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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950
Kansas Cagers Will Play Utah State Here Tonight.
PROBABLE STARTERS
UTAH STATE (-1) Pos. (1-0) KANSAS
6-1 Bert Cook F Bill Lienhard 6-5
6-0 Bob Peterson F Bob Kenney 6-2
6-3 John Miller C Clyde Lovellette 6-9
6-1 LaDell Anderson G Bill Hougland 6-4
5-11 Tom Gobbie G (Capt). Jerry Waugh 5-11
bourette (Missouri Washington)
Place: Hoch auditorium. Time: 7:30 Tonight.
Officials: Mike Oberhelman (Kansas State), and George Bourrette (Missouri Wesleyan).
By RAY SOLDAN
The Utah State Farmers open a five-game mid-western swing tonight playing the Jayhawkers in Hoch auditorium. Game time is 7:30 p.m. The Farmers will meet two other Big Seven schools—Kansas State and Iowa State—and Wichita and Hamline before returning to their home base at Logan, Utah.
It will be Kansas' second game of the season and the last at home before beginning a road trip of its own. The Jayhawkers defeated Creighton here Monday, 51 to 35. Kansas will play three of the nation's top teams on its trip-St. Joseph's, Saturday; St John's, Tuesday, Dec. 12;
and Kentucky, Saturday, Dec. 16.
Utah State goes into the game with a 4-1 record. Colorado of the Big Seven was one of its victims,
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)The University of Kansas Jayhawkers carried all six of the states represented in the Big Seven conference as the team most likely to run off with the 1950-51 basketball championship according to predictions of conference coaches.
Big Seven Coaches Choose Kansas As Probable Champ
Next came Jack Gardner's Kansas State Wildcats, followed by Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Iowa State, and Nebraska in that order.
The United Press polled the coaches with the promise that they would not be identified in the balloting. One coach did not wish to rank the teams, but the other six saw only Kansas and towering Clyde Lovellette in the winner's circle.
At Ames, Coach Chick Sutherland said he hopes for a "better finish" for his Iowa State Cyclones this year. He said he would have better balance, and predicted the race would be closer than last season.
Coach Bruce Drake at Oklahoma talked about losses and said his Sooners would suffer from lack of experience, after losing last year's entire first team and two front-line substitutes.
Wilbur "Sparky" Stalcpul, whose Missouri Tigers won the annual Big Seven pre-season tournament last Christmas season, was not inclined to talk at length about the race but said his boys would continue to employ the same slow break and ball control as last year.
From Coach H. B. "Bebe" Lee at Colorado came the lament that the Buffs "have too many weak spots to be a real contender."
Harry Good said his Nebraska team would lack both "size and experience."
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, who has the pride of Terre Haute, Ind., in Clyde Lovellette, said nothing much about his new Kansas team. With Lovellette in form, he'd not need to.
Among the abler performers returning to the Big Seven campaign this season are:
Kansas—Lovellette, the league's record-breaking scorer; Bill Hougland, Jerry Waugh, and Dean Wells. Kansas State—Emie Barrett, Ed Head, Lew Hitch, and Jack Stone.
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46 to 43. Other victories were over Idaho State (twice, 62 to 54 and 59 to 54 and Montana State, 70 to 62. The Farmer loss was to Oregon, 66 to 64, in their last start.
Missouri--Bud Heineman, biggest "Litte man" in the league, Dick Adams, George Lafferty, Abe Rubin, Bill Stauffer, and Dan Witt.
Oklahoma—Marcus Freiberger, 6 foot 11 inch Texan, Jim Terrell, and Doug Lynn.
The Jayhawkers are favored over the Utah Aggies largely on their height advantage. Center John Miller, 6 foot 3 inches, is the tallest man on the Aggie squad. The Kansas starters average three inches a man taller than the Aggies.
Iowa State—Elden Clement, Sy Wilhelm, and Gay Anderson.
Freshmen Will Play Reserves Tonight
Nebraska—Bob Pierce and Jim Buchanan.
The freshman basketball team will play the Varsity reserves a preliminary game starting at 5:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. This will give fans a chance to see the yearlings in action for the second time this year. They bowed to the Varsity in the annual homecoming game, 70 to 43.
Utah State, a member of the Skyline Six conference, is coached by Cecil Baker. He is in his first year of college coaching after a great high school record in which he turned out six state championship teams. Baker replaces Joe White-sides who was called back into the army.
Colorado—Wayne Tucker, Roger Stokes, and Bill Clay.
