Wildcats Fall To KU 91-86 In Hectic Battle
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Kansas University showed 12,500 basketball fans Saturday night that they are capable of winning the Big Seven title, providing they want to badly enough, as they outfought Kansas State to win. 91-86.
The game marked KU's seventh straight win over K-State, and as well, their fourth straight victory in Ahearn Field House.
The loss was also a rather bitter one for Tex Winter, whose teams have never beaten an Allen-coached squad.
Rebounding Made Difference Kansas was superior in every phase of the game, but it was their rebounding that made the difference, as they outjumped a taller K-State team. 65-50.
Twice the Jayhawks saw 15 and 16 point leads dwindle to uncomfortable margins—the first time being early in the second half as the Wildcats crept to within one point, 39-38. The second time state threatened, they narrowed the lead to 78-71 with four minutes left in the game.
Although it was KU's regulars that gave the team its substantial lead, it was the reserves plus King and Dobbs who protected this lead in a hectic final nine minutes after KU's entire back line of Johnson, Elstun, and Green, had fouled out. Particularly pleasing was the performance of Ronnie Johnston who counted 13 points on field goals and 11 foul shots, though playing only in the second half.
King's Scoring Decisive Captain Dallas Dobbs, the game's high scorer with 24 points, was outstanding throughout the contest. However he was the only crucial shot. Man of Mana the curious mid-way through the first half that turned out to be the most decisive factor of the game.
With KU leading 22-18, King pumped in four quick jump shots o raise the Jayhawks' lead to 30-18
Said Tex Winter of King's rapid outburst, "From that time on we were not able to play a owned game. We had to play KU's game and that hurt." Despite KU's pressing zone defense, the Wildcats came back to life at this point and trailed only 34-39 at halftime. KU hit 29 goals out of 75 for 39 per cent.
K-S Narrowed Score
K-S Narrowed Score
After K-State narrowed the score to 38-39, the Jayhawkers caught fire again and soon led 50-38.
In a last-ditch effort to save the game, Tex Winter sent in the fleet Gene Wilson, who with little Pachin Vicens, increased the speed of the game to a race-horse tempo.
K-State's two renowned sophomores, Hayden Abbott and Jack Farr, led their team's scoring with 23 and 18 points.
The Jayhawk win lifted them into a second place tie with Kansas State behind league-leading Colorado, who has a 2-0 record, after beating Missouri. KU now has a 2-1 record.
Box Score:
Kansas State FG FT TP
Abbott 9 5 23
Powell 2 0 4
Stone 0 0 0
Parr 5 8 18
DeWitz 2 2 6
Schneider 4 8 16
Vicens 5 2 12
Wallace 0 2 2
Wilson 1 3 5
Totals 28 30 86
Kansas FG FT TP
Brainard 2 2 6
Elstun 4 2 10
Green 1 3 5
Lockley 1 0 2
Johnson 5 3 13
Cleland 0 0 0
Dobbs 7 10 24
Johnston 1 11 13
King 8 2 18
Totals 29 33 91
The highest score ever run up by an Iowa State team was 105-76 against Oklahoma in the 1954-55 season.
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Middlecoff Wins Crosby Clambake
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PEBLE BEACH, Calif—(U.P.)—Dr. Cary Middlecoff used a "floating putt" in shooting the best round of golf "in my life" in winning the Bing Crosby $15,000 Clamble for the second consecutive year.
Middlecoff walked off with first prize of $2,500 and set a new tourney record yesterday with his three-round score of 202 as he used an old-fashioned hickory shaft putter in "floating" long putts across the rain flooded greens.
Mike Souchak, the Durham, N. C., ex-footballer who makes a practice of playing second best to Middlecoff, did it again by a runnerup finish in the medal play. He was five strokes off the Middlecoff pace, however, at 207.
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Lunsford Signs Contract
Earl Lunsford, Oklahoma A & M star fullback, has signed a contract to play professional football with Calgary of the Canadian League when he graduates this June. He hopes to get in a full season of play before reporting for Army duty.
Iowa State's little guard, Gary Thompson, holds the Cyclone free throw record for a single season with 119 in 1954-55.
Big Clyde To Play In KC
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(U,P)—Big Clyde Lovellette, former all-American at Kansas, returns to his home area for a professional basketball game between the St. Louis Hawks and Minneapolis Lakers at the Municipal Auditorium tomorrow night.
The game, a regularly scheduled National Basketball Association affair, will see Lovellette pitted against Bob Pettit, former all-American at Louisiana State University, in a scoring duel. The two presently hold down top scoring honors in the NBA.
Another "big name" player,
George Mikan, will be in the Laker
lineup. Mikan came out of retirement
only Saturday night against
For the first 10 games, KU's basketball squad has averaged 33.7 per cent from the field and 68.8 from the free throw line.
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the Fort Wayne Pistons, scoring 11 points.
Mikan drew a crowd of 7,122 at Minneapolis, the largest NBA crowd, there in two years. Lovellette got 22 points in that game.
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