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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Sept. 17. 1959
Other Big 8 Teams Preparing for Action
Iowa State; the team the experts rated as the most likely to finish last in the Big Eight conference during their annual preseason poll, will also have one of the smallest teams in the conference.
The Iowa State squad numbers only 39 men including four seniors, eleven juniors and 24 sophomores.
Lettermen include Bob Anderson, Lou Gartner, Leo Marshall and Don Webb, ends; Larry Van Der Heyden and Jerry Schoenfelder, tackles; Gary Astieford and Tom Ferrebee, guards; Arden Essinger, center; Cliff Rick, blocking back; Mickey Fitzgerald, wing back; Tom Watkins, fullback; and Dwight Nichols and Chuck Lamson, tailbacks.
Last season Coach Clay Stapleton started eight sophomores in most of his games.
"We have all too few upper classmen," Stapleton points out. "but we will have most of them in the starting lineup this season."
OKLAHOMA WILL field another whippet-like starting team and al signs are pointing to one of the best backfields in the perennial champion's history.
In the Sooner backfield are Prentice Gaunt, senior fullback, who has been drummed as an All America in many of the preseason polls. He will be joined by quarterback Bobby Boyd, left half Jackie Holt and right half Bennett Watts.
The Sooner line is expected to contain several of last year's members and averages about 197 pounds. All things look good for the Sooners who don't play their first game until the second week of the season, with two beefy teams to back up the starters.
KANSAS STATE has only 16 lettermen returning in a squad of 46 who are preparing for their opener Saturday at home against the Wichita Wheatshockers of the Missouri Valley conference.
A bleak season has been forecast for the Wildcats from the state agricultural college this season but tuat Cat backfield will be solid at least with lettermen backs Dale Evans, Max Falk, Bill Gallagher, Jack Marceline, Kent McConnell, John Solmos, Tony Tiro and George Whitney returning.
Football Schedule
Sept. 19 T.C.U. Ft. Worth
Sept. 26 Syracuse Syracuse
Oct. 3 Boston U. Lawrence
(Band Day)
Oct. 10 Nebraska Lincoln
Oct. 17 Kansas St. Lawrence
Oct. 24 Oklahoma Norman
Oct. 31 Iowa State Lawrence
(Parents Day)
Nov. 7 Colorado Boulder
Nov. 14 Okla. St. Lawrence
Nov. 21 Missouri Lawrence
(Hawaii traveling)
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COLORADO COACH Sonny Grandellus, the only new mentor in the conference this season, has a squad numbering 78 candidates including only 17 lettermen and 45 sophomores.
The Buffaloes open their season Saturday against Washington in a home contest at Boulder. They will open with the youngest squad in many years with only six seniors on the roster.
Grandelius, who was the offensive backfield coach at Michigan State last year, is completing a re-tooling job on the Colorado backfield that he started last spring. Almost all of the positions have been filled by shifts in order to make them more solid.
Picked for a fifth place finish by Big Eight sportswriters and broadcasters, the Colorado team will be trying to upset that prediction but will have a tough job to do in order to turn the trick.
After the home opener the Buffers will host Baylor before taking on Oklahoma. Grandelius says that the first three games will be the roughest trio that Colorado has ever opened with.
MISSOURI TIGERS are deep in experienced backs but short on proven interior linemen this season according to statements from Coach Dan Devine's camp at Columbia.
The Bengals, who were 5-4-1 under Devine in 1958 and finished second in the Big Eight, graduated just four regulars off that squad but three of them were key interior linemen.
Missouri is counting on a good season and it will be Coach Devine's second. Missou lost only one ball-carrier out of its first three backfields and has solid quarterbacking in its 1-2 punch of seniors Phil Snowden and Bob Haas.
Co-captains Tom Swaney, center, and Mike Magac, tackle, are the reliable defensive links in the Tiger line but sophomores and 1958 squadmen will have to provide the necessary depth at both guard and tackle. Three lettered holdovers guarantee Missouri a solid trio of ends.
The Tigers are pointing towards a first place finish this year but will have to beat Oklahoma to gain it. They have been picked as the likely runner-up and the conference entry into the Orange Bowl game.
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