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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 31, 1952
Jayhawks Bump Bears, Gain Olympic Semi-Finals Kelley, Hoag Shine As KU Routs Springfield, 92-65 At the end, the Jayhawkers had broken their 90-point high-scoring mark. They hit 90 against Kansas State in the Big Seven tournament in Kansas City preceding the regu Kansas Goes Against LaSalle In New York Game Today
By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas' powerful—but travel-weary—Jayhawks outclassed a game band of Southwest Missouri State Bears in the quarter-finals of the Olympic trials in Kansas City, Saturday, 92-65, with Dean Kelley and Charlie Hoag hitting 17 and 14 points respectively.
The Bears threw up the best defense against the Jayhawkers' Clyde Lovellette that has been tried this year. But in placing a three-man wedge around the giant KU scoring machine, the Bears left the Kansas outside shooters wide open in the corners.
With Kelley and Hoag providing an unpredicted number of points on fast breaks and deadly set-shot accuracy, Southwest Missouri was forced to break its three-timing defense of the 6-foot, 9-inch Jayhawk center in the second half.
That left the big fellow open to rack up a 29-point performance for top scoring honors. He scored eight points in the first half.
A bitter struggle during the first four minutes, the game turned into a complete rout approaching the halfway mark.
HOAG SCORES-Charlie Hoag (5) lays one up for the Jayhawkers on one of his many fast breaks in Saturday's Olympic trials game. Attempting to guard Hoag is Southwest Missouri State's Jerry
The boxscore:
Anderson. KU won, 92-65.
The boastore.
Kansas (92) FG FT-A PF TP
Kenney 5 1- 2 3 11
Kelley 8 1- 1 5 17
Lovellette 12 5- 7 3 29
Keller 0 0- 1 2 8
Hougland 2 1- 1 3 5
Lienhard 1 1- 1 4 3
Hoag 6 2- 2 3 14
Davenport 0 0- 0 1 0
Born 0 1- 1 2 1
Heitholt 0 0- 0 0 0
Squires 1 0- 0 3 2
Smith 1 0- 0 1 2
Totals 40 12-16 30 92
Springfield (65) FG FT-A PF TP
Anderson 3 5-8 4 11
Hamilton 2 5-8 3 9
Lea 3 1-1 2 7
Julian 5 4-6 4 14
Stephens 0 4-4 1 4
Thomas 6 3-4 1 15
Duckworth 2 2-5 1 5
Totals ... 21 24-36 16 65
Totals ... 21 24-30 16 0
Score by Quarters:
Kansas ... 21 30 20 21-92
Springfield ... 12 16 12 14-65
Loyal Followers To Attend Game
The University basketball squad will have vocal support tonight in the Olympic semifinal play-off game in Madison Square Garden in New York despite the distance and the fact that pep clubs were unable to send a delegation.
Coach Phog Allen's sons, Milton P. Allen of Lawrence, Douglas county attorney, and Dr. Robert Allen of Kansas City were among several fans who planned to leave for New York early this morning.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who accompanied the team to the NCAA tournament in Seattle, is among the supporters who plan to attend the game.
A sizable representation of the 550 University alumni in New York is expected at the game, Fred Ellis, secretary of the alumni association, said.
"Bill Holford, the New York alumni president, is a basketball fanatic." Mr. Ellsworth added.
Pep club leaders were unable to send a 20-member delegation to the United Nations because they were unable to raise the $2,500 necessary for the flight.
At the end, the Jayhawkers had broken their 90-point high-scoring mark. They hit 90 against Kansas State in the Big Seven tournament in Kansas City preceding the regular season and again against Nebraska at Lawrence.
Bill Thomas and Jim Julian were the burden-bearers for the Springfield, Mo. team.
Thomas hit 15 points on six field goals and three-of-four at the charity stripe. Julian connected on five of his 19 field goal attempts and four of six free throws for 14 points.
By JACKIE JONES
Kansan Sports Writer
Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen certainly had a busy weekend. For not only did he defeat Southwest Missouri in the Olympic tryouts, but he also took time to blast at least three separate institutions or individuals.
