BREE ie EGE ry i i tf B rretecr i’ ze Bud Famech. v SEERESSSEPESEERYS = 2yeauaagreses seaepeasveleages| Second ALL-OPPONENT TEAM Senesky, Capt. - St. Joseph's, Phila. Beisser, - Creighton Babich, - Fordham Tucker. - Oklahoma Glemack, - Great Lakes Binetti - St. Bonaventure, Buffalo Jenkins - Missouri Menke - Olathe Clippers Mendenhall - Kansas State Roberts - Oklahoma Honorable Mention Langler - Creighton Bach = Fordham Van Deven - St, Louis U. Lockard - Olathe Clippers Paine - Oklahoma Anderson - Great Lakes Davies - Great Lakes Wehde, Ray = Iowa State Maddox = Okla. A, & M. Elson - Nebraska Ridgeway - Kansas State Young - Nebraska Norman = Iowa State — 2 «2 a2 NN Sf ce 2. aoa OS CUD HOYT BAKER - Army Enlisted Reserve Corps = home, Peabody, Kansas - sophomore in the School of Education. Jack Ballard » Army Pnlisted Reserve Corps - Home, Kansas City, Mo., Southwest High Schools; junior, School of Business Charlie Black - Army-Air Corps Reserve - born in Idaho; received his elementary schooling at St. Mary's, Kansas; graduate of Southwest High School in Kansas City, Mo. - junior, School of Education Bill Brill - Army Enlisted Reserve Corps - home, Kansas City, Kansas = sophomore, school of Education : John Buescher = (4-F) - Beardstown, Illinois ~ playing his last year on the K.U. varsity. George Dick = Army Enlisted Reserve Corps - home, McLouth, Kansas @ senior in Education. Armand Dixon - Army Enlisted Reserve Corps - Hermosa Beach, California - sophomore, School of Education. - : : ° Don Blair - Army Enlisted Reserve Corps - Ottawa, Kansas - junior, School of Business. Ray Evans «~ Army Enlisted Reserve Corps - Kansas City, Kansas; graduate of Wyandotte High School; junior, school of Business , Le Bob Fitspatrick - Ammy Enlisted Reserve Corps =~ Salina, Kansas - juior, College Bill Forsyth = Vel Naval Reserve - Medicine Lodge, Kansas < sophomore, Colige Max Kissell ~ Navy Air Corps Reserve - Portis, Kansas - sophomore, College Harold "Sparky" McSpadden - V-l Naval Reserve ~ ElDorado High School graduate - — Sophomore, School of Engineering Otto Schnellbacher - Army Enlisted Reserve Corps - Sublette, Kensas - sophomore, School of Education John Short - Army Air Corps Reserve - Salina, Kansas - sophomore, College Paul Turner - V-7 Naval Reserve - Kansas City, Kansas - graduate of Shawnee- Mission High School - junior, School of Education May 8, 1942 I am belatedly | y replying to you in of your letter addressed to Mr. Gwinn | On Mr. Gwinn | say to him or what Mr. Honry*s letter for him et thie date. I am eure that many larger things to consider that he has given it practically no thought. that someone my po chele with he ng I had te | this situation. | : in regard to tickets for the Ath- the officers of the Athletic Association by og | wos if you imply thet the manager of the games was @isoussed it with that ie entirely your own interpretation, I am diseourteous to Kansas, Hi a if f ia fil Ht Wail fi iid vial mone Sity, whieh wae our own right, was it not? seol ta iE ato iiuaeee tel iti jth ie ib Hl aul fd) it ti ot tHe; Fiiaane aan nn (ill elt il veel agittitys ergtgss a fll ie S: “al nate i sie Hiewgls ei ue d wy ef our om team and leaving to the administrative officers 4 gil r ite jg: 3 o% a ; ° ¥ itl i isha 4754333 Hist bi ae a7 35 He iti iat lh ii apedaie italy treads | Meal alia tifa HRT ibe ti it i a ixes33 li ai a ites! i ae ii ith at - HAL (af! af et , * plik ge ae32 2e6gi237hi wu ite i il il HE Hatt i iP ASF a all Hin ine aia saf salts ti! Bada! eft $35 Ht x ut Néj bat, alas te i S dan? sa? He asta: | (Rae Hiss: i tlie ji ih aie dig Lies oe itt i at Hii He Spits. igs Hi aglany 333 i - nile i iy: din He ete af 3 Hehe ih jan ie ih ra Hi ital ul i iii Hue i uel f cate My tf 3 gealt 2738 &: on ee a Bh ip fg oes 33 Ais Hil 23, i aa : fi els Bs silt: pt vile! vi alt i pes Md alt ei isi Director of Physical Education and Kecreation, Interview with ¢. E, McBride Meany of those eastern coaches camot talk a good college basket ball game, let alone coach it, For instance, they constantly harp on the "pio" or "pick", meaning pickle, There is no such vawd in standard- ized basketball nomenclature as set forth by the Heniniteh Committee of the National Basketball Rules Committee, or