npr collect, sports desk,daily oklahoman, okla. ®

WESTERN UNION
PRESS MESSAGE

W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT

 

 

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on occasions, kansas state's defending chanpions snow ed nebraska under
a record total # 87 points here thursday night to race to a 20-point
triumph over the cornhuskers in the third first round game of the
sixth annual ~~: ~—e basketball tournament.
ayury one of jack gardner's 15 squad members took a hand
in the scoring as $¥2x a near capacity municipal auditorium crowd
of 99226 watched the wildcats control the backboards with superior —
height and heft and score no less than 18 crips off their fast-break
and drives around the poste
this suswstremveafx plantooniged attack drowned out
& suuyx one-man scoring show by husker guard jim buchanan san Seana
23 points despite swift guarding by bob rousey and gene wilson, lightning
negro sophomore.
state's nyuzsoruxwipsdxeoutx point preduetion i toppled by
two points, nebraska's twosyea’-old mark of 85 , which the scarlet
used to beat iowa state in an overtime consolation game that year, the
two-team total of 155 also was a new standard,erasing the nu-lowa state
152=point demonstration in the same 1949 game heres
the victory moved the purpke against kmsas in friday's
8 peme semifinal. nebraska dropped into the losers' bracket opposite

colorado. these two clubs open friday aftemoon's two-game session.