KU Beats Cincy
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It's still hard to believe.
University Daily Kansan.
- Cincinnati finished as runner-up in the NCAA basketball championships last season. KU tied for last place in the Big Eight conference.
- The Bearcats were ranked as the No. 2 team in collegiate basketball going into Saturday night's game. KU, impressive in its openin victory, was barely being coning victory, was barely being con-league's title.
You listened to a radio account of the game and laughed aloud when the announcer suggested at halftime, when KU led, 30-27, that KU could be on its wav to an upset. You just knew KU's dominance throughout most of the game had ended when Cincinnati took a 43-14 lead with something like six minutes left to play.
In Cincinnati Fieldhouse Saturday, the Jayhawkers pulled what has to be considered the biggest upset of the young 1963-64 basketball season, winning 51-47.
- Cincy hadn't lost on its home court for 90 consecutive games.
KU hadn't beaten Cincinnati anywhere in three previous meetings and lost by 15 points in a game played here last year.
But, when Walt Wesley, KU's 6-11 sophomore center, scored two free throws with 1:03 left to wipe out a 47-45 Cincy lead, you were beginning to wonder if KU might just perform the impossible and win its second game of the season.
After his team's victory over Arkansas in Allen Field House, Coach Dick Harp said he was looking forward to the game with the Bearcats.
"ITLL BE A great challenge, but we'll likely be killed," Harp said then.
Asked last year how he'd feel if his team beat Cincy here, Harp said he'd wake up the day and think he was in heaven.
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George Wilson. Cincinnati's other all-America, was the game's leading scorer with 19 points.
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He may have felt the same way yesterday while flying to Kansas City and then returning with the team to the KU campus last night. For Ed Jucker, Cincinnati coach, it was only his 8th loss in four years as the Bearcats' head coach.
THREE SPECTATORS would have been especially unhappy had Unseld fouled out of the game. His mother, father and brother were watching.
WHAT MAKES KU'S victory even more incredible is the fact that George Unseld, KU's 6-7 center-forward, incurred he is third foul with 6:30 to play in the first half. Unseld, coming back into the game after a brief rest played at forward for the first time in his college career while Wesley stayed at center.
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Harp had been trying to work both big men into the same line-up and his work has been successful if Saturday's game was any indication. Unseld scored 14 points and Wesley scored 17.
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Unseel's brother, Wesley, is a high school basketball all-America at Seneca High School, Louisville, Ky.
The Jayhawks play Texas Tech here Tuesday night. Tipoff time is 7:35.
Coach Harp called the victory over the Bearcats one of the greatest thrills of his basketball coaching career when he spoke at an impromptu pep rally last night at the intermission of the "New Christy Minstrels" performance in Hoch Auditorium.
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The victory Saturday gave the
Jayhawkers a 2-0 record.
Harry Gibson, who scored 12 points, was strong on defense and rebounding. Gibson held all-America, Ron Bonham to 10 points. Bonham was averaging 28.5 points a game.
GEORGE GRANTHAM, FORMER infielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, batted .300 or more for eight straight seasons from 1924 through 1931.
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'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY
If you have been reading this column—and I hope you have; I mean I genuinely hope so; I mean it does not profit me one penny whether you read this column or not; I mean I am paid every week by the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes and my emolument is not affected in any way by the number of people who read or fail to read this column—an act of generosity perfectly characteristic of the makers of Marlboro, you would say if you knew them as I do; I mean here are tobaccoists gray at the temples and full of honors who approach their art as eagerly, as dewey-eyed as the youngest of practitioners; I mean the purpose of the Marlboro makers is simply to put the best of all possible filters behind the best of all possible tobacco and then go, heads high, into the market place with their wares, confident that the inborn sense of right and wrong, of good and bad, of worthy and unworthy, which is the natural instinct of every American, will result in a modest return to themselves for their long hours and dedicated labors—not, let me hasten to add, that money is of first importance to the makers of Marlboro; all these simple men require is plain, wholesome food, plenty of Marlboros, and the knowledge that they have scattered a bit of sunshine into the lives of smokers everywhere; if, I say, you have been reading this column, you may remember that last week we started to discuss Christmas gifts.
We agreed, of course, to give cartons of Marlboro to all our friends and also to as many total strangers as possible. Today let us look into some other welcome gifts.
Do you know someone who is interested in American history? If so, he will surely appreciate a statuette of Millard Fillmore with a clock in the stomach. (Mr. Fillmore, incidentally, was the only American president with a clock in the stomach. James K. Polk had a stem-winder in his head, and William Henry Harrison chimed the quarter-hour, but only Mr. Fillmore, of all our chief executives, had a clock in the stomach. Franklin Pierce had a sweep second hand and Zachary Taylor had seventeen jewels, but, I repeat, Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Fillmore alone had a clock in the stomach. Some say that Mr. Fillmore was also the first president with power steering, but most historians assign this distinction to Chester A. Arthur. However, it has been established beyond doubt that Mr. Fillmore was the first president with a thermostat. Small wonder they called him Old Hickory!)
But I digress. To get back to welcome and unusual Christmas gifts, here's one that's sure to please—a gift certificate from the American Chiropractic Society. Accompanying each certificate is this winsome little poem:
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
Joyous sacro-iliac!
May your spine forever shine,
Blessings on your aching back.
May your lumbar ne'er grow number,
May your backbone ne'er dislodge,
May your caudal never dawdle,
Joyeux Noel! Heureux massage!
$ \textcircled{2} $ 1963 Max Shulman
The makers of Marlboro, who take pleasure in bringing you this column throughout the school year, would like to join with Old Max in extending greetings of the season.