the National Association of Basketball Coaches. ‘The proper term is "screen" or "block", A screen is a legitimate play and a block is a foul. But the professionals call it "pick", which means a foul or a block, Out west you never hear of a "pick" because it is not in amateur basketball | terminology, but in professional terminology. Nat Holman and Joe lapchick were both professional coaches and that is the only terminology they kmow. In explaining the wide divergence between the eastern and the western game, I have often pointed out that many of the original basketball coaches in the east were professional players and they taught their college players the professional game. ‘The professional plays to win for his meal ticket depends upon it. The amateur plays to win, hut the gate receipts go to the college instead of the players therefore, the objective is entirely different. Professional basketball has never thrived in the west. The professional game is now dead in the east because the professionals killed it and these professional players turned to coaching college teams so they could make a living, Therefore, you have a different game in the east as compared to that played in the west, Lew After originating the game at Springfield College in 1891, Dr. Naismith moved to Denver in 1895 to accept a position as physical director of the Denver Y.M.C.A. In 1898 he came to the University of Kensas as director of physical education, and immediately began © ‘ates his new game of basketball, Naturally he worked with the college players and coaches, and in that way he developed the amateur collegiate coaching system, His emphasis was that you should play the ball and not the man, as written in the rule book. The professional plays the man, and killed the professional game in the east. The so-called "pick", as they termed it, was a pick-off ' designed to free an offensive teammate for the basket. Naturally the professional game did not have the ideals of the collegiate game. The collegiate game flourished in the west and the professional game died in the east, These same professional coaches, Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick and @ great many others still are trying to thrust down the throats of college coaches the old rae. There are those half-baked, toady easterners who think that only superiority comes from the east. But Net Holman should know better than that because he came west once and met the small Bradley Tech team at Peoria, Illinois, I think the score was something like this - Bradley 69, City College 27. I believe it was Nat who said that he would never let a boy shoot a one-handed shot like Hank Luisetti did when California came east; and he also said that he would not play against a team that used a zone defense. wo Ses Wouldn't it sound yitheuleus if a football coach would say that he would never play against another football coach that used a zone de- fense in football? It is baby talk because no team uses a straight zone defense and no team uses a straight man to man, When the pros "switch" or “slide” or "trade" men in a basketball scrimmage they are using the principle of the zone, No football coach uses a straight man for mn defense, nor dees he use a straight zone. He uses a transition of one into the other just as a successful basketball coach uses a transition of one to the other, The reason that most of these former pro playing coaches now dislike the zone is because they would not know how to work through it, There is a way to get through @ zone defense just as easy as there is a way to work through a man for man, It takes a couple of extra passes but you can work the ball in theres The only way football became standardized was that two officials from one section wnriait with two officials from the other section and they got together on the differences of interpretations, And that is the only way that basketball will be brought together, not by having officials from the east officiate all the games, but by having one official from the section of the coumtry from whence the team comes work along with the eastern official. In that way the gane would be brought together, But Ed Kelleher and these eastern boys say that they are getting