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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950
Jayhawkers Leave For Tough Tour In East
By RAY SOLDAN
The Jayhawkers, with home victories over Creighton and Utah State tucked away, leave Lawrence at 5 a.m. Friday on an eastern swing which will match them against three of the nation's top teams.
First stop for Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen's cagers is Philadelphia and a Saturday game in Convention Hall with the St. Joseph's college Hawks. This should be by far the easiest test of the tough trip for Kansas.
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the Jayhawkers will meet the St. John's university Redmen in the feature game of a Madison Square Garden doubleheader. St. John's has been rated higher than Kansas on most of the pre-season forecasts.
The top attraction of the road trip is a Saturday, Dec. 16, game against the Kentucky Wildcats. The game will match for the first time the coaching talents of Coach Allen and Adolph Rupp, the successful Kentucky coach who is a former pupil of Coach Allen. Kentucky also has been rated higher than Kansas by many of the pre-season forecasters.
Upon returning home the Jayhawkers will play one more non-conference game before plunging into Big Seven tournament and conference play. This game sends Kansas against Springfield, (Mass.) college. It will be another teacher-pupil affair. Springfield coach John Bunn played at K.U. under "Phog" Allen in the 1920's.
Saturday's opponent, the St. Joseph's Hawks, lost the top three scorers of a mediocre 1950 club through graduation. The key man on this year's squad is John Doogan, a 6 foot 6 inch sophomore. Great things are expected from Doogan. St. Joseph's has some other tall sophomores, but its veteran players are all rather short.
John Hughes (6-1) and Phil Brady (5-11) are the only holdovers to score over 100 points during the Hawks' 25 game schedule last season. And they both just barely topped the century mark. St. Joseph's won 10 and lost 15 last season.
The last time the Hawks and the Jayhawkers met in basketball was in December of 1942. Kansas' undefeated conference champions scorched the Convention Hall boards for a 63 to 38 victory. This was despite a 19-point effort by St. Joe's great all-American George Senesky. That St. Joseph's team which K.U. made such easy work of won 18 of 22 games, the best record in school history.
St. Joseph's has a 1-1 record this season. It defeated King's college, and lost to Rhode Island State. Temple and Muhlenberg will meet in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader in Convention Hall. The K.U.-St. Joseph's game will follow.
The Madison Square Garden date with St. John's will mark the first time in history that Kansas has met the Brooklyn institution in athletics. However it won't be the first time that Kansas has played in the Garden.
On their last trip (December of 1942) the Jayhawkers edged a strong Fordham team, 31 to 30. This was the top game of the greatest eastern trip in Jayhawker history. Besides downing St. Joseph's and Fordham on that trip, KU. rolled over St. Boneventure in Buffalo and St. Louis university.
St. John's is expected to give C.C.N.Y., last year's national champion, a battle for metropolitan New York and national honors this season. The chief basis for this lofty rating is the presence of the Redmen roster of Bob Zawoluk, the New York counterpart to Clyde Lovellette.
Zawoluk, like Lovellette, was a sophomore sensation last year. But unlike Clyde, Zawoluk is very fast and shifty. He stands 6 feet 6 inches in height and is a fine center both offensively and defensively.
Zawoluk is the first of two big individual tests which Lovellette will face in the East. The other, of course, is Kentucky's 7-foot Bill Spivey. All three—Zawoluk, Lovellette, and Spivey—have been named to nearly every pre-season all-American team. Zawoluk averaged 20.3 points a game last season (Lovellette 21.8, Spivey 19.3) to set a new metropolitan scoring record. He scored 63 points in a single game against St. Peter's.
As if Big Bob isn't enough, the Redinen have three more of last year's top five scorers returning. Forward Jack McMahon averaged 11.9 points a game last year, while guards Al McGuire and Frank Mulzoff averaged 7.7 and 4.2 points respectively. Last year's squad won 24, lost 5, and placed third behind C.C.N.Y. and Bradley in the National Invitational tournament.
St. John's has steamrollerled its first three opponents this year, Pratt Institute, Arnold, and William and Mary. The Redmen play S.M.U. in the Garden tonight.
