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Sunday, September 26, 1943
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Tough Scrimmage
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Nebraska's inexperienced Corn-
huskers finally broke loose this
afternoon as the A team took a
19 to 6 verdict from the B team.
For the first time this year the
Huskers displayed plenty of offen
sive punch. With Joe Kessler, for
mer Wayne ball-toter, leading and
directing the attack from the "T"
formation the first team scored
after five minutes of playing time
had elapsed. Clark "Pappy" Bea
ver scored on a 7 yard drive
through his own right tackle cul
minating a 60 yard drive which
featured the hard driving Kessler,
The second score came a few
minutes later when Hansen cut
through right tackle and sprinted
18 yards into pay dirt after Swans
With
Today, dear reader, we go behind the scenes, so to speak. To
most of you (shall I include myself?) football is an exciting game
that takes place on a grassy plot of ground some 100 yards long and
50 yards wide. Here, 22 brawny young men spend 60 minutes trying
to beat each other's brains out. For those wise guys who would make
the old crack "what brains,'! refer you to the boys in the moleskins,
as I am sure they have a good answer for that. Besides, I been sick.
Football is not just a matter of being on the field of valor for
the allotted game time, oh no! it's more than that. It means hours
of back-breaking toil for the coaches, the trainers, the managers and
of course the players themselves. Now, we all know that a team
must have blocking, tackling and playing scrimmages, but, that is
not what I mean. It's the dressing room and the showers that I am
speaking about, the athletic buduoire, as it were. Here ankles are
taped, feet painted, scratches and cuts bandaged, bruises healed,
charlie.horses nibbed, equipment checked out and adjusted. Well,
you can just take my word for it, that there is a whole lot of ac
tivity going on down there under the stadium.
Taping ankles is one of the more interesting businesses of play
ing football. It's not only a big pain in the neck for the trainers, but
a pain in the foot for the players. If all the adhesive tape used for
taping ankles were laid end to end, it would be a pretty sticky mess.
There are several ways of taping ankles and every trainer has his
own special style; there is the basket weave, the overlapping, and
several other really sporty methodds that I won't mention. But,
any way that you wrap them they are bound to be pretty hard to
take off. Flesh and hair have a very definite tendency to stick to
adhesive. It's a gruelling business and it hurts that's all there is to it
The footballer goes thru a nightly routine which is almost a
ritual. In order to be dressed "fit to kill" (you'll pardon our little
puns), a player must spend almost as much time dressing as a
sorority woman. He has to have smooth fitting socks or he'll get
blisters, his cleats have to be watched after or he can't get a good
grip in the turf and might not make that extra yard or that second
sooner tackle. His shoulder pads must fit perfectly or a collar bone
might be broken; hip pads must be watched or he'll bruise himself.
This must be properly adjusted, and that must be put on just so
it's all a part of the game and the boys will just have to put up with
It until they change the rules.
No other sport requires the time, the effort ,nor the care in the
preparation that football does. Nor does any other sport require the
equipment that football does. I think that if all of us knew of the
many things that go into the game we would appreciate it more. A
dressing room is a hot. busy and smelly place, but it is mighty im
portant when you get right down to it. As far as that goes, just try
to get down to it without a press-card.
Minnesota Is
Big and Tough
MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 24. The
wartime eleven which Dr. George
Hauser has been rounding into
shape since mid-July will be on
display for the first time Satur
day when the Gophers face Mis
souri in Memorial stadium.
No powerhouse of the type
turned out from the rich material
resources of the peacetime Bier-
man reeime. Minnesota's 1943
team will show, nevertheless, a
very decent amount of what can
be considered class, if that is
rightly interpreted as doing the
best one can with the material at
hand. Furthermore, Minnesota bas
some topnotchers in both the line
and backfield, but is shallow in
depth in all departments but the
halfbacks.
Hauser has been pleased to find
at least one full set of substitutes
for the all important center of the
line area, where Bob Lossie of
St. Paul backs up John Kutschied
of Duluth at center, with Mike
Rapko and Rube Juster ready to
spell Mitchell and Bunge at
tackles, and Paul Rader and Fred
Madsen only a couple of steps be
hind Ed Lechner and Henry Web
ber as euards. On these ten men,
greater part of the Minnesota
games in the five key positions
in the line, will depend much of
the success of the Gopher schedule.
