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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 8, 1956
DARYL HALL
(By Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Kansas' Jayhawkers gained nothing but bitter memories in their first week of Big Seven play. The Kansans can't even claim a moral victory like the tie with College of Pacific two weeks ago. The Colorado game was a crucial one for the Jayhawkers, as a win would have kept alive their hopes for an Orange Bowl bid, where a loss temporarily dismisses any hope of a Miami vacation.
The loss to Colorado doesn't completely abolish the bowl trip, but now the Jayhawkers are forced to win the rest of their conference games, with the exception, of course, of the OU game. The "little Six" conference appears to be grouped tightly. Except for K-State, which seems to lack a scoring punch, any of the other teams could very easily represent the Big Seven at Miami.
The Jayhawkers will have a chance this Saturday to prove what type of team they really are. It has been rumored around football circles that should Kansas lose to Colorado, the Jayhawker's spirit would be broken, and that what started out as a promising season would turn out to be a long, bitter campaign. Well, we'll see Saturday.
Iowa State isn't a push over. After a surprise win over Denver, the Cyclones almost upset Northwestern, losing 13-14. Against Nebraska, the Iowaans had the game won until a final minute field goal gave the Cornhuskers a 9-7 victory. The Cyclones will be up for Kansas. The Jayhawkers haven't performed any feats to scare I-State, and the Cyclones are hungry for a winning season. Last fall the Cyclones almost performed the trick, leading until the final minute when Kansas managed a 7-7 deadlock.
We were greatly disappointed with the outcome of the Colorado game. We sincerely thought Kansas should have won the contest.
Overlooking the big, rough backs of Colorado, we believe poor judgment on the part of the coaches was the decisive factor. Charlie McCue, who led the Kansas running attack and scored one of KU's touchdowns, was taken out of the game in Kansas' final two drives. McCue carried the ball 10 times in the game and made 103 yards, or an average of 10.3 yards a carry. Yet, in the final two surges of the Jayhawkers, when yardage was badly needed to keep alive KU's scoring drives, McCue watched from the bench.
Perhaps Charlie wouldn't have proved the deciding factor in the drives, no one will ever know. But every back has his off day and his good day. And by the time of the final quarter, it should have been apparent that Saturday was Charlie's day.
KU's passing attack showed signs of improvement. Wally Strauch was hitting receivers well, completing 3 out of 8 attempts. One of the completed passes was a 24 yard touchdown toss to Homer Floyd. Three other times Strauch hit his receivers but they were unable to hold on to the ball. Two of these times were during the closing minutes when KU needed the yardage to keep its drive moving.
For those in doubt about why the extra point attempt was nullified, the officials ruled that a Kansas lineman was not in his proper position when the ball was snapped. All linemen must be in a three-point stance when the ball is centered, or, in other words, must have one hand touching the ground.
Automobiles killed 1,472 deer in Wisconsin in 1955.
Frosh Track Squad Highly Regarded
Track Coach Bill Easton, who's Kansas squads for the past five years have swept Big Seven track believes he has one of the best freshman squads ever.
The current yearling squad, according to Easton, may even surpass the performance of such Kansas stars as Art Dalzell, Bob Karnes, Herb Semper and Wes Santee.
Squad Has All-Americans Included in the 29 man 1556 freshman team are four athletes who were named to the All American High School team by the Scholastic Coach magazine. Also on the team is National AAU champion, Ernest Shelby of Los Angeles, California, a junior college transfer and a sophomore scholastically. The 5 foot 10, 155 pound has broad jumped 26 foot 11, finished the low hurdles in 23.8, sped the 100-yard dash in 69.7 and turned the 220-yard dash in 21.7.
On the All-American list last year were: Cliff Cushman of Grand Forks, N. D.; 880-yard run, cross country and mile; Russell Garirott of Hobart, Indiana, shot put and discus; William Logan, El Cajo, California, pole vault, and Tom Shutka, Hibernia, New Jersey, cross country, 880 and mile.
Good inner prospect.
