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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 16, 1961
By Chuck Morelock
An article in the latest Sport Magazine states that ex-Jayhawker Bob Allison was the fastest halfback in the Big Eight during the 1953 football season. Allison, now a slugging outfielder with the downtrodden Minnesota Twins, was a good back, but not the fastest in the conference. The article goes on to say that the Raytown, Mo., resident would have received more applause for his gridiron efforts had KU not recorded a 4-6 record. The actual record, unfortunately, was 2-8.
These errors reminded me of the infamous statement made in Sports Illustrated a couple of years ago, KU, according to one writer, was an "unimpressive hodgepodge of buildings." Everybody to his own taste I guess. As for me, I've yet to see a campus which could even begin to compare with Mt. Oread.
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Sometimes a resounding defeat can "snake" a football season, not "break" it. Back in 1946, for instance, a good, but crippled Kansas team journeyed to Tulsa to meet the then powerful Okies in a game that was rated fairly even, although KU was the underdog.
On the other hand, a close defeat can occasionally produce the opposite effect. In 1952, a potent Colorado team came to Lawrence fresh from a 21-21 tie with mightly Oklahoma. At that time, Bud Wilkinson's crew possessed one of the greatest backfields ever to grace the gridiron: Eddie (the magician) Crowder, Buck McPhail, Billy Vessels, and Buddy Leake.
The final score was Tulsa 56, Kansas 0. After this disaster, the Jayhawkers came back to upset Oklahoma State 14-13, Oklahoma 16-13, thanks to Paul Turner's immortal last minute field goal, and Missouri 20-19. This sparkling stretch drive lifted Kansas into a first place tie with OU in the Big Six standings, KU's best finish in 16 years.
The Buffs, however, couldn't contain KU's Charley Hoag and returned home with a 21-12 loss. Hoag had one of his greatest days, scoring all three Kansas touchdowns, the last coming on a 68-yard burst in the final quarter. The rest of the season was strictly anticlastic for Colorado, which never really got going again.
The point here is that KU should wind up with a 10-0 record this fall. Then analogies wouldn't be necessary.
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"Oh no, not again!" That was the typical reaction Wednesday as the baseball world was rocked with the news that the A's and the Yankees are back in business once again. Specifically, Kansas City sent lefty Bud Daley to New York in exchange for righthander Art Ditmar and utility infielder Deron Johnson.
Daley, a 16 game winner with the last place A's in 1960 and a 14 game winner the year before, thus gets a chance to show his stuff for Gotham fans and former Lawrence native Ralph Houk. The balding knuckle ball artist has been somewhat of a dissappointment this year, but don't be surprised if he gets back on the victory trail, and soon. Daley, a member of the American League's all-star team last year, is one of the toughest pitchers in baseball when he's right. The Yankees are well aware of this. That's why they've tried to get him for the last two years. Now, he's officially in the fold.
BUD DALEY
Ditmar, who posted a 15-9 record for the Yankees last year, is a competent chucker but hardly in the Dizzy Dean class. Art pitched for the A's back in 1955 and 1956, and led the AL in losses the latter year with 22. Johnson is a promising young slugger who obviously was considered expendable by Yankee officials.
The old saying, "you can't tell the players without a scorecard" will be especially appropriate when the A's return home tonight after a lengthy road trip. There have been so many trades during that time that Joe Fan will have a tough time figuring out just who is on first anyhow.
But speaking of trades, general manager Frank Lane has an unexcelled record in that department, as far as getting the upper hand is concerned. Frantic Frank built up the White Sex from practically nothing and saw them win a pennant in '59, and this season his former Cleveland club is making a solid bid for a World Series spot. And the Indians owe much of their success to Lane's shrewd horse-trading in past years.
In short, he's done it before. The big question locally is: can he do it again? Time will tell.
Snead's Son May Bring Him Luck
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — (UPI) Sunday could be a big day for young Jack Snead.
By OSCAR FRALEY
After all, it is Father's Day. And he feels that maybe he'll be the good luck charm which his dad has been missing up to now in the U. S. Open Golf Championship.
His dad, incidentally, is that long-time fairway favorite known as "Slammin' Sammy" Snead.
Snead's misfortunes in the Open are one of golf's greatest legends. It's a familiar tale how he has been second on four different occasions and another time kicked it completely away with a tragic eight on the final hole.
