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Jayhawks Rated Underdogs Again
The Jayhawkers, still looking for their first touchdown after two completed games, will meet the Colorado Buffaloes at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow before an expected 22,000 spectators in Memorial Stadium.
Kansas is rated the underdog for the third week of the 3-week-old season. Injuries have cut into the Jayhawker line. Coach Jack Mitchell can't find the players to make effective replacements.
John Peppercorn, injured in the Oregon State game last week, will not play tomorrow. He worked in yesterday's scrimmage, but Mitchell said the 220-bound tackle would not be in the lineup.
Also out will be Dick Rohl, a starter at right guard against Texas Christian, and Bill Blasi who is suffering from a hand injury. Bill Burnison, first team center, is out for the season.
Mitchell put the team through a light loosening-up session today. Yesterday, he worked the team on punt returns and punt protection.
"We'll have to score at least three times to even tie Colorado," he said. "We haven't scored yet."
In spite of the lack of a tally in the offensive department, the Jayhawkers have improved on defense since opening day.
CU Must Improve
"The tackling and pursuit by our players was very poor," he said this week. "I think that a lot of our boys underrated Kansas State. It's hard to get a team up for a club which you beat pretty badly the year before."
Colorado Coach Dal Ward hopes his team will show a more coordinated offense and defense than it demonstrated in its 13-3 victory over Kansas State.
When the Wildcats built up their 326-230 total offense margin over Colorado it marked the first time a team had outgained the Buffaloes in 14 games. The last team to do it was Missouri in the 1956 season.
Colorado won 26-25 the year before and went on to take second in the conference.
Will Walls, assistant Colorado coach, said in his scouting report that Kansas is 25 per cent better than last year. The improvement has resulted from aggressiveness, team spirit and conditioning, he said.
Big City Air Relaxes Team For CU Game
Contrary to popular opinion, spending a quiet evening at home isn't the best way to relax—not for a football team, anyway.
Coach Jack Mitchell finds the best way to get the team in the right mental condition for a home game is to take the whole crew into the big city (Topeka), take the men to a movie and then send them to bed early.
That is the schedule followed before every home game. This afternoon, the men who will be in uniform for tomorrow's game will board a bus for Topeka. They will arrive there at 6:30.
They will go to a movie as a group will then return to the hotel to be in bed by 10:30.
Breakfast, at 9:30 tomorrow morning, will include steak, oatmeal, fruit, toast and coffee or tea. Dean Nesmith, team trainer, said this meal must be big enough to carry the boys through until after the game.
University Daily Kansas
Following breakfast, the team and entire coaching staff will get together and discuss plans for the approaching game. After this will come another short rest period.
Then, at 11:30, the team will board the bus to head back for Lawrence and the Colorado Balboaes.
Twenty-five Kansas and Missouri stations will carry broadcasts of tomorrow's Kansas-Colorado game which begins at 1:30 p.m.
The KU Sports Network originates with station KANU on the campus. Stations broadcasting the game in the Lawrence area will be WDAF, KMBC and KCMO, Kansas City; KLWN, Lawrence; KOFO, Ottawa, and WREN, Topeka.
25 Radio Stations Will Broadcast Game
Fridav. Oct. 3. 1958
Extra Point Revision Prompts Speculation
A certain amount of drama has been added to that old football ritual, the try for the extra point. Since the beginning of the 1958 collegiate football season, players have had the choice after touchdowns of kicking the ball through the uprights for one extra point or running or passing it over the goal line for two extra points.
"It has placed a lot more importance on the extra point. The fact that higher scores can result sure will make a great difference in attitudes toward the game."
"The defense has a much greater responsibility in this respect," Ron Claiborne, tackle, said.
Under the new rule, the bal is placed on the 3-yard-line, rather than the two. Then, it is up to the quarterback to decide the play—a try for one or two points.
Kansas players, all speculating on what will happen when the first Jayhawker touchdown is scored, expressed their views on the new rule's complications.
Athletics Trade Chico Carrasquel
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—The athletics yesterday swapped shortstop Chico Carrasquel for Baltimore utility man Dick Williams—with no money involved.
A's officials said the 29-year-old Williams "should give us additional right-handed hitting strength." Williams averaged .283 this past season and is an outfielder who also plays all three bases.
The 30-year-old Carrasquel, once outstanding for the Chicago White Sox, batted only .234 for Kansas City this year. He came to the Athletics from Cleveland last April and started his baseball career with the White Sox in 1950.
Scoring leader for the Jayhawkers in the 1957 football season was Homer Floyd who tied for ninth in the conference with 30 points.
"I like the rule," said John Wertz-
berger, center.
"This will cut down on tied games. As a matter of fact, I guess we'll try to run if we're ahead. Those two points will look awfully good. The new rule makes it a little harder on the line, though. It's easier for the offense to block for a kick than for a run or pass."
"I sure don't see anything wrong with it," said John Peppercorn, tackle.
"This rule will eliminate the tie games we have had in the past."
End Walt Schmidt took a practical point of view to the question:
"We don't have to worry about extra points if we score enough touchdowns. We haven't been able to do that so far, though, have we?"
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