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Tuesday, April 30, 1957 University Daily Kansan Page
Veiled dissatisfaction is beginning to be expressed by many over the results of Saturday's Varsity-Alumni game which the grads won. 20-6.
When it comes down to criticizing football at Kansas the critics should end with Mather and not begin with him. Football, for better or for worse, has become big business and should be treated as such.
A bubble seems to have burst Saturday for many people—a bubble that probably should never have existed.
There are, as yet, no criteria for judging whether or not Kansas will have a winning football team in 1957. Only one game has been played and that against a team that was power packed and alive with spirit.
But why should this football bubble exist? There is no doubt that it does. Fans expect Kansas football to soar to great heights—they expect a skyscraper and they get a cottage. Well, you can't build a skyscraper on a cottage's foundation.
Manager Fred Haney of the Milwaukee Braves and Skipper Al Lopez of the Chicago White Sox both credited good pitching today for their fast getaways in the major league pennant races.
A school can de-emphasize football, it can straddle the fence and it can go all out. Fans, when criticizing, should keep this in mind. They should bracket the school they wish to criticize then comment accordingly.
By GEORGE ANTHAN (Assistant Sports Editor of The Daily Kansan)
But where was the spirit of the varsity team? A good question—a question that probably no one directly connected with the game here could answer. The problem delves much deeper than the players and coaches.
Pitching Credited For Fast Getaways
open their first Eastern trip against the New York Giants tonight.
"I don't say we have the greatest but I think we have the deepest pitching staff in the (National) league," Haney conceded as the frontrunning Braves prepared to
In American League games tonight, Boston is at Kansas City and Washington at Cleveland. Three other National League night games will find Chicago at Brooklyn, Cincinnati at Philadelphia, and St. Louis at Pittsburgh.
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