In his second major attack of the weekend, Allen threw the Olympic officials into a turmilow when he discovered that two eastern referees had been assigned to officiate. He demanded—under threat of keeping his team away—that one of the officials be a westerner.
The first victim was James T. Blair Jr., the lieutenant governor of Missouri. Allen called Blair a liar after the lieutenant governor claimed that when he was a student at Springfield some of their players had been intentionally injured by Allen's Warensburg team.
Blair said, "The lights went out with Springfield ahead, and when they came on the Bears' center had a broken nose and a forward had a severe cut on his face. You have an opportunity to pay a debt that this school has owed Allen for a good many years—and we Missourians always pay our debts."
The authorities gave in to Allen last night and announced that Ronnie Gibbs, a Big Seven official, would work with John Nucatola of New York as referees.
This corner feels that Coach Allen was justified. The brand of basketball played in the East is far different from ours, and we should at least have one official who knows
It is too bad when a man in such a high position must make a remark like that in an attempt to give a team the desire to win a game. This is not conducive to good ball, and it only served to cause hard feelings.
By BOB LONGSTAFF Kansas Assistant Sports Editor
UP AND IN—Bill Lea (39) drops one through for Springfield in Saturday night's Olympic trials game in Kansas City. Guarding Lea for Kansas are Charlie Hoag (5) and Dean Kelley (behind Lea). Kansas defeated the Springfield Boars. 92-63
Kansas will meet LaSalle in the semi-finals of the Olympic playoffs in New York City tonight, as both teams came through victorious in the opening phase of the playoffs.
how it is done in the west.
In his third statement, Allen charged that the dressing room conditions in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium are deplorable. This is something that players and coaches have felt strongly about for some time, but only Allen had the courage to do something about it.
La Salle, National Invitational tournament champions, defeated St. John's of Brooklyn, second place NCAA team, 71-62 in New York, while Kansas moved into the semifinals on a 92-65 win over Southwest Missouri State Teachers college, NAIB champions, at Kansas City. La Salle is confident of winning the clash with the Kansas Jayhawkers, who have traveled more than 9,000 miles in less than two weeks. "If we play as we did in winning the invitation tournament, we have a good chance of beating Kansas," Ken Loeffler. La Salle coach, said.
Population per square mile of arable land is 68 in Russia,102 in the United States,500 in Italy,587 in Germany and 2,430 in Japan.
The Peoria Caterpillars continued their march in AAU Olympic playoffs by defeating the Air Force All-Stars, 71-67. The Caterpillars, AAU champions will meet Phillips 66 Oilers who brushed past Fibber McGee and Molly 50-48 in two overties, at Kansas City.
The La Salle Explorers trounced a weary St. John's team on accurate outside shooting by Tom Gola, Fred Ihele and Norm Grekin. Grekin hit for 20 points while Ihele netted 16 and Gola 15.
Iehle and Grekin hit for five quick points to curb the uprising by the Redmen.
Jack Moore covered Bob Zawoluk so thoroughly that the St. John's center never got to use his deadly pivot shot much. Zawoluk eked out nine points on three field goals and three free throws.
The opening AAU game was a pro-
gression into the collegiate game,
La Salle (71) g ft tfa pf tp
Grekin 7 6 6 2 20
Iehle 7 2 3 4 16
Jones 2 1 1 1 5
Gola 6 3 4 3 15
Moore 3 1 3 5 7
Donnelly 2 4 7 5 8
Altieri 0 0 0 2 0
Totals ... 27 17 24 22 71
St. John (62) g ft fta pf tp
Davis ... 3 0 0 3 6
Duckett ... 1 1 1 5 3
Walsh ... 6 3 4 3 15
Walker ... 2 4 5 3 8
Sagona ... 2 1 1 3 5
Zawoluk ... 3 3 4 5 9
McMahon ... 1 5 8 3 7
MacGilvray ... 2 1 1 4 5
McMorrow ... 0 0 0 1 0
Glancontieri ... 2 0 0 4 4
Totals ... 22 18 24 34 62
Score by quarters:
La Salle 24 13 18 16—71
St. John's 14 14 18 16—62
Allen Condemns KC Facilities
Phog Allen blasted Kansas City's Municipal auditorium facilities for visiting basketball teams as "disgraceful" before his Jayhawkers played in the sporting arena Saturday.
