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K-State Leads AP Second in UP Poll
University Daily Kansan
Kansas State widened its first place rating in the Associated Press college basketball ratings, and moved into second place in the United Press weekly standings.
The Wildcats, defeated only once in eight games, was voted the top team by 31 of the 101 sportswriters and broadcasters participating in the AP poll.
In the UP ratings, Coach Jack Gardner's chargers placed second to Illinois. K-State matched the Illini's 13 first place votes, but the defending Big Ten champions compiled a 20-point lead on the basis of a larger number of votes for succeeding places.
Illinois, victorious in five of its first six games, received a total of 288 points at it held the UP No.1 spot for the fifth week in a row, while Kansas State had 268 points, supplanting LaSalle in second place.
The Illini played only one game last week, beating St. Mary's of California at home. Kansas State won the Big Seven conference tournament. Illinois, which had 16 first place votes and 303 points last week, thus lost a sizeable portion of its lead for the second straight week.
The 35 leading coaches who comprise the UP board based their ratings on games played through Saturday night, Jan. 3.
The "top 10" this week was enlarged by one team when Notre Dame and LSU both advanced to a tie for 10th place. Aside from that, the first nine places were occupied by the same teams as last week with a few shifts in the order. In all, eight teams received first place votes.
LaSalle (11-1) dropped one place to third after holding the runnerup spot for four straight weeks. The explorers from Philadelphia did not receive a first place vote but had a total of 238 points.
Washington (9-1) and Seton Hall (13-0) clung to the next two places. The Huskies from the Pacific Coast conference had three first place votes and 201 points; Seton Hall, with the longest major college winning streak in the nation, received two firsts and 182 points.
Minnesota (5-2) dropped from sixth place to ninth with 51 points, while Notre Dame and LSU, both with 7-1 records, were tied for 10th with 38 points. The Irish attracted one first place vote.
- Oklahoma A&M (10-1) moved up one place to sixth with 169 points; North Carolina State (12-2) advanced two notches to seventh with 122 points; and Indiana (4-2) held eighth with 103 points, all receiving one first place vote.
Ten points are awarded for a first
Little Predicts No Rule Changes
Washington — (U.P.) — Lou Little, chairman of the rules committee of the American Football Coaches association, predicted today that there would be "no drastic changes" in the playing rules of football this year.
playing. However, Little indicated that there might be two minor changes in the rules—one regarding downing of punts and the other on the ending of plays.
The committee was scheduled to hold its annual meeting today, one of several meetings by committees and affiliated groups which precede the opening of the National Collegiate Athletic association convention on Thursday.
Little, football coach at Columbia university, said the committee would discuss these two chief changes:
1. Cancel the present rule which forbids a kicking team to down the ball inside the 10-yard line, and instead allow the ball to be downed anywhere on the field.
2. Cancel the present rule that a play is over when any part of a ball-carrier's body from the knee up touches the ground and instead allow action to continue until the carrier is downed and firmly held.
Adoption of the second proposal would make the college rule conform to the rule presently in use in professional football.
UP Standings
Team Points
Bulls (13) (5-1) 268
Kansas State (13) (7-1) 268
LaSalle (11-1) 238
Washington (3) (9-1) 201
Washington (3) (9-1) 154
Oklahoma A&M (1) (10-1) 169
North Carolina State (1) (12-2) 162
Minnesota (5-2) 61
Notre Dame (1) (7-1) 38
10. (Tie) Notre Dame (1) (7-1)
10. (Tie) Louisiana State (7-1)
Second 10 teams: 12, California, 28; 13,
Holy Cross, 26; 1 4 (tie), Fordham and
Brightham Young, 20 each; 16, Western
Kentucky, 19; 17, Southern California,
15; 18, St. Louis, 13; 19 (tie), UCLA and
Navy, 11 each.
