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University Dajiy Kansan Monday. March 7,1955
Tigers Spoil KU's Chance For 3rd Place
For the first time in five years, Kansas dropped into the second division in the final Big Seven basketball standings after losing to the Missouri Tigers in Columbia Saturday, 90 to 71.
The last time a Jayhawk squad finished in the lower half was 1949 when Kansas placed sixth, the worst season in Phog Allen's coaching career. This is only the fifth time in 44 years of coaching that Dr. Allen's teams have failed to finish in the first division in league play.
Kansas appeared to be on its way to a tie for third place in the first half of the Missouri contest, in which the Jayhawks needed a victory to stay in the top four slots. A victory at Columbia plus defeating Oklahma here Tuesday, would have given Kansas third instead of fifth where the Jayhawks stand now.
KU jumped to an early ten-point lead in the first half before Missouri found the basket and closed the gap to lead at the half. 42 to 40.
After the Tiger regulars dropped behind in the first period, Coach Sparky Stalcpur went to the bench for Lloyd Elmore and Gary Filbert, senior substitutes, who helped pull Missouri out of the slump.
Both Elmore and Filbert opened the second half against Kansas and the drive continued. During the final 10 minutes, it was all Missouri as Kansas lost Dallas Dobbs and John Anderson on fouls.
Med Park, Tiger senior starter, led in the scoring department for both teams collecting 27 points, followed by teammate Norm Stewart with 18.
For Kansas, all but two points of the Jayhawk total were distributed among the five starters. Dobbs and Bill Brainard each hit 16, Lew Johnson and Gene Elstun posted 13, and Anderson added 11.
Reiter, Park In Shrine Game
Kansas City, Mo. — (U.P.)— Two University of Missouri basketball stars were signed today to play in the Ararat Shrine's annual East-West game March 21.
Bob Reiter, holder of the all-time Missouri career scoring mark, and Med Park, who has just finished a great season for the Tigers, will play on the West team under their own coach, Wilbur "Sparky" Stalcut.
Reiter also holds Missouri's one-game scoring record. He hit 33 points in one of his game over a four-year period. His season high was 411 points and his career figure reached 1,160 points.
LaSalle Coach Ken Loefeler will direct the East team against Stalcup's West entry.
The annual game is played for the benefit of the order's hospitals for crippled children.
Mikan May Speak At Cage Banquet
The annual KU basketball banquet will be held next Monday at the Eldridge hotel under the sponsorship of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. The banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Efforts are being made to secure George Mikan, former DePauw university and Minneapolis Lakers' basketball player, as a speaker. E. R! Zook, executive secretary of the chamber, said today.
Softball Opens April 12
Because of the early Easter vacation this year, men's intramural softball will not begin until after classes resume April 12.
Colorado's Big Seven basketball championship was its first undisputed crown since it joined the old Big Six in 1948. CU shared the title with KU last year.
By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Writer
Last year the state of Kansas produced three high school all-American swimmers. This year those same three and possibly two others will in all probability be all-American selections. Two have either set or tied a national interscholastic record. In all likelihood none will attend a Kansas college.
It is a deplorable state of affairs when a state, year in and year out, has some of the best high school swimming in the nation and what could very well be the worst college swimming. Kansas State has not had a swimming team but will field one next year.
Just how good are these swimmers? A comparison of times posted by these high school boys with the Big Seven records should show something. Ted Scherer of Coffeyville swam the 100-yard breast stroke in 1:00.5 this year, good for a national record. The Big Seven record is 1:01. Scherer, as a senior in high school now, could beat the cream of the Big Seven in his event.
Bobby Yates, also of Coffeyville, holds a state record of 1:00 in the 100-yard back stroke and has tied the national mark of 59.8 for high school swimmers in a dual meet. The Big Seven standard is 59.7, set this year by Lin Meiring of Oklahoma.
Dickie Seaton of Coffeyville has done the 100-yard free style in 53.8 and the 220-yard free style in 2:12. The Big Seven record is 52-flat held by Jim McKevitt of Iowa State, who is one of the better free-stylers in the country. The conference 220 free style record is 2:08.7, less than four seconds faster than Seaton's time.
Bringing it closer to home, in a dual meet between KU and Coffeyville, the Coffeyville team would in all probability take every first place. This would be through no fault of the KU coach or team, they just don't have the material. The Coffeyville team also could beat both Nebraska and Colorado. A team composed of three men from Coffeyville, three each from Wichita East, North, and West( and diver Dick Eberhardy of Kansas City Wyandotte probably could win the Big Seven.
Last year three more Coffeyville boys went to SMU and were on the freshman team. Among these is Ronnie Smith, who has been tabbed by many to become the best diver in the nation. Another Kansas boy, Jeff Farrell of Wichita, is attending OU on a swimming scholarship.
This year OU had 16 boys in school on swimming scholarships. Kansas has none. Even if scholarships were offered by KU one drawback exists. Any swimmer in his right mind would think twice before spending four years trying to improve his times in the overgrown guppy pond KU has for a swimming pool.
How much better it would have been if the alumni, instead of spending over $350,000 on a glorified pigeon roost, had spent that money on a modern athletic plant, including a swimming pool, basketball courts, and handball courts.
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KU Takes Fifth In Swim Meet
Oklahoma upset both the dope-sters and Iowa State Saturday when it won the Big Seven swimming meet Saturday at Lincoln.
The Sooners amassed 150 points to 124 for favored Iowa State. Colorado was third with 33. Nebraska finished fourth with 22, and Kansas was last with 12. Kansas State and Missouri were not entered.
Ten new records were set in the 12 events in the meet. Four were posted in Friday's preliminaries, one in Saturday morning's preliminaries, and five in Saturday afternoon's finals.
The top performance of the meet occurred when Jim McKevitt of Iowa State came within 6 seconds of matching the NCAA record for the 150-yard individual medley. His time of 1:30.4 clipped more than three seconds off his Big Seven record of 1:33.6, set the day before in the preliminaries.
Of the 10 new loop standards Oklahoma and Iowa State each set five. Oklahoma soared into an early lead in the meet and topped it all with a record-breaking win in the 300-yard medley relay, final event of the meet. The Sooner team swam the distance in 2:55, elipsing the old record of 3:01.6, set in 1952 by Iowa State.
Oklahoma and Iowa State completely dominated the meet, taking every first and second and all the thirds but two. Wally Snow of Colorado finished third in the diving and Nebraska wound up third in the medley relay. Kansas failed to place a man above fifth place.
The Kansas 1952 championship basketball team placed first in the NCAA free throw record book with a mark if 69 per cent in 28 games.
NCAA Play Opens for 24
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Seven newly crowned conference champions all but completed the huge 24-team field for the NCAA basketball tournament which starts tomorrow, while St. Louis became the 12th and last team to enter the National Invitation tournament.
Duke, West Virginia, Kentucky, Iowa, Oregon State, and West Texas State all clinched conference championships and NCAA berths by winning their final games Saturday night. Tulsa, which finished in a title tie, was picked to represent the Missouri Valley conference.
Tulsa tied with St. Louis for the league crown, but a conference committee selected Tulsa for the NCAA St. Louis thus received the NIT bid which was being saved for one or the other.
Eight conference champions have drawn automatic byes for tomorrow night's opening round and go directly to the regional tournaments. Seven of these are Kentucky, Iowa, Southern Methodist, Colorado, Tulsa, Oregon State, and Utah. The eighth goes to the Ivy league champion—the only one not yet determined.
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