Clyde Lovellette Quits Oilers Signs Pro Pact
Clyde Lovellette, great KU center of 1950-51-52, has quit the Phillips Oilers and will join the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball association immediately.
Max Winter, Minneapolis manager, announced the move Wednesday. Winter said a deal was made with Lovellette Tuesday night in an exchange of wires and telephone calls. No salary figure was mentioned.
Lovellette, who led Kansas to the 1952 NCAA title and played on the U.S. Olympic team, was the most sought-after college player in a decade when he left Kansas.
Lovelle turned down a reported $50,000 offer to join Milwaukee of the NBA. Instead he joined the Oilers where he played last year.
The big center from Terre Haute, Ind., scored a record 1,888 points in his three years at KU, averaging 24 a game. He rewrote seven NCAA tournament records and made almost every all-American team in 1952. He was the Helms Foundation "Player of the Year."
Minneapolis traded several players to Milwaukee for Lovellette's draft rights early this year. Since that time the Lakers have been trying constantly to lure Lovellette into the fold.
As a sophomore at KU, Lovelle scored 545 points, upping that in his junior year to 548. He hit his all-time high of 795 points his senior year.
He holds the national record for the best average of a career. He holds the KU scoring record and many Big Seven records. He has the fifth highest scoring total of any player ever to play in the United States.
When Lovellette went to the Oilers he took over for another of basketball's all-time great, Bob Kurland. It is thought that Lovellette now is headed to fill the big shoes of Mr. Pro, George Mikan, the aging Laker center.
Lovellette was 24 years old Sept. 27. He is married to the former Sally Wheeler, his sweetheart of Garfield High school in Terre Haute.
Lovelle's decision to turn pro is an exact about-face from the stand he took when leaving KU. At that time he wrote an article that appeared in a national magazine entitled, "Pro Ball Isn't For Me." It looks like Big Clyde has changed his mind.
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Ohio State halfback Bobby Watkins and Georgia Tech guard Frank Brooks have been selected as the headman of the week in a national poll.
Watkins led his team to a 33-19 win over California by scoring four TDs and running for 145 yards in 20 carries. Brooks set a new Tech record by making 18 tackles as the Yellow Jackets squeezed past SMU 6-4.
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Defense Shows Power Against Colorado Plays
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If Kansas' defense holds up as well against Colorado university as it did yesterday against Buff plays, the Jayhawkers will have little or no trouble with the Coloradoans on Saturday.
The third and fourth strings ran Colorado single wing plays against the first and second teamers and had little luck moving the ball, especially against the first team.
Line play was rough as the substitutes could not gain through the middle and had little luck around the ends.
Coach Sikes worked his charges mainly on defense, but did take time to get in a little work on polishing the running game.
Coach Jules Sikes must work his men harder on aerial defense. Some of the Buff pass plays were completed for what would have been long gains in a game. Colorado could win the game by unleashing a strong air attack.
Both the defensive lines were encouraging, stopping almost every play through the middle for no gain, and allowing only a small gain on end around plays. Colorado hand-offs and reverses gave the Sikesmen little trouble except when a pass was thrown. Both defensive lines showed tremendous hustle and desire to get the ball carrier.
Starting left halfback Don Hess was slightly shaken up when he made a hard tackle on one of the reverse ball carriers.
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Coach of the week in the United Press poll is James Ralph (Shug) Jordan of the Auburn Tigers, Jordan, last week guided the Tigers to a 13-0 win over Mississippi for their first Southeastern conference victory in nearly two years.
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Wildcats Hopeful After 'Upset' Win
Kansas City, Mo. — (UP)— The football season is hardly more than well under way but at least one team in the Big Seven conference already has stamped it as the most successful in four long years.
Rejoicing has subsided somewhat today in Manhattan, home of the Kansas State Wildcats, but they're still raving over last week's 27-10 triumph over favored Nebraska. It was the first Kansas State conference victory since the team defeated Colorado, 27 to 13, back in the 1949 season.
A Northwestern scout reported on Michigan as follows: "They have a basic weakness. They made eight touchdowns, but kicked only two extra points."
Blues Win 4-3; Trail in Series
Kansas City—(U.P.)-The Montreal Royals, who took their first setback in four games of the Little World Series last night, send Hampton Coleman to the mound against Kansas City tonight in an effort to cinch the championship.
The Royals, beat 4-3 last night, were held to two hits by American Association hurlers Mel Wright and Bob Ferris. The Royals lead 3-1 in the best four of a seven game playoff for the most coveted title in minor league baseball.
The Blues will send either Johnny Kucab or Bob Weisler to the mound in efforts to stay in contention for the title.
Kansas City took a first inning 2-0 lead on a home run by Bill Showron last night, fell behind 3-2 in the top of the sixth when first baseman Rocky Nelson, leading hitter in the series, rapped a single off Ferris to score two runs. The International league representatives' third run came on a wild pitch by Wright.
The Blues came back with the winning run in the bottom of the sixth, however, when Jim Robertson doubled home Jim Brideweiser and Elston Howard.
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