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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 21, 1951
Trojans Seek To Cut KU Win Skein At Six
Southern California's Trojans, who dropped Oklahoma A&M from the unbeaten ranks this week, will attempt to snip the Jayhawkers' six-game win skein when they charge into Hoch audi-
Kansas, K-State Big 7 Favorites
The Kansas Jayhawkers and the Kansas State Wildewals will go into the sixth annual Big Seven basketball tournament in Kansas City Dec. 26 as co-favorites.
Stanford university of the Pacific Coast, league is this year's guest team and must be given a top rating among the tourney's teams.
Iowa State and Missouri should be rated beneath the two Kansas clubs and Stanford with Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado filling out the card in that order.
Kansas goes into the tourney with the best record, having won six games without a setback. The Kansas team has looked mediocre part of the time but has also shown signs of being capable of capturing the Big Seven crown and national honors as well.
Kansas State has a record of six wins and one defeat, suffered at the hands of an upstart San Francisco team. The Wildcats have an evenly balanced team which has shown tremendous ability. Coach Jack Gardner has again come up with a fine team though graduation cost him many of last year's top players.
Stanford is the nation's most greatest scoring team with an average of 82.2 points in its five games, being undefeated thus far. The Indians have registered fourteen over California Polytechnical, 82-67; College of Pacific, 86-76; St. Mary's, 74-65; San Francisco, 92-78, and a 77-63
Kansas State has captured the tourney title more times than any other team, having taken it in 1947 and 1950. In 1949 the Missouri Tigers took the championship and the Oklahoma Sooners did the trick in 1948. Southern Methodist won the first year's tourney in 1946.
10. 16 Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa State and Colorado have not notched a tourney title.
This year's play gets under way in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium Wednesday night, Dec. 26. Kansas meets Colorado in the opener at 8 o'clock, followed by Oklahoma and Stanford at 9:45. The second night will see Kansas State play Nebraska in the first game and Iowa State and Missouri in the second tussle.
Losers of first round games will play the afternoons of Dec. 28 and 29, with games scheduled at 2 o'clock and 3:45 o'clock. The championship tilt will be Saturday night at 9:45 o'clock.
Cage Scores
Boston College 76, Harvard 63
Canisius 62, Dartmouth 48
Colgate 67, Buffalo 60
Manhattan 69, North Carolina State 50
New York University 87, Holy Cross 78
Georgetown (D.C.) 84, Princeton 62
Bradley 66, Colorado 58
Eastern Illinois State 86, Kentu
Eastern Illinois State 86, Kentucky Wesleyan 76
Illinois 86, North Carolina 66
Iowa 59, Oklahoma 46
Pennsylvania 68, Michigan 63
Nebraska Wesleyan 52, Missouri Valley of Marshall 41
Cornell 51, Tulane 50
Kentucky 98, DePaul 60
Vanderbilt 63, Rice 56
SMU 50, Texas Tech 48 (Overtime).
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The game will start at 7:35 o'clock and will be broadcast over the KU sports network by Max Fallenstein, WEN in Topeka, KFBI in Wichita and over WHB in Kansas City, Mo., by Larry Ray.
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Kansas teams have a perfect record against the Trojans, having defeated them 43-42 in the finals of the 1940 Western NCAA tournament in Kansas City and 34-31 in 1936.
In splitting a two-night stand with the highly rated Oklahoma A&M Aggies, USC showed considerable strength. The Trojans pulled an upset in the first game by nosing out the Aggies, 46-44. But Hank Iba's quintet squelched the uprising by smashing the visitors 58-47 Wednesday night.
Coach Forrest Twogood has a fine pair of guards in Don Underwood, 6 feet 3 inches tall, and Ken Flower, 6 feet 1 inch tall. Both are smooth ball-handlers and good floor men.
He also has tall but heavy men at forward with Bob Morton, a 6-feet 4-inch, 215 pounder, and Bruce Bennett, who is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds, holding down the starting berth.
KU's All-American Clyde Lovellette is ripping the cords at an even faster pace than his two previous seasons. He has scored 167 points in six games for an average of 27.8 points per game. This is 5.5 points per game above the blazing trail he set his sophomore and junior years,
The Jayhawkers have looked unimpressive in most of their games this season and will have to improve their play to down the USC team.
Bob Kenney has been adding scoring punch to the Jayhawker attack.
Dean Kelley has proved to be a fine running mate with Bill Houglain at guard and Bill Lienhard continues to play a fine game at forward.
Coach Phog Allen is still without the services of Charlie Hoag, whose football injury is limiting him to light workouts. When he will be ready to play is still in doubt.
Probable Starters
Southern California
Bennett F
Morton F
Boyd C
Underwood G
Flower G
Illinois Drops North Carolina For Easy Win
Kansas
Lienhard
Kenney
Lovellette
D. Kelley
Hougland
New York—(U,P)—Another easy victory went into the books today for the powerful basketball teams of Illinois and Kentucky, but the North Carolina State wolfpack was charged with a defeat that could drop it out of the nation's top 10.
Illinois, ranked as the No. 1 court combine in the land, rolled to an 86-66 win over North Carolina at Champaign, Ill., while Kentucky, rated No. 3, cruised to a 98-60 triumph over DePaul, 101st straight win for the Wildcats on their campus at Lexington, Kv.
But N. C. State, ranked No. 10,
suffered a 69-50 upset at the hands
of Manhattan college at Madison
Square Garden, second loss for the
Wolfback.
Manhattan, scoring its fifth victory in six rickets, ripped off eight straight points near the end of the first half, walked off the court at intermission with a 36-26 lead, and never was seriously threatened again by the Wolfpack. Bill Doran led Manhattan with 15 points, while Mel Thompson of N. C. State had 16.
Illinois, racking up its four win in as many starts, was held close for only five minutes by North Carolina and then pulled steadily away. No fewer than six of the Illini scored in double figures as John "Red" Kerr set the pace with 17 points. Al Lifson of the Tarheels was high man for the game, however, with 18 points.
Kentucky's once-beaten Wildcats were held even by DePaul for eight minutes, and then turned the game into a romp. The hard-hitting Wildcats, fresh from their surprisingly easy win over St. John's, were led by Cliff Hagen with 21 points, Frank Ramsey with 20, and Bobby Watson with 18.
Education Professor To Give Two Papers in Philadelphia
Dr. Kenneth E. Anderson, associate professor of education, will be in Philadelphia Friday, Dec. 28, to present two papers.
He will speak to the education section of the department for documentation for the Advancement of Science.
The papers were written by Dr Anderson and two graduate students in education, Donald Harder and Norris Burke.
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Tennessee Coach Reverses Maxim To 'Best Offense Is Good Defense'
Knoxville, Tenn.—(U.P.) —Gen. Bob Neyland who learned the soldier's maxim at West Point that the best defense is a good offense is making the reverse pay off with his Sugar Bowl Tennessee football team.
Neyland, who served as an aide at the Point when Gen. Douglas MacArthur was its commanding officer, teaches his Volunteers — the nation's number one gridiron machine this season—that the best offense is a good defense.
That strategy has paid off during 20 "Neyland years" with 163 victories, 24 defeats and 11 ties in 198 regular-season games. How well it works against the best ground-gainer the Vols face this season
will be determined when they tackle Maryland in the sugar bowl Jan. 1.
Neyland regards the Terrapins—Not the Vols—the nation's No. 1 team. And he thinks Jim Tatum is one of the country's finest young coaches. He said today that the Vols will have to play their best game to win.
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