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University Daily Kansan Friday. December 1, 1961
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KU-Arkansas Here Tonight
The Arkansas Razorbacks bring a tall, inexperienced team to Allen Field House tonight at 7:30 to open the 1961-62 basketball season for the Kansas Jayhawkers.
The game will be preceded by an intra-squad freshman scrimmage which will start at 6:30 p.m.
ARKANASS POSTED a 16-7 mark last season and the Hogs set new school records in scoring and shooting. But, the second, third and fourth best scorers in Arkansas history have been lost from that.
The top man for Coach Glen Rose, who is in his 19th season as Hog mentor—the dean of Southwest Conference coaches, is 6-1 guard Jerry Carlton.
The only other returning regular is 6-6 forward Tom Bover.
Carlton averaged 15 points per game last season to place second on the squad.
THE JUNIOR FORWARD Bower is the only other returnee to score notably on a consistent basis for Arkansas last season. He tallied 10.5 points per game last year.
Larry Woffard (6-5) and Bobby Anderson (6-7) complete the front line with Boyer. This 6-6 average well surpasses the 6-4 average of KU front liners Jim Dumas (6-1), Loye Sparks (6-5) and John Matt (6-7).
Pairing with Carlton in the back-court will be 6-2 Jerry Rodgers.
LIKE ROSE. Kansas Coach Dick Harp will send his only two returning starters onto the hardwood for the tip-off. This pair is the clever tandem in the back line for the Crimson and the Blue, senior Jerry Gardner and junior Nolen Ellison.
This leaves Gardner the only senior on the starting five for KU and one of two on the entire squad. The other being guard Pete Woodward who is expected to see action as a reserve.
Carlton is the lone senior of import for the Razorbacks, showing that both squads are in the process of rebuilding back to seasons such as last year.
THE RECORD OF THE HOGS was one of the finest ever posted at the Fayetteville school, and among
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For KU, last season ended with a somewhat disappointing 17-8 mark and a second place finish in the Big Eight after starting the season listed among the top 10 teams in the nation.
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After the game tonight, Kansas will face one of the best quintets in the area and the nation when the St. Louis University Billikins come to Allen Field House Monday night.
Following Monday's game, KU will go to the West Coast to meet Southern California, UCLA and Arizona State before returning for the Sunflower doubleheader Dec. 15 against St. Johns with Kansas State playing Marquette.
John Matt
Fixes' Linger As Basketball Play Begins
The new college basketball season opens tonight with the memory of last season's "fix" scandals still haunting the sport.
Most of the major teams have been practicing for the past month — and listening to sermons by their coaches on the dangers of being tempted by gamblers to "shave" points.
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Third-ranked Southern California visits Missouri, fourth-ranked Providence, surprise winner of last season's National Invitation Tournament, entertains Mt. St. Mary's, seventh-ranked Utah visits Arizona, and eighth-ranked Duke hosts Florida.
The remaining five members of the top 10 open their campaigns tomorrow night.
Top-ranked Ohio State, led by All America Jerry Lucas, entertains Florida State; second-ranked Cincinnati, the defending NCAA champion, hosts Indiana State; fifth-ranked Wake Forest entertains Davidson, sixth-ranked Kansas State hosts New Mexico, and ninth-ranked West Virginia entertains William & Mary.
Four teams who earned berths among the nation's top 10 in the United Press International pre-season ratings will help start the round ball bouncing tonight.
Twirler to Perform At Game Tonight
BOB STEVENS, head basketball coach at South Carolina, revealed only yesterday that he had called in federal and state law enforcement officers to talk to his team about the latest "fix" probes that involved 37 players from 22 colleges.
Lynn Blomendahl, Goodland freshman, will perform during half-time of the KU-Arkansas basketball game in Allen Field House tonight.
SOUTHERN California will continue its tour tomorrow night by visiting Oklahoma and Utah will remain in the Southwest for a meeting with 10th-ranked Arizona State at Tompe.
Miss Blomendahl has won many honors for her accomplishments in the arts of baton twirling and dancing. Her highest honor came with the winning of the "Majorette Princess of America, 1959-60" in competition against girls from all the other states and some Canadian provinces.
She is the first and only girl from Kansas to ever win a major national twirling title.
"The voice of the Kansas Jayhawkers," Tom Hedrick will take to the air waves tonight as KU opens its 1981-62 basketball camp with the Arkansas Razorbacks at 7:30 in Allen Field House.
This is the ninth straight year for coverage of the KU basketball games by the KU Sports Network. Hedrick is serving in his second as the director of this network which blankets the state for football games and will include an average of five stations per contest throughout the basketball season.
KANU and KJAY will carry all of the 25 Jayhawker games this season.
For Monday night's St. Louis battle, the above stations plus KSAL (Salina) and KWHK (Hutchinson) will be on the network.
Hedrick, who has done broadcasting for the NCAA and has covered sporting events throughout Texas and Kansas since leaving KU with a master's degree, was selected as the most outstanding sportscaster in the state in his first year here.
For tonight's thriller, KANU (Lawrence), KJAY (Topeka), KW-BB (Wichita), KGGF (Coffeyville) and KVGB (Great Bend) will be on the network.
Hedrick, who doubles as the broadcaster for the Topeka Red's
KU Stars Gain In Total Standngs
games during the summer, has been behind the mike since 1954.
KU Sports Network To Broadcast KU Tilts
Former Jayhawker starting forward of the Wilt Chamberlain era, Monte Johnson, will aid Hedrick with the "color" for the broadcasts. Johnson is presently in charge of public relations for the KU athletic department.
Right half Curtis McClinton will go into the Bluebonnet Bowl game Dec. 16 at Houston just two pairs shy of fourth place among Kansas' all-time career rushing leaders on 1,377 yards. Just above him at 1,379 is Forrest Griffith, fullback on the Jayhawkers' first post-season club, the 1948 Orange Bowlers. Charlie Hoag, halfback of the J. V. Sikes era, is the leader at 1,914, followed by Homer Floyd, 1,534, and Ray Evans, 1,431. McClinton picked up 28 in the 7-10 loss to Missouri to close the regular season at 516.
Semipro Title Game Tonight
KANSAS CITY — (UPI) The Portland, Maine, Sea Hawks will wing into Kansas City tonight to settle intersectional semipro football honors with the KC Jiggers at 8 p.m. at O'Hara Stadium.
The Hawks have been flying high since starting team operation Sept. 18, 1960, on one torn uniform and a field of faith. Following a 14-13 loss to Boston Park League champion Charleston, the ball has bounced right.
The Hawks soared to 18 straight wins, took the New England semipro title in 1960 and 1961, played 1960 National Semipro Champion Franklin, N.J., to a 7-7 tie for almost 58 minutes, and come into the local contest with a season's record of 12-2.
In Portland, there's been a rousing fund-raising scramble. About 3,000 Hawks team pictures have been hawked, there's been minstrel shows, food and rummage sales, record hops and raffles.
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Novelty of such an ambitious project, a junket that for Hawks team members means mostly 60 minutes of trading knocks with one of the midwest's best, has had a startling effect on the KC Jiggers.
Though their record is 11-1-1 this year and but two losses in their two seasons of play, they've gone largely unrecognized. Portland's impending presence changed that.
Coach Bill Morton hopes they catch on with the local public.
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Toasted Cheese ... 15c
French Fries ... 10c
Milk Shakes ... 20c
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DECEMBER 3,1961
from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. in the UNION BALLROOM
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Will be over in time to attend the concert given by the DUKES OF DIXIELAND