Page 4 University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 11. 195
Santee Suspended From NCAA Meet
Wes Santee, KU's greatest distance man ever and holder of the NCAA and AAU American mile records, Friday was ruled ineligible for the NCAA track meet at Ann Arbor, Mich., in early June.
The reason the ruling group of the association, meeting in conjunction with the NCAA coaches' convention in Cincinnati, gave was that Santee has used all of his allowed three years of eligibility because two words—five letters in all—were omitted from an entry blank for an AAU-sponsored track meet June 22-23, 1951, at Berkeley, Calif.
The NCAA ruled that Santee competed in that meet as a member of the Jayhawk varsity, and combined with two years of regular varsity competition in 1952 and 1953, has terminated his collegiate eligibility.
The Ashland senior, then a freshman at the University, entered the 1951 meet as a member of the K-Club, lettermen's organization, along with hurdlers Bob DeVinney and Jack Greenwood, and distance man Herb Semper. However, on the official entry blank for the four, the words "K-Club" were left off following the name of the University.
Thus, on a minute technicality, Santee was ruled to have used in that meet (in which he took second to Fred Wilt in the 5,000-meter run) one whole year of eligibility. The group did not, however, make any mention of KU's recent NCAA cross country championship team of which Santee was a member.
It has long been a known fact that varsity men and other members of track teams from various colleges and universities are competing in such meets as the AAU one but not under the name of their university. Such names as Grand Street Boys and the New York Athletic club can be seen in results of many meets and no eyebrows are raised.
In the annual AAU Missouri Valley meet held each spring at Shawnee-Mission High school at Kansas City, boys from the several Big Seven schools compete as M-Club, Wildcat club, and other organization members. But in this case the club designation was omitted by accident from one entry blank and Santee has to suffer the penalties.
Kansas Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton was the first here to take the blame for the incident, the second in which Santee has been involved in recent weeks. Easton was at the Cincinnati meeting to plead Sant'e's case but got nowhere as the strict letter of the law was observed.
"I am very disappointed that the NCAA does not have a more humane outlook," he said.
A&M, Wichita Control Loop
The Missouri Valley conference presented two basketball giants today--defending champion Oklahoma A&M and the Wichita Shockers.
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A third could develop, but at the moment St. Louis still is plagued with two aces sidelined as a result of illness.
Ralph Miller's Wichita cages thundered to three more triumphs last week, running their over-all season record to 14-1 and boosting the team into the top position in the conference standings with a 3-0 mark.
Oklahoma A & M, meanwhile, bagged its 10th straight victory to increase its season record to 13-1. The triumph came at the expense of Houston, 76-61, in the champion's first conference start.
St. Louis, despite the loss of Dick Boushka and Jack Shockley, edge Detroit, 70-*4, in its conference bow and thus matched the Oklahoma A&M 1-0 conference standing.
Boasting the best season records of any teams in the midlands, Wichita and A&M ranked as strong choices to add to their laurels in this week's play.
Wichita has won 12 in a row since losing to Seattle, 89-77, early last month. Oklahoma A&M has been beaten only by Minnesota, and that by a 1-point, 57-56 margin.
The two teams will not cross paths
until 4, when A&M will visit
Wielki.
But A&M will meet the giant of the Big Seven conference Tuesday night in Stillwater, where Kansas' Jayhawkers will be the boes. At Attica, the 25 teams home court winning string for Hank Iba's Oklahoma Cowpokes.
Conference warfare will be limited to Saturday night this week. After the meeting with Kansas, Oklahoma A&M will invade Tulsa to play the Hurricanes. Houston will be at St. Louis and Detroit at Wichita in other loop battles Saturday.
Wichita and Detroit staged a thriller in their initial clash last Monday. Wichita won in overtime on a last-minute field goal by reserve center Bob Hodgson. The score was 77-75.
That was Wichita's only scare. The Shockers later defeated Houston, 78-64, and Tulsa, 75-65.
One, Maybe Two Will Lose First In Big 7 Race
Kansas, Kansas State, and Nebraska have perfect 1.000 ratings in the Big Seven conference today, but at least one—and possibly two—of the squads will fall back before the week is over.
By UNITED PRESS
Kansas State and Nebraska collide in Lincoln tonight, with Kansas State the favorite.
Ten, by way of climaxing the week's activities, Kansas and Kansas State will clash in Manhattan Saturday night.
Kansas has perhaps the biggest assignment of all loop members, since the Jayhawks have a date with Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater Tuesday night. This battle brings together big men and big women defending Missouri Valley champions who are the choice to repeat their 1953 conquest.
Colorado pulled the big surprise last week, opening with a 66-62 victory over Missouri at Columbia, but Colorado couldn't do it again last Saturday, and lost to Kansas State by 60-66.
Other Big Seven action will involve disappointing Oklahoma and Colorado at Baudoin tonight; Mississippi at State at Oklahoma Saturday night.
Kansas marked up its fifth and sixth straight triumphs—and the 23rd and 24th in a row on the home court—by disposing of Oklahoma, 76-72, and Missouri, 86-69. Nebraska, meanwhile, showed improvement as the Huskers trimmed Iowa State, 74-60, and Oklahoma, 76-62.
