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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
100
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. 1951
Kansas' Five Seeks Third Big Seven Victory Saturday
PROBABLE STARTERS
WAYNE TUCKER, Colorado's 6-foot 3-inch senior guard, is the Buffs' best bet for all-conference honors this year. He is a fine all-around player that has scored 132 points in C.U.'s first 12 games.
He scored 233 points last year in 22 games to help pace Colorado to a 14-8 season record. His best shot is a right hand jump shot that is very hard to block. He also drives hard and fast and is an excellent faker.
Tucker gave the Jayhawkers plenty of trouble last year and is expected to be the No. 1 trouble-maker again this year.
It was his 25-foot basket in the fading seconds of an overtime period at Boulder that caught K.U, on the short end of a 50 to 48 final score last year.
| COLORADO (2-11) | Pos. | (9-2) KANSAS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 6-3 Roger Stokes | F | Bill Lienhard 6-1 |
| 6-4 Frank Gompert | F | Bob Kenney 6-2 |
| 6-4 Kenny Koop | C | Clyde Lovellette 6-9 |
| 6-0 Don Branby | G | Bill Hougland 6-4 |
| 6-3 Wayne Tucker | G | (Capt.) Jerry Waugh 5-11 |
Officials: Cliff Ogden (Wichita), and John Pryor (Southeastern).
Place: Hoe auditorium. Time: 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Kansas hopes to stretch its torrid shooting streak into its third Big Seven conference basketball victory here Saturday when it plays host to Colorado at 7:30 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
It will be the third consecutive conference home start for the Jayhawkers, who now have rolled unbeaten through 13 straight home games. Struggling furiously to pull out of a carload of narrow early season defeats, the Buffalooes will move in with a record of 2-11, under a new coach, H.B. "Bebe" Lee.
Although it is progressing slowly in other departments, Coach "Phog" Allen's club now is riding the crest of a hoop-heating salvo that has melted Nebraska and Missouri in the Kansans' first two league games.
The Jayhawkers started the conference season boasting a 36 per cent overall shooting average from the field. The five regulars, Bob Kenney, Bill Lienhard, Clyde Lovellette, Bill Hougland and Captain Jerry Waugh, combined their talents through the first nine games for 38 per cent.
The latter figure would have been good enough for eighth place on the National Collegiate Athletic association team tables last year.
Since launching conference warfare, however, Kansas has had its shooting sights in the torrid zone. Gaining 2:35 extra minutes of ball control against Nebraska by waiving free throws, the Jayhawker regulars seared the Cornhuskers with a 50 per cent floor average on 29 goals in 58 attempts. They converted only two of three charities in reaping a 66 to 41 triumph.
The starters followed by charring Missouri's zone defense with a 57 per cent average on 26 baskets in just 45 attempts. The victors shot only four free throws, scoring three while picking up an extra 5:05 minutes length of ball control by Allen's bizarre method. The Tigers went down, 61 to 46, getting only 43 shots from the field.
The combined totals of these two games give Kansas regulars a field percentage of 53 per cent, an almost unbeatable pace, providing other game winning tools are near equal sharpness.
smooth press.
Waugh, whose eligibility runs out at mid-se semester, is pacing this quintet with 71 per cent, having canned
five goals in only seven attempts. Hougland is rolling at .58; Lovellette, now the nation's fifth ranking scorer, .56; Kenney, .54; and Lienhard, .40.
This is the gang Colorado must stop here Saturday if it is to balance its opening conference defeat by Oklahoma last Monday in Boulder. Gathering momentum from a typically slow Kansas start, the Mt. Oreadans hope to at least maintain their early half game lead over the conference pack. A victory would give them a 3-0 circuit record.
Especially will C. U, have trouble outreaching and stopping Lovellette from shooting over and from robbing them of a majority of rebounds off both boards. Colorado's tallest starters are a pair of 6-foot 4-inch sophomores, forward Frank Gompert and center Kenny Koop.
Colorado's starters are short, averaging only 6-feet two-inches and the Buffs are expected to have trouble getting their share of rebounds against the taller Jayhawkers.
Other starters for Coach Lee are a pair of 6-foot 3-inch senior stars,
Two Radio Stations To Carry Buff Game
Radio stations WREN of Topeka and WHB of Kansas City, Mo., will broadcast the Kansas-Colorado Big Seven conference basketball game starting at 7:30 Saturday night directly from Hoch auditorium.
Max Falkentienst will give the play-by-play account for WREN and Larry Ray will describe the game for WHB.
forward Roger Stokes and guard Wayne Tucker, excellent all-around player.
player
b- remaining guard spot will go
to either footballer Don Branby,
junior, 6-footer, or to a 5-foot
10-inch junior, John Amaya.
Kansas has won only one of its last five conference games with Colorado, who was coached during that time by ex-Jayhawker, Forrest "Frosty" Cox.
CON.
