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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 3.1953
B. H. Born Tallies 44 As KU Beats Buffs
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Center B. H. Bora fired in 44 points to set a new Big Seven scoring record as Kansas took another big step toward a conference title by smothering Colorado. 78-55, in Hoch auditorium last night.
Born's tremendous outburst erased the previous Big Seven mark of 42 set by Dick Knostman of Kansas State against Oklahoma Feb. 14, and broke the Hoch figure of 39 set by Clyde Lovellette against Missouri in 1950. Born's blast also tied the KU record of 44. Lovellette rang up that total in the St. Louis game last year in the NCAA regionals in Kansas City.
The 6 foot 9 inch Medicine Lodge junior's great performance overshadowed a 30-point barrage compiled by forward Art Bunte of Colorado. Bunte scored 17 points in the first half and added 12 more in the second. Born fired in 17 in the first period, eight in the second, only four in the third, then hit 15 in the final quarter.
Born dropped in his 40th point on a free throw near the end of the game, then was fouled again seconds later as the crowd went wild. Born calmly dropped in two more charity tosses to ring up 42 points to the Knostman's record. With 30 seconds left, Born took a pass, wormed his way through a swarm of Colorado players, and staggered through to drop in a layup to boost his total to 44. He fouled out seconds later and received a standing ovation as he departed.
The victory, Kansas' 20th straight at home, gave the Jayhawks an 8-2 conference record and dropped the Buffaloes deeper into the Big Seven collar. Colorado now has a 3-8 record.
Born and Bunte waged a torrid scoring dual in the opening period, with Born canning 17 points and Bunte 13. Born was red hot as he hit eight field goals in just nine attempts. Bunte fired in three jump shots, a layup, and five free throws.
Born scored eight more points in the second quarter, but the pressing Kansas defense held Bunte to four. KU ran up its 23-14 first period lead to 37-21 before Colorado could score its first field goal with 7:20 gone. The Buffs picked up only one more basket from the field in the quarter to trail at halftime by 14:39-25.
The Buffs fought the Jayhawkers on even terms in a rough third quarter. Gompert started the second half scoring with a free throw, then Bunte and Bruce Klaas scored on a jump and tip-in to pull the Buffs within nine. 39-39. That was the closest Colorado could get as the Jayhawkers built up the margin to 14 at the end of the quarter, 54-40.
Born scored on a short set in the opening seconds of the final period, Al Kelley hit a jump shot and John Hankins had to draw to put the Kansans on top. 59-41.
Frank Gompert hit a set shot a few minutes later, then Born went to work with a short fielder under the net. Charlie Mock scored on a free throw for Colorado, then Born hit three throws. Bunte raced in for a lay-up but Born was fouled again. Born hit his 37th point of the game and chalked up his 40th tally about a minute later on another free throw.
The Kansas defense glittered again to bottle up all the Buffs except Bunte. Bob Jeangerard and Ken Munns were the second leading Colorado scorers with just six points each. The Buffaloes hit 15 out of 67 attempts from the field to finish with a cold 22 per cent average. Kansas finished with a 37 per cent average with 27 field goals in 73 attempts.
KU dominated the backboards outgrabbing the Buffs, 68-30. Kansas took down 33 offensive and 35 defensive rebounds, while Colorado could get only 7 offensive and 23 defensive swipes.
Wow!
The KU victory avenged a 68-72 defeat suffered at Boulder Jan. 20.
