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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, February 16, 1955
Kansas Plays Sooners In Big Seven Contest
Phog Allen's rejuvenated cagers meet an Oklahoma team starve for a conference victory tonight in Norman. The Sooners have won only two games this season and are last in the conference, while the Jayhawks are fresh from an upset victory over Kansas State and a victory over Oklahoma A&M.
Freshman Runners Win Opening Meet
Paced by 14 points by speedy Dave Freeman, the Kansas freshman indoor track team raced to an easy $62\frac{1}{3}$ to $41\frac{1}{3}$ telegraphic victory over Colorado's freshmen over the week end.
Freeman took first places in both the low and high hurdles and tied for first in the 60-yard dash. The young Kansans scored shut-outs in two events, the two-mile and the mile. The finish for KU was the same in each of the two events—Jerry McNeal first, Bob Nicholson second, and Jerry Baker, third.
3 Independents Win IM Games
Battenfeld, Stephenson, and the Varsity All-Stars won Independent "A" league intramural basketball games last night. The Varsity All-Stars-Jim Beam game has been protested because of an argument over the two-minute rule.
Battenfeld 39. 69'ers 26
Stephenson 36. AIA 33
Battenbee 39, 99ers 25
Divide the 199ers evenly among themselves, the Battenbee quintet downed the 69ers 39-28. High point men for Battenbee were Ed Wall and Jack Jones who had 10 and 9 points respectively.
Stephenson 36, AIA 33
Led by Don Davis who dropped in 14 points, Stephenson hall downed AIA 36-33. The Stephenson team had control of the game all the way.
Varsity All-Stars 43. Jim Beam 39
The Varsity All-Stars beat Jim Beam 43-39. The All-Stars were led by James Letcavits who hit for 12 points.
Fraternity "B"
Phi Kappa Tau 34, Lambda Chi
Alba 23
Delta Upsilon 1, Sig Pi 0 (forfeit)
AKA 28, ATO 25.
Phi Gam 23, Kappa Sigma 20.
TODAY'S SCHEDULE Independent "A"
Bluepentham A
Downbeats vs. Liahona
Outlaws vs. Sterling-Oliver
Cats vr. Oread
Sasnak vs. Battenfeld
UVO vs. 69'ers
Fraternity "C"
Fraternity "C"
Sig Ep. vs. Phi Psi I
Phi Giam III vs. Beta I
SAE II vs. Delta Chi I
Beta II vs. DU III
Beta V vs. DU II
Joe Powell Out For Rest of Year
Manhattan—(U.P.)-Big Seven basketball title hopes for Kansas State's Wildcats at a season's low today as the result of the loss of 6 foot, 7-inch forward Joe Powell.
The Wildcats, dropped to third place by a defeat by Kansas Saturday, probably will not have the team that played in the season. Coach Trex Winter said.
Powell will be out of action because of a severe cold. He started for the Wildcats at the beginning of the season, but has seen limited action since the conference's pre-season tourney.
Volleyball Scores
Senior "A" 30, Soph. "A" 12
Junior "A" 26, Freshman "A" 25
Senior "B" 5, Soph. "B" 19
Junior "B" 33, Freshman "B" 26
If comparative scores mean anything, tonight's game could go either way. Kansas whipped Oklahoma A&M, 50 to 42, Monday night and the Sooners downed the same team by a 59 to 50 score last week. Oklahoma's victory over the Aggies was its first since the Big Seven conference tournament in December when the Sooners upset highly touted Colorado.
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The acquisition of 6-foot 5-1/2-inch center Leroy Bacher at the end of the first semester has put new life in the Sooners, however, and they no longer can be regarded as an easy mark. Bacher, who weighs 220 pounds, is a service returne, having played service ball with the Naval Amphibious base team at Coronado, Calif.
The top scoring man on Coach Bruce Drake's team is 5-foot 10-inch guard Lester Lane. Lane smashed four Oklahoma school records last year and was an all-Big Seven selection. Through the first nine games this year he had a 22-point average.
The clash between Lane and guard Dallas Dobbs of the Jayhawkers should be the feature attraction of the game.
The starting lineup for Kansas probably will be Gene Elstun and Bill Brainard at forwards, Lew Johnson at center, and Dobbs and either John Anderson or John Parker at guards. Forwards Maurice King might earn a starting berth in view of his fine performance against A&M but probably will be held out of action the first few minutes. If King does start he will replace Brainard.
KU 'B' Team Plays Forbes
The KU "B" basketball team, sporting a good 5-2 record for the year, tonight will meet the Forbes Air Force base at Topeka in a return match.
