Merch 4, 1941 lire Ned Nordness, Sports International News Service ‘Kansas City, Missouri Dear Lire Nordnesss I em sending you herewith my choice for the first and second team alleconference baskete ball selections, as reguestéd in your letter of First Team Pose Second Team ‘Englemean = Kensas - -forward = - « Nicholas - Iowa State Budolfson = Iowa ShleFormard «=~ » Lingwardt » Bowne State Held « Nebrasia « « Center + = = Ford = Oklahoma Allen = Kansas ~~ Guard +--+ «+ DeKoster - Iowa State | Ee oR CN Eline = Kansas ~-~<- Guwrd «<= « Beaumont + Kansas State Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Rducation and Recreation Varsity Basketball Coach FCAslg For Immediate Release from the K.U. NEWS BUREAU @ KANSAS UNIVERSITY @ LAWRENCE, KANSAS BK.W.DAVIDSON, Director LAWRENCE, Kan., Jane ,---Running their own string of consecutive | victories at home to 23 and knocking Iowa State out of the ranks of the undefcated teams will be the aim of the Kansas Jayhawks Monday night. It will be the first Big Six game of the season for the Iowa State Cyclones who reared through eight non-conference games without a defeat, The Jayhawks dropped their initial conference tilt, bowing by a score of 42-31 to Oklahoma at Norman. Offenses of the two teams will present a great contrast. While Towa State is a well-rounded team, with all five of the men good scor- erw, the Jayhawks will depend mainly on the offorts of onc man, Howard Engleman. The blond Kansas ace led the ficld by a wide margin in the scoring in non-confercnee games, averaging 17.4 points in a came compared with an average of 10.2 for the man in second place. Engleman also leads the scoring in Big Six gemen, hervditie chalked up 15 points against Ok- lahoma . Only other K. Us. man with an average of more than 5 points & game in non-conference contests is Bob Allen, senior center. Bob had a 9.4 average. On the other hand, all five of the Cyclone first stringers boast averages of better than five points a GAME » High man for Iowa State is Gordon Nicholas, husky sonics, with a mark of 8.9 points a game. Other averages are 6. 6 for Carol Schneider 6 foot 6 inch ince, 6.0 for Al Budolfson, forward, 5.9 for Dale DeKos: ter, guard, and 5.4 for Fred Gordon, forward. With four of the Jayhawk starting berths fairly well set, a big scramble is going on for the fifth, ‘Battling it. ‘out for. the forward perth arc Bill Hogben, John Bucscher, Norman Sanneman and Vance Haile Hogben is a senior, while the other three are now men. Hall's bid for first string consideration wes a scoring burs? of 22 points in a recent scrimmage. However he is not as polished a pLay+ cr as the othor three mon, Bueschor seems to be the leading contender for the spot at present. m 30m For Immediate Release LAWRENCE, Kana, Tans .---Paging Sherlock Homnes, Perhaps the master sbhouth can solve the mystery of how University of Kansas pasket- ball players can be unbeatable at home and only half as good on the road. Possessors of a 22 game winning streak on their home floor, the Jayhawks have been beaten three times in four games on foreign courts this season. Most amazing however is the record of the four seniors on the squad. During their three years of competition, they have won 18 games: on the home court without a loss. On the road it has been an entirely different story, with the Jay- hawks winning only 17 games and Yosineg 16 during the same period. The four seniors involved are Howard Engleman, Bob Allen, John Kline and Bill Hogben. Playing on the home court has always been regarded as a big ad= vantage, but seldom if ever has a record like this been compiled. Sur- veys taken in an attcmpt to determine the advantage cnjoyed by the home team usually place it at from 8 to 10 points. This by no means complctely explains the Kansas situation, however, as the Jayhawks play their home games on a gemi-foreign court. Whereas the other Big