MONDAY, MARCH 20,1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Kansas will meet Bradley university tonight in the first basketball game ever played between the two schools when they clash for the fifth district championship and a right to compete for the Western N.C.A.A. crown...The game will also bring together two of the nation's top cage mentors, Coach F.C. "Phog" Allen and Forrest Anderson, Bradley's outstanding young coach...
Bv BOB NELSON
During his 33 years at Kansas, Coach Allen's clubs have won or shared 21 championships in winning 486 games and losing 177 contests for the best long-time record in the country.
Coach Anderson, 30 - year - old
Ventor, has compiled an impressive
record of 56 wins and only 12 defeats in two years at the Peoria, Ill.
school...His four-year all time college coaching record includes 88 wins and 35 losses...This record is probably the most impressive among young college cage mentors...
When Bradley takes the floor against Kansas tonight, they will have an added incentive to defeat the Jayhawkers due to their loss to C.C.N.Y., 69 to 61, in the National Invitational Basketball tournament finals on Saturday night...The Braves would like another shot at the Easterners who easily rate the "darkhorse" club in the Eastern N.C.A.A. play-off...By downing K.U. and winning the Western N.C.A.A. play-off, Bradley could possibly get an opportunity to even the count against the Beavers.
A glance at the final Associated Press basketball poll, will show C. N.Y., ranked 27th, but they certainly assumed the role of giant killer in the New York City tourney...Coach Nat Holman's club, composed of four sophomores and a senior, compiled an outstanding record and made the sports scribes look bad as so called "experts" in judging the top talent from coast to coast...
In the first round, C.C.N.Y. defeated 12th ranking and defending champion San Francisco, 65 to 46. The next game found the lowly Beavers rolling over the country's third best team, Kentucky, 89 to 50. The next victim was ranked down the line as the sixth best team and required a little more effort as Duquesne fell before the Eastern steamroller, 62 to 52. In the finals against the nation's No. 1 team, Bradley, C.C.N.Y. put on a second half drive to down the Braves 69 to 61 to become the real Cinderella team of 1950...
Bradley lists the entire 17-player 1949-50 basketball roster from the state of Illinois...Of the top nine players on the Braves' squad, only All-American Paul Unlur and reserve George Chianakas are seniors...Coach Anderson looks to be on "easy street" for some time to come with four of his regulars returning next year...He also inherits one of the finest cage teams in the school's history. ...
Well, just where did Kansas finish in the A.P. poll? The Jayhawkers were rated somewhat better than the 27th place C.C.N.Y. club and held down the 19th spot. Certainly some Eastern sports scribes ought to feel rather silly after the way the N.I.T. turned out. We certainly hope they "missed the boat" and placed the Jayhawkers far too low when they selected the 19th slot. Looking over the 18 teams listed ahead of Kansas, we'd have to pick the Jayhawkers over at least 12 of these teams if they were to meet on a neutral floor.
Looking beyond tonight's game into the 1950-51 season, we can see the Kentucky Wildcats, City College of New York, Bradley, and our Kansas Jayhawkers as national powers to deal out plenty of punishment on the hardwoods for opposing coaches. Kentucky, C.M.Y.
and Kansas all skyrocketed to the top this year using sophomores to mold championship clubs.
Lawyers Decide Early To Follow Practice
Knoxville, Tenn.—(U.P.)—When the University of Tennessee questioned its law college students about their constancy of purpose, they found two of them had decided to turn to law at the age of seven.
Three students among the 200 questioned said they decided when they were ten years old and more than half decided before they were 20.
Of even greater interest to the professors were the answers given on another question. The answers showed that political science led the list of "major interests" and 129 students wanted to become politicans.
Salina, Larned and Downs held top trophies today in Kansas high school basketball as a result of their tournament triumphs as the season closed the past weekend.
Salina Takes AA Crown
Salina trimmed Newton, 10 times a state champion, for the class AA crown at Topeka. The class A championship, fought for at Salina, was won easily by Larned, the team which was invited to participate to fill out the bracket. Larned trimmed Olathe.
At Hutchinson, Downs finished an unbeaten season by burying Lansing, 53 to 35, to win the class B championship.
Salina's 63 to 53 triumph over Newton was paced by Rich Young,
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who got 21 points. Class AA third place went to Wichita East, winner over Independence, 56 to 48.
Larned trimmed Norton, Beloit, Cherryvale and Olathe in class A. Bob Rice sparked the champions throughout and in the final got 26 points. Medicine Lodge had no trouble winning third place in class A, defeating Cherryvale, 59 to 35, on H.B. Born's record-breaking leadership. Born got 37 points. His tourney total of 111 was a new high, too, breaking the old mark of 99 set by Rich Evans of Salina's Sacred Heart in 1946.
Downs was led to its class B victory by Curtis Deday's 18 points. In
Club Will View KU-Bradley Game
A television party featuring the Kansas-Bradley basketball game will be held at the University club tonight. Members of the club and their wives may attend, Elmer F. Beth, president, said.
The club has installed a permanent aerial, but Luke Smith, a club member, will provide the receiver to pick up the WDAF-TV show.
the third place contest, Kiowa came from behind to beat Elsmore, 52 to 47.
Fraser hall was erected in 1872 in honor of Gen. John Fraser.
Born in Red Oak, Iowa, Roy graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School at Council Bluffs. He was ready to enter the University when war changed his mind.
He went to work at Consolidated Vulture in San Diego, building PBY's and B-24's. But it wasn't long until he had put in his application for Aviation Cadet training.
Cadet Carlson won his wings in April, 1943,
was assigned to P-47 "Thunderbirds" with
the 368th Fighter Group in England, to
break ground for the Normandy invasion.
Roy completed 125 combat missions, leading many of them, supporting the invasion and the advances on into Germany. Won Air Medal, D.F.C., many other decorations. Promoted to Captain, then to Major.
Back home, he married the lovely Army nurse from Lowell, Massachusetts, whom he had met at Cannes, France. After the honeymoon, he returned to finish his studies at the University of Iowa.
Major Carlson is now Chief of Operations, 2471st Air Force Reserve Training Center, at O'Hare International Airport, near Chicago. Has two husky sons, a fine job, a great career still ahead of him!
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