All Big 7 Teams Defeat Cage Foes
Every Big Seven team that played in a basketball game over the weekend won. Kansas State edged Drake 79-73 in overtime, Colorado beat Utah State 81-64, Iowa State beat South Dakota State 70-47, Oklahoma edged Iowa 63-62, and Nebraska trimmed South Dakota 65-53.
K-State 79. Drake 73
The Kansas State Wildcats, rated as the No. 2 team in the nation by United Press, had a close call before beating the Drake university Bulldogs in overtime. The Wildcats were led by the high-powered scoring of all-American center Dick Knostman, who poured in 32 points.
The Bulldogs tied the score in the last minute. The Wildcats put to use the new foul rule allowing an extra free throw if the first one is missed to help down Drake in the overtime.
Colorado 81, Utah State 64
The Colorado Buffaloes ran over the Utah Aggies easily as two men poured in 45 points for the Buffers.
Art Bunte and Frank Gompert scored the Colorado attack with 23 and 22 points respectively. Colorado led all the way in the contest as the Buffs tied up the Aggies and controlled the boards.
Oklahoma 65, Iowa 84 Oklahoma won a close victory over Iowa when a free throw by guard Sterling Jones clicked. There were 25 seconds remaining in the game.
Oklahoma 63. Iowa 62
I-State 70, South Dakota State 47 Iowa State trimmed South Dakota State in its season opener by a lopsided score. The Cyclones dominated play throughout the game.
Coach Chick Sutherland used nearly all his men to give the squad experience.
Ken Buckles, Iowa forward, sent the game into a 62-62 deadlock by a 20-foot shot down the center. The lead changed hands eight times in the contest.
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Nehraska 65. South Dakota 53
The Cornhuskers opened their season by an easy win over South Dakota. The first team played only about half the contest for Nebraska.
The Huskers jumped to a 14-5 first
Final Bowl Rosters Set
There is the complete list of 1952 post-season football games;
JANUARY 1
Rose Bowl, at Pasadena, Calif.: Southern California vs. Wisconsin.
Georgia Tech vs. Mississippi.
Crowd Bowl at Dallas Texas vs. Ten-
Sugar Bowl, at New Orleans; Georgia
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Cotton Bowl, at Dallas; Texas vs. Tennessee.
Orange Bowl, at Miami; Alabama vs. Syracuse.
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"Gator Bowl, at Jacksonville, Fla." East
Salad Bowl, at San Diego, Calif.; San Diego NTC versus Division.
Sun Bowl, at El Paso, Texas; Mississippi Southern, vs. College of Pacific.
Blue-Gray game, at Montgomery, Ala.
Mound north and south of Mason-
Dixon line.
East-West game at San Francisco: Siena from east and west of Mississippi River.
Shrimp Bowl, at Galveston. Texas: Sam Houston State vs. Northeast Oklahoma State
DECEMBER 25
North-South game at Miami: Seniors
from north and south of Mason-Dixon
DECEMBER 20
Cigar Bowl, at Tampa, Fla.: Lenoir Rhyne vs. Tampa.
DECEMBER 13
Poinsettia Bowl, at San Diego: Teams still not selected.
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Lions Bowl, at Salisbury, N. C.; Clarion (Do) Teachers, e.V. East Carolina.
quarter lead and never were threatened. The game was played under an experimental rule permitting each player six fouls, three in each half. Only one man fouled out, but 58 fouls were committed during the game.
Phoenix — (U.P.)— A fellow who was playing professional baseball before the National Association of professional baseball leagues was organized more than a half century ago, takes over as president of the Western International league this year.
Little Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.: Bacone Junior College (Muskogee, Okla.) vs. Hartnell Junior College (Salinas, Calif.).
His name is Bob Brown and as far as he is concerned the "good old days" don't compare with 1952. "Why, when I played football at Notre Dame, we didn't even have helmets," says Brown, a spry oldster of 76.
Brown was a baseball teammate of the immortal Jock Tinker on the Portland club of 1901 in the old Northwest league. Prior to that he played football at Notre Dame, took a year out to do a little battling in the Spanish-American war, then came back to finish his college education and go into professional baseball.
He has been connected with it one way or another ever since. Until recently he owned the Vancouver, B.C., franchise in the Western International loop. Vancouver, a city of 500,000 drew only 137,000 at the gate last season.
"That isn't very good," he says. "We drew nearly that many in 1910 when we had only 150,000 population. But then, last year was an off-season all over the country.
Topics to be discussed and demonstrated are the zone defense, defensive patterns, the fast break, shooting techniques, and use of tall players around the basket. Clinic officials said the pointers would not interfere with a coach's individual system.
The clinic, sponsored by the Missouri State High School Activities association, the NIAA, and the Kansas City Star, is open to all high school, college, industrial, church, or any other organized teams.
Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Kansas basketball coach and dean of the nation's cage mentors, will head a six-man teaching staff at the fifth annual Kansas City basketball clinic Dec. 20 in Municipal auditorium.
Allen Heads Staff For Cager Clinic
Other coaches on the faculty are Bob Vanatta, Springfield State, whose team won the NIAA championship in 1952; Milton Jowers, Southwest Texas State; Jim Torson, University of Portland; Ralph Allan, Millinik university, Decatur, Ill., and Cam Henderson, Marshall college, Huntington, W. Va.
Illinois, Kansas Lead Pack Into Tough Schedule
New York—(U,P)P—the debut of Illinois — the nation's top-ranked team, the opening of the Big Ten season, and several blue-ribbon intersectional games highlight college basketball play this week.
