Thursday, Feb. 19, 1953 University Daily Kansai
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Three Hurdles Block Road To 2nd Straight Big 7 Title
The Kansas Jayhawkers can take their second straight Big Seven conference basketball title this season IF they can get by their three remaining foes.
Kansas now is two full games ahead of second-place Kansas State, although the Wildcats are just one game behind on the loss side. The Jayhawkers have two games left in their home confine, Hoch auditorium, where they have won 19 straight.
The first, March 2, is with Colorado, always a tough cookie for the Kansans, and the other, March 9, is with last-place Iowa State. But the game that could cause the Jayhawkers the most trouble is with the Missouri Tigers at Columbia, scheduled for March 12.
Missouri is always hard to beat on its home court, and would be looking for a chance to knock off the league-leaders.
Eisewhere in the conference, Kansas State now must win all of its games and hope for another Kansas loss to gain a tie for the title they supposedly had sown up before the season began. Saturday the Wildcats must go into the thin Colorado air to play the Buffs.
A Colorado upset victory here
would move the Buffs into a tie with K-State for third place with the winner of Saturday's Missouri-Nebraska game taking second.
Five teams currently are in the running for first-division finishes with only Iowa State out of the money. The Cyclones were dropped further into the Big Seven cellar by Missouri Monday, 78-74. Oklahoma dropped its third straight conference game, after winning its first three, losing to Nebraska 59-53.
| | W | L | Pct | Pts | Opps |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| KANSAS | 7 | 2 | .777 | 680 | 587 |
| Kansas State | 4 | 3 | .571 | 544 | 551 |
| Nebraska | 4 | 3 | .571 | 544 | 551 |
| Missouri | 4 | 4 | .500 | 576 | 591 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 4 | .429 | 457 | 488 |
| Colorado | 4 | 4 | .429 | 500 | 527 |
| Iowa State | 3 | 7 | .222 | 552 | 560 |
Future Teachers to Meet
Education students planning on practice teaching next year will meet at 4 p.m. today in Fraser theater. General information relative to the student teaching program will be presented, and students will be given an opportunity to make tentative selections as to the city and quarter of the term they wish to teach.
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Seattle Pondering Offer to Enter NIT
Seattle, sparked by 5 foot 9 inch Johnny O'Brien—one of the most colorful players in the game as well as the major-college scoring leader with a 28.5 points-per-game average, boasts a record of 20 victories against only three defeats.
New York — (U,R)— Sharpshooting Seattle university today pondered a bid to the National Invitation basketball tournament, while record-busting scoring performances boosted the tourney hopes of Columbia and Duquesne.
The Chieftains, who played in the NIT last year but lost in the opening round to Holy Cross, frankly left the door open for an NCAA tournament bid when they announced they were "considering" going to the NIT.
Asa S. Bushnell, NIT committee chairman, confirmed that Seattle has been given a definite bid—"not a feeler." Landing Seattle would be another feather in the cap of the NIT, which already has nabbed Seton Hall, LaSalle, and Western Kentucky.
Bushnell said his committee expected to announce further invitations on Friday.
Duquesne, bidding for a spot in either major tournament, strengthened its hopes with a 109-66 rout of little Geneva college last night. The triumph erased the Duquesne scoring record of 95 points and ran the Iron Dukes' record to 16 victories and seven defeats.
Columbia tied idle Pennsylvania for the Ivy league lead by bouncing Princeton, 81-58. In the process of setting the Lions' league mark at 5-1, Jack Molinas set four scoring records and one rebound mark.
ing record. The Columbia senior tallied 41 points to break the Columbia individual record and the Columbia court record, set a new Ivy league 3-year scoring mark of 453 points, and a new league free throw season record of 121.
Notre Dame strengthened its bid for an NCAA bid by beating Marquette, 74-68, to set its season record at 15-4. Born Lewisbins of the Irish and Rube Schulz of Marquette tied for scoring honors with 22 points.
The Oklahoma Aggies were upset by Houston, 50-46, on the winners' court, but retained the Missouri Valley conference lead by a 1-game margin over Tulsa. Houston trailed for three periods, but beat the Aggies at their own "possession" game in the fourth to win. Bob Mattick of the Aggies led the scoring with 14 points.
IM Schedules
In other leading games last night: Ed Conlin, the nation's top rebounder, grabbed 9 rebounds and scored 24 points to lead Fordham to an 81-51 triumph over Iona college; LaSalle ran its record to 21-2 by trouncing Muhlenberg, 106-73, as Tom Gola scored 28 points; Louis-
Playoff schedules for today and tomorrow in men's intramural basketball competition have been released for the Fraternity "A" and "B" and Independent "A" divisions.
THURSDAY
Robinson Annex
Fraternity "A"
4:00 Phil Psi-Beta
5:15 Phil Delt-Kappa Sig
FRIDAY
Robinson Annex
Independent "A"
4 Hooder AFROTOC I
5 Last Chance-Jolliffe
Robinson Gym
Fraternity "B"
9 DU-Phi Gann (W)
10 DU-Phi (F)
Woodard Appointed SMU Football Coach
Dallas, Tex. - (U.P.)- Chalmer E. Woodard, head coach and athletic director at McPherson college, was named football coach at Southern Methodist today under a three-year contract.
Dr. Edwin D. Mouzon, chairman of the faculty athletic committee which announced the appointment, said Woodard's selection was unanimously approved by the seven-member committee.
method Woodard replaces H. N. (Rusty)
Russell, head coach at Southern
Methodist for three years, who
resigned Feb. 1 under pressure from
alumni.
Woodard formerly was football coach at Lawrence High school.
ville raised its record to 19-4 by beating Eastern Kentucky, 68-66; Dartmouth edged Army, 61-58; Pit routed Carnegie Tech, 69-49; Lehigh upset Temple, 68-48; Navy shaded Loyola (Md.), 75-72; Manhattan moved closer to the New York
Metropolitan title by beating St. Francis (N.Y.), 62-60; Wichita beat Murray (Ky.), 87-77; Harvard nicked Northeastern, 49-48; Boston college trounced Stonehill, 68-52; Colgate crushed Rutgers, 91-58, and Miami (Ohio) downed Dayton, 74-65.
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