Friday, March 28, 1952 University Daily Kansar
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Kansas In Olympic National Champs Meet NAIB Tourney Titlist
By JOHN HERRINGTON
Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas' NCAA tournament champion Jayhawkers—just home from the cage wars in Seattle—move back onto the familiar boards of Kansas City's Municipal auditorium tomorrow night to meet Southwest Missouri State's NAIB champion Bears in the Olympic trials.
Phillips' 66. Oilers and the Fibber McGee and Molly team, semi-finalists in the AAU tournament in Denver, will meet in the first game of the Olympic trials. The AAU game is scheduled for 8 o'clock. The Kansas-Southwest Missouri game should get underway about 9:30 pm.
And while the backers of the Jayhawkers are pretty certain that the Bears will have little less than "a ghost of a chance" against Clyde Lovellette and company, supporters of the team from Springfield, Mo., one of the opinion they may have more of a chance than most persons think.
"We feel good about this game," Springfield Coach Bob Vannatta said. "We may be crazy, but we think we have a good chance. All we have to have is that good night—a 'hot' night offensively—and we think we'll be right in there."
And though it's hard to say without a tongue in cheek attitude, the Bear boss could be right.
Fully recovered from a recent ankle injury and ready for action against the Jayhawkers tomorrow is 6-foot, 6-inch Fred Stephens—the tallest man on the Southwest Missouri State squad.
Stephens has been the best rebounder for Springfield all season and his recovery could mean much to the Bears.
However, the Springfield center is not expected to start against Kansas. In his place will be Jim Julian, who stands 6 feet. 4 inches tall.
Rounding out the Bear starting
up will be Bill Lea (6-4) and
forest Hamilton (6-3) at forwards,
and Bill Thomas (6-3) and Jerry
Anderson (6-0) at guards.
Coach Vannatta's "hot" offensive night may have to be "hotter" than he expects at the time. Kansas is currently playing one of the stiffest defensive games in any tournament.
And then there's the problem of stopping Lovellet—something no team has been able to do effectively since the first of the season.
With a ball-hawking type of defense that allows the opposition to barely breathe at the wrong time, let alone relax, the Jawhakers have run through four NCAA tourney fees in rapid order.
If Vannatta decides on Julian (or Stephens either, for that matter) for the Herculeum task, the Bear center in for quite an evening of action.
Spotting the Jayhawk giant five inches (three in Stephens case),
Julian will be at a distinct disadvantage.
If the Bears try the "two-to-one" tactics other teams have tried recently in an effort to stop the Kansas point-producing machine, there's little reason to believe the outside shooters of Phog Allen's powerful team will not make life miserable for the Springfield bunch.
So, at this point, it's hard to see anything but a decisive KU victory in its opening Olympic trial round.
Conference Discusses Driver Problems
More than 50 persons attended the conference of driver education in review for eastern Kansas which was held Wednesday at the University.
The purpose of the conference was to discuss problems originating in programs of driver education. Group participation was emphasized in relation to problems of the program.
Speakers included Ralph Stinson, secondary school supervisor, Kansas state department of public instruction; Jasper Witter, KU driving instructor; Neal M. Wherry, principal of the Liberty Memorial High school, Lawrence, and Norman Key, secretary for the national commission of safety education.
This same conference with different speakers is being held in Dodge City for western Kansas today. The program has been sponsored by University Extension.
Exhibition Scores
Cincinnati (N) 9, Boston (A) 1
Philadelphia (N) 3, Detroit (A) 2
New York (A) 8, St. Louis (N) 2
Minneapolis (AA) 4, Philadelphia
(A1) 1
(A) 1
Brooklyn (N) 3, Boston (N) 0
Chicago (N) 4, Chicago (A) 2
St. Louis (A) 11, Cleveland (A) 2
Pittsburgh (N) 2, New York (N) 1
A record cotton crop is expected in Turkey this year. Estimates vary on the 1951-52 production from 620,-000 to 780,000 bales.
Congratulations
TO
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K. U. Team
AND HIS GREAT
IN BASKETBALL IT'S K.U.
IN CLOTHING IT'S
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Everything from signs to painted cars to yelling voices greeted the Jayhawkers as the bus in which they were riding edged across the Kaw river bridge.
It was a tired, but happy, band of Jayhawkers that blew into Lawrence this morning about 2 o'clock. Escorted by the highway patrol from Kansas City, the busload of Kansas basketballers fell into the middle of the finest welcome the University could put together.
It was a great welcome for a great team by an appreciative bunch of students.
Kansas State is having its football troubles. Two transplanted players from West Point have left school. They were scheduled to carry a portion of the line load this fall.
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And on top of that, assistant football coach Jim LaRue has been recalled to the Navy.
Nuts! And maybe this was their year.
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"Auf Nach Helsinki." That's "On To Helsinki" in German. With this and a picture, the University German department has given its own variation to the theme.
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Coach Ken Loeffler of LaSalle college said today his NIT champs will go into the U.S. Olympic trials tomorrow fully aware they are "only two games away from a trip to Europe."
The Explorer coach is apparently confident of a win over St. John's
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in their New York Olympic trial game.
LaSalle dumped St. John's 51-45 in Madison to journey in Madison Square Garden.
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In case you haven't seen it elsewhere department: The KU-Southwest Missouri State basketball game from Kansas City will be televised tomorrow night.
The telecast is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. The 20-foot TV screen at the Granada theater will be used once again (this is the third time) to receive the telecast.
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Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, are attending a meeting of the board of regents today in Topeka.
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