Six tcams all practice on the same floors on which they play their games, Kansas has a different sctup. pr. F. GC. Allents team plays its ¢cames in the University auditoriux Due to the various activitics which go on in the auditorium the Kansas squad never is able to practice on the game court oftoncr than three times a week, At timoe it is less than this. Most wr the time the Jayhawks are practicing in Robinson gymnasium When Kansas tangles with Iowa State Monday night, the K. U. players will have had enix two practice sessions on the auditorium floor since’ they returned from their castern trip Friday, Jane Be The players! mental attitude is Dr. Allen's explanation of the difference in Kansas! play at home. "They are mentally at ease on the home floor," the Jayhawk coach says» "The disturbing influences that operate away from home do not prevail here." -30— war 6lCUG For Immediate Release from thee K.U. NEWS BUREAU @ KANSAS UNIVERSITY @ LAWRENCE, KANSAS BK. W.DAVIDSON, Director LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. e---"T am afraid we are in for an awfully bad evening," is Dr. F.C. Allen, University of Kansas basketball coachts opinion of the Jayhawks! game with Oklahoma A. & M. at Still- water, Monday. "Smooth, resourceful and powerful" is the way Doctor Allen characterized A. & M. after watching the Cowboys defeat Oklahoma U. by a decisive score of 38-23 Wednesday. ; "After the first eight minutes, Henry Iba's team showed to as good adwantage as any A. & M. team I have ever seen. Iba ran in one replacement after another, without slowing wp the team's play at all." The Jayhawk coach reported that Oklahoma A. & M. was clearly the master of the Sooners. Oklahoma U., anxious to make:up for losses in its -twolpreceding games, was tense and nervous, As a result, the Sooners! sense of timing was not so good. However, their play gave evidence of the possibilities they possess and of the kind of ball they can play when they are clicking. Monday night's game will be the final shot at the Stillwater court jinx for Bob Allen, Howard Engleman and John Kline. These three cagers have yet to be on the winning side at Stillwater, after three games there. The contest is expected to provide the stiffest test of the season for Howard Engleman, Jayhawk scoring ace. Oklahoma A. & M. teams always have been noted for outstanding defensive play and this yearts crew is exceptional in that department. It appears that Engleman will have to be in his finest form of the season to maintain the pace of 19.4 points a game which he has | been setting. Cheering him on will be a contingent of fans from his homie town, Arkansas City, who will go to Stillwater on a special train. Playing in the state of Oklahoma for the first time as a Jayhawk regular will be T.P. Hunter, lanky junior forward, who is a graduate of Central high school in Oklahoma City. Hunter's improved work has had a great deal to go with the showing of the Jayhawks in recent games, He has added greatly to Kan- sas! rebaingd game and is a fine “"feedor.¥ ~30— From the K.U. Sports News Service, Lawrence, Kan.; H.M. Mason, Director For Immediate Release LAWRENCE, Kane, Febe .--The sudden spurt which sent Howard Rnglemants scoring average soaring from 5.95 last year to 19.4 this year is nothing new in the Ar kansas City boy's basketball career. Engleman is the only man in the University of Kansas starting lineup who failed to make his high school first squad as a sophomoree Yet as a high school junior Howard bounded to the top of the list of scorers in the state's fastest league. His first year in high school, Engleman failed to get into a single first team ‘iat all of his action being with Arkansas City's sophomore team. : On the ae hand, the four other regulars on this year's JjJay- hawk quintet all played first team basketball as high school sophomores. Only T. P. Hunter was a regular that