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‘big seven tournement

If you still beleive in position identification
in basketball, four guards are ache duled to stage the finest mass
demonst ration of beckline scoring since the founding of the Big Seven
tour mm at when the eighth annual affair umfusks yanks up the curtain
Saturday in Kansas City's Miméx Municipal auditorium.

This quartet includes Gene Stauferx of
Kansas State; Fred Segar, ‘ebraska; Les “ane, Oklahoma, am Dutch Van
Cleave, Iowa State. Al] four are riding tmx anong tle conference's
pre-tourname nt top ta& scorers ani at least one of them should make
the stouest bia for the meet individual scoring crown since Nebraska's
Jim Bucharan missed by nine p ints egainst Sangas' “polific Pachyderm,
Clyde Lovellet te, two years age

Of this. gang, only Segar, the 6e4 Cornhusker,
finished among tle circuit's scoring elite in league play last yeer
with a 13el average for ninth positione “one crashed the tournament's
top tenx last yeare "at is only Kenscce!y Bean xietixey yx ure pxekunt ay
Limtshad xin vt hs vik ingrawyy andy hexv sentinel to finish in the king
row was Kansas’ Dean Kad ley, now graiuated. And le was no better than
nénekved khxS5 vavints wv x a ninth-place tie with 35 pointse

Although , the guards have three representatives
among the Top Ten semes tournanmt career scorers, Kansas States Ernie
“arre tt, and Colorado's Wayne Tucker, along with Buchanan, they never
have made much splash in any single meet. Buchanan's 1951 effort is
the high-water mark md le is the lone & out-court Bmp delegate on the

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