Indiana Tops Coaches' Poll Kansas Seventh
New York—(U.P.)Indiana, which parlayed speed, stamina and sharp-shooting to the Big Ten title and thus qualified to defend its NCAA championship, today was chosen college basketball's top team for the second straight year by the United Press board of coaches.
Coach Branch McCracken's Hoosiers, who raced through one of the nation's toughest schedules with a 19-3 record, edged undefeated Kentucky for the honor by a margin of 310 points to 293 in the final 1953-54 rankings of the 35 leading coaches who make up the United Press board.
Actually, 20 of the coaches voted Kentucky tops, compared to only 12 for the Hoosiers, but Indiana received much stronger support from all the coaches to wind up on top. Three of the coaches did not vote for Kentucky, which has three stars ineligible for the NCAA tournament because they have received their degrees.
In the final ratings, three other teams each received one first place vote—Duquesne, which ranked third; Notre Dame, ranked fifth; and
Kansan to Cover KU-MU GameTonight
The Daily Kansan will have a full staff of photographers and reporters in Columbia, Mo., tonight for the important titledeciding Big Seven clash with Missouri.
Ken Bronson, sports editor; Clarke Keys, photographer; and Sam Teaford, editorial assistant. will make the trip. Look for full coverage of the game in tomorrow's Kansan.
Colorado A&M, the Skyline conference champion, which ranked 13th.
The 35-man coaching board proved excellent prophets as the three teams which they picked before the start of the season to wind up 1-2-3 were ranked exactly in that order in the final litsings. Here is a comparison of how the coaches picked the top 10 teams to wind up, and how they finally were ranked:
ratings picks
Indiana 1 Indiana
Kentucky 2 Kentucky
Duquesne 3 Duquesne
Okla, A&M 4 KANSAS
Notre Dame 5 Okla, A&M
West, Kentucky 6 LaSalle
KANSAS 7 La. State
La. State 8 N. C. State
Holy Cross 9 Minnesota
Iowa 10 California
Even though every opponent pointed for Indiana this season as it battled through a tough Big Ten schedule and eight outside games, the Hoosiers lost only twice in the conference (to Northwestern and Iowa) and once outside, splitting a series with Oregon State in a Christmas vacation] jinket to the West Coast. In non-conference games, they tapped Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Kansas State and Louisville.
Led by all-America Don Schlundt and backcourt star Bobby Leonard, the Hoosiers proved a tireless fast-breaking team that wore down opponents with a 76.6 scoring average and a 37.3 field goal shooting percentage.
In addition to its 12 first-place votes, Indiana received 15 seconds, six thirds, one fifth and one ninth. Kentucky was the second-place choice of eight coaches and had one fourth, two sixth and one ninth-place ballot, in addition to 20 firsts.
The Hoosiers begin play this week in the NCAA championship, which they won last year at Kansas City.
The final top ten teams thus made up three each from the Midwest and South, and two each from the East and the Midlands.
LaSalle, in and out of the top 10 all season, finished in 11th place, trailed by Illinois and Colorado A&M. North Carolina State and Southern California were tied for 14th; Oregon State was 16th; Seattle and Dayton tied for 17th; followed by Rice and Duke.
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—Kansan photos by Clarke Keys
TOP SECRET—B. H. Born and Allen Kelley, Kansas co-captains talk over strategy for tonight's crucial Big Seven clash with Missouri in the top picture while the Kansas coaches, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and his assistant, Dick Harp, plot Tiger destruction in the bottom picture. The game tonight will decide the Big Seven championship and if the Jayhawkers win, they will earn the right to compete in the NCAA
regional Friday and Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.
Intramural Swimming Meet Scheduled for March 30-31
The intramural swimming meet will be held on March 30 and 31. Preliminaries in all events except diving will be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 30. The finals, plus the entire diving event, will take place at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 31.
Each organized house will be limited to one freestyle relay and one medley relay team. There is no limit as to the number of swimmers that may be entered for each event, but swimmers are limited to two events. Diving and relays are considered events.
All preliminary events will be based on time and the eight best times in each event except relays will score one qualifying point. The four best times in each event will swim in the finals.
Swimming managers are requested to organize their teams and start practice sessions immediately.
The deadline date for all entries is 4 p.m. Monday, March 29. Under no circumstances will late entries be accepted.
"Swimmers need plenty of water conditioning, and the smart manager will see that his boys get plenty of practice before the meet," Walt Mikols, intramural director, said.
Practice times are from 7-9 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays and 2-4 p.m. on Saturdays.
The fee is twenty-five cents per man, regardless of the number of events he may enter.
