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Huskers at Low Ebb
Coming Into Tourney

CORNHUSKER SCOREBOARD.

Record to Date—51 Iowa 60; 69 Texas
Tech 63; 71 Michigan 77; 46 Wichita

L.A. 65; 52 Wisconsin
| 71: 48 Vanderbilt 66.

Returning Lettermen—(6) Duane Buel,
g.; Norman Coufal, g.; Rex Ekwall, c-f.
Chuck Smith, f.; Billy Wells, g fae Roy, f.

1955, nity ‘Seven Finish—3rd' T 6-6; all

4 games 9-1
eens Tournament Finishes—1946,
6th; 1947, 4th; 1948, 7th; 1949, 7th;
1950, 4th3 1951, 8th; 1952 ae 1953,
ae 1954, 8th; W 7, L 20, pet. .259.
Remaining re-Tournament eahpass

First Hi re Opponent—Missouri, 7:30

p. m. Wednes Byer! Ns

EBRASKA comes _ into

the Big Seven tourna-

ment with the drabbest

record of any competing

team. Aside from Oklahoma,

the Cornhuskers will be the only

club in the 8-team field be-

slow .500. Vanderbilt dropped

them to 2-5 last night with a 66-

48 conquest in Lincoln, O. U.’s
level is 2-4.

N. U.’s early schedule was not
‘easy. But it was not as rugged
Jag that of at least three other
league members. Bright spots
area 71-62 victory over U, C. L.
A. and a stiff assault against
‘\Iowa’s defending Big Ten cham-
-!pions before dropping a 51-60
opener. The’ Huskers managed
only a 69-63 victory over Texas
Tech, a club that was slaugh-
Nered by Missouri, Iowa State and

Kansas State. It took fearsome
lacings from Wichita and Wis-
consin.

Personnel Losses Few.

More was expected of a club
which was the conference’s sur-
.|prise team last year with a third-
place tie, The Huskers lost only
_{two important hands, Willard
Fagler and Gary Renzelman,
who alternated at center and
finished as the club’s 1-3 scorers.
j|Six lettermen return, including
one of the loop’s best 1955
|Sophomores, Rex Ekwall, Ajj
‘genuine big man, Jim Thom, 6-9
sophomore, has been acquired.
The, advance word was that N.
U. would experience ‘scant trou-
ble improving upon last year’s
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a seasonal mark of 9.4 last sea-|
son. Smith stands only 6-1, but)
jumps so high he appears to be
a 6-6 horse under the boards. -

to par by ti time the Huskers’ |

ply their give-and- go offense|
against Missouri in the second|
session of the 4-day affair. Even|
as a sophomore, he led the club,
in rebounds with an 11.4 average|
and finished second only to Fag-|
ler in the scoring column at 12.4. |
He was averaging six-tenths!
higher than that up to last

 

;/night’s face-off against Vandy.