Mizzou Spurt
Hands Illinois
14-73 Defeat

COLUMBIA, MO.—(#)—Norm
Stewart, Missouri guard, score-
less from the field for the first
21 minutes, led the Tigers in a
listering second half rally to a
4-73 victory .over Illinois Sat-
urday night. Tlinois led at the
alf, 41-28.

Stewart tallied 31 points, hit-
ing 11 of his 13 shots as he led
the second half reversal.
| In the first half the taller Il-
‘linois team outplayed Missouri
ion the backboards and set up a
defense which the cold Tigers
couldn’t penetrate.

The second half was just the
opposite. Missouri out-fought
the visitors on the backboards,
stole the ball time after time
and cracked the Illinois defense
wide open.

Six times Illinois took the ball
downcourt and six times Missouri
snagged it without Illinois scor-
ing a point. Missouri caught up
at 45-45, and it was even-up until
the close finish.

Bill Ridley led Illinois’ scoring
with 21 points, and Paul Judson
added 20. -

Missouri's . shogting average
was 40.7 per cent, and Illinois
had 39.6 per cent.

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G F P r

5] Ross

3| Reichert
2| Rionsick,
5| Cotter
3|Pladem:

4| Denny
3/Stephens’
0|Keasitner
1|Stewart 11

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Totals 25 28-36 26 26 ‘Totals 23, 25 38-44 24
Tilinois weeoeeeeeseee seecnes 1 32—73
Missouri Esigiice Dicey <8 abe oc 6 0 ole oe 4674

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|| NASHVILLE, TENN, — (UP)
| The Vanderbilt Cones led
'| by guard Al Rochelle’s 25 points,
defeated, Oklahoma, 78-69, Sat-
urday. night for their fourth
straight victory of the young
basketball season.

Vanderbilt went in front at the
| Bbet, and never was headed al-
though the Sooners cut the mav-
‘|gin to five points with 10 min-
utes left:

 

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