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In 1954 KU was defeated by an average of 31 points per game. This was brought down to 16 points in 1955 and last season the Jayhawkers were defeated by an average of $2 \frac{1}{2}$ points per game.
This looks like the year when just a little more improvement will begin to make a big difference in the final scores, but even this early, a look at the Kansas schedule is a bit discouraging.
By GEORGE ANTHAN (Assistant Sports Editor of The Daily Kansan)
To start things off, Kansas faces three 1957 bowl games in its first three games. Texas Christian University, Oregon State and Colorado (Cotton, Rose and Orange bowls, respectively) are one-two-three on the KU schedule.
However, Mather thinks he has more depth than last season and he will be able to send in a core of tried veterans with an eager bench waiting for one of the starters to slip a little.
Spring football training begins March 15 and Jayhawker football fans can look at the coming season with more optimism than in any year since Chuck Mather came to Kansas.
At this stage Mather thinks he will start things off with Lynn McCarthy and Jim Letcavits at ends, Mike Gibson and Jim Hall at tackles, Paul Swoboda and Bob Krause at guard, Wally Strauch at quarterback, Charles McCue and Bob Robinson at halfback and Jerry Baker at fullback. At center Mather thinks John Wertzberger did very well last season. Wertzberger, who now weighs 230 pounds, will have to shave off a little weight.
Kansas football fortunes, although at a low ebb for the past few years, have shown marked improvement.
"The boys are more interested in their weight and keeping in shape this year than ever before," Mather said.
"They are realizing more and more that speed is very essential in football these days. You have to be able to catch the other fellow."
Homer Floyd and Bob Marshall will also be figuring in the Kansas football picture. Floyd, according to Mather, may be switched from fullback to left half while Marshall will remain at quarterback.
After playing the three bowl teams Kansas will meet Iowa State. At this time the Cyclones are always especially tough. They are tough because no one thinks they will be tough and that's when they pull an upset.
Following Iowa State Kansas will play conference foes Nebraska, Kansas State and Missouri.
Of course, Bud Wilkinson and his Oklahoma Sooners will be around and although their balloon may burst any year now, we don't think Kansas will carry a pin sharp enough to do the job in 1957.
Mather will be permitted 20 days to practice out of a 36 day period. Practice will begin on a Friday and from then on will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday for five weeks.
"We plan to scrimmage a great deal," says Mather. "However, we must improve our defense," he added.
The Kansas offense in 1956 did real well. The team ranked sixth among Kansas teams in scoring and ground gaining. However, a squad that wants to win games must hold its opponents to one or two touchdowns.
So Mather and the team have their work cut out for them. With an improved defense and offense at least as good as last last season's, Kansas could very well win six games in 1957.
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Star-Studded Aggies In Final Indoor Here
KU's undefeated track and field squad meets the star-studded Oklahoma A&M Cowpokes tonight in Allen Field House. The pole vault is scheduled to open the dual at 7 p.m. with the first running event at 8 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 15, 1957
Eddie Roberts is the top A&M hurdler, having run the high hurdles in 13.8 and the lows in 23.8 last year during the outdoor season. Larry Graham won the conference half-mile last year in 1:56.6. Kim Ellis has continually jumped over 24 feet in the broad jump, while sophomore Bobby Crump leaped 23' 73" while in high school. Jorge Madamba has jumped 6-5 in the high jump.
Easton is particularly worried about the dashes. The Aggies top spinner is Orlando Hazley who has dipped to :06.2 in the 60 yard dash. "We're going to have to come up and plug that hole in the dash," said Easton, "or they're going to snow us."
Easton was well pleased with his squad that beat Michigan State, 88-53, at East Lansing Monday. "If we can continue to improve," he said "we stand an even chance to retain our conference championship."
Coach Bill Easton expects this to be the Jayhawkers toughest dual of the season. The Cowpokes are thin in numbers, but carry brilliant individual performers. They have continually swept the Missouri Valley track championship during the past years. Last year they finished with a total of $91 \frac{1}{2}$ points compared to runner-up Houston's $33 \frac{1}{2}$.
Particularly outstanding for the Jayhawkers in the recent dual was Jerry McNeal, who may be the greatest two-miler yet to come off Bill Easton's endless Kansas assembly line. McNeal won the two-mile in 9:06.1 to beat State's Selwyn Jones by 13 seconds. Jones is the NCAA 10,000 meters champion and record holder. This was the fastest time ever recorded by a Big 7 runner in the two-mile event.
Leading the Aggie parade is J. W. Mashburn, a two time Olympic team member. He heads a team which will pit seven of last year's Valley's champions against Kansas.
Bernie Gay and Jan Howell also uncoiled their all-time best indoor miles against the Spartans, 4:15.1 and 4:15.2 in a surprise 1-2 finish ahead of Henry Kennedy, NCAA steeplechase champion. Captain Lowell Janzen set a field house mark of 2:13.1 in the 1000, then came back in 1:55.3 behind Olympian Dave Lean in the half-mile. Hal Long will press Janzen in both races, having recorded times of 2:13.7 and 1:56.0.
Louie and Larry Stroup, Jayhawk quarter mile twins, reached personal indoor bests of :50.1 at Michigan State. Ray Wyatt ran a :49.7 in the anchor carry of a 3:21.8 mile relay victory.
In the field, Dave Tams has consistently vaulted over 14-foot in the pole vault. Kent Florke and Al Oerter carry KU's hopes to
win the high jump, broad jump and shotput. Floerke plugged the gap left by the ineligible Bob Cannon in the high jump and has always been an excellent broad jumper. Oerter, Olympic discus champion, has been throwing over 52 feet consistently in the shotput event.
The Fort Wayne Pistons Thursday switched their professional basketball franchise to Detroit in the game's first realignment in more than two seasons.
Fred Zollner, millionaire industrialist, announced that the Pistons will begin a six-year contract at Olympia Stadium next October.
With these stars the Jayhawkers hope to make the Aggies their seventh straight dual victim since bowing to Michigan last winter.
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Fort Wayne Pistons Switch To Detroit
The Pistons, champions of the National Basketball Association's Western Division for two years, is currently leading the division, Detroit had rejected the pro basketball game a decade ago.
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