Others: DePaul and Idaho, 9 each; Grosvenor and Rochester, 6 each; Queune and Vanderbilt, 6 each; NYU, St. John's, Wayne (Mich.) and Kansas, 2 each; University of New York, 12 each; Syngenylvania and St. Bonaventure, 1 each.
AP Standings
Team Kansas State (7-1) (31) Points
Eton Hall (13-0) (20) 647
Le Salle (11-1) (17) 622
Illinois (5-1) (1) 525
Oklahoma A&M (10-1) (6) 623
Washington (10-1) (7) 369
Indiana (4-2) (4) 369
Fordham (9-0) (1) 220
N. Caroina State (12-2) (9) 88
Eastern Kentucky (12-2) (9) 88
Louisiana State (7-1) (1) 133
Southern Calif. (10-0) (1) 136
Notre Dame (7-1) (1) 197
Holy Cross (5-2) (6) 86
Navy (5-2) (6) 83
Seattle (9-2) (1) 86
Tulsa (9-2) (9) 86
Idaho (9-2) (9) 85
Minnesota (5-4) (4) 47
California (5-4) (39
place vote nine for a second and so on down to one for a 10th place vote
California, unranked last week,
moved up to 12th and topped the
second 10 teams, followed by Holy
Cross. Fordham and Brigham
Young were tied for 14th, with
Western Kentucky, Southern Cali-
fornia and St. Louis next in that
order. UCLA and Navy tied for
19th.
Other teams that received points in this week's ratings: DePaul of Chicago, Idaho, Michigan State, Tulsa, Seattle, Duquesne, Vanderbilt, NYU, St. John's, Wayne (Mich.), Kansas, Army, Utah State, Pennsylvania and St. Bonaventure.
Sites and dates for eight national championships were selected by the National Collegiate Athletic association Monday as it opened a six-day meeting in Washington.
NCAA Selects Sites, Dates For 8 Tourneys
No final decision was reached on three other tournaments—track, baseball, and swimming.
The NCAA executive committee named the following sites and dates:
Tennis: Syracuse University, June 27.
22-21.
Golf: Colorado College, June 21-27.
Crosscountry: Michigan State, Nov.
23.
Fencing: University of Pennsylvania, Mar. 27-28.
Middleweight: Championship vacant. Logical contenders: Randy Turpin of England, Carl Bobo Olson of Hawaii, and Charles Humez of Paris.
Heavyweight: Champion Rocky Marciano. Logical contenders: Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles anh Rex Layne.
Boxing: Idaho State college, April 9, 10, 11.
Wrestling: Pennsylvania State,
Mar. 27-28.
Gymnastics: Syracuse, Mar. 27-28. The basketball dates had been announced earlier. The NCAA basketball finals will be played in Kansas City Mar. 17-18.
Welterweight; Champion Kid Gavilan. Logical contenders; Johnny
Ice hockey; Colorado college, Mar.
19-14
Chose Cincinnati for the NCAA meeting in 1954, with the 1955 meeting to be in New York.
Light heavyweight: Champion Archie Moore. Logical contenders: Harold Johnson and Harry Matthews
Decided to put in a recommendation that skiing be made an intercollegiate sport, with a committee to study the possibility of a national collegiate skiing championship.
Other actions by the executive committee:
Try to find a method of shortening the elimination tournament for an Olympic basketball team. The committee felt a three-day-tournament, on top of the regular NCAA meet, is too much.
The NBA's quarterly ratings:
In the early days, native New Mexicans, using handmade musical instruments and improvised costumes, performed miracle plays and dramatized the pageantry of the church.
NBA Lists Johnny Saxon As Welterweight Contender
Washington—(U.P.)—Unbeaten Johnny Saxon of Brooklyn was surprisingly listed as top contender for the welterweight crown today as the National Boxing association issued its quarterly ratings.
This startling jump from the fifth spot in October put him ahead of ex-champion Johnny Bratton of Chicago and Chuck Davey of Detroit, who is slated for a shot at Kid Gavilan's title at Chicago, Feb. 11.
