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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 30, 1956
KU Battles Missouri In Season's Last Game
PROBABLE STARTERS
| KANSAS | Wt. | Po. | Wt. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Don Martin | (199) | LE | (189) |
| Frank Gibson | (215) | LT | (222) |
| Don Pfutzenreuter | (158) | LG | (209) |
| Frant Black | (220) | C | (216) |
| Bob Kraus | (212) | RG | (210) |
| Ed Prelock | (230) | RT | (216) |
| Jim Letcavits | (181) | RE | (199) |
| Wally Strauch | (181) | QB | (192) |
| Bobby Robinson | (185) | LH | (199) |
| Charles McCue | (188) | RH | (194) |
| Homer Floyd | (164) | FB | (184) |
MISSOURI
George Boucher
Frank Zcapla
Pete Jensen
Carl Osterloh
Paul Browning
Mervin Johnson
Don Hopkins
Jimmy Hunter
Hank Kuhlmann
Charley James
George Cramer
The Kansas Jayhawkers and the Missouri Tigers renew the nation's fifth oldest football rivalry at Columbia Saturday. There will be no title at stake in this 65th edition of the MU-KU game, but there is ample honor at stake nonetheless.
For the Jayhawkers it will be a chance to gain the best season's record they have had since Coach Chuck Mather took over the reins in 1954. A victory would allow them to share third place in the Big Seven with Nebraska, with a 3-3-0 standing in conference play. A defeat would topple them into a fifth place tie with Kansas State at 2-4-0.
Equally important is the fact that a win would insure a full game's improvement over the 1955 season record of 3-6-1. Also, Kansas has not whipped the Tigers twice in a row since the conference co-champions of 1946 and 1947 brought off a double in the final two seasons of the old Big Six.
Incentive For Tigers
The Tigers also will have a great deal of incentive to win this one. In addition to it being the MU Homecoming, the game will mark the retirement of Don Faurot, the lean Split-T inventor who announced his retirement just before the season started.
Missouri's season record now stands at 3-5-1, same as the Kansans. Actually they are a better team than their record shows. They have been among the nation's top fifteen rushing powers most of the season. Only three points, a 15-14 loss to Nebraska and a 14-14 tie with Colorado, separated them from an Orange Bowl trip in January.
The Tigers have been plagued by fumbles all season, racking up a total of 27 in the nine games. Two fumbles opened the door enabling
Colorado to gain their tie. The Tigers handled the ball 30 more times than Nebraska, but lost in the final two minutes on a pass. They gained 323 rush-pass yards on Oklahoma, highest figure the Sooners have yielded this season.
Clearly these figures show that the Tigers have a fine team and could prove it in their final opportunity.
The Jayhawkers are also on the threshold of a season that is above mediocrity. Just three extra points and one touchdown could have brought the KU season record to 6-3-0 at this point. They lost to Colorado 25-26, tied C.O.P 27-27, and lost to Nebraska 20-26. They have proved all season that they have a great desire to win and could upset the experts, who have installed Missouri as a seven point favorite.
The Tigers rely heavily on their all-conference quarterback, Jimmy Hunter. Hunter is the conference's leading passer, completing 40 of 87 for 540 yards. He is described by two of the Big Seven coaches as the best split-T quarterback they have seen in recent years. Missouri also has a big and experienced line.
Pass Defense Is Key
The improving Jayhawker pass defense may be able to contain the Hunter aerials. Homer Floyd, Charlie McCue, Bobby Robinson, Wally Strauch, and Ted Rohde have improved all season.
The Jayhawkers can counter the MU passing attack with Wally Strach, who is pressing Hunter for conference honors in this department. The combination of Strauch to Jim Letcavits has been a nemesis to opponents all year. Letcavits and Homer Floyd, full-back, represented Kansas on the Associated Press all-conference team, gaining second teams berths.
Big 10 All-Stars Have 4 Iowans
CHICAGO—(UP)—The top three teams in the Big Ten football race grabbed seven positions on the all-conference team picked today for the United Press by the group's 10 coaches.
Iowa, the conference champion. won four places while Michigan took two and Minnesota one. Michigan and Minnesota tied for second this season.
Iowa placed quarterback Ken Ploen, end Frank Gilliam, tackle Alex Karras and center Don Suchy. Michigan placed end Ron Kramer and halfback Terry Barr while Minnesota placed tackle Bob Hobert on the mythical first team.
The other men who won first-team berths were guard Al Viola of Northwestern, guard Jim Parker of Ohio State, halfback Abe Woodson of Illinois and fullback Mel Dillard of Purdue.
Michigan State placed four players on the second team—tackle Joel Jones, guard Dan Currie, center John Matsko and halfback Clarence Peaks. Ohio State placed three backs, Don Clark, Jim Roseboro and Galen Cisco, on the third team to dominate it.
Kramer made the team for the third straight season but Parker and Hobert were the only players who were unanimous choices for the team. Kramer was left off the first team by one coach.
Each school placed at least one man on the three teams with Iowa filling six berths, Michigan and Ohio State five each and Michigan State and Purdue four. Wisconsin's only representative was end Dave Howard on the third team and Indiana's only representative was End Brod Bomba on the second team.
Starting halfback Bob Marshall will be available only for limited duty. He is expected to play some at offense, and was working at his early season position of quarterback in Thursday's KU practice.
Bobby Robinson will start in Marshall's position. The rest of the Jayhawker line-up is expected to be the same as in the UCLA game.
By UNITED PRESS
National Champion San Francisco risks its record 55-game winning streak tonight when the 1956-57 college basketball season opens, but any similarity between this season and last season all around the nation will be accidental.
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Nov. 17 - 2-5
"Big" Bob Dougherty
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Dons' Streak At Stake As College Basketball Opens
Replacing All-Americans is an unhappy task facing conches this season. Of the top 10 players in last season's All-American balloting a total of eight, including all the first team, have graduated. Remaining are second-team members Rodney (Hot Rod) Hundley of West Virginia and high scoring Lennie Rosenbluth of North Carolina.
The titans of a year ago, including 'Frisco' mighty Dons, are expected to topple; the stars of a year ago are mostly gone, to be replaced by a new and equally dazzling crew.
Jones, two graduated All-Americans?
Louisville, last year's national invitation Tournament Champion, does not face these woes. They are still led by their star 6-8 center, Charley Tyra. But the Cardinals are under NCAA suspension from post-season play and won't be eligible for another tournament shot.
The Dons have a good team with Gene Brown and 6-7 Mike Farmer still around. But how can you replace 6-10 Bill Russell and K. C.
San Francisco, which hasn't tasted defeat since bowing to UCLA in December, 1954, is expected to extend the record string to 56 games tonight at the expense of Chico State. But this could be the end of the line because on Saturday night the Dons visit a strong California quintet that is expected to be a title contender in the Pacific Coast Conference.
Harold Burnine, Missouri end,
was the nation's top pass-receiver
and an All-American end in 1955.
Missouri won one conference game and lost five during the 1955 football season.