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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 6, 1952
PHOG CONGRATULATES CLYDE—The giant Kansas center receives the congratulations of his coach, Dr. F. C. Phog Allen, after he was notified of his selection to the Associated Press All-American basketball team. This is Clyde's second year on the select squad.
DukeBenched With Sprain
Vero Beach, Fla.—(U.R.)-Centerfielder Duke Snider will be side-lined "several days" with a sprained left ankle and will miss the Brooklyn Dodgers' opening exhibition game with the Boston Braves next Saturday.
St. Petersburg, Fla. — (U.P.)—Vern Benson, who reported to camp as a rookie third-baseman, was added to the first-base candidates today.
Snider, a .227 hitter last season,
suffered the sprain sliding in to
second base in yesterday's intra-
squad game.
Benson hit .308 for Columbus in the American Association last season. He is the fourth candidate for the first base job.
Clearwater, Fla. - (U,P) - What amounts to a full-scale track meet will be staged by the Philadelphia Phillies today under the direction of Manager Eddie Sawyer.
It's all part of Sawyer's condition "unum the club into shape" this spring.
Sawyer believes poor condition contributed heavily to the Phillies' fifth-place finish in 1951.
Mesa, Ariz.—(U.P.)Dutch Leonard, at 42, the oldest active pitcher in the National League, said today he believed he can have an even better year in 1952 than last season when he had a 10-6 record.
Groat Picked As 'Player Of Year'
New York—(U.P.) All-American Dick Great of Duke, a brilliant scorer and an unstinting team player, was named the United Press player of the year today for the 1951-52 college basketball season.
in a nationwide poll of 211 sport writers and radio broadcasters, the six-foot Duke dynamo from Swiss-silee, Pae, won the honor by a slight margin over Chuck Darling, six-foot, eight-inch Iowa center.
Groat, who has been described by his coach, Hal Bradley, as "the kind of player a coach dreams about," is a rare combination of an unusually higher scorer and a remarkable backcourt playmaker.
In addition to ranking second among the major colleges in scoring with a 26-point average for 27 games, the speedy Blue Devil senior also led the nation in assists with an average of nearly eight per game.
Tucson, Ariz.—(U.P.)-Bob Lennon,
picked to pitch for the Cleveland
Indians against the New York Giants
next Saturday, said today he
expected to return to the 20-victory
class this year.
"My arm never felt better," Lemon said. "If I have better control I should make 20 wins."
Lemon won 20 games in 1948, '49 and '50 but fell to 17 last year.
AP Picks Clyde Lovellette For All-American Honors
Clyde Lovellette, Kansas cage center, has been named to the Associated Press All-American basketball team for the second straight year.
Lovellette, greatest scover in the history of the Big Seven, drew the most first place votes, 143, but was edged by Dick Groat of Duke university in total points, 763 to 759.
The giant Jayhawker center has already been named to Collier's and the United Press All-America squads. The AP "dream team" is selected by 229 sports writers, and broadcasters.
The second five All-Americans are Bob Zawoluk of St. John's, Frank Ramsey of Kentucky, Bob Petitt of Louisiana State, Don Meineke of Dayton, and Rod Fletcher of Illinois.
The other four first team players joed the All-American select five for the first time. They are Cliff Hagan of Kentucky, Dick Great of Duke, Mark Workman of West Virginia, and Chuck Darling of Iowa.
Dick Knostman of Kansas State was the only other Big Seven player
to make the select list. The Wam-
ego, Kan, junior placed on the third
team along with John O'Brien of
Seattle, Larry Hennessy of Villanova,
Hou Bohregs of Washington,
and Ray Steiner of St. Louis.
The Kansas State coach went on "I dare Kentucky to put us on its schedule next year. Those Southeastern conference teams never beat anyone of consequence outside their own league, and that's the league Kentucky generally wins every year."
Gardner voiced his dare in commenting that basketball rating polls are just "popularity contests."
"Kentucky is a good team, all right, but it would lose from three to five games each year if it played a Big Seven schedule."
Admitting that he wasn't sure his Wildcats were as good as the sitting polls sav they are—third place among the nation's teams—Gardner said that Kentucky plays a soft schedule.
Kansas State's Jack Gardner took a verbal blast at Kentucky's number one basketball team today and dared Kentucky to put Kansas State on its schedule next year.
In a break-down of the voting figures, Groat, a senior from Swiss-vale, Pa., got 139 first team votes, but moved up with 34 second-team ballots to Lovette's 22. Each first team vote counted five points, a second team vote, two.
"Any team out in the sticks, like we are, can't get the support the teams in the bigger cities do," Gardner said.
Blast By Gardner For Kentucky U.
The East, which has for years dominated the Associated Press ratings, failed to place a single player among the top five and only one, Bob Zawoluk, among the high fifteen...
"The sportswriters and radio announcers vote in the polls and there are more of them in the larger towns than there are in the smaller cities."
Cliff Hagan is the only junior to make the first five. As leader of the Kentucky squad, he took up the slack left when 7 foot Bill Spivey.
Workman of West Virginia holds all of the school's scoring marks, including a single game high of 50 points, but because of an injury his play has suffered in the last few contests.
top vote-getter on the 1951 All-America, was declared ineligible. Hagan sparked the Wildcats to their ninth Southeastern conference title.
