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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 23, 1955
Canadian, U.S. Pro Teams Bid for John Anderson
The president of the Philadelphia Eagles is due in town this week to try and match the offer the Montreal Alouettes Canadian professional football team gave John Anderson, who alternated at end and fullback on the 1954 KU football squad.
Anderson reports that Montreal has given him a good offer and said he would like to go to Canada, as he doubts if the Eagles can match the Canadian offer.
Anderson expects to get at least one year of play in before he is drafted. He is currently classified 1-A and is not connected with the
ROTC. The 210-pound senior from Grand Island, Neb., was a standout performer in the Missouri-Kansas game, running from the fullback slot.
Two Added to All-Star Squad
New York — (U.P.)— Dick Garmaker and Chuck Menczer, co-captains of Minnesota's 1954-55 basketball team, yesterday were added to the college all-star squad which begins a 21-city tour against the Harlem Globetrotters at Madison Square Garden next Sunday.
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Tucson, Ariz. — (U.P.)— The 1955 Cleveland Indians should have the best pitching staff in baseball and the greatest array of power hitting, and with those two commodities alone they figure to win the pennant again.
Indians Boast Hitting, Pitching
Pitching and power tell the Cleveland story. That was the success pattern a year ago, and it paid off. This year will be the same, only more so.
AFROTC won over Newman by forfeit
Manager Al Lopez again will have his right-handed big three of Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia. In addition, he will have rookie southpaw Herb Score, a youngster whom Lopez gives unqualified praise as a "can't miss" star.
The power hitting a year ago was led by third baseman Al Rosen, center fielder Larry Doby and first baseman Vic Wertz. A new entry for Tribe home run honors will be Ralph Kiner, purchased during the winter from the Chicago Cubs.
Kansas baseball fortunes for 1955 are riding on the doubtful right arm of Bob Shirley, Grantville junior. If he is ready, Jayhawk pitching will take on some semblance of strength and depth. Therein lies the hope for a respectable season in the Jayhawks' second year under Floyd Temple, former minor league player-manager.
Of defensive and base-running abilities Cleveland will be short. Lopez, however, was not worried about it. "We're not that kind of ball club," he said. "We have the best pitching, and a team that hit 156 home runs in 156 games a year ago. Why worry about stealing when you have men in the lineup who hit home runs?"
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Phog Asks Rules Group For Higher Baskets
Kansan Sports Writer
By DICK WALT
"The rules committee is treating the symptoms, not removing the causes," Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, KU basketball coach, said today as he commented on the rule changes adopted during the meeting of the basketball rules committee last weekend.
Dr. Allen said he believed 12-foot basket would eventually be accepted, adding that it would probably be only a matter of time until the rules legislators made the change. He said Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game, had told him that when he see the height of the basket at 10 feet, he thought that he was putting it far out of reach of the players.
Dr. Allen said the rules committee, in its attempt to take some of the power away from the tall players, had neglected the real problem by continuing to permit the big men to dunk the ball in the basket, while not allowing the defense to deflect shots higher than the level of the basket. This, Dr. Allen said, was discrimination in favor of the offense, and a comparable law would be declared unconstitutional in any court.
He said that the rule change which widened the free throw lane to 12 feet was only a temporary measure designed to serve as a remedy, but added he still believed that the real solution would be the elevation of the basket to 12 feet instead of 10.
This, he said, would take away much of the advantage of the tall players because it would make it impossible for them to tip the ball down into the basket, as San Francisco's Bill Russell did with great success this season.
Also, crowding under the basket or rebounds would be reduced because, with the higher basket, the ball would rebound farther out rom the backboard.
The veteran Kansas coach
Another trouble with the present free throw rule is that it slows down play and turns the game into a parade from one free throw line to another. Dr. Allen said today's rule penalized the offended team by forcing them to give up possession of the ball.
severely criticized the continuation of the one-and-one free throw, which he described as senseless. "The most unspectacular play in basketball is made the most important feature of the game," he said.
As a proposed solution, Dr. Allen suggested that the rules be changed to give the offended team one free throw plus the ball out of bounds on all fouls. This, he said, would impose a stiffer penalty on the fouling team, and still speed up the game. With this severe penalty, Dr. Allen said it would probably be unnecessary to remove players from the game after five fouls.
Returning to the problem of the increasing advantage of tall men, Dr. Allen said results of a survey showed that in 1937 there were only eight players over 6-8 in collegiate basketball, while during the past season 130 of the skyscrapers were in action. He said he did not oppose the use of the tall man, but that the rules should be brought up to date to compensate for the increase in height.
"Everyone pays attention to height except the rules committee." Dr. Allen said, adding that other sports like football and baseball made rules which had improved the game, but "basketball is the prize boo when it comes to rules."