Show w p pSt I St Steele ele May Lead Oklahoma to Victory S CT t S 'S i f W t t y h h Jack Steele sizable and seasoned shares Oklahoma blocking back assignment Given Chance To 10 Outrace Missouri By RED GRANGE the Original Motion Man COLUMBIA Mo Aug 3 Football 3 dilettantes in this neck of the woods believe Don Faurot's Missouri Tigers have another Big Big- Six championship wrapped and ready for delivery Yet Yet the situation situation is ripe for surprises and this correspondent believes Dewey Luster Lusters is s cooking one up at Oklahoma Heres Here's why Missouri plays road games against Nebraska and Oklahoma this fall and the Tigers never have won a title the year they hey played these tough foes away from rom home Missouri has lost all all all' of the crackerjack 1941 first team which faced Fordham in the Sugar bowl at New Orleans except end Bert Eckern and guard Mike ald Coach Faurot is on the hot seat with Nebraska Oklahoma and Fordham scheduled on foreign battlefields battlefields battlefields bat bat- on consecutive Saturdays Leads Tigers It is doubtful that any Big Six team eam will go through the season unscathed Oklahoma Missouri and Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska are grouped tightly in the first division Iowa State Kansas and Kansas State fight it out in inthe inthe inthe the bottom bracket Oklahoma lost 20 lettermen but four regulars are augmented by a anice anice anice nice sophomore haul Bill Campbell blocking back is rated the finest in 15 years He is backed up by another senior Jack Steele a seasoned punishing op op- op- op Clare is an outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing guard No rival boasts comparing with Dub Lamb and Jim Tyree Despite its first team losses Missouri has 18 l lettermen Including including ing such macks as Bob who led the nations nation's ground gainers gain gain- ers last season with an average of yards Captain Don Reece burly fullback Red Wade a gifted junior and Harold Adams and Erwin Erwin Erwin Er- Er win Pitts handlers ball and block- block ers Bert Eckern at end and S tackle Ed Hodges peg a line which understudied understudied understudied under under- studied the fine forwards of last season Lieutenant Colonel Biff Jones I returned to West Point as athletic director and backfield coach Glenn Presnell takes over at Nebraska Two assistant coaches and the trainer joined the colors I Plenty of Huskers kers 1 The harvest a highly rated sophomore contingent and 19 lettermen Standouts are end Jack Hazen tackle Vic Vie Schleich guard Charles Duda and backs Dale Bradley Fred Metheny and roaring Allen Zikmund the who scored on Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford in the 1941 Rose bowl game r Iowa State lost only one man to the services and with luck might displace one of the three favorites Royal the Ace Lohry and Paul Darling are candidates for sectional sectional sec see backfield honors as are Claire Ethington and Bill Barger in the line Roy Donels has some bright packages and may be the sleeper Gwin Henry at Kansas has a great back in Ray Evans who averaged averaged averaged av av- av- av 48 yards per kick and completed completed com corn a third of his passes as a sophomore last with a fourth place club Don Poll om Isa is isa isa a capable ball carrier Kansas State with both coaching coaching coaching coach coach- ing staff and personnel badly shot by war and enlistments will be directed by track coach Ward Haylett Haylett Haylett Hay- Hay lett who replaces Hobbs Adams now in the navy In Mike Haylett has one of the fine backs of the sector a pound elusive runner who can really move Jim Watkins Isa is isa isa a sticky-fingered sticky wingman Tulsa Tops Valley Tulsa which lost 27 veterans nevertheless is a prohibitive favorite favorite favorite favor favor- ite in the Missouri Valley confer confer- ence Henry Frnka has a gilt- gilt edged backfield in Glenn and Bob Dobbs Cal Purdin and Dewey Erickson Creighton is the only club conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded a chance of stopping the Hurricanes |