Indians Terrorizing Opposition's Pitching
Baseball Roundup
By UNITED PRESS
The Cleveland Indians, causing the greatest terror in the state of Arizona since the days of the Apaches, are scalping all pitchers alive with an average of 17 hits and 15 runs per ball game.
In three exhibition games so far, two against the Giants and one against the Cubs, Cleveland has scored a total of 47 runs and 51 hits.
"The boys are sure wearing those pitchers out," said Manager Al Lopez, smiling, today, "and I hope they can keep it up."
Rookie Rudy Regalado played the key role in the Indians' 15 to 9 triumph over the Cubs at Tucson, Ariz. yesterday. Subbing for regular second baseman Bobby Avila, Regalado blasted a pair of home runs and two singles to help Cleveland to its first exhibition victory over the Cubs since 1950.
The Baltimore Orioles also went on a hitting spree as they rapped
four Giant pitchers for 18 safeties in gaining a 13 to 8 decision. Don Larsen started for the Orioles and aided his own cause by driving in four runs with a homer and a single, Teammate Don Lenhardt also honored for the Orioles while Willie Mays, Foster Castleman, and Harvey Gentry hit home runs for the Giants.
Arkansas Star Hits 38. Outshines Bevo in NAIA
Kansas City—(U.P.)More than 10,000 fans turned out to see the fabulous Bevo Francis in action in the opening round of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics basketball championship last night and watched while a comparative unknown from Arkansas stole Bevo's thunder.
George Kell's two-run triple in the third inning produced the runs that gave the Red Sox a 2 to 1 triumph over the Yankees at St. Petersburg, Fla. The Boston victory was marred somewhat, however, when outfielder Jim Piersl suffered a pulled back muscle while sliding back to second base in the third inning. Piersl is expected to be sidelined for several days.
Francis scored 28 points to lead Rio Grande, Ohio, to a 90-74 victory over Arizona State of Flagstaff. He left the game four minutes before the end on fouls.
It was guard E, C. O'Neal, playing pivot on offense for Arkansas Tech, of Russellville, who turned in the performance that Bevo was expected to.
O'Neal scored 38 points and did a dazzling job of ball handling as Tech routed Mercer university of Macon, Ga., 100-72.
Arkansas Tech was the first team to score 100 points in this year's championships, but eight times previous this season they have equalled or bettered that total.
Defending champion Southwest Missouri State started its quest of a third straight NAIA championship with a 77-72 triumph over East Tennessee of Johnson City.
East Texas State, of Commerce, winner of the NAIA pre-season tournament, moved into the second round with a 72-59 triumph over Portland in the first game of the opening round.
In other opening round games: Regis College of Denver fought off a final quarter rally by Tennessee A&I to win 61-58; Nebraska Wesleyan, of Lincoln, needed overtime to whip Whitworth college, of Spokane, Wash., 58-54; St. Peter's college of Jersey City, N.J., breezed past Wayland college, of Plainview, Texas, 76-63, and Western Illinois,
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN WITH COLLEGE DEGREES IN GENERAL SCIENCE OR MATHEMATICS
The White Sox registered their second straight Grapefruit circuit victory at Orlando, Fla., when rookie Bill Wilson's ninth inning single drove in the winning run in a 4 to 3 decision over Washington.
We are reopening our training programs for women who are interested in employment as Engineering Aides in our Engineering Department. These positions, which are permanent assignments to our engineering programs, are concerned with research, design and development work on fighter aircraft and guided missiles. Those applicants selected as Engineering Aides will be given 6 weeks of classroom training while receiving full pay. Class instruction will include a refresher course in mathematics as well as an introduction to physics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, instrumentation, etc.
Women interested in consideration for employment under this program should contact the Engineering Placement Office of the Kansas University to arrange for an interview with our representative, R. C. Donnovan who will visit Lawrence, March 10th, or submit a letter of application to:
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Today's schedule:
11 a.m.: Lawrence Tech, Detroit, vs. Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis. 12 a.m.: Southeast Louisiana, Hammond, Southeastern Oklahoma, Durant
3:30 p.m.: Geneva, Beaver Falls, Pa.
vs. Indiana State, Terre Haute.
6 p.m. Pasadena, Calif., vs. Bridge-
port, Conn.
7:30 p.m.: St. Benedict's, Atchison,
Kan., vs. East Carolina, Greenville.
S.C.
9 p.m.: Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter,
Minn., vs. Mississippi Southern,
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0:30 p.m.: St. Ambrose, Davenport,
North Dakota U., Grand Rapids.
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