together because they are playing in New York Citys. I asked Henry Iba last year in Kansas City when we were playing Hank for the Fifth District title - I said, "Hank, you have been east a lot of times and you have been pretty successful, How do you play those eastern boys?" He said, "Phog, throw all your screen plays or set plays away. Just roll (that means pass and cut), set up a rolling offense or a swinging offense, and then drop a post man in under the ‘basket occasionally because the easterners know nothing about playing aR, RAR eR I i RO: RRR —_ eS 3 ohm the post man,” That is exactly what we did, and we were successful, Many times our boys in utter amazement looked up when they were moving in an opposite direction from the ball and the referee would say "Pick". Some of the boys had never heard the term "pick" before, and naturally they thought they were picking on them, | Here's a good story that I have passed around which I think identifies their officiating. One of the western teams passed the ball to the right and then the player out off to his left. He was out in the open and had touched no one, and the referee said "On you, pick". The player stopped in amazement and said, "I haven't done a thing." The referee said, "I know, but I detected evil in your eye". In other words, Mac, they rule on intent. They maintain, according to the pro interpretétion, that you may not pass in one direction and move off in enother Sivevtim. because you are going over there for no good purpose, Yet if you will get a copy of the rule book and read the definition of screening it reads something like this: Impeding the progress of an opponent without making bodily contact shall be termed screening. Screening is not a foul, Blocking is impeding the progress of an opponent by making bodily contact. Blocking is a foul, Screening can easily fade into blocking, so the burden is upon the screening side not to block, The easterners never use the words “blocking” or "screening". So you see the wide divergence of the game in the east and in the west. One is an amateur game developed by coaches who have played collegiate amateur basketball. The other has been by and large coaches by professionals who taught the professional slant, The crime is in getting caught. o5e Here's another angle, Mac. Every court that we played on e in Buffalo, in New York City, in Philadelphia - the court was only 84 feet long and only 2 feet out of bounds under the basket. As soon as we got to St. Louis in the west we had 4 foot out of bounds under the basket. ‘This makes a tremendous difference, as all the courts in the west are 94 feet long. The western players who are accustomed to the 4 foot out of bounds under the basket are greatly handicapped. The pro teams have a philosophy that a 94 foot court is too long - you work so hard because the two baskets are not in close proximity, and since the pros play a slower game they figure that extra 10 feet is wasted. The college courts in the west are all 95 feet by 50 feet and 4 feet out of bounds under the basket. I would like to see some of the eastern teams come west. I promise you they will not make any records like the western teams when they go east. If you will count up the wins of the western teams going east this year you will find a big superiority of the western teams over the east playing on the eastern courts, and remember, when you play on these eastern boards you are handicapped ten points per Gano e , I do went to say a word for Ned Irish, however. I think he is the cleanest, squarest and finest basketball promoter in the country. Certainly he treats you mich better than the N.C.A.A. treats youe He gives you part of the money that you make, and a good part of it, while the N.0.AA. takes it all and the big-wigs travel over the country on it. And you are lucky if you get any money from the N.C.AA. By the way, it has been nearly a year and the N.C.A.A. hasn't paid off yet on the tournament last March. What do you think of that? You can quote that, too, if you dike. And if the N.C.A.A. would pay off we would ~6- only get 25¢ out of every $5.00 and the N.C.A.A. would get $2.75. Stanford got 37k¢ out of every $5.00. ian't that enough dynamite for one day, Mac? Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coache BASKETBALL SQUAD ~ 1942-45 paker, Boyt Ballard, Jack Bauer, Bill Black, Charles Blair, Donald Brill, Bill huntaher, John Gavguater, Paul Channel, Dick Corder, Bob Dick, George Dixon, Armand Dole, Bob Evans, Ray Pitgpatrick, Bob Porsyth, Bill Hall, Vance | Hansen, Stenley Heaston, Bob Hinshaw, Curtis Israel, Warren Kauffman, Herbert Kissell, Max MeSpadden, Harold Miller, Dick Palmer, Bill Sclnellbasher, Otto Short, John Siddons, Bob Peabody, Kensas 6538 Jefferson, Kansas City, Mo. 706 West 35th, Kansas City, Mo. 615 Las St., tabtvened 806 West 6th, Ottawa 1922 N. 24th, Kansas City, Kans. 1241 Tennessee St., Lawrence 851 Barnett, Kansas Citys. Kans. 3028 Brown Ave., Kansas City, Mo, Welda, Kensas. McLouth, Kansas 737 Monterey Blvd., Hermosa Beach, Calif. Russell, Kansas 505 Barnett, Kansas City, Kans. 855 Highlend, Salina Medicine Lodge Downs, Kensas 1662 Ill. St., Lawrence Baldwin, Kansas 1205 Ky. St., Lawrence 6616 Virginia, Kensas City, Mo. 1321 Buchanan, Topeka Portis, Kansas 1725 Indiena St., Lewrence . 211 S. Central, Chanute 644 Emmett, Topeka Sublette Salina Platte, 8. D. = Smith, Bud Solledburger, Marvin Stream, Lawrence Thompson, Kenneth Turner, Paul | Ulrich, Hubert Walker, Charles W. Junius Penny Jim Roderick =e 1920 Ash, Hutchinson, Kansas 4176 Eeton, Kansas City, Kens. 533 pe Kansas City, Kans. 2330 W. 18th, Kansas City, Kans. 1351 S. St. Francis, Wichita $22 E. 15th St., Hutchinson 547 Mich. St., Lawrence Wetmore, Kansas. Ever-Victorious Big Six Champions 1948 - Je Pe Buescher RR Evans C. 5. Black 0. O. Schnellbacher A. Le Dixon He De | J. We Ballard Je Pe Turner We W. Briil M. EB. Kissell W. R. Pitapatrick D. & Blair | G. M. Dick Je Pe gune 4, 1943, le Dear Dr, Allen, The enclosed should bring a blush to your cheeks and those of your boys, I assure you it is extraordinary for our rather conservative sheet to go “gaga" over any person or group of persons but we sure did like Kansas - that you may gather from the clippings, There are no copies of our Feb, 12 issue eveitalls but our All-Opponent Team included | Evans, Black, Boykoff and Levane of St. Johns and Applebee of Rhode Island, just in case you might be interested, And by the way, the double-column dis- cussion marked "January 8" is the work of my predecessor, I don't want you to construe this as a one-man admiration campaign. : With all best wishes for more great years, I am | Sincerely yours, ee, wares How about the opposition this season? Qi VOTE EROM Would he pick out any team as out- CCRC IRON —o standing? He most certainly would. FERGUSON I And we quote him: “On the night they THE HAWK \ played us, Kansas was the finest team C7 we have ever faced,” which bears out the opinion of this paper. i Basketball to Continue — Despite Wartime Troubles Ferguson Will Depend on Freshmen to Form His Team; Double-Headers Will Go On oP J PRESS BOX By ROBERT B. ROWAN, ’43(b) Memory, 'ike marriage, is a wonderful institution—only more consistently so. It has keen said that old men live on memory and young men on hope; but there can be no doubt that all men, young and old, take a great part of their pleasure in life from the reco! lection of wonderful or thrilling or pleasant things that have gone before. We are no exception and it is most enjoyable to sit back and consider the photoplay entitled “Three Years of Sports at St. Joseph’s,” which now flashes across the screen of our mind. There are five featured stars in this show. Which has the leading role? To whom goes the Oscar? Larry The first reel has yellowed a bit with age but is well worth seeing again. The scene is a packed Conven- tion Hall on a March night in 1941. The star is not hard to pick out; he’s a slim, graceful, hand- some lad with au- burn locks and potent poison in both hands. Be- fore the game is a minute old he dribbles to the right side of the court, hesitates a moment, then arches a lazy shot that drifts up into the air and drops gently through the net with a barely perceptible swish. Every fan on one side of the hall leaps to his feet and roars with the thrill of it, for that graceful boy is Larry Kenney and he is about to break all existing Phila- delphia scoring records; more, he will break a