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University Daily Kansan Thursday, February 5.1953
Thinclads Open Indoors Against Tough Wildcats
By DON TICE
By DON TICE Kansan Sports Writer
The Kansas track team opens its indoor season Friday night at Manhattan against a strong Kansas State team that showed considerable strength in its first outing last week, defeating Nebraska 55 1-3 to 4 2-3.
The Jayhawkers will be seeking their ninth consecutive dual track victory. They haven't been beaten in dual competition, indoors or out, since Missouri whipped them 75-29 indoors in 1951. The Kansans added both the indoor and outdoor Big Seven crowns of last season to the enviable record.
"The meet should be very close unless we get the breaks on some of the doubtful events," Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton said Wednesday as he put his team through its naces.
The Wildcats will be leaining heavily on the efforts of their great Olympic spinner Thane Baker. Baker set a new meet record against Nebraska in the 440-yard dash by sprinting the distance in 50 seconds flat. He also won the 60-yard dash in 6.2 seconds, and accounted for the first time since the relay when he took the baton two yards behind the Nebraska anchor man, and finished 25 yards in front, pulling away.
"We figure the 440-yard dash and the half mile will be two of the best events in the meet," Coach Eason said as he prepares to send Don Smith and team Captain John Riederer in the shorter distance, and outdid outdoor champion Art Dalzell and Wes Santee in the longer race.
The Wildcat's big threat in the half mile is Dick Towers who was narrowly beaten out in last year's Big Seven indoor meet by Don Crabtree of Oklahoma.
Smith should give Baker some very able competition in the quarter. His best time this season is a sizzling :49.7 practice session sprint.
"If you will notice, Kansas State won the Nebraska meet in the distances," Coach Easton said, pointing out that the Wildcats placed first and second in the two-mile, first and second in the half.
The Jayhawkers should be able to hold their own, however, with veteran distance runners Wes Santee, double conference and national disguise going in the mile, and Art Datzell and Santee in the half.
In the high hurdles, Bill Biberstein and Adolph Mueller will do the honors for Kansas, and they will be joined by Don Smith in the low hurdles. Biberstein and Mueller have posted practice times of .07.7 and in the highs, and .07.1 and .07.0 in the lows. Smith also ran the lows in .07.0.
In the Nebraska meet, Corky Taylor won the lows with the time of 07.1.
Verl Switzer, Kansas State gridiron star, will be the big threat in the pole vault. He narrowly missed a 13 foot leap at Nebraska when he hooked the cross-bar with his arm before he had cleared it with his body.
Against Switzer, Kansas will pit Kermit Hollingsworth and Norm Steanson, a veteran from the team two years ago, who broke his leg in intramural football last year and wasn't able to compete.
In the other events, Kansas will be represented in the 60 yard dash by Don Hess, Dick McGlinn, Bill Hawkey, and Frank Cindrich; in the two-mile by Dick Wilson and Keith
Former KU Player Gets Wichita Post
Monroe played center and linebacker of the 1947 and 1948 KU football squads and was a member of the Big Seven co-champion team that won the NCAA tournament bowl in Miami, Fla. He was second team all-conference center in 1948.
Dick Monroe, former Kansas football player and assistant coach, has been named assistant football mentor at Wichita university, Jack Mitchell, newly named Shocker head man, announced this week.
He returned to Kansas last fall as center coach for head coach J. V. Sikes and also doubled as chief scout.
Palmquist; in the high jump by Bob Smith, Buz Frazier, and Hollings-worth; in the broad jump by Bob Smith and Frazier, and in the shot put by Merlin Gish, Dick Knowles, and Gene Vignatelli.
The mile relay team will be made up of four of these seven men: Mueller, Cindrich, Riederer, Don Smith, Frank Rodkey, Jay Hardy, or Hawkey.
The meet will start at the Kansas State field house at 7:30 p.m. with the high jump, broad jump, and shot put. the first running event will be the mile at 8:00.
Kansas' hustling Jayhawkers were ranked 13th and 18th in the United and Associated Press polls this week.
KU Ranked In Two Polls
Kansas State was placed fifth in both polls and undefeated Seton Hall of New Jersey was again selected as the No. 1 team.
Seton Hall, with a 21-0 record,
had a slim five point margin over
Indiana (9-2) in the UP rankings.
Washington's Huskies (16-1) were
third, with Illinois (9-2) grabbing
the fourth spot.
Seton Hall, Indiana, and Washington also held the top three positions in the AP poll, but LaSalle was in fourth place.
Two teams in the top 10 in both polls, Kansas State and Oklahoma A&M, were handed one of their few season defeats by Kansas. The Jayhawkers whipped A&M 65-63 and ran over the Wildcats 80-66.
