RIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
layhawkers Open1951 ConferenceSeasonSaturday
BOB PIERCE, Nebraska's 6-ot 6-inch pivotman, is the Big even's second highest scorer with 187 points in 11 games for an average of 17 points a game. He is expected to give Clyde Vuellette a busy evening and ace the N.U. attack when the lams open conference play here Saturday night.
PROBABLE STARTERS
| NEBRASKA (5-6) | Pos. | (7-2) KANSAS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 6-4 Jim Snyder | F | Bill Lienhard 6- 5 |
| 6-2 Bernie Akromis | F | Bob Kenney 6- 2 |
| 6-6 Bob Pierce | C | Clyde Lovellette 6- 9 |
| 6-2 Joe Good | G | Bill Hougland 6- 4 |
| 6-0 Jim Buchanan | G | Jerry Waugh 5-11 |
Bv RAY SOLDAN
Kansas and the Nebraska Cornhuskers open the 1951 Big Seven conference basketball season Saturday in Hoch auditorium with the Jayhawkers a strong favorite. Tip-off time for the 101st renewal of the oldest series on the K.U. schedule is set for 7:30 p.m.
The Jayhawkers have won 63 of the previous 100 meetings of the two schools. Their latest was a 63 to 47 victory scored last week in the preseason tournament. It gave K.U. third in the tourney and Nebraska fourth.
The Jayhawkers, who have yet to live up to their high pre-season ratings, will be shooting for their 12th- straight victory at home Saturday. They have won three games at home so far this season—Creighton, Utah State, and Springfield.
Coach Harry Good of Nebraska has the knack of snapping his teams out of so-so pre-season play and making it mighty rough on Big Seven opponents. The past two years the Huskers finished seventh in pre-season tournament, but both years were conference co-champions.
Harry Good has run up a six to four margin over Kansas since taking over the Nebraska coaching job five years ago. His teams have won two of four games played in Lawrence, a feat in itself. K.U. has downed him twice in Kansas City, but never at Lincoln.
BILL LIENHARD, Kansas forward
It will be interesting to see if Nebraska goes along with the fast-growing practice of using a zone defense against Kansas, Oklahoma used it with success last year at Norman, Okla., and Minnesota demonstrated its merits again last week at Kansas City.
Teams are beginning to find out that unless you have a Bill Spivey it is impossible to stop Clyde Lovellette from scoring and passing off to teammates for easy set shots. With a zone they figure they can gang up on Lovellette and stop or at least slow him down. When a K.U. player passes the ball into Big Clyde, three or four players immediately collapse in to steal the ball or tie him up—and incidentally beat him up.
The way to break up a zone defense is to shoot over it. However against Oklahoma and Minnesota, the Jayhawkers were ice cold on their medium-range set shots and consequently they couldn't break it up and force their opponents to use the more familiar man-to-man defense.
Last year Nebraska had 6-foot 9-inch Milt Whitehead to hold down Lovellet. Clyde was held to 12 and 10 points. However this year Nebraska doesn't have Whitehead, and Lovellet got 28 points against the Huskers last week. Because of this Coach Good may resort to a zone defense.
Three of the top four scorers in the conference will play in Saturday's game. Lovellette with an average of 23.8 tops all Big Seven
Nebraska's Scores
41 Minnesota 55 V
61 Maryville Teachers 39 H
49 Washington 54 V
53 Washington 71 V
59 California 62 N
53 Santa Clara 38 N
63 Iowa St. Teachers 55 H
54 Missouri 52 N
53 Kansas State 72 N
47 Kansas 63 N
KU Individual Scoring Chart
Won 5. Lost 6.
(All games to date)
| Player | G | FG | FT | FTA | PF | TP | Avg. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Clyde Lovellette | 9 | 97 | 29 | 31 | 34 | 214 | 23.8 |
| Jerry Waugh | 9 | 31 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 68 | 7.6 |
| Bob Kenney | 9 | 28 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 64 | 7.1 |
| Bill Hougland | 9 | 21 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 52 | 5.8 |
| Bill Lienhard | 9 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 45 | 5.0 |
| Charlie Hoag | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 1.8 |
| Bill Schaake | 8 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 1.6 |
| Sonny Enns | 9 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1.3 |
| Buddy Bull | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 1.2 |
| Dale Engel | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 1.4 |
| Dean Kelley | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0.7 |
| John Keller | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0.4 |
| Jack Rodgers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1.5 |
| Harold Lowe | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1.5 |
| Dean Wells | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Dean Smith | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Kenneth Buller | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Wally Beck | 7 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0.1 |
Kansas totals 9 233 59 105 155 525 58.3
Quononets'totals 9 163 119 182 207 445 49.4
(Key: FG, field goals; FT, free throws scored; FTA, free throws attempted; PF, personal fouls; TP, total points scored, and Avg., average points scored a game).
point makers by a wide margin. His nearest rival is Nebraskan Bob Pierce. The 6-foot 6-inch center hit 29 points against South Dakota Wednesday to raise his average to 17 points a game, and give him a new single-game Nebraska scoring record.
Jim Buchanan, Husker guard, is fourth on the conference soaring tables with an average of 14.6. Buchanan injured an ankle against K.U. last week and didn't play Wednesday against South Dakota
However, he is expected to be ready for Saturday's game.
Pierce is the only senior in the probable starting lineup for Nebraska. Buchanan and Bernie Akromis are juniors and Jim Snyder and Joe Good, the coach's son, are sophomores.
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BILL HOUGLAND, Kansas guard
WREN To Broadcast KU-Nebraska Game Saturday Night
Radio station WREN of Topeka will broadcast Saturday night's Kansas-Nebraska Big Seven conference basketball opener starting at 7:25 directly from Hoch auilium.
This game, which will be described lay-by-play by Max Falkenstien, the first of seven regaining K.U. one games to be broadcast over FREN. Six of these are conference outests and the seventh is with tank Iba's powerful Oklahoma Agnies.
Station WREN will also broadcast
vans Kansas State games plus the
Three Big Seven K.U. road games will also be broadcast. These games are with Missouri, Iowa State, andansas State.
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