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Monday, Oct. 29, 1953 University Daily Kansan
By DARYL HALL
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Nobody was higher on Marshall's play than KU coach Chuck Mather. Mather called the back's play "terrific." Many of the players echoed Mather's words, saying that had it not been for Marshall's interception in the end zone, Kansas would have probably been on the losing end of the score.
Marshall has shown steady improvement game by game this year, but Friday he came into his own. Players, fans, and sports writers all agreed that the Warrensburg Mo., back was the difference between a win and a loss at Stillwater.
Bob Marshall and luck. That was the combination that enabled Kansas to win their second game of the season Friday. Besides contributing valuable yardage in Kansas' lone touchdown drive, Marshall, the sophomore quarterback-halfback on the KU team ran a punt back for 90 yards and a TD, caught two passes for 24 yards, and intercepted an A&M pass in the end zone to stop the Cowboy's final scoring attempt.
The sensational thing about the interception was that he caught the ball on the run, fell down, and was still able to hold on to the ball.
The Cowboys have a strong, although young, ball team that can run and pass with equal ability. The majority of the first two teams is made up of sophomores. Only six seniors are on the entire squad. Of the seniors, one is out for the year with an injury and the others see only limited action.
With only eight seniors on the Kansas team, next year's game between the two schools should be a real battle. However, several of KU's seniors are first and second string members and their loss will be felt more severely than on the A&M team.
When you look back on the play by play account of the game, A&M beat themselves. Five times fumbles killed Cowboy drives. Add a couple of pass interceptions and it is easily seen how unlucky the Cowboys were.
Oklahoma A&M had a running-pass option play much like the one used so effectively by the Sooners. Along with an offense with many series variations, the Cowboys have two complete backfields that show signs of greatness. Cowboys quarterback Johnny Allen could easily develop into one of the best signal callers in the Missouri Valley. Along with Allen, sophomore back Duane Wood and Jim Wiggins also could develop into serious threats.
Ironically, Wiggins is a Kansas high school product, coming from McPherson. As an idea of his possibilities, Wiggins carried the ball 7 times for 32 yards and completed three of four passes for 50 yards. Wiggins also caught one pass for 17 yards and punted the ball once for 38 yards.
Wonder where Kansas was when he graduated from high school?
A&M seemed to have little trouble in its running game. Most
Dodgers' Podres 'Ready To Pitch'
BROOKLYN — (UP) — Southpaw Johnny Podres, with that precious Navy discharge in his pocket, insisted today he's "ready to pitch right now"—and the Dodgers may take him at his word by putting him to work in Puerto Rico.
Podres, the Dodgers' World Series hero of 1955 who was discharged from the Navy last Friday because of a back condition, will visit the Brooklyn office today "to find out what the score it."
"I'm going to have a talk with Buzzy Bavasi (Dodger vice-president) and see what he wants me to do," said Podres. "I've heard some talk about them wanting me to go down to Puerto Rico to pitch."
Fernando Isais of Los Angeles, with 29 victories and 2 defeats, successfully defended his world horseshoe pitching title in the 1948 tournament at Milwaukee. Casey Jones of Waukesha, Wis., the runner-up, had a ringer percentage of 87.4, a world record.
Mather:'It's Good To Win'
Gary Russell, bowling on the Phi Kappa Psi intramural bowling team that lost, 3-1, to the Gutter Kings in Thursday's Twilight league, turned in the week's top high 30 score, 568.
In the Blue League, the Hi-Lows won three from the Bell Ringers and the Pick-Ups took three from Alpha Kappa. The Parallels and the Pi R Squares split even. Leo Schick, bowling a 173-506 series, was high man.
of its yardage, or at least a great percentage of it, was made around ends. Kansas' line stiffened 'through the middle, but with as many as three backs leading interference, A&M ran the ends with good success. On end runs, the Cowboys looked more like a single wing than a split-T team.
In intramural bowling Monday, Triangle took all four games from the Snakes in Rock League competition. The Seminoles won three from the BLRB's and FOA took three points from Kappa Sigma. Don Bartlett took individual honors with a 182-513 series.
