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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Nov. 9. 1956
Mather: 'KU Football To Continue Improving'
Kansas grid fortunes may be at a high mark in two years according to head football Coach Chuck Mather. Mather, whose building program at Kansas has shown slow but sure results, will begin the 1957 season with 16 men who saw varsity or second team action this year.
He will also have many promising sophomores as well as a number of good boys who have not seen action regularly this year.
"Everyone in the Big Seven is building," Mather said, "and they're building to come up to Oklahoma's level. Your opponents govern your style of play and in this conference there is an emphasis on speed. "Look at Oklahoma."
Asked what he had learned about coaching since coming to KU, Mather replied that in coaching, like in any field, the coach learns something new every day. However, in college a coach must have boys that are not only big and rugged but have good speed.
He went on to say that college ball was different from high school football in every respect. It is not harder to coach in college, though, Mather said.
"The college athlete," Mather said. "Is better trained, more mature, and is better able to execute plays."
COACH CHUCK MATHER
Mather said that KU's present team has been steadily improving since the season began. The team, he said, has shown normal progress with their best game being against K-State. By tackling the ball instead of the ball-carrier, the Wildcats succeeded in recovering six Kansas fumbles and holding the score down. Penalties also hurt the Jayhawks in the Kansas State game. Four long gains which would have gone for first downs were called back.
Weather, Colorado's eagerness for an upset and Oklahoma's role as overwhelming favorite are cited by Mother as reasons for the close ball game played last Saturday at
Women Have Athletics Too
About 650 women entered the women's intramural sports program last year. The total number of entries throughout the year was 1400. Twenty-four women's houses played.
Any woman who wants to play, is taking 12 hours, and maintains the required grade average is eligible to enter the intramurals. If a woman does not live in an organized house, she turns her name into the physical education office in Robinson Gymnasium and is assigned to an independent team.
In the fall basketball, tennis singles, badminton singles and golf are played. Volleyball, badminton doubles and table tennis singles are the winter sports. Swimming is added second semester. Spring games are sofball, tennis doubles and golf. Tennis bowl throughout the year.
There are two preliminary swimming meets in the intramural. A final meet is held for the winners of the first two. The meets include an 80 yard relay, breast stroke form, 40 yard free style, diving, 40 yard back stroke, crawl for form, 40 yard breast stroke, 60 yard free style and 60 yard medley relay.
Boulder between the Sooners and the Buffaloes. Unfavorable conditions do not benefit the favorite, Mather said, and Oklahoma would liked to be playing in Norman's warmer weather.
Since 1839 Big Six and Big Seven football teams have won five games and lost 10 playing in post-season bowl games.
League Represented 15 Times In Bowls
Oklahoma has a bowl record of five wins and two defeats in that period of time. Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, other Big Six and Big Seven representatives all have losing records. Nebraska is 0-2, Missouri, 0-5, and Kansas, 0-1. The breakdown follows:
1942-Fordham, 2, Missouri, 0,
Sugar Bowl.
1839—Tennessee, 17, Oklahoma 0 Orange Bowl.
1940—Georgia Tech, 21, Missouri
7. Orange Bowl.
1941-Stanford, 21, Nebraska, 13, Rose Bowl.
1946 - Texas, 40, Missouri, 27, Cotton Bowl.
1947-Oklahoma, 34, North Carolina State, 13, Gator Bowl.
1948 - Georgia Tech, 20, Kansas, 14. Orange Bowl.
1949—Oklahoma 14, North Carolina 6, Sugar Bowl. Clemson 24, Missouri 23, Gator Bowl.
1850—Oklahoma, 35, LSU, 0, Sugar Bowl, Maryland, 20, Missouri, 7, Gator Bowl.
1951—Kentucky 13, Oklahoma, 7.
Sugar Bowl.
1855—Oklahoma, 7, Maryland, 0,
Orange Bowl.
1955-Duke, 34, Nebraska, 7,
Orange Bowl.
1956 Oklahoma 20, Maryland, 6,
Orange Bowl.
The largest crowd Nebraska ever played before was in 1941 when 91,000 saw the Cornhuskers play Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Nebraska won the opening game of the 1956 football season 34-6 over South Dakota.
Nebraska's all-time record against Kansas is 45 wins,14 losses and three ties.
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