By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Editor
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1953
When the brilliant Jayhawker track ace Wes Santee was not selected as one of the eight amateur athletes who will be considered in the final balloting for the 1953 Sullivan award, yearly AAU prize which goes to the "top" amateur athlete in the world, we were more than a little miffed.
Adding insult to injury was one name which stuck out like the proverbial sore thumb—Charlie Cappozzoli, Georgetown university distance runner now running under the banner of the New York Athletic club.
Cappozzoli is good, we don't deny that. He won the NCAA cross country individual title in 1952 and still holds the record over that 4-mile course, and he turns in better than fair to middling times in his specialties—the 880 and the mile.
But Santee, it seems in this corner, has done a few minor things in the track world that now have the "experts" watching him rather than the ex-Georgetown athlete.
First and probably highest on Santee's accomplishment list is the amazing 4:02.4 mile he ran last spring, the time of which just last weekend was accepted as official by the same AAU which shunned him in the Sullivan balloting.
But, still, the all-powerful "master minds" of the AAU do not think him qualified for the big award.
The Kansan also holds the NCAA and AAU mile records, all the Big Seven records you can shake a dozen sticks at, and enough others to fill this and several more pages.
Cappozzoli is good, but against Santee he would do about as well as the reader would do trying to guard basketballer A Kelley.
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On basketball—look for the lineup that starts against Tulane next Thursday to be altered a bit by the time post-season tourney time rolls around.
Remember the initial opening five in last year's first game: B. H. Born was at center, Dean Kelley and Bill Heitholt were at guards, and Jerry Alberts and Larry Davenport manned the forward positions. Quite a bit different from the outfit that fought Indiana in Kansas City in March, eh?
This season any one of the four, with the exception of graduated Kelley, could turn out to be the sleeper of the team. It's conceded that Al Kelley and Harold Patterson will be starting alongside Born, but as yet just who the regular guards will be still is speculation.
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Many have asked us why all the fire-the-coach, hire-a-coach furor has dropped almost from the scene of late.
Nothing official has come from A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, athletic director, but possibly the reason the applicants that undoubtedly are being approached and interviewed for the job have not been made public is for the protection of all concerned.
The new coach, when he is hired, will benefit if students and casual fans know little or nothing of all the prospectives who were talked to and/or considered. That way there is less chance of the old sour grapes routine because someone else or other was overlooked. We commend the powers that be in this matter for their silence, although, confidentially, the silence is deafeningly suspense-provoking.
Let's hope the new man is obtained quickly. All the while KU is dickering about hunting a new head man the other area schools can be having a field day on the recruiting circuit.
It's a cinch Kansas State Coach Bill Meek will have about 1,000 per cent less trouble convincing high school seniors about the merits of Manhattan since the great showing the Wildcats made last year. And all the while the KU big-wigs are trooping about coach hunting it means that much less time to get out in the state and talk to the boys.
We were talking to genial track coach Bill Easton last night and he asked us to make public his plea for track men for either the frosh or varsity teams. He stressed that whether or not a track hopeful is from the big city or small town matters not.
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Six Veterans Return For Basketball at NU
University Daily Kansan
With four of last year's starting five back, Coach Harry Good of the Nebraska Cornhuskers is counting on a vast improvement in his cagers this year but can't see the Huskers as a top-rate contender for the Big Seven basketball championship.
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
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Johnson, the 6-7 thin man from Lincoln, probably holds the key to the Cornhusker's success this year. He was their top scorer last season and owns a deadly hook-shot with either hand. He will be starting his third year as a first string performer.
Three of last year's lettermen will be missing this year. Joe Good, son of Coach Good, graduated. Paul Fredstrom transferred to Nebraska Wesleyan and Gerald Sandbuite to Iowa State.
Good has been running a combination of Fagler and Weber at forwards, Johnson at center, and Seger and Matzke at guards in early drills. Those are the five 2-year men and this outfit shapes up as the likely starters for the coming season.
Six lettermen will form the nucleus of this aggregation. Five of them—Willard Fagler, Bill Johnson, Stan Matzke, Fred Seger, and Don Weber—are 2-year winners. The other letterman, Gary Renzelman, is a junior who plays both forward and center.
Anyway you look at it, this year's edition of the Cornhusker basketball five is going to be loaded with home grown boys. Only five men on the squad of 18 are from out of state. Two of those are from nearby Iowa and the other three are from Indiana and Illinois.
