1941
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Sophomores Due To Shine
When Kansas takes the field opposite Oklahoma to-morrow, three fine sophomores, Ray Evans, Ray Niblo, and Don Ettinger will carry the burden of the Jayhawker offensive drives. Upon the broad shoulders of these three first-year men, lie the hopes of the Kansas student body and alumni for successful teams in 1942 and 1943.
Matching these sophomore backs, stride for stride, are five of their fellow linemen from the last year's freshman team. They are tackles Gene Long, Jack Tenebaum, Warren Hodges, guard Joe Crawford, and center Bob Githens. If some of this year's fresh squad stars such as Gene Roberts, Dick Channel, Junius Penny and Kenny Thompson can stand the gait of varsity competition, Gwinn Henry will have a whale of a team next fall.
It is something new and different to have a trio of big backs at Kansas such as Evans, Ettinger, and Niblo. Evans, six feet one, weighs close to 185 pounds, while Ettinger and Niblo, both six feet two inches
tall, tip the scales regularly at 190. All three can kick and pass with great skill.
In both the Temple and Nebraska games, Evans nearly returned the opening kickoffs for touchdowns. In both games, the last man on the opposing team nailed him. In addition to his ball-toting, Evans ranks among the first four pass-receivers in the country. Niblo, like Evans, nearly got away for a score on an Iowa State Kickoff. In the Iowa State win, Niblo was magnificent, steaming along with high knee action, weaving hips, and driving his logs like pistons when hit. Evans, on his first five appearances, rates as the best blocker of the trio, although Niblo and Ettinger have improved greatly since the start of the season.
Evans took over Miller's passing role in the Iowa State fray and completed four out of eight tosses. Niblo threw three passes in the Washington game, completing all three, two going for touchdowns. Ettinger's only aerial of the season was good for an extra point against Washington.
Niblo has been alternating with Miller on the kicking assignments, with several fine punts to his credit. Evans, in his only booting effort, quick-kicked 50 yards against Iowa State. Ettinger rates highly as a place kicking star. In the Cyclone contest, Ettinger converted the extra point after the second K.U. score.
team early in the season were classic.
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As ball carriers, Ettinger is a fine straight runner, while Niblo and Evans are best at elusive ball carrying, especially when besieged by would-be tacklers. Ettinger's gallops of 50 and 58 yards for varsity touchdowns against the Alumni
Maybe all three will get going at the same time down at Oklahoma, or here in one of the remaining two home contests with Kansas State or Missouri. If they do, nothing short of an All-American line can stop them, and watch them roll in 1942.
(continued from page one) as yet for bobsledding." Dr. Allen stated, "but if we do it will be separate from the skiing.
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"We particularly want to emphasize the safety of this program," Dr. Allen continued. "The skiing and sledding will be much safer here than out on the streets, and the ice will present no danger because the water will not be more than a few inches deep in any place."
Anderson learned skiing in Austria and Switzerland in 1939 when he was the University's German exchange student at Munich.
In commenting on this planned transformation of Kansan prairies to Alpine slopes, Anderson said,
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Jensen is a native Norwegian and skied considerably in that country when he was a small boy. Last year, during about 10 days of good skiing weather, Jensen was one of the most active skiing enthusiasts on the Hill.
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A partial list of faculty members and students who have done skiing on the Hill in past winters includes Robert Knox; Karl Shawver; Paul Diegel; Ben Mantz; Eva Magill; Betsy Dodge; Robert Pyle, instructor in romance languages; A. B. Leonard, assistant professor of geology; H.T.U. Smith, assistant professor of geology; Bernard "Poco" Frazier, instructor in ceramics and design; and A. J. Mix, professor of botany.
Meribah Moore Will Be Soloist
"Perhaps this interest was stimulated by the University's recent exchange scholar, Ingrid Frestadius, or by our own Chancellor, both of whom saw how inviting Mt. Oread could actually be to the skiing enthusiast in the event of a good winter snow."
Dr. Allen said that Chancellor Malott, since he is an affirmed skiing fan, is heartily in favor of the plan. The Chancellor donned his skis a few times last winter to try out the Kansas snows.
To Leave Names
Miss Meribah Moore, of the school of fine arts voice faculty, will appear as soloist before the Kansas City Music Club in Epperson Hall Monday afternoon at 2:15.
All students or faculty members who are interested in skiing on the Hill this year should leave their names either with Jensen in the department of economics, or with Anderson in the department of German.
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Manhattan, Kans., Oct. 31 — (UP) Coach Hobbs Adams today named John Hancock captain for Saturday's game with Nebraska.
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The team went through a stiff work-out yesterday, despite a chill north wind. Most of the session was devoted to running through plays and passing.
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Lawrence, Kans., Oct. 31 -(UP) The Kansas football squad spent 45 minutes scrimmaging in ankle deep mud yesterday, in preparation for Saturday's game with Oklahoma at Norman.
Coach Gwinn Henry decided that a practice session in the mud was just what the team needed to round off the week's training in view of the prospects that the game Saturday will be played on a soggy field.
Columbia, Mo., Oct. 31 —(UP) Missouri's Big Six leaders last left night for East Lansing where they play Michigan State tomorrow and then on to New York to tangle with N.Y.U. a week later.
Twenty-four men left Columbia on the special train and sixteen more who had played in the "B" team Jefferson barracks game yesterday joined them in St. Louis.
Backs, Vern Bowen and Ray Chase were not with the squad and remained on the hospital list.
Ames, Iowa, Oct. 31 —(UP)— Claire Ethington, regular guard on the Iowa State football team, was out of the lineup in practice yesterday because of an injured knee. His place was filled by Bob Burrell. Iowa State this week meets South Dakota at Ames.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 31 — (UP)
Maj. Lawrence M. (Biff) Jones indicated today that Game Captain
Ken Simmons would start at right half Saturday in place of Allen Zikmund when the Cornhuskers meet Kansas State.
Otherwise the starting lineup will be unchanged. Despite near freezing weather the Cornhuskers went through a heavy drill yesterday.
Norman, Okla., Oct. 31.—(UP) Coaches today feared Oklahoma football fans are in store for another muddy game tomorrow. Oklahoma plays Kansas here and there's little chance of the field getting dry, the coaches said.
Covering of the field never is put down except when the sod is dry, and it has rained so steadily this week the gridiron never was able to dry out from last Saturday's drenching.
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No Rock Chalk mixer will be held after the Oklahoma-Kansas game tomorrow.
The game will be broadcast over national hook-ups, making a leased-wire party in the Union Memorial building unnecessary and the mixer impractical, Genevieve Harmon president of Jay James, said today.
The Rock Chalk mixers are sponsored by the Jay Janes and Ku Ku's, in cooperation with the Student Union Activities board.
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