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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1950
Fraternity 'A' Basketball Changed To 9-Team Leagues
Fraternity "A" leagues in intramural basketball play have been changed to allow for a longer season and more games in divisional play. The original set-up of four divisions of seven teams each has been changed to three divisions of nine teams each.
The change was made to allow for a longer season and fill up a gap in the overall program that would have occurred if the four division plan had been followed. The new schedules call for eight games in divisional play to replace the original six contests.
Here are the new division members:
Division I: Beta Theta Pi. Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Pki Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Phi Alpha, and Delta Up-
sion. It was necessary to insert a "bye" in this league.
Division II: Alpha Tau Omega,
Sigma Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Triangle,
Delta Tau Delta, Theta Tau,
Delta Chi, Alpha Kappa Lambda,
and Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Division III: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Delta Theta, Acacia, Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa, Sigma Chi, and Phi Kappa Sigma.
Spanish explorations in Kansas gave way in 1682 to the French when LaSalle laid claim to all of the land drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries. France sold Kansas to the U.S. as a part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Along the
JAYHAWKER
trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
The Kansas- Kentucky basketball game at Lexington Saturday is our choice as the nation's No.1 regularly scheduled "Game of the Year" in collegiate ranks.
We have several reasons why we rank this game as the top attraction. First of all, it matches two of the nation's finest centers, Clyde Lovellette and Kentucky's 7-footer, Bill Spivey. The Wildcats' big junior scored 578 points last year as a sophomore for an average of 19.3 as compared to Lovellette's 545 points in 25 games for a 21.8 average.
Which is the greater? Well, that was a big controversy last year. Saturday night's 40 minutes of gruelling personal competition should go a long way toward deciding this issue and determine which will receive the top all-American honors next March.
Coach Adolph Rupp was blessed with the finest sophomore material last year in the school's history. Coach "Phog" Allen's sophomores also ranked as the greatest in Jayhawker history last year.
As seasoned juniors, each team is relying heavily upon these players to carry the load for their respective clubs. Coach Rupp's Wildcats have ranked near the top nationally for several years. Kentucky finished third in last year's final A.P. poll with 25 wins and five losses.
This year's Kentucky team presently ranks as the nation's No.1 team in the U.P. weekly rating board poll. This rating board's rankings are determined each week by the voting of 35 coaches from coast-to-coast. Kansas currently rates the No.4 spot.
By winning Saturday's game, the Jayhawkers could very well return to Lawrence Sunday as the nation's No. 1 basketball team.
We think Coach Allen's club has the necessary qualifications of turning the trick, or at least, Kansas has the best chance of any team playing at Lexington this year to sever this prize winning streak.
Coach Rupp's teams have built up an almost unbelievable home winning streak over the years that now numbers 86 straight victories. Of course, this mark is something that every team shoots at, but not many teams have the manpower or over-all team ability to match the Kentucky club.
And to make things even more attractive, the game provides another "teacher vs. pupil" angle. Coach Allen coached Rupp as a player in 1923 at Kansas. Saturday's game is the first meeting on the court for these schools. It also marks the first Allen-Rupp clash as rival coaches.
Kansas will be the fourth team to play in Kentucky's new 4-million dollar fieldhouse. The Wildcats are reportedly to have lost some of their home-court advantage when they moved from their small gym into the big sports arena.
The game will bring together two different types of offense and styles of play. Kentucky has enjoyed considerable success in the fire-wagon run-and-shoot high-scoring offensive type play.
Kansas, on the other hand, will throw one of the nation's better defenses against the Wildcats. In K.U.'s four victories, they have allowed the opposition an average of 41.25 points a game. The Jayhawker offense has scored an average of 54.75 points a game or a margin difference of 13.5 points.
Would you like a hand in helping Coach Allen's club in its attempt to defeat the high riding Kentucky Wildcats? If so, you can group together as organized houses, or send telegrams and messages as individuals to extend best wishes to the team. The team will arrive in Lexington at 2:30 Friday afternoon and stay at the Lafayette hotel, Lexington, Ky.
Certainly Saturday's clash is the most important basketball game any K.U. team has played in recent years.
Michigan Tough For Rose Bowl Waldorf Says
San Francisco, Dec. 14—(U.P.) The 1950 University of Michigan football team will be harder to defeat in the Rose Bowl than either the Northwestern or Ohio State clubs that licked University of California in the Pasadena classic the past two years, Bear Coach Lynn Waldorf said today.
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"This Wolverine club is better balanced than either of the last two Big Ten squads," said Waldorf. "The backfield is far superior and has much more talent.
"I believe that Leo Koceski of the Wolverines in the finest reverse runner in the country and a stronger man than was Hamilton of the Buckeves.
In view of the fact that the Buckeyes won by a 17-14 score over the Bears, a dim future loomed for the undefeated 1950 California team.
"Don Dufek is a better open field runner than was Morrison; and Chuck Ortmann is a better all-around player than was Jerry Krall of Ohio State."
"We have a good chance to win," he said. "Our team will be in better shape than either of the last two squads we sent to Pasadena, because we will not have been out of practice for so long." The California schedule was a week longer this year.
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