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If the team does not have extraesized men, combined with speedy floor covering
fellows, then the players are forced to fight their hearts out in this fast,
breikenesk, speedy gamee |

Pardon the personal reference, but in our own Conference
a fellow can use the best examples The University of Nebraska has two guards,
Don Fits, 614", Sidney Held, 6°4", their center, Al Randall is 6*7", and then
they have a great croup of sizeable fellows, ‘practically all of them 6* or more
in height. Nebraska uses a few short fellows for speed occasionally, but when
the power is turned on these big boys do their stuff. You can easily see that
& Kansas team with Howard Englemen, 643" tall, 157 pounds; Bob Allen, 6" tall,
157 poundss John Kline, 6'2" tall, 190 pounds; Marvin Sollenberger, 6* tall,
175 poundss and Vance Hall, 6* tall, 170 pounds; or TePe Hunter, 615" tall,
155 pounds (this is our regular line-up) is easily outweighed by Nebrasia
by fifteen pounds to the mans Now height plus weight kills the opponent when
the boys run their hearts out in the breakeneck game, and then they are forced
to obtain the rebounds off the backboards This is the point that the advocates
of the madcap, pell mell, hell bent for election jausters fail to take into
accounte

: I em only talking about college athletics, Should you go down
into a high school, or a junior high school, then more disastrous results
are shown because the emotional instability of these youngsters is much more
pronounced.

Back to our BigeSix Conferences Oklahoma has Hugh Ford, 616",
185 poundss guards, Paul Heap, 6'4" and Allie Paine, 6's the other Oklahana
boys are 612", 611", etce Now to Iown State, Iowe State has a big fellow
transferred from Purdue, Gordon Nicholas, 6*3", 185 pounds and Carol Schneider, —
66", 195 poundse Kansas State at Manhattan has Danny Howe, 61"; Larry :
Beaumont, 695"3 and Tom Guy, 69S", All the boys range about 693® and weigh
from 190 to 195 pounds. Beaumont is 26 years of age and the Aggie team averages
about 255 yearse , :

3 When a team in a conference is forced to play against those
types of fellows when you have no men of height and power to match them, then
the heart train is double. I believe the best illustration T can give is
regarding the automobile in its speed differential, Any physicist can tell
you that the car will burn nearly twise as much gasoline running at 70 miles
an hour than it will burn at 40 miles an houre And so, overcoming this
, ge 0 a against taller and more powerful opposition, the heart strain
is double. hy

: It is not merely running on the floor as indicated by the

pedometer that kills the boys, it is not merely being in action, but it is
being in action against this powerful heighte If the basket were raised
twelve feet than the archof dispersement would be greater, the ball would bound
further away from the basket and this tall, mezzanineepeeping goon could not
block out the other fellows and with his fingers a few inches from the hoop,
push the ball into the basket, or hold it above his head, or barely dunk it into
the hoops 3