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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 16, 1957
KU Optimism High As Opener Nears
Optimism remained high among Kansas football coaches and players as the Jayhawkers finished their last full-scale scrimmage Saturday in Memorial Stadium. KU will face the Texas Christian Horned Frogs this Saturday night in Fort Worth.
A red team made up of first and second stringers walloped a squad of reserves with some second stringers tossed in by a 37-7 score.
Coach Chuck Mather feels the Javahawks have shown considerable improvement during the first two weeks of practice. Mather said he thought the red team's defense held well and that their offense was good, although the offense still needs some smoothing out.
"The most encouraging part of the scrimmage was that the team was turning mistakes into good gains and was recovering well on defense." Mather said.
Reds Offense Clicks
The red team showed a potent air attack, but also registered consistent ground gains. The first score of the afternoon was a 12-yard field goal by Ray Barnes, sophomore half-back. It came after the reserves held the regulars short of a touchdown.
The reds' first touchdown of the afternoon came with 38 seconds left in the first quarter. Bob Marshall plunged over from the six-inch line after the reds had recovered a fumble on the white's 49-yard line and driven goalward. Bob Feller, Homer Floyd, and Marshall sparked the drive.
In the second quarter, Wally Strauch fired a 23-yard aerial to Charlie McCue for another red touchdown. Straugh converted to make it 16-0.
The reds came back shortly afterwards to drive to the white's six yard line where they were stopped on downs. Tackle Frank Gibson recovered a white tumble on the 18-yard line, but the white defense held again, stopping the reds on the one-foot line. Walt Schmidt then blocked a Dale Remsberg punt in the end zone to give the reds a safety.
Strauch Passes 54 Yards
The longest play of the day resulted in the reds' next touchdown Strauch fired a 54-yard pass to McCue for a TD to give the reds a 24-0 halftime lead.
In the second half Marshall started the reds scoring by firing a 32-yard pass to Rip Miller. The whites came back to score their only touchdown of the day on a 30-yard pass from halfback Duane Morris to end Lloyd Nichols.
The Jayhawkers came out of the scrimmage in good physical condition, with no serious injuries being reported.
Buddy Merritt capped the after- moon's scoring with a two-yard plunge after the whites had driven 67 yards.
Mather said he doubted whether there would be any drastic changes in the line-up this week, although he did mention that one or two places could be switched due to the keen competition for spots on the starting eleven.
Football Future Bright For Irish
CHICAGO—(UP)—Notre Dame's football future is brighter, Coach Terry Brennan belives, but he can paint only a bleak picture for the Irish fans this year.
"We're a year away," he said. "At least it'll take us another year to be stronger competitively. Certainly we'll be a better football team this year, but our opponents haven't gotten weaker. They've stayed the same or gotten stronger."
Even a "better" Notre Dame team could have trouble, since last season virtually the same personnel played to the worst Irish record in history, two wins and eight defeats. Twenty players are gone from the 1950 squad, but only two of importance—halfback Jim Morse and all-America quarterback Paul Hornung.
Musial Back In Hero Role As Cards Move Up
By UNITED PRESS
Stan Musial's return in a familiar hero's role today fired the St. Louis Cardinals' bid for a miracle pennant but it's still Milwaukee's National League Flag unless the Braves blow sky high.
The Cardinals' threat became the "real thing" yesterday when they climbed to within $2\frac{1}{2}$ games of the front-runners by defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-6 and 11-3, while the Braves dropped a 10-inning, 3-2 decision to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cardinals made up six games on the Braves by taking nine of their last 11 games—and still have 11 games remaining to them, including a vital three-game series in Milwaukee, Sept. 23-24-25.
The reason for the spectacular turn the race has taken is simple; the Cardinals are hitting and the Braves aren't. The slugging Redbirds have scored a total of 91 runs in taking nine of 11. The faltering Braves have scored a total of 30 (and made only 75 hits) in losing eight of 11.
Cardinals Are Hitting
Musial, the fellow who really can keep the Cardinal attack humming, resumed his regular status yesterday and contributed three key hits—two doubles and a single—to the Reibirds' two-game 25-hit total. Ken Boyer and 42-year old Walker Cooper hammered out homers in the opener, clinched by a six-run, fifth-inning rally, and Wally Moon smashed out two homers and two singles in the nightcap, salted away early with five runs in the first inning.
Frank Robinson knocked in four runs with a homer and a single and Bob Thurman, Ed Bailey and pitcher Hal Jeffcoat also homered as the Cinémati Redlegs defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 11-6. The Chicago Cubs defeated the New York Giants, 6-2 and 7-6, in another N.L game.
In the American League, the New York Yankees went methodically about the business of wrapping up Casey Stengel's eight pennant in nine years with 5-3 and 3-0 victories over the Kansas City Athletics. The sweep increased the Yankees' lead to $5^{1/2}$ games despite a last-ditch Chicago White Sox 3-1 victory over the Washington Senators and reduced New York's "magic number" to seven.
Yanks Win Two
This group of fields has recently been sodded and fenced in. Three boys practicing there Sunday ran into the fence and received minor cuts.
Mikols Gives IM Warning
Walter J. Mikols, director of men's intramurals, urged all teams practicing intramural football to stay off the upper fields.
