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University Daily Kansan Thursday,Dec.11,1952
Opens Cage Season
Jayhawks Face Tulane In New Orleans Tonight
By CHUCK MORELOCK
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
A graduation and injury-battered Kansas basketball team opens defense of its NCAA championship title by meeting the Green Wave of Tulane at New Orleans tonight.
The green Jayhawker squad, which has only one starter returning from the great 1952 team, Captain Dean Kelley, will face a Tulane team that has posted an 88 point average in its first three games of the 1952-53 season. The Green Wave has swamped Birmingham Southern, 91-42; Southwestern Tennessee, 94-32, and Pensacola Navy, 79-49.
Tulane will field an experienced squad which possesses tremendous speed and great ability in executing the fast break. Although the team is comprised entirely of sophomores and juniors, most of them saw considerable action last year which saw the Green Wave post a 7-7 conference record and 12-12 season mark. The Cliff Wells-coached crew is one of the favorites to take the Southeastern conference crown this season.
Kansas prospects for a successful '52-'53 campaign, which were dim following the loss of five key men from the 1952 Big Seven and NCAA championship club, became more gloomy this fall with the loss of Charley Hoag and LaVannes Squires. Hoag was forced to undergo an operation on his football-battered knee and will probably be unavailable until February. The speedy Oak Park, Ill., senior was the sparkplug of the 1952 titleholders and has been called the "greatest sixth man in college basketball."
Squires, clever Wichita forward, contracted TB last week and had to withdraw from school. He played briefly last year, and although he did not letter, he was rated a top prospect because of his ball handling and all-around floor play.
Football star Gil Reich, one of the mainstays of the 1950-51 West Point basketball team, broke a finger in the Missouri football game and won't have the cast off until Saturday. He is expected to start cage drills Monday and may be available for the Big Seven preseason tournament in Kansas City Dec. 26-30.
Probable starters for the Jayhawkers tonight are Larry Davenport and Jerry Alberts at forward, B. H. Born, center, and Dean Kelley and Bill Heitolt, guards. Born, 6 foot 9 inch Medicine Lodge junior, represents the only real height on the starting lineup. Heitolt is next at $6-3\frac{1}{2}$, followed by Davenport and Alberts at 6-2 and Kelley at 5-11.
Kelley, the only veteran in the lineup, is a fast, clever, ball handler and is an excellent defender. He developed rapidly last season after seeing little action in 1951 and received national recognition by being named to the NCAA all-tournament squad.
Born, who played briefly behind all-American Clyde Lovellette last year, is being named the key man in the Kansas attack. He showed promise last year by his defending and ball handling, and could provide the difference between a first division and cellar finish.
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Heitholt, Davenport, and Alberts,
all sophomores, are outstanding
prospects but have little varsity
experience. Heitholt, a fast, aggressive battler, is a good rebounder and a good scorer.
Davenport, all-state at Newton in 1951, showed unusual poise for a freshman in 1952 and made a number of middle and long distance set shots in the clutch. He showed promise as a defender and playmaker.
Harold Patterson and Allen Kelley have been pressing for starting berths in practice sessions this week. Patterson, all-American junior college center at Garden City, has been shifted to forward and is an excellent rebounder and hustler. Kelley owns good speed and is a good hustler on the floor and around the backboards.
Alberts, the greenest man on the starting lineup, broke into only nine varsity games last season. He is a good jumper and is a potential outside shooting threat.
Tulane probably will open with Dick Brennan and Pat Prowen, forwards, Fritz Schultz, center, and Dick McGowan and Hal Cervini, guards. In addition to having great speed, all are good rebounders and dangerous scoring threats.
The Starting Five
The rest of the KU traveling squad includes Eldon Nicholson, center, Ken Buller, forward, Dean Smith, guard, Everett Dye, forward, John Anderson, guard, and Wes Johnson, forward.
KANSAS STARTERS—Left to right are Larry Davenport, forward; Capt. Dean Kelley, guard; B. H. Born, center. Bill Heilholt, guard, and Jerry Alberts, forward.
Illini Earn Raves By Edging Loyola of Chicago in Opener
New York—(U.P.)-The first returns are in, and it looks like it's true what they said about Illinois.
The Illini, with a 6-foot, 9-inch center named John (Red) Kerr who is expected to be one of the nation's best players, were hailed as the country's No. 1 team before they appeared in a single game. They finally made their debut last night and made good on their "rave notices" by thrashing Loyola of Chicago, 71 to 57.
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The gigantic Kerr finished the night with a whipping 34 points on 14 field goals and six free throws, while Irv Bemoras led his assistants with 17 points. Bob Collins was tops for Loyola with 18. Loyola made one spirited drive, pulling up to a 50-47 deficit at the end of the third period. But the Illini went on a 21-point spree in the fourth quarter to win in a breeze.
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Ernie Beck of Pennsylvania, like Kerr, rated an outstanding all-America candidate, almost matched Kerr's point total as he scored 33 points to lead his mates to an 85-73 victory over Muhlenberg. He got 10 of those points within a four-minute space during the fourth quarter to bring Penn from one point behind into a 77-67 lead.
LaSale, the nation's No. 2 ranked team, had no trouble at all in gaining its third win of the year, walloping Albright, 101-63. The Oklahoma Aggies, ranked fifth nationally, racked up their fourth straight win, 68-57, over Creighton.
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