Cushman, whose time is 4.214. He earned in a high hurdles mark of 14.4. Being 6 foot 2 and 163 pounds, the versatile athlete may prove to be a potent Jayhawk threat in the decathlon.
Transfering to Kansas from Notre Dame last winter Logan, who broke the 4:20 high school mile barrier with a 4:19.5 time, is also a top pole vaulter with a 13 foot 6 prep school vault. He, along with Cushman, will be a factor in Kansas' overpowerful distance corps.
Garriott, who stands 6 foot 5 and weighs 300 pounds tossed the high school 12-pound shot $59-9\frac{1}{4}$ then proceeded to put the 16-pound college sphere 51 feet. Although not a discus thrower in high school he hurled the disc a respectable 135 feet after preliminary workouts.
Eight states were represented in the current freshman squad with Kansas contributing 15. Four are from Missouri, three from California, two each from Iowa and Indiana and one each from New Jersey and Oklahoma.
"We had a lot of respect for Colorado's offense before the game started and we stir had it after the game." Coach Chuck Mather said. "They really gave us a lesson in what the single wing can do," he said.
Time after time, needing yardage to sustain drives, the Buffs put into action the old theory — that who ever gets there first with the most is the best; and sprang backs loose with gang blocking tactics. A Key figure in the Colorado attack was Howard Cook who picked up most of his 84 yards rushing by winning over the right side of the K. U. line behind a bevy of blockers.
Old Model Offense Powered By Block Still Gets Mileage
Top Sprinter Group Easton, who's KU teams always
The single-wing offense, a rarity in these days of T-formation worship, can still cause a lot of headaches on the football field (and in the stands) if it is properly executed.
Mather obviously disappointed by the outcome, said he felt it was one of those games that could have gone one way or the other. And it was. The margin of victory was given the Buffs after it appeared the Hawks had tied it all up. An illegal motion penalty forced K. U. to make another attempt at the extra point after KU center Galen Wahlmeier had toed the point successfully. The second kick was missed.
The value of sheer power and the devastation it can produce was solidly driven home to the Jayhawkers Saturday in their whisker loss to the Colorado Buffaloes, 26-25.
Colorado Gang Blocks
"We did a lot of things out there we never should have allowed to happen," Mather reflected.
CU Steals One
"How many times is a team going to come into your own backfield and take the ball away from you for a touchdown." Early in the game Jerry Leahy took the ball out of Dave Preston's hands and sprinted across the goal for the Buffs.
But Mather was not criticising his own team unduly. He called the K. U. effort a good one and referred to the good performances by Homer Floyd, sophomore fullback who scored two touch downs, and Charlie McCue, who added another and piled up a more than respectable 103 yards on 10 carries.
"We have al ot of work ahead of this week." Mather said.
Comparing the Buffs to other K. U. opponents Mather rated them on a par with College of the Pacific, but not in the same class with Texas Christian which piled up 32 points via their aerial circus in the opener in Memorial stadium.
show strength in the distance events, has also brought together a number of top prep school sprinters and field prospects in Topeka's Larry Schneider and T. J. Kelly, and Rex Rosseler of Wellington.
Schneider ran the 440-yard dash in :50.1 while Kelly figures to be a top prospect in the broad jump department after having gone as far as 23 feet $2\frac{1}{2}$. A :99.9 in the century, :21.4 in the 220 and :50.4 in the 440 have been turned in by Roessler, who could develop into one of the squad's top sprinters.
Football Scores
Oklahoma 66, Kansas State 0
Army 14, Penn. State 7
Baylor 14, Maryland 7
Vanderbilt 32, Alamaba 7
Tennessee 33, Duke 20
Mississippi State 19, Georgia 7
TCU 41, Arkansas 6
Texas A&M 40, Texas Tech 7
West Virginia 7, Texas 6
Iowa 14, Oregon State 13
Michigan State 9, Michigan 0
SMU 33, Missouri 27
Notre Dame 20, Indiana 6
California 14, Pittsburgh 0
Washington 28, Illinois 13
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