long jinx that stretches back over 16 years. Larry Kenney’s 16 points on that great night beat Tem- ple—a conquest which mighty teams BOB ROWAN with mighty stars—Osborne, Trainer, Zuber, Guokas—had never managed to achieve. Larry Kenney’s 16 points on that great night gave him a sea- son total of 277 and marked him the most dangerous man with a basketball in the sport history of the City of Brotherly Love. It was truly a night to remember. Indeed, who has for- gotten it? Stutz The scene shifts now and the cam- era moves 400 miles northward to a much smaller gym on a crisp Decem- ber night in 1941. The “it can’t last” attitude of half a hundred St. Joseph’s rooters slowly turned to stark amaze- ment as their unbelieving eyes watch- ed a whirling figure in a bright blue jersey pour shot after miraculous shot into a much overworked basket. Their shouts of encouragement to a bewild- ered but fighting Hawk five were lost in the roar of Rhode Island fans lifting the very great Stutz Modzelow- ski to new heights. Stutz scored 30 points that night and showed himself the deadliest one-hand shooter in the annals of the game. Without glancing at the records we will wager a goodly sum that never was he held to less than 20 points on his home floor. Modzelowski is hard to apie but much harder to forget. George Then there is a confused series of pictures that shows a slim boy with golden hair and piercing dark eyes doing all sorts of incredible things. He is poetry in motion on the court— long, graceful strides, satiny set-shots, beautifully timed lay-ups. He is a terror on the defense—he moves with the lithe silent speed of a stalking leopard. He makes no mistakes, he is the consummate basketball player— the game has not seen five men his equal. His name, of course, is George Senesky. Kansas The* scene is still Convention Hall and that same George Senesky is playing his heart out against hope- less odds. Even his tremendous abil- ity cannot stem the surging. flood of power that is making mincemeat of a strong Hawk squad. For George and his mates, whether they know it or not, are battling the finest basket- ball team St. Joseph’s has ever faced. Size, speed, precision, killing accuracy on shots—Kansas had_ everything. And on the night of December 30 they were equal of any team of any year that ever stepped on a court. It was no disgrace to lose to Kansas —they were great with a greatness beyond press-agentry and their like shall not be soon seen again. Harry And now our last memory—our prize memory. Its star was not great like George Senesky; his team was not great like Kansas. He was a small fellow—5 foot,: 7 inches and 140 pounds of muscle, bone and heart. He played a steady game—seldom bril- liant, never bad. But he had one all- brilliant night that none who saw it will forget. His team had battled tooth and nail with a giant West Texas out- fit for 80 minutes and the strain was beginning to show. The Texans had taken a 10-point lead and six foot, 10 inch Charlie Halbert was standing guard in front of the hoop—leaping high into the air to drag down Hawk shots that were clearly labeled. Then Harry Kelleher turned on the heat— he was his best when things were worst. He dribbled to midcourt, got set, and with a quick push of his wiry body sent the ball soaring up into the haze of Smoke that hangs over -the~floor. Halbert jumped ~but- the arch was too great—the shot dropped cleanly through the net. Again Harry dribbled upcourt, with fire in his eye and cool precision in his hands. He threw another one up at the sky—it too sailed over Halbert’s flailing arms and slipped through the cords. Five consecutive times the tiny whirlwind tossed long heaves at the heavens, and each one dropped—dropped down past the frantically waving hands of Halbert and through the hoop. His sixth attempt bounced off the back of the rim, his seventh was right down the slot. He was driving upcourt again when the gun barked and gave West Texas a slim three-point victory. St. Joseph’s lost the game but Harry Kelleher won for himself a place in the hearts of 11,000 happy fans. When records are recalled his name may be overlooked, but when courage and sheer grit are spoken of he cannot be forgotten. And that is why our