Remember Phog's '52 Olympic Team?
By JOHN McMILLIION
Three years ago at approximately this same time of the year Coach Phog Allen's Kansas basketball team was nearing the end of what proved to be probably Allen's most spectacular season. At the end of the season the Jayhawks had a record of 28 victories and only 3 losses. $ \textcircled{*} $
It was after the season's end, however, that this squad performed the feats that set it apart from others in the University's history.
That team romped through the NCAA playoffs with four straight victories and then took two straight in the Olympic playoffs before dropping a thriller to the powerful Peoria Diesel Caterpillars of the AAU league, 60 to 62, in the finals.
Now three years have passed and those seven players have almost become a legend. However, those seven players still are very much in existence. Four are still playing basketball.
Probably the outstanding member of that team, all-American Clyde Lovellette, is engaged in the Herculean task of filling the shoes of "Mr. Basketball" George Mikan, former star of the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball association. When Mikan stepped down last year to take over a position as general manager of the Lakers, Lovellette was "elected" to take his place.
After the playoff seven of these players went on to Helsinki, inland, to the 1952 Olympics, with members of the Caterpillars.
Big Clyde, now in his second year with the Lakers, has done just that in the opinion of both his former coach Phog Allen and Mikan. Although Lovellette still lacks Mikan's finesse, both Dr. Allen and Mikan believe he eventually will be as great or greater than Mikan.
Two members of the Olympic contingent from Kansas still are playing together and are aiming for berths in next year's Olympics. These two, Bob Kennedy and Dean Kelley, both play for the GI All-Star team, the PanAms.
Both have chances for repeat performances in the Olympics because the 1956 Olympic basketball team will be chosen from service and AAU teams only.
The two Bills of the 1952 KU squad, Lienhard and Houland, are back in this area. Lienhard is employed by the First National bank of Wichita, while Houland is playing for and is employed by the Phillips Oilers of Bartlesville, Okla. Hougland was only recently discharged from the Air Force where he coached a team in Tokyo.
Born is now playing with the Peoria Caternillars. Bill Heitholt and Larry Davenport are both seniors on the present squad, Dean Smith is with the Air Force in Germany, playing on a team that tours the continent and England. Allen Kelley is with Peoria and waiting to be called into the Air Force. La Vannes Squires is with Look. Inc., of Des Moines.
Of the other two members of the team, one is in the Air Force and the other coaching. Charlie Hoag, for m er football and basketball great, is wearing the Air Force blue at Lubbock, Texas, while John Keller is head basketball coach at Great Bend High school, where he is currently second in the league with a 5-2 record.
In addition to the seven named above six other players formed the team that won the NCAA. They, with the exception of B. H. Born who was an honorary member, failed to make the Olympic team. Their comeback, however, made it possible for the other seven to make the trip.
That Kansas team in the NCAA and Olympic playoffs downed TCU 68-84, St. Louis 74-55, Santa Clara 74-55, St. John's 80-63, Southwest Missouri 92-65, and LaSalle 65-40 before losing to Peoria. Lovettele's points totals for those games ran 31 against TCU, 44 against St. Louis.
Krehbiel to Direct Music Clinic Today
Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, was in function City yesterday directing a Kansas league bishop school students.
After working with the 465 students who were expected to attend, Mr. Krehbiel directed them as a mass choir in a program last night in the Junction City auditorium.
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TODAY
Jay Jane dinner for K-State pep club 5:30 pm, Kansas Student Union
Episcopal morning prayer. 6:45 a.m.
Hall Communion, 7 a.m. Danforth
Hall
Museum of Art record concert, noon and 4 p.m. Bartok: Quartets 5 and 6.
CCUN executive meeting, 4 p.m., Student Union.
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Al Eteno, 4:30 p.m., room 113, Strong hall. Que venzan todos.
Jay Jane initiation. 5 p.m.
Pine Room
Union; dinner, 5:45 p.m.
Sunflower room.
