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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 8, 1955
Kansas, Oklahoma In Finale Tonight
THE PROBABLE STARTERS
KANSAS Pos. OKLAHOMA
Bill Brainard, 6-3 F Lynn Hart, 6-2
Gene Elstun, 6-3 F Ed Abbey, 6-4
Lew Johnson, 6-6½ C Leroy Bacher, 6-5
Dallas Dobbs, 5-11 G Lester Lane, 5-10
John Anderson, 6-2 G Jim Peck, 5-9
The last conference game of the season takes place at 7:30 tonight when fifth place Kansas meets cellar dwelling Oklahoma. KU has a season record of 10-10 and a conference record of 4-7. OU has a 3-17 season mark and a 1-10 record in loop play.
Kansas beat the Sooners, 87 to 75, at Norman Feb. 16 but had difficulty stopping Leroy Bacher, Oklahoma center, who became eligible at the end of the first semester. Bacher poured in 25 points to share scoring with the Ravens, Dallas Dobbs. Since joining the Sooners Bacher has averaged about 30 points a game, dropping in 35 against Iowa State.
If the last Kansas-Oklahoma game can be any indication tonight's game should feature some sharp shooting from the floor. Kansas had a 44 per cent average and Oklahoma hit at a 41 per cent rate.
In addition to Bacher the OU squad is paced by Lester Lane, all conference guard last year. The 5 foot 10 inch senior from Purcell, Okla., has been a stand-out performer throughout his college career for Coach Bruce Drake's team.
The Jayhawkers will enter the game as favorites in view of the Sooners' record and the previous clash. Also the improved play of Lew Johnson at center may help stop Bacher. Johnson has played outstanding games against both Kansas State and Missouri. At Missouri he was up against Bob Reiter, one of the best centers in the conference.
Captain for tonight's game will be John Anderson, the only senior regular; who will be playing his last game for Kansas.
IM Volleyball
E 15-15. DU 5-5
FRATERNITY "A"
ATO 15-5-15. Theta Chi 12-15-13
Delta Chi 15-15. Phi Kappa Al-
pha 6-6
Lambda Chi 15-6-15, AKL 3-15-8
Kappa Sig 15-16, Sigma Nu 6-14
Phi Psi won over Phi Kappa Tau
.by forift
FRATERNITY "B"
TKE 15-15, Delta Chi 7-12
Sigma Chi 15-15, SAE 9-12
Delta Tau Delta 15-15, Kappa
Sig Tau 10-11
INDEPENDENT "B"
Sig 10-11
Beta Theta Pi 15-15, Phi Psi 0-12
Lambda Chi won by forfeit over
Phi Delt
INDEPENDENY
Newman won over ASME by for-
fit
AIA won over Schize's by forfeit
Dick Harp, Kansas assistant basketball coach was co-captain with Don Ebling on the 1940 Jayhawk squad which posted an 8-2 record in conference play.
In the 1954 American league home run race, Larry Doby of Cleveland placed first with 32.
San Francisco To No.1 Spot
New York—(U.P.)—San Francisco's defensive-minded Dons, who rose from obscurity to fame this season and surprised a lot of "experts" in the process, today were acclaimed the United Press national college basketball champions for the 1954-55 season.
Coach Phil Woolipert's Dons, possessors of a 23-1 record that earned them a berth in the NCAA tournament, were the No. 1 choice of 28 members of the 35-man United Press board of coaches in the final ratings of the campaign.
Kentucky's Southeastern conference champions ranked second, 62 points behind San Francisco, while LaSalle, which opens its quest for a second straight NCAA championship tonight, was third. LaSalle was picked by the coaches before the start of the season as the "best bet" for the national championship.
The West Coast Dons' prospects were regarded so lightly before the start of the campaign that not a single coach mentioned them in the pre-season size-up of the race. But Woolpert's men, led by all-America center Bill Russell, fooled a host of basketball authorities.
San Francisco lost its third game of the season by a 47 to 40 score to UCLA, and then it ran off a string of 21 consecutive victories that is still "alive." In the process, the Dons beat UCLA in a return game, won the all-college tournament at Oklahoma City during Christmas vacation, and compiled the best defensive record in the nation.