KANSAS (78) G-Ga F-Fa TP T4
A. Kelley 5-15 4-4 4 19
Patterson 6-15 4-4 4 19
Born 16-25 12-19 5 44
D. Kelley 1-5 1-2 5 43
Reich 2-4 2-4 1 6
Davenport 3-4 0-2 1 6
Smith 0-2 2-4 1 2
Anderson 0-2 2-4 1 2
Squires 0-2 0-4 0 2
Totals 27-21 24-40 25 78
COLORADO (55) G-Ga F-Fa TP IP
Armatares 0-0 0-0 0 0
Mock 0-1 0-3 2 3
Harrold 0-1 1-2 3 2
Jenuguard 0-10 6-7 4 6
Gompert 1-8 1-4 4 3
Stewart 1-1 0-0 3 2
Haldorson 1-0 1-2 2 1
Munns 2-3 2-4 5 6
Branby 1-0 1-2 1 6
Bante 11-28 8-9 4 30
Klaas 0-1 0-0 1 0
Lawson 0-0 1-2 2 1
Totals 15-53 25-36 29 5
Jack Gardner Praises K-State Defense
Manhattan —(U,P)— Coach Jack Gardner of the nationally ninth-rated Kansas State Wildcats had words of praise today for his club's improved defensive play.
Senior All-Stars Win IM Title
The senior intramural all-stars looked like a well-oiled machine as they downed the freshman all-stars 62-40 in a preliminary to the Colorado game last night. The seniors downed the sophomores 54-37 Thursday and the frosh defeated the juniors 59-55 to gain the finals.
totals
Official score: Kunas 39, CU 25.
Home战：Ad Miller and John Lloyd.
In the second period the freshmen played on almost even terms, but the big first half splurge was too much to overcome. Senior star Jerry Brownlee was the big gun in the first half netting 14 of his 22 points, high for the game.
The upperclassmen started strongly and quickly left the freshmen behind. At the half the notion had pulled away to a 33-19 margin.
The senior scoring was well spread only one man failing to break into the scoring column. Bob Allison, who got 27 for the freshman Thursday, was kept well bottled up by the strong senior defense and got eight points, six of them on free throws Phi Delt Carl Ade led the fresh with
Sensors G F L F Allison G F L F
A. Unruh 0 0 1 Aillson 1 6 3
D. Unruh 4 3 1 Ade 6 2 5
D. Unruh 4 3 1 Achards 6 2 5
Cleavinger 1 2 2 Shirley 1 0 6
Gray 1 0 1 Hyson 0 0 3
Rivard 1 2 1 Franklin 1 1 1
Brownlee 1 2 1 stewart 0 0 3
Glue 0 4 1 Owat 0 0 3
Fotopolous 2 1 1 Buller 3 0 2
Rengel 2 2 1 Kenny 0 0 0
Mercer 1 1 2 Blowey 0 0 4
Cager Oversleeps, Almost Misses Tilt
Totals 23 16 18 Totals 15 10 24
"Pat" Patterson, one of the Karnas almost missed, the game last night.
Gardner had been manning all season about a lack of defensive savvy on the Widcat squad, and statistics showed the K-State coach
Teammates searched for the missing player who failed to arrive until warmups began. Pat arrived shortly before game time, sufficiently rested.
Someone had forgotten to waken him.
During the first half of the season, opponents averaged around 75 points a game.
had reason to feel blue about his team's performances.
In the last three games, however, K-State's defense has limited the opposition to an average of 64.3.
KU Ranked High In Press Polls
The Kansas Jayhawkers still are ranked well up in the nation's top ten collegiate basketball teams by both the Associated and the United Press polls announced today.
Kansas, despite its loss to Oklahoma A&M last week, is ranked fifth by the coaches board of the UP and sixth by sports writers participating in the Associated poll.
Another Big Seven team, Kansas State, was placed in eighth place by the AP and in ninth by the UP. Oklahoma A&M failed to rise despite the victory over Kansas, a loss to Bradley nullifying the gain.
The coaches and the writers finally agreed on the No. 1 team in the country. With Seton Hall's loss to Dayton Sunday, the path was left open for Indiana to take the top spot in both polls. Seton Hall had been ranked first by the AP.
The United Press rating board comprised of 35 leading coaches made Coach Branch McCracken's Hoosiers the No.1 team again today for the fourth straight week. Seton Hall, whose record 27-game winning streak was broken, ranked second, 46 points behind.
