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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1951
Junior Jayhawkers Blast Forbes 81-53
By FORREST MILLER
Dick Harp's Junior Jayhawkers overwhelmed the Forbes Air Base basketeers, 81-53, Wednesday night in Hoch auditorium as freshman Larry Davenport fueled the attack with 14 points.
Cagers Work On Rough Edges
Coach Phog Allen is working his Jayhawker cagers hard to smooth the rough edges before they play Denver here Saturday and Creighton at Omaha Monday night.
In their first outing the Jayhawkers looked unimpressive as they downed the Golden Bears of Baylor 57-46. Coach Allen is drilling his team on increasing their speed under the basket.
In the Baylor game the Kansas team showed downcourt speed but definitely slowed down to a virtual crawl when it came to working in the ball.
The Denver university quintet is idle this week before coming here Saturday night. The game is on a four-game road trip for the Pioneers. From Mount Oread they will trek to Michigan State, Ohio State and Kansas State.
KU plays its first engagement away from the local auditorium when it travels to Omaha to play the Creighton Bluejays. Kansas defeated the Jays last year 51-35 in the season's opener here.
Creighton coach Duce Belford has five returning lettermen including Paul Gradoville, Bill Heyden, Bill Bauer, Dave Pedersen and John Tobin.
Elton Tuttle and Ray Yost are two of the top sophomore contenders for the varsity.
The Creightonians lost to Wichita university 100-63 Wednesday night, after opening their season Dec. 1 with a 61-55 win over Buena Vista college.
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The Kansas "B" squad, ahead all the way, rolled to a 20-10 first quarter lead, increased it to 45-22 by halftime, were rolling 64-37 at the end of the third quarter and added 17 points in the final period.
The Topekans hopelessly outclassed by the Jayhawkers, were led by Charles Holmes, a fancy 6-2 Negro center who tallied eight points while playing less than half the game.
Every player on both teams, 15 Kansas and 14 Forbes cagers, broke into the scoring column. Following Davenport in the Kansas scoring parade were freshman Jerry Alberts, sophomore Allen Kelley and junior Dean Smith, all of whom tallied nine points.
Kansas hit 34 of 73 shots at a 47 per cent pace and added 13 of 21 free throws-63 per cent. Forbes made 19 of 76 shots good for a 25 per cent average and flipped in 56 per cent of its free throws-15 of 27.
Kelley and Bob Godwin shot the Jayhawkers into a quick 4-0 lead at the end of the first minute. Kelley's free throw followed one by Forbes Dick Godfrey to make it 5-1 and a pair of Air Base goals by Ray Probst and Mike Cunningham pulled the Topekans up 5-4—the closest they were to get all evening.
From there the Jayhawkers upped the count to 18-4 as Wesley Whitney, Ken Buller and Godwin led the rout.
Harp's second quintet of John Thompson, Jerry Alberts, Davenport, Don Anderson and Eldon Nicholson, all of whom were put into the fray shortly before the first quarter ended, increased the already-rapid scoring pace.
Alberts hit three straight second quarter goals as did Davenport to make the scoreboard favor the Jayhawkers at halftime. 45-20.
The second half scoring was more evenly divided, but Kansas still held a 36-31 margin. Only three times in the entire second half did Kansas win consecutively without a Forbes bucket or chanty fling between.
Kansas led, 78-53 with 30 seconds to play and Gene Fotopoulous' set shot from the corner accounted for the 79th and 80th points.
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Forbes Air Force (53)
FGA-FG FTA-FT
FGA-FG FTA-FT F 11
Propst 3-0 2-1 1
Gammond 7-2 2-1 0 5
Godfrey 1-0 1-1 1 2
Mansfield 9-2 2-2 1 0
Cungh'am 7-3 1-1 0 7
Woodruff 2-1 1-0 1 2
Holmes 7-3 4-2 1 8
Hughes 5-1 4-2 4 4
Weiss 8-2 4-2 2 6
Coffey 10-0 2-2 4 2
Gadon 1-1 0-0 0 2
Licht'hann 5-1 0-0 0 2
Moravek 5-1 3-1 0 3
Lee 6-2 1-0 2 4
Totals 76-19 27-15 18 53
Totals 76-19 27-15
Kansas "B" (81)
| FGA-FG | FTA-FT | F | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Godwin | 5-3 | 3-1 | 1 |
| Thompson | 3-0 | 1-1 | 0 |
| Padgett | 1-0 | 2-2 | 1 |
| Buller | 5-3 | 1-0 | 2 |
| Alberts | 5-4 | 1-1 | 6 |
| Franklin | 5-2 | 1-1 | 1 |
| Whitney | 2-0 | 2-2 | 5 |
| Nicholson | 7-2 | 1-0 | 1 |
| Davenport | 12-7 | 1-0 | 2 |
| Fotopoulos | 4-2 | 0-0 | 1 |
| Smith | 8-4 | 2-1 | 3 |
| D. Anderson | 1-1 | 0-0 | 9 |
| Guess | 6-1 | 1-0 | 1 |
| A. Kelley | 4-3 | 5-3 | 1 |
| J. Anderson | 5-2 | 0-0 | 3 |
| Totals | 73-34 | 21-13 | 81 |
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