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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1954
KU Basketball
Pivot Spot Still in Doubt, But Lew Johnson Has Edge
Inexperience at the pivot position and the untested ability of several younger members of the squad loom as question marks as the Kansas Jayhawks begin an intensive basketball rebuilding program.
Facing head coach "Phog" Allen and his assistant Dick Harp is the chore of finding replacements for Al Kelly, B. H. Born and Harold Patterson, mainstays in last year's campaign, who were lost by graduation.
The only sure starter so far is Dallas Dobbs, returning all Big-Seven guard. Other starting berths are uncertain as several combinations have been used since drills began two weeks ago.
Lewis Johnson, 6-foot 6½-inch
sonhomme has the edge for the
center position,
according to
Harp. Also battling for the slot position are Lee
Green, 6-foot 5-inch sophomore;
Jim Toft, 6-foot
6-inch junior,
and Dick Warren,
6-foot 7-inch junior
transfer from
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Moberly (Mo.) junior college.
Bill Brainard, 6-foot 3-inch junior who started at the center position in the Varsity-Freshmen game has been switched to forward in an attempt to build the center spot around the taller boys.
Jerry Alberts and Larry Davenport, also three year performers
performers,
will tie
chris Divich,
Gene Elstun,
Harry Jett,
and Maurice King,
for the starting
forward positions.
Senior guard Bill Heilholt, started in the Varsity Fresh
DAVENPORT men game will have competition from Blaire Hollinger, sophomore, and Ronnie Johnston, sophomore prospect who has drawn special praise from the coaches for his hustling play.
Harp pointed out that an overall lack of speed may alter the pressing defense used by KU in past years. He said that the starting positions are so uncertain "It would be impossible to name five men right now as starters for the first game."
Commenting on the personnel situation, Harp said. "There may be some games when not one veteran player will be on the floor."
NU in Good Shape For OU Encounter
Lincoln, Neb.,—(U,P)—The University of Nebraska, in as good a physical shape as it has been in all season, held a light workout today in preparation for mighty Oklahoma Saturday.
Coach Bill Glassford said only two regulars, ends Dean Lux and Jack Bailey might not see action. They were injured in the Pittsburgh game last Saturday.
Glassford picked left halfback Ron Clark to captain the team in the Oklahoma encounter.
Manhattan—(U,P)—At least o n e member of the Kansas State football squad will see post-season action. He is Corky Taylor, a flashy halfback selected for a berth on the West's team in the annual Shrine game played in San Francisco.
Coach Bill Meek said the entire Wildcat squad was pleased with the selection. "He is one of the outstanding backs in the Big Seven conference," Meek said. "He deserves the opportunity."
Taylor's selection was the realization of a boyhood dream. When notified of the choice, the halfback said he had dreamed of playing in the Shrine game since he first read about it as a freshman in high school. He said he made a speech about it then.
Kansas State still has a chance of an Orange Bowl bid.
First Cage Clinic Scheduled Here
The first in a series of annual "basketball clinics" is scheduled next week, Nov. 26 and 27, at the University of Kansas, featuring the Kansas pressure defense, fast break, and defense against it.
The two-day program, a jointly-sponsored project of the KU athletic department and University Extension, will be conducted by a staff headed by Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, head basketball coach here for 37 years.
The KU varsity basketball squad will be used for demonstrations.
The clinic will be a workshop in fundamentals of offense and defense, team offense and defense with the Kansas "pressure defense" package, athletic training, sports publicity for high school teams, and a discussion of "motor learning," as it applies to basketball.
A symposium panel of high school coaches, who will be named later, is scheduled.
Dr. Allen's staff for the clinic includes Dick Harp, assistant KU basketball coach; Dr. Ed Elbel, professor of physical education; Dean Nesmith, KU trainer; Don Pierce, sports publicity director, and the panel of high school coaches.
Cubs' Ralph Kiner Sold to Cleveland
Cleveland —(U.P.)—The Cleveland Indians announced today they had obtained homerun hitter Ralph Kiner from the Chicago Cubs for "a large amount of cash" and undisclosed players.
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2 KU Gridders On Injured List
Two KU starters remained on the injured list yesterday as the Jayhawks, after dropping a non-conference tilt 12-47 to Oklahoma A&M, last Saturday, began workouts for their season finale with Missouri this weekend.
Dick Reich, junior center was nursing a sore knee and may not be able to see action at Columbia this Saturday. Reich received the injury last Saturday. Don Pfutzenreuter, sophomore right guard, sidelined in the Oklahoma A&M game with sprained chest muscles and a sore shoulder, wore pads last night but did no contact work.
Individual blocking and tackling were stressed in the practice session.
Jockey Can Win Without 'Dancer'
New York —(U.P.)— When Native Dancer was retired earlier this year some New York wiseacres remarked: "Well, there goes Eric Guerin's meal ticket."
