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It's going to be a long, long two weeks for the boys who put on shoulder pads every afternoon at Kansas.
The Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma are waiting for Saturday and their 44th victory in a row and the week after that Miami will probably follow form and the KU football record will be 1-4-1.
But then comes Nebraska, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Missouri and by pre-season or even post-Colorado standards the Jayhawkers could be given the favorites role in every one of these. But after the fumbling fiasco of Saturday when the football was lost eight times and recovered by Iowa State five times, it will take a few games to show what Kansas' true strength this season really is.
The passing game Saturday was the one shining spot. Wally Strauch was being given some time to aim and he was hitting his receiver with deadly accuracy. This was very encouraging especially at a time when the Kansas ground game was completely bogged down due to butterfingers.
It could very well be that the butterfingers will be cured by the time our cross-state neighbors from Manhattan arrive.
It was the inability to hold onto the ball that caused all the trouble Saturday. Fumbles stymied almost all of KU's drives and virtually ended its kicking game. All Iowa State had to do was wait for the mistakes that weren't long in coming.
Iowa State and Missouri, probably the two most surprising teams in the conference, meet in Ames Saturday with one due for a deflating job.
It will probably be Iowa State because the chances are that Missouri will not have a bad case of fumblitis on that particular Saturday. Missouri defeated Southern Methodist, 7-6, last Saturday and now has a 2-1-1 record—identical to Iowa State's.
Nebraska, the team which has had its share of troubles this season, meets Syracuse, the team Iowa State tied, 7-7.
Dick Harp and his basketball team begin practice today minus a few veterans but still sound and favored to vie with Kansas State for the Big Eight championship.
The boys who fill Allen Field House with paying customers during the winter months won't be quite as strong this year after such losses as Maurice King, Lew Johnson, John Parker and Gene Elstun. but can still be counted on to win a few here and there—maybe go as far as last year if some of the speedy sophomores come through.
Delta Upsilon Slips By Kappa Sigma,13-12
Delta Upsilon slipped by Kappa Sigma, 13-12, in Fraternity A football intramurals Monday on Bob Boyer's passing. Jim Gallant and Dale Flanagan each caught passes for touchdowns.
The winning extra point was tossed by Boyer to Flanagan. Gary Schugart, of the Kappa Sigs, intercepted a pass in the first quarter and ran 60 yards for a touchdown. The other touchdown came on a pass thrown by Bob Hay to Ron Miller. The extra point kick by Dale Sullivan was wide.
Jim Trombold, passing ace for Alpha Tau Omega, paced his team to a 23-2 victory over Sigma Alpha Epsilon as he passed for three touchdowns and one extra point. Warren Henning, Stuart Luder, and Mark Boxberger caught the passes, and Henning caught the extra point. Louis Bird kicked two extra points and a bad center by Mike McGinley. SAE center, into the end zone gave the ATOs a safety. SAE scored when a bad ATO center went into the end zone.
Other scores:
Fraternity B
Phi Delta Theta No. 2, 6, Beta
Theta Pi, 7.
Tau Kappa Epsilon 1, Phi Kappa,
0.
Independent A
Stephenson 1, Carruth O'Leary, 0
Games today:
Fraternity A
Lambda Chi vs. Phi Kappa Psi— Field 1.
Beta Theta Pi vs. Delta Tau Delta
— Field 3.
Delta Chi vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon—Field 4.
Triangle vs. Sigma Nu—Field 2.
Phi Delta Theta No. 1 vs. Sigma
Epsilon—Field 5.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture reports commercial and farm production of red meat set a record of 28.1 billion pounds in 1956, four per cent higher than the record set in 1955.
Mather Faces Tough Task
Stil recuperating from a 6-21 defeat Saturday at the hands of the Iowa State Cyclones, Coach Chuck Mather faced the seemingly endless task of getting his Kansas Jayhawkers ready to face the powerful Oklahoma Sooners in Norman this Saturday with five regulars and five reserves on the sideline.
University Daily Kansan
Reserves on the sideline are John Wertzberger, H. C. Palmer, Lynn McCarthy, Paul Swoboda and Don Hermick. All of these players are listed as doubtful for the Oklahoma game except Marshall and Palmer who are definitely out.
End Jim Letcavits is ill with pneumonia, tackle Ron Claiborne has the flu, guard Tom Russell has a sprained ankle, guard Bob Kraus still is suffering from a hip injury and quarterback Bob Marshall is out with a knee injury.
