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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 11, 1953
KU Faces Stiff Test In Tough OCU Team
The amazing Kansas Jayhawkers, who fooled midwestern basketball fans by winning the Big Seven championship, will have its work cut out for them when the Kansans meet the Oklahoma City Chiefs in the NCAA regional tournament in Manhattan Friday night.
OCU has the top season's record of the four teams participating in the K-State fieldhouse event. The Chiefs posted a sizzling 18-4 record during the 1952-53 campaign. KU finished at 16-5 by whipping Missouri for the Big Seven title Monday night. Oklahoma A&M, the Missouri Valley champs, had a 21-6 mark and TCU, the Southwest conference title-holders, compiled a 14-7 record.
The Chiefs have one of the best outside shooters in the nation in Arnold Short, a thin, 6 foot 3 inch junior. Short, named as "the finest shooter we have faced this season by most of the coaches who faced Oklahoma City, has collected 502 points in 22 games for a 22.8 average.
He compiled the highest shooting average among OCU cagers with 181 field goals in 463 tries for an average of 39 per cent. Short seldom fires at short range as most of his shots are jumps from the deep corners. He played the full 40 minutes in all but one game this season and picked up only 30 fouls. In addition to his scoring ability, he also is a tough defender.
The Chiefs have a pair of sharp forwards in Andy Likens and Jack Key. Both are seniors. Likens, 6-3, has a 12.8 scoring average, and Key, 6-6, a 9.6 mark. Both are top notch rebounds, and score heavily on tin-ins.
Tom Bolin, a 6-6 junior who never played high school basketball, is the center. He is a classy rebounder and defender.
The Chiefs have plenty of bench strength in Clyde Nath, Don Rich, Gerald Bullard, and Billy Couts.
Oklahoma City is primarily a ball-control squad and posted an offensive team average of just 63.9. Show streets cent of the Chiefs total points,
The only teams that beat the Chiefs were Oklahoma A&M, Tulsa, Wyoming, and Wichita. Oklahoma City avenged all of those losses except the one to the Aggies. That tilt was played in the All-College tournament in December.
A&M and TCU will tangle in the other contest Friday night. The winner will meet Saturday for the championship and a berth in the NCAA finals in Kansas City.
Foreign Students Plan Dance
A dance for foreign students will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Eldridge hotel. A limited number of $1 tickets are available at the International club's office in the Union building.
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Conference School To Receive Award
A sportsmanship trophy,will be given to some Big Seven school again this year by the Blue Hills (Kansas City, Mo.) American Legion post.
The award will be presented at an honor banquet March 16.
The post has taken a poll of sportswriters, broadcasters and game officials to make the selection. The first trophy presented by the Blue Hills post went to Iowa State in 1949. Oklahoma won it in 1950 and Colorado has taken the honor the past two years.
--goal by Ron Feireisel with only four seconds left. Jim Lamkin led the Blue Demons with 25 points.
The little men, shunted aside in modern-day basketball, were the sensations of the preliminary round of the NCAA tournament as five "Iron Midgets" from Lebanon Valley upset Fordham and Wee Johnny O'Brien of Seattle set a new scoring record.
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Little Men Sensational in NCAA Cage Tilts
Lebanon Valley, with only one' starter six feet tall, provided the major surprise of last night's action in four cities as it upset tall Fordham, 80 to 76, in Philadelphia.
All-American O'Brien, 5-feet, 9-inch tall, swished 42 points through the cords at Seattle to lead Seattle to an 88-77 victory over Idaho State. That gave him a new major-college one season record of 861 points, topping the 831 mark set by Duke's Dick Groat last year.
Other preliminary games ran more to form as Holy Cross chipped Navy, 87-74; De Paul edged Miami of Ohio, 74-72; Note Dame trounced Eastern Kentucky, 72-57, and Santa Clara ousted Hardin-Simmons, 81-56.
These results set up the first round pairings of the various regional tournaments on Friday night as follows:
Raleigh, N.C.; Holy Cross vs. Wake Forest, Lebanon Valley vs. Louisiana
State. Chicago; Notre Dame vs.
Pennsylvania, De Paul vs. Indiana.
Corvallis, Ore.; Seattle vs. Washington.
Santa Clara vs. Wyoming.
The first-round pairings at Manhattan were previously set up with Oklahoma City vs. Kansas and Oklahoma A&M vs. Texas Christian.
Lebanon Valley used only five "midgets" all the way against rangy Fordham and the little men turned on blazing speed all night long in fast breaks that had Fordham dragging him onto a sub for ineligible team captain Dick Furda, set the scoring pace with 30 points.
In the other game at Philadelphia, Holy Cross was led by Togo Palazzi's 30 points to triumph over Navy.
At Fort Wayne, Ind., De Paul kept battling from behind to tie several times, the last at 72-72 with 55 seconds left. That set up the winning
Eastern Kentucky was hampered by the ineligibility of top scorer Polson and playmaker Bill Bales, both fourth-year players. Notre Dame had trouble finding the range and led by only 34-29 at halftime, but then got rolling to win easily as Joe Bertrand set the scoring pace with 23 points.
O'Brien, playing his last game before a Seattle crowd, made it a great one with his 42 points, only two short of the individual game record for the tournament set last year by huge Clyde Lovellette of Kansas. And twin brother Eddie added 21 points. Even so, Idaho State stuck until the last five minutes. Now Seattle gets its long-sought meeting with PCC champion Washington, the local rival it never meets.
At Stanford, Calif., Santa Clara had little trouble with Hardin-Simmons, opening an early 18-7 lead and holding a 39-19 margin at halftime.
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