PAGE FOUR UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951 KU's Cage Season Ranked Among Most Erratic Of All-Time RV ROR NELSON Daily Kansan Sports Editor Although Kansas failed to win the Big Seven conference title or any national honors—the 1951 season will long be remembered as one of the most exciting and erratic of all-time. Probably no team in the school's history was so unpredictable and kept its coach, the players, and fans wondering just what would happen next. Coach "Phog" Allen's cagers did salvage much lost prestige in the national picture by finishing with an impressive 37 to 27 victory over the nation's No. 2 team, Oklahoma A. and M.'s Aggies. And this was just a sample of how erratic the 1951 K.U. team performed all season. This year's season record—16 wins and eight defeats—provided the Jayhawkers with their best record since K.U.'s great 1946 undefeated (10-0) championship club which marked up a 19-2 record for the year. But the Allenmen's 8-4 conference record this year was only good enough for a second place tie with Missouri's Tigers. In 1950, Kansas finished with an identical league record which ended the race in a three-way deadlock between Kansas, Nebraska, and Kansas State. Kansas State's Wildcats made a run-away race out of this year's conference slate finishing with a 11-1 record. Kansas used an "Iron-five" combination this year with four of these starters answering the opening whistle for all games. The Jerry Waugh-Charlie Hoag combination filled the other spot. This starting five scored 91 per cent of K.U.'s points this year and will return next year intact. These five leading scorers are Bill Lienhard (157) and Bob Kenney (196), forwards; center Clyde Lovellette—the Big Seven's greatest scorer of all-time (548), and guards Bill Houlgaud (129) and Charlie Hoag (89). Hoog, who got a late start because of football, finished the season as one of the league's top sophomores. His great competitive spirit instilled leadership on the floor and helped trold the club together. Kansas was only soundly beaten by three opponents this year. These included losses to Kentucky, 39 to 68 at Lexington; 51 to 62 against Minnesota in the Big Seven pre-season tourney, and to Kansas State at Manhattan, 51 to 65. The other five defeats were by a total of only 13 points and these games were lost during the final six minutes in each case. After an 8-0 season record at home last year, K.U. dropped three home contests this year. These included a 43 to 47 loss to Kansas State, a 41 to 46 setback to Oklahoma A. and M., and a 59 to 61 thriller to Oklahoma. The two road losses were to Northwestern, 53 to 54, and a 38 to 39 defeat to Missouri at Columbia. Lovellette brought great fame to himself, his coach, his teammates. and to KU, this year by continuing to break all Big Seven scoring records. He was selected to the AP, UP, Colliers, and Sporting News' All-American teams. for us first two years at Kansas (sophomore and junior years). Lovellette ranks—based on average—as the greatest collegiate scorer of all-time. His two-year mark is 22.3 points for 49 games to date. While Lovellette's scoring ranks him as the greatest offensive player of all-time, there is much doubt as to whether his all-around play has surpassed that of Black. Lovellette's 548 points this year pushed him 11 points ahead of Charlie Black's all-time total at Kansas compiled through four seasons covering 87 games. Here is a comparison of the scoring records for Black and Lovellette: BLACK'S RECORD | BETWEEN | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | G | FG | FT | PF | TP | | 1942–22 | 101 | 43 | 59 | 245 | Av.11 | | 1943–18 | 82 | 42 | 35 | 206 | 11.4 | | 1946–20 | 122 | 82 | 69 | 326 | 16.3 | | 1947–27 | 87 | 91 | 103 | 305 | 11.3 | | Totals 87 | 1412 | 258 | 266 | 1862 | 12.4 | LCOVELLETTE'S RECORD 1950-25 214 117 93 545 21.8 1951-24 245 58 97 97 22.8 Totals 49 459 175 190 1093 22.8 In all fairness to K U. former great All-American, Charlie "The Hawk" Black, we offer a few of his accomplishments that ranked him as the greatest eager of all-time until Lovellette moved into the picture to challenge his marks. His final season in 1947 was Black's best in defensive play, "The Hawk" developed into one of the best post guards in the county. Facing many of the nation's best pivots, the "Kansas Kangaroo" in 27 games restricted his men to an average of only 5.4 points a game and scored 305 points himself. Gerald Tucker: Oklahoma's great center, guided Oklahoma to the Big Six title and to the N.C.A.A. finals that year, and was named Player of the Year by the Helms Athletic foundation. Tucker made only seven goals and six free throws against Black in three games, and three of the seven were fed to him after O.U. had stolen the ball and had a three or two-on-one fast break. Black scored 34 in the three games. Black intercepted most of the passes intended for Tucker, doing it against a club noted for its sharp passing. Tucker usually moved out to guard in the late minutes of the game. Kansas won 51 to 45 in the Oklahoma City tournament with Tucker scoring six, lost 47 to 50 at Norman CHARLIE BLACK Former K.U. All-American as Tucker scored six, and won 38 to 36 on Black's tip-in with 10 seconds left at Lawrence as Tucker made eight. In 1943, Kansas won 48 to 44 at Norman with Tucker scoring only eight points. In the second meeting at Lawrence Black was in the service, but K.U. won again to clinch the championship. Also in 1947, Black held "Easy Ed" McAuley of St. Louis to three points as KU, won 49 to 35 over the Missouri Valley champions at St. Louis; allowed DePaul's Ed Mikan three goals as Kansas won 58 to 41; shutout Bob Harris of Oklahoma A & M in the Oklahoma City tourney, held him to five at Stillwater and eight at Lawrence with Black scoring 20 at Lawrence to wreck the Aggies 37 to 34. George Kok, 6-foot 11-inch Arkansas giant who went on to set a new Southwest record, made only seven points off Black in the Big Seven's pre-season journey before "The Hawk" fouled out, Kansas winning 53 to 52 on Otto Schnellbacher's late free throw. In 1424, Black scored 25 points against Oklahoma in his first league game and went on to gain all-league honors along with Ralph Miller and Ray Evans. Black was selected all-league three more times, was on the second Helms All-American twice and on the first team once, in 1946. Kansas' 1951 Individual Basketball Statistics (ALL GAMES FOR THE 1950-51 SEASON INCLUDED) Player G. Fga. Fg. Pct. Fta. Ft. Pct. Pf. Tp. Av. '50 Av. Clyde Lovellette 24 554 245 44 89 58 65 97 548 22.8 21.8 Bob Kenney 24 219 85 39 30 26 87 40 196 8.2 3.0 Bill Lienhard 24 218 75 34 17 7 41 58 157 6.5 5.6 Bill Houland 24 137 51 37 36 27 75 80 129 5.4 5.2 Jerry Waugh 14 109 43 40 13 8 61 23 94 6.7 6.0 Charlie Hoag 24 141 41 29 15 7 47 47 89 3.7 ... Dale Engel 21 31 11 35 3 1 33 21 23 1.1 0.9 Sonny Enns 22 31 9 29 3 3 38 29 21 0.9 ... Dean Kelley 18 28 7 25 ... ... ... 15 14 0.8 ... John Keller 18 15 6 40 8 1 13 8 13 0.7 ... Buddy Bull 17 14 5 36 3 3 100 11 13 0.8 1.0 Bill Schaake 12 21 5 24 6 3 50 10 13 1.1 1.3 Dean Wells 14 12 2 17 3 1 33 15 5 0.4 2.1 Ken Buller 8 2 1 50 4 2 50 5 4 0.5 ... Harold Lowe 2 1 1 100 1 1 100 2 3 1.5 ... Dean Smith 5 3 1 33 2 1 50 2 3 0.6 ... Jack Rodgers 5 3 1 33 1 1 100 0 3 0.6 ... Wally Beck 12 ... ... 