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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 22. 1953
KU Wonderboys Clash With A&M
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas will attempt to write another chapter in its 1953 Horatio Alger story when the Jayhawkers meet Oklahoma A&M C
at Stillwater tonight.
The Missouri Valley leaders have dropped just 13 contests at Gallagher hall in 15 years. That figures out to a percentage of .925. The Cowboys have run up nine straight victories at home this season and are riding on a 17-game string which began last winter. UCS was the last club to stop the Aggies at Stillwater, scorring a 46-44 win in December, 1951.
The Aggies were rated No. 7 in the Associated and United Press polls last Tuesday while Kansas was picked in ninth place by the UP and 10th by the AP.
A&M's 66-51 victory over Tulsa Saturday night boosted the Aggie record to 18-5. Kansas has a 13-4 mark.
It's been ten years since Kansas has swept a series with the Aggies. Even the 1952 national championship team couldn't do it as they went down to a 49-45 defeat at Stillwater. The Jayhawkers won at Hoch, 66-46. KU upset the Aggies at Stillwater two years ago, 37-27, but A&M had previously whipped the Jayhawkers at Lawrence, 46-41.
However, the thrill-packed 80-78 victory over Kansas State at Manhattan Tuesday convinced most Jayhawker fans that the hustling Kansans are able to handle any seemingly impossible task. For the KU triumph marked the first time that a Big Seven team has won in the K-State fieldhouse. And nobody expected the Jayhawkers to do it at Manhattan or anywhere else before
Manhattan or anywhere else before the present cage season opened.
Hustle and spirit was the main factor in the Kansas win here last month. The Jayhawkers were not impressive from the standpoint of polish, but were great as far as fire-eating play was concerned.
Kansas kept the Aggies off balance most of that evening by use of a pressing defense which wrecked any Oklahoma A&M offensive patterns. The Kansas scoring was bunched in the first and last quarters as they outscored the Aggies in those periods, 23-15 and 23-14.
Tonight's contest shapes up to be a tune-up battle for the NCAA regional tournament at Manhattan next month. The participants will be the Big Seven, Missouri Valley, and Southwest conference champions plus a team-at-large.
Kansas has control of the Big Seven at present with a 7-2 record, while A&M has the Missouri Valley title specifically seewed up at 6-2. KU has three more conference games left, two in Hoch with Colorado and Iowa State, and one at Columbia, with Missouri's Titers.
Center B. H. Born played a bang-up game at Manhattan last week and will be out to outscore his Agile pivot rival, Bob Mattick, again. The K-State and tossed in 21 to Mattick's 15 in the KU-A&M game at Hoch.
Little Al Kelley took scoring honors in the three game Hoech stand that was concluded with a 77-58 drubbing of Nebraska last Saturday. Kelley scored 15 against Missouri, 25 against Oklahoma, and 21 against Nebraska. The jump-shooting Cune ace had 44 goals. K-State last week to start the third period. That display helped provide the Jayhawkers with the spark they needed to whin the Wildcats.
Kansas has been getting fine performances from Dean Kelley, Harold Patterson, Dean Smith, Gil Reich, and John Anderson. Patterson scored 15 points against K-State and turned in his usual great rebounding job to lead the Jayhawkers in that department.
The other Kansans have not been heavy scorers, but have been stout
defenders, good passers, and excellent floor men.
Other A&M players who should star tonight are Gerald Stockton, Harold Rogers, Don Haskins, and Kendall Sheets. Rogers hit 31 points against KU to finish as the No. 2. Aggies scorer. Stockton and Sheets are good ball handlers and defenders.
A Kansas victory would deadlock coaches Phog Allen and Hank Iba at 14 all in their coaching duel.
IM Finalists Set In 4 Divisions
Finalists in all but the Fraternity "C" division were decided in eight weekend intramural games. In the Fraternity "C" bracket semi-final games are on tap for today. The finals will be played in all the other divisions today.
INDEPENDENT "A"
Hodder Annex 26. AFROTC I 32
Hodder Annex 307.
