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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951
Lonborg Named To Helms Hall Of Fame
Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg was named to the Helms Hall College Basketball Hall of Fame today as one of America's outstanding basketball coaches. Lonborg is now athletic director at the University of Kansas.
He had been head basketball coach at Northwestern since 1927, before returning to Kansas to take over the directorship July 1, 1950. His 23-year tenure in the Big Ten was the longest ever known in that conference.
Born in Horton, Lonborg attended the University of Kansas where he became a nine-letterman, earning three each in football, basketball and baseball. Kansas at that time was a member of the Missouri Valley conference and "Dutch" was all-conference choice in both football and basketball. He captained the 1920 basketball team.
He was a member of KU's famous "Dream Team" of 1920. That football team used a "dream play" envisioned by their coach Dr. Forrest C. Allen, to score the only touchdown of the game and defeat Iowa State, 7 to 0. Lonbong was the quarterback on that team.
It was with the 1925 Washburn team that Lonborg gained national fame as a basketball coach. He took his team to Kansas City to the national A.A.U. tournament and won the championship, defeating the Kansas City Athletic club.
Known to many as "Dean of Big Ten Coaches," Lonborg coached the Wildcats to their first basketball title in 1931 and repeated again in 1933. That year the Wildcats shared the Big Nine title with the Buckeyes of Ohio.
He was chosen "Coach of the Year" by Chicago basketball writers in 1946, the same year he was selected dean of coaches in the Big Ten. He is at present chairman of the basketball committee of the National Collegiate Athletic association.
Other additions to the Hall of Fame include Fred Enke, coach at Arizona, and two famous players. Forrest Di Bernardi, who played with Westminster College, Missouri, in 1920 and 1921, and Charles Carney, an Illinois great, in 1920-22.
The 1551 selections brings the
total to 38 coaches, players and contributors. Thirty-one were chosen in 1949, the Hall's first year, and 3 made the grade in 1959.
ARTHUR C. "DUTCH" LONBORG
K.U. Athletic Director
Names of each person selected are engraved on the Hall of Fame trophy in Helms Hall, Los Angeles. Photographs and complete autobiographies are kept on file.
Lonborg joins three other famous Kansas on the Helms award—the late Dr. James Naismith, originator of basketball; Dr. Forrest C. Alen, current K.U. cage mentor; and Paul Endacott, a Kansas All-American who played in the years 1921-23.
Included in the group were 13 lettermen from the 1950 season and two who lettered in 1948.
21 Lettermen Answer Call To K-State Football Drills
Manhattan, Kan—Spring football drills got under way at Kansas State with 85 candidates reporting for the six-weeks practice session.
"We've got to find out right now the boys who are going to be able to do us some good this fall. We have a rough schedule facing us and we can't wait until September to separate the men from the boys," the new "Cat head man pointed out."
Meek and company are starting Kansas State's rebuilding program from the bottom up. The former Tennessee star has thrown all positions wide open.
One of the biggest problems facing the K-State staff is filling the graduation - riddled center line corps. Only lettered tackles back for another campaign are Pete Raemer of Manhattan, and Oscar Clabaugh of Garnett. Jack Lorenz of Minneapolis, Bob Julian of Belphe, and Cecil Rogers of Bethel are the only guard lettermen back, but giving some aid will be Al Lummio, East Chicago, Ind., a 1949 numeral winner.
Other 1950 lettermen reporting for spring work are: ends, Francis Starns, Ken Barr, and Dave Torbett; center, Harold Robinson, John Knoll, and Jim Lininger; halfbacks, Ha Faibourn, Dick Towers, Ted Mu-pin, Bill Wall, and Hoyt Givens;
Six rugged weeks of practice have been planned by Head Coach Bill Meek and assistants John Cudmore Jim LaRue, Jake Rowden, and Royal Price. Although conditioning and fundamentals will be stressed the first two weeks, Meek warned his squad it could expect a rough scrimmage this Saturday and every Wednesday and Saturday there-after.
Five Directors Back Charge At Big Conferences
Denver (U.L.P.)—Five athletic directors, who claim college sports have fallen so low "it's even affecting skiing," today gave Fritz Brennecke of Colorado Mines 100 per cent backing in his charge the situation was the fault of three major conferences.
