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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 2. 1953
Jayhawker Hustle Lauded At '53 Basketball Banquet
Praise for the hustle and spirit that characterized the 1953 Jayhawker basketball team highlighted the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce banquet for the KU cage squad in the Student Union ballroom last night.
Wilbur F. "Sparky" Stalcup, Missouri university basketball coach and the main speaker, said the Jayhawkers had a minimum of height during the 1952-53 season, but added that "their heart was not minimized."
Frank McDonald, Lawrence businessman and a strong KU athletic booster, said he had watched Kansas basketball teams for 30 years, but asserted that. "I never seen a KU team that has fought as well as this year's squad. They have the best spirit I've ever seen a Kansas team have."
About 500 attended the annual affair, including Gov. Edward F. Arn and Chancellor Murphy. Arn told the players he was "mighty proud of the record you have made." He said that the proposed KU fieldhouse should be named after Phog Allen as a "great tribute to a great coach." Chancellor Murphy said that "the bandy-legged incompetents" did a good job this season.
The colorful Stalcup said he was acting as the "mouthpiece" of the Big Seven coaches, "who all want to say they are proud of the KU team." The MU coach said he has coached at Missouri for seven years, and has beaten the Jayhawkers just three times. He declared he was getting tired of helping the Kansans post an impressive won-lost record each season.
—Kansan photo by Chuck Zuegner
Stalcup, wisecracking liberally,
said he and the Missouri team read
so much about the skinny-legged
kids from Kansas that they felt
sorry for the Jayhawkers and gave
the three games. KU whipped the
Tigers, 66-62, 86-62, and 69-60 this
year.
The MU mentor concluded his address by asserting that "the team and I would deem it a privilege to dedicate the Forrest C. Allen fieldhouse."
Allen was honored for his great work in guiding the Jayhawkers by receiving the keys for a 1953 Chrysler New Yorker. Assistant coach Dick Harp was presented with a silver coffee set, trainer Dean Ne-smith a gift bond for a new suit, and team members, watches.
The veteran Kansas coach said "There are so many things I want to say that I can't" after being introduced. He said that he didn't think the Kansans had the material for a strong team at the beginning of the season and praised the cagers for their spirit and drive. Allen said he was used to losing, but hated to see "the boys" go down to defeat.
Allen paid tribute to athletic director Dutch Lonborg, Harp, and Nesmith and said that they should receive a great deal of credit for the performance of the 1953 team. He also praised band director Russell Wiley for the spirit his band created at KU games and Tippy Dye, Washington basketball coach.
"Dye is the greatest sportsman I know of," Allen said. He pointed out that the Huskie coach came to Kansas City for the NCAA championship tournament expecting to defeat Kansas. Instead, he received a 26 point trouncing. "But he never once made an allbi."
Dick Knostman Fuels All-Star Win
The 1923 football squad gave up just six points for the entire season. They came on two field goals.
A goal by Dick Knostman and a free throw by Ernie Peck of Pennsylvania gave the College All-Stars a 97-94 victory over the Harlem Globetrotters in a hectic three-overtime game last night in Raleigh, N.C.
Knostman scored 12 points and led the college squad to its second win in five games of the fourth annual "World Series" of basketball.
ALL TIED UP—Kansas center B. H. Born is receiving a handshake and a gold wristwatch at the same time from Frank McDonald at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce banquet for the KU baksetball team last night in the Union ballroom. Born, the Big Seven scoring leader this season, should be one of the nation's top centers next winter.
Wildcats to Open Grid Drills Coach Sees Winning Season
Manhattan-Between 65 and 70 men will check out football equipment April 18 at Kansas State for the Wildcats' annual spring football drills. And, in those five or six dozen candidates, Coach Bill Meek has utmost confidence that they will give K-State its best football season since Meek took over the head job two seasons ago.
Meek expects 21 lettermen to report to him for the opening of spring practice. Two other lettermen, all-Big Seven star Veryl Switzer, and Cecil (Corky) Taylor, are track men and will be available only part time for grid practice. The remainder of the 65 or 70-man squad will be a promising bunch of kids up from the 1952 freshman squad which tied the KU freshmen 0-0 last fall, and 1952 varsity squadsmen.
Twelve of the 35 Wildcats who won varsity football letters last season will be absent. Ten have completed their eligibility for athletic competition and two others have withdrawn from school.
Men who have finished competition are Ken Barr, Jack McShulskis, Jim Limes, Dennis Kane, and Ed Stahura, guards; Lane Brown, Elmer Creviston, Carvel Oldham, Dick Towers, and Augie Keller, backs. Joe Rainman, lettered end, has joined the Air Force and fullback Dewey Wade has withdrawn from school.
Reasons for Meek's optimism that his Wildcats will have some bite this fall are two-fold. (1) The K-State line, he believes, will be the strongest in three seasons and the backfield will be just as strong; (2) the elimination of the two-platoon system.