Coach Good, who has been moaning about his lack of depth all fall, says. "We're definitely in better shape than a year ago in our starting five. But sophomore reinforcements are only average. Thus, when you consider the tempo of the game as it's played today, we are very thin in reserve power."
The Cornhuskers don't have a real tall man but the squad as a whole is taller than average. Seven men are 3-4 and only two men, Duane Buel and Don Sirles, both sophomores, are under six foot.
Fagler, a 6-5 junior and former Nebraska all-stater, made the AP all-Big Seven second team last year and is counted on to provide much of the drive for this year's team.
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Another outstanding performer is Seger, 6-4 senior guard. He was voted the Most Valuable Player on the Nebraska team last year by Big Seven coaches. Seger was the No. 2 scorer last year and doubles as the Cornhuskers' starting shortstop in baseball.
Where You Can Choose From a Big Selection
While the lettermen probably will play the most, three sophomores, Don Sirles, Jerry Hare, and Chuck Smith, are expected to be the first-line reserves. Hare is a 6-3 forward from Grand Island and Smith is a 6-2 guard from Anderson, Ind.
Good, in his eighth year at the Nebraska helm, has won 78 and lost 86 at Nebraska but has a lifetime coaching record of 303 wins and 167 defeats. He formerly coached at Indiana Central for 15 years and at Indiana three years.
NU opens Dec. 5 against Minnesota at Lincoln.
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Oklahoma A&M 84, Hardin-Simmons 40.
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Lamar Tech 88, Texas A&M 68.
San Francisco 51, California 33.
North Carolina St. 100, Furman 74.
Illinois 85, Ohio 54.
TCU 73. Austin 39.
Southwestern 100, C. of E. 83.
St. Ambrose 68, St. Benedict's 65
Phillips Oilers 74, S. E. Missouri 58.
Arkansas college 92, Drury 87.
N. E. Mo. St. 81, Central college 68.
K-Lunch of K.C. 74, Mo. Valley, 72
Detroit 98, Kalamazoo 52,
Cincinnati 89, Union 59.
Tennessee 107, Wofford 63.
Wisconsin 70. Butler 54.
Yale 81, Springfield 64.
Fordham 105, Adelphi 56.
Presbyterian 92, Clemson 61.
Marquette 80, Ripon 34.
Southern Methodist 90.
western Louisiana 71.
Vanderbilt 76, Sewanee 59.
Ft. Leonard Wood 83. Lincoln 76.
Loyolo (New Orleans) 91, Northeast Louisiana 66.
Mississippi Southern 88. Southwestern Louisiana 59.
Wake Forest st. V14 60.
Nebraska Wesleyan 70, Dana 62.
St. John's (Brooklyn) 70, Roan-oke
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Wichita 76, Fort Hays 54.
Tabor 70, Friens 66.
Oregon 79, Portland 72.
Baylor 70, North Texas 54.
Southern Cal 83, San Diego 66.
Colorado State 73, Denver 56
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Pro Star Mixes Medical School And Basketball
New York — (U.P.)— The busiest man in basketball this season undoubtedly is Ernie Vandeweighe of the New York Knickerbockers.
All of which makes the 6-foot, 4-inch pediatrician-to-be a man for whom time never hangs heavy.
Ernie is the former Colgate star who took his medical degree at Columbia last year. Currently, as well as starring for the red-hot Knicks he is an intern at the Bellevue hosp. $ ^{1} $
Naturally, Vandweighe doesn't get in much practice with the team.
get in but it don't have much time to get out of shape" grins the 25-year-old doe. "Whenever I have a couple of hours off though I run along east river drive behind the hospital or take a ball and go by myself to a nearby gym or the armory to keep my shooting eve 'in.'"
He has worked as much as 17 hours straight in the Bellevue wards so that he could dash off to play a game with the Knicks. After one game at Minneapolis he took an 11 p.m. plane to be back at the hospital for 9 a.m. duty.
You might think that receiving $100 a game was the whole reason for Ernie's drive but it isn't. He comes from a family which is comfortably fixed, so well that he told Colgate athletic officials to give a proffered scholarship to somebody else who needed it. Ernie simply loves basketball.
Top physical condition is the secret with which he manages to remain one of the top professional basketball stars even though lacking in team practice. Every night before going to bed he does 100 pushups and, if you don't think that requires excellent physical condition, try 10 some time.
Mississippi Southern voted Monday to accept an invitation to play Texas Western in the annual Sun bowl game. Jan. 1 at El Paso, Texas.
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