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.¥

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