UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1951
PAGE FIVE
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Editor
If you plan to attend future Kansas - Oklahoma basketball games, you'd better first visit your family doctor and see how the old ticker is ticking. And, we're sure that is the way Oklahoma Coach Bruce Drake feels about the K.U.-O.U. games by now.
Why? Well, let's take a look at how past games have ended since the start of the 1945-46 season.
DRAKE
1 9 4 6—Kansas won a prize 53 to 46 game over the Sooners in t he annual All - College tourney at Oklahoma City. In Lawrence, Charlie Black, who scored 28 points, scored the winning f re e throw in the last two minutes to provide K. U. a 53 to 52 victory.
Kansas won its third straight game against Oklahoma in '46 52 to 46 at Norman in a contest that was much closer than the score might indicate.
1947—Kansas again defeated O.U. 51 to 45 in the All-College tournament in Oklahoma City. At Norman, Kansas lost a 47-50 thriller. In the return game at Lawrence, Black's tip-in in the last 10 seconds broke a 36-36 tie and provided Kansas with a 38 to 36 victory.
1948—Kansas won probably one of its most thrilling victories of all-time in Hoch auditorium in the Big Seven opener this year against Drake's Sooners.
A. side shot goal by reserve forward Guy Mabry with 10 seconds. Training tied the game at 36-all to send the contest into an overtime.
With K.U. leading 73 to 36 in the extra session, Paul Courty hit a goal with 04 remaining to give O.U. a 38 to 37 lead. An out-of-bounds pass to Claude Houchin was just in time for the big K.U. guard to get away a 47-footer that was in the air as the gun sounded. The ball sailed through the hoop and Drake's boys had lost a heartbreaker, 39 to 38.
Kansas won a close 50 to 46 game at Norman that year.
1949 — Kansas lost in the finals of the 1948 Big Seven tourney 52 to 49 as Courty hit a goal in the last 1:30 minutes.
A week later, KU. was again beaten by this same Courty 38 to 36 at Norman in the last 10 seconds. Oklahoma made a clean sweep of the three games by taking KU. 55 to 45 at Lawrence that year, but the game was closer than the score indicates.
1950—Last yea r K.U. won a close
56 to 50 game at Lawrence but lost
a 52 to 48 overtime game at Norman.
This loss kept K.U. from winning
the Big Seven title outright.
1951- And then comes this year's hectic-in-the-air 40-foot shot of John Rogers to win a 61 to 59 game for Drake's Record Spoilers.
Kansas won an earlier game this year at Norman 58 to 52 but had to use a final 10-minute rally to turn the trick.
How much more exciting and "hard-on-the-heart" these Kansas-Oklahoma games can become we don't know. They certainly do give the fans their money's worth. Our ony advice is to stay away from these contests unless you've got a strong heart and are prepared to maybe lose the tough-close-heart-breaker variety basketball game.
Dismissed By Police
Cambridge, Mass. (U.P.)—Guy Wallace, driving school instructor, was teaching a pupil when police drove alongside and arrested him in connection with five burglaries at a catering concern where he formerly worked.
J. V. Sikes Signs New Three-Year Contract As Kansas Football Coach
Jules V. Sikes, Jayhawker head football coach, has signed a new three-year contract with a $1,500-a-year increase in pay, the Kansas board of regents announced in Topeka Tuesday.
Sikes' annual salary was raised from $8,000 to $9,500 under the new agreement, which was approved by the K. U. Athletic board.
His present contract will expire March 1, 1951. It was also a three-year pact.
Don Fambrough, head freshman football coach the past year, was also given a new contract and a pay boost. The former K. U. all-Big Seven guard signed a one-year contract which calls for $5,000, a raise of $500.
The board of regents said nothing about Coach Sikes' other assistants. However, Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, K. U. athletic director, said that all of the present aides will be retained.
On Sikes' coaching staff, besides Fambrough, are Cliff Kimsey, backfield coach; A. H. "Pop" Werner, line coach; Wayne Replogle, end coach; Hub Ulrich, assistant coach who also doubles as K. U. baseball coach, and assistant coach Mike Getto.
During his three years at Kansas, Coach Sikes' teams have won 18 games and lost 12.
His nine-year head football coaching record shows 47 victories against 25 defeats, with no ties.
In three years of Big Seven conference play, the Jayhawkers have won nine and lost nine under Coach Sikes.
In 12 non-conference games, K.U. has won nine and lost three.
During Sikes' three years at Mt. Oread, K.U.'s nine conference defeats include three each to Oklahoma and Missouri and one each to Colorado (1949), Iowa State (1949), Nebraska (1950).
Terrific team spirit, prime physical conditioning, and a bewildering
JULES V. SIKES
Jayhawkers' Head Football Coach
aerial attack were Sikes' keynotes during the 1948 and 1949 seasons.
In 1950, when confronted with molding a "T" formation club without a topflight passer, Coach Sikes showed excellent resourcefulness in using his available material to build the school's great running attack of all-time.
Coach Sikes is rated as one of Texas A. and M's all-time versatile athletic greats. During his playing days as a Cadet, he earned a total of nine college letters—three in football, basketball, and baseball.
