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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
Kansas State, Brigham Young Win Western NCAA First Round Games
Kansas City (U.P.)—The Oklahoma Aggies, masters of the "slow-down," take on Montana State and Washington play the Texas Aggies tonight in quarter-final games of the Western regional N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.
The winners of these tussels will meet in the semi-final round Friday night.
The other semi-final will match Kansas State and Brigham Young, who qualified by winning their quarter-final round games Wednesday night. Each team was a favorite, but neither had an easy time—Kansas State nipping Arizona, 61 to 59, and Brigham Young downing San Jose State, 68 to 61.
N.C.A.A. Western Regional
FIRST ROUND
(At Kansas City, Mo.)
Wednesday's Results
Kansas City 64, Arizona 19
Brig. Young U. 68, San Jose St.
Tonight's Schedule
8:45 — Oklaham A&M vs. Mont. St.
9:45 — Texas A&M vs. U. of Wash.
The Oklahoma Aggies, champions of the Missouri Valley conference and ranked as the nation's No. 2 team at the end of the season by the United Press board of coaches, were a heavy favorite to beat Montana State. The Aggies, noted for their air-tight defense, won 27 out of 31 games this season while Montana State won 22 and lost 12.
The Washington - Texas Aggies game was a tough one to figure and the experts settled by calling it a toss-up.
The Washington Huskies, champions of the Pacific Coast conference, boast the better overall record with 22 victories and five defeats, as
against 16 wins and 11 losses for the Aggies. But the Aggies proved a sparkling club under fire in playoffs to win the Southwest conference title.
Kansas State, which had been gaining support as a title favorite, looked for a time like it was going to run Arizona right off the court.
At halftime, the Wildcats from Manhattan, were on top by 36 to 20 and they stretched that to 50 to 27, a 23-point lead, with 10 minutes to go. Then coach Jack Gardner "opened the gates of mercy" by sending in the second team.
But the Wildcats, Arizona brand, were not finished by a long sight. Coach Fred Enke ordered the border conference champions into an all-court press and the tactic seemed to panic K-State. Swiftly Arizona closed the gap and, when Roger Johnson stole the ball under the goal and looped in an Arizona goal with one minute and a half to go Kansas State led by only 60 to 59.
Kansas State "froze" the ball successfully, though, and Ernie Barrett's free throw with 13 seconds to play lifted the final margin to 61 to 59.
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Cross Country Squads Honored At Union Banquet
Bv ART SCHAAF
The Kansas 1950 Big Seven champion cross country squads—both Varsity and freshman—were honored last night at a ban et in the East room of the Union.
The Varsity squad was presented award jackets and silver track shoes by Coach Bill Easton. The freshmen were awarded silver track shoes by varsity Capt. Herb Semper.
The Varsity squad, last fall, ran to the fourth consecutive cross country championship won by Jayhawker runners. The frosh squad swept the first five places in winning the third frosh championship in the past four years.
Varsity members present at the banquet were; Capt. Herb Semper, who won the league individual two-mile championship and then went on to cop the N.C.A.A. four mile crown; Cliff Abel, third place finisher in the conference grind; Dave Breidenthal, who ran on his third straight championship team last fall; Keith Palmquist, sophomore flash from Minneapolis, Minn.; and Bill Farney, steady sophomore performer from Hutchinson, Kan.
Freshmen present were: Wesley Santee, Art Dalzell, Norman Bitner, and Dick Wilson. Lloyd Koby, the fifth member of the team, is in Watkins hospital where he underwent an emergency appendectomy Monday night.
Other guests at the banquet included: Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering, who is also Big Seven faculty representative; Rev. Dale Turner, pastor of the Lawrence Congregational church; Earl Falkenstien, athletic manager; Jim McConnell, assistant track coach; Jack Rockwell, track trainer; Bill Mayer, sports writer for the Lawrence Journal-World, and Art Schaaf, Daily Kansan sports writer.
Dean Carr gave a short talk praising Coach Easton's efforts and achievements since coming to Kansas. Rev. Turner spoke on "The Mark of a Champion." He defined a champion as a person who develops himself in three distinct phases—mentally, physically, and spiritually. Further he said, a champion is a person who grows socially, and who learns to appreciate the part that others contribute to his success.