Every one of the coaches made Indiana the first, second, or third place choice on his ballot this week. The Hoosiers thus received 21 firsts, 11 seconds and three thirds for a total of 333 out of a possible 350 points. Indiana clinched the Big Ten conference and an NCAA tournament berth last weekend by beating Illinois for its 17th victory in 19 games.
The Hoosiers made Northwestern their 18th victim last night and now have only an away-from-home game against Minnesota and a home contest against Iowa to round out a perfect 18-victory Big Ten campaign.
Seton Hall, which fell further behind for the fourth straight week, had nine first place votes and 287 points.
Associated Press Ratings
Team Points
Indiana (25) (17-2) 638
Ind.La (6) (24-2) 459
Seton Hall (15) (27-1) 458
Washington (4) (25-2) 430
Ga. State (3) (21-1) 263
Kansas (13-8) 223
Okla. A&M (3) (19-6) 201
Kansas State (15-4) 182
West. Ky. (3) (24-5) 174
Illinois (11-8) 118
Okla. City (6) (16-4) 107
N. Car. St (2) (24-5) 93
Notre Dame (17-4) 65
West. Ky. (3) (24-5) 174
A&M Wins Title, Grabs NCAA Spot
New York—(U.P.)—The Oklahoma Aggies seized a spot in the NCAA tournament today as the newly-crowned Missouri Valley conference champions, and games tonight may decide the titles in the Southwest and Border conferences.
Bob Kendrick's field goal with seconds remaining gave the Aggies their title with a 51-50 victory over runner-up St. Louis last night.
The victory moves the Aggies, with a 7-2 league record, into the Manhattan, Kan., regionals of the NCAA along with Oklahoma City and the yet-decided Southwest and Big Seven conference champions. The defeat makes St. Louis a certain entry in the National Invitation Tourney—the Bills had accepted an NIT bid, provided they didn't win their league crown.
The Southwest conference race comes down to its last night tonight with three teams tied for first place with 8-3 records—Rice, Southern Methodist, and Texas.
Method:
Rice and SMU clash on the Mustangs' court, while Texas plays Texas Christian. A Texas victory will mean a playoff against the winner of the other game. A Texas defeat would make the winner of the other game the champion.
In the Border conference, Arizona
Kansas moved a stride closer to the Big Seven crown with a 78-55 rout of Colorado last night. The Jayhawkers, 1952 NCAA champions, now can clinch a league title tie by beating Iowa State Friday.
Seton Hall, which suffered its first defeat of the year Sunday after 27 wins, was handed its second straight loss, 73-67, by Louisville in a game at Louisville that ended in a fist-swinging mlee. Louisville, behind 14 points in the first quarter, built up and almost blew an 11-point lead. Two drive-in shots by Chet Beam in the closing minutes saved the game for Louisville, although Seton Hall's Walt Dukes won scoring honors with 35 points.
finished its season with a 11-3 by beating West Texas State last night, 65-51. However, Hardin-Simmons (10-3) can finish in a tie and force a playoff by beating Texas Tech to-night. If Hardin-Simmons loses, Arizona is the champ.
East Lansing, Mich.—(U.P.)A group of Michigan State college's top athletes, whose own school got slapped for allowing alumni to line the pockets of varsity stars, said today they had received scores of dazzling offers of under-the-table help to enter other schools.
MichiganStateAthletes Tell of Dazzling Offers
The offers ranged from promises of "C" averages whether they attended classes or not, to gifts including "everything but the field-house."
A football lineman who lived in
United Press Ratings
The foundation has admitted disbursing about $3,000 to needy athletes during 1951-52—but only after their collegiate eligibility had expired. But the Spartan athletes say this was small potatoes compared to the glittering inducements offered by other colleges.
The more than 20 athletes, who were promised their names would not be used, freely said many of the offers came from Michigan State's rivals in the Big Ten, which put MSC on probation for one year because of the activities of the now-disbanded Spartan foundation.
