University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 9, 1956.
Dobbs Hits 30 As KU Beats Sooners 77-65
Dallas Dobbs led Kansas with a record-breaking scoring performance last Saturday night as the Jayhawkers easily handled the Oklahoma Sooners 77-65 in Allen Field House.
Dobbs hit 18 from the field and 12 from the free throw line for a total of 30 points to take scoring honors for the game and set a new scoring record for the field house.
Dobb's outburst broke the record set by Oklahoma's guard Jimmy Peck, who set the record at 25 points last year.
Oklahoma's Leroy Bacher followed closely with 28 points.
The Kansas victory boosted the Jayhawkers' Big Seven conference basketball title hopes, as Iowa State, the pre-season favorite, was beaten 68-64 by Kansas State.
KU Never Trailed
Kansas jumped to an early lead in the opening minutes and never trailed in the game. The Sooners went scoreless from the field for the first five and one-half minutes
Kansas led by as much as fourteen points in the first half, but the Sooners slipped through the tight Kansas defense several times to narrow the gap. A late surge by Dobbs and guard Maurice King gave the KU team a commanding 38-28 halftime lead.
Coach Phog Allen surprised the crowd by sending the Jayhawks into a man-to-man defense. The Jayhawkers were expected to use the zone defense in an attempt to hold down the high scoring Bacher.
After three minutes of play in the second half the Jayhawkers led the Sooners by sixteen points, 48-32. Rallying around Bacher, the Sooners then make their biggest bid of the evening, cutting the lead to nine points, 51-42. Shortly afterwards Dobbs thrilled the fans with an eight point one-man show to once again give the Kansas team a commanding lead, 61-42.
Led In Offensive Rebounds
Led in Oinensive Rebounds Kansas proved only slightly superior to the Oklahomaans in rebounds, gathering in 39 to the Sooners' 38. KU, however, held decisive advantage in offensive rebounds, clearing off 17 to OU's seven.
King was KU's offensive standout in the first half, scoring twelve points. He added two more in the second half to bring
4 'Top Ten' Teams Lose Saturday
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San Francisco and Dayton, those long-range feudists for the national basketball championship, emerged with perfect 11-0 records today from a "weekend of horror" that wrecked four other major contenders for the crown.
San Francisco's defending champs notched win No. 11 Friday by a 62-51 win over Pepperdine and Dayton matched it with an 83-64 rout of Iona College Saturday.
But this pace was just too much for third-ranked North Carolina State, fourth-ranked North Carolina, seventh-ranked Iowa State, and 10th-ranked George Washington. All were beaten Saturday and other weekend upset victims included 16th-ranked Iowa, 17th-ranked Tulsa, 20th-ranked Stanford.
his game total to 14. Gene Elstun hit for 15 points to take second scoring honors for Kansas.
Peck, who had been averaging 14.9 points a game, found Dobbs a tough defensive opponent as he was held to only two goals from the field. Peck, however, tallied nine points from the charity line to total 13 points for the evening.
KANSAS
FG FT TI
Brainard . 0 0 0
Elstun . 5 5 15
Green . 3 0 6
Johnston . 0 1 2
Loodsey . 1 0 2
Johnson . 1 2 4
Dobbs . 9 12 30
King . 4 6 14
Parker . 1 0 2
Dater . 0 1 1
Hollinger . 0 0 0
Cooland . 1 0 2
Totals . 25 27 77
OKLAHOMA FG FT TF
Abbey 0 5 5
Finkerton 0 0 0
King 5 0 12
Bacher 10 8 28
Balding 1 2 4
Jones 1 1 3
Kell 1 1 0
Peck 2 9 13
Totals 19 27 65
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Kansas Swimmers To Open Season Saturday Against NU
Chuck Edwards, Peoria, Ill., senior, the competing coach for the Jayhawker swimming team, has announced that seven lettermen have reported for practice and are preparing for the team's first meet Saturday, Jan. 14, against Nebraska in Robinson pool.
Edwards was a letterman at Purdue in 1953 and swims freestyle.
Along with the returning lettermen, several promising newcomers are trying out for the team. Edwards said he has not picked the squad as yet.
Returning lettermen are Don Burton, Kansas City, Kan. junior, free style; Paul Burke, Kansas City, Kan. senior, free style; Peter Thompson, Lenexa junior, backstoke; George Kreye, Lawrence junior, backstake; Eugene Buchanan, Muncie senior, breaststroke; George Denny, Lawrence senior, diving, and John Buterin. Overland Park junior, free style.
The schedule:
Jan. 14—Nebraska, Lawrence
Feb. 4—Colorado, Boulder
Feb. 11—Kansas State, Lawrence
Russians To Have Advantage
Holding the 1956 Olympic games in Australia in December will help Russia. Many American athletes will be unable to get outdoor training—it will be too cold at home. But in Russia, plans already are under way to train Soviet athletes in the warm Crimea, where the climate is like that in Australia.
Feb. 16—Kansas State, Manhattan
Feb. 18—Oklahoma, Lawrence
Feb. 24—Grinnell, Iowa, Grinnell
Feb. 25—Nebraska, Lincoln
Mar. 3—Iowa State, Lawrence
Mar. 9-10—Big Seven meet at Boulder, Colo.
Ten deaths were attributed to football injuries during the 1955 season.
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