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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 2, 1957
Unprepared To Meet OSU
Seldom, if ever, has Kansas been less prepared to invade Gallagher Hall than it will be for tonight's opening 1957-58 basketball match against Oklahoma State University.
Faced with a Cowpoke team that returns every starter save guard Mel Wright, Kansas will have only Wilt Chamberlain and Ron Loneski as returning frontline men.
"We have accomplished as little in pre-season practice as any year since I've been here," said Coach Dick Harp, "and we are just now beginning to progress a little."
"Perhaps our slow progress is due in part to sickness and injury, but I presume most all the teams we'll play have been having the same sort of trouble," he said.
Loneski, Johnson in Front
Harp likely will pair the 6-5 Monte Johnson with Loneski in the front line with Bob Billings and Bob Hickman in the backcourt. His alternate starters are Al Donaghue, $6-4^{1/2}$ sophomore, at forward, and junior letterman Lynn Kindred at guard.
But Donaghue suffered a pulled muscle in practice Wednesday and Kindred is just back following a heavy chest cold.
Harp said he has run into unusual trouble trying to conduct full-scale sessions since practice opened Oct. 15. Every member of the top ten, save senior guard John Cland, has missed from one to three days under the longest injury and sickness seige the Jayhawkers have experienced since World War II.
"We'll concede that Wilt is the finest basketball player in the country," Harp said, "but no one
single great player in any sport ever carried a team single-handed through a schedule such as we play."
"We fully expect Chamberlain, Loneski, and Billings to be as good as people are saying, but they do not constitute a full team. Until we find one we are going to experience all manner of trouble." he concluded
He said there is some hope, however, because OSU Coach Henry Iba and Kansas State Coach Tex Winter are "as optimistic about KU as they are about their own clubs."
Even Iba Optimistic
Iba traditionally is conservative, but early this year went on record that this would be a good season for his Cowpokes. He has ten of 13 lettermen returning from last season. This will be the 44th Kansas-OSU meeting with the Jayhawkers on the long end of a 25-18 count. However, Kansas has won only three times in Stillwater.
Crow Is UP's Back Of The Year
NEW YORK, —(UP)—John Crow of Texas A. & M., an all-America halftack whose father once told him "don't be anything but the best" was named college football back of the year today by the United Press
Crow received 101 votes in a nationwide poll of 256 sports writers and sportscasters for a better than 3-to-1 margin over his nearest rival. Runnersup in the balloting were the three other members of the United Press all-America backfield—Walt Kowalezyk of Michigan State with 33 votes, Sophomore Bob Anderson of Army with 16 and Clendon Thomas of Oklahoma with 13.
The original faculty at KU had only three members.
Mather Named Top Coach
Chuck Mather, the resigned Kansas coach whose team won second place in the Big Eight, was named Big Eight coach of the year by the United Press today.
Jim Letcavits, who followed Mather to Kansas from Massillon, Ohio, was the only Kansas player on the UP's first all Big Eight team.
Homer Floyd, Massillon junior, was named second team fullback. Honorable mentions went to Chet Vanatta, Frank Gibson, Bob Kraus, Paul Swoboda, Bill Burnison, John Peppercorn and Dale Remsberg. Burnison was named sophomore of the year by the news service.
The United Press' 1957 all Big Eight Conference football team:
FIRST TEAM
pos. name school wr. wt.
E Jim Letcavits Kan. Sr. 185
E Don Zadnak K-St. Sr. 190
T Mervin Johnson Mo. Sr. 208
G Bill Krisher Okla. Sr. 213
G John Wooten Colo. Jr. 199
C Bob Harrison Colo. Jr. 206
QB Bob Nichols P-St. Soph. 170
HB Bob Struths Okla. Jr. 188
FB Clendon Thomas Okla. Jr. 188
HB Hank Kuhlmann Mo. Jr. 188
Back of the Year: Bob Stransky, Colorado.
Lineman of the Year: Bill Krisher Oklahoma.
SECOND TEAM
Sophomore of the Year: Dwight Nichols, Iowa State
Coach of the Year: Chuck Mather. Kansas
pos. name school yr. wt.
E Don Stiller Okla. Sr. 200
E Joe Rector Okla. Jr. 198
T Koe Koi Okla. Sr. 228
T Jack Keelan K-St. 228
G Don Chadwick Mo. Jr. 213
G Byron Searcy Okla. Jr. 201
G Ellis Rainberger K-St. Jr. 199
QB Hedie Dove Colo. Jr. 205
HEdie Dove K-St. Jr. 197
R Hald Pfeifer K-St. Jr. 197
FB Homer Floyd Kan. Jr. 168
HONORABLE MENTION
Ends; Dennis and Stuekel, Iowa State;
Boucher and McKinney, Mo.; Nady,
Colo.; Lee and Hawkins, Neb.; Peper-
corn and Ramsbottom, Kansas.
Tackles: Northcutt and D. Jennings, Okla.; Vanatta, Gibson, and Kraus, Kan.; Henson, Harrison, K-State; Ponciun, Iowa St.; Salerino, Salero, Colo.; Rhoda and Olson, Neb.
Guards: Swoboda, Kansas; Munger and Bibl. Iowa State; Oujeszky, Okla., Mondt, Colle.
Centers: Warner, Colo; Falter, Iowa St.; Burnison, Kansas; Cmachalland, Nebraska; Boyd, Boyd; Sandefer and Morris, Okla; Snowden, Mo., Corbin, K-State; Brown, Neb.
Back of the Year: Pfeifer, K-State.
Back of the Year: Pfeifer, K-State.
Lineman of the Year: Harrison, Okla.
Rash, Mo.; and Rainsberger and Zadnik
K-State.
Kenny Lane, top ranked lightweight contender, has won 16 straight fights.
Sophomore of the Year: Burnison,
Kansas; Olson, Neb.; and Swainey and
Stevens.
Coach of the Year: Broyles, Mo;
Myers, Iowa State; Wilkinson, Okla.
Intramural Sports Program Finished
Jim Schultz, Sigma Chi, won the tennis championship, and winners of the tennis doubles tournament were David Coupe and Larry Schooley, Kappa Sigma.
Golf champion was Jim Naylor, Delta Upsilon. Handball champion was Jim Coleman, Phi Gamma Delta, who teamed with his fraternity brother, George Maier, to win the doubles title.
The fall men's intramural sports program was completed just before Thanksgiving vacation when the last of the nine individual championships was decided.
In badminton Salwit Lekagul won the singles tournament, with the doubles title going to Savich Chai-pravat and Dick Laptad, all independents.
Horseshoes champion was Paul Baker, Phi Kappa Tau, and horseshoes doubles winners were Robert McGhee and Dan Welehon.
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