The tall Texan played his collegiate football under Coach Dana X. Bible in 1925, 26, and 27. In his senior year, Sikes was named to the all-Southwest conference team at his end position. He played end on the West team in the 1927 East-West Shrine game at San Francisco.
In the coaching profession, Sikes has come up the hard way. He started his career as a football coach at Blinn Memorial college, Brenham, Texas, in 1928. He shifted to Burleson college, Greenville, Texas, for the next two years.
Then it was East Texas State, Texas A. and M., and finally to the University of Georgia. While an assistant to Wally Butts at Georgia, Sikes helped mold five bowl teams, none of which was defeated in a post-season classic. Sikes also served as Georgia's baseball coach
During the war, Sikes was head coach at St. Marys Pre-Flight, winning four and losing the same number in 1944. Coach Sikes was discharged from the Navy as a Lieutenant-Commander.
SIKES' KU COACHING RECORD Big Sweat All Games
| | W. | L. | W. | L. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1948 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
| 1949 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 1950 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
Three-year
Three-year totals' 9 9 18 12
Sikes' Head Coaching Record
1928 Blinn Memorial 8
1929 Burleson College 6
1930 Burleson College 7
1935 Texas A.&M. Frosh 2
1936 Texas A.&M. Frosh 2
1948 St. Mary's Pre-Flight 4
1948 Kansas 7
1949 Kansas 5
1950 Kansas $^p$
Nine-year totals
KU Football Team To Play 10-Game Schedule This Year
Jules V. Sikes' fourth Jayhawker gridiron edition will play a 10-game 1951 schedule that includes the Big Seven teams along with Texas Christian university, University of Utah, Oklahoma A. and M., and Loyola university of Los Angeles.
The Jayhawkers open the season playing Texas Christian university at Ft. Worth the night of Sept. 22. Kansas opens its home season a week later (Sept. 29) playing Iowa State in a conference game.
This year's grid state calls for two more Big Seven games in KU.'s Memorial stadium. Kansas will play Kansas State Oct. 27 and close the season with its homecoming game against Missouri's Tigers here on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Coach Sikes' club will play non-conference games here against Utah on Oct. 13 and Loyola university of Los Angeles on Nov. 10. The Loyola game replaces a previous game scheduled with St. Mary's college of California, which dropped its football program for the duration of the national emergency.
Kansas will play an up-and-coming Colorado football team at Boulder Oct. 6, Oklahoma at Norman on Oct. 20, and Nebraska at Lincoln on Nov. 3.
Besides meeting the always tough T.C.U. club, Kansas will play four additional road games against strong teams. Three of these games are conference contests.
The Jayhawkers play Oklahoma A. and M. at Stillwater on Nov. 17
KU's 1951 Schedule
Sept. 22 Texas Christian at Fort Worth (right)
Sept. 29 Iowa State at Lawrence®
Sept. 29 Oklahoma at Ringer®
In nine games, Klosterman passed for 1582 yards and 19 touchdowns. His completion percentage was 54.6 on 113 out of 207 passes.
Oct. 6 Colorado at Boulder
Oct. 13 Utah at Lawrence
Oct. 6 Colorado at Bould
Oct. 13 Netch at Lawrence
Oct. 20 Oklahoma' at Norman $ ^{5} $
Oct. 27 K, State at Lawrence $ ^{*} $
Top individual aces were the quarterback-fullback combination of Don Klosterman and George Musacco. Klosterman was the nation's fifth-ranking passer in 1950 and 12th in total offense.
Nov. 10 Lovola of Los Angeles at Lawrence
Nov. 3 Nebraska at Lincoln $ ^{*} $
Nov. 17 Kla. A. and M. at Stillwater
Dec. 1 Missouri at Lawrence
The Loyola game will be the first athletic meeting between the teams representing these two schools. The Lions are coached by Jordan Oliver (Villanova '39) who coached them to an 8-1 record in 1950.
Dec. 1 Missouri at Lawrence (homecoming)$^{10}$
to round out their four-game non-conference schedule.
In the rushing department, Musaceo ranked 17th with 866 yards in 187 carries for an average of 4.6 yards a trip. He ranked as the nation's 24th punter with an average of 38.7 yards on 41 punts.
Loyola ranked fifth in total offense averaging 420.1 yards and 17th in total defense limiting its opponents to 217.6 yards a game. In rushing defense, the Lions ranked 10th with a 106.7 mark a game.
*Big Seven conference game.
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Tuesday's College Basketball Results
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LaSalle 64, Manhattan 63
St. John's 61, N.Y.U. 52
Siena 57, Georgetown 48
Duquesne 73, Waynesburg 64
SOUTH
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Wm, & Mary 76, Virginia Mil. 43
N, Carolina St. 78, Wake Forest 56
Clemson 82, George Washington 77
So, Carolina 82, Citadel 58
MIDWEST
Ball State 65, Butler 44
St. Thomas 60, Hamline 45
Illinois Tech 70, Concordia (ILL) 59
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