Chuck Darling, a 6 foot 8 inch senior from Dearborn, Mich., is Iowa's first All-American since Murray Weir in 1948. He is the main reason why Iowa stayed in the thick of the battle for the Big Ten championship.
Present Kansas, K-State Cagers Rank As Highest Scorers In History
Both teams collected impressive
These figures are far cries from the 31.6 and 32.5 with which Kansas and Oklahoma won the circuit emofficial titles of 1932 and 1933. Just 10 years ago this season, KU smashed all records in averaging 52.1 to share the Big Seven flag with OU.
n three other occasions.
The points received by the top five men are:
The two most extravagant scoring machines in Big Seven history, Kansas and Kansas State, are expected to produce another net-searing show here Friday night when they collide on the Hoch auditorium boards in the probable pennant decider.
road victories over the weekend to clear the decks for their crucial meeting. Kansas mounted its highest core and widest margin of victory in history at Norman Saturday night, rolling past Oklahoma, 74-55. State took a 75-60 win over Nebraska in Lincoln and an 88-66 punishing of Iowa State at Ames.
In the wake of this figure Phog Allen's cagers have established game and individual marks on every side. Their 90-152 thumping of Nebraska here established a new offensive high against conference opposition and rewrote the Hoch auditorium court standard. They pushed beyond 80 points in one other game, and have been over the 70-point mark
In addition to their hairline loss in Kansas at Kansas City, the Wildcats also scored 75 in losing an overload to Indiana at Bloomington, 75-80.
Not only will the game match the two highest scoring teams in circuit annals but it will bring together the No. 1 and 2 individual pointsmith of the current derby. KU's (twotime All-American Clyde Lovelle, already has matched his 1951 conference record of 262 points. He owns four games of 30 or more points and has been held below 20 only twice in league play.
State's Dick Knostman, who sharp-shoots through contact lens, is averaging 19.5 points per start and grabbed a half share of Lovellette's 39-point league single-game mark by notching that figure against Missouri two weeks ago.
KU also scored 86 points agains Denver, and broke 70 in two other-league engagements. Its 90 against Kansas State in the heart-topping 90-88 overtime win in the conference tournament semifinals, hares top listing as a school mark with the Nebraska lacing here.
Both clubs will come into the game with identical 9-1 league records. Jack Gardner's stampeding Wildcats are traveling at a 74.5 points per game pace, two and a half baskets better than the record 69.5 which they erected last year in sweeping to the NCAA finals.
Not only will the game mark the rubber match of the season's set, but it will be the 121st between the two ancient foes. And none has been more important.
State reached 92 in smothering Colorado at Manhattan by 52 points, it powered beyond 80 against three other loop foes and has broken the 0 figure on a trio of other occasions. Non-league wins include a 78-54 logging of Ohio State, 76-57 and 8-52 over Arizona, 82-73 over Tulamea, 87-67 over Nebraska, and 4-39 over Oklahoma.
Kansas is less than four points per game below this with a 70.7 average in 10 league encounters. This is 12.9 points beyond the University record of 57.8 which most of the same regulars now carrying the load as seniors, erected as co-champions two years ago.
1st Place Points
Dick Groat 139 763
Clyde Lovellette 143 759
Cliff Hagan 107 599
Chuck Darling 89 551
Mark Workman 66 424
West Virginia Favored In Southern Tourney; NC State and Duke Threaten
New York—(U.P.)The opening of the Southern Conference postseason tournament at Raleigh, N.C., highlights important action or the college basketball front today.
West Virginia, which suffered only one loss in 16 regular season league games, was favored to win the Southern Conference show and thus earn a bid to the NCAA tournament. But the Mountaineers were only slight choices over defending champion North Carolina State and Dick Groat-led Duke.
Wyoming, the nation's No. 10 ranked team, rebounded from a 15-point loss to beat the Colorado Aggies last night, 97 to 57. The Cowboys have clinched an NCAA berth as champion of the Skyline Conference.
West Virginia, with its All-America center, Mark Workman, is matched against William and Mary in the opening game of the Southern Conference tournament this afternoon. In the second game, Duke and "player of the year" Great clash with Maryland. In night games, it's N.C. State vs. Furman and Clemson vs. George Washington.
In other leading games last night
Niagara overcame an eight-point deficit in the last three minutes and went on to beat Colgate in overtime, 68-66; Syracuse trounced Pennsylvania, 94-76 despite 32 points by Penn's Ernie Beck; Manhattan upset Fordham, 64-56; Villanova crushed Kings (Pa.), 106-71; St. Francis (NY) downed Connecticut, 63-47; Tuffs shifted Harvard, 79-76; and Rhode Island routed Brown, 96-59.
The NAIB tournament, which opens in Kansas City on Monday, added seven more teams to its roster, making 13 so far out of a total of 32.
Entering yesterday were West Texas State, Southwest Texas, Utah State, New Mexico A&M, Portland, Memphis State, and Mississippi Southern. Previously selected were Lawrence Tech, Pepperdine, Murray State, Tempa, Montana State, and Elon.
BASKETBALL'S UNDERRATED MAN-John Keller has shown such outstanding play and ball handling in the last few Kansas games, that Coach F. C. Phog Allen has moved him to the varsity starting lineup.