The Golden got of to a halftime
at 14:13, with a stretch drive by
Hodder Annex pulled the game out
of the fire. Gray got 17 points to
lead Hodder and Martin scored 21
for AFROTC.
Last Chance 62. Jolliffe 31
Last Chance 82, Joline 31
Last Challenge rolled up a big 30-9 hurdle and continued to pour it on the team and half, finally winning 62-31. Correll led the winners with 29 points, and Fuerborn got 15 for Jolliffe.
INDEPENDENT "B"
INDEPENDENT Gamma Delta 33 Jolliffe 32
Only a last minute surge by Gamma Delta saved the triumph as Jollife led most of the way. For the winners Morrow got 18 points. Cummins led Jolliffe with 11.
AFROTIC II over Know Nothings
bv forfeits.
FRATERNITY "B"
D U. 48, Phi Gam 34
DU overcame a one-point halftime deficit to phi Phig Gam 48-34. Dick Folck made 12 points for DU and Bob Roth's 15 led Phig Gam.
Beta 49. ATO 23
A 9-29 halftime margin was too much to overcome as the ATO's iropped the game to the Beta's 23-49. Al Mulliken's 11 points was high for Beta, and Paul Owings got 10 for ATO.
FRATERNITY "C" (Quarterfinals)
Beta. 48, U. 20.
The Betas scored 30 points in the second half to submerge D U 48-20. Smith got 14 points to pace the winners and John Graham got seven for D U.
Phi Delt 56. Sigma Chi 51
Phi Delt 56, Sigma Chi 5T
Phi Delt out-raced Sigma Chi to the 56-51 win as both teams were hot. Scheideman got 12 points for Phi Delt and Lowbrow got 17 for Sigma Chi.
Although having to play the last nine minutes with only four men, the Ph Gams put up a stiff fight before bowing to Delta Tau Delta 40-41. Little Charlie Franklin scored 18 points for the winners and Al Kobbeman got 12 for Ph Gam.
Delt 41. Phi Gam 40
MONDAY (Finals)
Robinson Annex
4 Beta-Phi Delt
Independent
5 Hodder Annex-Last Chance
Fraternity "B"
Robinson Gym
8 AFROTC II-Gamma Delta Fraternity "C" (semifinals)
7 Phi Delt-Delt (E)
Conregation Shows Talents
Dow, Mich.—(U.P.)—Using the parable of the talents as a guide, Rev. John Sorenson, pastor of the Dow Methodist church, gave $5 each to 30 members of his congregation and told them to invest the money. Six months later the 30 turned in $1,551.97.
KU'S EFLIN WINS 120-YARD MEDLEY
OFF THEY GO—Buffaloes Raveling and Watson and Jayhawkers Dick Eflin and Ken Reid plunge into the Robinson gym pool to begin the first leg of the 120-yard individual medley Saturday. Eflin posted a time of 1:22.2 to capture the event. Watson finished second and Reid third. The Kansas victory tied the score at 19 all at this point. The Jayhawkers then won the 1-meter diving competition, but Colorado won four events in a row to win the match, 53-40. Eflin and Reid will be battling for a Kansas victory in the Big Seven meet at Norman March 6-7. Eflin is co-captain of the Jayhawker pool squad, but is just a sophomore and should be one of the nation's top col-
—Kansan photo by Jerry Knudson
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legiate swimmers by his senior year.
Dates of MU, I-State Cage Tilts Changed
Dates of the final two regular season basketball games for the Jayhawkers have been changed to avoid conflict with any possible participation in the NCAA basketball playoffs.
The final home game of the season will be played March 6 against Iowa State, instead of March 9. The Jayhawkers will go to Missouri on March 9 for the final season and Big Seven game of the year.
If the Kansans still are in first place in the conference after their three remaining conference games, they will enter the NCAA Western regional March 13-14 in the Kansas State fieldhouse. The Missouri game was scheduled for March 12 and would have put a great handicap on the Jayhawkers if they get into the tourney.