Most of the big-name teams appearing this week are meeting "tuneup" foes, but the Illini are starting right in Wednesday night against a tough team—Loyola of Chicago.
Hailed the nation's No. 1 squad in pre-season ratings by the United Press board of coaches, the Illini are missing only all-American Rod Fletcher from the prilliant team that won the Big Ten crown last season. Loyola's Ramblers have won three out of three, including a seven-point win over Creighton.
Saturday triumphs were scored by third-ranked LaSalle, fourth-ranked Washington, fifth-ranked North Carolina State, sixth-ranked Oklahoma A&M, seventh-ranked UCLA. 12th-ranked Santa Clara, 17th-ranked Minnesota, and Brigham Young, also ranked 17th.
Kansas State, the No. 2 ranked team nationally, plays host to Indiana in the top intersectional game of the week. Indiana's Hoosiers, currently ranked eighth nationally, are burning to win this one to make up for last Saturday's surprise loss to Notre Dame, 71-70. Kansas State narrowly escaped a similar fate, beating Drake by only 79-73.
The first official action in the Big Ten takes places at Iowa City Saturday night when Michigan and Iowa, neither figured as a title contender, clash.
Kansas, the NCAA champion last year, makes its debut Thursday in another top intersectional game against Tulane. The Jayhawkers, however, have lost almost all the men from the team that represented the United States in the Olympics last summer and are re-building.
Notre Dame, ranked No. 13, established itself as a top independent team by its win over Indiana, following on the heels of a 21-point win over Creighton.
Other top intersection games include Oklahoma-Texas on Wednesday, Minnesota-Nebraska, North Carolina State-Rhode Island, and Seton Hall-West Texas State on Thursday, Brigham Young-San Francisco, Bowling Green-Duquesne, and Southern California-Utah on Friday, and Duke-Tennessee, Oklahoma-Southern Methodist, and St. Louis-Washington State on Saturday.
Louisville will test three teams in intersectionals—Pur d u e tonight, Manhattan on Thursday, and Temple on Friday.
St. Louis, like Indiana, was a major upset victim on Saturday. The Billikens, ranked No. 10 nationally, were whipped by Ohio State, 81-71. Paul Eberts scored 19 points to lead the Buckeyes, who now must be rated as possible Big Ten title contenders.
LaSalle scored an impressive 87-76 win over Niagara as Fred Ielie sank 27 points, Tom Gola 26, and Norm Grekin 22.
Minnesota blasted Bradley, 79-63; Brigham Young routed Los Angeles State, 56-37; North Carolina crushed Davidson, 82-47; Santa Clara downed Fresno State, 77-59; Oklahoma A&M aTnformed Eastern New Mexico, 70-38; Wyoming won easily over Montana State, 47-48.
Monday, Dec. 8, 1952
Uclan Wins 1952 UP Best Lineman Award
New York—(U.P.)-All-American Donn Moomaw of UCLA, a rarity among modern college football centers in that he was a star both on offense and defense, today was chosen the 1952 United Press lineman of the year.
Anationwide poll of 254 sports writers and radio broadcasters voted Moomaw the award by a wide margin. The 220-pound, six-foot-four UCLA star received 67 votes--more than double that of his closest rival, offensive center Tom Catlin of Oklahoma.
Catlin attracted 28 votes, while tackle Dick Modzelewski of Maryland had 23, and line-backer Dick Tamburo of Michigan State and guard Elmer Willhoite of Southern California had 18 each.
Moomaw, tabbed "an all-American in every way" by his coach, Henry (Red) Sanders, played 250 minutes during the course of UCLA's tough nine-game schedule—an average of nearly three-quarters of every game.
"Drive carefully the life you save may be mine—I'm walking"
Toward the end of the season, Sanders tried to save Moomaw primarily for defensive duties, but every time UCLA needed some extra offensive push in the middle of the line, the coach sent in big Donn.
Moomaw's two-platoon tasks are considered remarkable because the Bruins used the single-wing attack. Thus, on offense he was required to snap the ball accurately to a ball-carrier several yards behind the line, in contrast to much easier snap-back duties of a T-formation center.
Moomaw, a football, basketball, and track star in Santa Ana, Calif. High school, was an end when he came out for football at UCLA, Sanders promptly switched him to center because he was so agile for a man of his size. Moomaw did not like the shift at first but now relishes line-backing because "I'm in every play."
The 2-year all-American is a B-average physical education student who also is active at UCLA as one of the leaders in the Campus Crusade for Christ. His ambition is
to play professional football and later coach. He is known to be highly-sought by several National Football league teams.
In all, 40 players received consideration in the voting. After the top five, guard Steven Eisenhauer of the Navy had 17 votes; linebacker George Morris of Georgia Tech had seven, while end Bernie Flowers of Purdue and handman Steven Meilinger of Kentucky each drew six.
Here is how the rest of the votes were distributed:
Guards John Michels of Tennessee and Harley Sewell of Texas, and tackle Ed Meadows of Duke, five votes each.
Ends Tom Stollshandke of Texas and Drank McPhee of Princeton, tackle Doug Atkins of Tennessee and guard Jim Alessandrini of Notre Dame, four each.
Tackle Charley Laprad of Florida and ends Ed Bell of Pennsylvania and Lowell Perry of Michigan, three each.
Salas Gets Underdog Rating
Boston —(U,P)— Former light-weight champion Lauro Salas was an underdog today for his first fight since losing the championship—a 10-round battle with cocky Tommy Collins of Boston before a sellout crowd at Boston Garden tonight.
The tough little Monterrey, Mexico, mauler was on the short end of 10-4 odds.
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