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University Daily Kansan Thursday. November 5.1959
Ey Lonesome George
The old average slipped way down to 523 last week as four upsets were recorded. Ole' Miss failed to slip past LSU and two games ended in deadlocks.
I missed on Missouri over Colorado, Oklahoma over Nebraska, Mississippi over Louisiana State, Yale over Dartmouth and Georgia Tech over Duke. Air Force and Army tied as did Purdue and Illinois.
This week, sticking to the mixed up Big Eight scramble, I see:
KANSAS OVER COLORADO ...
Two more loop wins and the Jayhawkers will end up tied with Oklahoma for the first place in the conference, and will spend New Year's Day in sunny Miami. It will be cold in Colorado but the Jayhawkers will have to sweat to stop the passing threat of Gale Widener. I see the Jayhawkers getting down to business and taking the giant step towards the Orange Bowl.
OKLAHOMA OVER KANSAS STATE...Last week the Sooners were humbled by Nebraska while the Wildcats were being smothered at Iowa. Oklahoma will be out to prove that they still do have a team and Kansas State will offer no resistance to that fact. The Sooners by at least 40 points.
AIR FORCE OVER MISSOURI ... The Tigers are down after being upset at Colorado last month and don't quite have the razzle dazzle team the Air Force Falcons have. I see the flyboys winging away with an easy victory in this one.
IOWA STATE OVER NEBRASKA...The Huskers turned the trick and stopped Oklahoma last week but they haven't reckoned on the spunkiness of Iowa State's Dirty Thirty. It's a great feeling to beat Oklahoma but there is bound to be a tremendous letdown after the job is done. Iowa State hasn't let down all year and takes advantage of every opportunity. In this respect, the Cyclones are my favorite.
OKLAHOMA STATE OVER DENVER...Last but not least, the Cowboys are the winningest team in the conference, although not in the conference until next year. Denver has played one conference team and lost to Iowa State 28-12. Oklahoma State should have little trouble in winning this one.
Stepping out of the football picture for a scent minute, I see Kansas adding still another championship in the cross-country, indoor and outdoor track circus here this Saturday when the Jayhawkers entertain the rest of the conference on the Lawrence Country Club course.
Brown Has Top Mark
CLEVELAND — (UPI) — Coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns started the 1959 National Football League season with a record of 267 victories, 55 losses and 11 ties on all levels of the sport from high school to professional competition.
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Nine Top Conference Runners Back
By Bob Gilchrist
Sixty-one thinclads representing all Big Eight member schools will run during the conference cross-country championships here Saturday morning on the Lawrence Country Club course.
Nine of the first ten runners from last year's meet at Oklahoma are included in the field.
GAIL HODGSON, Oklahoma's South African import and the winner of the '58 individual title leads the pack followed by Oklahoma State's Miles Eisenman who finished second last year.
Kansas returns Tom Skutka, Billy Mills, Brian Travis and Dan Ralston with the remaining place winners being Oklahoma's Ernest Kleynhans, Kansas State's Duane Holman, and Nebraska's Joe Mullins.
The defending champion Jay-
hawkers will be running Clif Cushman, Bob Lindrud and Jack Henry in addition to Skutka, Travis, Mills and Ralston in an attempt to capture the 13th consecutive title for Kansas.
Skutka, the 1957 individual champion, was forced into third place by Hodgson ad Eisenman last year.
THE MAIN threat to the Kansas domination of the conference is newcomer Oklahoma State. The Cowboys have won three of four meets this season with the only loss being by two points to the Air Force academy.
Besides Eisenman, rated as one of the league's all-time best distance runners, the OSU squad includes rookies Jack McPhail, Ray Metcalf, Harold Smith and Billy Stone who toppled Kansas off the conference freshman throne last year.
The last close call for Kansas came in 1950 when Missouri ace Bill McGuire was disqualified in the stretch allowing the Jayhawkers to escape 19-31 instead of sharing a 22-22 tie.
Oklahoma's main hope is Hodgson but three other lettermen will return to back him in Arvil Ming, Kleynhans and Bob Ringo. All placed last year.
IOWA STATE has only two returning men in John Darby and Harlan Milliken but Coach Ron Sanson is bringing two extra men along with him. In an opposite light, Colorado Coach Frank Potts is bringing only six men, none of whom placed in the meet last year.
Kansas State's one hope is Holman, the seventh place finisher last year. The only other Wildcat to place in the '58
championships is Bob Grozek.
who will try to back up Holman.
Mullins and Joe American Horse, eighth and 15th last year, will be the Nebraska banner carriers while Missouri is expected to bring up the rear with no outstanding returnees.
Starting time will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning over the rugged hill-and-dale course.
Hill Is Big Bear
CHICAGO —(UFI)— Harlon Hill, Chicago Bear end, holds the team records for most yards gained on pass receptions in a season, 1,128; most yards in one game, 214, and most touchdown passes caught in a game, four.
From Diamond to Grid
LOS ANGELES —(UPI)— Tom Wilson of the Los Angeles Rams, one of the few players in National Football League history to make the pros without benefit of college experience, played one season of professional baseball in the Milwaukee Braves farm system.