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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1958
By MALCOLM APPLEGATE (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Even in the midst of an exciting basketball season with the nation's top teams finding the sledding a bit rough and KU's Wilt Chamberlain and Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson batting it out for scoring honors, football is still managing to get its share of publicity.
Of most recent interest to football fans is the new rule passed at the NCAA meeting in Philadelphia. It allows a team to run or pass for two points instead of kicking for one point after a touchdown.
Granted, this could be a step to make football more exciting and could eliminate ties, but we believe that the sport, which draws thousands of fans, should be left alone just for once.
Each year when the average fan goes out to see the opening game of the season, he probably has trouble recognizing the game, simply because the rule-makers have to change a rule or two in an effort to improve the game.
College football and basketball are two sports which the so-called experts just can't seem to agree on as to how they should be played. We agree with the many persons who continually bring up the old statement that Dr. James Naismith, inventor of basketball, probably wouldn't even recognize the game if he were to see it played today.
Are Changes Needed?
Both sports continually face changes. In recent years the free throw rule in basketball and substitution rules in football have been tinkered with.
Why should changes be needed each year? Minor changes may be necessary. But it would be nice to attend the season's opener some year and see football and basketball played the way they were played the year before. Attendance figures prove that spectators like both games just as they are. Why do the experts continually try to change them? We find it hard to justify same of the changes. We hope at least the names will still be the same when we get old and gray. But at the rate changes are being made even this is doubtful.
But enough of that. Also keeping football in the spotlight is the problem which Texas A&M is having in its hunt for a football coach.
The Aggies seem to want to settle for no less than a big name coach who has already proved himself, but the number of those available is dwindling fast.
First, former Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy and UCLA coach Red Sanders were top candidates. When it seemed certain that he would accept, Leahy was forced to decline
the job because of health. Sanders just wasn't interested.
Navy's head coach, Eddie Erdelatz, and Jim Myers of Iowa State then moved into the spotlight as top candidates. But Erdelatz declined the job, while Myers decided to stay at Iowa State when the Cyclones put the pressure on him to decide, and, of course, offered him a $2,000 raise.
Might Not Get Big-Time Man
Who the next candidate will be is still a big question mark. But before long, the Texas school just might have to quit trying to draw a big-time coach away from another school with their supposedly huge salary offers and settle for someone they will have to train themselves.
To get back to rules changes. Let's hope that Kansas makes enough touchdowns next season to have plenty of chances to try for those extra two points. And as for coaching troubles, we hope Jack Mitchell doesn't get involved in the merry-go-round and has a long and successful career at KU.
Incidentally, while discussing football, a quick check of last year's Notre Dame roster shows the Fighting Irish picked up their football players from 23 states. Kansas had 14 states represented on its roster.
If more rosters were checked, we believe it would follow this pattern. With alumni all over the nation growing more and more interested in seeing that their old alma maters have a top football team, the competition is becoming tougher. To have these top teams it is almost impossible to limit recruiting to the home state, especially when two or three schools compete for prospects within a state.
A total of 33 of the 76 Irish players came from three states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. That's about 13 per cent from football's happy hunting grounds. Of course, with a school having the reputation of Notre Dame, it is bound to draw students from all over the United States, whether it be for football or the scholastic benefits it offers.
The foregoing figures show that some states must produce better football players than others. For example, in states where mining is a big industry and young men work in these mines during their high school career. They are bound to be better physical specimens because of their muscle-building labor. To have a top football team, a school has to get some of these physical specimens. That's what the game demands.
The fans and alumni want a winning football team. In fact they demand it as most schools. If the schools can draw them from other states, why not let them do it?
West Virginia,North Carolina In Top Court Action Tonight
Top-ranked West Virginia hopes to escape an "unlucky 13" jinx and fifth-ranked North Carolina runs into an old-time backyard rival tonight in college basketball's feature games.
Considered a "shorty" by today's standards, Hennon has been averaging 25 points a game.
West Virginia whipped Pittsburgh twice last season but was 56 impressed by Hennon's point pouring that the Mountaineers named Dartin Don on their all-opponent first team. So if Pitt, which has won seven of 11 games this season, is capable of springing an upset, Hennon is the guy who will lead the way.
Unbeaten in 12 straight games this season, West Virginia tangles with Pittsburgh and its "Mighty Mite," five-foot, nine-inch Don Hennon on the Panthers' home court, while North Carolina's defending national champions entertain North Carolina State.
North Carolina won the Dixie Classic last month by downing North Carolina State, 39-30, in one of those old-fashioned slow-down games. The Tailwheels, meanwhile, dropped a 74-61 verdict to Maryland, so they are counting on a repeat victory tonight to move into undisputed possession of first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Coach Dick Harp believes that KU will have to win all its remaining conference games if the Jayhawkers are to repeat as Big Eight champions.
