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Page 6 University Dally Kansan Thursday, Jan. 15, 1953
Tall, Talented Wildcat Five To Invade Hoch Saturday
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansas Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas State's tall and talented Wildcats invade Hoch auditorium Saturday night with an 8-1 record behind them and a sizzling offensive average of 82 points a game.
The No.1 nationally-rated Wildcats have not shown the poise and all-around polish of a championship team, but nevertheless have been placed at the top in the latest
WILDCAT VETERAN—Bob Rousey, senior guard from Anderson, Ind., was named the top sophomore cager in the Big Seven in 1951. He is fast, a good outside shooter, and a fine floor man. He was hampered with injuries last year and has been regaining his sophomore form this season. Last Saturday night at Manhattan, he had the best night of his career by hitting 26 points.
Seton Hall Wins; Now Only Unbeaten Team
New York—(U.P.)-Seton Hall's powerful Pirates, boasting a true all-American candidate in skyscraping Walter Dukes, reigned today as the only major unbeaten college basketball team in the nation.
It was Dukes, a six-foot, 11-inch' point machine, who sparked the New Jersey quintet to that lofty ranking by firing 31 points through the hoop and grabbing the major share of rebounds to lead a 69 to 62 conquest of Fordham, the only other surviving unbeaten, last night.
There were other heroes for the Pirates, who ran their win streak to 16 games as they ended the Rams' at 11, but Dukes was the big one.
"I set up my defenses to allow Dukes 30 or 40 points," explained Fordham coach Johnny Bach. "I thought that way we could hold the other fellows down. But that Richie Regan really fooled me. He's an underrated player, a real all-American as far as I'm concerned."
Regan, second high scorer for Seton Hall with 16 points, hit with deadly accuracy on long shots, thus preventing the Fordham defense from pulling in tight around pivot-man Dukes.
Seton Hall drove to a 36-23 half-time lead with Dukes contributing 14 markers. Dukes got his fourth personal foul at the start of the second half, and that helped Fordham rally to lead by 54-53 with seven minutes left. The lead seesawed for three minutes until a three-point play by Dukes put the Pirates in front to stay. They pulled away in the final three minutes.
Notre Dame, ranked ninth nationally compared to Seton Hall's fifth, handed Purdue its seventh loss in nine games, 71-53, last night at Lafayette. In the field topped by a Dell rallyled away in the second half, Dick Rosenthal led Notre Dame with 30 points, while Jack Runvan paced Purdue with 17
In other leading games last night; Ernie Beck, who led the scoring with 24 points, sank two free throws in the last minute to give Pennsylvania a 55-53 Ivy league win over
basketball polls on the strength of their tremendous offensive machine.
Princeton; North Carolina remained unbeaten atop the Southern conference with a 27-58 win over RMI; Bob Schafer and Nick Maguire had 20 points each to lead Villanova to a 100-68 victory over King's college (Pa.).
K-State opened the 1952-53 season with a 79-73 overtime win over Drake, edged Indiana, 82-80 on Jack Carby's 40-foot fielder in the last five seconds, and rolled over San Francisco and Notre Dame 81-60 and 80-64.
Army edged Yale, 70-67, although John Weber had 20 for the Elis.
The State defense has been leaky throughout the season allowing opponents to pile up 655 points for a 73 point average, but the Jack Gardner-coached crew has rolled up 738 tallies for the 82-point mark.
Michigan State stunned the Wildcats with a lop-sided 80-63 upset victory, but K-State bounced back to win the Big Seven pre-season tournament with 93-69, 79-70, and 93-87 decisions over Oklahoma, Yale, and Kansas.
Leading Wildcat scorer has been 6-foot 6-inch Dick Knostman. The Wamego center has scored 65 field goals and 78 free throws for 208 points and a 23.1 average. Rated as one of the top Big Seven cagers in years, Knostmas has the coordination to play the fast break or set plays for any night. He bombarded the KU defense in Kansas City last month by hitting 38 points in the K-State victory.
The all-American candidate has had plenty of help from his first-string teammates. Forwards Jess Priscock and Jim Smith have scored 99 and 69 points, and guards Bob Rouse and Gene Stauffer have connected for 81 and 82 tallies.
Rousey, a senior veteran from Anderson, Ind., was named the top sophomore cager in the Big Seven in 1951. He had the greatest night of his career by scoring 26 points in the Kansas State victory over Marquette last Saturday.
Backing up this prolific squad is a sophomore-loaded No. 2 unit which has tremendous height. Jerry Jung, the 6-11 center, has the potential to develop into a great pivot man. The Hutchinson sophomore has only 24 points to his credit, but could be dangerous as a replacement for Knostman.
The veteran Jack Carby and sophomore Gary Bergen are the forwards. They stand at 6-7 and 6-8. Sophomores Peck Mills, 6-0, and Roger Craft, 6-6, are guards. Carby climaxed a thrilling K-State-Indiana battle last month by breaking up an 80-80 deadlock with a 40-foot desperation shot in the last five seconds.
Kansas State whipped the Jaya-
hawkers at Hoch two years age by
taking a low-scoring, 47-43 contest.
Kansas tripped the Aggies, 78-61
last spring in Lawrence.
Devore said the move would "stimulate more interest . . . and will benefit smaller squads like NYU."
Coaches Gripe, Cheer Over Grid Rule Change
Ivv Williamson, coach of
"The rules committee completely ignored the coaches, who recently voted four to one to retain the free substitution rule," Hayes added. "I think the whole thing was brought about by pressure from the small colleges—but not the small college coaches."