In the previous encounter between the two teams Jerry Alberts scored 25 points to lead the young Jayhawks to a resounding 97 to 58 triumph.
Coach Jack Eskridge said his starting KU lineup probably will have Chris Divich and Lee Green at forwards, Alberts at center, and Bill Heitholt and Ron Johnston at guards.
Only two contests remain on the "B" team slate—Washburn Monday and Fort Riley Feb. 26, both in Hoch auditorium.
Arizin, Cousy Pace Warriors, Celtics
A 36-point splurge by Paul Arizin and a 34-point display by Bob Cousy enabled the Philadelphia Warriors and Boston Celtics to edge forward today in the Eastern division of the National Basketball association.
In the only games played last night, Arizin led last-place Philadelphia to a 114 to 113 victory over Rochester and Cousy paced Boston o a 106 to 103 overtime win over Milwaukee.
New York (U.P.)—The pro basketball teams already have decided which collegiate players will be their first choice in the post-season draft and it proves that the big man in basketball no longer is necessarily a "goon."
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Big Men to Be Drafted First
According to reliable sources, the first draft choices team by team will be:
Philadelphia: Tom Gola, LaSalle
Minneapolis: Dick Gaker,
Miller
Minnesota.
New York: Ed Conlin, Fordham.
Ft. Wayne: Jack Stephens, Notre Dame.
Dame.
Syracuse: Bob McKeen, California
Rochester: Dick Ricketts, Duquesne.
Boston: Maurice Stokes, St.
Milwaukee: Don Schlundt, Indiana.
The "midget" of this first round crop is Stephens, who is a mere 6 feet, 2 inches. Garmaker is only 3-3, but from there it goes up rapidly.
Stokes and Conlin are 6-6, Gola and Ricketts are 6-7, McKeen 6-7↓ and Schlundt are 6-10.
George Mikan set a style for the "tall-Americans" as an undergraduate at DePaul. In the beginning he was an awkward steeple,
but Mikan sprinted, skipped rope, and did everything possible to learn how to control his long legs. He became one of the best all-around players of all time.
Coaches soon realized that, with proper training the big boys could do everything the little fellow could in the way of maneuverability and speed. And when the big boys turn post-graduate eyes on pro basketball they must have all-around ability.
Height is a dire necessity in pro ball. Thus the pros look for the boys with good height—but they also must be all-around players. They have to be able to "move" as well as shoot.
Gola this year would be the first choice of any pro team because he is the most polished of all the big men. But the pro teams protect individual areas by making the first choice a "territorial" one.
Lions Sign 15 Players
Detroit—(U.P.)—The Detroit Lions now have 15 players under contract for the 1955 National Football league season. Veteran guard Dick Stanfel and rookies Don Henderson and Richie Woit came to terms yesterday.
Air ROTC Shooters Take 8th in Nation
The KU Air Force ROTC rifle team has placed eighth nationally and third regionally in the national William Randolph Hearst rifle match. There were 225 teams in the competition.
Felix Lopez was KU's top scorer with 191, five behind the winner. KU's team score was 931, which was only nine behind the winning University of Maryland team. Other members of the KU team were Donald Johnson, Benjamin Platter, Charles Hedrick, and Dan Schrepel.
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A Campus-to-Career Case History
Jim O'Hara (left) works out a problem with a member of his crew
His territory:
TWO CITY BLOCKS
James O'Hara, Stevens Institute of Technology (M.E. '51), is an installation foreman for the New York Telephone Company. His present assignment is two city blocks between 45th and 47th Streets in the middle of Manhattan.
"It doesn't measure very big horizontally," Jim says, "But vertically it makes up a lot of telephone business—7500 telephones to be exact. My eight-man crew does everything from installing a single telephone to working on complete dial intercom systems for some of the nation's biggest businesses.
"I've got to know about each of these jobs that my men do. My training with the telephone company took me through the installation, repair and testing of the various types of telephone equipment and service for which I am responsible. I even had a chance to do a little experimenting of my own and developed a new way of preventing oil seepage on automatic switching equipment. I understand it's being written up for use throughout the Bell System.
"That's what I like about telephone work. Even two city blocks are full of opportunity."
You'll find that most other college men with the telephone company are just as enthusiastic about their jobs. If you'd be interested in a similar opportunity with a Bell System Telephone Company-or with Sandia Corporation, Western Electric or Bell Telephone Laboratories, see your Placement Officer for full details.
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