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"Now that we already have a loss (to Oklahoma) we can't afford to lose another game or our chances of winning the title outright are very slim," he said.
"I don't see how we can expect any help from anyone else, so we'll just have to win it ourselves if we expect to keep the title," he said.
He considers Kansas State and Iowa State to be the favorites for the title, with the tall, veteran Kansas State club probably having the edge.
Football coach Jack Mitchell and members of his staff will be introduced to all alumni at four alumni club meetings planned during the next three weeks at Kansas City, Topeka, Salina and Wichita.
He said that if KU had two losses a tie for the conference championship would be possible, but he doesn't think KU can lose another game and still win the title.
Harp Believes KU Must Win Remaining GamesToTakeTitle
Alumni To Meet Coach, Staff
KU defeated both these teams during the Big Eight pre-season tournament, but neither was at full
Intramural Play Enters Round 3
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Eighteen intramural basketball teams saw action Tuesday night. Three of the games were Independent A games with the Chicken Pickers, the Butterballs and the Pearson squads picking up victories.
Independent C - Backwoodman 43, American Institute of Architects 31, AROTC 1, Jim Beam 0, forfeit; Flig Pluckens 63, Jolliffe 19.
Independent B. — Delta Function 46, Don Henry 25; Boosers 42, MrCook 25, Nu Sigma Nu 61, NROTC 30.
Other games:
Pearson, after trailing 19-16 at the half, came back to pick up 23 points in the final period while holding the Jacks squad to 14 points, earning a 39-32 victory.
Searing 30 points in the last half, the Butterball squad defeated the Rochdale team 54-24 in the second Independent A game of the evening.
A hot first half gave the Chicken Pickers all the margin they needed to down the Stephenson squad 59-40 in the third Independent A game of the evening. The Chicken Pickers led at halftime 34-18.
Games today;
**Independent A** — Beirhawks vs.
Pharmacy, 5:15; YMCA vs. Radicais,
4:15; Foster vs. Templin, 6:15.
nightless summer.
Fraternity B — Phi Gamma Delta vs. Alpha Tau Omega, 6:30; Lambda Chi Alpha vs. Phi Kappa Tau, 6:30; Theta Tau vs. Alpha Kappa Lambda, 7:15.
Independent B — Nuggets vs
Stephenson, 4:15. Newman vs. Grace
Pearson, 4:15. Chemical Engineers
vs. Hicks, 5:45. AFROTC vs. Cathuh
O'Leary, 5. Oread vs. Foster,
5:00. Concordia vs. Jolliffe, 5:45.
College Basketball Results
By UNTED PRESS
UNITED EAST
Connecticut 81, New Hampshire 69
Maryland 54, Georgia 70
Ohio 34, Missouri 74
Taiwan 61
Clemson 81, Wake Forest 72
North Carolina A&T College 75
Virginia St. 67, Bluefield St. 48
VMI St. Richmond 62
Okahama St. 55, Wichita U.
Navy Pier Branch (Illinois U.) 86,
Tampa Bay Lakers (Florida U.)
strength at the time, and in the conference race neither has yet lost a game.
Clamison 81, Wake Forest 72
North Carolina, A&T College
Bouchardt 91. Lewis (Ill.) 61
St. Benefiet's 58, Washbarn 72
Kansas City (Mo.) U. 77, Sterling
College 74
Westminster (Utah) 75. Missouri
1980
Ottawa (Kan.) U. 84, Friends U. 63
College of Emporia 7, Baker U. 63
Aransas College 78. Ouachita 66
Texas A&M 57. Baylor 47
"Oklahoma is also a contender for first place. The Sooners have the ability to defeat any team in the league on a given night, but I doubt that they could win the title," he said.
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Tigers Have Shown Strength
He said Missouri has shown more strength than was anticipated, and that Nebraska's showing also has been a surprise to some persons.
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Harp said the team lost a lot of ground in the way of team progress due to the illness of Wilt Chamberlain, which kept the Big Dipper out of two games.
"We felt we had come along
pretty well up to the tournament, but Wilt's absence set us back and it will take a while to regain our former level of team coordination," he said.
Harp said that KU has been improving on defense and speed, which he considered to be two of the preseason weaknesses. He said he has been pleased with the way the Jayhawker shooting has held up.
Practices Shorter This Week
He said practices this week would be shorter than usual, because of the nearness of the final examination period. KU meets Missouri Saturday at Columbia, in the last game of the semester. The K-State game here Feb. 3 is the first contest after the semester break.
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