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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1951
Wildcats, Tigers, Bulldogs Leading College Nicknames
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
New York (U.P.)—Wildcats and Tigers, followed closely by Bulldogs, are scampering all over the sports scene today and if that sounds like a hair-brained hunting trip you can blame it on the desire of the various schools to peddle brawn as well as brains.
No football factory worth its athletic salt water, or plain old perspiration, would deign to be referred to athletically as plain old Calypso college. Nor is that a reference to schools involved in the basketball fix.
You just gotta have a rugged sounding nickname, Sylvester.
The consensus across the nation, after a check of the nickname department, shows that there are at least nine each with the nom de plume of "Tiger" or "Wildcat." Two lengths behind are the "Bulldogs."
Alliteration is nice, but not necessary. The main idea is to denoteury, So we have such dandies as Shockers, Blue Streaks, Thundering Herds, Red Raiders, Boilermakers, Green Waves, Crismon Tides, Cyclones and Hurricanes. Gold having been a nice item to have around for quite some time now, there also are Golden Hurricanes, Golden Avalanches and Golden Flashes.
Very few animals with any strength or cunning have been overlooked in the collegiate nickname department. There are Badgers, Bears, Bengals, Bruins, Broncos, Bisons, Buffalo, Beavers, Bearcats and Bobcats. There are Cougars, Catamounts, Cardinals and—though s'help me if I knew why—Coyotes.
There are Eagles, and even Purple Eagles. The latter probably developed after a bruising evening We have, too, Gamecocks, Grizzlies, Gophers, Gobblers, 'Gators and, naturally, Gators'
Indians naturally are plentiful.
with such offshoots as Redmen, Braves and even Brown Indians. Defying rapid explanation are the Gauchos and the Sun Devils.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Our good friend, Oscar Fraley, seems to have overlooked the good old Kansas Jayhawk in his coast-to-coast summary of college nicknames. Come now, Mr. Fraley, surely you've heard of the Jayhawkers even in such a far away place as New York City.)
These names all tend to illustrate, supposedly, that the muscle men of that particular institution of learning are virile, determined and unconquerable gladiators. So it seems as if Whitman college in Walla Walla, Wash., and Whittier, Calif., should do something else for their lads.
Both of those schools are designated as the "Pets," and, aside from Yale's Herman Hickman, I can't put my finger on a good athlete who can quote from Chaucer.
Also taking the short end are the sports from New York University. Imagine trying to whip Tigers, Wildcats, Bulldogs or some such under their nickname-"The Violets." Sounds like a good nickname for a school of botany. Athletes--never!
My personal choice of them all, however, as the most honest is the nickname at Youngstown college—The Penguins. What else do you have except cold feet when you see a big, bruising fullback bearing down on you?
8 Minor Changes Made In KU Relays Event Schedule
Eight changes mark the 1951 Kansas Relays time schedule for the 26th running of the Mount Oread Olympics here April 21. The carnival will present its usual roster of events, and the switches in starting times will be only minor. However, the revision will give competing clubs a better chance to disperse their respective personnel in the distance and medley relays. No individual events were shifted.
Major change will drop the university two-mile relay from fifth place on the card to 11th, and move the four-mile in that class from 14th in the order of events to fifth.
The two-mile formerly preceded the four thus putting a heavy load on teams which had an eye on both titles. There now will be a gap of one-hour 20-minutes between the two events with the shorter, faster race last.
With the university distance medley remaining at 18th on the card at 4:55 p.m., the distance minded quartets now can run the combination of a four-mile and two-mile or four-mile and distance medley. Last year only 40 minutes separated the four-mile and distance medley, virtually eliminating teams that wished to double in this combination.
The two-mile aspirants still will be able to go after the distance medley since there is an hour and a half gap between these two races.
Other switches include:
1. Transposition of 100-yard dash (now event No. 4) and college two-mile relay (now No. 3).
2. Transposition of Kansas City Mo. 880 relay (now No. 7) and university 440 relay (now No. 8).
3. College sprint medley relay now
12th instead of 11th.
4. University sprint medley relay now 14th instead of 12th.
6. University 880 relay now 17th instead of 16th.
5. College distance medley relay now 16th instead of 17th.
The decathlon will garnish the 25-event program of standard relay and open events as usual, beginning Friday afternoon in conjunction with the 47th annual interscholastic relays, and closing around noon Saturday.
NIT Final Game Saturday Night
Entries for both sections of the spiked shoe jamboree will be mailed out this week by Meet Director Bill Easton.
Johnstown, Pa. (U.P.) The last of the old mule-mine shoers, John Kohanski, 74, Gallitzin, has retired. Kohanski, who immigrated here from Poland, got his first job shoe mine mules in 1901, five days after he landed in America.
Lost: One Mule Shoer
New York (U.P.)-Poised and powerful Brigham Young can gain the first leg on college basketball's coveted "grand-slam" by beating Dayton's "Cinderella kids" tomorrow night in the finals of the national invitation tournament.
The slick Cougars, who also are entered in the N.C.A.A. tournament which opens next week, swept into the N.I.T. finals with an impressive 69 to 59 victory over Seton Hall last night before a crowd of 16,815 at Madison Square Garden.
Dayton, which came to the tourney unseeded and unheralded, staged a valiant overtime upset over top-seeded St. John's of Brooklyn, 69 to 62, despite the loss of stars Don (Monk) Meineke and Leland Norris on personal fouls midway in the second half.
