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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Feb. 11, 1954
Dobbs High on List For 'Rookie' Honor
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.R.) Only three teams still held championship hopes in the Big Seven conference basketball race today, but at five member schools had contenders for "Rookie of the W
Phi Delts Eye National Title
The Phi Delt basketball team, which has already clinched a berth in the playoffs for the Hill championship, will compete in the national Phi Delt invitational tournament tomorrow and Saturday at Minneapolis, Minn.
The Phi Delta was undefeated in intramural plays this season, as they romped to five straight wins in Division I. Last year they won the Hill championship with a win over the Betas.
Seven other teams will be represented in the tournament. Teams from South Dakota, Wake Forest, Northwestern, Nebraska, Washburn, and Minnesota will compete for the title.
To be eligible for the competition, a team had to have won the intramural championship at their school the year before.
The 10-man team will leave Lawrence tonight for Minneapolis, and will play Minnesota tomorrow in the first round of competition. Minnesota is the co-favorite with KU in the tournament.
The members of the team who will make the trip are Dick Hadley, Tom Matthews, Hugh Buchanan, Max Merrill, Darrrell Famestil, Don Martine, Dean Graves, Les Wenger, Kent Mueller, and Bob Richards. They will be accompanied by Coach John Simons.
Brooks Wants Shot at Title
New York —(U.P.)— Young Nate Brooks of Cleveland, a novice professional who won the North American bantamweight championship with an injured right hand, said today he craved a shot at Australian Jimmy Carruthers' world title "as soon as possible."
Bill Meek, football coach at Kansas State college, was honored as Manhattan's man of the year. He received the Junior Chamber of Commerce's distinguished service award for his success as a football coach.
Sophomores are playing no small roles in the championship race.
Most outstanding to date has been Dallas Dobbs, a six-foot, 165-pound Kansas guard who, despite being a member of a championship squad that had three returning starters, has managed to be in the opening lineup for each game Kansas has played thus far.
But Dobbs has several rivals for the rookie award.
Nebraska's Charles Smith was making a strong bid and so also was Colorado's Mel Coffman. Norm Stewart of Missouri and J. R. Snyder of Kansas State were two others whose chances of succeeding were regarded as exponentially bright.
Dobbs, Stewart, and Snyder were among the conference's top 15 scorers in their first year of college competition.
And, oddly enough, of these five leading sophomore performers, only one was a native son—Missouri's Stewart from Shelbyville.
Dobbs migrated to Kansas from Bartlesville, Oka; Synder went to Kansas State from Elwood, Ind.; Coffman at Colorado is a Ponca City, Okla, boy, and Nebraska's Smith calls Anderson, Ind. his home.
From a scoring standpoint, here's how the Big Seven's top sophomores ranked as the teams moved well into the final half of the 1954 season:
Player School G. Pts. Av.
Dallas Dobbs, Kansas 6 80 13.3
Norm Stewart, Missouri 6 63 10.5
J. R. Snyder, K-State 6 59 9.8
Charles Smith, Neb.raska 5 41 8.2
Mel Coffman, Colorado 6 48 8.0
Larry Powell, K-State 4 28 7.0
Bill Brainard, Kansas 4 61 4.9
James Rangles, Colorado 6 35 5.8
Charles Denny, Missouri 6 25 5.0
Snyder at 5-11 is the "midget" of the group. But it's plain to see the coaches are thinking in tall terms where another season is concerned.
Sophomores who have seen considerable action include Powell, who is 6-7; George Hannah of Colorado, also 6-7; Denny and Harold McElroy of Kansas, both at 6-5; Stewart and Carl Brown of Oklahoma, both at 6-4.
The Milwaukee Braves asked waivers on catcher Walker Cooper yesterday. Cooper, a 13 year veteran in the major leagues, will become a free agent Feb. 9 unless one of the other 15 clubs claims him.
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St. Benedict's Leads CIC
Defending champion St. Benedict's (5-0) sported a spotlight record today as the team prepared to swing into the final half of the 1954 CIC basketball race.
Showing a balanced attack around
sceing In addition to setting up the teams patterns, he also did a good job on rebounding. So far this season he has scored 17 points in the nine games in which he has seen action for an average of one and nine-tenths points per contest
The Jayhawkers will meet Nebraska here Saturday night in an important Big Seven clash. Kansas is currently in second place in the Big Seven with a 5-1 record while Nebraska has a 4-2 mark. The Cornhaskers have been beaten in their last two outings by Colorado and Kansas State.
Heitholt saw considerable action when he was a freshman in 1951-52, when he was a frontline substitute on the team which won the national championship. Last year he started at a guard spot in the first games of the season, but he was later replaced by Gil Reich.
His most impressive showing of the season was against Tulsa where he sparked the teams play the second half. He quarterbacked the pattern play of the team and scored four points.
He took over the guard spot which Larry Davenport has held since the second game of the season. Davenport has started 13 of the 14 games which Kansas has played this season. In the only game which he didn't start, John Anderson replaced him.
Until the Kansas State game, he had not seen much action this year, but after he played so well in that game, he has been gradually seeing more action.
Heitholt, a 2-year letterman, started out slowly this season. His first good performance was against Kansas State at Manhattan. In this game he played a solid floor game and scored an important basket late in the contest when he drove the base line for a layup.
Heitholt Gets Starting Nod As KU Preps for Nebraska
In the first lineup change since the game with Louisiana State, Hall Heitholt, 6-3 junior, moved into the starting lineup on the KU basketball team after his fine showing against Tulsa Monday night.
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How They Stand
BIG SEVEN STANDINGS
Team W. L. Pct. Pts. Op.
Colorado 6 1 .857 498 459
Kansas 5 1 .833 458 384
Nebraska 5 2 .667 455 445
K-State 3 4 .428 484 471
Missouri 2 5 .285 487 518
Oklahoma 2 5 .285 488 521
ta-State 1 5 .167 358 398
STANDINGS ALL GAMES
Kansas 10 4 7.71 1009 926
K.-State 9 7 5.62 1173 1121
Nebraska 9 8 4.66 1071 1116
Colorado 7 8 4.66 928 1002
Missouri 6 9 4.00 1025 1036
Oklahoma 5 10 3.33 1029 1102
Ia-State 4 10 2.85 1000 1059
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