**Team** Points
1. Idaiana (21) (17-2) 333
2. Setea State (9) (27-1) 287
3. Washington (3) (25-2) 261
4. La Salle (24-2) 195
5. Kansu State (46-5) 149
6. La State (21-1) 112
7. Okla. A&M (19-6) 107
8. Carr. State (1) (24-5) 109
9. Kan. State (15-4) 89
10. Illinois (15-4) 66
Second 10 teams: 11. Western Ky. 35; 12. Michigan Ky. 43; 14. (tie) DePaul and Wymington, 18 each; 16. St. Louis, 17; 17. Holy Cross, 15; 18. Wisconsin, 19. Brigham Young, 11; 20. Duquesne, 9.
the East said that before coming to MSC he had received offers from Georgia, North Carolina, Washington and Lee, and Brown university.
The lineman, who claimed he never heard of the Spartan foundation until he came to East Lansing, said Georgia offered him room, board, books, spending money, and funds to pay travel expenses back and forth from his home any time he desired. He said North Carolina's offer was about the same.
A varsity baseball player, whose home is on the west coast, said he had received offers from San Francisco university guaranteeing him passing grades.
"I hardly would have had to go to classes," he said. "They told me I could major in basket weaving if I wanted to. I came to Michigan State because it is a good baseball school."
This same athlete said Oregon State approached him in his high school days and offered him transportation if he would visit the school for an interview.
A former all-State football player said he was contacted directly by a Purdue coach and was offered books, tuition, and $10 a week spending money. The player said he also was told that if he cared to join a fraternity his initiation fees and dues would be paid.
Bevo Is Strictly American
New York—(U.P.) You've heard of Clarence "Bevo" Francis and it's a shame you can't meet him.
By OSCAR FRALEY
The big fellow from the tiny Ohio college of Rio Grande isn't a basketball goon or a publicity-hungry clown. He's a young man whose story is strictly American.
Bevo is the fellow who has rewritten all the basketball scoring records this season. As a freshman at little Rio Grande, enrollment 92, he scored 116 points in one game and has 1,900 in 38 games with his season still uncompleted.
I don't know whether Bevo is a great basketball player or not. I don't even care. But I can tell you that he is a pleasant, keenly-intelligent young man who hasn't lost his balance in all the uproar.
He could have, very easily. But he hasn't. For Bevo is no loud-talking yokel nor the cornfield scarecrow with hay sticking out of his hair as some have tried to paint him. He dresses quietly, speaks in a low, modulated voice, and moves with respectable calmness.
This is no sporting freak, but a young man who came up the hard way. Ambitious, certainly, and eager eventually to capitalize professionally on his basketball name as a passport from poverty. Because Bevo has known hard times, and still does.
His is the old familiar story of a family on relief and a boy who grew so fast that he developed anemia. He learned to play in a barn, didn't finish high school actually until his freshman year in college from which, this fall, he had to take a short leave of absence. Bevo had to go home and sell a hog for $45 so he could stay in school and still maintain his wife and infant son.
The debate which centers around him is concerned with whether his scoring feats are valid or have been made against greatly inferior opponents. This is the reason that Bevo and his team have not been invited to play in any of the post-season tournaments.
"Sure, we are disappointed." Bevo said yesterday as he and his coach.
Oliver believes it is a team which "could stay within 10 or 15 points of anybody." The 6 foot 9 inch, 20-year-old Bevo is his main reason, naturally, but Oliver insists that his is "no one-man team."
Newt Oliver, prepared to return to Ohio after appearing on several television shows. "We would have liked a chance to prove that we have a good team."
Bevo and Oliver listened intently as Asa Bushnell, head of the National Invitation Tournament which opens soon at Madison Square Garden, explained that Rio Grande received no bid "because only those invited were seriously considered while a number of others were considered, too."
"Im sorry we weren't invited."
It was a hidden ball play. And Bevo's only comment was a quiet:
Me, too. I must be one of many who would have liked to see him play against some good opposition. Because Bevo Francis is the kind of kid you like to see at least get his chance, win, lose or draw.