WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Basketball Drills Open For Co-Champion Jayhawks
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Assist. Sports
Daily Kansan Asst. Sports Editor
Seventeen players, including eight lettermen off the 1950 Kansas co-championship basketball team, reported to Coach Forrest C. Allen Monday afternoon at Robinson gym as drills got under way for the 1950-51 basketball season.
Included in this group were four of last year's five starters, Bill Houghland and Bill Lienhard, forwards; Clyde Lovelette, center, and Capt. Jerry Waugh at guard. Missing from this 1950 starting five is guard Claude Houchin, K.U.'s workhorse rebounder.
The four remaining lettermen who reported to Coach Allen are Bob Kenney and Buddy Bull, forwards, and Dale Engel and Myron "Sonny" Enns, guards. Enns, who missed the 1950 season because of injuries suffered in an auto accident in June of 1949, lettered in 1947, 1948, and 1949.
One of the top prospects is John Keller, a 6-foot 3-inch 185-pounder, who played on the 1950 Garden City junior college team. He was selected on the All-American team at the national junior college tournament held last March at Hutchinson.
Harold Lowe, a 1950 K.U. squadman, reported for the initial drills wounded by Lowe, a fine competitor, and Harold much of last year by a knee injury.
Up from Coach Dick Harp's 1950 freshman team are Wally Beck, Mark Rivard, and Don Woodson, Shawnee Mission; Kenneth Buller, Buhlier; Dean Kelley, McCune; Dean Smith, Topeka, and Jerry Smith, Wellington.
CLYDE LOVELLETTE
Three 1950 lettermen are playing on the football team. They are forwards Dean Wells and Aubrey Linville and guard Lyn Smith. These players will report to Coach Allen following the Jayhawkers' final football game of the year.
Two more football players are expected to report following the football season. These are junior Bill
Schaake, 1950 squadman forward-guard, and sophomore forward Jack Rodgers.
One of the top prospects for Houchin's vacated starting guard spot will be K.U.'s famed sophomore football halfback, Charlie Hoag. Hoag, a former all-Illinois football and basketball prep star at Oak Park, Ill., is considered an excellent rebounder and a great competitor that excels with speed and better than average floor play.
Besides Houchin, Coach Allen lost three more 1950 lettermen by graduation. Included were forward Harold England, now with the Sheboygan (Wis.) Redskins professional basketball team, forward-center Gene Petersen, a 6-foot 7-inch giant, and Guy Mabry, forward.
Starting on the first five were Bob Kenney and Bill Lienhard, forwards; Clyde Lovellette, center; and Jerry Waugh and Bill Hougland, at the guard positions.
The squad lost little time in getting into full-scale practice Monday as Coach Allen ran his team through a long drill on fundamentals followed with a spirited scrimmage session.
This five brought smiles to the face of Coach Allen with their fine early season play during the scrimmage session. Following the session, Coach Allen said, "They looked pretty good for the first practice. Big Clyde (Lovellette) has been practicing his lefthand hook shot and looked good shooting off the post with either hand. Bill Hougland looked better than ever and all the boys pleased me with their competitive play.
"We'll practice six days a week until we open the season except for Saturdays when we have home foot-
Orbon Tice Is Defensive Standout For KU
By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Writer
One of the top figures in Coach J. V. Sikes' defensive platoon is Orbon Tice, a lean 6 foot, 175 pound junior from Hutchinson. Tice was a defensive regular last year and is a starter at the defensive left end slot this year.
Orbon is a vicious tackler and a hard man to block out of a play. Last year he was slow rounding into form but finished the season strong, blocking two punts, one of which Chuck O'Neal hauled over the goal for a touchdown against Nebraska. This year, however, he seems to have taken up where he left off in 1949 and is playing top-notch ball.
A three-year letterman in high school, Tice was a tackle on a strong Hutchinson eleven that was
named the top team in the state in 1944 and 1945 in conjunction with the Lawrence Lions.
ORBON TICE. Kansas end
In 1945 Orbon was named first string all-State in football and first string all-Ak Valley in football and basketball. In both 1944 and 1945 the Hutchinson squad romped to the conference championship.
earned his second Varsity letter.
With this year and next left to
play, he should graduate a four-
year letterman.
Tice lettered at K.U. in football in 1946 as a freshman before leaving for the army. While in the service he played football for the Ft. Sam Houston Warriors. It was during this service all that he picked up a knee injury that has bothered him some ever since.
Orbon thinks a lot of the team's chances and of his taemmates of this year. As he put it, "We are a lot stronger than last year and have a good chance to go all the way. The spirit is better than anytime since I have been at K.U. and is better than that of any队 I have ever been connected with."
After 15 months in the service Orbon was discharged a sergeant and returned to K. U. He was first string defensive end last season and
A geology major in the College, Orbon hopes to work for an oil company after graduation in February of 1952. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi social fraternity and also of the K-Club, Varsity letterman's organization.
Tice is married and has one child, a daughter a little over a year old. He had a sister who went to K-State but passed up going there as he thought K.U. played a better brand of ball than the Wildcats.
Orbon is a better than average basketball player and played at K.U. in 1946 until the army called him in January of 1947. According to Orbon one of the greatest thrills he has had at K.U. was when he was a starter against Oklahoma A and M in the all-College Tournament at Oklahoma City in 1946.
Last summer Orbon attended a summer camp of the A.R.O.T.C. and then worked on the railroad.
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ball games. We have only the remainder of this week and four days next week to get ready for the annual homecoming Varsity-Freshman game on Friday night, Oct. 27." Allen said. "Our pre-season practice time is rather short this year as we play our opener against Creighton university here on Dec. 4."
Kansas finished the 1950 season strong winning 10 of its last 15 games. These five losses were by a total margin of only 13 points, including a 57 to 59 loss to Bradley university in the fifth district N.C. A.A. playoff game at Kansas City, Mo.
The Kansas season record was 14 won and 11 lost. In Big Seven play, K.U. lost four of twelve games by a combined total of only 11 points, two of these in overtimes.
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