now With Phillips
Friends of "Chet" Gibbens, football star of last season, have received word that the former athlete is now with the sales division of Phillips Petroleum company in Kansas City.
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