WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1951
UNIVERSITY, DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Sports Editor
One of the most interested spectators at the Kansas-Oklahoma A. and M. game Monday night was Wilbur "Sparky" Stalcup, Missouri's basketball coach. He was scouting Clyde Lovellette and Company and planning and plotting methods to halt a seven-game K.U. winning streak over his Tigers. Stalcup, who took over at M.U. in 1947, has had more trouble beating Kansas than any other club in the Big Seven.
CLYDE LOVELLETTE
Including a non - conference game, Sparky has won two and lost eight against K.U., including seven in a row and will be out to beat the Jayhawkers when the two teams collide next Monday at Columbia.
But in order to stop Kansas he must first find a way of stopping the old Scoring Master, Clyde Lovellette, who has probably aged Sparky more than any other team or player during his stay in Tigerland. After Big Clyde scored 29 points in overpowering Missouri for a K.U. 48 to 44 win at Columbia last year, Sparky thought he'd be able to beat the Jayhawkers at Lawrence if he could only slow up the big fellow.
After leading Kansas 36 to 32 at halftime, Lovellette broke the Tigers' back and morale with a scoring spree that netted a total of 39 points for a new individual single-game Big Seven scoring record and a victory for Coach Allen's club, 59 to 52.
after the way his Tigers had fought and played their hearts out. "We came to Lawrence expecting to hold the big fellow down to 25 or less points and win and look what he got—39 points and the ball game for Kansas." Coach Stalcup said with a puzzled and dissatisfied look.
Although beaten 61 to 43 by Kansas here this year, Sparky at least was happy with the way his Tigers had held Lovellette to 18 points. For his club, he thought this was indeed quite an accomplishment after Clyde had averaged 34 points a game in two contests with Missouri last year. The thing Sparky seemed to forget this year was that Lovellette fouled out with 11 minutes remaining or he'd probably have been high in the 20's again against his Missouri Tigers.
If Clyde plays against Missouri Monday like he did in the first half of the Oklahoma A. and M. game, Sparky had better throw away his scouting notes and order a couple of lids for the hoops in Brewer field house if he figures on stopping Clyde.
Following the game, Sparky just couldn't believe that Lovelette had beaten him alone and especially
While Kansas is playing at Nebraska Saturday night, Kansas State will be entertaining in its new fieldhouse at Manhattan its toughest Big Seven rival, the Missouri Tigers. The game will be the 10th meeting in the Stalcup-Gardner coaching rivalry that has produced victories for Sparky in seven out of nine clashes.
In three conference games against Missouri, the Hoosier Hotshot has scored 86 points for a 28.7 average a game. So, it's no wonder Sparky is still losing sleep trying to figure out ways of slowing up or reducing the big fellow's point production against his Tigers.
Kansas State defeated Missouri at Columbia, 60 to 43, in the conference openers for both teams this year and may have overcome the Tiger hoodoo. Regardless, Jayhawker fans will have a great deal of interest in the Kansas State-Missouri game Saturday night to see if Sparky can again whip the Wildcats and assist the Jayhawkers in their efforts to overland Kansas State in the Big Seven race.
JAYHAWKER NOTES . . . Here are a few of Lovellette's career records to date at Kansas (all games): In 41 games, he has scored 913 points for an average of 22.3 points a game . . . In 17 conference games, he has averaged 60 points in scoring 393 points.
K. U.
Hilton's mark of 913 points is only 10 points away from Otto Schnellbacher's four year mark of 923 points manufactured through the 1943- 46, 47 Washouga. Lovellette's 11th point against Nebraska (if he gets that record) will make him the second highest scorer in the history of KU basketball.
Our favorite Black, former All-American eager, has scored more points than you'll . . . Black's four-year total is 1082 points and may be erased this year by Lovellette.
Lovellette can become the all-time high scorer at K.U. if he scores 170 points in Kansas' eight remaining games. This is an average of 21.3 points a game. Black's career mark is about the only K.U. individual scoring record that big Clyde doesn't hold at the present time.
Kentucky Rated Top Team In AP Cage Poll K-State Moves To Fourth, Kansas Is 20th
Kansas State moved from seventh to fourth in the eighth weekly Associated Press cage poll of sports writers and broadcasters. At the same time, Kentucky gained new
Nation's Leaders
The top 20 teams in this week's Associated Press poll are as follows: (Note: First team votes are in parentheses with season records included. Points are based on 10 for first, nine for second, etc.)
The A. P. Basketball Ratings
TOP.TEN
Rank Team Record Pts.
1. Kentucky (78) ... 18-1 1239
2. Okla. A&M (15) ... 19-1 1100
3. Indiana (12) ... 13-1 840
4. KANS. ST. (11) ... 16-2 734
5. Bradley (1) ... 20-3 642
6. Columbia ... 12-0 555
7. St. John's (2) ... 15-2 428
8. St. Louis ... 16-4 369
9. Villanova (7) ... 16-1 194
10. No. Caro. St. (1) ... 19-4 172
SECOND TEN
1. Cineminati (2) 11-1
2. Long Island U. 16-3
3. Arizona 16-3
4. Brgm. Young (1) 18-4
5. So. Calif. (2) 16-2
6. Illinois 11-3
7. Louisville 14-2
8. Dayton (1) 15-3
9. Siena 15-2
10. KANSAS 11-5
Tuesday's College Basketball Results
EAST
C.C.N.Y. 73, Holy Cross 63
Columbia 60, Harvard 53
St. John's (N.Y.) 86, King's
135
133
93
73
70
59
57
50
48
40
Point 52
Villanova 67, Muhlenberg 43
Penn State 76, Georgetown 70
St. Bonaventure 7, Siena 45
SOUTH
Duke 61, William & Mary 54
Wake Forest 70, South Carolina
56
North Carolina St. 86, Temple 58 Georgia 68, Louisiana St. 65 Florida 72, Tulane 64 Miami (Fla.) 77, LaSalle 75 North Carolina 66, George Wash-
MIDWEST
Toledo 63, Western Michigan 61
Hamline 64, Augsburg 53
SOUTHWEST S.M.U. 58. Baylor 46
S.M.U. 38, Baylor 40
Texas Christian 36, Texas A.
and M. 27
Bradley 60, Houston 47
WEST
Oregon 54, Washington St. 52
Ukiah St. 53, Waree St.
Idaho St. 65, Western Montana 64
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Kansas, with an 11-5 record, barely made the top 20 and landed the bottom berth in the select group after dropping a 53 to 54 game to Northwestern in Chicago Saturday night.
41 here Monday, rated a strong second but gained the first place support of only 15 voters.
Of the 168 persons who cast ballots, 78 named Coach Adolph Rupp's high scoring Kentucky Wildcats as the best in the nation. Oklahoma A. and M., who defeated Kansas 46 to
The week's biggest surprise will Long Island university's drop from fourth to 12th due to its inability to win but one of five games on last week's western road trip.
After edging past San Francisco 58 to 52, the Blackbirds dropped games to California, 67 to 69; Arizona, 61 to 62; Kansas State, 65 to 85, and to St. Louis 57 to 62.
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