"Kansas City provides a beautiful arena and has an excellent spectator relations program." Dr. Allen said before members of the United States Olympic Basketball committee at a luncheon in the Hotel Muehlebach. "But, I have never seen worse facilities anywhere in the United States to take care of teams in the dressing rooms."
Dr. Allen said there was no water in the dressing rooms; there is no place for players to rest even though they are not even enough hooks on which to hang clothes.
Whites Rout Reds, 54-13 In Intrasquad Spring Game
"Don't think my criticism of the Auditorium is just more sour grapes," Dr. Allen said, "this is a problem in which I am deeply concerned."
Allen received heavy applause from the basketball players present at the luncheon.
Army transfer Gil Reich sparked the Jayhawker Whites to a 54-13 victory over the Reds in Coach J. V. Sikes' first full-dress spring football game Friday.
Reich intercepted a Red pass and raced 60 yards to one touchdown, swiveled his way on a keep-it play for 20 yards and another White score, and combined a long run with a 15-yard pass to spark a third White touchdown.
The Whites combined solid offensive power with a goal-line-stand type of defense to tear through the Red attack.
The Reds tied it 6-6 on a 30 yard pass from Jerry Robertson to Bob Brandeberry.
Fullback Galen Fiss scored on the second play of the game when he scooped up a Red fumble and went 50 yards for the first score of the game.
John Konek crashed over from six yards out climaxing an 85-yard White drive. Konek converted on
six of eight placement attempts for the Whites.
John Anderson, freshman line-backer, intercepted a Chels Strehlow pass on the Red 10 and romped 84 yards to set up the second Red score on the White two-yard line. Bob Fluker plunged over for the score to draw the Reds within seven points, 20-13, of the Whites.
The Whites started moving again when Don Hess, fleet freshman, sprinted 60 yards to score. Hess pulled Anderson down on the two to end his goal-bound run a few plays earlier.
The Red scoring was through. From the second Red touchdown, the Jayhawkers' number one backfield was held in check by the strong White defenses.
Strehlow tossed a 45-yard scoring pass to Duane Unruh a few plays later and the Whites were off again. Fiss came back with the fifth White TD by ramming his way over left tackle for 40 yards and a score.
Frank Sabatini added to the "hey-day for fullbacks" when he powered his way 53 yards for another White tally.
Reich closed out the scoring on the "keeper" play from his quarterback slot. He skirted left end, dodged tackles with expert change-of-pace running and roared the 20 yards to score.
The game was in preparation for the Varsity-Alumni battle scheduled for Memorial stadium Saturday afternoon.
Maj. A. H. Wilson, assistant professor of air science, Friday took a group of 18 Air Force ROTC cadets on an airplane flight to familiarize them with night navigation.
18 Air Force Cadets Take Airplane Flight
The students, all juniors, are taking a course in Navigation taught by Major Wilson.
Stauffer; Haag In Shrine Tilt
Two more basketball players, Bill Stauffer and Dick Haag, have been added to the roster for the East-West Shrine game to be played in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium April 12.
Stauffer, University of Missouri star and unanimous All-Big Seven selection, and Haag of the University of Wyoming were signed to the teams Saturday.
Haag was a standout for the Cowboys this season. He was also co-captain of the Wyoming team.
Clyde Lovellette, Jayhawker all-American center, Jim Dilling of Holy Cross and Jerry Romney of Bhigham Young were signed for the tilt earlier, as was Jim Julian, hook shot artist of Southwest Missouri State's NAIB champion Bears.
other selections will be announced next week by the coaches. Dr. F. C. Allen of Kansas with coach the West team in the game. Henry Iba of Oklahoma A&M will coach the East squad.