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

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