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University Daily Kansan
Tuesdav, Jan. 5, 1954
Jayhawkers Bounce Sooners, 76-72
Patterson Guides Kansas To Opening Big Seven Win
By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Almost blowing all of a 17-point first quarter lead, the Kansas Jayhawkers withstood a last-minute Oklahoma to win their opening Big Seven conference basketball game, 76-72, Monday night before 3,200 fans in Hoch auditorium.
Led by a sterling performance from Harold Patterson, who hit 21 points in a new production peak for the Rozel senior, the Jayhawkers nearly faded after almost blowing the Sooners out of the Music hall with a tremendous first quarter blast.
But things soon quieted down after that first quarter spree and it was the Sooners that took over the point making.
Led by Bob Waller's 17 first half points, 12 of them in the second period, the Sooners fought back from a 25-8 first quarter deficit to cut the margin to 40-33 at halftime.
It looked again like things that start out well would end well when
Box Score
KANSAS
G-GA F-FA PF
Kelley 4-11 4-4 5
McEloy 0-2 1-2 0
Patterson 7-16 7-9 1
Padgett 1-2 0-0 0
Born 5-17 6-9 5
Brainard 1-1 0-0 1
Dobbs 2-9 0-0 2
Squires 1-2 1-2 0
Davenport 4-9 2-2 2
Wolfe 0-0 3-7 0
Alberts 0-0 2-2 1
OKLAHOMA
Totals ... 25-69 26-37 76
OLYMPIA
G-GA F-FA PF
Blue, Ron 5-16 2-3 3
Muller 0-0 0-0 0
Jones 0-3 3-0 5
Harrt 1-1 0-0 1
Waller 8-19 7-9 5
Brown 0-0 7-9 0
McEachern 0-2 1-1 5
Hamilton 1-4 2-2 4
Lane 11-22 3-4 1
Blue, Ted 0-0 0-0 1
Totals ... 26-67 20-26 25
Halftime score: Kansas 40, Okla. 33
Officials: Order and Oberhelman
B. H. Born hit a jump shot with the third period three minutes old to give Kansas a commanding 48-36 lead.
But then Lester Lane, a punt-sized 5-10 inch Sooner forward, took over the scoring chores for the Okies. Lane dropped in seven of the Sooners' last eight points in the third period to again cut the Kansas margin to eight. 56-48 going into the final period.
But the Jayhawkers weren't to be denied their opening conference win. Behind four charity tosses by Larry Davenport and Patterson and a B. H. Born bucket, the Jayhawkers again swept into a 13-point lead, at 63-50, with the fourth period only two minutes old.
Lane took charge again and proceeded to dunk three straight fielders while the Jayhawkers went on attacking players within striking distance again.
But the little forward's great last quarter spurt, that netted him 12 points in the period, wasn't enough to offset the gift tosses the Jayhawkers were able to ring up. But his driving lay-in with seconds left in the contest gave the Sooners their closest margin of the evening, four points, 76-72, and the ball game was over.
Lane ended up the contest with 25 points, two more than Waller, who managed 23 before fouling out of the game with 2:17 left in the final period. Ron Blue added 12 more but the Sooners lacked assistance from their other hands, two more fouling out.
Born added 16 points to the Kansas total while Al Kelley tossed in 12. Larry Davenport chipped in with 10 points while the other Kansas starter, Dallas Dobbs, hit four.
Kelley and Born were waived to the sidelines during the milling with five personalists. Kelley was ejected with 8:45 left in the third period while Born lasted until 3:28 was left in the game.
Besides Waller, Oklahoma lost Sterling Jones and Del McEachern, both starters.
Kelley started Kansas off on the right foot, dunking two buckets in a row to make it 4-0. Blue chipped in with a charity for the Sooners' first score but then Born and Kelley added fielders to give Kansas an 8-1 lead.
It went that way most of the period. The Jayhawkers were firing away at a 50 per cent average while the Sooners managed one two-pointer for the entire period.
The Jayhawkers widened their lead to 29-11 with only about a minute gone in the second period to give the Sooners their largest deficit of the night.
But with Waller in the drivers' seat, the Okies quickly recovered. It was 40-23 with the period lacking two minutes from completion when the Sooners started in.
First Waller dropped in a lay-in and Blue followed suit with a long one-hander. Lane hit from the side and Waller hit a set-shot from the free throw circle. Blue hit another looping one-hander as the period ended to make the score read, 40-33, at halftime.
But the Jayhawkers held on to retain their national ranking and a clean slate for the Missouri game Saturday night.