UP Coaches' Poll
The ratings (with first-place votes and second-place votes) through January 31 in parentheses;
**Points**
1. Seton Hall (19) (21-0)
2. Indiana (10) (9-2)
3. Washington (4) (16-1)
4. Illinois (9-2)
5. Kansas State (10)
6. Kentucky (16-2)
7. Oklahoma A&M (14-1)
8. DePaul (1) (15-4)
9. North Carolina State (1) (17-4)
10. Florida (12-1)
Ezzard Charles Wants Title Fight
Second 10: 11, California; 33: 12, Forti-
hart; 27: 15, Western Kentucky; 28: 16, (Uc)
Brigham Young and North Carolina; 16
Hawaii; 20: 18, South Carolina; 20:
19, St. Louis and Oklahoma; 4 each
Detroit — (U,P)— Ezzard Charles said today he will definitely challenge the winner of the Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Woolcott fight April 10 for a crack at the heavyweight championship which he once held.
The 31-year-old Cincinnati Negro disposed of Tommy Harrison on a ninth round technical knockout last night that indicated he was in top shape for a championship bout.
Charles, 187, was declared winner after Dr. Joseph Cahalan, Michigan State Boxing Commission physician, declared that Harrison, 181 1-4 pounds, was unable to continue.
Kansas basketball coach Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen has been named "Elk of the year" by the Lawrence Elk lodge.
Harrison, 23-year-old Los Angeles youngster who ranks sixth among the light heavyweights, had been battered for eight straight rounds by his wiser and heavier rival. He had been on the canvas once and his left eye was closed tight.
Elk of Year Award Is Latest for Allen
Dr. Allen was awarded a plaque signifying the yearly honor. The award. honored "Mr. Basketball" and his 43 years of coaching the sport, 36 of them at Kansas.
His long and colorful career reached a peak last season when he took the Big Seven conference tournament, the conference race, won the NCAA title, and topped the college bracket in the Olympic trials to become assistant roundball coach of the United States' Olympic team with seven members of the Kansas squad on the team.
AP Writer's Poll
The leaders, with points on a basis of 10-9-8 etc. (Season records and first-place votes in parentheses).
21 Detroit (4) (38) 654
22 Indiana (9-2) (9) 553
23 Washington (18-1) (10) 528
24 LaSalle (16-2) (3) 419
25 Kansas (14-2) (2) 305
26 Seattle (9-2) (1) 298
27 DePaul (15-4) 226
28 Western Kentucky (16-3) (4) 196
29 Oklahoma A&M (14-3) (1) 188
30 Minnesota (14-1) (2) 197
31 Seattle (15-2) (4) 97
32 North Carolina (15-3) (1) 84
33 Fordham (14-2) 81
34 Michigan (14-5) 66
35 North Carolina St. (17-4) (1) 39
36 Oklahoma City (11-3) (1) 35
37 Holy Cross (8-4) 32
38 Kansas (8-4) 26
39 Michigan (12-2) 26
40 Nigara (13-2) 23
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K-State Threatens Sooners As Big Seven Resumes Play
The Oklahoma Sooners' Big Seven bubble was deflated Monday night at Norman when the Iowa State Cyclones arose to hand the Sooners their first conference loss, 73-69, and seriously threaten the Oklahoma hold on the top rung of the conference ladder.
Saturday night Kansas State can move into a first place tie with the Sooners by beating Nebraska on the first leg of its northern journey, and a victory over Iowa State on Monday would leave the Wildcats in sole possession of first place.
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The conference swings back into full schedules this week after the lulled cause by examinations. Besides the Wildcat-Husker clash Saturday, Colorado will oppose Iowa State at Ames, and Kansas and Missouri will collide in their traditional game at Lawrence.
Kansas State, weakened by injuries and illness, had to call on all its resources to get past Iowa State, 81-78, Saturday night at Manhattan in the only conference action last week. Coach Jack Gardner's nationally ranked team sorely missed the ailing Bob Rousey, and scoring ace Dick Knostman also was not in top condition, suffering from a sore throat.
Despite his condition, Knostman bagged 21 points in some 26 minutes of playing time as K-State marked up its second win in three loop starts—good enough for second place in the conference standings, beneath Oklahoma (3-1).
Gardner was "extremely disappointed" in the offensive play of his athletes and said "we're going to work plenty on that this week."
"That Iowa State team was one of the best we've ever seen here," Gardner said yesterday. "It had more poise and more bench power.
But the records still showed that K-State has averaged 81.6 points for 12 games this season—10 of which have been chalked up in the "won" column.
The game against Missouri will mark Kansas' first conference outing since the Jayhawks-surprise winners over Kansas State-were upset by Colorado at Boulder, 72-68. Missouri has lost its last two conference starts—to Nebraska, 62-73, and to Kansas State, 85-94.
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