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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, November 30, 1950
By TOM LYONS Kansan Sports Editor
With the 1955 cage season just around the corner, it might be appropriate to take a look at what the sophomore-laden KU basketball team can expect to run into in its first four games—which, by the way, will all be non-conference tilts played at Lawrence.
Dec. 6, the Jayhawks will meet the toughest of the three teams, Louisiana State of the South-eastern conference. LSU and KU are both weak at center since the teams lost two all-Americans. Bob Petit and B. H. Born, respectively.
Petit, a rangy 6-9 center averaged 27.3 points per game in his three varsity years at LSU. During this time he was the nation's second ranking scorer twice and led the team to the SEC title, the Sugar Bowl title, and two trips to the NCAA tournament.
But in some respects LSU is in better shape than Kansas. For instance, Coach Harry Rabenhorst has a talented group of lettermen around whom to build his team. They are Don Belcher, and Ned Clark at forwards, and Norm Magee at guard. The average height of the three is over 6 feet. Coming up to the other guard spot may be Joe Fahey, a transfer student who could become the best outside man on the team.
At the hub of the LSU attack will be Dick Holt, 6-5 center who was plagued by illness last year and saw limited action, getting into only six games. The Dell Basketball magazine says that "LSU has the speed to go down on the fast break." The sports' magazine adds that this year's team, without Bob Petit and Benny McArdle, will do well to finish third in the SEC.
Dec. 14, Tulsa of the Missouri Valley conference will invade Hoch auditorium.
Tulsa may be weaker this year due to the loss of the team's scoring punch, Dick Nunneley. But Bob Patterson, 6-4, the Dell all-sectional choice, probably will figure as Tulsa's key man. Other starters will most likely be Dick Courte, 6-5, and J. C. Duncan, 6-3. Two of the sophomores which look like first team candidates are Junior Born and Jim Krauss, the tallest man on the squad at 6-6.
The Dell book states that Tulsa has a good defense, yields points reluctantly, and features a deliberate, set-play offense. If all of this is true then the game here should prove to be an acid test for the green Kansans.
Another big test for KU will come Dec. 17 and 18 when the Rice Owls travel to Lawrence for a two-night stand. The Owls had a good year in 1954 tying with Texas for the Southwest conference championship. Then Rice whipped Texas twice straight in the playoffs, to gain a spot in the NCAA regional playoffs. The Owls stopped Big Seven champion Colorado to finish third in the regional playoffs.
It is said that the Owls can't expect too much in 1955 since the loss of Gene Schwinger, 6-6, and Don Lance, two outstanding all-conference ball players, leave big gaps to be filled.
In an attempt to fill the holes. Fred Woods, Gerry Thomas, or Terry Telligman may be used. In the backcourt will be two veterans, Bobby Brashear, 5-11, and Monte Robicheaux, 5-10.
Coaches Lost Game For Army, Writer Says
By OSCAR FRALEY
New York—(U.P.)—"The Army team's the pride and joy of every heart in gray."
Thus begins the famed song of "On, Brave Old Army Team." It is one of the great gridiron truisms, too.
Except for an overrated coach-
ing staff.
Until now, I have always regarded Earl (Red) Blaik as one of the superior masterminds of the gridiron world. Not any more.
Because, as a victorious Navy team heads toward the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans and a defeated Army team heads toward a dull winter, it is one man's opinion that the kids in Cadet gray were let down badly by misdirection on the gridiron this fall.
It lost them their first game. And it lost them their last game—the one against Navy.
There is no doubt here that Army was superior to either South Carolina or Navy on the gridiron this year. No it isn't a matter of life and death. But if right still makes might, then the Army gray should still wave unsullied in the winds which sweep the Hudson.
I recall a conversation with an Army assistant coach, who for obvious reasons shall go unnamed, after the opening loss to South Carolina. He said, and I quote:
"We on the coaching staff missed the boat. We were looking over South Carolina to Michigan. We didn't have the boys 'up' and we misplaced the personnel."
This is fairly obvious from the way the Cadets bounced back to maul Michigan, humiliate Dartmouth, demolish Duke, clobber Columbia, let down again against Virginia, rise up to smother Yale and pound Pennsylvania.
Chicago — (U.P.) — Frank Leahy, former Notre Dame football coach, rapped exclusion of unbeaten UCLA from the Rose Bowl game today as a "penalty for being good."
He said that the Uclans, rated number one in the nation, should be put into the contest against second ranked Ohio State, also unbeaten in nine games, so that the two could play for the national championship.
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"What a game that would be," he said. "If they had UCLA in that game, I wouldn't miss it for anything."
"I can't figure the thing out," Leahy said. "It's unusual to have a team in the Rose Bowl that's been beaten three times, and once by a score of 34 to 0 by a team in its own conference. I can't go along with the ruling."
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Southern California, named by the Pacific Coast conference as its Bowl representative by virtue of its finish as runner-up to UCLA in the title chase, has lost to Texas Christian, Notre Dame and UCLA with the latter taking a 34 to 0 decision. The Troians won eight games.
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"It's probably a hard earned honor for Southern California," Leahy said, "and certainly it's a good football team. But for the big one like the Rose Bowl, you ought to get the best you can locate.
"It doesn't seem like Americanism to me. You penalize a team for being good."
UCLA was excluded from the Bowl by a clause in the Big Ten-Pacific Coast agreement under which each circuit provides a "representative" team annually. The clause prohibits a team from playing in the post-season spectacle more than once in two years, and UCLA lost to Michigan State last Jan. 1.
UCLA Remains No.1 In Final UP Ratings
New York—(U.P.)-UCLA won the national collegiate football championship today in the final 1954 United Press ratings, based on the votes of the men who know the game the best, the coaches themselves.
In a close race with Ohio State, the Pacific Coast conference champions won out by seven points in the final ballots of the 35 outstanding coaches who make up the United Press rating board. It marked the first time in the five-year history of the ratings that a far west team has won the No.1 spot.
UCLA, with its first perfect record football season, was chosen as the top team by 21 of the 35 coaches. Of the 14 who did not rank the Bruins first, nine picked them for second place, four for third and one for fifth, giving UCLA a total of 328 points out of a possible 350.
20 seconds, three thirds and one fourth for a total of 321 points. It was the second closest race for the championship since the ratings were inaugurated in 1950, Maryland beating out Notre Dame last season by six points.
Ohio State, also with a perfect season, received 11 first place votes
six points.
Oklahoma, which with UCLA and Ohio State, make up the only three major teams which went through the season with perfect records, finished in third place with 279 points, followed by Notre Dame with 232 and Navy with 187. Each of those teams received one first place vote.
Like UCLA and Ohio State, both Oklahoma and Notre Dame were named on each of the 35 ballots.
Three coaches left Navy off their final ballots.
Rounding out the top 10 in the final ratings for 1954—and the United Press final ratings generally are accepted as the official ones—are Mississippi, Army, Arkansas, Miami (Fla.) and Wisconsin in that order.
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