'Forgotten Man'—
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Reich Savvy Leads Team
By DON NIELSEN
Even with a set of taped up fingers, Gil Reich is as much of a field general on the basketball court as he is on the gridiron.
This 6-foot senior from Steelton, Pa., may not jump as high, score as much, or get as many rebounds in a game. He's good at and sports savvy. he can't be beat.
Reich worked his way into the starting lineup for the fourth game of the cage season when Coach F. "Cphog" Allen put him in against the Mustangs from Southern Metho-
ne that he would be out for the season because of injuries to the first two fingers on his right hand.
In spite of the football injury, Reich proved himself able to play with the fingers taped together. He's still playing that way.
In spite of this ostensible handi-
app, Reich has poured in 173 points
in 21 games this season on 60 field
goals and 53 free throws. This gives
him a game average of 8.3 points
per game.
As far as floor ability is concerned, no one is a quicker thinker than Reich. His ability to size up a play and act on his impression in a split second often has proved invaluable. He is as necessary to the Kansas fastbreak as he was to the Kansas football offense.
Reich was high scorer on the basketball team at West Point in 1950, and while he didn't step in as the Kansas scoring ace, he brought his sports savvy to a team that was slated for no more than honorable mention and helped to bring it to
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the NCAA finals.
Reich turned down a chance at reappointment to the U.S. Military academy early in 1952 in order to continue his education at the University. He said that he was inspired with the leadership of the academy, but felt that Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering are comparable to any in the field of education. Reich is majoring in engineering.
He is in the Army ROTC at the
University, and will be eligible for his commission at the same time as his class at the Academy is graduated.
He may not receive his earned share of the plaudits for the Kansas skein of victories, but no one player has been more versatile or reliable throughout the season. Reich has been called the "forgotten man" on the Jayhawkers, but his part in an unexpectedly successful cage season ought not to be forgotten too soon.
Patterson's Sparkling Play Highlights KU Stretch Run
By DON PIERCE
Another one of those junior college sparklers from the athletic diamond mines of western Kansas has come along to add his full weight to KU's stretch run for the 1953 Big Seven basketball pennant.
This is to say that Harold Patterson, Kansas' kangarooing pack of front-line muscle has arrived as a basketball player of Big Seven caliber. Not that the amply-sinewed two-sparton sparkler hasn't helped the Jayhawkers from the outset. For he definitely has.
The point is that Patterson has steadily improved his alt-around play to the point where he is a marked man in rival camps. With Center B. H. Born, and Al Kelley, Patterson's front line stablemate, already on foes' blacklist, it isn't difficult to figure why the Jayhawks topped the league standings.
Patterson has been a horse on the boards since the first day he reported from football season. Standing a mere 6-2, he can soar high enough to dunk. But it's his improvement in defense and scoring that have
There is particular significance in his scoring figures. He harvested 15 at Manhattan as Kansas handed contending Kansas State its first conference loss in the Cats' three-year-old fieldhouse, 80-78. His 18 represents the most points a Kansas player ever nailed in Oklahoma City. Old St. Louis Patterson thereby matched a feat originally achieved by last year's NCAA scoring champion, Clyde Lovellette.
contributed most to the Jayhawks momentum.
Patterson collects most of his points close to the boards off the fast-break or from rebound recoveries. He and Born have made the undersized Mt. Oreadans stouter in the rebound department than anyone has a right to expect.
Thursday, March 19. 1953 University Daily Kansan
All this means Patterson is following in the steps of John Keller, another strong-hearted battler from the plains who had much to do with the Kansans' late drive to the NCAA championship and Olympic Games last year. It will be recalled that the Jayhawks pulled out of mid-season doldrum last February when Keller took over as a regular forward.
Grid Stars Help 'Phog' To Basketball Title
Bv DON NIELSEN
Basketball coaching is Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's forte, but he might try his hand at football.
This season's starting five boasts two of last fall's football standouts, and might even have had three if Charlie Hoag had not been knocked out of the season by a football injury.
Gil Reich, 6-foot, 195 pound quarterback on the Big Red football team, earned himself a spot on the starting five this year in spite of an injury suffered in the last game of the football season.
Although he is only 6 feet 2 inches tall, which is admittedly short for the game, Patterson can jump higher than some of the big men thanks to the tremendous development of his leg muscles by gridiron activities.
Reich came into the season late, (Dec. 20) but proved his mettle by sparking the Jayhawk attack with his speed and decisive play.
He earned his starting berth on the cage squad after the early season shuffles had been resolved around him and Allen Kelley in the backfield. He is a road shot, a snappy ball handler, and a remarkable rebounder.
One story has it that a junior college teammate was jumping for a rebound, and while about a foot or
Harold "Pat" Patterson joined the basketball team after the football season. He had played right end or center, and then turned in a first string performance.
so off the floor, looked up. There. about a foot above his head, loomed Patterson's jersey number.
Another switchover from the football season is rugged force forward John Anderson. He is a good rebounder, a fair shot, and one of the coolest players in the Phog Allen stables.
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