Wednesday. Oct. 2. 1957 University Daily Kansan
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Illness, Injuries At New KU High
With team injuries and illness at a new high, football Coach Chuck Mather Tuesday said that his squad, which practiced defensive formations against variations in the single wing offense Colorado will use, looked better at this time than last week.
Meanwhile Mather's personnel picture gets dimmer and dimmer. It all started Saturday when Bob Marshall, No. 1 quarterback twisted his knee. He will be out at least three weeks. H. C. Palmer is out with a serious knee injury.
Now understudy Wally Strauch is suffering from a mild case of flu as is Chester Vanatta, center. Frank Gibson, recovering from an injured shoulder, will probably not see much action against the Buffs Saturday and Bob Kraus, co-captain and one of the few who turned in sparkling performances against Oregon State, is just recovering from the flu.
Mather ran his squad through a series of goal line scrimmages using the unbalanced T, flanker T, the regular T and the single wing on both the left and right sides.
The team will engage in offensive drills today. Thursday the Jayhawkers will work on their over-all game. Friday the team leaves for Boulder at 9 p.m.
Three Grid Games Rated Tossups
NEW YORK — (UP)—Three games—Dartmouth-Penn. Virginia-Wake Forest and UCLA-Oregon—were rated as toss-ups in this weekend's college football, while Oklahoma was made the biggest favorite of the day, 35 points over Iowa State.
Oklahoma, winner of 41 straight games, is ranked first in the nation by the United Press board of coaches. Second-ranked Michigan State was made a 15-point favorite over California by the oddsmakers, and third-ranked Minnesota was 14 over Purdue.
Oregon State was rated eight points better than Northwestern and Navy was a 13-point favorite over North Carolina. Iowa, seventh in the United Press ranking, was 16 points over Washington, and Michigan was favored by 20 over Georgia. Duke rated a 19-point choice over Maryland.
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Alpha Tau Omega took the first step to retain the fraternity "A" touch football championship by defeating Lambda Chi Alpha, 33-0, while Delta Upsilon defeated Phi Kappa Psi, 6-0, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon defeated Kappa Sigma, 7-0, in first-day games in men's intramurals Tuesday.
Warren Henson passed to Bob Boyer for the DU touchdown. For SAE it was Bob Cramer passing to Larry Meuli for a touchdown and an extra point.
IM Football In Full Swing
Jim Trombold passed for five touchdowns and one extra point for ATO. Scoring were Stuart Luder, two touchdowns; Doug Henning, one touchdown and one extra point; John Cooper and Mark Boxberger, one touchdown each and Louis Bird, two extra points.
In fraternity "B" competition Phi Kappa Psi defeated Tau Kappa Epsilon, 7-0 and Phi Kappa defeated Phi Delta Theta, 1-0. Phi Kappa won in an overtime period by gaining more yards than its opponent.
Huskers Expect Worst From Kansas State
LINCOLN, Neb. —(UP)—The Nebraska Cornhuskers, stunned by two overwhelming defeats to Washington State and Army, today geared for the worst following scouting reports on Kansas State.
Scout Dick Monroe said K-State is capable of picking up yardage at any time either on the ground or in the air. He told coach Bill Jennings the Wilddeats possess more speed than either Army or Washington State.
Oklahoma's 1956 team again led the nation in the number of its players selected on the first and second all-America Scholastic team.
Frank Gibson, now suffering from a shoulder injury from the TCU game, likes the rough play in the line. Gibson was an all-conference tackle last season.
Gibson Enjoys Rough Line Play
The chances are slim that he will get into Saturday's game but the 6-2/12, 215-pound wants to play. Gibson said he thought the Jaya-hawker line was much improved over last season with all the boys having a year of experience.
"I think the team is real good, in fact, the best we have ever had, and we will win if we play up to our capabilities." Gibson said.
Gibson, who is 23, is married and has an 18-month-old daughter. He is a senior majoring in physical education and expects to graduate this summer.
"If I have a real fine year, I wouldn't mind trying to play professional football," he said.
FRANK GIBSON
NORMAN, OKLA., (UP) —Oklahoma continued to test 13 flu-weekened athletes including ace running back Clendon Thomas today as drills for Iowa State reached the halfway mark.
Sooners At Halfway Mark
Gibson and Coach Chuck Mather long have been acquaintances. While Mather was at Massillon, Ohio, Frank lettered three years in football and one year in basketball and track.
Missouri had one of the nation's best pass receivers last year in Charlie James, who will be in the Tigers backfield this year as a junior.
While in high school, Gibson never played defense. But during the last two years he has done exceptionally well. Gibson is a fast starter from the line and an
exceptional blocker in the line and downfield.
He is one of the seven holdover regulars out of 25 returning lettermen.
Although Kansas State finished one notch higher than K.U. in the conference standings last year the Jayhawkers had a better over-all record than did the Cats.
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