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Varsity To Play Frosh In Final Tune-Up Tilt
kebatball fans will be given a most of this week and should see
most from action tonight.
Basketball fans will be given a preview of what to expect from this year's Jayhawk cagers when the varsity and freshmen meet in Hoch auditorium tonight. Tipoff time will be 7 o'clock.
in, 6 feet 1 inch, and Larry Davenport, 6 feet 2 inches, at forwards, Bill Heitholt, 6 feet $3 \frac{1}{2}$ inches, and Jerry Alberts, 6 feet 3 inches at the guard positions.
Coach Allen is expected to substitute freely with several of his 35-man squad seeing action.
CLYDE LOVELLETTE
The game will be a final tune-up for the varsity before they play the Baylor Bears in their season's opener here Monday night.
Sophomores Everett Dye, Wes Johnson and LaVannes Squires and senior John Keller are in the midst of the scramble for the starting berth.
Dean Kelley, 5 feet 11-inch junior, is slated to start tonight at guard along with Bill Hougland. Bill Lienhard and Bob Kenney will be the forwards with Clyde Lovellette completing the varsity five at center.
Competition for the guard position has been keen and all indications point to a continued battle through-out the season.
Charlie Hoag, currently playing football, will report for practice next week and will be out to regain the guard position he held much of last season.
Coach Phog Allen will have to use some sophomores and varsity players on the freshman team tonight, however, as several of the first year men also are out for football.
Dean Wells, Jerry Taylor, Jack Rodgers and Jerry Bogue are among the varsity contenders who will make the switch from football to basketball next week.
Injuries and sickness have plagued the cagers thus far. B. H. Born is back after being sidelined with pleurisy for three weeks. He may see action on either team as will several others.
Jayhawks Boast Height Galore
Other freshmen to start against the varsity crew will be Don Frank-
Eldon Nicholson, 6 feet 6-inch freshman center, missed practice for about two weeks because of pneumonia. He has been able to work out
A basketball team averaging 6 feet 6 inches tall could be utilized by Coach "Phog" Allen this season if he wanted to go all out for height.
He could do it by placing All-American Clyde Lovellette at center, B. H. Born, both 6 feet 9 inches, at forward with Bill Lienhard, 6 feet 5 inches, and Bill Hougland and Paul Guess, both 6 feet 4 inches, at the guard positions.
The 35-man squad averages 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 181 pounds per man.
Sophomore B. H. Born ties Lovellette in the height department with a 6 feet 9 inch frame but Colossal Clyde still has a big lead in the weight department. His 230 pounds places him a good 20 pounds over his nearest competitors, Willard Schuldt and John Anderson, who tin the scales at 210.
Coach Allen's eight returning lettermen are all over 6 feet 2 inches with the exception of 5 feet 11-inch Dean Kelley and 6-foot Dean Wells.
Anderson is also the youngest man on the squad. He is only 17 five years younger than letterman John Keller, who is 22 and the oldest man.
Rich Young, freshman guard, is the shortest player, being only 5 feet 10 inches.
Eldon Nicholson of Pittsburgh candidate for center, is the tallest freshman to report for practice. He measures 6 feet 6 inches to make him the No.3 man in height among the KU cagers.
Forty-three per cent of the urban traffic accidents last year occurred at intersections.
Only nine of the 35 squad members are from out of state. They come from Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana, and Missouri.
Grid Series One Of Oldest In Nation
Missouri, on the other hand, was rudely clubbed into the conference cellar Nov. 17 when Kansas State's victory-starved Wildcats won over the Tigers 14-12 in the battle of the basement. Missouri has won one and lost four in league competition.
One of the oldest grid rivalries in the nation will be resumed Saturday when J.V. Sikes' Kansas Jayhawkers play host to Don Faurot's Missouri Tigers in a homecoming game at Memorial stadium.
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It'll be the 60th renewal of grid relations between the two teams. Interrupted only in 1918 by the First World War, the rivalry has moved continuously since 1891 when the Kansans won 22-8.
Since that day the string of games played between Missouri and Kansas is the longest in Jayhawk history. Only Nebraska's skein tends to compare. The Jayhawkers started
In the 59 years of the feud Kansas has come out slightly on the long end of the won-lost record. The Jay-hawkers have won 27 of the games played; Missouri has won 25. Seven games ended in ties.
their series with the Cornhuskers in 1892.
Not only close in games won and lost, the series is also surprisingly even from a standpoint of total points. Kansas has scored 646 points. The Titers have netted 627.
In recent years it's been all Tiger. Missouri downed the Jayhawkers 21-7 in 1948, 34-28 in 1949 and 20 to 6 last year. Records would show that this season should be somewhat different.
The Kansans are currently riding behind Oklahoma and Colorado in the Big Seven standings. They have a 3-2 won-lost record in league games.
Scores have also been kept low. The largest margin of victory was the 39-point spread in 1941 when Missouri won 45-6. Kansas defeated the Tigers 32-0 in 1930 for the largest KU win.
IFinale KU Favored Over Mizzou
A Homecoming crowd of 35,000 is expected to fill Memorial stadium tomorrow afternoon when the favored Kansas Jayhawkers close their season against the Missouri Tigers.
Kansas has clinched third place in the Big Seven race and will remain there regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's game. The Tigers, however, will be fighting to keep out of the league cellar. A victory for MU team would tie them with fourth place Iowa State.
The Tigers' 12-14 loss to Kansas State pushed the ailing Missourians to the bottom of the Big Seven ranks. The Show-Me team has beaten Kansas since 1948, pulling an upset last year. They defeated the favored Jayhawkers 20-6 on a frigid Thanksgiving afternoon at Columbia. Weather conditions look more favorable for tomorrow's tilt.
DON FAUROT
Coach J. V. Sikes' team is in almost top physical shape. Ace backs Bob Brandeberry and Bud Laughlin have been limping on injured ankles this week but both should be ready to tear off several yards against the Tigers.
Charlie Hoag, speedy halfback, will probably start and barring further injury to his injured muscle should see considerable action.
He carried the ball only four times against Oklahoma A&M and returned to heavy scrimmage only this week.
Jayhawk Aces Among Top10
The Jayhawks' two backfield aces, Bud Laughlin, 200-pound Kansas City, Mo. fullback, and Bob Brandeberry, 183-pound Yates Center right half, have vaulted into the Jayhawkers' all-time career ground gains lists.
With 836 net yards in 15 games,
Laughlin has moved into eighth place. Brandeberry is 10th with 689 yards in 12 games.