Player of the Week Bacon:'Little Bit Lucky' In Long Runs at Lincoln
By Jerry Kern
The KU football team is limping along with a two win, six loss record for the season.
Last week's blistering 42-6 defeat by Nebraska seemed to climax the Jayhawk's woes. However, there is an old saying that every team, win or lose, has its heroes.
This saying seems to hold true for the Jayhawks' 6'-1", 220 pound fullback, Dick Bacon, Neodesha junior. Bacon accounted for 71 of KU's 144 yards of rushing last week, half of the team's total rush. He contributed 14-yard and nine-yard runs during KU's 80-yard drive for its only
DICK BACON
... Kansas fullback
touchdown of the game. The rest of his yardage came earlier in the game when he found room for a 49-yard run.
BACON, WHO played fullback for Neodesha High School, has seen action in every game this season. He usually alternates with Bill Gerhards, Leavenworth junior, and sees action for about half the game. However, since Gerhards has been moved to slot back beginning next Saturday, Bacon is not sure what the arrangement will be.
"I think I was a little bit lucky," Bacon said commenting on his performance against Nebraska last Saturday. "I wasn't aware that I had contributed half of KU's rushing. It surprises me to find this out."
Bacon's 49-yard run against the third-ranked Cornhuskers was the longest run of the game for KU. Bacon recalled his thoughts before and during this run.
"I had made no big runs before, and when I got the play, I thought now would be a good time for a long run. At this point we were still pretty much in the game. I got the ball and found a hole. Suddenly, there was daylight and I saw nothing but the goal post. I thought this can't be. Since I'm not the speediest guy on the team, I was caught from behind," he said.
BACON SAYS that Nebraska is by far the greatest team he has ever seen. Paraphrasing Coach Mitchell, he said it is almost inhumane to send a team against Nebraska. They have an unbelievable offense and should be ranked number one in the nation, says Bacon. He says he thinks they will have a very good chance in the Orange Bowl.
"After the game, Coach Mitchell didn't talk like we had made any gross mistakes. I think it was just that we were over-matched. Before Nebraska, we could have won all the games we lost if the breaks had gone the other way. But not so with Nebraska," Bacon said.
Bacon says he believes the morale of KU players has not changed as a result of the defeat. The players knew they were going up against perhaps the best football team in the nation, and they got beat, says Bacon.
"THESE SEEM to be just a couple of isolated incidents. No one talks about it in the dressing rooms," he said.
The recent dismissal of Sim Stokes, Mobile, Ala., junior, and George Harvey, Parsons junior, both reportedly potential stars for the Jayhawks, from the football squad has not affected team morale either, says Bacon.
Bacon expects to see action against Colorado next Saturday. If the Jayhawks play ball, KU should be able to beat the Buffaloes, he said.
Bacon is studying in the School of Business, and says he is thinking about going into advertising. He likes college life and says he will probably do some graduate work. However, it is too soon to determine how much graduate work he will do, he said.
Commenting on football after college, Bacon said, "Every football player considers professional football at one time or another. However, it takes a lot of breaks. If the breaks came my way, I'd certainly be interested."
AFL Draft Ires NCAA
BATON ROUGE, La—(UPI)—The American Football League's decision to hold its college player draft a week before many of the nation's school finish their season today threatened to bring on a new low in AFL-NCAA relations
"The AFL action makes a mockery of that league's professed agreement with the NCAA and its member colleges," James J. Kim Corbett, athletic director at Louisiana State University, said. "A draft as early as Nov. 20 can only be a disruptive influence in collegiate football."
But Corbett's strongest words were hidden in the final paragraph of a lengthy statement.
After urging the league to reconsider its decision, Corbett said, "Drastie curtailment of college cooperation with the AFL might otherwise be the result."
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