Last year, Guerin accounted for 24 stake victories, 10 of them coming aboard Native Dancer's broad back. This year, little Eric fell only two short of his 1953 mark and probably would have surpassed it if he hadn't picked up a 10-day suspension during the last week of the New York season.
The New York racing season closed yesterday and once again Guerin emerged as one of the leading riders on the "big apple." While Native Dancer was munching grass on a Maryland farm, his former rider piloted 17 stake winners in New York and accounted for five more on "foreign" fields.
The inference was that without the dancer to depend upon for periodic visits to the winner's circle, Guerin would be just another jockey.
Guerin's mounts last year earned approximately $1,500,000. His own earnings, based on a jockey's flat 10 per cent fee, came to about $150,000—a figure he probably will approach again this year.
However, nothing could have been further from the truth.
Kiner, 32, spent most of his major league career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was traded to the Cubs during the 1953 season, and last year as an outfielder with Chicago, batted .285 and hit 22 home runs.
Kiner had to be passed on waivers by other National league clubs in order to come to Cleveland, the 1954 American league champion.
Coach Henry (Red) Sanders' next Saturday seek to complete the first perfect season in UCLA's football history when they meet sixth-ranked Southern California in a conference showdown which shapes up as the No. 1 game on the week-end program.
Even if they win, the Bruins are not eligible for the Rose Bowl because they participated last New Year's Day. Southern California, which also is unbeaten in conference play, is almost certain to get the bowl bid no matter what the outcome of the UCLA clash.
Kansas City, Mo. (U.P.)—Owner Arnold Johnson and newly-named business manager Parke Carroll today started to do "a year's work in five months" to get the Kansas City Athletics ready for major league competition.
UCLA Remains At Top of Poll
Breaking the balloting down to points, UCLA had 333 out of a possible 350 total, the Buckeyes had 320 and Oklahoma 278. The powerful Bruins from the Pacific Coast conference thus attracted three less first place votes and five less points than last week. And their margin over Ohio State was narrowed from 28 to 13 points.
Arkansas' fall also gave Notre Dame, Army, Southern California and Navy a chance to move higher. Notre Dame, Army and the Trojans each moved up one notch to fill the fourth, fifth and sixth rankings. Navy vaulted three places to seventh place. Mississippi, a top sugar or Cotton Bowl contender, retained eighth, followed by SMU and Arkansas.
Parke Carroll—
New York — (L)P)— UCLA, which took last weekend off to rest up for its big objective game, lost some ground to Ohio State in the race for the mythical college football championship, but topped the United Press ratings today for the fourth week in a row.
Southern Methodist's surprise victory which dumped Arkansas from the perfect-record ranks brought about the major change in this week's top 10 teams. The triumph vaulted the Mustangs to ninth place and dropped Arkansas from fourth to 10th.
Twenty three of the 35 leading coaches who make up the United Press rating board selected UCLA tops in the nation. Nine coaches voted for Ohio State and three for Oklahoma. All three teams have won eight straight games.
1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Sets New Style
Head of Kansas City Blues Named A's Business Manager
The completely new, long and lean 1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe will be shown publicly on Wednesday, November 17 in 3,200 dealer showrooms coast to coast. Features a new 250-horsepower FirePower V-8 engine, fully-automatic PowerFlite transmission, new PowerFlite range selector on the dash, full-time coaxial power supply, new high-performance suspension, it is available in six-passenger sedan, Newport hardtop coupe, new St. Regis special two-tone hardtop coupe, convertible and Town and Country wagon on a 126-inch wheelbase.
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- Johnson named Carroll, a former newspaperman with a long career as manager in Triple-A baseball, as president and business manager of the former Philadelphia team yesterday.
team yesterday. He said he would pick a field manager soon, possibly tomorrow. Asked who the leading candidates were, he was non-committal.
He said Eddie Joost, who piloted the Philadelphia Athletics last season, was still in the running for the post.
"We have several men under consideration," he said. "I've read a lot about Lou Boudreau (former Boston Red Sox manager) being a strong candidate, but there are others, too."
Johnson arrived in Kansas City from his home in Chicago Sunday night. His purchase of the Athletics france necessitated the sale and lease of Blues stadium here and getting it ready for major league baseball.
"We've got a year's work to do in five months," he said.
The 47-year-old realtor and industrialist held a news conference yesterday in the stadium. Carpenters were already at work to increase seating capacity from 17,500 to 36,000. The Webb-Winnenter Construction company, which has the contract for rebuilding the stadium, moved in heavy equipment today.
Johnson said he and city officials have reached an "oral agreement" on the sale and lease of the stadium, and that his architect, Victor Nayper of New York, would arrive today.
Carroll, 50-year-old former sports editor of the old Kansas City Journal, which folded in 1942, has been general manager of the Kansas City Blues, a New York Yankee club here, since 1950. He moved from Triple-A to major league baseball without having to leave his office. He had earlier served with the Minneapolis Millers of the American association and joined the Yankee chain as general maanger of the Newark, N.J. Bears of the International league.
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