University Daily Kansan
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Monday, Jan. 5, 1953
Jayhawks Open Big 7 Season Against Oklahoma Tonight
By DON NIELSEN Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas' revamped basketball squad meets the Oklahoma Sooners tonight at Norman in the first conference game of the 1953 cage season.
The Sooners have only eight lettermen returning to the 20-man squad and only two of these are seniors. Thus the quintet which they will field tonight lacks experience as much as does the KU team.
Kansas puts a 5-2 won lost record on the line in the contest against Oklahoma's 3-4 record. Kansas has beaten Tulane, SMU twice, Nebraska, and Missouri, and has bowed only to Rice and to Kansas State in the finals of the Big Seven Pre-Season tournament.
Kansas probably will move with B. H. Born at center, Dean Kelley and Bill Heitholt at guards, and Allen Kelley and Harold Patterson at forwards, Al Kelley and Patterson were moved into starting slots for the game with Kansas State in the tournament after brilliant showings against Missouri.
Oklaham has beaten Iowa, Southern Methodist, and Texas. They dropped one to Texas, and lost three games in the Big Seven tournament to finish in last place.
Coach Bruce Drake of the Sooners started the tournament games with varied lineups in an attempt to get back into the winning column and therefore may use any one of his combinations against Kansas tonight.
Gil Reich will add some scoring punch to the Jayhawk five. He moved back into the KU active list during the second SMU game, and has played in each of the games in the pre-season tourney. He was leading scorer for the Army's 1951-52 basketball team.
With the season being as well underway as it is, however, there is little difficulty in guessing as to the probable outcome. It should be Kansas all the way. The Jayhawks have the scoring power and the defense to stifle the Sooners.
In other Big Seven contests tonight, Nebraska will play Colorado in Boulder, and Iowa State will tangle with Missouri in Columbia.
KANSAS FORWARD — Larry Davenport, sophomore starter for KU against most of its opponents thus far, has sparked the Jayhawk cagers to their 5-2 won-lost record. He is a sharp ball handler,
and is a good shooter.
Kansas State will not play until Saturday when they meet Marquette university in Manhattan.
The Incline railway at Beacon, N.Y., is said to be the steepest of its kind in the world. Its two cable cars carry visitors to a lookout atm Mt. Beason, 1,540 feet above the Hudson river.
IM Teams Vie For Top Spots
It would be difficult to pick any division winners as the intramural basketball season swings into action following the Christmas vacation.
In the fraternity "A" bracket, Kappa Sigma, playing in division IV, is the only clear leader with two wins and no defeats.
Jim Beam and AFROTC II are tied for the lead in division II with two wins each.
In division I, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Gamma Delta lead with one win each, and in division II, Delta Upsilon and Phi Kappa Psi have unblemished records with one win each.
Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Tau Omega are tied for the lead in division III, each team having two wins and no losses.
Division III finds Kappa Eta Kappa, Optimists, and Hodder Annex in a three-way tie for first.
The independent "A" bracket finds Don Henry leading in division I with two wins, followed by Jolliffe and Stephenson with one victory apiece.
FIRST STRINGER—Dick McEachern, Sooner junior, was a starter on last year's Oklahoma cage squad, and has been providing a great deal of hustle for the outfit. He is a good defensive man, and last year was second best free thrower for Oklahoma with a 72.2 per cent mark.
Conference Play Takes Limelight
New York -(U.P.)-The holiday fun-playing in tinseled tournaments or just loafing at home—was over for college basketball players today and they buckled down to the serious business of conference competition.
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Starting with games tonight which test such touted teams as Illinois, Indiana, and Louisiana State, every major conference in the nation has important action slated this week.
Indiana, current leader of the Big Ten with victories in all three of its league contests to date, defends that lead in its game at East Lansing, Mich., against Michigan State. Illinois, ranked on top nationally but in second place in the Big Ten
Louisiana State, ranked 20th nationally, shoots for its second win in two Southeastern conference starts at home against Vanderbilt. The Bayou Tigers currently are involved in a four-way tie for top place in the loop with Florida, Mississippi, and Tulane.
There hasn't been much conference action yet, but here's how the major conferences shape up at the start of their heavy work:
Ivy League—Only one game so far, in which Cornell beat Harvard; Missouri Valley—Wichita on top with 1-0, but league powers Oklahoma Aggies, Tulsa, and St. Louis
don't play first league games until this week. Pacific Coast—Washington leads Northern division with 2-0, Southern Cal and California lead with 2-0 in south.
Southern—North Carolina ahead with 5-0 and only other unbeaten team is Wake Forest, 2-0; Skyline—Wyoming on top with 2-0, while Brigham Young and Colorado Aggies are next with 1-0; Rocky Mountain—Idaho State and Montana State tied with 2-0; no league games yet in Big Seven, Southwest, and Border conferences.
