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University Daily Kansan
Tuesdav. March 6.1956
KU Plays K-State With Title On Line
Probable Starting Lineup
KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
Gene Elstun
Maurice King
Lew Johnson
Eddie Dater
John Parker
FFCG
(6-3)
(6-2)
(6-6½)
(6-2)
(5-11)
Hayden Abbott (6-3)½
Larry Fischer (6-4)
Jack Parr (6-9)
Pachi Míros (6-8)
Pachi Miros (6-8)
Generally conceded to be out of the Big Seven basketball race when they lost their all-Big Seven guard, Dallas Dobbs, at the start of the second semester due to scholastic deficiency, the Kansas Jayhawkers can slip back into the title picture tonight when they play the league-leading Kansas State Wildcats in Allen Field House. Tipoff will be at 7:35. A capacity crowd of 17,000 is expected.
With a chance of tying for the championship, Kansas can thank the Missouri Tigers, who crushed K-State State Saturday 85-72 to prevent the Wildcats from winning a clear-cut title, at least temporarily.
A KU victory tonight would place Phog Allen's men only one game away from a championship tie. Kansas then would have to defeat Colorado at Boulder Saturday to title for the title. On the other hand, K-State can clinch the championship tonight by defeating the Jayhawkers.
Missouri, I-State Can Tie
If the Wildcats do fail to KU for the eighth straight time, Missouri would tie with K-State, since the Tigers closed their season Monday night with a victory over Nebraska. I-State also could grab a share of the championship by defeating Nebraska Thursday.
Six-foot 9-inch Jack Parr, Kansas State's all-Big Seven center, is the biggest obstacle in Kansas' attempt to maintain its jinx over K-State and its coach, Tex Winter. Winter has never defeated KU Coach Phog Allen in the last five meetings of the two schools. Parr is K-State's leading scorer and rebounder. He has averaged nearly 17 points a game through 22 games.
Probably A Zone
Kansas State will not be at full strength for its title bid tonight, as regular guard Roy DeWitz will not play because of a broken toe suffered in the Missouri game. The other K-State starting guard, Pachin Vicens, developed a severe charley horse against Missouri and may play only part-time.
KU probably will use a zone defense against the Wildcats after holding Colorado to 44 points with it last Saturday, the lowest score for a Big Seven team all season. At the same time, the Jayhawkers will try to improve their shooting eyes after hitting only 27 per cent from the field against the Buffs.
Maurice King is KU's top scorer, having scored 302 points in 21 games for a 14.4 average a game.
Kansas won an earlier game against Kansas State at Manhattan 91-86 as the now-ineligible Dobbs led the way with 24 points, 16 of them in the last half. That was the first of three league losses for K-State. It also has lost to Colorado and Missouri.
Even if the Jayhawkers lose tonight, they will have improved over last season's conference record of five victories and seven losses. They have won six and lost four this year so can finish no worse than 6-6. K-State's league-leading record is eight victories and three defeats. KU stands at 14-7 over-all. K-State 15-7.
Would Compare Records
Would Compare Records
If the Big Seven ends in a two-way tie for first place, the conference representative tournament will be picked on how each co-champion fared against each other during the regular season.
If ending in a three or four-way tie, a drawing in Kansas City will determine the representative. The regional tourney will be held March 16-17 in Allen Field House. The Big Seven team will play the winner of the Oklahoma City-Memphis State play-off game.
The KU freshman team will play an intra-squad preliminary game at 6 tonight.
JACK PARR Kansas State
Russell, Green On Look Team
Kussell, Green On Look Team
NEW YORK (UP)—Bill Russell of San Francisco and Sihugo Green of Duquesne today were named to the Look magazine all-America basketball team for the second straight year. The 10-man squad also included Bob Burrow, Kentucky; Tom Heinsohn, Holy Cross; Joe Holup, George Washington; Robin Freeman, Ohio State; K. C. Jones, San Francisco; Willa Nauls, UCLA; Ron Shavlik, North Carolina State, and Bill Uhl, Dayton.
Colorado's highest point output for the season was 88 points against Oklahoma in the Big Seven preseason tournament.
Kansas State center Jack Parr has scored 25 per cent of his team's points this season and 27 per cent of the Wildcat rebounding total.
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Looking ahead to tonight's game Dater said, "we're up for this one but it's going to be tough."
COLUMBIA, Mo. (U.P.)—Titlehungry Missouri whipped Nebraska 88-80 Monday night to keep its hopes alive for a share in the Big Seven conference championship.
"Eddie is a fine ballplayer and he has improved greatly during the season," Dr. Allen said. "It's hard for a boy to come out of junior college and play with boys that have been playing together for two years. Since the second semester Dater has shown rapid improvement and hustle," he said.
Kansas basketball coach, Phog Allen is pleased with the way Dater has been performing since the semester.
It was the final season game for Missouri and pushed it to an 8-4 league record. Kansas State has an 8-3 mark and could clinch the title tonight with a win over Kansas. A Kansas victory would put Missouri and K-State into a deadlock.
East End of Ninth St.
Dater Improves With Experience
If the Jayhawkers defeat Kansas State tonight, their biggest game of the season will be with Colorado at Boulder Saturday. Dater believes this game will be just as hard.
Eddie Dater, a Garden City junior college transfer surprised Kansas fans when he came off the bench to score 21 points in a losing cause against the Missouri Tigers in Allen Field House February 6. Up to that time, the junior guard had seen little action after scoring 12 points in the Freshman-Varsity game last November 21.
Tigers Defeat NU In Finale
Monday night's triumph was earned. Nebraska, sparked by center Rex Ekwall's 28-points, pressed the Tigers all the way and never trailed more than 10 points.
Missouri wrapped up a 45-53 half-time lead with Bill Ross' drive shot in the final three seconds.
Since the Missouri game, Dater has started every contest and in the last two, against Nebraska and Colorado, tallied 14 and 8 points. This may be a promising sign that the Juco transfer is beginning to fit into the Kansas lineup. He has been hindered because as a transfer, he is two years behind the rest of the team which have been playing together for two seasons.
Dater has scored 43 of his 52 points in the last five games but his defensive play was one of the main reasons KU's zone defense held Colo-ron and Fridays Friday, the lowest total in a Big Seven league game this season.
Dater scored 644 points last season at Garden City and earned a second string berth on the all-American junior college team.
Nebraska bounced back to a 53-49 advantage in the first two minutes.
EDDIE DATER
Baseballers Work Outside
The KU baseball team held its first outdoor drill Monday, after two weeks of preliminary conditioning inside Allen Field House. Yesterday was the first time weather permitted a regular pre-season workout.
About 30 men practiced. Eight were returning lettermen. Coach Floyd Temple said most of this year's starting team will be sophomores.
Temple plans to have an intra-squad game, "probably this Saturday." He pointed out that the Missouri team has already played two such games.
The first outdoor session consisted mostly of light hitting practice, with the prospective pitching staff throwing some batting practice.
The first games will be against the Memphis Naval Air Station, at Memphis, Tenn, April 2-3. These will be the first part of four exhibition games scheduled during a six-day spring vacation tour by the baseball team.
of the second half, but Missouri made it 55-55 two minutes later and was never behind again.
Center Chuck Denny and Norm Stewart led the Missouri attack with 23 and 22 points.
Through Colorado's first 17 games, forward Jim Rangos was the Buffs' leading scorer with a 14.6 average a game.
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