first year, but the others all saw action in first team gsames from time to tine. Hunter was a sophomore first stringer at Margaret, Texas. His last two years of high school competition were taken at Central high in Oklahoma City. Bob Allen, Kansas center, played at Lawrence high school, while the Jayhawk guards, John Kline and eset Sollenberge: prepped at Hutchinson high. After that slow start for his high school career, Engleman purst into the limelight the following year with a vengeance. Averaging petter than 12 points a game, Howard was the leading scorer in the state’s fastest high school loop. As a senior Engleman improved some- what on this average, but was nosed out by Leason McCloud, now co-cap- tain of the University of Colorado Team. Engleman'ts first two years on the Kunsas varsity squad were marked by a lack of consisten¢y. When the blond forward was hot he was almost unguardable, but every once ina while he would fail to register even a Single point. As a college sophomore, Howard set a new Kk U,. individual scoring record of 27 points in the gamé with Oh iahine yon his averagp for the season was only 6.4 points a game. | Last winter Englemanis average for the year was 5.95, degpite the fact that he scored 21 points in the game with Rice in the quarter= finals of the N. C. A. A, tournament. Now, that inconsistency is cones aly onee this season has the blond. forward seored.less than 35 points and in that game he counted lle aD For Immediate Release from thee K.U. NEWS BUREAU @ KANSAS UNIVERSITY @ LAWRENCE, KANSAS §K.W.DAVIDSON, Director LAURENCE, Kan., Feb. w---A faniliar figure--the Kansas Jayhawike-eleads the field as Big Six basketball teams move past the half way mark and get reedy for the final drive to the pennant. Although Kansas has playec fewer conference ganes than any other Big Six team, the Jayhawks must ve looked on as the team to beat, from force of habit. icsht times in the last ten years, Dr. F.C.Allen's teams have won or tied ror the league championship. Kansas! 44-38 victory over Nebraska end.d the first round of play for the Jayhawks. All the five other confererce schools must be met again now--Oklahoma end hansas State on the court at Lawrence and oe Iowa State and Missouri away froii none. Facing the Jayhawk offense in the first round was Uoward Englenan, All-American forward. The blond scoring ace rolled in 102 points, for an average of 20.4 points a gare. : Main help for ngleman in the scorin: devartnent has come from Bob Allen, senior center. Allen hes everazed 10.¢ markers a game, in addition to playing a creat all-round game. Most encouraring aspect of the victory over Nebraska was the improved rebound work by the Jayhaks. Up against the tallest team in the learcue, Kansas more than held its own under the vasket,. Playing a starring role on offensive repourds once fore Was T. ie Hunter, lanky forard. Hunter kevt the Jayhawks in the ball sane during the first half vith his work off the backboards and his three fiela soalSe The Oklehone poy is developing into a very valucbdle recular More than « week will elapse before the kh. U. quintet returns to action in Bis Six competition. That sane will put the Jayhawks up against their old rivals, the tissouri Ticers, at Columbia, Feb. 21s In the neantime, however, Kansas has a highly important en- zasement with Oklahoma A. &M. at Stillvater, Monday. The Jayhavits will pe dut for revenze in that game, having been beaten at Stillveter the past two years, Lionday's game will be the third and final ay, earance on the Ae & Me floor of Bnglenan, Allen end John kline cnd the "Three Uusketeers mean to make it an occasion to remember. -30= From the K. U. Sports News Service, Lawrence, Kan-3 H.M. Mason, Director For Immediate Release LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. ,---The most underrated factor in the game of pasketball today is the matter of