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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, January 5, 1955
Tigers Beat KU To End Hoch Jinx
Bv BOB LYLE
Missouri's powerful Tigers, winners of the Big Seven pre-season tournament, overcame an early first half deficit of eight points last night to defeat Kansas, 76-65, and snap the Jayhawks' 33-game home court victory skein.
Missouri built up a 41-31 lead at the half.
Phog Allen's Jayhawk basketball squads had not been beaten in Hoch auditorium since 1951, when Oklahoma turned the trick in a last second upset, 61-59.
Kansas jumped to an early 18-10 lead over the Tigers with seven minutes of the first half gone. Trailing 4-0 after center Bob Reiter and forward Red Reichert tallied two quick goals for Missouri, Kansas showed its most efficient shooting and floor play in the next six minutes.
Dallas Dobbs, Larry Davenport, John Anderson, Lew Johnson, and Gene Elstun found the range while a tight KU defense held the Tigers to a single field goal and four free throws.
Med Park, senior guard for Missouri, broke the ice for the Tigers with three quick field goals and a free throw. KU bounced back to tie the count at 23-23 with 10 minutes remaining in the half, when Davenport hit from the corner and Johnson made good on a free throw attempt.
From then on it was Missouri's ball game.
A drive led by Reiter and Park showed the power that helped the Tigers capture the Big Seven Christmas tournament, as Missouri coasted to a 41-31 halftime advantage.
Faced by Reiter and Park, who combined for 16 points in the second half, the Tigers built up their greatest lead, 76-61, with about a minute remaining in the game.
The only serious threat to Missouri in the second half came when the Jayhawks closed the gap to 60-68 on two field goals and one free throw by Johnson, with four minutes remaining in the game.
Dobbs, the lone KU veteran, led the KU scoring with 18 points, and Johnson was the No. 2 Jayhawk with 16.
Reiter was high scorer with 21 points, on 8 field goals and 5 free throws. The 6-foot, 9-inch Tiger center also collected 24 rebounds. Park scored 20 points for Missouri.
Missouri hit 27 of 71 field goal attempts for a percentage of .38. KU hit 24 of 61 for 36.9 per cent from the field.
Badger Coach Still Eager
Madison, Wis. —(U.P.)- Harold (Bud) Foster, dean of Big Ten coaches, who has seen a lot of changes in the game in 20 years at Wisconsin, said today. "It's still a great game, despite some over-officiating."
Aside from a gray tinge to his hair and a few extra pounds, Foster hasn't changed much since his playing days, when he was Badger standout at center in 1930.
This year his team, not expected to be a factor in the Big Ten race, surprised the conference on opening night with a New Year's day 79-64 decision over top-rated Illinois, for one week this season rated the best club in the nation.
Variety is the feature of the game, as Foster plans it. He said fans are likely to see just about any type game from any team on a given night. Teams may be known as exponents of fire-wagon basketball, or noted for a tenacious defense, but the labels are apt to come off in a tight game.
"Some teams you can't match points against by running, so we defense them," he said. "We defensed Missouri and held them down where we could reach, but we never quite reached them."
When warranted, he said, "Wisconsin will run." It did against Illinois, after practicing a speed game for a record 107-68 win against Louisiana State.
BOX SCORE
MISSOURI FG FT F
Filbert 3 4 0
Ronsick 0 0 0
Stewart 3 0 2
Denny 3 0 0
Reiter 8 5 4
Blackman 0 0 0
Reichert 5 2 2
Ross 0 0 0
Rust 0 0 0
Smith 0 7 2
Park 8 4 2
Totals 27 22 13
KANSAS FG FT F
Brainard 0 0 0
Davenport 2 4 1
Elstun 5 3 3
King 5 0 1
Padgett 0 0 0
Johnson 6 4 3
Anderson 0 4 2
Dobbs 8 2 3
Hollinger 0 0 1
Parker 3 0 3
Totals 24 17 18
NCAA Group Discusses TV
New York —(U.P.)— The NCAA television committee today was reported considering a compromise which would make the controversial "Game of the Week" program more palatable to the Big Ten and Pacific Coast conferences.
Under terms of the proposed new plan, a single nationally-televised game would be aired for only half the season with regionally-televised games permitted for the other half of the schedule. The committee has been in secret session the last several days.
The powerful Big Ten and Pacific Coast conferences objected strenuously to the 1954 program which called, with slight variations, for a single game to be televised on a national hookup. The new plan would preserve the basic outlines of that program while at the same time granting the Big Ten and PCC at least a portion of what they want.
The rules committee of the American Football Coaches association recommended a slight liberalization of the one-platoon rule, the use of three-inch tees on kickoffs, and a "tighter rule" to prevent "sucker shifts" by offensive linemen.
While the television problem is a long way from solved, many officials are turning back to recruiting as the No.1 headache. Four of eight district vice presidents mentioned in their reports to the convention that recruiting in one way or another is a major worry.
Detroit —(U,P)— Sugar Ray Robinson, determined to win back the world's middleweight championship he gave up voluntarily in 1952, launches his comeback campaign as a heavy favorite tonight over Joe Rindone in a 10-round nontelevised bout.
Sugar Ray Starts Comeback Tonight
Robinson quit the ring two years ago in favor of a song and dance stage career after he tried unsuccessfully to dethrone Joey Maxim, then light-heavyweight champion. The meeting with Rindone, a Roxbury, Mass., veteran of nine years in the ring, marks Robinson's first official bout in his comeback campaign. He defeated Gene Burton in a six-rounder at Hamilton, Ont., Nov. 29 but that fight was listed as an exhibition.
This Scene Became Common Last Night
—Kansan photo by Pete Ford
TWO MORE FOR MIZZOU—Center Bob Reiter of Missouri goes up to take a left-handed poke at the basket in a bit of action in the second half of last night's KU-Missouri game in Hoch auditorium, which the visitors won, 76-65, to snap the Jayhawks' 33-game home winning streak. Identifiable are Dallas Dobbs (13), Bill Brainard (7), and John Parker (22) of Kansas and Red Reichert (44), Norm Stewart (22) and Med Park (behind Stewart) for Missouri.
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