FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Jayhawkers To Battle Nation's No.1 Team Saturday
PROBABLE STARTERS
KENTUCKY (4-0) Pos. (4-0) KANSAS
6- 5 Shelby Linville F Bill Lienhard 6- 5
6- 3 Walt Hirsch F Bob Kenney 6- 2
7- 0 Bill Spivey C Clyde Lovelette 6- 9
6- 3 Frank Ramsey G Bill Hougland 6- 4
5-10 Bobby Watson G Jerry Waugh 5-11
By RAY SOLDAN
The long-awaited meeting between two of the nation's all-time basketball powers—Kansas and Kentucky—takes place Saturday in the Wildcats' new four-million-dollar fieldhouse. Kentucky is currently the No.1 team in the nation. Kansas is ranked fourth.
A Jayhawker victory, on top of its one-point decision over eighthranked St. John's Tuesday, could vault K.U. into first place in the national rankings.
Kentucky goes into the game favored from four to six-or-more points. This is largely because of its home court advantage and its long winning streak in Lexington. The Wildcats have won 87-straight home games, a national record. The last home loss for Kentucky was to Ohio State in January of 1943.
Both K.U. schools are undefeated in four games this season. Kentucky hasn't been pressed much yet, while Kansas was given a scare in New York before downing St. John's. Kentucky holds victories over West Texas State, 73 to 43, Purdue, 70 to
52, Xavier, 67 to 56, and Florida, 85 to 37.
Kansas used a balanced scoring attack to defeat St. John's. The New Yorkers bottled up the middle to stop Clyde Lovellette, the Jayhawkers' high-scoring center. So the ball was fed to Bill Lienhard and Bob Kenney who each hit five field goals from the outside.
Chances for victory Saturday will depend largely on how well the Jayhawkers can score from the outside. Lovette will have his hands full just holding his own against Kentucky's 7-feet Bill Spivey, and viceversa. The two huge junior们 have been named to most pre-season all-American teams.
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kausan Assistant Sports Editor
Our congratulations to Wade Stinson for landing the No.5 spot in the final, N.C.A.A. individual rushing tabulations announced Thursday. Also on being selected as the outstanding senior player on the Kansas team by his teammates and being awarded the Ormand Beach Memorial trophy.
Stinson, who never played a game of 11-man football until coming to K.U., became another of the many "great" athletes to overcome a serious injury or illness to advance into stardom. To this day, few opponents and fans realize that Wade lost two fingers in military service that almost cost him his left arm through amputation.
The Randall Rambler gained 1.129 yards in 167 carries for a 6.76 average a carry. This was the third highest average per carry among the top five ball carriers.
Wilford White, Arizona State College (Tempe), was the nation's leading ground gainer with 1.502 net yards in 199 carries for the top average of 7.55 a trip.
Nebraska's all-American sophomore halfback, Bobby Reynolds, took second honors with 1.342 yards and a 6.95 average on 193 trips. This total was over a nine-game route against major competition as compared to White's 10 games against minor competition for the most part.
From mid-season on, Kansas had the distinction of being the only team to have two ground gainers listed among the top 20 ball carriers. Hoag still has two years to shoot at the 1,000-yard single season mark in rushing.
Only a couple of tough breaks kept Charlie Hoag, K.U.'s sophomore flash, from cracking the top 10 and the select 1,000-yard group. A penalty in the T.C.U. game and near blizzard at Missouri stopped him from attaining the mark.
Even as it turned out, Hoag barely missed being listed among the top 10 ball carriers by 14 yards. The number 10 ball carrier was J. Roberts of Tulsa with 954. 14 more yards than Hoag gained.
These players are Fran Nagle, quarterback, and Charlie Toogood, tackle, Nebraska; Jim Doran, end, and Bill Weeks, quarterback, Iowa State; Ed Stephens, halfback, and John Kadlec, guard, Missouri, and Colorado's big defensive tackle, Dick Punches.
McCormack will leave Kansas City by air Monday for San Francisco where his West team starts workouts the following day for the East-West Shrine game. Big Mike will have familiar company as seven Big Seven players will join him on the West team.
Although the K.U. football season ended three weeks ago, Stinson and big Mike McCormack still have one game to play. Stinson will fly to Miami Saturday and start workouts with the South team Sunday for the North-South Shrine game. This game will be played Christmas night in the Orange Bowl stadium.
Souli, and Colorado's big decision. To Stinson and McCormack, the best of luck to you and your respective teams. We know your play will reflect highly the fine type of football played by Kansas this year.
With a break here and there, you fellows could be making this post-season trip with your teammates and playing with Kansas in one of the major bowls.
KENNEY LIENHARD
Kansas Kansas
Spivey, the tallest player in college basketball, has lived up to his all-American rating so far this season. Although seeing limited action, Spivey tossed in 18 points against West Texas State, 19 against Purdue, and 23 against Xavier—an average of 20 points a game. Big Bill averaged 19.3 points a game last season as a sophomore.
Each team will have only one senior in the starting lineup—Capt. Jerry Waugh of Kansas and Capt. Walt Hirsch of Kentucky. The other Jayhawker starters — Lovellette, Kenney, Lienhard, and Bill Hougland—are juniors.