weight, in the opinion of Dr. F.C. "Phog" Allen, dean of American basketball coaches. tPpeople talk about how:.tall players are, as though that was the only thing that matteredi Actually," says Dr. Allen, "weicht is almost as important." Gapecially does weight make a difference in the play under the baskets. Holding a position favorable for taking the ball off the packboard is greatly simplified if the player is heavy. | What a huge ball player can do in the way of scoring was den onstrated by Dale Sears, 210 pound U. S. C. center Jast year at the NCAA tournament in Kansas City. Sears ia 6 feet 2 inches tall. When the Trojans clashed WAR Benen the Jayhawks stopped Ralph Vaughan, epreat U. S. C. forward, only to see Sears run wild. There was simply no one big enough on the K. U. team to handle the pon-~ derous Sears, who dropped in 19 points from close around the basket. The value of weight in pasketball makes Doctor Allen all the more pleased with his brilliant freshman team. Lightest man on the first yearling five scales in at 180 pounds. 2 The freshmen demonstrated vividly to the varsity last week just what weight can meane Although the upperclassmen finally won 38— 37 in two overtime periods, they were bounced all over the court by the yearlings in scrambles for the ball and in pattling for rebounds. Three 190 pounders and two men scaling in at 180 make up the starting freshman lineup. The heavier trio consis ts of Charles Black, forward, Kansas City, Mo.; Jack Ballard, center, Kansas City, Mo.; and Don Ettinger, Independence, 1 guard The 180 pounders are Ray Ewans and Paul inspite: both of Kansas City, Kan. All of these men, , with the single exception of Ballard, played football in high school. "Theoretically, basketball is not 4 contact sport," says Drs Allen, "But anyone who has ever seen a game knowsdifferently. Particie- larly is this true around the basket. "Weight is played up strong in the dope on football games and I would like to see height and weight given equal consideration in similar ratings in basketball." a 3Q~ ne. eC 4 Oe For Dr. Allen a od University of Oklahoma Oregon 5.m.U. Die. U. St.Johns Temple ¥G FT FG FT FG FT FG FT FG FT Corbin, f 5. 4 . 3 6 i 6 6 O - @ Roberts, f 2 cg 5 3 6 4 228 : 2 Ford, ¢ a 4 e 8 0 66 a8 a 3 ss ‘ \s- paine, g & a. s t 3 o 06 s 0 ty Heap, eg 3 2 4 Ss 2 so 2 ae Carlile, f Ss 4 : 2 + 3 a. 3 . @ Zollner, f @ 0 e 8 L «4 6 0 e 6 Lehman, f - oe 6 o 86 o 6 oS Walters, c 0. 6 O 0 x = x = 0 0 (Rousey, the Illinois boy, played only in the first S.M.U. game and did not score. Richards, letterman guard, has not played any yet.) Iowa State Basketball Cornell Coe Minn. | Bradley Grinnell Drake Gordon Nicholas Al Budolfson Carol Schneider Dale DeKoster Fred Gordon Leon Uknes CARL Bruch Only subsitutes playing much are Uknes and Bruch I a ' | i - : f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS vs. OKLAHOMA AGGIES Basketball, Fieldhouse, February 17, 1941 JAYHAWKS re Ce Allen, Coach Englemen, Howard sanneman, Norman Hunter, Te Pe Arnold, Jim | Walker, Charles Allen, Bob -; ; Buescher, John Miller, Dick Hall, Vance Wise, ‘Virgil Sollenberger, Marvin Kline, John Hogben, Bill RECORDS TO DATE Season: Won &, Lost 3 PROBABLE STARTERS Engleman, f Hunter, f Allen, ¢ 5 Sollenberger, @ Kline, é w~ © © a wt Ss wy» AH SH SY GS - OFFICIALS AGGIUS Seheffel, Charles , Francis, Howard Taylor, Jack Meddox, Buford Millikan, Bud Pate, Harvey Bell, “ugene Floyd, Leroy Newman, J. Te Smelser, Gene Sehwertfeger, Vern Wiginton, Dow Season: Won 12, Lost 4 Smelser, f 3 Floyd, f Schwertfeger, ¢ pate, 6 Millikan, & parke Carroll, Kensas City, U.; Carl Larson, Bethany (Kane) « Ohh, ; Tayler, Sa Se UM hes [40 2 Af Bmelger 7 2 Gbt ee o Fhryd 7 oS gone o OY Sheff tlele | oe fard Oe Dehwatfege- 3 2 ° Pie 3 E® Sate ge { Oo Aleap in = tthe g--2 os Tei Sa Jats -9- ae (hi thacda fa. 7 Bunya 9- ZA! Curey ose (acle -9 O° / hea. Oo © UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE Information Service IOWA STATE COLLEGE Sperts News AMES, l|OWA ee IOWA STATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1940+1941 Season 7 I.S.C. - Opps. 1940-41 scores. 