College football's "have-nots" unanimously applauded the death of the two-platoon system today while coaches of big-time powers generally expressed disappointment and even downright disapproval.
One of the most outspoken critics of the abolition of the rule was head coach Woody Hayes of Ohio State.
"I think it's lousy." Hayes declared, when informed the NCAA rules committee had sounded the official death knell of the two platoon system at its meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Hugh DeVore, coach at New York University where football is de-emphasized, hailed the end of the two platoon system as "a good move."
Wisconsin team that went to the Rose Bowl earlier this month, said the outlawing of the two-platoon system was "a step in the wrong direction" while Coach Bobby Dodd of mighty Georgia Tech said merely that he was "very disappointed."
Dodd added he couldn't understand "what justification they (the rules committee) had when most of the coaches in the country are in favor of the rule."
Ed Danowski of Fordham admitted that he always was "against the two platoon system." He also blamed the rout of Syracuse by Alabama in the Orange Bowl on the free substitution rule.
"Syracuse tried to match 15 good men against three or four Alabama teams," said Danowski.
Harold (Red) Drew, who coached Alabama to a 61-6 massacre of Syracuse, retaliated by saying, "Football now has returned to the horse and buggy age."
By DON NIELSEN Kansan Sports Editor
Perhaps our chances of tripping the high-riding Wildcats are not good, but they're far from bad. The Jayhawks are slight underdogs, therefore they should come through in their best style.
dogs, therefore they will enter the game with an impressive 8-1 record to Kansas' not unimpressive record of 8-3. But in spite of the fact that K-State currently is sitting on top of both the UP and AP basketball ratings, the Jayhawks will give them a tougher scrap than they have faced this year.
The main thing in Kansas' favor will be the fact that the Jayhawks are playing on their home court. This is usually worth about 10 points to the home team. Thus, judging from the fact that the Kansas five lost to the Wildcats by only six points when they played each other on a neutral court, the Jayhawks have a better-than-average chance of evening the score with the Wildcats.
Another thing that will weigh heavily to the advantage of the Jayhawks will be the fact that the only way the 'Cats can go is no higher. Kansas boys themselves know of the pressure that builds up on a team which is riding on top of the national ratings. K-State Coach Jack Gardner has said that once the Wildcats reach the top of the rating ladder, "the only way they can go is down."
Another point in favor of the Jayhawks is that the Wildcats are playing their first conference game. This is the first game that really counts for the Manhattan quintet, and they know it. It's win this one, or start the conference season in the hole. Of course the Jayhawks lost their conference opener and pulled out of the slump in the next game, but the Wildcats won't want to rely on the same chances.
At any rate, the Jayhawks will put up a fight comparable to all those between the two rivals. Kansas Coach F. C. Allen has more than the defeat at the pre-season tournament to avenge. He has an opportunity to even the series with his rival coach Jack Gardner.
The Wildcats and Jayhawks will play the 22nd game in the series Saturday night, and the Jayhawks are trailing by only one game, the Wildcats having won 11 to the Kansan's 10.
Kansas State has an edge in victories in Hoch auditorium, having won three of the last five games played in Lawrence. But whenever the Wildcats win they do so by close margins. In 1948 the Wildcats won 61-60 on a last minute free-throw, in 1949 they won by a 53-48 score, and in 1951 the Wildcats won by only 47-43.
When Kansas trims the Wildcats in Hoch, they usually do it up brown. Last year Kansas won by a score of 81 to 64, and in 1950 the Javahawks trimmed the Wildcats 79-68.
The series started in 1940, but was discontinued from 1943 to 1947. Since the series reopened in 1948, the Wildcats have won 11 to the Jayhawks' three. Prior to that, Allen had ruled the roost with a 7-0 margin.
At any rate, although we don't want to predict the outcome, we wouldn't take any bets against the Jayhawks—like we said, they're too darn unpredictable. With our average, if we bet in favor of the Kansans they'd be bound to lose—and vice versa..
"As important as Hoag was in football, he was twice as important in basketball," Dr. Allen went on. "No one knows just how much he did mean to our team this year."
Head Basketball Coach Allen culigized Hoag on the program as "poetry in motion," "my upset," and "just the greatest thing on two feet."
Phog Allen Calls Hoag 'Phenomenal Athlete'
"If Charlie Hoag had gone on in any one sport he would have been the world's most phenomenal athlete." Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen said on the most recent Phog Allen's Scrapbook program, heard weekly on KFKU, the University's AM radio station, at 7:30 p.m. every Friday.
Dr. Allen said that Hoag could play any game well, pointing out that he broke a state track record in high school although he had never competed in that sport, and played an excellent game of golf the first time they met.
"He was wonderfully adept at hawking the ball and protecting plays," Dr. Allen said, adding that Hoag "stole the show" at the Olympics.
Commenting on the NCAA championship playoffs this spring, Coach Allen picked Indiana as winner of the Big Ten, and Kansas State to go into the finals. He expressed approval of the choices of Manhattan for the regionalals and Kansas City for the finals.
Asked if K-State might not have an advantage in playing on their home court during the tournament, Dr. Allen said, "the greater of the two evils is playing in a metropolitan area."
Interviewed by Merle Harmon, sports director for KFKU-KANU, the program dealt with the place of individual ball players. "The thing that impresses me the most is that the greatest players are the most modest players," Dr. Allen concluded.