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Thursday. Nov. 15, 1956 University Daily Kansan
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By DICK WALT
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Most of the local football attention is being focused upon KU's intersectional clash with UCLA, and also on the powerful but unlucky Missouri team's effort to accomplish the impossible and upset mighty Oklahoma.
But elsewhere around the nation, a number of crucial games are on tap-games which could go a long way toward deciding who's going to get the major bowl game bids.
Let's take a quick look.
The Iowa-Ohio State battle at Iowa City is the one game which is attracting most of the attention. The Hawkeyes, fresh from a stunning 7-0 upset of powerful Minnesota, could clinch a New Year's Day trip to Pasadena by upsetting the Ohioans.
However, the Buckeyes haven't lost a Big Ten game in-their last 17 outings, and they'll be higher than kites for this traditional clash. Ohio State is ineligible for the Rose Bowl, but those boys still like to win.
Tennessee, which virtually assured itself of a Sugar Bowl bid by squeaking past Georgia Tech last week, rates as a seven-point favorite to get past Mississippi at Knoxville Saturday.
Up in the Ivy League, they'll be playing their most important game of the season, as Yale and Princeton meet at New Haven, Conn. Princeton is one of the four remaining major college teams with a perfect record, but Yale is rated as a two-point favorite by most of the experts.
Army, preparing for its annual battle with Navy, takes on Pittsburgh, which is rated six points better than the Cadets. Minnesota will try to get back on the victory trail against Michigan State, but the Spartans figure to be too tough.
The Southwest Conference, which provides a top card each week, pits Texas Christian and Texas, Texas A. & M. and Rice, and Arkansas and Southern Methodist in a trio of top-flight battles.
Out on the coast, Southern Cal plays Oregon, Stanford, fresh from losing a 20-19 heartbreaker last week, faces Washington, and California meets Washington State.
It's a rare season when a Notre Dame team is relegated to a position this low in any story. But the Irish, who have won only one of seven, are now on the way to their worst season in the school's history.
But things are looking up. This week, the odds-makers are giving Terry Brennan's sophomoric squad an eight-point bulge over North Carolina.
This week's Missouri-Oklahoma game will mark the final coaching appearance at Norman of Coach Don Farout of Missouri. He has coached against the Sooners for the past 20 years.
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A fifth team championship will be the goal of cross - country coaches Bill Easton of Kansas and Karl Schlodeman of Michigan State at the NCAA cross-country championship meet Nov. 26 at Michigan State College. Easton coached three national cross-country championship teams at Drake and one at Kansas and Schlodeman has had four at Michigan State.
It also appears as though this meet at East Lansing, Mich., will be a duel between Michigan State and Kansas for the championship. The Spartans won the meet last year with 46 points and Kansas was second with 68. Each team lost only one man from its first five runners by graduation.
By coincidence, both coaches are on the two-man NCAA cross-country meet committee this year also. Schlodeman is a member because his school is the host institution, as it has been since 1938, and Easton is chairman of the committee.
Coach Easton is a veteran of NCAA cross-country meets. In 1944, 1945, and 1946 he coached Drake to three successive championships as Fred Feiler won the individual honors in 1945 and 1946.
Holds Another Mark
Easton is the only coach to ever coach more than one two-time individual champion in the meet. His other winner was Herb Semper of Kansas in 1950 and 1951. The only other repeat champion was Robert Black of Rhode Island in 1948 and 1949.
Kansas has been a fairly consistent team as far as placing in the
ton ten teams each year. In 1945 and 1948 the Jayhawkers were No. 7 and 1949 found them in sixth position.
Semper A Star
In 1950 and 1951, Semper, the greatest two-miler Kansas has ever had, helped Coach Easton's squad to fourth and second place finishes, respectively. In 1950 Penn State was the champion with a low score of 53 points. Michigan State was a close second with 55. Wisconsin was third with 65, and Kansas followed with 91. Syracuse was team champion in 1951 with 80 points and Kansas had 118 for second place.
Wes Santee was the 1952 individual champion with a time of 19:43.5 over the 4-mile Spartan course. This is the second lowest time ever recorded in meet history. In 1952 Charlie Capozzoll of Georgetown ran the course in a fast time of 19:36.7, to establish the meet record.
After a lean year in 1952 Kansas bounced back to win the national championship in 1953 with 70 points to 82 for second-place Indiana.
Al Frame gave Kansas its fourth individual champion in five years by winning the race in 1954. His time was 19:54.2 as the Jayhawkers placed fourth. Oklahoma A&M won the championship with 61 points, Syracuse had 118, Miami (Ohio) 120 and KU was a close fourth with 129.
Slip By Frame
Last year Frame placed fifth as sophomore Deacon Jones of Iowa defeated Henry Kennedy of Michigan State for the individual honors. For Kennedy also a sophomore last year, it was his first collegiate defeat but it was by less than four seconds.
It will take a supreme effort by
The Spartans return the No. 2-6-8-11 finishes in the NCAA championship meet. In team scoring they placed 1-4-5-6. In addition, Ron Wheeler, a Detroit sophomore, has been turning in some fine performances.
Kansas to defeat Michigan State this year. Graduation hurt the Spartans even less than it did the Jayhawkers.
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Kennedy, Selwyn Jones and Capt. George Denslow are the team leaders. Wheeler and senior Terry Block are the fourth and fifth men. In a recent dual meet with Notre Dame, Michigan State's first and fifth finishers were separated by a time of only 1.31.
Kansas will have Jerry McNeal, Bob Nicholson, and Bernie Gay as veterans from last year's meet. In team standings they placed 9-18-23 Hal Long was No. 15 but probably won't run this year because of a leg injury most of the season.
However, KU will have capt. Jan Howell, a veteran of two NCAA championship races, and sophomore Barry Crawford to help out. Howell has been a consistent first or second place finisher in all of KU's meets this year and Crawford has usually been No. 3.
In addition, Coach Easton probably will run Jack Schroeder and veteran Lowell Janzen.
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