Although Saxton has won 34 consecutive bouts as a professional, the 22-year-old Negro has been known as the "hard-luck guy" of the 147-pound division.
In the light heavyweight division, Harold Johnson of Philadelphia and Harry Matthews of Seattle were listed as "logical contenders" for the 175-pound crown, which Archie Moore recently took from Joey Maxim. Maxim of Cleveland was dropped to the role of an "outstanding boxer."
In 1952 he was jeered, instead of cheered, after victories in apparent mis-matches with Aldo Minelli. Lester Felton, and Raul Perez at Madison Square garden. He has been unable as yet to win popularity on the big time.
Featherweight: Champion Sandy Saddler, now in the Army. Logical contenders: Ray Famechon of France, Percy Bassett, Tommy Collins, and Willie Pep.
Lightweight: Champion James Carter. Logical contenders: Johnny Golsalvez and George Araujo.
Saxton, Johnny Bratton, Chuck Davey.
Bantamweight: Champion Jimmy Crawruthers. Logical contenders: Vic Coweel of South Africa, Maurice Sandeyron of France, and Gaetano Annaloro of Italy.
Flyweight: Champion Yoshio Shiari. Logical contender: Jake Buli of South Africa.
IM Schedule
TODAY'S GAMES Robinson Annex
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Independent "B"
8:15 Pearson-Sterling-Oliver (E)
Fraternity "C"
Robinson Gymnasium Independent "B"
At least, Gardner came to Allen's rescue regarding the stall tactics Kansas used in the final moments of the Big Seven conference tournament won by Kansas State, 93-87, at Kansas City a week ago.
Fraternity "C"
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Pr (W)
9:15 Phi Gamma Delta-Sigma Chi (E)
9:15 Lambda Chi Alpha-Phi Delta
Theta III (E)
MADRIDGAMES GAMES
Gardner Backs Allen On Tournament Stall
Independent "A"
5 Optimists-Hodder Annex
OMORROW'S GAMES Robinson Annex
For nearly a week now, there had been controversy among basketball fans as to why Kansas elected to stall the final minutes of the game when K-State had as much as a 12-point lead.
Fraternity 8:15 Delta Upsilon I-Alpha Kappa
Manhattan—(U.P.)—Maybe those two long-time basketball coaching rivals, Jack Gardner of Kansas State and Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen of Kansas, have turned a new leaf for the new year.
5 Optimists-Hodder Annex
Robinson Gymnasium
Accusations had been made that Dr. Allen had ordered the stall so that. Dick Knostman, K-State's great center, would not pass the individual game mark of 39 points set in 1951 by Sherman Norton of Oklahoma.
Robinson Gymnasium
8:15 Koppa Sigma-Delta Upsilon II (W)
8:15 Alpha Tau Omega-II Delta Theta
(E)
1:15 Bones Boys-Delta Chi (W)
Knostman had 38 points when Garner removed him from the game with approximately three minutes left. Gardner put Knostman back into play when he was informed Knostman had a chance for the record. When Knostman came back in the game, Kansas went into its stall.
"In fact, I wasn't aware Dick was approaching the tournament record until I was informed of it
"a Coach seldom knows exactly how many points a certain player is making during the course of a game." Gardner said.
after I withdrew him from the game."
Gardner went on to explain that Kansas may have started the stall to hold down the score which threatened to reach 100.
"Kansas probably wanted to hold down the score as we had already passed the 90 mark which may be a new all-time record against the Jayhawkers," Gardner opinioned.
Sedgman Opens Professional Tour
Los Angeles —(U.P.)—The king of professional tennis pits his skill against the world's amateur champion tonight when old pro Jack Kramer meets Australia's Frank Sedgman in the opening of a yearlong net tour.
Sedgman will be making his professional debut as will his fellow Aussie, Ken McGregor, who will open the show at Pan Pacific auditorium against Pancho Segura.
Kramer, at 31, will be spotting his opponent six years—but years rich in experience, three of them in valuable tour competition.
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