Tuesday's College Basketball Results
N.Y.U. 75, Oregon State 65
C.C.N.Y. 71, Brigham Young 69
Syracuse 72, Rider 54
Georgetown 92, Geneva 61
Siena 56, Texas A, and M, 42
Bucknell 87, Juniata 54
EAST
Tennessee 74, Seward 51
Alabama 63, Mississippi So. 58
N.C. State 87, Davidson 53
N.C. 75, Hanes Hosiery 58
SOUTH
SOUTHWEST Baylor 52, Corpus Christi 33
MICHIGAN State 45. Detroit 31
Chicago Tch. 59. Illinois Inst. 53
Lawrence Tech 79. Selfridge Field
40
S.W. Missouri 80, Pittsburg 69
Bradley 79 Wayne U. 50
St. Louis U. 71. Houston 44
MIDWEST
The frosh are expected to start Rich Young and Bob Godwin, forwards; B. H. Born, 6-foot 9-inch scoring ace, at center; and Weston Johnson and Everett Dye at the guard spots.
It is expected that the freshmen will play preliminary games at all Varsity home games.
Kentucky Leads In First Week
New York—(U.P.) —Kentucky was the team which most impressed the United Press basketball rating board in the first week of the season.
The 35 coaches who rate the teams weekly after studying scores and scout reports stuck to their preseason pick of City College of New York as the No. 1 team in the nation. But they jumped Kentucky up to the No. 2 spot after placing the Wildcats third to Bradley in the preseason ballot.
Bradley took over third place. Kentucky beat West Texas State by 30 points, 73-43, in its opening game. It wasn't so much the victory itself as the manner in which Kentucky performed that earned the boost.
But CCNY, unprecedented winner of both the NCAA and National Invitational championships last season, remained the big power. CCNY polled 346 points out of 350 on the basis of 10 points for the first place, nine for second and so on down to one point for 10th place. Of the 35 coaches, 23 rated CCNY first. No coach rated Nat Holman's boys lower than third.
Coach Baker will start an all-letterman lineup tonight. Two of the Utags were regulars last year—Capt, LaDell Anderson, a sharp-shooting guard, and Bert Cook, a hustling forward. Anderson scored 272 points in 34 games in 1950 and was named to the all-conference team. Cook scored 297 points, the second highest in last year's well-balanced attack.
North Carolina State was ranked fourth, Kansas fifth and then, in the first 10, St. John's, Oklahoma A&M, Long Island University, Iowa and UCLA followed in that order.
Other starters are Bob Peterson, forward, Miller, center; and Tom Gobbie, guard. Miller was the big gun of the Farmer attack through their first four games this season. He hooked in 20 points in each of the first three games and eight points in the fourth.
Utah State's scoring isn't centered around Miller though. Peterson has had night's of 14 points and 17 points and Anderson has hit for 18 points and 16 points. The Aggies have averaged 62 points a game.
Kansas is expected to start the same five that it did against Creighton—Bob Kenney and Bill Lienhard at forwards, Clyde Lovelette at center, and Capt. Jerry Waugh and Bill Hougland at guards. Wally Beck and Sonny Enns saw considerable action against Creighton and can be counted on to help out tonight.
This won't be the first basketball get-together for Kansas and Utah State. They met in 1936—much to Kansas' regret. That season the Jayhawkers finished their regular schedule undefeated in 18 games—the only unbeaten season in Kansas'
history, As Big Six conference champion Kansas qualified for the Olympic playoffs that were being held that year.
The Jayhawkers defeated Washburn and Oklahoma A. and M. to win the regional tournament. This matched them against Utah State in a best two-of-three playoff for the sectional title. The winner was to get a spot in the national finals.
The Jayhawkers won the first game, 39 to 37, for their 21st straight victory, but bowed to the glossy Aggies in the final two games, 37 to 42 and 32 to 50.
Utah State made a swing through this section last year, but didn't meet K.U. The Farmers stopped off in Manhattan and lost to Kansas State, 70 to 45. The co-champion Wildcats held Utah State scoreless from the field in the first half.
The Farmers finished fourth last year in the Skyline Six conference, one of the toughest basketball conferences in the nation. They had a 10-10 league record. Over the whole season, Utah State won 18 and lost 16.
Kansas' road trip which opens in Philadelphia, Pa., Saturday may determine where the Jayhawkers will finish in the final national rankings this year. The impression a team makes on the big-city boys counts heavily in the final ratings. The first two games of the trip are part of attractive twin-bills. In Philadelphia's Convention hall, it will be Kansas and St. Joseph's and Temple and Muhlenberg, while in Madison Square Garden, Kansas meets St. John's and N.Y.U. plays Colgate.
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