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University Daily Kansan Monday, Feb. 15, 1954
Kansas Topples Nebraska, 79-68 To Gain Tie for Big Seven Lead
Dobbs Plunks 22 To Pace Victory
By DANA LEIBENGOOD
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor The red-hot shooting of Dallas Dobbs and Al Kelley led Kansas to a 79-68 victory over Nebraska Saturday night and into a tie with Colorado for first place in the Big Seven conference.
The victory equalled the all-time Kansas home winning streak of 28 victories which was set in the seasons from 1938-1941. If Kansas can beat Kansas State here Wednesday night this team will establish a new record.
Kansas and Colorado each has a record of six victories and one defeat, while Nebraska dropped deeper into third place in the standings with a record of four victories and three defeats.
The shooting of Dobbs and Kelley was the main factor in the victory over Nebraska. Dobbs took scoring honors with 22 points, one more than the total accumulated by both teams on Nebraska center. Kelley scored 20 points the first time this season in his best scoring effort of the year.
Kelley scored 13 points to lead Kansas to an 11-point halftime ad-
-Kansan photo by Jim Baird
Box Score
NO YOU CAN'T—Willard Fagler, Nebraska forward, cradles the ball while Kansas' B. H. Born tries to retrieve it. The action took place during the Kansas-Nebraska ball game Saturday night. Kansas won, 79-68.
Nebraska G-Ga F-Fa Pf Tt
Fagler 0-7 6-1 F-2 1-1
Hare 0-0 0-0 1 0
Matzkie 4-10 0-0 4 8
Smith 0-0 1-1 2 1
Weber 1-4 3-6 5 5
Johnson 8-16 5-8 4 21
Renzelman 3-3 1-4 2 7
Buel 1-4 0-0 2 2
Coufal 2-3 1-2 1 5
Segar 4-6 4-7 0 1
Boich 0-2 1-2 0 1
Kansas jumped off to an early lead when Patterson hit the first field goal of the game after 50 seconds of play in the first quarter. Born added a free throw to put the Jayhawkers on top 3-0 before Fred Segar hit a set shot for Nebraska 40 seconds later.
Indiana, A&M Suffer Losses
Kansas led throughout the contest, usually with a lead of seven to 15 points, and by no less than seven at any time during the second half. Stan Matzke and Gary Renzelman led a desperate last quarter scoring surge for Nebraska, with six and five points respectively, to Kansas from 15 points to eight, 76-88, with four minutes left in the game. The Jayhawks then went into a stall which was climaxed when John Anderson hit a lay up in the final seconds of the game.
That threw the Big 10 derby into a deadlock between the Hoosiers and Iowa, which came through with an overtime, 86-82, victory over Minnesota. The co-leaders each have two league games scheduled this week. If they each win both, the league's game of the year will come up next Monday when they collide on the Hoosiers' court at Bloomington, Ind.
The Aggies, ranked fourth nationally after winning 17 straight games, were sent crashing, 63-60, by Oklahoma. The Aggies still are unbeaten in Missouri Valley conference play, but can't afford even a mild slump because Wichita is hot on their heels. The Aggies can clinch a title tie by winning two of their remaining four league games.
New York — (U.P.)—Jolted by the twin defeats of Indiana and Oklahoma A&M and a bit giddy from watching Frank Selvy smash four all-time records by scoring 100 points in one game, college basketball was in a mighty confused state today with tournament time less than a mouth away
Every major conference race still is up in the air, and that's the chief reason why so far only one of the 24 berths in the NCAA tournament has been filled and only three of the 12 National Invitation tournament spots.
Indiana, the defending national champion and ranked first in the nation this season by the United Press board of coaches, was dealt a shocking, 100-99 defeat Saturday by 11 times beaten Northwestern.
Both teams hit a high percentage of field goal attempts. Kansas hit 28 of 64 field goal attempts for 44 per cent, and Nebraska hit 23 of 57 for 40 per cent.
