MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Jayhawkers Stage Last-Half Rally To Down A Fighting Colorado Team
By RAY SOLDAN
Twice this school year the Jayhawkers have had to rely on a terrific, last-half rally to down a fighting, underdog, Colorado team Saturday, the ragged-playing Kansans spotted Colorado a nine-point halftime lead before battling back to gain a 54 to 48 basketball victory. Last October K.U. roared from 21-points behind to take a 27 to 21 football victory.
Saturday's triumph kept Kansas atop the Big Seven conference stands with a 3-0 mark. Tonight's opponent, Kansas State, is second with 2-0.
Sophomore Charlie Hoag's drive and fight provided the second-half
CHARLIE HOAG Kansas
spark which shook the Jayhawkers out of their lackadaisical ways. Hoag stole passes, drove in to tie up C.U. men, scored two important attacks and absofron - all contributed continually. As soon as some of Haog's spirit rubbed off onto the other Jayhawk players, they were on
their way. They out-scored Colorado
13 to 19 in the last half.
Incidentally it was an 86-yard touchdown run by Hoag which started the football comeback against Colorado.
Kansas took an early 4 to 1 lead, and for a brief moment it looked as if the expected rout was beginning. However Colorado settled down and
with a series of finely-executed screen plays soon took the play away from Kansas. A tight-knit zone defense, coupled with bad K.U. passing and unnecessarily- hurried shooting, kept the Jayhawker offense relatively ineffective the first half.
A field goal by Kenny Koop broke a 13-13 tie with seven minutes left in the half, and the Buffaloes had a lead which they weren't to give up until midway in the final period. With Koop and Wayne Tucker pegging away, Colorado spurted to a 29 to 19 advantage, its longest lead of the night. At halftime Colorado was in front 29 to 21.
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COLORADO (48)
| | FG | FT-A- | PF | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Clay, f | 4 | 0-0 | 5 | 8 |
| Stokes, f | 2 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 |
| Koop, c | 6 | 0-1 | 5 | 12 |
| Tucker, g | 8 | 1-1 | 1 | 17 |
| Amaya, g | 2 | 0-1 | 4 | 4 |
| Gompert | 0 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 |
Stewart | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
Armatas | 1 | 1-1 | 4 | 3 |
McVey | 0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals ... 23 2-3 25 48
KANSAS (54)
| | FG | FT-A | PF | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kenney, f | 5 | 1-1 | 11 | 11 |
| Lienhard, f | 5 | 0-0 | 2 | 10 |
| Lovellette, c | 8 | 3-3 | 19 | 19 |
| Waugh, g | 2 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 |
| Hougland, g | 3 | 0-0 | 4 | 6 |
| Enns | 0 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hoag | 2 | 0-1 | 2 | 4 |
| | 25 | 4.6 | 14 | 54 |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
Halftime score: Colorado 29, Kansas 21.
Officials: Cliff Ogden (Wichita), and John Pryor (Southeastern).
Hoag came in to start the second half and Kansas slowly began to creep up on the Buffs. Bill Houghland gave Kansas the lead, 36 to 35, on a push shot from the side with 11 minutes remaining in the game. However Colorado still hung on and pulled up to within a point of K.U. with six minutes left. The Jayhawkers then ied the game with eight-straight points, and a 52 to 43 lead.
Clyde Lovellette again topped the Kansas scoring. He hit eight field goals and three free throws for 19 points. This was despite the fact that the Colorado zone defense kept him boxed up in a triangle composed of Koop, Bill Clay, and Wayne Tucker, and that a number of his shots rimmed and fell off.
The Kansas forwards continued their good scoring of late, Bob Kenney getting 11 and Bill Lienhard 10. Houghtland hit six and Jerry Waugh and Hoag each four to round out the Jayhawker scoring.
Tucker and Koop paced the Buffalo attack with 17 and 12 points respectively. It was Tucker's uncanny jump shots which kept Kansas in trouble until the final minutes. He hit seven of his first nine shots and had 11 points at halftime. Koop broke away from Lovellette to score five goals in the first half-four of them on easy layups. In one stretch, Koop and Tucker scored 22-stight Colorado points. It wasn't until they cooled off that Kansas began to catch the Buffs.
Colorado hit 46 per cent of its shots in its torrid first half. The Buffs could only make good on 26 per cent in the last half for an overall shooting average of 35 per cent. Kansas had a respectable 39 per cent for the game—32 in the first half and 45 the second.