The backing was given to Brennecke, head football coach and athletic director at Mines, by the athletic directors of Colorado State. Montana State, Western State, Colorado college, and Idaho State.
Fullback Elmer Creviston, Manhattan, has dropped out of school this semester to recover from a knee operation. A senior this coming fall, Creviston is working in Manhattan and plans to return to school this summer and should be ready for duty for September.
Brennecke declared that college athletics had become "unprincipled." He based his statement on action of the Big Seven in allowing all-expense paid scholarships. And he also pointed the finger of guilt at the Southwest and Southeastern conferences, which have similar plans in operation.
fullbacks, Bob Mayer and Carvel Oldham; and quarterback Lane Brown.
Schubert Dyche, athletic director at Montana State, said, "At Montana State we can't even get any athlete in any sport, not even skiing, without a scholarship," he said. "It's the result of natural evolution to satisfy the desires of alumni and public."
Paul Wright, athletic director at Western State college, blamed a large part of the trouble on the N.C.A.A.'s action in throwing out the so-called "purity code," and putting it in the laps of individual conferences.
"When they did that," Wright said, "the price of athletes went up $150 a head."
John Hancock, athletic director at Colorado State, said it was his "personal opinion" that Brennecke was completely right. "Any clear thinking man in a small school will agree, I believe." Hancock said.
Director John Vesser at Idaho State agreed and urged return of athletics to college administration instead of pressure groups. He said he was not opposed to athletic scholarships as long as they were reasonable or on a definite board and room basis.
"I don't know definitely what other conferences are doing, but if conditions exist, and there is reason to think they do, they must be stopped and cleaned up because that would be the next step toward fixing games and more bribe scandals." Vessel said. "It's a sad comment on present day football when you hear stories that some collegians are forced to take a salary cut when they enter professional ranks."
At Colorado college, director Juan Reid said "the principals of the Big Seven are not in conformity with the athletic policy at Colorado college."
Congress Might As Well Be Adjourned When Baseball Season Is In Full Swing
Washington (U.P.)—Baseball some 4 times interrupts the important business of congress.
That fact was apparent in early October, 1913. The incident, among others, is recalled in a book just out by the Smith boys—no kin-Ira L. and H. Allen. The volume is called "Three Men on Third," and is filled with fascinating anecdotes about the national pastime.
In the case involving the congress: house members were locked in their chambers while frantic sergeants-at-arms gum-shoed the vast acres of capitol hill in search of a quorum. Their failure to find one easily was explainable. The Giants were playing the Athletics in the first game of the world series. Some of the law-givers were A.W.O.L.
The imprisoned members sweated and fretted. At length, a telegraph messenger sneaked by the guards and caught the ear of Representative Mann, the Republican floor leader. The leader demanded the floor and asked if he would be out of order in announcing that in the fifth inning the score was 5 to 1 in
Mann arose a second time and asked if it would be proper to reveal that Baker of the A's had belted a homer? Cheers drowned the protests of the speaker and meeting adjourned.
favor of Philadelphia? The speaker of the house said, beyond question, the leader was out of order.
Some of the anecdotes in the book are priceless. Most are funny. Like the one about a man named Silent John Titus, a star slugger for Philadelphia who thought he couldn't hit a lick without a toothpick in his kisser. J. A. McDougall was on the hill for St. Louis one day in 1905 when Silent John came to the plate. Mac always was irritated by that toothpick business, so he up and aimed one straight at Silent John and the toothpick.
John hit the dust, and in so doing lost his good luck charm. He spent considerable time looking for it and finally asked the ump for a few more seconds. He dashed to the dugout, found no teammate with a spare pick, came back—struck out.
NCAA Group Proposes Video Plan
The committee had been authorized by the N.C.A.A. convention last January to draw up a plan for "experimental" T-V of gridiron games
New Haven, Conn. (U.P.)—Football fans in each section of the country will get a chance to see one football game per week on television, according to a proposal made today by the television steering committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
for the coming season.
The one-game-in-each-section plan will be submitted to the NCAA. national committee in Chicago next week and approval was expected.
The committee emphasized that the plan will not apply to any post-season games, the army-navy game, or to any games played after the test period ends on Nov. 24.
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