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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
Alumni-Varsity Basketball Game Will Feature Title Clubs
Three famous Jayhawker undefeated conference championship basketball teams, the 1936, 1943, and 1946 clubs, will be represented among the Alumni, when the Old-Timers tackle the 1951-52 Varsity in Hoch auditorium Friday night, May 4, in an attraction which is a part of a huge All-Sports weekend at the University.
Fourteen Alumni cagers have indicated that they'll be here to once again show their basketball ability of yesterdays.
The Old Grads will be coached by another famous K.U. athlete, Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, now in his first season as K.U.'s athletic director. Lonborg was an all-Missouri Valley selection in both football and basketball just before and after World War I.
Returning from the 1936 quintet that swept undefeated through 21 consecutive games until defeated in the Olympic playoffs by Utah State's giant Aggies, will be Mitt Allen, eldest son of Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen. The famous Kansas coach was only in his 17th coaching season at Mt. Oread that winter.
Mitt, now the Douglas county attorney, quarterbacked that highly-polished five, which also contained Ray Ebling, Ray Noble, Francis Kappelman, and Fred Pralle. Operating as the trigger-man in Coach Allen's three-out two-in alignment, Mitt earned a lasting reputation as a clever, quick-thinking play-maker.
Dick Harp and Don Ebling, cocaptains of the 1940 N.C.A.A. runner-up team, will return from that renowned five. Harp is in his third season as K.U. assistant basketball coach. Ebling, now a Kansas City businessman, hasn't played since a post-college career with that town's Phillips 66 unit.
Though most famed as a postguard, Harp is best remembered for his fabulous two-handed long shot in the final 30 seconds of an overtime that gave the Jayhawkers a 45 to 43 victory over Oklahoma A. & M. in a fifth district N.C.A.A. playoff in Oklahoma City.
Paul Rogers, Lawrence businessman, was a member of the same squad and will keep Mitt company in the seniority tier in the Alumni game. Coach Lonborg hopes R. Ebling, Noble, Kappelman, and Pralle will be signed up before game time so that this famous five can operate intact again.
Kansas then went on to defeat Rice and Southern California for
CHARLIE BLACK-FORWARD
"The best big man I've ever coached," is the praise that Coach F. C. "PhoP" Allen of the University of Kansas gives Charlie Black, junior all-Big Six forward of the Jayhawkers. Superb at feinting his guard out of position and obtaining shots from any place on the court, Black also excels on defense where his 6'4" enable him to bat many a ball out of the hoop.
(Editor's note: The above cutline was used with this picture during Black's junior year, 1946, when he gained All-American honors).
Baseball Team Re-Opens Conference Play Friday
Coach Hub Ulrich and a 16-player traveling squad left at 1 p.m. today by bus for Ames, Iowa, where Kansas opens a two-game conference baseball series with the Iowa State Cyclones Friday afternoon. The two teams will meet again on Saturday.
Kansas will travel to Columbia; Mo., Sunday where the Jayhawkers will play Missouri in single games Monday and Tuesday.
the Western championship, bowing to Indiana, 42 to 60, in the N.C.A.A. finals.
Players making the important four-game conference swing are: Dean Smith and Galen Fiss, catchers; Carl Sandefur, Jack Stonestreet, Curt Harris, and Bill Honon, pitcher; Jim Suney and Al Row, third
basemen; Capt. Frank Koenig, shortstop; John McConnell, second baseman, George Voss and Don Peete, first basemen and outfielders Charles Bether, Darrell Houk, Walter Hicks, and Frank Mishlich.
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Coming up in the wake of his brother, Ray, a two-time all-American forward, Don Ebling never let tough opposition bother him. He was a three-year regular and is still considered one of the greatest hustlers in Kansas annals.
Harp and Ebling will be joined by a third teammate, Bobby Allen, now a Kansas City, Mo., surgeon, who gained all-American honors in 1941.
Allen, second of two sons to play for Coach Allen, played quarterback like his brother, Mitt, and ranked among the best play-makers in K.U. history. He also graduated with high 'scholastic honors, being named honor man of his senior class.
Two terrific cagers, Charlie "The Hawk" Black, and Otto Schnellbacher, will return from the "Iron Five" of 1943. This was the third Allen team to sweep undefeated through a conference season for
Three members of the 1952 ay-hawker co-championship club (8-4) and four seniors on the 1951 club (16-8) round out the 14-man Alumni club signed to date.
K. U., and only the draft and enlistments ruined its N.C.A.A. potentialities.
Black, fresh from four seasons of professional basketball, still is regarded by many cage fans as the greatest all-around player in Jayhawker history. His four-year career total of 1,082 points in 87 games was surpassed only this year by the greatest Midlands' scorer of all-time, Clyde "The Colossal Clown" Lovellett, Lovellett's two-year total is 1,093 points in 49 games for a 22.3 average.
Black, the Kansas "Jumping-jack still has not been matched for his great defensive and rebounding work. He was an all-American in 1943 and 1946.
Claude Houchin, all-Big Seven guard in '50, is expected to give the Varsity plenty of trouble with his fine defensive and rebounding play. He was a starter this year with Phillips 66 Oilers, powerful A.A.J. team, that won 51 and lost four.
Schnellbacher, the third highest scorer in K.U. history with a four-year total of 923 points, was a four-time all-conference choice at forward. He won his first honors as a sophomore in 1943. Then, after a stint in the Air Force, reached additional glory in 1946, 1947, and 1948.
Gene Petersen, 6-foot 7-inch giant who paused K.U. scorers in 1949, will give the Old-Timers added offensive power. Big Pete is now attending K.U. medical school. Harold "Lefty" England is the third member of the 1500 club that will help the Alumni with his southpaw pokes.
Jerry Waugh, 1951 Jayhawker captain, heads a four-man group that finished collegiate competition the past season. Dale Engel, Buddy Bull, and Sonny Enns will take the court for the Lonborg-coached crew against their former Varsity teammates.