new three-year oid fieldhouses |
: KANSAS-=For the second time in nine years Kansas failed to win or tie |

for the championship. At that the Jayhawkers may have missed it by only e wrenched

knee, the footbu Il~injured knee of Ralph Miller, gangling black-haired sophenere

“and outstanding dayhawker eage prospect of recent years. uitler's knee kept popping

out of place in the heat of battle, causing his withdrawal. The Kansas attack was
the one Doster Allen has always used, his revolving triangle with a pivot, pass
bask and hook diagonally forsard, Mis defonse was his traditional stratified
transitional man-for-man with the zone principle whieh is usually es hard to
penetrate as it is to write. Graduation of the great Fred Pralle and of Sylvester
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“Alpine nesssnine pooping goons to effect the toll wn of the epptattion, wore
handicaps. Gorlis end Englonan wore outstanding. pe

OHA STATEThe Gyelones couldn't win on the road. Built around two
sophomores, Bob Harris, red-headed forward, and Gordon Nicholes, center, Coach
Louis Mense’s team ¢limbed fron a cellar position last year to a »500 rating
this soasen and thrashed every elub in the league on their hone court at Ames,

_ but eoulda't got going on foretig Floors. The team was well-coached and mew how

to draw and make free throws, hitting 121 in conference plays Against Nebraska

at Lincoln, Iowa State phenomizialiy bottled 20 of 22 free throws, yet lost. The
Cardinal and Gold ornate vogus was a delayed attack with en oesesional fast
break, the defense man-for-nan with restricted shifting. Barris was the standout
with Nicholas and serappy Bob Menze, dimimtive pocapoctasio’ som of the coach,
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ne in 1987 and tied for third lect year, Nebraska
finished fifth this season. Football injuries deprived Coach Marold Browne of

some varsity players and two crack sophomores became ocholastically ineligible.
Poor free throwing hurt, although the Cornhuskers ranked third in tiumber of field

 

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