"We like the elimination of the platoon system." Meek said, "because we played it most of the time last year and are somewhat used to it."
If there is one position Meek may worry about most, it is at end. The Wildcat mentor said K-State would have less experience at end than at any other place.
About 14 more trucks are needed to carry floats in the Kansas Relays parade April 18, Robert Ball, chair of the relays parade, announced.
Meek expects a strong battle for
There are 29 floats entered in the parade at the present time. Most of the floats will be mounted on standard 11-ton trucks, while a few will be able to use pickup trucks. Ball asked that anyone having a truck that can be used for the event call him at 957.
"We'll be looking for a boy who can do all things well on both offense and defense," Meek said. "With the two-platoon gone a quarterback must tackle as well as pass and run."
Relays Parade Needs Trucks
the quarterback spot in the Wildcats' Split-T offense.
Leading quarterback candidates are Carl Albacker, a dandy thrower last season, Jack Chilton, squadman from 1952 who pitches a long forward pass, Bob Willibey, another 1952 squadsman who is a clever ball-handler, Kenny Long, a Manhattan boy who transferred from College of Emporia, and two freshmen, Bob Whitehead and Dick Logston. Meek said he may try halfback Bob Dahnke at the signal calling post.
The trucks will be needed from Friday noon, until after the parade Saturday morning.
Right now, Meek rates two freshman prospects as the finest he has seen in a long time. They are Doug Roether, the hard-blocking youngster from Milford, and Jim Furey, a rugged center from Newark, N.J.
The 1953 Wildcat squad also is expected to regain the services of Eldon Zeller. Zeller played with the 1951 varsity as a freshman but suffered a shoulder injury which kept him out of the lineup last season.
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KU Sprint Medley Record Questioned By Two Coaches
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The 3:21.8 time set by the KU sprint medley relay team in the Texas Relays last weekend, which has been submitted as a world's record, has drawn protests from several coaches because of the way the race was run.
Compiled from Wire Service
Col. Frank Anderson, Texas A&M coach and referee of the meet, said the time was certified to him by track officials and that there was no report to him of anything improper. He said that he then went ahead and sent in an application to the NCAA asking that the record be accepted as official.
Anderson explained that in a relay race there was a leeway of 20 yards for each runner so that he could run ten yards less than his distance or ten yards more.
Kansas State track coach Wara Haylett, whose team finished second, said the stagger marks on the track were improperly used so that one 220-yard man ran 250 yards and the other 190. He said this gave the Jayhawkers an advantage because the man who ran the 250 was a stronger runner than the other. The sprint medley relay is composed of the 440, 220, 220, and 880 yard runs.
But Hamilton Lowe, judge of the curve, and Mac Umstadt, chief curve inspector, said there was nothing wrong.
Ralph Higgins, Oklahoma A&M mentor, whose team finished third, said he stepped off the distance after the race and found almost 45 yards difference between the permanent markings on the track and the place where the handoffs were started.
The time bettered the recognized world mark of 2:22.7 set by New York university in the Penn Relaxes three years ago.
K.C. League Gets Charter
The Kansas track squad starred in the Relays by capturing four running events, the sprint medley, four-mile relay, two-mile relay, and distance medley relay. Wes Santee was named the meet's most outstanding athlete.
Wichita — (U.P.)—The league which former President Truman will inaugurate by tossing out the first ball got its charter today from the National Baseball Congress.
It is the Heart of America league in greater Kansas City. Mr. Truman will toss out the first ball opening night May 13 in his hometown, Grandview, Mo.
Golfers Thump Washburn Team
Jayhawker golfers scored their second straight victory of the season yesterday by downing a surprisingly tough Washburn team, $13\frac{1}{2}-4\%$ at the Topeka Country club. KU defeated Emporia State last week.
Harlan Hise scored a 76 over the bar 71 course to take medalist honors for Kansas. Bill Barter was ow for Washburn with an 80.
Barter scored the biggest upset of the afternoon by defeating Ham Lynch of KU, 2½-½ in the No. 1 match. Lynch shot an 81.
In the No. 2 match, Hise shut-
out Randall Murphy, 3-0. Hise and
Lynch combined to whip Barter
and Murphy later, 2-1.
The Jayhawk's John Prosser napped Bob Willis of Washburn, 2-1, in the No. 3 match. KU's No. 4 man, Bob Lacy, blanked Paul Stigall 3-0 and Lacy and Prosser defeated Willis and Stigall,
MU Squad Takes to Road
Columbia, Mo. —(U,P)— A 22-man Missouri baseball squad will leave on a four-game southern trip today.
The Tigers, Big Seven champions and runners-up in the NCAA finals last year, play Tulsa university tomorrow and Saturday at Tulsa and meet Arkansas university Monday and Tuesday at Fayetteville.
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