The Wildcats will surround center Spivey with Hirsch and junior Shelby Linville, forwards, and junior Bobby Watson and sophomore Frank Ramsey, guards. Both teams will
Before their college careers are through, the two giants are expected to erase all existing school and conference scoring records. They already own, among others, the single-game mark for their conference—Spivey 40, Lovellette 39. Big Clyde has averaged 23.5 points a game this season. Although he hit his lowest point total of the season against St. John's, Lovellette played one of the finest games of his college career. His rebounding and passing were particularly good.
start lineups averaging 6 feet 4 inches. Behind Spivey, Kentucky has a well-balanced scoring attack. Hirsch averaged 10 points a game last year, Watson eight points, and Linville, seven.
Kansas and Kentucky have never met before in basketball. The Wildcats hold a 4-1 edge over Big Seven conference teams in cage competition. Since 1940, they have downed Kansas State twice, Oklahoma once, and split a pair of games with Nebraska. The Jayhawkers won the only game they have ever played against a Southeastern conference opponent—a 65 to 53 victory over Tulane in 1946.
Saturday will be the first meeting between Kansas F. C. "Phog" Allen and Kentucky's Adolph Rupp, two of the nation's. top, basketball coaches, Rupp, a native of Halstead, Kan, played basketball under Allen at Kansas from 1921 through 1923. Allen had his first of three all-victorious conference seasons in Rupp's senior year at Kansas.
Rupp was named the nation's 1950 "Coach of the Year" for guiding his sophomore team to a 25-5 record. Allen was named basketball's "Man of the Year" in 1950 for his life-time of service to the game.
Allen and Rupp own the two most outstanding coaching records in basketball. In 33 years at Kansas, Allen has won 21 conference championships. Rupp has been at Kentucky 20 years and has won 11 championships—including an unbroken string of seven straight. Kansas was twice national champion, Kentucky three times.
Kansan Reporter To Kentucky Game
Bob Nelson, University Daily Kansas assistant sports editor, left early this afternoon for Lexington, Ky., where he will cover Saturday night's Kansas-Kentucky basketball game.
Monday's Kansan will have pictures and coverage of the game that brings together the nation's number one and number four ranked teams.
JERRY WAUGH
HOUGLAND Kansas
The wily Jayhawker headman has developed 12 all-Americans, two of them were named "Players of the year" Rupp has had 13 all-Americans at Kentucky, one was "Player of the Year." No school in the nation has had as many all-Americans as the two K.U.'s.
Not only are Allen and Rupp two of the best coaches in the business, they are also two of the most outspoken. No Kansas fan can be told of the good doctor's loquacious ways—particularly after the happenings on the current road trip. Rupp is somewhat the same, except that he spends more of his time talking about himself than about improvements and changes in athletics.
Summer Clothes Almost Go
Omaha, Neh. — (L.P.) — An Omaha husband was on his way to a relief agency with a box of clothing when his wife caught up with him. He had taken all the family's summer clothes, boxed for storage, by mistake.
Simons Is Seventh In National Punting
Larry Ray will give a play-by-play account of the game. Station WHB operates on a frequency of 710 kilocycles.
punting the ball.
Zack Jordan, University of Colorado sophomore halfback, is the nation's punting champion with an average of 48.2 yards for each of his 38 kicks.
Dolph Simons. Kansas guard, is listed as the nation's seventh best punter for the 1950 season with a 41.2 yard average for 32 punts, according to the final N.C.A.A.扑unting statistics released today.
38 kicks. This mark wiped out the 10-year old record of 48 yards set by Owen Price of Texas Mines.
Jordan's expert punting, many of the quickick variety, also gave Colorado the team punting championship with an average of 45.1 yards for 54 kicks. Colorado's average also sets an all-time team average bettering the old mark of 44.7 set in 1949 by Furman.
K.U. Whips Florida, 85 to 37 Next Comes Kansas!
The University of Kentucky tuned up for its important battle here with Kansas Saturday night by rolling past Florida 85 to 37 Thursday night at Lexington.
at Lexington.
Kentucky now has a 4-0 record in games Kansas but has used a high scoring offense to average 74 points a game while Kansas has averaged 54.8 a game in building up a 4-0 record.
Retention is expected to throw the best defense at big Bill Spivey and Co, that any team has thus far this year. ___
KU-Kentucky Game To Be Broadcast
Saturday's basketball game matching Coach "Phog" Allen's undefeated Kansas Jayhawkers and the University of Kentucky will be broadcast directly from Lexington starting at 7:55 p.m. over radio station WHB, Kansas City, Mo.
Mony of his kicks were pin-point side-line variety that failed to pick up a maximum yardage due to kicking from deep in enemy territory. Several of this type nicked the sideline inside the 5-yard line.
Simons remained among the nation's leading punters all season with a 40-plus average. His 41.2 average is 3.8 yards more than his entire college career mark of 37.4 yards for 84 punts.
Against Missouri in K.U.'s final game, one of his two pants traveled 50 yards and rolled out on the M.U. 3-vard line.
This excellent hunting placed Simons on Collier's all-star feature in the Dec. 9 issue of that magazine as an "All-America Specialist" in the punting department.