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Nebraska High Stars Ruled Ineligible To Play
The Kansas State athletic council has ruled ineligible two freshmen who the University of Nebraska claimed were recruited illegally by members of the Wildecat basketball coaching staff.
The two Omaha South High school basketball players, Stanley Schaetzle and Dave Bell, recently enrolled at Kansas State.
The new ruling went into effect following a meeting of the Big Seven conference faculty representatives last December.
The story came to light Thursday when the Omaha World-Herald stated that Nebraska had filed or would file a formal complaint with the conference asking for a hearing on the matter at a meeting in Kansas City Feb. 28.
According to reports, Keith Lambert, an assistant coach at K-State visited one of the boys Jan. 16 at Omaha. The boys were invited to a basketball game in Manhattan and accepted. They then enrolled there.
The specific charge is that Kansas State violated a new Big Seven rule which prohibits "personal solicitation of athletes off the campus by members of the athletic staff or representatives of the athletic staff."
Another report from the World-Herald claimed that the boys also did some tryouts while at Manhattan. This would be a definite breach of the new conference ruling.
Kansas State coach Jack Gardner said that the boys did shoot some baskets but he did not watch them.
The Nebraska faculty representative to the Big Seven, Dean Earl S. Fullbrook, said yesterday, "We've come to the place in the conference where we will have to live up to our rules or forget them altogether."
Miami. Fla.-(U.P.)-Promoter Jim Norris, backed by contracts and commissions, said today he would insist at tomorrow's "big conference" that Jersey Joe Walcott meet Ex-Champion Ezzard Charles in a return title bout for the International Boxing club.
At his suburban Coral Gables home, big, brown-haired Jim said he expected "no trouble" from 38-year-old Walcott or Manager Felix Bocchiochic because "I must regard them as men who will honor their contracts until they prove otherwise."
Promoter Insists Walcott Fight Charles Or Rocky
But if the champion and his pilot do "prove difficult" at the conference here and seek permission to fight Harry Matthews for another promoter, "I certainly will not grant them a release—either from their contract with Charles or from their ironclad contract with the IBC."
Manager Bochicchio has threatened, in the press, to break away from Norris and his IBC, and have wacock fight Matthews at Las Vegas in early May unless Norris can match the $250,000 guarantee offered Walcott by Harry Hunt of Los Angeles.
Norris grinned amiably when the break-away threat was mentioned. He said, "I don't believe Felix and Joe would do anything like that. They're too intelligent to get all tangled up in court actions."
Walcott was tentatively slated to give an exhibition at Orlando, Fla. tonight and to arrive here with Bochicchio tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile Walcott was threatened with the loss of his crown by the National Boxing association and the New York Boxing commission if he attempted to make his first defense against Matthews in May, President Dave Rochon of the NBA announced in Montreal that the title would be vacated on March 16 unless Jersey Joe defends before then.
Denver university, paced by Don Brown a freshman from Colorado Springs, swept a dual swimming victory from the Kansas swimming team, 49 to 26, in Robinson pool Thursday.
Chairman Robt. K. Christenberry of the New York commission, who has given Walcott until Tuesday to sign for a defense against Charles or Rocky Marciano, said a May night with Matthews would be "too and against an opponent who is 'a contender."
KU Swimmers Beaten By DU
The strong yearling erased existing pool marks in the 120-yard individual medley and 100-yard free style and anchored Bob Seymour's troupe to a third new standard in the 400-yard free style relay.
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His 1:16.7 in the medley lowered the 12:21.1 figure set by Dick Eflin of KU three weeks ago against Nebraska. His .56.7 clocking in the 100 erased Eflin's mark of 59.6.
At the same time, Pettit, who trailed Lovellette by a tenth of a point last week, was held to 19 points by Tulane. His 336 points in 13 games for a 25.8 average is still good enough for second place in the national scoring race.
Denver swept the distance relay in 3:53.4, wiping out the Kansas 4:02.6 mark.
A 31 point scoring spree against Kansas State and a below par showing by Bobby Pettit, Louisiana State university sophomore, gave Clyde, Lovellette, Kansas' All-American center, a firm grip on first place in the major-college individual scoring race, according to the latest figures released by the N.C.A.A. service bureau.
Although Kansas' string of 13 straight victories was terminated Saturday by Kansas State, Lovelette's 31 points boosted his average to 26.9 a game. He has amassed 376 markers in 14 games.
Clyde Lovellette Leads Scoring
Mark Workman (24.6) of West Virginia, Chuck Darling (24.5) of Iowa, and Don Meineke (24.5) of Dayton round out the top five scorers.
Friday, Feb. 1, 1952
Dick Groat of Duke with a 24.2
Villanova 66, Scranton 53
Cage Scores
Penn, State 77, American U. 52
Geengetown (D.C.) 75, Canisius 67
average per game (making him the sixth highest scorer) leads the nation's top ten average scorers in total points with 417. Lovellette's 376 points places him third in this group.
An 18-point effort against Oklahoma A&M Wednesday (the first time this year that Clyde has fallen below the 20 point mark) will lower his impressive 26.9 average.
So. Carolina 62, Georgia 61
Loyola (Md.) 62, Catholic U. 44
Mississippi State 107, Birmingham
Southern 72
Southern 72
Eastern Carolina 69, High Point 64
Central Carolina 72, Mount Union 50
Heidelberg 75, Ohio Northern 58
St. Louis 62, Ohio State 58
Minot State 65, Mayville Teachers 54
Murray (Ky.) 93, Evansville 68.
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Kansas Jayhawker basketball team tied with Missouri for second place in the Big Seven conference last year. Both teams won eight and lost four conference games.
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