Brigham Young, led by its terrific one-two punch of Roland Minson and Mel Hutchins, had a much easier time than Dayton in winning. The Cougars trailed by six points early in the game, but broke a 10-10 tie at the eight-minute mark on six points by Minson and Hutchins and never behind after that.
With Minson scoring 15 of B.Y.U.'s first 28 points in the second half, the Cougars widened their 33 to 26 half-time advantage to 61 to 14 at the 14-minute mark and went going away. Minson, who played the whole 40 minutes, tallied 26 points—17 in the second half, Jerry Romney and Joe Richey, who also played without relief, tallied 16 and 14, respectively.
Thursday's College Basketball Results
EAST
EAST N.I.T. NEW YORK (Semi-final round)
Dayton 69, St. John's 62 (o.t.)
Brigham Young 69, Sumet Hall 59
N.C.T., ALBANY, N.
(Quarter-finals)
Mt. St. Mary's 83, St. Francis (Pa.
74.
14 St. Francis (N.Y.) 65. Loras 63 WESSTE.
NAIB, TOURNEY, K.C., MO.
James Milliken 91, Florida State 63
Baldwin Wallace 90, Memphis St.
Hanline 80, N.M. A, and M. 56
Regis 70, Evansville 68
Thursday's Exhibition Results
St. Louis (N) 3, Boston (N) 2.
Brooklyn (N) 10, Cincinnati (N)
( )
3 (night)
New York (N)
(N) 6, Philadelphia
Washington (A) 5. Detroit (A) 4
Chicago (A) 10. Cleveland (A) 9
Pittsburgh (N) 2, Chicago (N) 1
So. Cal. 7, Pittsburgh (N) "B" 4
Philadelphia (N) "B" 6, Cincinnati
nati (N) "B" 2
Here is the revised order of events.
1. Javelin (preliminaries and finals) ... 10:00 a.m.
2. 120-yard high hurdles (finals) ... 1:30 p.m.
3. College Two-Mile Relay ... 1:40
4. 100-yard dash (finals) ... 1:55
5. University Four-Mile Relay ... 2:05
6. College Half-Mile Relay ... 2:25
7. Kansas City, Mo. H.S. 880 Relay ... 2:35
8. University 440 Relay ... 2:45
9. Presentation of Queen ... 2:55
10. Glenn Cunningham Mile Run ... 3:15
11. University Two-Mile Relay ... 3:25
12. College Sprint Medley Relay ... 3:45
13. College Invitation Sprint Medley ... 4:00
14. University Sprint Medley Relay ... 4:10
15. Junior College Sprint Medley Relay ... 4:20
16. College Distance Medley Relay ... 4:30
17. University Half-Mile Relay ... 4:45
18. University Distance Medley Relay ... 4:55
19. Kansas High School Mile Relay ... 5:15
20. College Mile Relay ... 5:20
21. University Mile Relay ... 5:30
22. Outstanding athlete award
23. Pole Vault (finals) ... 1:30
24. Shot Put (finals) ... 1:30
25. Broad Jump (finals) ... 1:30
26. High Jump (finals) ... 2:00
27. Discus Throw (preliminaries and finals) ... 2:30
West Palm Beach, Fla. (U.P.)
Lefty Gene Bearden, the rookie pitching hero of the 1948 pennant race and world series, said today he is confident of a comeback this year with the Washington Senators.
Bearden hurled three perfect innings as the Senators shaded the Detroit Tigers, 5 to 4, on Irv Noren's seventh-inning homer yesterday and said the arm "felt fine."
Stanky suffered a "sprained fracture" of the left wrist when hit by a line drive off Eddie Waitkus' but while Weatherly suffered a fractured jaw and lost three teeth when a batted ball struck him in the face during batting practice yesterday.
It will be DiMaggio's first start of the spring and the $100,000 outfielder's first appearance in a Yankee uniform in his "own backyard."
Hollywood, Calif. (U.P.)—The New York Yankees opened a 12-game, 11-day tour of the Pacific coast today with Joe DiMaggio in the lineup and their world series batting order intact against the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast league.
Baseball Training Camp Briefs
Miami. Fla. (UP)—The New York Giants learned today that second-baseman Eddie Stanky will be side-lined about a week and outfielder Roy Weatherly will be out six weeks.
Whatever the reason, the Pirates, who finished a distant last in the National League Pennant race last season, led the Grapefruit League today with four victories in five exhibition games.
San Francisco, Calif. (U.P.)—Has Branch Rickey talked the Pittsburgh Pirates into abandoning their last-place habits of 1950? or has the lequacious Mahatma merely equipped the Bucs with sky-hooks?
Konstanty learned the hard way yesterday when Wilson smashed a two-run ninth-inning double that gave the Giants a 6 to 5 triumph over the Phillies.
The Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs, 2 to 1, yesterday when Pete Castiglione singled with the bases filled in the ninth inning. They play the San Francisco Seals tonight.
Clearwater, Fla. (U.P.)—Philadelphia Philly relief star Jim Konstanty made a careful entry in his little black book alongside New York Giant rookie Artie Wilson's name today.
San Diego, Calif. (U.P.)—Fireballer Bob Feller was something less than a ball of fire in his 1951 debut for the Cleveland Indians yesterday.
Feller pitched three scoreless innings but then the Chicago White Sox suddenly caught up to him. They smashed him for nine runs in the next two innings before Manager Al Lopez mercifully relieved Feller.
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