"Maybe I'll be the good luck he's needed," smiles sixteen-year-old Jack, who is a carbon copy of his father except that he has hair. "This is the first time I've ever been to the Open and it's a good time for dad to win it."
His dad is 49 but "Old Sam," strong as a bull, is playing with ageless skill and has won the last three consecutive tournaments in which he has played.
"You can't count Sam out for another 10 years," marveled four-time British Open champion Peter Thompson who chased Snead with utter futility in the recent International Golf Championship as Sam added that to his recent Greenbrier and Las Vegas victories. "He's playing better than ever."
Young Jack beams at these accolades and cautiously crosses his fingers. The thing that worries him—because they worry Sam—is those short putts.
"I guess it runs in the family," he smiled. "The yips seem to be a trait of all us Sneads."
Jack knows. He shoots in the mid-70's and was the number one man on the Valley High School golf team back in Hot Springs, Va., the same school where Sam learned to read, write and arithmetic all that money he has won on golf courses around the world.
"I'm not quite really sure what I want to do yet," says Jack, parrying questions as to his vocational aspirations.
Certainly it would be a tough chore to fill his father's famous brogans, because Sam has won such coveted divot titles as the Masters, British Open and just about everything else you can name—except the U.S. Open.
"I can hit the ball about as far as dad can," he grins shyly in making a statement few can match. "But after all, I'm as big as he is."
At five feet, eleven inches and 188 pounds, Jack is as big as his famed father and he has, on at least one occasion, "outshot" the old man.
"I still got a long way to go to get anywhere near him, though." Jack says with his pride in his dad showing plainly. But he'd have just about everything if he can win this one. And, as I said, I hope I'm the good luck charm he needs."
Such is the feverish pace of Sam's life and travels when he hits the pro tour that they seldom have an opportunity to play together. But they have teamed up in pro-amateur events in Virginia and West Virginia.
"That was on our last hunting trip," Jack recounted. "I got two deer and a wild turkey. Dad only brought down one deer and one turkey."
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor安全. Benjamin Franklin
"Maybe so," Sam grinned. "Ah sure does hope so."
The grant will support the second year of Dr. Kaplan's study entitled "A Cross-Cultural Study of Psychopathology."
The University of Kansas has received a U.S. Public Health Service grant of $21,275 for a continuation of research directed by Dr. Bert Kaplan, associate professor of psychology.
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In the three-year study, Dr. Kaplan is investigating patterns of mental illness that exist within Indian groups of Mexico and Arizona. His aim is to see how these patterns may be related to the structure of the individual societies.
Twente to Direct Project
The Board of Regents has approved the appointment of three summer research assistants in the project. They are: Dolores Newton, department of anthropology, Harvard University; Christopher Boehm, graduate student in anthropology, Harvard University Training Program in Social Science in Medicine, and James Bosch, assistant professor at the University of Washington, who has four years experience in research work on the Navaho Reservation.
$21,275 Aids In Research
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Esther E. Twente, professor of social work, will direct a two-year project on services to the aging in Marion County, beginning July 1. The project will include the testing of various methods of stimulating local action in meeting the problems of the aging, demonstrations on how programs for the aged may be effectively developed and improved with the help of the aged themselves and within the framework of local community agencies.
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The students, all sophomores or juniors in 1960-61, represent 49 high schools and 18 states. Eighty-three rank in the top 2 per cent of their class, and the other 17, in the top 10 per cent.
One-hundred high school students from over the nation have been chosen from a record 600 applicants to attend the sixth annual Science and Mathematics Camp June 18-July 8 at KU.
100 Are Chosen For Math Camp
They were selected to participate in the three-week program from more than 500 applications representing 38 states. Through lectures, laboratory work and field trips, the students will become acquainted with techniques, apparatus, attitudes and the experimental approach of modern science.
Guest lecturer will be Max Dresden of the physics department at the State University of Iowa and former KU professor of physics. He will give two lectures July 6.
Robert W. Eaxter, associate professor of botany, is camp director.
The Science and Mathematics Camp is one of 181 similar camps supported by the National Science Foundation. It is affiliated with the Midwestern Music and Art Camp which will be held here June 18- July 30.
Wins Architects' Award
Donald Ray Vaughan of Kansas City, Mo., will hold the $100 Kansas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Scholarship at the University of Kansas in 1961-62.
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