The Kentucky game to be played in the Wildcat's new four-million-dollar fieldhouse is probably the non-conference game-of-the-year for Kansas. Not only is there the Allen-Rupp, Lovellette Spivey rivalries to make the game attractive, but Kentucky has a tremendous home winning streak which Kansas will be trying to snap. The string, which extends over eight seasons, has reached 85 games. The Wildcats should notch number 86 against Purdue and number 87 against Florida before Kansas moves into Lexington.
During the past seven years, Kentucky has lost only 21 games, while winning 196 for a winning per centage of 91—by far the best among major colleges. In these seven years, the Wildcats have bagged seven Southeastern conference titles, two N.C.A.A. championships, and one N.I.T. championship.
The Wildeats defeated West Texas State in their opener and barring a startling upset will be undefeated when they meet Kansas. The two K.U.'s have never met before in basketball.
Thirteen Players To Make Eastern Tour
Players making the Eastern trip Friday morning are Wally Beek, Buddy Bull, Dale Engel, Myron Enns, Charley Hoag, Bill Hougland, John Keller, Ken Kenney, Bill Lienhard, Clyde Lovellette, Jerry Waugh, Dean Wells, and Bill Schaake. Besides Coach "Phog" Allen, trainer Dean Nesmith and Wayne Louderback, student manager, will accompany the 13 players.
The squad will meet Dick Harp, assistant coach, who has been scouting future K.U. opponents and is already in the East. He will scout Kentucky in their fieldhouse dedication opener against Purdue Saturday and will join the team in New York City Sunday.
Reserves-Frosh Battle Overtime
Students who moved their supper-hour up far enough to see the Varsity Reserve-Freshman game Wednesday were awarded with a hard-fought overtime battle. The Reserves won 35 to 33 on a goal by Harold Lowe with a minute left in the overtime.
The game was the preliminary to the Kansas-Utah State game. It was a game of spurs. The Reserves jumped into leads of 8 to 4 and 15 to 8 and led at halftime, 19 to 14. The Freshmen caught fire in the third quarter to catch them. The Frosh built their lead up to 29 to 23 with five minutes left in the game.
In less than a minute the Reserves whittled the margin to 31 to 27. Lowe, the game's leading scorer with 10 points, then sank two free throws and hit a jump shot to tie the game at 31-all. Ken Buller hit a side shot to give the Reserves the lead, but B. H. Born sent the game into an extra period with a hook shot with 30 seconds left in regulation time. Lowe's lay-in shot was the only goal of the overtime period.
Following Lowe in scoring for the Reserves were Dean Kelley with eight points, Mark Rivard with six, and Buller with five. Born, the Frosh's 6 foot 9 inch center, led his team with nine points. Allen Kelley and Lavannes Squires each scored six points and Everett Dye five for the Frosh.
RESERVES (35)
FG FT TP
Buller, f 2 1 5
Kelley, f 3 0 6
Lowe, c 4 2 10
Rivard, g 3 0 6
Smith, g 1 0 2
Rodgers 1 0 2
Woodson 1 0 2
FROSH (33)
Totals ... 16 3 35
FG FT TP
Young, f 0 0 0
Godwin, f 0 0 0
Born, c 3 3 9
Johnson, g 1 0 2
Dye, g 2 1 5
Kelley 3 0 6
B. Anderson 0 0 6
Squires 3 0 6
Whitney 0 0 0
Burt 1 0 2
Cyc. 0 0 0
D. Anderson 0 1 1
Thomas 1 0 2
Ruchanan 0 0 0
Thompson 0 0 0
Rolftime score: Reserves 19,
Freshmen 14.
Officials: Russ Schon (Kansas) and Rip Cloke (Chanute junior college).
Totals 14 5 33
Snowman Impersonates Cop
Grand Respids, Mich—(U.P.)—Police caught a snowman directing traffic last night. Somebody had erected a snowman in the middle of an intersection. It looked so much like a traffic cop that drivers were obeying its arm signal to turn.
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, thirty-three year old dean of the University of Kansas medical center, was named by the U.S. J. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the top ten young men of the nation for 1948.
