MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Kansas State Blasts Kansas, 65 To 51, To Cinch A Title Tie
By RAY SOLDAN
In a first-place finish now out-of-the-question, the Jayhawkers themselves in the midst of a hot three-cornered fight for runnerup position in the Big Seven. Kansas currently holds down second place with a 6-4 record. Oklahoma and Missouri are pressing, both with 5-4 marks.
Kansas State's fast-striding Wild-cats cinched a tie for the 1951 flag by blasting Kansas, 65 to 51, Saturday at Manhattan. The Wildcats have an 8-1 league record, and need to win only one of their final three games-Nebraska, Iowa State, and Oklahoma—to win the title outright.
The Cats should apply the clincher in Manhattan tonight against fifth-place Nebraska. It will give K-State its third conference championship in four years—also its third in 32 years (but that's bringing up the past, and
after the fine treatment accorded the Jayhawkers by the fans Saturday. the past should be forgotten).
Kansas must win its final two games—Colorado at Boulder tonight and Iowa State here March 7—to be assured of a second-place finish. Oklahoma and Missouri should easily win two of their remaining three games. Missouri, however, may stumble against Iowa State at Ames, tonight, while the Sooners have a March date with K-State to worry about.
MU Has Eight 1950 Point Winners
A hot fight is also shaping up in
If returning point winners is any indication, Missouri should de-throne Kansas in the Big Seven indoor track championships this weekend. Coach Tom Botts can muster eight performers who placed in the annual affair last year, while the best Bill Easton at Kansas can do is six.
The Tigers will field two returning champions, second and third place point winners, and two fourth and fifth place finishers.
Kansas has a champion back, a second, fourth and fifth place finishers, and two others who ended up fifth. Nebraska has a second, a third, and a fourth back. Oklahoma and Kansas State each have a titlist back, while Colorado will enter a 'defending champ and a competitor who finished third, Iowa State, which finished last with three points, has no point winners back.
WAYNE TUCKER, Colorado's leading scorer with 246 points in 20 games, must be slowed up to stop if KU. is to defeat the Buffs at Boulder. Tucker is the Big Seven's fourth leading scorer and considered a good bet to receive all-conference honors this year.
Tucker, a 6-foot 3-inch senior guard, drives hard and shoots a wide variety of close-in shots on the move. He also hits well from the outside.
Leading the power-packed missouri team will be Byron Clark, last year's 60-year dash king, and Bob Gorden who tied for first in the high jump with Virgil Severns of Kansas State. Severns is with the United States track team at the Pan American games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and isn't expected back in time for the indoor.
Other 1950 Tiger point winners back for another try on the Municipal Auditorium boards are: Harold Carter, second in the 60-yard dash, Frank Bardot, third in the 60-yard high hurdles; Bill McGuire, fourth in the mile; Loren Buchner, fourth in the broad jump; Phil Brusca, fifth in the shot put; and Laddie Stovall, fifth in the broad jump.
Returning members of the championship Kansas team are: Herb Semper, first in the two-mile; Bob DeVinney, second in the high hurdles; Jack Greenwood, fourth in the high hurdles and fifth in the low barriers; Jim Dinsmore, fifth in the 880; and Cliff Abel, fifth in the mile.
DeVinney, however, had an appendicitis operation a week ago, and will not compete. Greenwood is also on the injury list.
Nebraska, also definitely a contender for the loop gonfalcon, has no title holders back but has vaulter Don Cooper, second in 1950, Dick Meissner, who tied for third in the high jump with two others, and Leonard Kehl, a fourth in the vault, back.
These crack thinclads will perform in the 23rd running of the conference indoor meet. Finals are scheduled Saturday night, starting at 8 p.m., before an expected crowd of 8,500. Preliminaries will start Friday night at 7 p.m.
Colorado's Merwin Hodel, first in the low hurdles in 1550, will defend his title. Only other point winner back for the Buffalooes is Augie Raso who finished three in the 60-yard dash.
60-yard dash—1. Byron Clark (M);
2. Harold Carter (M); 3. Augie Raso (C).
Other returnees are; Jerry Meador, Oklahoma, first in the 440; and Herb Hoskins, Kansas State, first in the broad jump.
(4) (C); 5. Jack Greenwood (K).
60-yard high hurdles; 2.Bob DeVinney (K); 3. Frank Bardot (M);
4. Jack Greenwood (K).
60-yard low hurdles—1. Merwin
(G) 45-yd. Light Greenwood (K)
440-yard dash—1, Jerry Meador (O).
Pole vault—2. Don Cooper (N);
Leonard Kehl (N).
Returnees by events:
Mile run-4. Bill McGuire (M); 5.
Cliff Abel (K).
880-yard run — 5. Jim Dinsmore (K).
the lower portion of the standings Iowa State and Nebraska currently stand abreast at 3-6, and Colorado a step behind with 2-7. None of the three have games with one another, so barrying an upset, they will finish in just that order.
Two-mile run—1. Herb Semper (K).
Shot put—3. Fml Brusca (Ar)
Broad jump —1. Herb Hoskins
(KS); 4. Loren Buchner (M); 5.
Laddie Stovall (M).
High jump—1. Bob Gorden (M);
3. (three-way tie) Dick Meissner
(N).
