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University Daily Kansan Monday. December 6,1954
KU Meets LSU in Basketball Opener
Phog to Begin 38th Season As Kansas Coach Tonight
PROBABLE STARTERS
| LSU | Pos | KANSAS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 6- 2 Don Belcher | F | Gene Elstun 6- 3 |
| 6- 4 Roger Sigler | F | Maurice King 6- 2 |
| 6- 5 Ned Clark | C | Lew Johnson 6- 61½ |
| 5-11 Norm Magee | G | Dallas Dobbs 5-11 |
| 5-11 Joe Fahey | G | John Parker 5-11½ |
KANSAS
Green and unsteady, Kansas starts down the trail of its 38th season under the fabulous Phog Allen tonight, playing host to LSU's 1954 Southeast conference runners-up in Hoch auditorium. Tipoff time is 7:35 p.m.
It will be the back end of a two-game swing out of Baton Rouge for the Bayou Bengals, who lost 58-74 to Kentucky Saturday night at Lexington. LSU beat Louisiana college, 81-63, in its opening Wednesday.
Four sophomores will form the nucleus of tonight's probable starting unit. They are Maurice King, 6-2 hustler form Kansas City, Mo. R. T. Coles; Lew Johnson, 6-6) post man from Argentine high in Kansas City, and two former Shawnee-Mission stars, Gene Elstun, 6-3, and John Parker, 5-11). Johnson may not be able to answer the starting call because of a groin injury.
How useful Johnson will be remains in doubt. He is limping with a pulled groin.
It is no secret that Allen is chiefly concerned over his post situation, which has been eminently manned the past five years by Clyde Lovellette and B. H. Born, both 6-9, both all-American, and both scoring champions. None of the prospective replacements has taken full charge toward excellence through the early practice rounds.
Allen and his aides, Dick Harp and Jack Eskridge, also have been drilling feverishly to bring out some semblance of the famed half-court press, with which the Jayhawks have bebedeviled the enemy so sorely over the past three seasons. This too, will be scarcely recognized, at least through the early going, what with Al Kelley, the old hatchet-handed ballhawk; Harold Patterson, and Born, a great defender, gone.
LSU returns five men who played a hand in the 68-63 vanquishing of KU last December at Baton Rouge. Three of them, Don Belcher, the club's third-ranking scorer last season; Ned Clark, 6-15 senior who has been from from forward to center; and Norm Magee, 5-11 guard, who trailed only Bob Pettit on the Bengal scoring tables in '54, will start.
The madeover Jayhawks will be protecting a 29-game home-court winning streak which extends back to the 1951 finale against Iowa State. It is the longest in Mt. Oread history.
Lions Win 3rd Straight Crown
By UNITED PRESS
The Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns cruised toward their third straight clash for the National Football league championship today while the death of a player marred a pro campaign already marred by serious injuries and charges of "dirty play."
Dave Sparks, 26-year-old Washington Daveskins guard from Lorain, Ohio, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack while dining at a friend's home two hours after taking part in his team's 34-14 loss to Cleveland. Sparks hurt his hip early in the game at Washington but returned to action and did not complain of feeling ill.
While Cleveland clinched at least a tie for its fifth straight Eastern division title, Detroit won its hird straight Western crown by rallying to tie the inspired Eagles, 13-13.
The New York Giants retained a mathematical chance to tie Cleveland by downing the Pittsburgh Steelers. 24-3.
New York, trailing by 14 games, could tie for the title by beating Philadelphia in its final start next Sunday—if Cleveland loses to Pittsburgh and Detroit. The Browns can win by tying one of the games.
Bowling Results
Men's Bowling League
Thursday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m.
Pi Kappa Alpha 4-0 over Plebes;
Sigma Nu 4-0 over Mulemean;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 4-0 over
Sigma Chi.
6:15 p.m.
Nighthawks 4-0 over Pi Kappa Sigma; YMCA 2-2 over Lambda Chi Alpha; K-Jays 3-1 over Whizits.
8:30 p.m.
Phi Gamma Delta 2-2 with Phi Delta Theta; Dirty Boogers 4-0 over Marauders; Theta Chi 3-1 over Bell Ringers.