Five Of Last Year's Top Scorers Return This Year
With five of K.U.'s leading six scorers for the 1950 season returning, this year's team shouldn't be lacking in scoring power. These five returning lettermen are Clyde Lovellette, Capt. Jerry Waugh, Bill Hougland, Bill Lienhard, and Bob Kenney. Buddy Bull, Dale Engel, Dean Wells, and Aubrey Linville aso lettered last year.
Engel, Dean Weils, and Aubrey Ennine Sonny Enns, who missed last year with injuries suffered in an auto accident, lettered in 1949.
Lettermen lost are Claude Houchin, last year's number two scorer, Gene Petersen, Harold England, Guy Mabry, and Lyn Smith, who decided to pass up his final year of eligibility.
Here is how individual Jayhawkers scored last year:
(ALL GAMES FOR THE 1949-50 SEASON INCLUDED)
Player G Fg Fga Pct Ft Fta Pct Pf Tp Avg
Clyde Lovellette 25 214 499 43 117 181 65 93 545 21.8
Claude Houchin 25 68 196 35 60 79 76 58 196 7.8
Jerry Waugh 25 60 181 33 29 49 59 50 149 6.0
Bill Hougland 23 45 108 41 29 46 63 73 119 5.0
Bill Lienhard 21 50 130 38 19 27 70 25 119 5.6
Bob Kenney 25 31 119 26 21 30 70 30 83 3.3
Harold England 24 26 69 38 19 29 65 46 71 3.0
Gene Petersen 17 18 56 31 6 12 50 11 42 2.5
Jack Carby 10 11 40 28 4 10 40 16 26 2.6
Dean Wells 11 8 23 32 7 15 48 19 23 2.1
Guy Mabry 11 6 19 32 1 5 20 3 13 1.2
Buddy Bull 12 3 11 27 6 6 100 11 12 1.0
Lyn Smith 14 2 11 18 7 12 58 14 11 0.8
Aubrey Linville 7 3 13 23 5 7 72 4 11 1.6
Maurice Martin 10 3 24 13 4 8 50 13 10 1.0
Dale Engel 9 1 10 10 6 6 100 9 8 0.9
Bill Schaake 3 2 3 67 0 0 0 1 4 1.3
Jay Drake 5 1 6 17 1 1 100 5 3 0.6
Jerry Bogue 3 0 0 0 1 1 100 0 1 0.3
Charley Bates 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.0
Harold Lowe 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Carl Reade 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0
Kansas Totals 25 552 1522 36.2 342 524 65.3 485 1446 57.9
Kansas Totals ... 25 552 1522 36.2 342 524 65.3 485 1446 57.9
Opp. Totals ... 25 461 1593 29.0 370 594 62.3 457 1292 51.7
(Key: Fg, field goals; Fga, field goal attempts; Ft, free throws made; Fta, free throw attempts; Pf, personal fouls; Tp, total points scored; and Avg., average points scored per game).
1949-50 SEASON RECORD
CONFERENCE GAMES
W L Pct Pts Opp. P-A O-A
Kansas 8 4 .667 763 618 58.6 51.5
ALL GAMES*
Kansas ... 14 11 .560 1446 1292 57.8 51.7
... K Kansas 57 Proleu 59
$ ^{*} $ Includes fifth district N.C.A.A. play-off-Kansas 57, Bradley 59.
Dean Smith Will Aid In Producing Film
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, has been chosen by the Coronet Instructional Film company of Chicago to help produce a film for elementary and intermediate school grades.
The film, "A Trip in An Airplane," will be used in social studies and language arts. It will be completed for classroom use this spring.
University Club To Hold Annual Party Dec. 13
The University club will hold its annual Christmas party Wednesday, Dec. 13 at the Union. A musical program will follow a dinner in the Kansas room and a play will be presented in the ball room.
Clyde Bysom's orchestra will play for a dance in the Kansas room from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, is the highest navigable water in the world.
BUDDY BULL, Jayhawker senior forward, looks to be headed for his best year with the cage team. He looked good in K.U.'s opener against Creighton Monday night and added another good performance against Utah State last night. He scored one goal and played a good floor game. Last year Buddy played in 12 games as a reserve.