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Three Big Seven Games Are On Tonight's Schedule
Saturday night, Kansas State missed the conference scoring record by one-point in smothering Iowa State, 98 to 58. The K-State scoring
Three conference games are on the Big Seven schedule for tonight. The top game is the show-down battle in Lawrence between Kansas (3-0) and Kansas State (2-0), the only two undefeated conference teams.
Other games find Nebraska (1-1)
at Colorado (0-2), and Iowa State
(1-2) at Oklahoma (1-2). Missouri
(1-2), idle tonight, takes on Wichita
of the Missouri Valley conference,
Tuesday and Wednesday in Columbia.
was well-balanced with no man getting more than 13 points. Missouri upset Oklahoma, 41 to 39, at Norman on Leather Lafferty's late goal.
BIG SEVEN STANDINGS
| | W | L | Pts | Opp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| KANSAS | 3 | 0 | 181 | 135 |
| Kansas State | 2 | 0 | 158 | 101 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 1 | 92 | 105 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 2 | 144 | 133 |
| Missouri | 1 | 2 | 130 | 160 |
| Iowa State | 1 | 2 | 155 | 193 |
| Colorado | 1 | 2 | 92 | 115 |
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Captain Jerry Waugh Will Play His Last Home Game Tonight
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG
BY JIM VAN VALKENBURG Jerry Waugh, Kansas captain and hustling defensive standout, will be playing his last home game in his four years as a Jayhawk regular when K.U. takes on rival Kansas State tonight in an all-important Big Seven contest.
The 5-foot 11-inch, 155-pound senior from Wellington calls tonight's game the most important for
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the Jayhawks in his career here, since K.U. must stop the rampaging Aggies if they are to win or tie for the championship.
Waugh, who says this year's team has a "quiet spirit," believes that a win over the Aggies should give the boys confidence to go on to the championship.
"The Sheriff of Summer county," as he was named by K.U. sports publicist Don Pierce after his leech-like defensive work as a freshman, admits he made the team as a defensive player. But Jerr has also been a consistent scorer, as his 562 points in 85 games at Kansas will show. He started 82 of the 85 games.
Waugh has averaged more points a game at home against K-State than against any other league foe, and his best road average against a conference opponent has been compiled at Norman, Okla. His only two remaining games are tonight against K-State and Jan. 27 against Oklahoma at Norman.
Shortly after the pre-season conference tournament, Waugh was ruled ineligible under the ninesemester rule although from the standpoint of years of competition he admitted had another full season of play. Coach F. C. Allen called the loss of the hustling playmaker a "body blow."
However both Waugh and Coach Allen accepted in good grace the ruling by T. DeWitt Carr, K.U. faculty representative. Waugh said that he has received several notes and letters offering congratulations on
the manner in which he received the news. He was not bitter but was of course disappointed because he is captain.
"I think I've had a break in playing for such a fine man and coach as Coach Allen. I'll always remember my playing days at K.U. and I have been lucky to have played here. It will be hard to sit back and watch now," the K.U. captain said.
The 23-year-old "Sheriff" has turned in some memorable defensive jobs on opposing stars. In his freshman man year he held Notre Dame's All-American Kelvin O'Shea to a goal and two free throws, stopped Oklahoma A. & M.'s great A. L. Bennett with three points, all in the last minute, and handcuffed Dan Pippin of Missouri with three free throws. K.U. was edged out, however, in all three games. Last year he held Gene Melchiorre, Bradley great, to a pair of frees but Bradley won a two-point victory in the N.C.A.A. fifth-district playoff.
A fierce competitor who gives his best all the way, Jerry has turned in some outstanding offensive games. In December, 1948 he scored 41 points in three games, 18 against K-State, to lead the Jayhawks to second place in the pre-season tourney behind Oklahoma. That earned him a first team all-tourney berth. Against Purdue last year he shot 18 points. This season he has a 39 per cent shooting mark and with 82 points in 12 games ranks third on the team for the third straight year.
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Although coached by a fast-break, wild-shooting advocate, Cade Suran, in his high school days, Jerry prefers the control type of ball and hopes to coach it after graduation in June. Wellington won its only Ark Valley title in his senior season, 1945, but Jerry became ill late in the season and Wellington was upset by cellar-dwelling El Dorado in the regionalists. He was an all-
league section that year and as a football quarterback made the all-state second team.
Waugh served 18 months with the paratroopers, enrolled at K.U. in February, 1947, but didn't play that semester. He is majoring in physical education in the School of Education. As a junior Waugh was a member of the Owl Society, men's honorary society.
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