In their 24 games, the Dons gave up an average of only 50.7 points. The ratings:
Team
1. San Francisco (28) (23-1)
2. Kentucky (2) (22-2)
3. LaSalle (1) (22-4)
5. Iowa (17-4)
3. LaSalle (1) (22-4)
4. Utah (1) (23-3)
6. N. Carolina State (1) (28-4)
10. Dayton (1) (23-3)
Second 10 teams—11, Colorado, 46;
12, UCLA, 41; 13, Minnesota, 17;
Tulsa, 14; 15, George Washington,
11; 16 (tie), Illinois and Niagara,
9 each; 18, St. Louis, 8; 19, Holy Cross, 7; 20 (tie), Cincinnati and Southern Methodist, 4 each.
8. Oregon State (21-7)
9. Massachusetts (1)
Heavy Scrimmage Marks First '55 Football Drill
7. Duquesne (19-4)
Coach Chuck Mather started spring football practice yesterday with a bang, when he held a 45-minute full scale scrimmage and a 40-minute kick - off scrimmage. Eighty-five men, including 22 lettermen, checked out uniforms for the initial session.
Mather opened the practice with calisthenics and individual fundamental drills, then followed up with the scrimagem and kick-off drills. No serious injuries were suffered in the practice but one man, end Paul Smith, showed up on a pair of crutches, the results of a sprained ankle suffered in intramural basketball.
Three lettermen who were expected to report failed to report. One of these, guard Bob Hubbard, was forced to terminate his football career because of an injury suffered last year. Two other lettermen, halfback Rex Sullivan and
HUBBARD
guard Dick Todd, passed up the spring drills.
What appeared to be a temporary first unit emerged from last night's practice. This eleven found Don Martin and LaVern Fiss at ends, Gene Blasi and Roberts at tackles, Armstrong and Don Pfutzenreuter at guards, Bev Buller at quarter, Ralph Moody and Dick Blowey at halfs, and Al Stevenson at backlash.
Frick Forecasts Rise In Major League Attendance
SULLIVAN
By UNITED PRESS
Pitchers occupied a major share of the spotlight at various major league camps as several managers named their hurlers for the opening games of the exhibition season Thursday.
Both the major and minor leagues will bask in the sunshine of increased attendance during the coming season, with the majors each drawing "about 10 per cent more" to go well over the 8 million mark, baseball Commissioner Ford Frick predicted today.
And now, the commissioner added, it would be nice if the long-suffering pitchers were given a "break," too, by the return of the "spit ball."
Frick made his forecast on attendance as he stopped off at the Philadelphia Phillies' camp in Clearwater, Fla., on his tour through the spring training sites of all the major league clubs. He also predicted a six-club pennant race in the National league and a three-club pennant race in the American, but did not name the teams.
Frick's major-league forecast appeared fairly safe since the National league drew 8,013,519, while the American league just missed Frick's figure with 7,922,364. The shift of the Philadelphia A's to Kansas City is expected to provide the American league with a sizeable increase.
Right-hander Marion Fricano, who had a 5-11 record last season, drew the honor of being the Kansas City starting pitcher in its debut as an American league team Thursday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Among the other hurlers named to work in the "Grapefruit league" openers are Bob Porterfield and Camilo Pascual for Washington against the Boston Red Sox; rookies Al (The Bull) Schroll, Frank Sullivan, and A Curtis for the Red Sox; and Conley Emile John and Chet Nichols for the Milwaukee Braves against the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pete Wojey, Ed Roebuck, and Don Bessent for the Dodgers.
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox were experimenting in switching players' positions.
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The fewest points yielded in a season to opponents by a Kansas basketball team was 109 in six games during the 1900 season.
pirate General Manager Branch Rickey ordered the changing of 6-foot, 6-inch Dick Hall, right-handed swing outfielder who batted .239 last season, into a pitcher and left-handed batter. And White Sox Manager Marty Marion was trying out rookies Jim Marshall (first baseman who hit 31 homers at Oakland) and Joe Kirrene (third baseman who hit .343 at Colorado Springs) in the outfield to add power to his lineup.
Basketball Results
By UNITED PRESS
Monday's College Basketball
Results
Michigan 74, Iowa 104
NAIA Tournament at Kansas
(undated)
City, Mo. (1st round)
Alderson Broaddus 100, Minot
Gustavus 78, Way-
land 58
Adolphus
Fla. St. 93, Mont. St. 84
Tex. So. 102, Adrian 84
Beloit 88, Portland 75
Erie St. 68, Portland St. 55
Southwestern College, Kan. 83,
(Calif.) 79
Loyola
Stonehill, Ohio 79, Mississippi
Southern 62.
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