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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 5, 1954
Phog Urges Measures To Control 'Rowdyism'
The dean of the nation's basketball coaches, Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen today decried the "maniacal manifestations" of coaches on the bench and urged that something be done to help the officials and keep unsportsmanlike crowds in control.
"Coaches should be forced to sit on the bench and stay there during the entire game," he said. "Running up and down the bench, yelling and otherwise acting like a maniac should be eliminated completely.
"We should have more technical fouls called against the benches." Allen continued. "That's the only way we are going to eliminate the rowdyism that has increased steadily in our basketball crowds in recent seasons."
Allen cited a recent instance when he said, his athletes were on a road trip.
"The partisan crowd cheered wildly for four and one-half minutes when B. H. Born left the game on personal fouls.
"That was considerably more cheering than the crowd did for its own team. We should do something easily to prevent such behaviour."
Allen placed much of the blame on the coaches. He said "maniacal manifestations" by the coaches incited the crowds and brought undeserved difficulties on the game officials.
"There are a lot of times when a coach jumps to his feet and yells to his players on the court. The crowd misinterprets these screams and actions. The fans think the coach is 'riding' a referee and that just sicks' the spectators onto the officials.
"I personally believe a technical foul should be called every time a coach gets up off the bench, unless he is walking down the line to talk to a player."
Allen said there was a time when officials were most reluctant to turn loose a barrage of technicals against a bench.
"They wouldn't get to work many games in the future for that coach," he said. Then he added:
"But that day is past.
"Coaches do not assign officials in the Big Seven conference any more. That is done by Reaves Peters, the executive secretary. So the official is 'safe' now in calling all the technical fouls he deems advisable."
Reminded that this might bring moaning coaches to Peters' doorstep, the preliminary meets will compete but said:
"Reaves has hot feet and he can move them pretty good, too."
United Press Names Selvy Its 'Player of the Year'
New York—(U.P.)—Flashy Frank Selvy of Furman, who made basketball's all-time record book the personal diary of his march to greatness, was named today by the United Press as the 1954 college basketball "Player of the Year."
The six-foot, three-inch senior from Corbin, Ky., was awarded the signal honor by the votes of 186 of the 340 sports writers and radio broadcasters who participate in the nationwide poll.
The balloting, like Selvy's drive to his second straight national scoring championship, wasn't even close. Six-foot, seven-inch TOM Gola of La Salle was a distant second with 55 votes, gaining the runnerup spot by a margin of just two votes over six-foot, nine-inch Clarence (Bevo) Francis, the small-college scoring terror from Rio Grande.
The "Player of the Year" award climaxes for Selvy one of the most amazing seasons in the history of college basketball, one which has seen him erase no fewer than 20 all-time national scoring records from the books.
Perhaps his most amazing scoring statistic is that in three years of varsity play he has racked up 2-478 points (not including games in the Southern conference tournament now underway) to smash the major-college career record of 2-154 that it took Jim Lacy of Loyola of Baltimore four years to build.
Selvy last year set a new major college record by averaging 29.5 points per game—this year he he's made that look like child's play by tallying 42.6 points per game. His other marks are of the same gigantic stature—most points in one season, most field goals, free throws attempted, and on and on.
Women's Swimming Program Underway
Women's swimming competition is now underway, with practice sessions beginning this week in Robinson pool. Swim meets will be held Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The best eight teams from each of the preliminary meets will compete for the championship title in the final meet on Thursday, March 25.
Competing houses in the Tuesday night event will be Alpha Delta Pi Corbin "Hawks," Corbin "Jays", Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta Girl Guides, Jayettes, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Locksley, Sigma Kappa and Templin.
Bosox Turn Down Vernon, To Stay With Youngsters
Manager Lou Boudreau's youth movement was flashed the green light today when the Boston Red Sox passed up a chance to obtain American league batting champion Mickey Vernon.
By UNITED PRESS
The decision means the Red Sox will open the season with a first-string lineup averaging 26 years of age—at least three years younger than any of the three other pennant contenders. Boston's average includes the 35-year-old Ted Williams —Boudreau's only concession to the graybeards.
Boudreau's likely lineup features 25-year old catcher Sam White; an infield of Dick Gernert, 24; Milt Bolling, 23; Billy Goodman, 28; and George Kell, 31; and an outfield of Jackie Jensen, 26, and Jim Piersall, 24, in addition to Williams.
The New York Yankees, meanwhile, are expected to start the season with a lineup averaging 29 years with 35-year old Phil Rizzuto the "old man" and 22-year old Mickey Mantle the "baby." The Chicago White Sox's tentative starting array also averages 29 years while the Cleveland Indians' first - string alignment averages 30.
Boudreau and General Manager Joe Cronin admitted they gave serious thought to making a major deal for Vernon but decided against it on the theory he would be a one-year gamble. Vernon batted .337 for the Washington Senators last season but will be 36 years old on April 22.
At Orlando, indications were that Vernon and Clark Griffith, the Senator's 84-year old owner would reach a salary agreement for a compromise figure of about $30,000. Vernon originally demanded $40,000, causing Griffith to put him on the block, but the slender first baseman has been reducing his demands steadily.
Ned Garver, another stubborn soldout, finally reached an agreement with the Detroit Tigers for an estimated $22,000. Garver, who had in 11-11 record last season, was resisting a 25 per cent cut from $25,000. nfielders Johnny Pesky and Buddy ficks remain unsigned.
Manager Leo Durocher designated Don Mueller as the New York Giants' No. 3 hitter and placed Wilkie Mays in the No. 5 slot, thus surrounding cleanup man Monte Irvin with a consistent hitter who doesn't hit the long ball and a long-ball hitter who doesn't hit consistently. Most drastic innovation, however, was dropping first-baseman Whitey Rockman to seventh.
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Jayhawker Swimmers Tackle Tough Iowa State Tomorrow
Coach Doug Wall's KU swimming team will hold its last dual meet of the season when it tangles with Iowa State in the KU pool at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
"This will be our toughest meet of the season, for Iowa State is always the power of the conference in swimming," Coach Wall said in viewing the meet. "Our task will be almost impossible and all we will do tomorrow is to try and bring our times down to be ready for the conference championships next week."
"We have a chance to win first place in only two events. Dick Eflin has a chance to win first in the 50-yard free style and Jerry Jester in the diving event, but from there on Iowa State is the top heavy favorite."
"Iowa State lost its first dual meet in 13 years last week to Oklahoma; it is easy to see how completely it has dominated the league. Iowa State holds all of the KU-Iowa State dual records, and more than half of the KU pool records."
"By improving our times in this meet we will have a good chance to finish third in the league meet Friday and Saturday. Oklahoma and Iowa State will take the top spots and we will fight it out with Nebraska and Colorado. If we can finish as high as third, it will be the first
time since 1937 that we have finished, that high.
Kansas has lost two dual meets to Colorado this season and has won one out of three from Nebraska.
The Cyclones top winners are Mike LaMair and Diek McKevitt. LaMair is one of the finest men in the country in the breast stroke, and McKevitt missed tying the World Record in the 100-yard free style by four seconds.
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