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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951
Five Teams Represented On UDK All-Star Quintet
Bv BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The University Daily Kansan 1951 All-Big Seven basketball team contains one player from Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Colorado, and Oklahoma with four of the choices unanimous selections. Receiving the maximum 12-point total for a first team berth were Clyde Lovellette, Kansas center; Marcus Freiberger, Oklahoma center; Ernie Barrett, Kansas State guard, and Wayne Tucker, Colorado guard.
Second team selections were Stone and K.U.'s Bob Kenney, forwards; Sy Wilhelmi of Iowa State, center; and Buchanan and Jim Iverson, Kansas State guards at the backline spots.
The fifth spot went to Missouri's workhorse, center Bill Stauffer, who barely nosed out K-State's Jack Stone and Nebraska's Jim Buchanan. Competition was close for second berks.
Since the first team contained three Big Seven centers. Freiburger and Stauffer were moved to forward positions.
The playing personnel through the first three teams showed plenty of scoring balance and defensive strength and made balloting close. On any given night, any one of these three teams could easily beat another the manpower is so evenly distributed.
The UDK all-Big Seven team was selected by Forrest Miller and Alan Marshall, Assistant Sports Editors, Ray Soldan, member of the sports staff, and this writer. Voting was on a 3-2-1 basis with first, second, and third team members receiving respective votes.
The third team contained Missouri's Bud Heineman and Nebraska's Bob Pierce at the forward spots, Lew Hitch of Kansas State at center, and Sooner Ted Owens and Kansas' great all-around athlete, Charlie Hoag, at the guard positions. We're not so sure this team couldn't beat the first or second team in a two-out-of-four game series.
Lovellette, KU, all-American and the nation's sixth leading scorer, scored 286 points in 12 conference games (23.8 average) to break his 1950 record of 277 points. The big fellow also broke the Kansas career scoring mark held by Charlie Black when he recorded a 34-point total Wednesday night against Iowa State. He now has 1083 points in 48 games for a 22.6 average, one of the highest ever compiled in collegiate basketball.
During this year's annual pre-season Big Seven tourney in Kansas
City, Lovellette rewrote many additional records by scoring 82 points in three games for a 27.3 average.
For the second straight year, Lovelle topped the 30-point total four times. During his entire career at K.U., he has scored 20 or more points in 32 games. Only once has he been held under 10 points (nine against Oklahoma at Norman in 1950).
Final Big Seven Standings
W. L. Pct.
Kansas State 11 1 .918
KANSAS 8 4 .657
Missouri 8 4 .667
Oklahoma 6 6 .500
Nebraska 4 8 .333
Iowa State 3 9 .259
Colorado 2 10 .167
CONFERENCE GAMES
ALL GAMES
W. L. Pct.
Kansas State 21 3 8.75
Missouri 16 8 6.67
KANSAS $ 15 8 6.52
Oklahoma 14 10 5.83
Iowa State 9 12 4.29
Nebraska 9 14 3.91
Colorado 4 20 1.67
- Kansas completes season playing Oklahoma A. and M. Saturday at Stillwater.
Lovellette has already been selected on three first team All-America clubs and is expected to make three more. He was named a first team choice on The Sporting News, Collers magazine, and United Press teams. He is an unanimous selection on the Associated Press team to be announced shortly.
He is slated for All-America honors on the Look magazine selection as well as the Helms Athletic Foundation team to be announced later this month.
Freiberger, Oklahoma's giant center, scored 383 points in 24 games for a 15.0 point average. He ranked as the league's best big defensive man and rebounder. Freiberger finished strong in the scoring department to rank as the No. 2 scorer.
This 6-11 cager single handedly beat Kansas State at Norman for the Wildcat's only Big Seven defeat as he scored 21 points. Two nights later he beat Kansas here with one of the finest exhibitions ever turned in on the Hoch auditorium floor. He scored 30 of his team's 61 points in a 61 to 59 win.