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Jane Jane Jane Jane Jan. Jane Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. 17 March 1 ic tories 6:8 6 .6.8:8 6-3..9.6.9.0: 8:8 :9.9 5 March 3 Kansas oe eeasckpees ec vaes ete seeneuveaneseisee At AMES TOWA STATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL INFORMATION 1940-1941 Season | DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS: George fF. Veenker (Hope College) HEAD BASKETBALL COACH: Louis E. Menze (‘arrensburg Teachers College) ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH: LeRoy C. Timm (University of Minnesota) BASKETBALL TRAINER: Beryl S. Taylor (University of Illinois) -0=- BUSINESS MANAGER OF ATHLETICS: Merl J. Ross BASKETBALL STUDENT MANAGER: Max Ryerson: BASKETBALL BROADCAST INFORMATION: Radio Station WOI will broadcast all games played at Ames during December. Plans are also under way to broadcast games through the balance of the season. Games on week nights will begin at 7:15 p.Ie, On Friday and Saturday nights at 7:50 pel, throughout the schedule. Pregame broadcasts will begin 15 minutes before gane time in all instances. WOI will operate on 640 kilocycles, vith Andy Woolfries at the microphone. - more = Information Service IOWA STATE COLLEGE Sports News AMES, IOWA Basketball - 2 : IOWA STATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL SQUAD 1940-1941 Season MW e hed Avr s Player Home Height Weight Exp. Class FORWARDS . /f-*-Budolfaon, Albert Rolfe csescccseees Selld 160 (1 Junior /5- “-Deneckere, Jerome Rock Island, Illes... 6-0 160 QO Soph. 7S - n-dayes, Robert Plattsmouth, Nebe... 6-0 170 O Soph. n=Sowith, Bdward Minburn o..se+++++s 6212 165 1 Junior a+ unhahn A lari Trawmnonr Pgal) L235 pH Aamwk SEL SG fae —— eS UL eee 4 ZF —— | oF A wert /‘7- n-Uknes, Leon Sioux City seeeeenece GoD a7o 0 soph. CENTERS “oe / #- n-Baxter, Robert Téa Grove ceasecsee 6049 175 0 Soph. Buo+,—John Council Grove,Kan,.6=23 190 O—__Seph. coded - **-Nicholas, Gordon Lawton sscsessceseese OHS 185 2 Senior York Tan. Chiaaay et 6 me Las 0 Sonh oer Pay s St tte Jit a ee hb ey 3 aa ow eS eT ee Fs Vw — —_— r/ —= Shien y 20. 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OKLAHOMA AGGIES : ” a ; - | ma ; aot . ¥ebj ge 1941 Mu xo Free 0 a Lr fm oe Coach - aor : ye 11 “Lehman, | 3 en cea 22H 12% Green, shelby be? opm F . 25 Bentley, Bill for it ot Oia oh Japk G F (1 dh Roberts, As p, dnl } Maddox, Bufor i 7-O % Rousey, Tomy : | - | 7 | - bs | olka 2 (2 3 Paine, Allie (7% Ford, Hugh /¥ g@ Corbin, ae 3 zollner, wih Heap, Paul ~ MG er, | Simon, Mitch 9 Schwertfeger, Vern Marteney, Jim 30 vfginton, how ) @ a s & YY a Richards, Bill af Won ll, Lost 4 PROBABLE STARTERS — NLA 20 Corbin, f 31 et Roberts, f a 5 Mloyd , rg cohwortfoger, ce Heap, & Pate PORN g faiths, & OFFICIALS anny Missouri U.; Dick Pendleton, vestminster. DAILY JOURNAL-WORLD, LAWRENCE, KANSAS—MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1941 Kansas State Is Kansas Foe Tonight Snorts The Lawrence Journal-World ]Winner Will Take Undis-| puted First Place in Cage Standings K. §, DEFENSE STRONG Epeliead Has Not Been Stopped Yet and K.U. Will Rely on His Aim Probable Lineup Kansas Pos Kansas State | Erngleman cece F Horacek ! Ax BS Baka =) aapwerien. enero tee Allen Cc Kline eon FEU & TEN se paeeleie Holstrom | Sollenberger: <..cc.c5 G see ccee-e- Beaumont Officials—Parke Carroll, Kansas City U., and Ted O’Sullivan, Missouri. | Time—7:30 o’clock. | A victory tonight would place | either Kansas or Kansas State in! undisputed first place in the Big Six basketball standings—at least for a day or so. Each team has won two confer- ence victories and each has suf- fered a defeat. A