The two teams split even last year with Colorado winning a thrilling 50 to 48 overtime game at Boulder and Kansas taking the game here, 76 to 60, with Lovellette scoring 29 points. The big fellow also threw in 30 of KU.'s 48 points at Boulder to wind up with 59 points in two games for a 29.5 average.
Lee's attack is of the single-post variety. He has made an attempt to develop and capitalize on above-average team speed in trying to build a fast-break attack.
Colorado has been weak defensively with its opponents averaging 57.0 points a game to the Buffs' 52.1 mark.
Coach Lee's top nine players can muster only enough height to average 6-foot 1-inch. This deficiency and lack of experienced personnel has been largely responsible for Colorado's 2-11 record to date.
courtes.
During this tourney, Coach Lee's team showed a balanced scoring attack with four players listed among the top 20 scorers. For the three games, Tucker scored 40 points, Stokes, 33; Gompert, 33, and Koop 32.
Colorado has lost several close games—seven games by six or less points—mostly second half defeats. In the recent pre-season Big Seven tournament at Kansas City, Colorado dropped three straight to Minnesota, Iowa State, and Missouri after leading at the halfway mark in each contest.
Colorado's player losses this year include Kendall Hills, all-conference forward, centers Carr Besemman, Rodney Bell, and Bob Rolander, and Gene Rogers and Bill Ley, guards. Last year's club had a 6-6 Big Seven conference record.
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ROGER STOKES, 6-foot 3-inch senior forward, is Colorado's leading scorer with 133 points in 13 games for an average of 10.2 a game. Last year he averaged 9.3 over a 22-game route in scoring 204 points.
A two-letterman, Stokes is a good driver and offensive rebounder—plus being a rugged defensive player. He is an excellent set-shot and has unusual spring in his legs for a big man.
Colorado's Scores
43 Utah State
48 U. U.
51 Colorado A. & M.
52 Colorado A. & M.
51 Wyoming
51 Wyoming
60 Stanford
52 Santa Clara
57 San Jose St.
68 Minnesota
68 Iowa State
64 Missouri
44 Oklahoma®
Won 2, Lost 11.
(Key: H, home game; V, road game; N, neutral floor; * , conference game, and **, overtime game.)
Kenney Is Second-Ranking Scorer
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG
Showing more all-around improvement over the previous season than any other starter, hard-driving Bob Kenney, 6-foot 2-inch 185-pound Jayhawker forward, is now K.U.'s second-ranking scorer with an average of eight points a game.
Nicknamed "Trigger" by his team mates, the 19-year old Junior from Winfield has scored 88 points in 11 games, chiefly on his accurate onehand push shot and fast-driving layups. In Kansas' first two conference games he made 24 points and hit 55 per cent from the field.
One of the fastest men on the squad and an uncompromising competitor, Kenney is probably K.U.'s best drive-in man and hustler. He is a good shot, either from a set position or on a leap and twist. He received his nickname last season after the Nebraska game at Lincoln, when Coach F.C. "Phog" Allen told him he was "pulling the trigger" too quickly on his shot.
Kenney's improvement over his sophomore showing is reflected in the statistics. He has made 40 goals in 165 shots thus far for an excellent 39 per cent, second behind Clyde Lovettle. Kenney is also third in total rebounds and fourth in assists (scoring passes to teammates).
He has already passed his sophomore scoring total of 83 points. His best games last year were at Drake, where he scored 17 points on five goals and seven frees and took several rebounds, and against Nebraska
here, when he scored nine. He saw action in all 25 games as Kansas tied for the Big Seven title.
Whitey Skoog, Minnesota's little guard, and Bill Spivey, seven-Kentucky center, are Bob's choices for the best two players he has faced this season. Kentucky is his choice as KU's toughest foe.
Such a meeting is not at all impossible, but in order for it to happen the two K.U.'s would have to battle their way into the N.C.A.A. finals—a spot some great teams miss every year. It might happen if the Jayhawkers continue to click as they have in their first two conference games.
"We would like to get another shot at Kentucky. We would give them a game next time," he said.
Kenney calls Clye Lovellette the "greatest shooter I have ever seen," and adds that he admires the giant's attitude and spirit.
Kenney's basketball record a K.U. has come as no surprise to fan in Winfield and the Ark Valley league area, one of the hotbeds of the game in Kansas. Two other Jayhawk starters—Bill Lienhard of Newton and Jerry Waugh, captain from Wellington—are also from the Ark Valley.
"I am sorry to see Jerry Waugh leave as he is a great competitor, defensive man, and scorer. His leavening is a bad break for us," he said.
Ollie Thomas coached Kenney in his high school days. Bob was a first-stringer as a junior. In his senior year he led the Vikings in scoring as the team finished third in league.
BOB KENNEY
In the state tourney at Topeka, the team finished fourth as Bob ranked second in tourney scoring with 51 points in four games. He had a full share of all-star honors, making All-State and All-Ak Valley teams.
If Kenney can approximate his 12-point conference average of the first two games Kansas will be tough against Colorado Saturday and Kansas State Monday, and for the rest of the season.
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