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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 15, 1952
John Keller To Be Cage Starter For Kansas
John Keller, 6 feet 3 inch senior, will be the only change in the starting lineup when the Kansas Jayhawkers meet Nebraska in Hoch auditorium, Saturday night. Tipoff time is 7:35.
Keller will replace ailing Bih Lienhard at forward in the Jayhawker lineup, Coach F. C. Phog Allen said.
"He's done such a swell job for us during the past two seasons, and he's earned the starting assignment."
Other than Keller, the lineup will include Dean Kelly and Bill Hougland—ready to go again after batting a wrenched knee—at guard, Joe Lavelle at center and Billy Kenney at the other forward position.
Too short for a university ball center, Keller has proved a "very valuable man" for the Jayhawkers at forward. Allen said.
Keller made his best showing this year against Kansas State and Iowa State. At Ames, Feb. 12. Keller moved into the post position after Lovellette and B. H. Born went out on fouls.
The game itself will be "a typical Kansas-Nebraska game," the Jayhawk coach said.
"Nebraska's got a good chance," he said, "and if we're not up for this one we're going to get into a lot of trouble."
Dr. Allen, is not too disappointed with his team's showing in the past few games, but said "they aren't convincing enough. We'll have to
be more convincing if we're going to stay in the conference race."
If KU can get through its remaining conference games without a loss, Allen thinks the team has "a very good chance to beat Kansas State," when the Wildcats come to Lawrence, Thursday, March 7.
Still remaining on the KU schedule are conference games with Nebraska, Saturday, Missouri at Lawrence, Monday, Feb. 25, and Oklahoma at Norman, Saturday, March 1.
But at present, all attention is focused on the Cornhuskers who came within three points of the Jayhawkers in their meeting Jan. 14.
In that game, it was necessary for Kansas to stall out the last 65 seconds to win.
Cage Scores
St. John's 59, St. Bonaventure 56
Holly Cross 81, Springfield 61
Birmingham So. 80, Jacksonville 72
Notre Dame 76, Depaul 70
Marquette 58, Toledo 52
NYC 67, Niagara 56
Carnegie Tech 74, Thiel 51
Rhode Island 96, Massachusetts 72
Lovellette Not Interested In Playing Professional Ball
Clyde Lovellette, KUs 6 feet 9 inch court great, said that if he doesn't go to the Phillips 66 Oilers of the AAU, he isn't going anyplace else—especially not to the professional ranks.
And while rumors concerning his basketball future with the Oilers still hover over Mt. Oread, they'll have to remain as rumors.
Lovelette said he'd "rather not make a statement now" as far as he and the Oilers are concerned. Things are too indefinite, he said.
Asked what his plans for the future are if he doesn't go to Bartlesville to play with the Oilers, Clyde said he may go into police work of some kind.
So if he decides to go to Phillips—and there's little reason to think they wouldn't like to have him as much now as they did earlier in the year—or if he chooses the detective line instead, it still leaves an unanswered question. What about his disc iockey show on WREN?
"We'll (Lovellette and Max Falkenstein, sports director at WREN) keep that show going as long as the public likes it," Lovellette said. Lovellette expects Bob Kurland, 7 foot center of the Oilers, to take "at least a season off" from his basketball duties.
Reports have it that Kurland is ready to settle down on his recently purchased six-acre suburban tract.
After the game
The national individual basketball scoring lead was taken away from Clyde Lovellette this past week for the first time this season.
Kansas Cager Falls To Third
Lovellette fell to the third spot, behind Mark Workman of West Virginia and Bobby Petit of Louisiana State. These players are in a virtual tie for the scoring lead with 25.944 and 25.941 averages.
The latest figures released Thursday by the National Collegiate Athletic bureau, show that Lovellette's 13 points against Iowa State Monday, dropped his average to 25.4.
Bob Kenney, also from Kansas,
continues to dominate the nation's
leaders at the free throw line. He is now averaging 85.9 per cent.
The All-American center has now scored 458 points on 179 field goals and 100 successful attempts at the free throw line.
Other players in the top ten scorers are Darling of Iowa, Groat of Duke, Retherford of Baldwin-Wallace, Selvy of Furman, Meineke of Dayton, Vance of Mississippi State and Hagan of Kentucky.
Oklahoma Swimmers To Meet KU Saturday
The Kansas swimming team will face its toughest opponent of the season, when the Oklahoma Sooners invade Robinson pool at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Sam Perkins, business junior, is another of the better prospects on the Jayhawk team. He defeated Nebraska and Colorado A&M in the last meet with a 2:30 in the 220-yard free style and also took first against A&M with a 5:30 in the 440-yard free style.
Coach Walt Mikols has little hope that his young team will be able to defeat the powerful Oklahoma squad, but he expects the Jayhawkers to improve their own time records.
The Kansas 400-yard free style relay team of Mahlon Ball, John Ashley, Dick Eftin and Robert Wellborn turned in a 3:58.5 in the Nebraska meet, and they should have a good clocking in their home pool.
Several of the Kansans show considerable promise, and should turn in excellent times. Dick Effin is one of Coach Mikels' best prospects. He defeated Nebraska last Saturday in the 100-yard free style with a 57:6, and against Colorado he did the 150-yard individual medley in 1:48.1.
The most outstanding member of the Oklahoma team is Graham Johnston, a free style sensation, from Bloemfontein, South Africa. He is the British Empire 1,500 meters champion, and has recently swam the 220 free style in 2:13.9 and the 440 in 4:48.9 in the 25-yard Oklahoma pool.
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