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Big Seven Meet Finish.

BUFFS MEET 0, U. FIRST

Last Season’s Scoring Champion,
Burdette Haldorson, Is Back -
to Spark Attack.

(This is the seventh of a se-
ries of analyses of team per-
sonnel of the clubs which wilt

_ participate in the annual Big
Seven conference tournament.
- The 4-day affair opens Monday
in Municipal Auditorium.)
BUFFALO es
. _ Record to -~ e w. 88, BYU
ee 65, BYU 46; 66, Se dea A. & M.
: 4 44. Gattornte 57; 46, Peliiotiin: 59;
Ti ounning ‘lettermen—(11)—Mel__Coff-
James Grant, g; Burdette Hal-
dorson, ¢; George Hannah, c; Tom_Har-
Folds si “er meenserey™ f; Charles Mock,
54° rison, £; Bill see £3
_ ‘angios. f; Walt Wilbert.
4 Big Seven Finish—Ist’ fa ), 10-25
all aniee: -11.
Previous tournament finishes: 1946—did
—8th; 1948—5th;
i ; 1951 6th 1952
th; 1953—7th. (W. 6, 15, .285.)
—— Pre- Snbaanscal Games—

First ai aa Opponent—Oklahoma, 8 Pp.
. Im Monday.

Experience is Colorado’s
sharpest weapon in its bid for
the Big Seven tournament cham-
pionship of 1954. The Buffaloes,
never higher than fourth in this
field, are accorded, a chance of
winning the ninth annual meet
when it opens Monday in Munici-
pal Auditorium.

Consider the Herd’s experi-
ence bin: (1) It returns more
4-year men than any competing
squad, three; (2) It returns
eleven lettermen, more than any
. other tournament team, and (3)
It returns an entire starting line-
up which was good enough last
winter to share the conference
championship with Kansas,

Buff strength, of course, does

 

place ‘to start down the glory
road! «i.

Haldorson leaped from obscu-|
rity to the league point crown!
last season on a 21.3 average in|
‘lconference play and a 46 per|
cent. accuracy pace from the}
field over all. In so doing he|
edged more established aces|
such as Missouri’s Bob Reiter,
B. H. Born of Kansas and Bill
Johnson of Nebraska. He is av-
eraging 18.6 through C. U.’s six
pre-tourney games.

Behind him is George Hannah, |
6-7 lettered junior, who scored|
eighty-two points in twenty}
games last season as a sopho-
more and is rated highly im-|
proved this term. This pair may
be as good a pivot punch as|
Kansas State’s Jerry Jung and/|
Roger Craft.

' Four Fine Forwards.

The frontline quartet includes}
Jeangerard, Juniors Mel Coff-|
man and Jim Ranglos, and Bob
Yardley, 6-3 navy returnee, who.
is listed as a senior. J eangerard
was the Buffs’ second-high scorer
last season at 12.8 and is one
of the finest defenders in the
conference. He averaged 11.7
through the early going this sea-
son. Coffman and Ranglos both,
are veterans of established
worth. Yardly has come along)
swiftly following. his 2-year serv-|
ice hitch.

Harrold is nidying his third]
season as a regular. He was the
Buffs’ fourth-ranking pointsmith
on 174 last year and has few
peers as a ball-handler and de-
fender. Mock is shooting for his
third letter. A fine dribbler, his
206 points last year was third)
high on the club, This pair has
been drawing creditable help
from Sam Morrison, lettered
junior, Sophomore Wayne Mans.
field, and Dave Mowbray. ;

Colorado’s pre-tourney record
of 3-3 is not impresive on paper,
particularly since all three de-
feats were suffered on the road.
However, the third loss, a 62-65
defeat at the hands of U. C. L.