favorite mem- ory is the picture of a diminutive David fighting five great Goliaths to a standstill. stuff again this season, nor wil About the Kansas Disaster, the Crimson and Gray lost to the hottest team ever to visit Philadelphia. St. Joseph’s was not “off,” nor did they fall apart at the seams, but they came up against a team with a surprise attack and a phenomenal shooting averase. “Phos” Allen’s charges sank 36 per cent of their shots from the floor in the whole game, and in the second half dropped 40 per cent or two out of every five shots. Coming to Philadelphia with the reputation of superb back- board patrolling, the J ayhawks won the game on this feature. Their fast break stemmed from the amazing ability of their big men to grab the ball under the basket with regularity. As soon as the Hawks shot, the Jayhawk forwards streaked down the floor, safe in the realization that their men had the ball. We are willing to lay so e of that hard-earned P.O. green on the line that the Hawks will net encounter any team with so much i they be walloped so decisively. ——__—__. —<—<$<$<$_ January 8, 1943 ’ Hawks Buried by Kansas Avalanche Whether or not Doc Senesky can be stopped is still a moot point, but it has been proven beyond all doubt that his team can be. His team was, and well, on that sad night of December 30, when a tall, terrific Kansas five burnt up the Convention Hall boards and walked off the floor amidst the greatest ovation ever given a visiting team here. And a well-deserved ovation, for in beating St. Joseph’s 63 to 38, the Jayhawks did things to Senesky & Co. that no other team in the country can, will, or could do. The Hawks were outrun, outfought, outthought, and criminaliy outshot. They battled those mighty Kansans to a stand- still in the first half and showed indi- cations that when their shots started to drop they might erase the 8-point deficit and go on to win, but the second stanza brought only an intensification of the killing Jayhawk attack» and an almost total collapse of the Crimson defense. “Phog” Allen has a very fast\club and plays which make full use of its speed. The Hawks, admittedly not in the best of condition after a long holiday layoff, managed to keep up with Kansas’ very fast “fast break” for the first twenty minutes, but in the second half they just couldnt get back court quickly enough, and Bob Boylan was often left alone to face the three big, tricky men streaking down at him. The fact that Bob didn’t stop them is hardly a reflection; they were well nigh unstoppable. Doc Senesky again shone with 8 field goals, all of them from impossible angles, but it was Kansas’ Ray Evans who stole the show. Besides guarding Senesky - and keeping him from getting anywhere close to the hoop, Evans played a whale of a floor game and hit the cords six times, three of his goals coming within a 50 second period. ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE 54TH STREET AND CITY LINE PHILADELPHIA, PA. OFFICE OF ATHLETICS TELEPHONE: TRINITY 5400 May 17, 1943. Dear Mr. Allen, Just a very, very belated note in appreciation of your magnamimity in picking George Senesky as the Player of the Year. Quite naturally, we approved fully of your judgment and would have growled long and loud had anyone else been selected, but still we feel that a coach who is broadmind- ed enough to see (pardon the mixed metaphor) beyond Charlie Black and Ray Evans deserves a lot of credit. In the Feb. 12th issue of the Hawk we picked both Black and Evans to our first team All-Opponent and lauded Kansas as the finest outfit to appear in Philadelphia this season. In the issue now at press we recall Kansas as the greatest team St. Joseph's has ever faced and declared them the equal (at least on the night they played us) of any team of any year. To prove that we are not alone, I quote an article which ran six weeks ago in the Phila. Inquirer: "Next to those red-hot Kansans, Dartmouth show- itself to be the stongest etc. etc.™. So congratulations on a great team and a great bunch of fellows. I can speak for the whole student body when I say that losing to you was almost a privilege; we all of us hope for long years of pleasant relations. Sincerely Bob Rowan Sports Editor, The Hawk.