Thursday, Sept. 17, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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CO-CAPTAIN—Ken Fitch is one of two lettered tackles returning to action for the Jayhawkers this season at that position. Fitch, a senior from Bartlesville, Okla., will share the captain honors and duties this season with end John Peppercorn.
Two Lettered Guards Back
Kansas has only two lettered guards returning for the 1959 season but the depth of promising new-comers and the fierce competition figures to make this position at least adequate.
Both veterans, Dick Rohlf and Joe Spurney, were second-stringers last year behind Tom Russell and Ken Fitch. Russell has graduated while Fitch has been switched to tackle.
If competition for playing time hones the survivors as is usual in any sport, the four-sided battles on
With normal improvement both Rohlf and Spurney should meet Big Eight standards. The former is a double letter winner who has progressed steadily through hard work. Spurney was converted from right half last autumn as a sophomore and delivered better than anyone expected.
However, both will have to improve to hold their jobs. Each faces extreme pressure from three sophomores. Elvin Basham, Larry Lousch, and Jim Mills, a Kansas State transfer, are pressing Rohlf on the right side. Benny Boydston, Bill McKinney, and Duke Collins are crowding Spurney on the right.
both sides should produce two sets of satisfactory candidates.
Bovdston, Basham and Mills are on the lightish side, in the 178-185 bracket, but this trio, like the other tyros, has good speed, hustle and agility.
Collins, a 195-pounder from Garden City, improved as much as any player on the squad during spring practice. He may be switched to tackle, along with Louss, another 195-pounder from Coldwater.
There also is a possibility they will be joined by Bill Burnison, the only lettered center. However, the Ontario, Calif., strong man is questionable because of a knee injury. He was a starter through the final half of the '57 season as a sophomore and took rank next to Oklahoma's Bob Harrison as the league's No. 2 pivot.
He was felled by a knee injury in the first half of last year's opener against TCU and therefore is a hardship case with two seasons of eligibility remaining. The question is whether his injured knee will stand the strain. He was withheld from contact during spring drills.
Kansas Guard Roster Basham, Elvin (Soph.)...5-11 185 Boydston.
Loudston,
Benny (Soph.) ... 5-10 178
Collins, John (Soph.) ... 6-2 195
Lousch, Larry (Soph.) ... 5-11 195
Martin, Larry (Soph.) ... 5-11 206
McKinney, Bill (Soph.) 6-1 205
Mills, Jim (Soph.) ... $5^{9_{1}}$ 183
**Rohlf, Dick (Sr.) ... 5-10 185
*Spurney, Joe (Jr.) ... 5-11 196
*Denotes Lettermen
Great Iowa State Miler Now Coaches
Iowa State's greatest miler, Ron Sanson, has called 14 men out for cross country drills in preparation for the Oct. 17 opener at Nebraska. Sanson is serving as cross country coach for the Cyclones while Coach Burl Berry is on leave for a Fulbright teaching fellowship in Iran.
The Iowa State mentor will have only three lettermen back from the team which finished fifth in the 1958 NCAA meet. Included are co-captains John Darby and Gary Haltmeyer. The other letterman is Harlan Devereaux.
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