Dick Harp, KU basketball coach, said Monday that his conference champion Jayhawks will pay particular attention to three problems in their first workout today in Allen Field House.
Defense, Speed Are Weak Spots Says Harp
These problems are defense, a lack of proven shooting ability and speed, particularly on defense.
Seven lettermen will be among the estimated 20 men scheduled to begin practice today. The seven are 7-foot all American Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia, Pa., Ron Loneski, 6-feet 5-inches, Calumet City, Ill, Bob Billings, 6 feet, Russell; Lynn Kindred, 6-feet 2-inches, Emporia; John Clandel, 6-feet 2-inches, Topeka; Monte Johnson, 6-feet 5-inches, Kansas City, Kan.; Gary Thompson, 6-feet 4-inches, Wellington; all are juniors except Cleland who is one of two seniors on the soad.
AUTO PARTS AND TIRES New or Used
Chamberlain and Loneski are the only starters back from last year's team that won the Big Seven pre-season tournament, the conference title and lost the NCAA championship to North Carolina by one piont.
Leading sophomores at this time, according to Harp, are 6-foot 4-inch forwards Al Donaghue, Kansas City, Kan. and Jim Hoffman, Kansas City, Mo. and guards Bob Hickman, 6-feet 2-inches, Terre Haute, Ind, and Phil Raiser, 6-feet, Munice, Ind.
Auto Wrecking
And Junk Co.
East End of 9th St.
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Other squad members reporting today will be Joe Ensley, Joplin, Mo. Jim Husser, Mission; Jerry Johnson, Chanute; Milt Wade, Herrington and Orln Carney, Basehor, all sophomores.
Dick Keith, Blue Springs, Mo. and Larry Kelley, Lawrence, both juniors, and Gary Mowry, St. Joseph, Mo. senior.
KU lost nine seniors from last year's team and Harp said he doesn't rate the team better than 50 per cent as strong as last year's at this time.
Harp said, "One thing is for certain, everyone will be improved in the league except us." He expects Kansas State and Iowa State to be "tough" and that Oklahoma "will surprise some people."
The coach said the lack of height.
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1957
K-State Preps, Broyles Is Wary
MANHATTAN — (UP) — Kansas State prepped for potent Colorado today with four players sidelined with varying ailments.
Bus Mertes' unpredictable Wildcats held a two hour defensive drill Monday, but held contact work to a minimum, following the trainer's reports.
Dick Allen was moved to the No 2 left halfback slot to replace Ben Groose, who injured his leg in the College of The Pacific game last Saturday night. Also ailing are half-backs, Keith Wilson and Terry Lee and center Dean Skaer. Lee has a light touch of flu, the others be bothered by leg injuries.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UP) — Missouri's Frank Broyles, a novice coach already developing the pessimism of a veteran, today termed Iowa State, his Tigers' next foe, "two touchdowns better" than Southern Methodist."
'2 Touchdowns Better'
Seek No.1 Rating
NORMAN, Okla. — (UP) — Oklahoma,
spurred by the additional incentive
of regaining the nation's No.
1 collegiate ranking, drilled hard
Cyclones Now Feared
on a slushy, rain-swept field Monday. The Seoners, who sagged to second in the United Press weekly football ratings following Saturday's hard-earned victory over Texas, engage Kansas here Saturday.
except for Chamberlain, will be a great defensive problem. He used Kansas State as an example. "With three men 6-feet 8-inchs or taller," he said, "how can we cover them anywhere near the way we'd like to?"
AMES, Iowa — (UP) — Iowa State, which has suddenly become a "feared" Big Eight member after a lightly-regarded pre-season reputation, planned hard workouts this weekend prior to Saturday's clash with Missouri.
Huskers Lose Ten
LINCOLN, Neb. — (UP) — The Nebraska Cornhuskers, minus ten injured athletes temporarily and without fleet halfback Bennie Dillard permanently, worked today for a rugged clash with Syracuse Saturday.
He said the answer to the height problem would probably be found in the use of the zone defense. "At least, he said. 'We'll start out working on the zone.'"
Harp believes speed will be adequate on offense, and the team will be able to get the ball down court all right, but that "speed is a vital necessity on defense if the Jay-hawks are to offset their height disadvantage." That's where we're really worried, he said. "We're really going to have to move to play the kind of defense that's necessary with our situation, and that'll take a lot of work."
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