IM Schedule
UVO vs. Downbeats, 4:00, Annex
TOMORROW A Independent
Division II
Division I
Jim Beam vs. AIA 7:00, Annex
Jimmy All Stars vs. NROTC 5:00,
4:00
Stephenson vs. AFROTC, 6:00,
Annex
Outlaws vs. Oread, 8:00, Annex
Division IV
Beta vs. ATO, 8:30, E. Robinson
Dueling, V.
Division V
ATO vs. DU, 8:30, W Robinson
Beta vs. Phi Delt, 9:15, W Robin-
Delts vs. Kappa Sig, 9:15, E. Robinson
Intramural Scores SATURDAY
SATURDAY
Independent "A Nu Sigma Nu 63, 69'ers 33.
Nu Sigma Nu 63, 69ers 33
Independent "P"
Independent "B"
Chicken Pickers 38, KHK 24;
Theta Tau 27, Stephenson 20; Alpha
Chi Sigma 21, AFROTC 19.
Fraternity "C"
Sigma Nu 34, ATO II 27; Sigma Chi I 24. Phi Delta Theta IV 23.
SUNDAY Fraternity "C"
Jayhawks Will Be Protecting Hoch Record of 29 Victories
Delta Upsilon 24, Sigma Chi 17;
Phi Kappa Psi II 19, Alpha Tau Omega III 17; Phi Delta Theta II 46,
Sigma Alpha Eppsilon II 15; Delta Tau Delta II 23, Sigma Chi II 12;
Delta Tai I 30, Phi Kappa Psi I 21;
Phi Gamma Delta III 36, Sigma Phi Epsilon I 9; Beta Theta IV 28,
Delta Chi II 15; Alpha Kappa Lambda 20,
Delta Chi III 19.
or not, the present streak is likely to endure for a generation or so, merely because the Jayhawks will be moving into their new 21-million-dollar fieldhouse. No matter what the increased volume of partisan din the enemy may encounter at the new building, he will be relieved of the current hall of horrors with its vast, arched ceiling, slanting background and concave north crowd-line.
Certainly the opening three nonleague foes will be required to play in Hoch. Tulsa follows LSU Dec. 14 with Rice booked for a two-game stand, Dec. 17 and 18.
Kansas enters its final season in Hoch auditorium, its infamous hostile opera house, Monday night, carrying a record streak of 29 consecutive victories.
The Jayhawkers haven't been felled on their home planks since February 19, 1951, when John Rogers, substitute Oklahoma forward, just beat the final gun with a 25-foot two-hander to topple the Kansans. 61-59. KU won its final home start of that season, 70-64, over Iowa State, and has continued to unrelief the all-victorious ribbon through the past three seasons.
crowdfire.
Victories never have come easy for the position in Hoch since the Josephus moved in from ancient Robinson gym in 1929. Kansas nearly always has had better-than-average to excellent fives during that span. But the notion grew in the ranks of the enemy that the hall's architecture wove a spell around the visitors, much in the fashion of the legendary "white, fluttering background" in the cew terfield bleachers of the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley field.
Whether the madeover gang is able to add any victims to the thread
It should be noted that even with the 1952 Olympians departed, the Kansans have rocketed unblemished through the last two winters. The 1954 Big Seven co-champions matched the previous all-time victory string of 26 when they belted Nebraska, 79-68, last Feb. 13. They set a new mark four nights later with an 85-74 conquest of Kansas State, and continued to inflate the skein in the final two outings against Oklahoma A&M and Colorado.
Now the victory chain must be entrusted to a new generation of players. Only one full-fledged regular, Dallas Dobbs, the brilliant little guard, returns from last year's 16-5 brigade. And the new-comers will be called upon to protect an 11-game home slate instead of the eight-game card the veterans of last winter gobbled up.
How many of its 11 home games KU will play in Hoch this winter is not definite. There is hope that the fieldhouse will be ready, to open its 17,000-capacity arena for play late in the season.
Like Kansas, which lost B. H. Born through graduation, LSU is minus its 6-9 center. Bob Pettit Nonetheless Harry "The Hat" Rabenhorst will bring a sound unit here.
Have YOU seen YOURSELF in th Jayhawker?