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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 10, 1953
Cage Season Opens Against Tulane
By STAN HAMILTON
Kansan Sports Editor
A question mark Kansas basketball team, guided for the 37th time by Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, starts its 1953-54 season tonight at New Orleans against a rugged Tulane team.
The Jayhawkers, defending Big Seven title holders and second place winners in the NCAA tourney last spring, go into their opening fray with three of last year's starters, one reserve of last season, and a sophomore in the starting lineup against the Green Wave which already has won two games-over the Pensacola Air Base 68-44, and Louisiana college 87-47.
Last winter in the lid lifter against Tulane, also in the Louisiana city, KU emerged the victor 63-50, but Wave Coach Cliff Wells has essentially the identical team this year that took second in the last campaign in the Southeastern conference and posted a 14-6 season record.
This Tulane five has back three first stringers from last year plus a pair of tall transfers and several promising sophomores and returning squadmen. The 15-man Tulane squad averages 6-3, the tallest team in the history of the school. Three of its four losses last year were to NCAA contestants—KU and Louisiana State.
B. H. Born (6-9) is due to start at center; Al Kelley (5-11) and Harold Patterson (6-1) at forwards, and Larry Davenport (6-2) and sophomore Dallas Dobbs (5-11) at guards for the Javahawks.
The first three were regulars through most of last year, while Davenport saw limited action and Dobs spent his time with the fresh team. Born led the Big Seven in scoring with an 18.9 points per game average; Kelley averaged 12.9; Patterson, 9.5, and Davenport, 5.3. The KU team average was 72.5, and this foursome accounted for only 46.6 of these points.
The Kansas fortunes may well rest on any one of the five liners or other regulars yet to be found.
Born, co-captain along with Kelley, relies mainly on a twisting jump shot for his baskets and gets many points on tip-ins. Named to the NCAA all-star team after the Kansas City tournament, the big man of the Kansas outfit must cut down on his foul total, a monstrous 4.4 per game last year, third highest in the nation. Most of his fouls, however, come because of his hard work on the defensive side.
Kelly, who ranked ninth in the nation in fouls in 1952-53 with 4.2 per contest, is the key man in Allen's scrapping, pressing defense which is designed to wear out opponents early in the game. His running jump shots and hell-for-leather driving style make him one of the most colorful players at Mt. Oread for many years.
Patterson, former all-American at Garden City Junior college, is back for his second and last season. An
end on the football team, he uses his heft (185 pounds) to good advantage under the boards to nab many rebounds. He has especially springy legs and goes above many opponents who tower over him.
Best noted for his long arching 1-handers which he hits with good accuracy is Davenport, a junior from Newton. He has good basketball "savvy" but must polish up his defensive play from last year.
Dobbs, Bartlesville, Okla., speedster may become the first sophomore to nail a regular starting position for the Jayhawks in two seasons. He has a good 1-hand set shot and can hit well from anywhere (50 for OKLA.) He hang onto a starting position for an entire season was Charlie Hog.)
Others on the traveling squad for the Tulane and LSU games are lettermen Bill Heitholt, who averaged 3.3 last season; Jerry Alberts, who hit for 1.8 in 17 games last year, and ex-football fullback John Anderson, who saw limited action, and sophomores Bill Brainard of Newton, Jim Toit of Grand Island, Neb., Harold McEliroy of Independence, Mo., and Len Martin of Ottawa.
"We definitely are not as good as we were last year," Wells said his morning. "We lost our best boy, Fidel, who quit school to get married."
Wells, whose last year's aggregation fell before Kansas 63-50, says his team this year is not as good as the one of last season.
New Orleans Fans Wary of Jayhawks
But the fact remains that Tulane is bound to be rough tonight. One reason is Dr. Allen's lack of an experienced back line. There "Phog" will start a pair of inexperienced men—Larry Davenport, a converted forward, and sophomore Dallas Dobbs.
By KEN BRONSON
Kanap, Assistant, Sports, Edito
Rainier Assistant Spores Editor New Orleans--Everyone here in New Orleans, including Tulane basketball Coach Cliff Wills, is practically convinced that Kansas will be a little too rough for the Green Wave when the two teams meet here tonight at 8:15 p.m.
CARRY KU CAGE HOPES TONIGHT—These five men will start tonight for the Jayhawks against Tulane at New Orleans, the first clash of the season for Kansas. The main hopes of the Kansans hinge on big center B. H. Born (center) who is the returning top scorer in the Big Seven. The other starters (left to right) are Larry Davenport, forward; Al Kelley, guard; Born; Harold Patterson, forward, and Dallas Dobbs, guard.
Of course, the Jayhawks' three regulars of last campaign may keep the club on an even keel. These three—co-captains B. H. Born and Al Kelley, and Harold Patterson—will open at the other positions.
One man seems to hold the key to the Tulane success this season. He is 6-7 Jim Nowakowski. The big junior, who transferred to Tulane from Kent State, will start the game at center although still recuperating from an October appendectomy.
At the forwards Wells will start Dick Brennan (6-2) and Pat Browne (6-4), and at the guards, Hal Cervini (6-0), and Roy Stoll (6-0). All played regularly last year.
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