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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 6, 1956.
By KENT THOMAS (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Although displeased with his team's showing against Iowa State Saturday, Coach Phog Allen took it in stride and pointed to tonight's game with Missouri.
Phog compares the ineligibility of Dallas Dobbs to a death in the family. "It's the survivors that suffer, not the person who dies."
"We don't tell the faculty how to run their classrooms and they don't tell us how to run our basketball team," the Kansas coach said. "When a person fails, no one flunks him, he flunks himself. We have perfect confidence in the teacher."
"We made error after error against Iowa State and we'll try and take it out on Missouri. I think we have a darn good chance to win too," Dr. Allen said.
Dobb's loss means that instead of looking for a fifth reliable man, KU now has two vacancies to fill. Bill Brainard started against the Cyclones at forward as Gene Elsmun shifted to guard. Lee Green, Lew Johnson and Maurice King were the other starters. Brainard is the newly-appointed captain of the Jayhawkers.
Dr. Allen believes Dobbs could have made the necessary difference between victory and defeat against the Cyclones. He particularly had in mind when KU had I-State down several points in the first half with the chance of building up an insurmountable lead.
"I'm not taking anything away from Iowa State, but we could have beaten them at Ames. They weren't playing like champions. We made so many elementary fundamental errors." Phoq said.
He said Maurice King didn't play up to par but that Lew Johnson played one of his better games, especially the first half when he scored 12 points. He added that Eddie Dater looked much improved.
Phog isn't thinking in terms of a Big Seven title for his team, nor did he even before Dobbs was ruled out. "We're going to play the string out and we'll win some ball games," he said. "I'll think Kansas State is on the way to the championship, and I'm pulling for them." Tex (Winter) has had a tough row to hoe and now he's on top."
AAU Champs To Play In KC
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(U.P.)—Both the men's and women's national champion AAU basketball teams will appear on a twin-bill at Municipal Auditorium Tuesday night.
The male champions, Phillips 66 Oilers, meet the Wichita Vickers in a regularly scheduled NIBL game at 8:36 p.m.
The women champions, Wayland College of Plainview. Tex., meet the local Midland Jewelry team, national semi-finalists, at 7 p.m.
AAU officials said it would be the first time in basketball history that both national championship teams appeared on the same bill.
At Wichita yesterday, the Vickers hit 32 of 38 free throw attempts to down 14. Akron Goodyman Wing-86-76-75. Buckeyes from the field, 32 goals to 27.
Scoring honors went to Akron's Hank Daubenschmidt with 21 points. Swede Halbrook and Lester Lane each had 16 for Wichita.
Kansas committed the fewest fouls of any Big Seven team last season.
KU Handed 2nd Loop Loss,79-63
The Iowa State Cyclones scored 21 points in the first seven minutes of the second half to break a tight basketball game wide open and hand the Jayhawkers their second Big Seven loss of the season Saturday 79-63. The loss dropped KU into a third-placed tie with Colorado, who also lost Saturday, to Kansas State.
Obviously missing its all-Big Seven guard Dallas Dobbs, who was ruled ineligible Friday because of scholastic deficiency, Kansas gamely battled the heavily-favored Cyclones and trailed only 35-38 at intermission.
But the absence of Dobbs' back-breaking jump shots began to tell in the second half and KU scored only four points during I-Suite's complete seven-minute dominance.
Cyclones Win Series
The victory, Iowa State's second in three games this season against Kansas, enabled Bill Stranigan's crew to take over second place in the Big Seven with a record of four victories and two defeats.
With the Cyclones hitting a torrid 49 per cent of their field shots, the entire starting five scored in double figures. John Crawford
Lew Johnson led Kansas with 16 points and Gene Elsun added 13. Elli Brainard, taking over the captainny and fifth starting position from Dobbs, scored eight points, all the first half.
scored 24 points, Chuck Vogt 16,
Don Medsker 13, Gary Thompson
12 and Arnie Gaarder 11.
