Friday, Sept. 25, 1964
University Daily Kansan Page 9
Dick Bacon
For Syracuse Game KU Outlook Dark By Russ Corbitt
By Russ Corbitt (Sports Editor)
All the factors seem to indicate a bad day for the KU Jayhawks at Syracuse Saturday. But the way things have gone in the three previous matchings of the two teams, the unexpected may have a better chance of occurring than the expected.
Coach Jack Mitchell will lead his Jayhawks into the contest minus three of his top players. Injuries to fullbacks Ron Oelschlager and Bill Gerhards have moved sophomore Dick Bacon up to the starting backfield slot. John Garber will take over the spot on defense, and may get the call on offense sometime during the day, even though he owns no gametime experience at the offensive position. End Mike Shinn is also lost for the season.
MITCHELL devoted his team's last practice yesterday primarily to passing and punting. He said his team is "hurting physically" but is not discounting the possibility of a second consecutive victory over the Orangemen.
"We could play better than we did last week and still lose," Mitchell said. "It's difficult to compete against Syracuse when you're at your best," he said, "and we are not at our best. Gerhards is still questionable. He may play, but Bacon will start on offense." Game-time is 11:30 a.m. Lawrence time.
Oelschlager to Help on Broadcast
The KU-Syracuse game may be heard on the KU Sports Network beginning at 11:15 a.m. tomorrow.
Play-by-play description will be by Tom Hedrick with color by Ron Oelschlager, KU fullback, who is sidelined with a fractured wrist. Stations carrying the game in the Lawrence area include KANU, KLWN, KMBC, KOFO and KTOP-FM.
The fact that KU has won its only game this season and Syracuse was defeated in its only outing does not give the Jayhawks the advantage it implies. A fumble with 30 seconds remaining in the game gave KU its 7-3 win over TCU, and Syracuse fell to Boston College 21-14. in the last two seconds.
THESE RESULTS are the reverse of the circumstances which preceded KU's 10-0 upset of the Orangemen last year. Nationally ranked Syracuse rolled over Boston College, 35-21, in its opener, and KU lost another squeaker to TCU, 10-6. But the small, inexperienced Jayhawk line held Syracuse scoreless while the Crimson and Blue backs rolled for 209 yards rushing. Syracuse is not likely to forget that.
KU's small inexperienced 1963 line is back with more experience and more size. One of the biggest lines Mitchell has ever had at KU will take the field at Archbold Stadium Saturday, but Syracuse coach Ben Schwartzwalder will have his usual band of huge easterners who have been picked in the "top ten" in most national pre-season polls.
The only game in the series between the two teams which did not go down to the wire was the opener at Syracuse in 1959. Although Mitchell's sophomore-dominated club dropped a 35-21 scoring contest to the team that eventually won the national championship, KU held a 7-6 halftime lead and a 15-12 edge in the third period. It was in this game that sophomore John Hadl registered his 97-yard kickoff return.
Playing before a sell-out crowd at Lawrence and a national television audience in 1960, KU struck for a touchdown with the game only two minutes old. But Syracuse, then ranked No.1 in the nation, fought back in the second half for a 14-7 victory.
Rugby Club Opens Work
The KU Rugby Club held its organizational meeting Wednesday evening, with 20 people attending, according to George Bunting, Kansas City, Kan. first-year law student.
Bunting, a former player on the Dartmouth team, said the KU team has a game scheduled in a few weeks with a team in Kansas as City.
p. m. every day until Oct. 1 on the field east of Allen Field House, or to call Bunting at VI 3-0077.
Anyone interested in the sport is invited to attend practices at 4
Lawrence Blades, assistant professor of law and also a former Dartmouth player, will be advisor to the club.
Graduate Grant Held
The $1575 Boeing Company graduate fellowship in engineering is held by Gary Ray Muller, Ellinwood, in the 1964-65 academic year.
Best Pizza in Lawrence, one block south of police station. 807 Vermont La Pizza
Eva, I found a spot at 807 Vermont that makes better pixza than Mussolini.
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