1 5 3 60 6 3 0.3 ... Kansas Ttotals 24 1550 589 38 254 153 60 473 1331 55.5 57.8 Opp. Totals 24 1383 442 32 475 313 66 569 1197 49.9 51.7 (Key: Fg, field goals; Fga, field goal attempts; Ft, free throws made; Fta, free throw attempts; Pf, personal fouls; Tp, total points scored, and Av., average points scored per game. Averages for players who played in 1950 listed in last column). 1949-50 Lovellette's Scoring Is Record At Kansas Lovellette's Game-by-Game-Record | | FG | FT | PF | TP | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Rockhurst | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | | Creighton | 9 | 10 | 28 | 9 | | Greigton | 5 | 3 | 15 | 18 | | Cincinnati | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 | | Diquesne | 9 | 5 | 15 | 25 | | Ohio State | 12 | 1 | 5 | 15 | | Springfield | 7 | 1 | 5 | 15 | | Iowa State | 9 | 4 | 3 | 22 | | Kansas State | 8 | 4 | 4 | 20 | | Michigan | 8 | 6 | 3 | 22 | | Oklahoma | 12 | 4 | 2 | 28 | | Nebraska* | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | | Missouri* | 12 | 5 | 5 | 29 | | Iowa State* | 12 | 5 | 1 | 26 | | Drake | 10 | 6 | 2 | 32 | | Colorado* | 12 | 6 | 2 | 30 | | Nebraska* | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | | Iowa State* | 7 | 6 | 4 | 20 | | Missouri* | 16 | 7 | 3 | 39 | | Drake | 6 | 2 | 3 | 14 | | Colorado* | 11 | 7 | 5 | 28 | | Iowa State* | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | | Drake | 8 | 5 | 3 | 22 | | Oklahoma* | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | | Bradley | 8 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 1949-50 totals. 214 117 93 545 1950-51 Creeghon 12 1 5 25 H Utah State 11 1 4 22 H St. Joseph's 14 4 3 32 V John's 15 4 5 10 V Kenzie 14 5 4 10 V Springfield 14 0 2 28 H Iowa State 14 2 3 30 N Minnesota 12 4 4 24 N Mebrae 13 4 4 28 N Nebraska 13 0 4 26 H Missouri 8 2 3 18 N Colorado 8 3 3 19 N K-State 13 1 5 27 H Oklahma 13 0 5 26 N Northwestern 13 0 3 21 N A. A. and M. 8 1 5 17 H Nebraska 12 6 3 30 V Missouri 12 6 3 34 V Oklahoma 6 1 5 13 V Oklahoma 9 4 5 32 H K-State 9 4 5 32 H K-State 12 4 5 28 H Iowa State 13 8 5 34 H Okla. A. and M. 5 0 5 10 V 1950-'51 totals 245 58 75 97 148 *Big Ten Seven games* 49-game career average 22.3 25-game average in 1950 21.8 24-game average in 1951 21.6 24-game average in 1951 average 23.5 25-game non-conference average 21.2 Times 30 or more points scored 8 Times 20 or more points scored 32 Times between 10 and 20 points 1 Times between 10 and 20 points 19 Times fouled out 19 Times not game's high-point man 9 Games' high-pt man in 40 of 49 games High-point man for KU in 45 of 49 games Times outscored by opponents 6 (Holstein, Cincinnati, Whitehead, Nebraska; Zawulok, St. John's; Spivey, Kentucky; Wilhelm, Iowa State, and Friberger, Oklahoma). CLYDE LOVELLETTE, the Jayhawkers' All-American center, continued to break scoring record after record this year—many of his own—to rank as the greatest scoring (based on average) collegiate cager of all-time through a two-year sophomore junior span of playing time. The big fellow has ranked among the nation's top seven scores all season after finishing in the fourth spot last year. Lovellette's marks have been accomplished' against 'top competition with no "pushovers listed on his playing itinerary. here today . . . HOME TOMORROW Easter Vacation—March 24 to April 1 Fly from K. C. via: —Round Trip— ly from K. C. via: (tax inc) CAL ...Denver...$76.48 C&S ...Hot Springs...53.01 MCA ...Shreveport...69.62 TWA ...New York...151.34 (tax inc.) Sky Coach, Family, and Round Trip Reductions- Agents for American Express, Berry, and Cook land tours. 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