Wally Strauch tossed four of six passes for 48 yards and made several key tackles. Halfback Bobby Robinson did a nice job of running for Kansas, carrying the ball several times for 64 yards. Fullback Homer Floyd looked good in both running and tackling. Bob Hoesing, a reserve halfback, showed signs of developing into a hard running back, although he carried the ball only four times for 10 yards.
"It's always good to win, no matter if it's luck or by hard work, but I believe, and I'm sure the players will agree, that we had some luck in today's victory."
"if they (A&M) hadn't fumbled so many times and if Bob (Marshall) hadn't intercepted that pass," one lineman remarked, "we would have lost."
Those were Coach Chuck Mather's words after Kansas won 21-13 over a determined Oklahoma A&M team Friday at Stillwater, Okla.
Alpha Epsilon Pi and the Apes split in Tuesday's Coffee League while the Lucky Strikes downed the Alley Cats, 3-1. Duane Howard of the Lucky Strikes won individual honors with a 174-477 series.
Bob Marshall, although probably saving the game with a pass interception in the end zone during the closing minutes of the game, was
The shower room of a winning team is usually one of joyous shouts and happy pats on the backs of each player. But Kansas' dressing room after Friday's victory was missing some of this cheerfulness as each player realized KU was lucky to win.
Besides Marshall, several other KU players turned in performances that deserve mention. First string tackle Ed Prelock and second team end Bill Bell played exceptionally well on defense, as did halfback Charlev McCue.
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displeased with the Jayhawker play. "We just couldn't seem to get started, everything we did was wrong," Marshall said.
Homer Floyd, KU's good little fullback, called KU's play sluggish, saying KU lacked the proper spirit and attitude.
The general opinion expressed by the players was that KU didn't play as good a game as they were capable of, and that improvement was needed if Kansas was to win against its arch rival, K-State, this weekend.
But the general opinion was that the team would improve for the Wildcats.
"After all," one player commented,
"We're still sore over the 0-47 licking
K-State gave us last year and
we want to make up for that loss."
In 1948-47, Joe Louis received approximately $200,000 from exhibitions in the United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba, and South America.
Paul Pilgrim of the New Athletic Club was the first runner to score a double in the 400 and 800 meter runs in the Olympic Games.
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Gamma each took two of four games in their series in Sunset League play Tuesday. Alpha Omicron Pi defended Alpha Delta Pi 3-1 and the Gals swept over Delta Gamma, 4-0.
In the Chalk League, Beta Gamma and the Squirrels kept up last week's mania for tied series when they split, 2-2. TKE lost out to the Four Deuces 3-1 and the Eagles dropped three games to ATO. Dick Armstrong had high 10 with 207 while Lauren Welsh took the high 30 honors with 516.
Wednesday
AKL took all four games from Phi Kappa Tau in Wednesday's Hilltop League and the Pinheads won four from Sigma Pl. Grace Pearson defeated the Pin Bandits, 3-1 as Jere Roberts won individual honors with a 209-537 series.
The Pin Boys won four from the Free Loaders in the Prairie League and the Mifsits took three from the Spoilers III. Phi Gam and Club 520 split evenly. Matt Podrebarac was high with 191-503.
In the Jay League, the Pikes won four from the Hi-Balls and Delta Upsilon defeated the Treugles, 3-1.
Top Hats and New Yorkers split four games. Keith Harper won the individual honors with a 563 series.
Thursday
The Rollers rolled over Alpha Phi, 4-0, in Thursday's Oread League and Chi Omega and the Tri Delts each won two. Rosemary Stebbins of the Rollers took individual honors with a 156-438 series.
In the Twilight Leagle, Sigma Nu came out on top over the Hound Dogs, 3-1 and the Gutter Kings topped Phi Kappa Psi, 3-1. Pi Kappa Alpha and the Originals split four games.
In the Hawk League, the Mavricks downed the Spastics, 3-1, the K.C.'s and Avalons split their series and the Pin Poppers defeated Big Red. 3-1. Ken McCarth of the Mavricks, with a 191-530 series, won individual honors.
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