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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 29, 1950
Stiff Test For Wilt In Northwestern Tilt
Wilt Chamberlain, hailed on every side as the basketball player of the era even before he crams his first varsity goal, will run into a severe test in his KU debt Monday when the Jayhawkers open their 1956-57 campaign against resurgent Northwestern.
Coach Walt Fischer lists two 6-9 performers in his front line, which means the Wildcats will have two men playing on the same story as The Stilt. One of his challengers, Bill Schultz, went under here last year as Kansas beat the Big Ten entry, 91-70. The early line says the towering lefty is vastly improved.
Even so he is giving way at center to sophomore Joe Ruklich, a great ambidextrous hook-shooter in his prep days at Princeton, Ill. If Fischer employs both his big men concurrently, Kansas will be giving away $2 \frac{1}{4}$ inches at the second level, which will be carried by the 6-6 $\frac{1}{4}$ inches at the second level, which will be carried by the 6-6 $\frac{1}{4}$ Lew Johnson.
Use Man-For-Man
Such an item will be more important than ever this season since the new headman, Dick Harp, plans to go as far as he can with man-for-man defense after two years of using a zone as the primary barricade.
Rounding out Northwestern's lineup will be another highly-regarded sophomore, Nick Mantis, 6-3 and two sharp-shooting veterans, Glenn Lose, and Dick Mast. Mantis was all-state at East Chicago prep. Lose scored 31 points to lead the Purple to its lone Big
Ten victory of the year, an 83-82 upset of Illinois in the season's finale. Mast led the club in scoring with 464 points in 22 games. He walked off with shooting honors here last year with 20.
Chamberlain will be the lone sophmore starter for KU. He'll be surrounded by two-lettered seniors, Elstun and Johnson . . . the latter has been the Jayhawker's regular center for two seasons . . . at forwards, and John Parker and Maurice King, all-Big Seven in '56 at guards.
Similar To 1950
Thus, the Jayhawkers are taking shape much as they did in 1950 when two reliable and talented veterans, Jerry Waugh, now Harp's assistant, and Claude Houchin, combined with another great sopohomore crop which included Clyde Lovelette, Bill Lienhard, Bill Houghland, and Bob Kenney.
Behind the starting lineup, Harp can call upon six more lettermen. The list includes forwards Lee Green—a 15-game starter last year—Ron Johnston, and Harry Jett, and guards, John Cleland, Eddie Dater, and Blaine Hollinger.
Northwestern is merely the lead-off hurdle of a wicked December schedule that will match Kansas against Marquette here Dec. 8. The Jayhawkers then embark on a three-game swing to the Coast for two games against Washington at Seattle, Dec. 14-15, and one against California, at Berkeley Dec. 18, before returning home against Wisconsin, Dec. 22. The Big Seven tournament opens four dyas later in Kansas City.
Workout Today Honors Students
Feature of today's practice will be the Last Tackle, honoring the senior football players who will play their last game Saturday against Missouri. It is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. south of Allen Field House.
Speaking of these seniors who are John Drake. Frank Black, Don Pfutzenreuter, Ted Rohde, Don Martin, Galen Wahlmeier, Bill Bell, and Joe Held, Coach Chuck Mather said, "I feel their leadership and playing skill has been most instrumental in our improvement since 1954. All these young men went through our trying 1954 season, but never lost their enthusiasm to play and try to win."
Today's event will follow a dummy scrimmage and will also consist of a pep rally for the Missouri football game.
Yesterday the Jayhawkers concentrated on goal line and pass offense. Due to the extreme cold weather their workout was limited to one hour.
Bob Marshall's injured shoulder seemed to be improving. He was moving fairly well and can be counted on for offensive duty against the Tigers.
Tigers Fear Strauch Passing COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UP) Coach Don Faurot of Missouri fears the passing arm of Kansas quarterback Wally Strauch in Saturday's Homecoming game, and gave the Tigers a hard workout on pass defense yesterday.
The squad, rusty after a two-week layoff, also got a workout on fundamentals.
Faurot split his strong left tackle combination, moving Merv Johnson to right tackle and Frank Czaple up to the first string on the left side.
Two Sooners Chosen As UP All-Americans
NEW YORK — (UP) — Center Jerry Tubbs of Oklahoma, guard Jim Parker of Ohio State and end Ron Kramer of Michigan stole the glamor from the backs today and led the nation-wide voting for the 1956 United Press All-American football team.
The "dream team," chosen in a poll of 251 sports writers and radio and television broadcasters from coast-to-coast, was comprised of: Ends—Kramer and Joe Walton of Pittsburgh.
Tackles—John Witte of Oregon State and Lou Michaels of Kentucky.
Guards — Parker and Bill Glass of Baylor.
Center—Tubbs
Backs--Tommy McDonald of Okla-
tahoma, Johnny Majors of Tennessee,
Paul Hornung of Notre Dame and
Jimmy Brown of Syracuse.
The Midwest thus placed three players on the honor team, the Midlands. South and East two each, and the Pacific Coast and Southwest one each. Kramer and Hornung are the only repeaters from last year's mythical eleven. Michaelis is the lone junior in the group, all others are seniors.
Tubbs, the superb 205-pound co-captain, linebacker and blocker of the top-rated Sooners, was made a first-team selection of 87 per cent of the participants in the poll. Kramer and Parker each were picked for the first team by 81 percent of the voters.
Two of last season's All-Americans failed to make it this year. Jim Swink of Texas Christian, whose play did not measure up to the spectacular quality of 1955, was chosen on the second team. Jon Arnett of Southern California, restricted to playing five games because of Pacific Coast Conference disciplinary action against his school, was named to the third team.
There was only one close race in this year's voting. That was for the third and fourth backfield positions, where Hornung and Brown polled a slightly higher vote than John Brodie of Stanford, the first draft choice of the San Francisco forty-niners.
Parker, at 250 pounds, anchors a heavyweight line that averages 229 pounds. Exceptionally fast and mobile for a player of his bulk, he was equally good on offense and defense.
Majors, at 165 pounds, and McDonald, at 170, are the "little guys" on the team. Each made up for his lack of size with speed, drive and versatility. Majors was a triple threat tailback in Tennessee's single wing offense. He has averaged 5.1 yards rushing, completed 32 of 52 passes and boasts a 42.3-yard punting average.
McDonald is all drive. His rushing average is nearly seven yards for more than 100 carries and he has scored 16 touchdowns. He also passed well when called upon. Hornung is second only to Brodie in total offense among the major college players. He has gained 892 yards by passing and 396 by rushing.
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