NUChancellor Approves Aid
Lincoln, Neb.—(U.P.)-John Sellick,
Acting Chancellor of the University
of Nebraska, today indicated
approval of a plan to more than double
the amount of financial aid expended
on Cornhusker athletes.
Sellick said he had in mind a program that would expand the number of athletic scholarships at the school from about 70 or 80 to between 125 and 150.
He estimated that such a program would cost $125,000 a year, compared with the $55,000 now spent on subsidization at Nebraska.
Sellick declined to state his support of such a plan directly, but said other schools have similar programs and "I am in favor of doing for our own men what other states are doing for theirs."
He added, however, that he does not expect Nebraska—once a football power in the midwest—to be consigned to "medicocracy."
Sellick estimated the cost of an expanded scholarship program on the basis of about $300 yearly for some 150 athletes. He said he had "no plans" at the present for soliciting support to pay for such expansion.
Sellick emphasized that Nebraska football teams would continue to be primarily "native" that is, made up of homestate boys—with little effort to "shop" for talent elsewhere. But he indicated a hope Husker teams could be beefed up with the proposed subsidization program.
There has been no formal action by either the university or athletic board, present at the meeting.
The Chancellor said Nebraska could never hope to compete year after year with such gridiron power-houses as Notre Dame.
The Nebraska Athletic Board is scheduled to meet Jan. 12 for a review of the school's sports structure. Last month Athletic Director George (Potsy) Clark resigned, reportedly under pressure because of Nebraska's sagging football fortunes, although Clark denied it.
CHARLESTON—It isn't the modern dance class but rather the KU and Oklahoma basketball teams who are cavorting in this shot. Kansas' B. H. Born (25), Harold Patterson (22), and Dallas Dobbs (13) wait for a rebound along with Oklahoma's Del McEachern (right) and Ron Blue.
Kansan photo by Clarke Keys
NCAA Sticks To TV Policy
Cincinnati. Q—(U,P)— The television committee of the National Collegeiate Athletic Association was expected today to stand pat on the present TV policy for college football games as the convention goes into its second full day.
The TV committee, however, was not expected to make its report until Thursday, and it will probably recommend that controlled telecasting be carried on for another year as in 1953.
Another highlight of today's activity was an all-day session of the American Football Coaches association. Empowered only to make recommendations to the rules committee, the AFCA will probably vote to stick by last year's anti-platoon rule, despite opposition from some coaches.
In yesterday's sessions, Lou Little of Columbia, chairman of the coaches rules committee, made public the results of a questionnaire sent out to some 1,000 coaches. Little said that the poll had brought an "overwhelming" majority in favor of the limited substitution rule which prevailed over college football in 1953.
The Columbia coach said, however, that many favored some modification of the present rule in that two or three substitutions should be allowed at a time.
Another sidelight capturing the attention of some 1,200 persons attending the convention was vacant head coaching jobs at such schools as Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Iowa State, Kansas, North Carolina State and Texas A&M.
A return to two-platoon play was "a poor third in the voting," Little said.
Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma, apparently had the inside track for the Minnesota job if he wants it.
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KU Indoor Thinclads Face Toughest Slate in History
Kansan Sports Editor
With their toughest indoor track schedule in history coming up, the Kansas Jayhawkers of Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton are working hard for the initial meet, just three weeks away.
Kansas this spring will face two new Big Ten foes—Illinois and Michigan State—in an all-road slate of five meets, two of them triangulars and one the Michigan State Relays. The season will close with the annual conference run-off Feb. 26 and 27 in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Easton is drilling a 42-man squad which includes 13 lettermen from last year's indoor and outdoor title-winning team, and one-2-miler Norm Bitner-from the previous year.
Lettermen back, who accounted for 30 1-3 of the 43 points KU chalked up in winning the loop meet, are Captain Art Dalzeil, 880; Wes Santee, 800, mile; Lloyd Koly, mile; Dick Wilson, 2-mile; Bill Bibers垦, hurdles; Dolph Mueller, hurdles; Dick Knowles., shot put; Bill Hollingsworth, 440; Hollingsworth, high jump; Bob Smith, broad jump; Jack Stephens, pole vault; Don Hess, 60, and Frank Cindrich. 60, 440.
Santee, the leading scorer in the league meet with 10 points, copped the 880 and mile runs to lead the
Jayhawkers to the crown by 19 points over runner-up Oklahoma.
Other place winners were Hess and Cindrich, second and fourth in the 60-yard dash; Bibersstein, second in the high hurdles; Mueller, second in the lows; Dalzell, third in the 880; Koby, third in the mile; Hollingsworth, fifth in the high jump, and Bitner, third in the 2-mile in 1952.
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