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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Jan. 5, 1953
Kansas 73, Nebraska 66
COME TO PAPA—Dean Kelley, No. 14, Kansas guard, takes a loose ball under the noses of Nebraska defender Bill Johnson, No. 5. Other KU players are, left to right, B. H. Born, Gil Reich, and Harold Patterson. Kansas defeated the Cornhuskers 73-66 in the tournament's opening game.
Kansas 66, Missouri 62
UP IN THE AIR—Dean Kelley goes after a rebound with an unidentified Missouri player during the semifinal game of the Big Seven pre-season tournament. Kansas won the game although the lead changed hands 22 times while the score was tied 10 times. Other Kansas players visible are Larry Davenport, No. 22, and Bill Heitholt, No. 21.
Kansas 87, K-State 93
LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT—Wildcat Jack Carby (with ball) looks for an opening to pass, while Kansan Bill Heitholt, No. 21, guards him closely. Dick Knostman, No. 43, and Larry Davenport look on. Kansas State overpowered the Jayhawks 93-87. （Kansan photos by Rich Clarkson）
Kansas Wins 4 Out of 5 Holiday Basketball Games
A hustling band of Kansas Jayhawkers surprised nearly all of its followers, including their venerable coach Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, by winning four of five basketball games over the Christmas holidays and taking second place in the Big Seven pre-season tournament.
The Kansans, whom Dr. Allen sam- would be fortunate to win one of their four games prior to the tourney, used two 17-point victories over Southern Methodist to move into the top-seeded SMU then went on to win the Southwest conference pre-season tournament.
In the Big Seven meet Allen's crew disposed of Nebraska 73-66, and slipped by Missouri 66-62 before bowing to up-river Kansas State 87-93 in the tourney finals. By their showing the Jayhawks made a definite bid for a first-division finish in the conference title chase, which starts tonight.
Short on experience, Kansas used a lot of players who didn't know they weren't supposed to make that good a showing. More than one supposed "expert" was heard to say that the Kansans had convinced them that height and experience aren't all that are needed.
Several new boys jumped into the starting positions in the four-day Kansas City affair. Leading the rush were Al Kelley, Gil Reich, and Harold Patterson. Kelley scored 40 points in the three contests to lead the Kansas attack. He hit for 18 points against the towering K-State Wildcats for his best effort. It was largely Kelley's pump shots that kept the Kansans in the game in the torrid third quarter that saw Kansas hit its first six shots and the Wildcats their first five.
Reich also came to the front in the final game getting 16 points for his best night of the year. The Steelton, Pa., lad had worked with the squad less than two weeks before the tourney.
State's widest gap was 14 points, 92-78 with 3:50 left. KU then went into a control game that saw them hold the Cats to one point while canning nine themselves.
Patterson did a magnificent job filling in for center B. H. Born when the 6 foot, 9 inch fouled out midway through the second period of the final. Patterson got 14 points from that position and forward and grabbed more than his share of rebounds before leaving the game on foils with 5:45 left in the game.
Kansas State jumped to a lead at the outset and never trailed, but the Jayhawkers refused to give an inch to the nation's No. 1 team. Several times the Wildcats opened wide leads, but each time the defending NCAA champion Kansans fought back.
Kansas reached the finals by downing a ragged Missouri five 66-62. The lead in the game changed hands 22 times and was tied 10 times. The Jayhawkers compensated for their poor shooting—they hit just 27.9 per cent—by throwing a forcing defense against the Tigers. The boys from Mizzou took only 43 shots at the hoop.
Dr. Allen's charges just made it through the first round by pulling away from Nebraska in the last minute. Leading 50-43 going into the last period, the Jayhawkers looked like they were in, but the Cornhuskers refused to give up and pulled to within one point at 65-67. Then in the final 30 seconds AI Kelley got two free throws, brother Dean a set
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3 Kansas Gridders Play In Post-Season Games
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansas Assistant Sports Editor
Three Kansas football stars saw action in holiday grid tilts, Oliver Spencer, George Mrkonic, and Bob Bordberry, who played in the East-West, North-South, and Senior Bowl contests.
Sparse crowds saw the Kansans methodically down the SMU Mustangs in the two Hoch auditorium encounters. The Hawks out-shot, out-rebounded, and out-hustled the boys from south down all the way.
Mkronic and Spencer were starti ng tackles for the West on the defensive and offensive platoons in a nationally televised game won by the East, 21-20. The game was played in Kezar stadium in San Francisco on Dec. 27.
up, and Born a tip-in to bring the final margin.
Mrkonic, who played both ways, was impressive with his sharp tackling and was one of the mainstays in the West defensive line. The East scored the winning touchdown in the closing seconds of the game when Bill Reynolds of Pittsburg raced around right end into the end zone. The West had taken the lead in the second half 20-14 when Billy Vessels of Oklahoma raced 30 yards after grabbing a Don Heinrich pass.
Brandeberry played left half in the North backfield on a Christmas night clashed play in the Orange Bowl in Miami. The South scored on a 64 yard pass play from Jack Scarbath of Maryland to Jim Hook of Missouri to gain a 21-21 tie. The touchdown came in the last 58 seconds and wiped out a 21-14 North lead which was taken just 38 seconds before when Dale Samuels of Purdue passed to end Bernard Flowers, also of Purdue, in the end zone.
Spencer played left tackle for
the northern all-stars in the Senior Bowl Saturday at Mobile, Ala. The North, led by the passing of Harry Agganis of Boston University, defeated the South, 28-13.
The three players won several honors while playing for the Jayhawkers in the 1950, 1951, and 1952 seasons.
Spencer was picked on the 1951 and 1952 all-Big Seven teams and on the 1952 NEA all-American squad. In addition, he was named to the Associated Press second team all-Americans in 1951.
Mkrkohic, first string tackle all three seasons, was all conference in 1952 and a member of the International News Service all-American team in 1951.
Brandeberry was all-conference in 1951 and was one of the Big Seven's leading ball carriers. Although not a spectacular runner, he was valuable as a line blaster when the Jayhawkers needed a few yards for a first down.
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