Coach Easton spoke of the lasting values derived from track by the participants. "One of the best things about track is the sportsmanship which it promotes," he said. He gave as an example the N.C.A.A. cross country championships at East Lansing, Mich last fall which Semper won.
“Near the end of the race,” Easton said, “Herbie started to make a wrong turn because the heavy layer of snow had all but obliterated the markers and blinded him, but the eventual second place finisher, Warren Druetzel of Michigan State, shouted at him, from 40 yards back, to turn left instead of right.
"Druetzler and Semper competed against each other in high school in Illinois and are old friends of long standing", Easton said.
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Kentucky Plays St. John's In New York
The New York spotlight will be on Kentucky's Wildcats tonight in semi-final round of the Eastern N.C.A.A. regional basketball tournament when they meet the St. John's Redmen.
Kentucky is in a familiar role—top-heavy favorites to win the N.C.A.A. championship—and are favored to eliminate St. John's ninth ranked nationally, in the feature game tonight at Madison Square garden.
Illinois, Big Ten champion, will meet overhauld North Carolina State, Southern Conference champions in the opening clash beginning at 6:45 p.m. Lawrence time. N.C.A.A. FASTEN REGIONAL
Semi-Final Round (At New York City)
N. C.A.A. EASTERN REGIONAL
Tonight's Schedule Illinois (20-4) vs. N.C. St. (29-5)
Kentucky (29-2) vs. St. John's.
(29-4)
The Kentuckians had trouble Tuesday night before downing state rival Louisville, 79 to 68, at Raleigh. N.C., and Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp declares his team isn't as strong as it was when it whipped St. John's earlier this season, 43 to 37.
Harry Combes, Illinois coach, said he expects to find a tough foe in North Carolina State. Although North Carolina State all-American Sam Ranzino has been declared inelegible for N.C.A.A. play, the Wolf-pack surprised Villanova in the first round.
The tall Illinois club, sparked by a long-range sharp-shooting sub, Ted Beach, and Capt. Don Sunderlage, scored 47 points between them Tuesday night as the Illini ruined Columbia's undefeated season, 79 to 71.
Quack Club Tryouts In Robinson Tonight
Tryouts for Quack club, the University swimming group for girls, will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the Robinson gymnasium swimming pool.
Judith Veach, president, said today, that any girls who can swim are invited to try out. New members will be announced after the tryouts tonight. The club will meet every Thursday night to swim and plans to put on an aquatic show this spring, Miss Veach said.
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National AAU Basketball Tournament Begins Quarter-Final Games Tonight
Denver (U.P.)—Eight teams from seven states will square off tonight in the quarterfinals of the 44th annual National A.A.U. basketball tournament with Mighty Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., and upstart Vandergriff Motors of Dallas, Texas, ranked as co-favorites.
The "weeding out" process of the 41 teams which started the week-long dribble derby last Sunday was completed Wednesday night with only five of the eight teams that started out in seeded positions reaching the round-of-eight.
Gone from the tournament, in a startling upset, was second-seeded Oakland Blue N' Gold, along with seventh and eighth seeded Ada Oilers of Houston, Tex., and Fibber McGee and Molly of Hollywood. In their places tonight will be Sioux City, Ia., Poudre Valley Creamery of Fort Collins, Colo., and Vandergriff, the team that knocked the props out from Oakland yesterday.
Phillips, which breezed by the Los Angeles Kelbos and "old man" Frank Lubin, 56 to 39, will open tonight's schedule against the Dayton Air Gems. Dayton beat Delphi,
195 to 59.
Talk of the tournament, however,
does not concern today's games half
as much as it does the Vandergrift-
Oakland game of Wednesday. The
Dallas team, using a double-post
manned by two six-foot nine-inch
giants, sent the Pan American
champions out of the tourney, 62
to 50.
The second game will bring together Vandergriff and Colorado A, & M. college of Fort Collins, playing for Poudre Valley. The Colorado Aggies took a cue from Vandergriff and upset Kable Kolts of Mount Morris, Ill., 87 to 60. Peoria Diesels of Illinois plays Denver Chevrolethes and San Francisco Chevs go against Sioux City.
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