Jerry Jung, the key man in Kansas State's play, enjoyed his best night of the season, collecting 18 points against Colorado. The all-around performance of the Wildcats was definitely improved over the team's showing in the 63-78 upset loss to Michigan State earlier in the week.
Burdette Halderson, 6-7 center,
was the big gun in Colorado's attack
against both Missouri and Kansas
State. He banged in 26 points against
Mizzou and 24 against K-State, but
lacked the necessary support from
his teammates to give Colorado two
wins in a row.
Paul Turner, ex-KU star whose last minute field goal in 1946 gave Oklahoma its last Big Seven loss, 13-16, has been signed as coach of football and track at Highland Park High school, Topeka.
One other non-loop team made off with a victory over a Big Seven representative last week as Bradley posted a one-sided 92-76 score against Iowa State.
Upsets Throw Leagues Into Many-Sided Ties
Upsets by Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Chi threw the division IV standings in Fraternity "A" basketball into a 4-way tie for first place in intramural play Friday.
In Division I of Independent ball Tappa Keg moved into a temporary half-game lead over idle Club 69 by overpowering Freeform while Indiana club triumphed over the Optimizers.
One other game scheduled for Friday was taken by Lambda Chi on a forfeit from Alpha Phi Alpha.
ATO 45, Delta Chi 37
Consistent play by ATO paid off as it dumped previously unbeaten Delta Chi 45-37, to give each club a 2-1 season mark. ATO took a 23-18 lead at halftime and maintained that pace in the second half for the win.
Verne Moser topped the winners' scoring with 15 points, while Dick Billings backed him up with 10. Game honors were taken by Delta Chi's Punky Hoglund who rang in 21 points for the game.
Sigma Chi 44, Phi Psi 41
Sigma Trailier 22-25 at intermission, Allen led a Sigma Chi rally in
Kansas basketball Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen this morning named a 12-man traveling squelting for tomorrow's clash with Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater. The team to leave early this afternoon.
12-Man Squad Goes to A&M
Jerry Alberts, B. H. Born, Bil Brainard, Larry Davenport, Da Dobbs, Al Kelley, Harold McEilroy, Gary Padgett, Harold Patterson, La-Vannes Squires, Jim Toft, and Jack Wolfe.
North Wins Game But Players Cash In
Players making the trip;
Mobile, Ala. —(U,P)— There were $500 paychecks today for each victorious Yankee, $400 checks for each losing Southerner, after the Senior Bowl game Saturday, won by the North with its powerful running attack, 20-14, before a crowd of 28,174
Lt. Johnny Amberg Best Service Player
Lt. Johnny Amberg, former Kansas football backfield star and co-captain, has been named the outstanding service football player of the year by the Washington, D.C., Touchdown club. Now stationed with the Marines at Quantico, Va., Amberg starred for that team last season.
He was all-Big Seven fullback in 1950 and was graduated in the spring of 1951.
the second half to hand Phi Psi its first setback of the season 44-41. Allen connected for 12 of his night's total of 18 markers to spark the second half surge.
Behind Allen in the Sigma Chi scoring was Don White, who chipped in with 14 counters. Jim Berglund paced the Phi Psis with 13, followed by Pete Fotopolus with 11.
Tappa Keg 48, Freeform 24
Tappa Keg posted its third
draught jacket without a defeat,
shifting the jacket to 24. Freeform
gave the Tappas a scarce in the
first quarter as it jumped to a 10-7
lead at the buzer.
Then in the second quarter, the winners mixed a fast breaking offense with tight defensive play to spurt into a commanding 27-14 lead at the half. Walt Haskins spear-headed the Tappa Keg offense with 16 points, trailed by Bill Brown with 10 and Ted McCoy with nine. The losers were headed by Jim Morehead, Dulaney, and Dave Hicks, with six each.
Indiana club 26. Optimists 21
In a tight defensive struggle the Indiana club dropped the Optimists 26-21 to notch its second win against one loss.
Don Smith took scoring honors for Indiana club with nine points, while Pat Alkire was next in line with five. John Fagan netted 11 to pace the losers.
Lambda Chi 1, Alpha Phi Alpha 0
Alpha Phi Alpha's forfeit gave
Lambda Chi a 2-1 record for the season and a first place tie with ATO, Delta Chi, and Phi Si in the scrambled Divisions IV standings.
Sigma Chi 36, Lambda Chi 34,
Phi Kappa Tau 24, Triangle 12.
Beta 1, Sig Ep (0 forfeit).
Delta Chi 1, Sigma Pi 0 (forfeit).
TODAY'S SCHEDUL
Independent "A"
(Robinson Annex)
4 p.m. Club 69-Haig and Haig,
5 p.m. Sig.Gam Fe-AFROTC.
5 p.m. Sig Gam Ep-AFROTC.
m. Menden bell Lichona
p.m. Menden hall-Liahona.
n.p. NROT-CJM Beam.
7 p.m. NROTC-John Beam.
8 p.m. Sterling-Oliver - Jolliffe.
**Fraternity "B"**
(Broinson, gum)
8:30 p.m. Phi Psi-Kappa Alpha
Psi (F)
8:30 p.m. Pi KA-SAE (W).
9:15 p.m. Delt-Phi GEM (E).
9:15 p.m. Sigma Nu-Phi Kappa
Sig (W).
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