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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 4, 1967
Hawks ride on Harmon's shooting
By Richard Lundquist
Kansan Sports Editor
A sharp-shooting junior who goes by the nickname of "Frog" sparked KU to an opening game 84-55 victory Saturday against an outmanned Utah State team.
Phil "Frog" Harmon, a 6-4 Tulsa Central product, came off the bench in the first half to direct the Jayhawks to a 44-27 half time advantage.
Harmon, who was nicknamed "Frog" by junior high school teammates in Wichita because of his jumping ability, finished with a career high of 24 points on 8 of 17 from the field and 8 of 8 from the free throw line.
But was he satisfied?
"I should have hit a couple of more from the field," Harmon said. "My wrists were tight when I first came into the game, but they soon loosened up." He missed his first two shots before connecting on three straight.
KU's Phil Harmon
"Im disappointed when Phil misses," Coach Ten Owens said. "He's one of the finest shooters around."
Owens, who said prior to the season opener that he would use Harmon as a "spot player" at guard or forward, inserted the red headed Oklahoman in the lineup with 14:37 left in the first half
when a Utah State zone defense stifled the Jayhawks.
To Harmon, it makes no difference whether he is at guard or forward against a zone.
"When I was a freshman I preferred shooting from the base line because I was a forward in high school. It was a natural shot for me," Harmon explained. "But now I prefer shooting from the top of the circle."
Iowa State features rebounding strength
By Mike Jones Kansan Staff Reporter
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles analyzing each of the Big Eight basketball teams.
With a convincing 101-54 win over South Dakota Friday night, the Iowa State Cyclones proved they will be a contender for the Big Eight basketball title.
The Cyclones have nine returning lettermen, led by All Big Eight center Don Smith, and a group of promising sophomores.
Head coach Glen Anderson feels that Iowa State's biggest advantage will be strong rebounding. Smith has been the conference's leading rebounder the past two seasons. If Smith wins the rebounding title again this year he will only be the second man in Big Eight history to win three championships in a row. Bill Bridges of KU was the first in the 1959-60-61 seasons.
Record number in B-ball intramurals
Intramural basketball begins today, with a record 195 teams and more than 2,400 players scheduled to participate during the season.
Last year 172 teams participated, Robert Lockwood, intramurals director, said. Lockwood said 26 games will be played each day beginning at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday on the four basketball courts in Robinson Gymnasium.
The season ends Feb. 26, and will be followed by playoffs for the league and Hill championships. Trophies will be given to division, league and Hill winners. Phi Delta Theta captured the Hill championship last year.
"Beta Theta Pi and Delta Upsilon have always been strong in the past," Lockwood said. "We also have a lot of strong independent teams planning to participate."
Sophomore Bill Cain will help Smith on the boards. Anderson says Cain, 6-6, is a carbon copy of Henry Whitney, an All Big Eight performer for the Cyclones in the early 60's.
The Iowa State mentor believes, because of the large number of lettermen back and the good group of sophomores, competition for the starting positions will be fierce.
"This competition could be considered one of our best strengths," Anderson said.
Cain, a 180 pounder from White Plains, N.Y., appears to be the best of the sophomores. In his first varsity start, against South Dakota, he led the Iowa State scoring with 20 points.
Sophomores Jim Abrahamson, 6-0, and Dave Collins, 6-2, both started against South Dakota. Abrahamson scored 10 points and Collins scored four.
The other starting slot in the Cyclone line-up is filled by junior letterman Dave Hartman. Hartman averaged three points a contest last year, but he has shown much improvement.
Hartman did so well in fall practice that he shoved senior Jon McGonigle out of a starting guard position. McGonigle has started for the Cyclones the past two seasons and averaged more than 14 points a game last year.
"Abrahamson will help our depth at guard." Anderson said. "Collins has a lot of talent and should be a scoring threat later on."
About midway through the first half, Owens demonstrated one of the Jayhawk's major assets this season—flexibility.
With the zone giving KU trouble, Owens had a lineup of Jo White and Rich Bradshaw at guards, Bruce Sloan and Harmon—two ex-guards—at forward, and Dave Nash at center.
"One of our strengths (the sophomores) could actually lead to a problem in that we could be very inexperienced," Anderson said. "We are a young squad, even though we have nine lettermen."
"We wanted to get four good outside shooters in the lineup at one time to better attack the zone," Owens said, in explaining the move. "We were able to do this because Utah State wasn't very big."
Anderson commented he was concerned with the team's defense. Iowa State ranked sixth in the Big Eight in points allowed last year.
The Jayhawk quintet, led by Harmon's outside gunning, began pulling away from the Aggies.
Another problem for the Cyclones could be inexperience.
But despite Harmon's shooting, Owens was not pleased with the Jayhawks' play against the zone.
Kansan sports staff prediction for Iowa State: sixth.
Another of KU's major assets—its physical strength—was a telling factor in the game.
with nationally ranked Louisville.
"That's the worst any of my teams have been out-rebounded (54-29) since I've been at Utah State," said Utah State Coach Leddle Anderson who is in his seventh year at the Aggies' helm. "Kansas is really a physical team."
Although Owens was not pleased with the Jayhawks half-court press, he did point to Jo Jo White as doing an outstanding job on defense.
White, KU's All-American candidate, limited Utah State's highly touted 6-6 guard Shaler Hallimon to 17 points while forcing him to make seven turnovers. Hallimon averaged 23.5 points a game last year.
But the 'Jayhawks' difficulty with handling the Aggies zone, caused Owen to cast a leary eye toward Wednesday night's game
"Louisville played a zone against us last year and we beat them (70-68) at the midwest regional." Owens said. "But they were here tonight scouting us, so we don't know what they will play."
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