21, 1950
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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B ELEVEN
No Sophomore Giant Has Bested Colossal Clyde
By ROBERT NELSON
Clyde Lovellet, Kansas' big,
young point-getting machine,
erased nearly every Jayhawker
basketball scoring record
this year with the greatest scoring
exhibition ever turned in by a major
college sophomore giant. He
scored 545 points in averaging
21.8 points a game over a 25-
game route.
Lovellette, former all-state prep star at Garfield high in Terre Haute, Ind., surpassed the sophomore accomplishments of George Mikan and Bob Kurland, two of the nation's top college cagers of all time. Mikan, considered the top player in professional basketball today and recently voted the greatest basketball player in the past half-century, could average only 18.7 in his first varsity year.
After graduating from Garfield in June, 1948, Clyde was perhaps the most sought-after prep player ever to play in Indiana. He considered invitations from 51 major colleges before casting his vote with Kansas. It was his desire to become a coach, so he sought the close tutorage of Kansas' Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, dean of American basketball coaches.
Lovellette, 6-foot 9-inch 230-pounder, moves with the agility of the average 6-footer. He can hook with either hand and score from close in or from the outside. Using this variety of shots, he compiled a remarkable 43 per cent from the
field in scoring 214 goals out of 499 attempts to average slightly over 40 per cent throughout the season. Few big men have the terrific stamina of Lovelette. In several of the Jayhawkers' toughest games, he went the full 40-minute route without rest and often scored his most damaging blows in the final minutes when points were needed to win the game.
At the free-throw line, he also scored well in hitting 117 out of 181 charity tosses for a respectable 65 per cent.
In Kansas' 16th game of the season., against Colorado, Lovellette scored a field goal in the first minute of play to make him the owner of the ball for the second word for one season as he scored his 328th point of the season.
The old record was 326 points set by Charlie "The Hawk" Black, former All-American, in the 1945-46 season.
Black, considered by many as Kansas's greatest cager of all-time, scored a grand total of 1,082 points in 86 games during his four-year career. This total is the most points ever scored by a Kansas player. He averaged 12.6 points a game during his four years.
Lovellette, in his first year, scored over half of Black's four-year total and averaged almost 10 points more a game than Black. Besides his scoring, Black was regarded as one of the greatest rebounders and defensive players ever to play in the Big Seven conference.
Clyde was one of the best-liked players no matter where Kansas played and was regarded as one of
the conference's finest sportsmen.
Noted for his fine sense of humor and hisunting tactics, he is often "loving" or "The Clown" by his teammates.
CLYDE LOVELLETTE
Lovellette has captured the imagination of sportswriters and radio broadcasters who have told of his terrific scoring outbursts with multisyllable adjectives and double-spaced score books.
Although only in his first year.
Lovellette proved almost un- guardable to three Big Five teams.
Here are a few of the nicknames given the fabulous rookie in just his first year: Cumulus Clyde, Cumbersome Clyde, the Peerless Percheron, Colossal Clyde, The Terra Haute Terror, the Prolific Percheron, the Leaning Tower of Kansas, Cloudburst Clyde, and Mt. Lovellette.
Lovebettle proved almost unarguable to three Big Seven teams. Missouri, Cincinnati and Kansas State. In two league contests, each of these schools he averaged 34, 29.5, and 26 points respectively a game.
With the national recognition K.U. gained in late season, Lovette received probably as many honors as anybody in the history of college basketball.
Here are some of the laurels donsed on him by opposing teams and player - selection committees after the close of the season:
He was selected on the Helms Athletic Foundation third All-American team. The Helms selections have been considered the most respected in basketball during the past 30 years. Dvide was one of three sophomores left by the No. 1 first-year player listed on either the first or second squads.
The 1950 Associated Press third All-American team also included Lovellette.
His 25 points against Holy Cross gained him first team honors on the
all-Boston Garden team and also on Holy Cross' all-opponent team.
Collier's magazine All-American team, selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, named only a first and second team, but placed Clyde on the fifth N.C. A.A. district all-star team.
Look magazine, whose All-American squad was selected by the maskit all Writers of America, also paid for the cover on the fifth district all-star team.
He was named to the all-tournament team following the Big Seven pre-season tournament in Kansas City where he scored 64 points in three games to the mark of Oklahoma's Gerald Tucker.
With the three Big Seven teams to select all-opponent squads—Missouri, Kansas State, and Iowa State—Clyde was a unanimous selection.