Kansas squad of ten men left here by auto at noon today for Manhattan. Tonight’s game will start at'7:30 o’clock before a limit- ed crowd, including Gov. Payne Ratner, in Nichols gymnasium. K. U. hopes are pinned on How- ard Engleman and Bobby Allen. Engleman hasn’t been stopped so | far this season by conference foes. | Coach Jack Gardner has scouted | the Jayhawkers three times so far) and may have devised a plan for | bottling up the blond shotmaster. | The Ninety-first Game Tonight’s will be the ninety-first game to be played by the two schools since 1907. The University has been victorious 60 times. . Leading scorer for Kansas State is chunky Jack Horacek who has averaged seven points in three con- | tests. He tied for eighth in the| scoring last season with a 6.8 aver- | age, The Wildcats have the oldest | team in the conference, members of the starting five averaging 22.8 Big Six Standings WwW Pct Pts -667 123 .667 118 -667 99 500 81 Kansas .:....... Set a 2 OUTRNOM A: foc ecactten in Kansas State ...... Iowa State .... i N6Drasks os 1 303 94 Missouri 22.008 ki 0 000. 78 Games This .Week Tonight—Kansas at Kansas State. Missouri at Nebraska. Friday—Missouri at Oklahoma. Saturday—Nebraska at Iowa State. neat years. Oldest man is Tom Guy, a/ Los from Coffeyville, who is | : 4 ’ , Coach Phog Allen’s team won| both games from K-State last year, | 34-88 at Lawrence and 44-33 .at | Manhattan. The last time the Wild- cats defeated K. U. was in 1937 when they knocked the Jayhawks out of undisputed first place by a 33-32 overtime victory. Few High Scores Kansas State shares the “top be- cause of a defense that is as hard to crash as a millionaire’s pent- house. Of the five quintets to visit | Manhattan this fall one was held! to 15 points for the evening’s ef- fort,. two climbed into the 20’s, Nebraska collected 32 and Okla- homa 36. Wildcat students are using Kan- sas’ visit to show the legislature that Nichols gym lacks size but every knot in the floor means some- thing to the defensemen Coach Jack Gardner will unleash in an effort to protect the Manhattan team’s home record. Only Kentucky has beaten the Wildcats in their own lair this sea- son, 28 to 25. Also a Cellar Fight | While the fight for first place attracts most of the attention, Mis- souri and Nebraska will be battling just as desperately at Lincoln, with the loser occupying the cellar. The Tigers surprised by holding Iowa State to a three-point victory Saturday. _ With those two games out of the way scholastic problems take over in the Big Six. Oklahoma, third of the present leaders, meets the Tigers on the Sooner court Friday and. the Huskers go to Iowa State Saturday. Those two games are exactly half of the conference activity billed for the next 16 days while the _athletes are busy with midyear ex- aminations, Threat to Grove Record Engleman’s point getting activi- ties make him a definite threat to the 15.4 average for 10 games es- | tablished by Frank Groves of Kan- | sas State in 19387. He potted 25 points Thursday as the Jayhawks dropped Missouri | and showed every indication that he definitely has shaken off all effects of the knee injury that han- dicapped him at the start of last | season. The Arkansas City product, a | senior in the school of business, | was a potent factor in the Kan- | sans’ bid for the 1940 National | Collegiate Athletic association title | and earned that group’s all-Amer- | ica rating with his play against | Rice, Southern California and In- | diana University. Big Six Scorers GFG FT TP Avg! Engleman, K. U....... 3) 24 nee Gs. 19 AGN, 1K, Ui ccieeO i) ao Grege, M. Us csesecenses. 2.10 Ferd; Oo 3 aaa 8 DeKoster, I, Budolfson, I. Schneider, I. Bangert, ~ tit sSovott co oy rary bo Fitzgibbons, N.U..... Beaumont, K. S Nicholas, YT. Sie. 2 AGUY,, FAR Be eB Unes) LS 8 Hm 00 He 00 00 my PT 00M W493 IHD DOE 709 00 Mes ates ROAD BD Fi 8 3 ~3 31-700 c9' 09