Verne Gagne and Stu Scheer
remain the starting choices at end.
Bfll Garnaas at quarterback,
Chuck Avery at right half, Red
Williams at left half and Hoyt
Moncrief at full seem now to have
become the favored "first" team
backfield. But there will be an
ample number of replacements.
chiefly freshmen, from among
such hard trying players as Hicks
Waldron, full; Bob Granum and
Bud Schmid, quarterbacks, and
Carley, Collisson, Peterson, Lund
quist, Cates and Paul and Matt
Sutton available for the two half
back positions. The first string
backfield is not more than an eye
lash away from normal conference
caliber in the opinion of many
who have watched Gopher prac
tices. Garnaas and Williams, were,
of course, regulars -last year and
among the best, at that.
Sooners Green,
But Speedy Lot
NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 24.
Dewey "Snorter" Luster, Okla
homa football coach, is gradually
getting acquainted with his 1943
personnel, nearly all of it new.
The little Sooner head coach
nearly fainted in the first practice
joust of the season recently, the
Oklahoma second team whipped
the Oklahoma varsity, 24 to 0.
Two of the second team touch
downs were scored on broken field
runs of 65 and 26 yards by Bobby
Estep, 138 pound Phillips, Tex.,
tailback, who has been a student
here three years but never came
out for football until now because
he was afraid "they would laugh
me off the field."
A third touchdown was scored
by Ken Pryor, freshman basket
ball player from Oklahoma City
Capitol Hill who never played
football until last year and had to
be shown how to get into his foot
ball suit on the first day of Okla
homa's 1943 practice. Pryor in
tercepted a pass by Bob Brumley,
tucked the pig beneath his arm
and went 80 yards.
Derald Lebow, sophomore full
back" from Okmulgee, hit Harry
McKinney, Chickasha freshman,
with a pass for the final touch
down after Lewis Dunn, Nowata
freshman, had intercepted a fourth
varsity pass to give the alert sec
ond team the ball.
It was clearly an afternoon for
the kids on the Oklahoma squad
and this fall the Sooners, like
everybody else, have a whole
schoolyard full.
Luster quickly made adjust
ments, promoting Ends Omer
Burgert and Merle Dinkins, Ccn
ter Dunn and the entire backfield
of Lebow, Estep, Pryor and
freshman blocking back, off the
second team onto the first team
The incident seems to indicate
that fans will find the Sooners'
1943 season a weird one, but filled
with entertainment and scoring.
son had set up the touchdown with
an intercepted pass. Immediately
following the second touchHown
the 2nd line stiffened and there
was no further scoring until late
in the second canto.
Alter being stopped cold inside
the ten yard line, Kessler returned
Hollins long punt to the 37 and
set up the final first team scoring
drive. From there Hansen tooK
over and sprinted 19 yards around
end to the 18 yard line. A Kessler
to Swanson lateral was good for
a few yards and then Hansen
drove through to the 2 yard line.
Kessler caught the defense un
awares and scored on a quarter
back sneak. Beaver missed the try
for point and the half ended with
no further excitement.
Second Half Better
The second hajf found both
teams playing good defensive ball
and there was no scoring in the
third period. As the fourth quarter
opened the B team started a des
peration nassine: attack which
seemed to catch the first team
napping. Wilkins was tossing for
the 2nd stringers and he kept the
1st team m their own territory
for the most of the last quarter.
The final score of the game came
after Mort Porter, 2nd team guard,
intercepted a pass on his own 30
and raced 35 yards to the 1st
team's 35 yard line. Wilkins then
tossed 25 yards to Ewin on the
10 and he stumbled across for the
2nd team's only score of the after
noon. Both teams showed great spirit
throughout the afternoon struggle
and the game was a great im
provement over last week's scrim
mage. Coach. Lewandowski was
able to use his full squad and he
was high in praise of the spirit
displayed by the boys. Lewandow
ski also commented on the great
improvement of his team since the
opening practice.
Standouts in the A team back
field were Kessler and Hansen
while Hazard and Hill played well
in the line. For the B team it was
Wilkins and Hollins in the back
field and Lucas, Porter and Lock
looked best for the hard charging:
2nd team line. Bert Gissler, first
string end, played a bang up game
all afternoon, doing a fine job of
ball hawking. Starting lineup:
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