Totals 23-57 22-36 28 68
Kansas G-Ga F-Fa Pf Tr
Brainard 0-2 3-6 0 3
Dawenport 1-4 1-2 0 3
Kelley 7-10 6-8 5 20
McEilroy 0-0 0-2 2 0
Padgett 2-4 1-6 1 5
Pattett 5-9 2-5 1 12
Born 1-12 8-10 5 10
Anderson 1-1 0-0 1 2
Dobbs 10-18 2-4 2 22
Hetholt 0-2 2-4 5 0
Wolfe 0-0 0-0 0 0
Divich 1-2 0-1 2 2
Totals 28-64 23-46 24 79
Harold Patterson and B. H. Born made up the other half of the 4-man scoring attack by scoring 12 and 10 points, respectively.
vantage, 43-32, and he scored another seven points before fouling out with a minute and ten seconds left in the third quarter. Dobbs took up the scoring slack left by the departure of Kelley by scoring 14 points in the final two quarters to preserve the Kansas lead which never dropped below seven points in the second half.
Crucial Games On Tap For Kansas, Colorado
Kansas and Colorado, tied for the lead in the Big Seven cage scramble, each tackle two important basketball games this week. Kansas plays Kansas State here Wednesday night and then travels to Iowa State for a game Saturday night.
Colorado meets Iowa State tonight and Nebraska Saturday night, both games at home.
The Buffs and Kansas now appear to have the cage race all to themselves. Kansas' defeat of Nebraska Saturday night almost pushed the Cornhuskers out of contention. Kansas State is not considered a threat anymore nor is Missouri, Oklahoma or Iowa State. Any of these could cloud the picture, however, if they should knock off either Kansas or Colorado down the home stretch.
Kansas will go into this contest as the favorite, just as it will in the Iowa State game at Ames. Iowa State has a poor record, but it has played several tight games. It lost to Missouri at Columbia by only four points, 75-71, and to Colorado at Ames by two points, 67-65.
Despite the fact that it has lost five of eight conference games and has two of its starting players in the hospital, Kansas State will be a dangerous foe. If Jesse Prisock and Jim Smith play, the Wildcats will be extremely rough and in this traditional game anything can happen. Kansas State suffered its fifth loss in conference play Saturday night when it bowed to Iowa State for the second time this season, 64-62. Prisock, the team's leading scorer, saw no action in this contest and Smith played only part of the first quarter.
Nebraska will be seeking to gain revenge for the defeat which Colorado handed them at home, 75-67, in their Saturday game. Nebraska has lost three in a row and must defeat Oklahoma and Colorado to remain in the running for the league. Oklahoma beat Kansas last week to drop two games out of first in the conference standings.
Oklahoma should be a hard team to defeat for it is fresh from the
league's top upset last week, a 63-69 victory over Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater. The Aggies were the No.4 team in the nation.
Lester Lane scored 18 points to lead the upset. This was only the second time since Henry Iba took over as A&M coach that he has lost to Oklahoma at Stillwater. Oklahoma took over the lead late in the third quarter and held on for the victory.
Missouri went on a scoring rampage Saturday night by beating Houston, 96-62, and break the all-time Missouri scoring record. Bob Reiter scored 33 points in the contest which tied the record for the most points scored by a player in Brewer fieldhouse.
After this week's action, Kansas and Colorado will have only one more conference game before meeting head on in the season's most important game at Lawrence, March 1. Either or both teams could lose before this meeting but it isn't likely. Kansas will be favored to repeat its victory over Nebraska when the teams meet next Monday and Colorado will have only one favorite over Oklahoma at Norman in their game Feb. 27.
Missouri plays only one game this week, that with Oklahoma at Missouri on Saturday.
Kansas State could prove to be the league spoiler yet, for it must play Colorado at Boulder on March 6. So far they are the only team to beat the Buffs, handing them a 66-60 defeat at Manhattan.
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