The Big Seven season opens with three games tonight and the border with two, while the Southwest starts tomorrow night with two games.
Over 400,000 See Nine New Year's Football Bowl Games
In the New Year's Day football classics throughout the nation, about 412,000 persons sat in nine stadiums to watch the nation's 18 top gridiron squads finish the 1952 football season.
In addition to the paid attendance, television audiences raised the number of persons to witness the post-season games to an all-time high.
The University of Southern California sneaked past the Badgers of Wisconsin University 7-0 for the first win by the Pacific Coast conference since the bowl pact was signed with the Big Ten seven years ago.
ROSE BOWL
An estimated 100,000 watched the Trojans score the only touchdown of the game on a 73-yard march midway in the third quarter.
Rudy Bukich, a second string halfback for the Trojans, sparked the drive by connecting with five out of six passes for a total of 65 of the 73 yards. Alan Ameche, Badger halfback, sparkled for Wisconsin in an attempt to even the scoring in the fourth quarter. He drove for 133 yards during the contest.
More than 82,000 saw Georgia Tech defeat the University of Mississippi, 24-7, in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans.
SUGAR BOWL
In the second quarter, Georgia Tech racked up ten points on a touchdown by Bill Brigman, the conversion, and a five-yard field goal by Pepper Rodgers.
The Rebels leaped to a 7-0 first quarter lead when they ran the opening kickoff 58 yards for the game's first touchdown, but the engineers smothered the Rebel bid for glory by holding three later scoring drives inside the five-yard line.
A series of fumbles early in the third quarter set up the Engineers' second touchdown. After recovering an Ole Mile fumble and driving deep into Rebel territory, the Engineers lost the ball. The Rebels fumbled again, however this time on their 18-yard line, and Leon Hardeman scored. Rodgers added the extra point to boost the score to 17-7.
In the fourth quarter, Rodgers passed to Jeff Knox who was standing in the clear in the end zone to ice the game for Georgia Tech.
COTTON BOWL
Texas trimmed Tennessee 16-0 before 75,000 in Dallas' Cotton Bowl to get revenge for the 20-14 loss they received at the hands of the Volunteers in the 1951 Bowl game.
Texas' other touchdowns came in the second and fourth quarters. In the second period, Texas drove from the Tennessee 22-yard line for the score after recovering a fumble there. In the last period, Texas scored on a march from the 41-yard stripe after they recovered another fumble.
Texas scored in the first quarter when Dave Griffith fumbled the pass from center while punting from inside his end zone, and was smeared for a safety.
Texas capitalized on Tennessee fumbles to win the game. They recovered two fumbles to drive for touchdowns, and took advantage of another to score a safety.
Alabama slaughtered Syracuse 61-6 before 66,000 in the Orange Bowl to set a new scoring mark for the New Year Davis classic.
Tennessee wound up with a humiliating minus 14 yards rushing.
The Syracuse squad managed to hold the Crimson Tide during the first period, allowing only seven
ORANGE BOWL
points. The score stood at 7-6 at the end of the first period.
Alabama was rated only a 13 point favorite, but they pulled away to a 21-6 halftime lead and added 20 points in each of the last two periods to set the new scoring mark.
GATOR BOWL
Florida ran away with the game in the first half, scoring a touchdown in each of the first two quarters. Tulsa came back, however, and scored in each of the last two quarters, but Tom Miner, who had made 41 of 45 placement attempts during the regular season, missed the second conversion. He also missed a field goal try from the 5-yard line in the closing minutes.
Florida trimmed Tulsa 14-13 in the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla., before 30,000 when a penalty against Tulsa gave Florida a second chance at a missed conversion. The second try was good.
SUN BOWL
College of the Pacific romped past Mississippi Southern 26-7 before 20.000 in El Paso, Texas.
Tom McCormick led the Tigers to the victory by scoring three of the four COP touchdowns. The Tigers scored once in each period, while Mississippi Southern was held scoreless until the final quarter.
SALAD BOWL
San Diego Naval Training center ripped through the defenses of Camp Breckenridge, Ky., before 14,000 disgruntled fans by the tremendously lopsided score of 81-20.
The Navy team leaped to a 34-0 halftime lead and didn't allow the startled Army squad to reach the midfield stripe until the third quarter.
PRAIRIE VIEW BOWL
About 13,000 saw Texas Southern defeat Prairie View A&M 13-12 in
the 25th annual Prairie View Bowl game in Houston, Tex.
nessee Tech 33-0 before more than 12,000 fans in the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando, Fla.
The win gave Texas Southern the national Negro college championship
The win ran to nineteen straight the victory streak for the Texas team.
TANGERINE BOWL
East Texas State trimmed Ten-
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