Page 5
Bud Again Sounds Pessimistic Chord
(Editor's Note: This is one of seven articles describing the prospects and problems of KU's conference foes this season in football.)
NORMAN — Oklahoma's three deep men on defense will probably play close to 50 minutes per game this fall, Coach Bud Wilkinson said as the Sooners, Big Eight champions the last 12 years, progressed through preseason drills at Owen field.
"I don't feel at this time that we are in position to two-platoon anybody," the Sooner headmaster added. "I hope the weather is cool."
Wilkinson thinks his three deep men might have a better chance to survive 50 minutes than anybody else. "They have to play everything hard but on one of ever three plays nobody hits 'em and on one of every five plays they don't have to move too far. We'd like to play two teams. If we don't, it will be because we think we won't gain in freshness what we would lose in ability."
Sooner line prospects, led by Tackle Tom Cox and Guard Karl Milstead, are promising but backfield losses were so great that four sophomores won spots in the starting and alternate backfields after spring practice and the coaches hesitate to risk using them in the deep secondary in the first four games against Northwestern, Pittsburgh, Texas and Kansas, each a nationally-rated powerhouse.
One of the main items of business will be selection of two quarterbacks. This is one backfield spot where experience is ample although the coaches haven't been entirely satisfied with the performance. Three
seniors, Bennett Watts, Bob Cornell and Bob Page, are back. And Carpenter was tried there in spring practice although he missed almost half of it when he reinjured his operated leg.
Co-captain Ronnie Hartline is a fixture at fullback but three sophomores ran behind him in spring practice, all of them green. So Hartline may go largely on offense this fall with a substitute center who possesses line-backing ability spelling him on defense, a stratagem permitted by the new "wild card" substitution rule.
Oklahoma will platoon one good line with another of unproven ability but expects both units to learn so much in the first four games that the Sooners should have two seasoned sevens for the last six contests.
Gomer Jones, astute Crimson and Cream line boss who begins his 14th season at Norman this fall, estimates the Sooners have about $1\frac{1}{2}$ lines right now. And after the Sooner second line battles the likes of Northwestern, Pittsburgh, Texas and Kansas in the first four games, Jones hopes to find three or four new lads who can play.
Historic Baseball Date
NEW YORK—(UPI) The Continental Baseball League admitted its eighth team and emerged as a new "league" Jan. 29, 1960 — 60 years to the day after the formation of the American League which aimed at the time to break the National League monopoly.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less— Nicholas Butler.
University Daily Kansan
Bob Lawson, former Southern California track great, has been named to an assistant coaching berth on KU's track team this summer.
Lawson Named Track Mentor
Lawson, who twice won the Pacific Coast Conference hurdles championships in 1957 and 1958, came to Kansas from Oregon State where he had held a similar position.
Lawson was graduated from USC in 1958. He spent the 1959 season there as freshman track coach before going to Oregon State.
As a freshman at Southern California in 1955. Lawson finished second in the national AAU decathlon competition. He gave up the decathlon his sophomore year and concentrated on the hurdles and broad jump.
Lawson, 25. is married and has one son who is 16 months old.
Title Veteran
erland as head coach of the professional team.
HOUSTON, Tex. — (UPI) — Lou Rymkus, head coach of the Houston Oilers of the American Football League, took part in seven professional football title games while starring as an offensive tackle for the Cleveland Brown's.
He later left that job to devote his time to the hotel business, eventually becoming a well-known Kansas hotel man.
In 1946 Getto was hired to help coach the KU football team, serving under head coach George Sauer and his successor, Jules Sikes.
Kansan Want Ads Get Results
Thursday, Sept. 15, 1960
Mike Getto, Former KU Football Coach Is Dead
In 1951 Getto again returned to full-time hotel work. He became active in civic affairs and at one time served as president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
M. J. (Mike) Getto, 55, a former KU coach and resident manager of the Hotel Eldridge, died of a heart attack at the hotel August 27.
Getto was an outstanding football player at Pittsburgh. He was named All-America tackle in 1928 while playing under Coach Jock Sutherland. Several years ago Getto was admitted to the American Football Hall of Fame.
Big (220 pound) Mike Getto was a tireless coach and loved the rugged sport of football. As late as the 1940's, while in his late 30's, he often took part in serimages without benefit of pads or helmet.
Following his graduation from Pittsburgh University, he turned down a job at a large eastern business firm to accept an offer from Phog Allen, then acting KU athletic director, to become football assistant to Coach Bill Hargiss.
Getto was called the best lineman of 1928 by Knute Rockne, immortal Notre Dame football coach.
Getto assisted Hargiss and Ad Lindsey here from 1929 through 1938. In 1939, when Gwinn Henry became head KU football coach, Getto became head freshman coach. In 1940 Getto left KU to join his friend and fellow coach Sutherland, who was working with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1942 he succeeded Stuil-
Mr. Getto is survived by his wife, Virginia Getto, of the home; a son, Micheal Getto, 2003 Oxford Road; a daughter, Miss Patricia Getto, of the home; three brothers, Dr. Paul Getto, Lawrence; Dr. W. F. Getto, Dubois, Pa., and Tony Getto, Jenetane, Pa., and a sister, Mrs. Ralph Wilps, Greensburg, Pa.