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NIT Leading In Team Grab
New York —(U.P.)— The National Invitation tournament was winning the "war" for independent powers today as the college basketball season headed into its final hectic two weeks.
The NIT and the NCAA tournaments, thrown into open rivalry by a new NCAA rule forbidding college teams to play in more than one post-season carnival, have been scrapping to sign up the nation's best independent teams. And the NIT has womine five out of six battles so far.
That means that the NIT, which appeared doomed when that new rule was announced, now is sure to be a financial success. Its teams have big drawing power because its winner will have an authentic claim to national honors.
Louisville, boasting a 19-5 record, today became the fifth team to sign up for the NIT, joining Seton Hall. La Salle, Western Kentucky, and Manhattan. The only independent team to enter the NCAA so far is Seattle.
This trend will leave NCAA selectors a tough job trying to pick nine "members at large" to compete against 14 conference champions.
The Oklahoma Aggies set their Missouri Valley mark at 6-2 by downing Tulsa, 66-51.
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Colorado Rallies to Whip KU 53-40 in Swimming Contest
Colorado broke up a tight swimming dual by winning four straight events after trailing 19-26 to defeat Kansas;*53-40, Saturday afternoon in Robinson gym pool.
The Jayhawkers took a seven point lead when Dallas Chestnut and Jerry Jester finished 1-2 in the 1-meter diving, but Colorado tied it up at 27 all when Mel Helffelman and Alan Fox swept the 100-yard free style.
The Buffalos then went ahead to stay on Jack Watson and Bill Yowell's 1-2 finish in the 200-yard backstroke. Colorado won the next event, the 200-yard breaststroke as Bob Watson set a new pool record of 2:40.
CU took first and third place finishes in the 440-yard freestyle before KU could salvage the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay.
The match was the last dual for the Kansans this season and dropped them to a 1-4 record. They finish their 1953 competition with participation in the Big Seven meet at Norman March 6-7.
Kansas jumped into the lead by winning the 300-yard medley relay, the first event of the afternoon, but Colorado came back to take. The 120-yard freestyle in the Coloniale Dick Eiffel end then Kansas swept the diving competition to take the 26-19 lead.
380-yard medley relay: 1. Kansas,
2. Tampa Bay Jester Jester);
2. Colorado, Time: 3:16.1.
220-yard free style: 1. Mel Helfeman,
Cruz, CU. Tim 2. John Ferguson,
CU. Tim 3. 2-26.3.
60-yard free style; 1: Lee Venzie, CU;
3: Alan Fox, KU; 3: Alan Fox, CU;
Timg: 32.6
120-ward individual medley? I. Dick
Lee, M.D.; Washougain, CU; K. 3. Ken
Reid, KU. Time: 1:22.1
One-meter diving: 1. Dal Chestnut.
44:3, 2. Jester. 240:7, 3. Venkze.
215:5.
*zoar-yard backstroke*. 1. Jack Watson.
C23.1. Bill Yiewl昌; CU. 3. Welsh. Time:
1:31.
100-yard free style; 1. Heffelman; 2.
Fox; 3. Eflin, Tim.; 58.0.
200-yard breast stroke: 1. B, Watson;
2. Jack Watson, CU; 3. Scott, Time;
2. Jack Watson, CU; 3. Scott, Time;
Acacia Initiates 7, Pledges 2
Acacia fraternity announces the initiation on February 15 of honor initiate Stan Hamilton, college sophomore; Albert Koch, graduate student; Dick Searl, college junior; Louis Buck, college sophomore; Lee Breckenridge, engineering freshman, and Ralph Stone and Clement Blakeslee, college freshmen.
440-yard free style: 1. Hefferman, 2.
Perkins; 3. Ferguson; Time: S:19:3
Dave Moxley, Terry Williams, Ball,
¢fn); 4. Colorado; Time: 4:04.5
Ray Clinesmith, college freshman,
and Rex Rasmussen, pharmacy
freshman, were pledged by the fraternity.
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