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Best Team In Four Years, End Says
Jim Letcavits, senior end, has been playing football for Coach Chuck Mather for seven years, and he says this year's Jayhawker team is the best he has ever played on.
Jim, whose home town is Massillon, Ohio, was coached by Mather for three years at Massillon High, and then came with Mather to KU. This could be thought of as both Jim's and Mather's senior years at KU, but it is hoped only Jim will graduate.
"If we keep hustling the rest of the season as we did down at Fort Worth Saturday, we will have a very fine season," the 6-1, 184-pound right end said.
Letcavits, an all-Big Seven choice last year, said the squad realizes that Oregon State is going to be an extremely tough opponent, and they are working their hardest to prepare for this Saturday's game.
As a sophomore he led the KU team in pass receiving and was sixth in the conference with a total of 169 yards and two touchdowns. Last season he was fourth in the conference with 246 yards and two touchdowns.
With 24 yards and a touchdown on one pass received in Saturday's game, Letcavits now is tied for fifth in the KU all-time career total list in pass receiving.
Letcavits has played as a regular for two years, having missed only two games, when he had a broken hand in his sophomore year.
He caught one pass in Saturday's game. It was the last-second touchdown toss from Bob Marshall which gave KU a tie. Leetavis' blocking and defensive work have been outstanding through his career at KU.
Big 8 Tilts To Be On TV
A Kansas game may be one of four Big Eight games to be televised by KMBC-TV, Kansas City. Mo. The games to be telecast will not be selected until the week of each game.
Arthur C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of athletics, said the conference television committee, of which he is a member, has authorized KMBC-TV to televue games on Oct. 12 and 26 and Nov. 9 and 23.
He said the station will announce the week of each telecast which game would be carried. The station wants to televise the game which is most crucial in the conference race that particular week, and this won't be determined until the race begins to unfold, he said.
Th dates are ones on which no college game will be televised nationally. The four Saturday afternoons were left open for regional telecasts only.
'Feelers' Out For A's Billy Martin
KANSAS CITY. Mo. —(UP)— Speculation that former New York Yankee sparkplug Billy Martin may not return for another season at Kansas City mounted today as a club official acknowledged the receipt of several "feelers."
Parke Carrol, vice-president and business manager, said "two or three" American League clubs had indicated an interest in the 29-year-old Californian who is currently in the throes of a sub-par season since being traded to the A's in June. The Cleveland Indians are believed to be included in the group.
Two Texas Schools Top NAIA Ratings
KANSAS CITY-(UP)-A pair of Texas schools today claimed two of the top five positions in the first weekly football ratings of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
West Texas State, coached by Frank Kimbrough, was placed atop the poll while Texas A&I was third. Middle Tennessee State, tutored by Charles Murphy, was second.
Montana State was listed at the number four berth and St. Joseph's, Ind., college rounded out the top five teams holding NAIA membership.
Spahn To Open Against Yanks
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Fred Haney can make it official now—Warren Spahn will open the World Series for the Milwaukee Braves a week from today.
Spahn, already "named" for the honor by everybody except the manager, clinched the assignment last night when he beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in the "hangover" game of the National League race. The victory was the 36-year old left-hander's 21st—and also just about clinched his right to be named the major league pitcher of the year.
Hank Aaron, the Braves' No. 1 candidate for most valuable player honors, again swung the big bat for the New N. L. champions. Aaron, whose two-run 11th-inning homer wrapped up the flag Monday night, hammered a grand-slam homer off Sam Jones in the first inning and from then on it was all downhill for Spahn.
Musial, who had three hits Monday night, doubled in the third inning and scored the Cardinals' run when Del Ennis singled. Stan's average remained at .349—his highest since 1951.
A's Open Final Home Series
Ted Williams the other amazing veteran of this fast-closing campaign, hammered out his 38th homer of the year to give the Boston Red Sox a 2-1 victory over the Washington Senators. Williams grounded out in the first inning, however, and ended a string of 16 consecutive appearances at the plate in which he reached base safely. He struck out and walked in his other two appearances to dip one point to .384.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-(UP)—The Kansas City Athletics, as formidable at present as they've been all year, tonight open their final home series of the season, a 2-game set with Cleveland.
Victorious in five of their last six starts, the Athletics send Tom Gorman to the mound tonight while the Indians will counter with Ray Narleski. Gorman's record is 5-9, Narleski's is 11-5.
The A's, however, got encouraging relief work from young Harry Taylor, just up from Little Rock of the Southern Association, and on Bob Cerv's ninth inning pinch hit home-run, came within inches of sending the game into extra innings. Cerv's blow scored Hec Lopez who had opened the rally with a pinch hit single.
Chicago, relaxed after its futile bid to nose out New York for the American League flag, cut short the Kansas City winning streak at five games yesterday. The White Sox' 7-6 victory went to Don Rudolph, a youngster with no previous record. Wally Burnette, in relief, took the loss.
Outfielder Woody Held sparkled defensively, cutting down two White Sox runners on long throws. Gus Zernial and Bob Martyn also had outfield assists.
KU Competitive Program Enlarged
Volleyball, fencing, gymnastics, and soccer will be included in interschool competition for the first time at KU, the physical education department announced today.
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1957 University Daily Kansan
The program calls for informal competition in these four sports between neighboring colleges. There will be some financial assistance for travel and equipment but there will be no paid coaches or scholarships.
By GEORGE ANTHAN
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
A University coach was accused in a letter to the Daily Kansan Tuesday of having no backbone. Nothing could be further from the truth. Chuck Mather was criticized for not removing his football team from segregated Fort Worth.
This latest outburst on segregation, a problem which good men the country over are trying to solve, would not even be worth commenting upon except that national attention is now focused on the subject. That being the case, misconceptions are quick to spread and become accepted.
The Kansas football team was not allowed to sleep together in Fort Worth Friday and Saturday. This situation, which prevails in the South shall not, however, be a problem when KU visits Fort Worth in 1959. The problem will solve itself in time.
We do, however, take issue with a misinformed person who did not bother to inform himself on the problems of transporting a football team and its equipment, finding lodging for that team as near as possible to the playing field and winning a football game.
As a matter of fact Kansas officials couldn't even find accommodations that would accept the entire team even that close to Fort Worth.
A football team and the party that accompanies it on trips is quite large —too large to move 40 or 50 miles away from the playing field.
The basketball team being much smaller, was able to stay in a private club when playing in the NCAA regional in Dallas last spring.
Busch Congratulates Braves
ST. LOUIS — (UP) — August A. Busch, Jr., president of the St. Louis Cardinals, congratulated the Milwaukee Braves yesterday in a telegram to Brave Board Chairman Lou Perini. Busch said: "We are proud to have you represent the National League (in the World Series) and will be even more proud when you are world champions."
Leavenworth was the first capital of Kansas.
Only 2 Rookies Make Giant Roster
NEW YORK—(UP)—The world champion New York Giants got down to the 35-player limit last night with only two rookies able to win berths with the National Football League club. John Bookman of Miami (Fla.) U. and Eddie Crawford of Mississippi, both defensive
backs, are the rookies who join 30 players from last year's squad and returning vets Bobby Epps, Jack Spinks and John Martinkovic, who came to the Giants from Green Bay.
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