lowa State Young But
Dangerous in Big7 Meet

 

CYCLONE SCOREBOARD. .
Record to date—W.°5, L. 86_N.
kota State ‘60; 72 Texas Tech 62;
Tulsa 50; 72 ‘Colorado A. & M. 60; 62

‘Denver 65; 87 Vanderbilt 76.
Returning’ letterman—(3) Jerry Sand-
bulte, {; .Gary. Thompson, g;‘ Chuck

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T1955 BC finish—6th, 4-8;

games:
Previous . tournament finishes—1946,
; 1948, 3rd; 1949, 8th;
e.ttDs 1952, 7th: "1953,
Wiig 8, 33.

Da;
all
ee ecienean ek games, none.
I OWA STATE will hit the
youngest team in the tenth
ithatched former--Wyoming ace,

First round opponent—Kansas — State
9:30 p. m, Tuesday,
Municipal Auditorium
planks ,Tuesday with the
annual Big Seven tournament.
Bill. Strannigan, the now gray-
|has only three seniors on his
lentire squad, and only one of

‘them is a prominent figure. Like-
wise there are only three letter-
men available, smallest number

through the Cyclones’ first six
games.

Nonetheless, State must be
conceded a chance of duplicating
last year’s third place finish,
iwhich equalled the high-water-

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| successes and marked only the
second time they have finished
‘in the meet’s first division.
One sophomore -in parti
is an important one. He is
Medsker, 6-8 center. His’ pr
ence means the Iowans will b
one of only three tournament
teams to mount a genuine big
man in the pivot,!Kansas State
and Colorado are the other two.

 

of Cyclone tournament/fi

to Friday’s match with Vander-

62 |bilt, he was averaging 12.6 points

a game.

John Crawford, 6-5. New. York.
er, is the other rookie who has
answered every tipoff call. Lyle
Frahm, 6-1, and Larry Swanson,
5-11, divided starting duty at
guard through the first four
games before giving way to Sen.
ior Arnie Gaarde, 5-10 non-letter-
man from Manning, Ia. _

Ace of this squad is Gary
Thompson, 5-10, 160-pound guard,
and quite possibly the Big Sev-'
en’s finest clutch player. It was|
‘Fhompson > who--engineered-- last;
year’s opening-round 82-81 upset!
of Kansas with four consecutive}
free throws in the last three!
minutes. He went on to top all)
sophomores in conference play
with a 16.0 average over the
12-game route. He is a fine
play-maker and defender and
gives the Cyclones shrewd floor
leadership. Up to the Vander-
bilt game he trailed only Mis-
souris Norm Stewart and
Chuck Rolles of Cornell on the
pre-tournament scoring tables
with a 19.8 mean. He has been
held under twenty in only one

Op.
3ilgame,

Chuck Vogt, junior and a

ed 13.0 through the
games.

ting food secondary scoring, too. |
Sey€n of eleyen’ men_ used!
inst Texas Tech notched at
ast one point. The pattern ran|
even of nine against Colorado|
A. and M., eleven of fifteen|
against North Dakota State, and
six of eight . against Tulsa,
which State plastered with its
first defeat of the season.