University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1956
Intramural A Titles To Be Decided Tonight
Phi Delta Theta, Lambda Chi Alpha, the Cats, and Pearson Hall scored victories Monday to advance into the finals of their respective A Division play-offs.
Phi Delt meets Lambda Chi for the Fraternity A title at 7 p.m. today with the Cats and Pearson meeting for the Independent championship at 8 p.m. Both games will be played in Robinson Gymnasium.
Phi Delt roared back from a 20-15 halftime deficit to defeat Phi Gamma Delta 48-36. Bruce Wenger was high for the game with 14 points, 12 of them in the last half. Teammate Ray Johnson was close behind with 13 points.
Free throws Decide II
Phi Gam was paced by Jim Tierney and 12 points respectively. Hit 13 and 12 points successfully. Failure at the charity line Phi Gam, as it connected only on 10 of 22 free throw attempts.
Free Throws Decide It
In another close game, Lambda Chi edged past Beta Theta Pi 42-39. Each team made 16 field
goals, but the victors outscored Beta from the charity line 10 to 7.
Lambda Chi was led by H. C. Palmer with 15 points, and Larry Myers with 14. Starters Bob Buell, Gary Evans, and John Newlin each scored 9 points for the losers. Halftime score was 18-18.
In the closest game of the day,
Pearson Hall defeated the Jaws
38-37. Jim Kerr of Pearson threw
in 26 points before fouling out to
lead his team to victory. Glenn
Gibson and Jim Letecavis scored
15 and 9 points respectively for
the losers.
Free throws also decided this game as each team hit 15 field goals. Pearson led at halftime 19-18.
Kerr Hits 26
The Cats built up a 31-17 half-time lead and went on to defeat Battenfeld 56-40. Four of the Cats' starters hit in double figures, with
Buffs Fall, K-State Assured Of Tie
An upset 79-62 victory by Iowa State over Colorado at Boulder Monday night assured the Kansas State Wildcats of at least a tie for the championship in the mixed-up Big Seven basketball race.
The loss left the Buffs with a 5-4 record in conference play, Kansas State has an 8-2 league record with only two games to play. A K-State victory over the Missouri Tigers Saturday in Manhattan would give the Wildcats their first conference title since 1951.
Iowa State jumped to an early lead and built it to 42-21 at halftime, coasting the rest of the way. Chuck Vogt, Iowa State center led the Cyclones with 18 points. The loss snapped a 19-game home winning streak. The Cyclones also were the last team to beat Colorado on the Buff court, in the final game of 1953.
Ron Lenser hitting 14, Dick Reich 12, Mo Courville and Bob Conn 10 each. Gary Shank scored 12 points for the losers.
The Colorado basketball team had won 19 straight games on its home court before Iowa State defeated it Monday night.
Long Kentucky Reign Nears End As 'Bama Clinches Tie
By UNITED PRESS
Alabama all but ended Kentucky's long reign in Southeastern Conference basketball today, even as Kentucky was venting its fury in the greatest scoring spree in Wildcat history.
But Kentucky may get a "consolation prize" in the form of a bid to the NCAA tournament. That's because Alabama's five starting players are ineligible for the tourney as four-year varsity players, and so are three starters at Vanderbilt, which could tie for second. It's thought both might pass up the bid, as Kentucky did under similar circumstances in 1954.
"Bama's Crissum Tide clinched at least a tie for the league crown Monday night by whipping Tennessee 95-81, and will nail down the whole thing by winning one its two remaining games. Kentucky tried to stay in the race by burying Georgia, 143-66, for a school scoring record
Thus ends a fantastic era in which Kentucky won the SEC championship the last 11 straight years it was eligible. Since 1944, the only time the Wildcats failed to win the league crown was 1953, when they were under a year's suspension by the NCAA.
Uhl, Paxson Named To East NEW YORK (UPL)-Bill Uhl and Jim Paxson of Dayton University will play for the east team in the annual East-West all-star basketball game at Madison Square Garden, March 31. They were the first players named to the East squad, which will be coached by Tom Blackburn of Dayton.
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BUFF'S BEST—Jim Ranglos, leading scorer for the University of Colorado, with an average of 14.5 points a game, will present a formidable threat this Friday for Phog Allen's Jayhawkers when the two teams meet in a Big Seven contest in Allen Field House.
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