Mikols said that practices should be held on the eight fields below the fields which are fenced in Goals will be un shortly on these fields.
Mikols also said that he hoped students would co-operate by parking their cars in the parking lot instead of on the playing fields.
The fields are in good shape now and can be kept that way with the students' co-operation." Mikols said.
By GEORGE ANTHAN (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Is something happening to major league baseball? Is it still the game of the Gas House Gang and of Murderer's Row?
It appears as if the grand old American game isn't a game anymore. Baseball used to be a game and a business, it's just a business now.
In New York the Dodgers and Giants are about to repay half a century's loyalty by moving to the West Coast where lucrative TV rights will mean big money. Big money for the first five years, anyway. But how long will it last in an area where a limited population has so many other diversions.
If teams continue to move at the slightest whim of the owner fans will begin to feel cheated; they will awaken to the fact that they have been taken in. They will find that they haven't been supporting a team, just a business.
Arnold Johnson moved the Athletics from Philadelphia to Kansas City and already is hinting to move them again if attendance doesn't rise.
An oil company, for example, is a cold impersonal thing to the man on the street but the same man will argue at length on the comparative merits of one baseball team against another.
Baseball, the owners might do well to remember, needs loyalty, what business corporations call good will. More long-range planning is needed on what effects these moves will have on the game.
It would appear as if some owners would like to turn their teams into something similar to a carnival—scurrying around the country hitting the lucrative spots then moving on to a richer market.
They will probably make money for a while, but it will mean the end of the grand old game.
Big 8 Football Into Full Swing
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UP)—The Big Eight football teams open with a full schedule of intersections games this week with national champion Oklahoma facing Pittsburgh in a "must" game for sectional honors.
Experts in pre-season guesses have unanimously picked Oklahoma to win the national championship for the third straight year, but a loss at Pittsburgh, however unlikely, might wreck the Sooners—and area prestige—for the season.
Coach Bud Wilkinson also has labeled the game as a "must" for team morale. "Loss of the opener can hurt a team all season long." Wilkinson said, "while a victory will provide the necessary confidence."
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Mather To Have Swift Backfield
This will be especially true when Bob Marshall is at the quarterback slot for the Jayhawks. He is possibly the swiftest T quarterback who ever ran out of the spot for Kansas. Certainly he is the fastest since long-strided Dick Gilman was piloting KU in 1948. Marshall returned a punt 90 yards to beat Oklahoma last year, simply running off from two tight pursuers in the final 40 yards.
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With Don Feller now running at fullback, Chuck Mather will present the swiftest backfield in his four-year tenure at Kansas.
Feller Hard To Down
But back to Feller and the backline of the T, from whence most of the rushing will originate. His rise to starting status actually means the Jayhawks will be carrying three halfbacks. Feller is a straight-up runner who packs more velocity than force! He doesn't carry the compact weight and body lean to bow back a line.
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Feller is hard to get down for two reasons—his speed is deceptive because of his exceptionally long stride and he owns the old-fashioned technique of spinning when hit, which was once standard equipment for good ball carriers.
Given any sort of a hole, the rang El Dorado junior college all-American has been bounced off tacklers and getting outside with his speed for extra vardage.
Feller has also played defense satisfactorily for the Jayhawks in early season scrimmages. Of course he still must prove himself
in varsity competition, of which he has seen little. As a freshman here in 1951, he played in three games, scoring one touchdown.
Floyd is one of the league's swiftest. McCue also owns good speed.
From all indications, Feller will be flanked by Homer Floyd on the left and Charlie McCue on the right when the Kansens open against Texas Christian Saturday night in Fort Worth.
est. McCue also owns good speed.
Floyd proved himself last year when he gained 638 net yards, fifth-ranking total in the conference and fifth highest single season production in KU history. He accomplished this feat from fullback. This year he'll have more running room from left half, but still hardly can be expected to match his sophomore total.
McCue commands respect as a runner also. He netted 453 yards to finish just notches below Floyd in the conference.
Right now Mather is more interested in this unit's defensive abilities. Kansas yielded 310.6 yards per game last season, failing to win either game in which they scored four touchdowns and losing another in which they scored three. Floyd's switch to the deep secondary should help to improve this figure. Linebackers like Paul Swoboda, Chet Vanatta and DeWitt Lewis should also help. The latter is running behind Feller at fullback.
Lincoln Defeats Topeka Wins Western League
By UNITED PRESS
Lincoln's timely pennant drive paid off on the last day of the Western League season Sunday when the Chiefs took the flag on a 3-2 victory over Topeka while Amarillo was losing a heartbreaker to Albuquerque by the same score.
Lincoln finished its 154 games only one game ahead of Amarillo. It was the first time Lincoln had been in sole possession of first place since Aug. 15. There will be no league playoffs this season.
Lincoln won 10 of its last 11 games
to win the title as Amarillo played winning baseball until its last five games when the Gold Sox dropped four contests. Amarillo lost its final three games while Lincoln was winning its last three.
Don Williams and Jim Duffalo combined efforts Sunday night to stop Topeka with a 5-hitter, giving Lincoln the Pennant. Dan Melendez' 2-run homer in the sixth innion was the difference as Topeka rallied for two runs in the ninth. That was when Williams came on to relieve Duffald.
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