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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1941
THE 1941 SEASON GETS UNDER WAY
Another football season swings into action this weekend, unfolding good teams and poor teams, "T" formations and five-man lines, All-Americans, crammed stadiums, and some 30,000,000 excited football students all thinking in terms of football. You can't get away from it where ever you go—the one theme and topic of conversation is football.
No one from Grantland Rice down to your small-town Monday morning quarterback can foretell gridiron results accurately. The finest coaches in the nation rarely make predictions as they usually live to regret their seothsaying. Last season experts rated the feature opening game between Pittsburgh and Ohio State a tossup. Ohio State walloped Pittsburgh 30-7. Seven weeks later, Harmon and Michigan defeated this same Ohio State team 40-0 while Pittsburgh nearly knocked Nebraska out of a Rose Bowl bid, finally losing 9 to 7 on Vike Francis's last minute field goal. This is typical of collegiate football outcomes.
BIG SIX OPENERS ARE TOUGH
Kansas will get under way Friday night against one of the East's best outfits, Temple. If the Jayhawkers make a good showing and return home with no key men injured, the student body will be well satisfied. The odds are about 3 to 1 against Kansas.
Missouri meets Ohio State and should come out the victor. Coach Paul Brown is in his first year at Columbus, Ohio, and was handed a green, inexperienced squad. In contrast, Faurot has players three deep in every position and potential all-star candidates in Harry Ice, Bob Steuber, and Darold Jenkins.
Royal (the Ace) Lohry and Ray Donel's new hipper-dipper offense will undergo tests against Denver. As Denver's attack is also based mainly on passing fans, fans should see an interesting air-battle.
Hobbs Adams hooks up with Fort Hays State at Manhattan. Hays has beaten K-State only once in 8 years (3-0 in '35) and according to press notices from Manhattan, the Wildcats will continue to hold their sway over little Fort Hays State.
Nebraska remains idle this week and the Oklahoma Sooners open at home against Oklahoma A. & M. "Snorter" Luster isn't selling the Aggies short as Stidham did last fall. Stidham's boys barely nosed out A. & M. 29 to 27 in the 1940 opener.
GAMES OF NATIONAL INTEREST
Seven games hold the nation's limelight this week. Everyone of these frays puts great teams on the spot. Bernie Bierman's Minnesota National Champions of '40 and favored to repeat last year's performance, clash with Washington, rated second to Stanford on the Pacific Coast. Boston College, unbeaten in '40, will meet Tuluaane, one of the South's powerhouses. Boston College should be one of the best despite the loss of Coach Leahy and seven regulars.
Michigan, minus Harmon, Evashevski, and company, opposes an an- senior team from Michigan State. Two big name schools, Louisiana State and Holy Cross come together in a game which will bring out their season possibilities.
Georgetown, one of the first ten teams for the past two years, tangles with a Mississippi team geared highly and heading for the Southeastern conference title. In Hovious and Hapes, Mississippi has a pair of flying backs unmatched in the South. Bo McMillin will put his sophomore sensation, Billy Hillenbrand, before the public in Indiana's season opener against Gus Dorais's strong Detroit team.
Huskers, Sooners Drill in Mud; Other Big Six News
Preparing for opening games this week end, the Big Six football squads excepting Nebraska went through their final workouts yesterday. The Jayhawkers polished up their defense last night under the lights at Haskell before entraining for Philadelphia where they meet Ray Morrison's Temple Owls tomorrow night.
Rain and mud hampered scrimage at Missouri and Oklahoma. The Missouri Bengals stressed punting and passing, followed by a short scrimmage. Rain gave the Tigers practice in handling a wet ball. Down in Soonerland Oklahoma sloshed through the mud on a waterdrenched field. Saturday the Sooners meet their state rivals, Oklahoma A. and M., at Norman.
Iowa State's weakness in pass defense left coach Ray Donels with a worried look. Ten lettermen and one
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Frosh Footballers Number Forty-Four
"The freshman squad is shaping up fine and looking better every day," said Wayne Replogle, freshman football coach, today. Coach Replogle reports that new men are reporting for practice and the material looks very good.
"The frosh will accompany the varsity on one out-of-town game—probably the Nebraska game at Lincoln," Coach Replogle said. "The boys will not go on the Temple trip but may rest over the weekend and do some studying."
The freshman squad now totals 44 men—the same size as last year's squad. "With the increasing amount of boys coming out for practice, and the appearance of the material, varsity prospects are good next year," Coach Replogle commented.
The freshmen teams of Kansas State and Nebraska bore the brunt of the afternoon's drills. The Cornhuskers ran rough-shod over their yearlings for 11 touchdowns in an extended scrimmage session. Nebraska
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Jayhawks Leave Today for Game With Temple
"We may not win, but we sure want to," were the words of Ralph Miller, veteran quarterback, who spoke on behalf of the Kansas team at the Temple rally this morning in front of Robinson gym. The Kansas squad of 35 men left for Philadelphia at 1:00 p.m. enroute for Friday night's contest with Temple University.
Stories have been written by the bushel telling how tough Temple will be for the Jayhawkers. Temple publicity notices have more or less confirmed these articles, admitting that Philadelphia expects a great team in Ray Morrison's 1941 Owl eleven.
In Temple, Kansas is meeting a team which will be tougher for them at this time in the season than Nebraska, Oklahoma, West Virginia, or Marquette will be later. The Owls, according to reports, have had a summer football camp, in addition to starting practice two weeks ahead of Kansas this fall.
Temple will be well-groomed in mid-season form, boasting a big, fast experienced starting line-up, backed up by equally good reserves, and led by the highly touted Andy Tomasic. Kansas, in contrast, has been practicing only two weeks, lacks reserve strength, and will use at least six experienced sophomores in the first string eleven.
Included on the traveling squad are 16 sophomores, 9 juniors, and 10 seniors. Only two men are listed at center and fullback, but other men can be shifted to those positions if necessary.
Bob O'Neil, letterman end, and Al Hecht, promising sophomore fullback, were left behind due to injuries. Both may be out for the season as O'Neil broke his nose in three places while Hecht suffered a severe knee injury.
Men making the trip are: Ends—Hubert Ulrich, Paul Hardman, Herb Curran, George Dick, Bob Hagen, Wallace Hinshaw, Ralph Schaake,
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From One Love to Another ... Glenn Miller
Swingin' On Nothin'
Harlem Speaks ... Charlie Barnet
I See a Million People
La Cinquantaine ... Jan Savitt
Concerto for Two
Concerto for Two
Jim ... Claude Thornbill
Call For Intramural Applicants
Applications for the two freshman managerships on the Intramural Board are due not later than Oct. 3, according to Maurice Baringer, one of the two senior managers. The application should contain the qualifications of the candidate.
At a later date the candidates will be interviewed by a committee composed of Dr. E. R. Elbel, Maurice Baringer, Bill Collinson, and a member of Men's Student Council. The applications should be turned in at the intramural office in Robinson Gym.
and Paul Turner; tackles-Warren Hodges,'Jack Tenenbaum, Gene Long, Grant Hunter, Bill Kern, and Steve Meade.
Guards—Bob Fluker, Monte Merkel, Jay Kern, Jack Brownell, Joe Crawford, and Lloyd Svoboda; Centers—Bob Githens, Dale Lowery; Quarterbacks—Ralph Miller, Marvin Vandaveur, Harlan Altman.
Halfbacks—Ray Evans, Ray Niblo,
Denzil Gibbens, Irven Hayden, Dick
Miller, Don Pollom, Gregory Studer,
and Frank Vrati; Fullbacks — Don
Ettinger and Ed Lundiquist.