KU and I-State started even and with 9:30 left in the first half they were tied at 21-21. The Cyclones scored two baskets for a four-point lead, but Johnson and Elstun tied it once again with 7:06 remaining. Iowa State broke the tie again and KU never caught up.
I-State increased its lead to seven points with 4.05 left, but the Jay-hawkers trimmed the margin to three points at the half.
Second Half Different
The second half was a different story. Taking advantage of Kansas' ragged floor play, the Cyclones extended their lead to 10 points before Kansas could score. They continued to pour it on the punchless Jayhawkers, scoring 14 more points while Kansas hit a single goal goal.
Iowa State led 78-54 with four minutes left in the game, the largest lead of the night.
Box Sores:
KANSAS
FG FT TP
Elstin 4 5 13
Green 0 0 0
Johnston 3 3 9
Brainard 2 4 8
Jett 0 1 1
Cieland 1 0 2
Lockley 1 0 2
Johnson 2 0 16
King 8 0 8
Duter 0 0 0
Parker 0 0 0
Hollinger 0 2 2
Totals 22 19 63
IOWA STATE FG FT TP
Crawford 10 4 24
Vog 8 0 16
Sandhulie 1 1 3
Peterson 0 0 3
Meyer 0 0 0
Young 0 0 0
Bergman 0 0 0
Medsker 6 1 13
Dale 0 0 0
Guarde 5 1 11
Thompson 3 6 12
Frahm 0 0 0
Farwell 0 0 0
Lowery 0 0 0
Totals 33 13 79
KU center Lew Johnson holds the all-time KU record of rebounds for one game with 24 last season against Oklahoma.
Kansas' 1952 national champions ranked fifth in the NCAA in field goal percentage with 39 per cent.
3 K-Staters Are Ineligible
The scholastic blues, which dealt Kansas a severe blow with the recent announcement that star guard Dallas Dobbs has been dropped for the remainder of the season, have also hit rival Big Seven opponent Kansas State.
Three members of that team failed to make the grade, but most sorely missed will be reserve center, 6-foot 6-inch sophomore Wayne Hutchins. Others dropped were guard Gene Wilson and forward Charles Hollinger, who saw only limited action.
The Wildcats are leading the Big Seven Conference with a 5-1 record, the lone loss being to KU when the now-ineligible Dobbs scored 24 points.
Kansas State takes on underdog Nebraska in a league contest tonight at Lincoln. Nebraska defeated Emporia State in a non-conference game Saturday 72-59.
Colorado hasn't lost a Big Seven basketball game in Boulder since the 1952-53 season.
when Kansas scored a record 100 points against Rice last year, it also set a free throw record of 38.
Dave McGinnis asks:
Does Du Pont Have Summer Jobs for College Students?
Ivar A. Lundgaard obtained two degrees, B.S. in Ch.E., and A.B. in economics, from the University of Rochester, and joined Du Pont's Photo Products plant at Parlin, N. J., in 1942. Later that year he became a shift supervisor and was promoted steadily thereafter. By 1951 he was Production Superintendent at Du Pont's Rochester plant. Today Ivar is Polyester Department Superintendent at Parlin, well able to speak about Du Pont employment policies out of his own experience and observation.
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Ivar Lundgaard answers:
Yes, Dave, the Du Pont Company regularly employs students of science and engineering in its Summer Technical Training Program. The chief purpose is to provide good technical training under industrial conditions. And we learn about the students while they learn about us.
Students selected for the program after campus interviews include candidates for the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. Assignments are related to their academic interests. Last summer 270 students from 93 institutions participated in the program. In this way, ties are often established which can lead to permanent employment after graduation.
In addition, many other students are hired directly by individual Company units to help out during vacation periods of our regular employees. For this "vacation relief work," assignments are likely to be varied; but these students also gain valuable insights into industrial practice, and many acquire experience related to their fields of study.
Altogether, about 750 college students, from both technical and nontechnical fields and at all levels of training, obtained experience with us during the summer of 1955. So you can readily see, Dave, that the Du Pont Company attaches a lot of importance to summer jobs for college students.