Getting back to Saturday's game at Manhattan, it was a case of Kansas State having too many guns. The Jayhawkers kept up with K-State through the first half—leading for nearly 11 minutes—but they fell 11-points behind early in the second half and never recovered.
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Clyde Lovellelle led the scoring with 19 points, but in between early and late outburst, he had all sorts of trouble finding the hoop. In fact he went 27 minutes during the heart of the game without scoring a field goal.
Bill Hougland hit 12 points, as did three B-K-Staters—Ernie Barrett, Ed Head, and Lew Hitch. The best-man-on-the-floor honors must be split between Barrett and Kansas' hustling Charlie Hoag.
Barrett played his best game of the year, according to Floyd Sageser, K-State's sports publicity man. Barrett was particularly sharp on passing the ball into the post to Hitch and Dick Knostman. And he fought hard off the backboards, getting 10 rebounds. Lovellette led both teams in rebounds with 15—half of the Kansas total.
Hoag played all but a few minutes and hawked the ball constantly. If statistics were kept on driving in to tie up the opponent and force a jump ball, Hoag's name would top the list by a good margin. Twice he fell into the crowd trying to steal
Jay's Hopes KO'ed
KANSAS (51)
FG FT-A PF TP
Kenney, f 3 1-2 1 7
Lienhard, f 1 1-4 1 3
Kelley, f 0 1-0 1 2
Bull, f 0 0-0 0 0
Wells, f 0 0-0 2 0
Beck, f 0 0-0 0 0
Lovette, c 8 3-7 3 19
Keller, c 0 0-0 1 0
Hoag, g 3 2-3 4 8
Engel, g 0 0-0 2 0
Hougland, g 4 4-5 2 10
Totals 20 11-21 17 51
KANSAS STATE (65)
| | FG | FT-A | PF | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Stone, f | 1 | 0- 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Peck, f | 0 | 4- 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Gibson, f | 1 | 2- 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Head, f | 6 | 0- 0 | 5 | 12 |
| Hitch, c | 5 | 2- 2 | 5 | 12 |
| Knostman, c | 2 | 2- 5 | 0 | 6 |
| Iverson, g | 2 | 1- 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Rousey, g | 3 | 2- 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Barrett, g | 5 | 2- 4 | 4 | 12 |
| Schuyler, g | 0 | 0- 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Upson, g | 0 | 0- 0 | 0 | 0 |
Officials: Cliff Ogden (Kansas City), and Ronald Gibbs (St. Thomas).
Totals ... 25 15-21 20 65
Halftime score: Kansas State 36,
Kansas 33.
the ball and numerous times he did steal it. The hard-working sophomore scored eight points—most of them on hard drive-in shots.
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Kansas substituted more freely than at any time this season, but still only six men scored. Nine Wildcat players entered the scoring column.
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Kansas looked like world-beaters during the opening two minutes of the game. Four goals from right under the basket—three by Lovellette and one by Houghton—gave the Jayhawkers a surprisingly-easy 8 to 0 lead.
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But that was all the farther the rout went. The Wildcats slowly began to catch up and finally went in front for keeps with 12 minutes gone. Two free throws by substitute Dick Peck broke a 23-all tie, and from then on it was almost all K-State.
Kansas managed a brief spurt ate in the first half to keep the Cats from running away right then. Two baskets by Bob Kenney and
Big Seven Standings
CONFERENCE GAMES
W. L. Pct.
Kansas State 8 1 880
KANSAS 6 4 600
Missouri 5 4 556
Oklahoma 5 4 556
Iowa State 3 6 333
Nebraska 3 6 333
Colorado 2 7 222
ALL GAMES
W. L. Pct.
Kansas State 18 3 .857
KANASS 13 8 .619
Missouri 13 8 .619
Oklahoma 13 8 .619
Iowa State 9 9 .500
Nebraska 8 12 .400
Colorado 4 17 .190
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
OKLAHOMA 61, KANSAS 59
Nebraska 54, Missouri 52
KANSAS STATE 65, KANSAS 51
Missouri 57, Oklahoma 45
Nebraska 58, Colorado 45
GAMES THIS WEEK
Tonight:
KANSAS at COLORADO
Nebraska at K-State
Missouri at Iowa State
Saturday:
K-State at Iowa State Oklahoma at Nebraska
a driving jump shot by Hoag whittled a 30 to 23 K-State lead to 30 to 29. At halftime it was the Wildcats by a 36 to 33 count.
The end was quick for Kansas in the second half. A free throw by Lovelette was the only Kansas score for five minutes. During that time, K-State tossed in nine points to take a 45 to 34 lead. The remainder of the game, the margin fluctuated between eight and 15 points as the teams matched each other basket for basket.
At the free throw line, K-State hit 15 of 21, Kansas, again taking all of its free throws, hit 11 of 21.
Both teams had a 35 per cent mark on shots from the field. Kansas State, which got 15 more shots than Kansas, hit 25 of 72. The Jray Hawkers hit 20 of 57. The difference in the number of shots taken can be attributed to the difference in rebounding. K-State grabbed 40 rebounds, K.U. 30.
in deference to my refereeing friends at K.U—Lewton, Hayes, Sehon, Laniiewski, etc. I should give credit where credit is due and state that officials Ron Gibbs and Caff Ogden, a pair of the nation's best, worked a fine game.
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