Stauffer won his first team spot by outstanding all-around play. He scored 261 points in 24 games for a 10.9 season average. Big Bill was considered one of the finest rebounders in the Big Seven and hi aggressive play largely responsible for Missouri's upset victory over Kansas at
Columbia. He ranked as the nation's 13th leading rebounder averaging 16 a game in the latest tabulations.
Ernie Barrett, Kansas State's greatest competitive guard, was the one biggest factor responsible for the Wildcats' 21-3 finish to rank as the nation's fourth best five in the final Associated Press poll.
Wayne Tucker ranked out the first five and ranked as one of the Big Seven's leading scorers all season. He was one of the few bright spots on the Colorado club that won only four games and lost 29.
He scored 288 points in 23 games for a 12.5 average. Tucker was a great hustler that went all-out the way. He also ranked as one of the conference's top rebounders.
This year's team possessed plenty of height, speed, scoring, and an average amount of defensive ability. This team would compare favorably with any of recent years.
Three members of this five, Freiberger, Barrett, and Tucker have played their final collegiate games while Stauffer and Lovellette will return to haunt the conference coaches another year.
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FIRST TEAM
ERNIE BARRETT, K-STATE
Pos. Player and School Ht. Wt.
F Bill Stauffer, Missouri 6-4 215
F Marcus Freiberger, Oklahoma 6-11 215
C Clyde Lovellette, Kansas 6-9 230
G Ernie Barrett, Kansas State 6-3 190
G Wayne Tucker, Colorado 6-3 200
G Wayne Tucker, Colorado
SECOND TEAM
Home Town
Maryville, Mo.
Greenville, Tex.
Terre Haute, Ind.
Wellington, Kan.
San Marino, Calif.*
THIRD TEAM
| SECOND TEAM | Pos. | THIRD TEAM |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Jack Stone, Kansas State | F | Bud Heineman, Missouri |
| Bob Kenney, Kansas | F | Bob Pierce, Nebraska |
| Sy Wilhelmi, Iowa State | C | Lew Hitch, Kansas State |
| Jim Buchanan, Nebraska | G | Ted Owens, Oklahoma |
| Jim Iverson, Kansas State | G | Charlie Hoag, Kansas |
Cats Dominate Sophomore Team
Kansas State dominated the University Daily Kansan's all-sophomore Big Seven basketball team, landing center Dick Knostman and guard Bob Rousey.
However, the other three selections, the Jayhawkers' dual sport ace Charlie Hoag, Nebraska's Joe Good and Missouri's Gene Landolt, were unanimous selections.
Hoag was elected as the "Big Seven's top sophomore." The Oak Park, Ill. flash, who got a late start after the close of the football season, made the transformation from the
pigskin frolic to the hardwood sport rapidly. He was ready to take over Jerry Waugh's starting guard assignment after the Big Seven fathers ruled the latter ineligible after the close of the first semester.
All-Big Seven Sophomore Team
CLYDE LOVELLETTE, Kansas
F... Gene Landolt, Missouri
F... Izs. Good, Nebraska
C Dick Knostman, K-State
G Charlie Hoag
G...Charlie Hoag
G. Bob Roussey, K. State
G. Bob Rousey, K-State
HONORABLE MENTION
Bob Mercier, Nebraska
Kenny Koop, Colorado
Frank Gompert, Colorado
TOP SOPHIOMORE
Charlie Hoag, Kansas
BILL STAUFFER, Missouri
Cornhusker Joe Good, able son of the Nebraska coach, Harry Good, was a sparkplug of the Nebraskans all season.
Landolt, who likes to tell the story of Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's visit to his home town in an attempt to influence him to come to Mt. Orde, should develop into one of Missouri's all-time greats.
Knostman, one cylinder of Kansas State's well-balanced scoring attack.
WAYNE TUCKER Colorado
MARCUS FREIBERGER. Oklahoma