Duquesne university, ranked sixth in the nation by A.P., voted Lovellette as a unanimous choice on its all-opponent team.
Associated Press, United Press, and International News Service all-conference selections found Lovellette a solid fixture.
The Drake Bulldogs selected the
all-in-one error on their all-
appetition team also.
Clyde finished the regular season as the fourth highest scorer in 1950 major college competition.
In Big Seven play, he scored at least 22 or more points against every team but Nebraska. Since he'll meet all conference teams at least four more times in his remaining two years, Big Seven coaches see their work cut out for them.
E.C. Quigley Has Enviable Record After Big League Umpire Career
Bv JOHN BANNIGAN
The man who has the enviable record of having umpired more games than probably any other man in baseball history is Ernest C. Quigley, retiring director of athletics at K.U.
In August, 1945, a year after he took over the job as K.U.'s director of athletics, Quig received a letter which had traveled all the way from Europe and half-way across the United States to the Mt. Oread campus bearing the lone inscription, "You Can Do That!—U.S.A." When he opened the letter for him, he told the postoffice hadn't made a mistake in selecting him as the man whom those words had made famous.
It was in basketball that these four words became one of sportsdom's legends as Quig's special property. It was the result of a habit he acquired while officiating on the basketball courts of the nation. A fast game was always more colorful with the addition of a streak in a black- and white striped shirt, who sometimes stopped short, pointed an accusing finger at an erring player, and, in a husky roar, bellowed, 'You can't do that!' That phrase, which would be immediately echoed
His reputation and the fact that he has been called the most famous Kansas man in the field of sports are not resting solely on his attainments in baseball.
His record includes six American World series games and one Japanese World series. The latter is of particular interest due to the fact that the two teams playing in this series were managed by two of baseball's greatest, Ty Cobb and Walter Johnson, and the fact that the games were part of the coronation ceremonies for the present emperor of Japan. "Quig" also conducted coaching schools in football, baseball, and basketball while in Japan. This was in 1928.
His career as a baseball umpire started in 1910 and lasted until 1936 when he was made supervisor of umpires in the National league. His presence in the profession has done much to raise the standards of the umpiring fraternity, and many of his fellow umpires, give him credit for numerous improvements that had to do with the game's officials. He had a hand in improving the umpires' dressing quarters and has always been a crusader for better things.
by thousands of spectators sem shudders through the frame of many a cocky cage star, and it has brought pleasant memories of great games on the boards to a generation of sports fans.
In the field of collegiate football, he was a referee from 1904 through 1927 and he has officiated at three Rose Bowl games. In classics, and one Cotton Bowl game
When Quigley took over as athletic director of the University in August, 1944, he faced two major problems. The first was the important task of building up Kansas' varsity teams, and the second was the financial headache of paying off the stadium debt of $113,000.
To solve the first problem, Quigley helped legalize the open interviewing of prospective athletes for Big Seven schools. He then brought in George Sauer as football coach. This strategy paid off in 1947 when KU. played in the Orange Bowl.
To overcome the second difficulty Quig used a plan by which alumni and friends of the University could buy war bonds, then turn them over to the Alumni association, and in this manner pay off the debt and interest. His efficiency and competence in this venture are evident from the fact that the debt was paid off before the date due.
When Quig took over, he said that what he had in mind was a sports program that would interest "the entire state and attract sports-loving people to the University." His program has been successful, judging
Lake Kanopolis Now Provides Nearby Vacation Spot For Kansans
From now on, Kansans won't have to travel any great distance in order to find a good vacation spot. Lake Kanopolis, situated in Ellsworth county 20 miles_west of Salina, has possibilities of becoming one of the outstanding resort areas of the Middle West. The lake is about 30 miles long, and from one to three miles wide.
Seven years ago, the army engineers began construction of a dam across the Smoky Hill river valley for flood control purposes. Two years ago, the dam was completed. It is constructed entirely of earth and stone. The dam is two miles long.
150 feet high, 1,300 feet wide at the base, and 100-feet wide at the top. The army engineers are surfacing roads to the lake, building shelter houses, and planting trees and grass.
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from the attention received, not only in football and basketball, but also in the so-called minor sports, baseball, track, golf, and tennis.
Speaking of his coming retirement, Quig said. "When one comes to the end of the road—there are always a few things yet to be done. I regret that I will not be on the job
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