_ Even though Colorado lost four
of the five starters which took
it to third place inthe N.C. A. A.

last year, it is starting a full)
team of lettermen. In contrast, |
Oklahoma is fusing two sopho-.
mores with one holdover letter-
man and two returning regulars
in its starting five. Furthermore,
\Parrack shows only four letter-
men or his entire squad, fewer
than any conference team, and|
is carrying ten sophomores on}
his 18-man squad. An eleventh,!
Fred Hood, 6-4 200-pounder, will
miss the tourney because of duty
jwith Sooner football forces in
|the Orange bowl.

Three Good Sophomores.

Parrack’s rookie starters are,
Joe King, 6 6-64 Norman forward, |
‘who is also Bacher’s relief at!
center, and Joe Jones, 6-1% Ok-
llahoma Citian. A third soph, Bill
Pinkerton, 6-4 Oklahoma Citian,,
came off the bench to score
eighteen points in last week’s
69-59 vanquishing of Arkansas.

Ed Abbey, 6-4 Denverite, is the
Hlettered junior starter. He plays
lopposite King in the front line.
|Bacher, the 6-5%, 23-pound
\pachyderm with the soft touch,
lis at center, of course, Peck, a

 

Lester Lane, pairs with Jones
in the backline.

This club. carries more bal-
anced height than Big Seven
ifans are accustomed to seeing
jin Sooner livery. Drake became
\famous for his Dribbling Dwarfs,
whizh often were hubbed by a
giant like Bill Waters or Marcus
\Freiberger, Parrack has no one
as towering as the 6-11 Frei-
berger, but overall squad height
is the best in recent seasons if
not of all time.

‘Bacher will carry a he Sorat
average of 16.4 into Tuesday’s
collision with Oklahoma A. & M.
at Norman. Peck is traveling
at 13.4; King 12.6.

Bacher is successor to Mis-
souri’s Med Park as the league’s
best maneuveror around. the,
boards and owns a touch as deft|
as Gerald Tucker, OU’s Helms|
Foundation player of the Year|
in 1947 and this tourney’s first}
scoring champion in the front
end of that season. .

Peck established himself as]
one of the ioop’s best dribblers'

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