Tau Sigma modern dance recital, 8 p.m., ballroom, Student Union.
Newman club executive meeting, 6:30 p.m. Castle. Note new time.
Lutheran student association: World Week of Prayer services, 7 p.m. Trinity church sanctuary, 13th and New Hampshire.
Episcopal morning prayer. 6:45 a.m.
Holy Communion, 7 a.m., Danforth
hill.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinifonia, 7 p.m., room 32 Strong hall.
*Museum of Art concert*, noon and 4 p.m. Tartinti: Violin Concert in D minor and
THURSDAY
Baptist Student Union devotion and prayer, 12:30-13:50 p.m., Danforth church University Women's club open house, 8-10 p.m., Museum of Art club room.
The Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music room Student Union. Rabindranath Tagore Reader: John E. Hankins, with recordings by Amiya Chakravarty.
Lecture, 4 p.m. Strong auditorium.
Prof. David Riesman, University of Chicago School of National Character"
CCUEN executive meeting, 4 p.m. Student Union.
Red Peppers, 5 p.m., Ballroom. Student Union. Attendance required.
Der Deutsche Verein, 5 p.m., room
502 Fraser. Kaffeelaktsch, records of
berry Widow" in German. Discussion by Barbara Becker. Everyone
Gamma Alpha Chi, 5 p.m., room 207
Journalism. Election of officers.
Sophomore counselors, 7:15 p.m., room 205. Journalism. Very important.
Young Republicans, 7 p.m., Jayhawk
Young, Student Union. Lt. Gov. McCul-
chie's Problems Facing the New Admini-
distration." Refreshments. Public
invited.
Chemistry club, 7:30 p.m. room 233.
Movie: "Prospecting for Petroleum."
Tuesday, March 1. 1955
Fieldhouse Needs Call For Same Old Stands
By LOUIS BUCK
Remember the old bleacher seats on the stage of Hoch auditorium where many have watched Kansas basketball games during the past seasons?
In order to set the bleachers up, the cabinets are rolled out to a position directly under the balcony and anchored to the top of the balcony section. A plywood strip is placed on the dirt floor in front of each section and the bleachers are pulled out to the base of the playing floor.
The new bleacher sections are designed to fold one seat level under another until the section is in a cabinet shape on rollers. The sections are then rolled back on 30-inch concrete slabs which were specially poured along the arena walls to hold the bleachers.
This gives complete seating levels from the top of the fieldhouse down to the court with no spectator seated in the way of the person sitting behind him.
Well, try as we may we still can't get away from those hard and uncomfortable seats as the new Allen fieldhouse will be equipped with sections of these same type of bleacher seats.
The fieldhouse committee realized was necessary to maintain much flexibility in space used on the ground floor of the new structure The playing area will be for basketball, football, and track-in addition to basketball for practice sessions and indoor events.
Therefore, it was necessary to have mobility in the bleacher sections placed around the basketball floor and extending up to the balcony level. A special type of removable bleacher section was designed and purchased for the east and west sides of the arena to permit quick and simple placement for use and storage.
away type of bleacher was n o t feasible because of the limit of the number of rows and the extra area running from the court to the balcony level.
Portable bleachers on rollers were purchased for use on the north and south ends of the arena which do not fold but can be rolled away when not in use. These sections will be stored on the baseball diamond outside the field-house.
Institute to Be Held April 4,5 In Psychology
An institute on research in psychotherapy will be conducted April 4 to 6 at the University by the department of psychology.
Dr. M. Erik Wright, the institute coordinator, said the program is for clinical psychologists and allied professional persons concerned with research, service and training in the field.
The conference membership, which will be limited to 45, and the guest and resident KU faculty will discuss means of dealing with the major research problems. Dr. Wright indicated that future meetings of the institute, now in its second year, might be required to examine methodology and tools for problems outlined by this institute. Dr. Wright said the complete institute faculty, chosen from all over the nation, would be announced soon.
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