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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1950
COACH F. C. ALLEN is shown going over strategy with center Clyde Lovellette as to how Kansas plans to stop Marc Freiberger, 6-foot 11-inch Oklahoma center. In the opening conference game with the Sooners here, Freiberger put on a second half offensive show that about swept the Jayhawkers off their feet. He scored 22 points, on nine goals and four free throws. During the second half, he collected 18 of the total. In the duel between skyscrapers, Lovellette outscored Freiberger 29 to 22 to provide the margin of victory, with K.U. winning, 56 to 50. These giants will again hold the key to much of each team's success in tomorrow night's meeting at Norman.
Allen To Play For Top Stakes Against Sooners
Kansas City, Mo., March 10—(UP)
No matter what happens Saturday night at Norman, Okla., you can't count "Pho" Allen out.
Win or not, the K.U. sophomores have demonstrated again that Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the so-called "Kinghawk of the Kaw," is still in fine form as a basketball coach.
In 1946 he had a conference winner. Then in 1947, at the age of 61, things weren't so good. "Phog" was ill and had to spend half the season resting in the California sunshine. The detractors started saying he was washed up.
"Phog" didn't mind. After all his years in the game he's something of a philosopher and certainly a fixture on Mt. Oread above the Kaw
"Phog" came back but his teams didn't. He finished in a tie for sixth in the seven-team league in 1948 and 1949. The anvil chorus boomed a bit more loudly.
sportswriters who saw the young Jayhawkers in their December games were not impressed. Kansas appeared to be going nowhere this year, they said.
He said, when the 1949-50 team started out, that he was building for next year.
This year he had Clyde Lovellette 6-foot 9-inch 230-pounder, a 19-year-old sophomore from Indiana Allen said he was the best prospect he has had. Towering Clyde has come along in great shape. He's scored 515 points in 23 games to date, and he plays basketball as well as shooting the counters.
When the opposition pinched in around big Cyde, "Phog" taught the youngsters how to work around the outside and in. Against Kansas State in a crucial game March 7, the Allenites took 50 field shots. They hit 24.
No matter, though, how the young Jayhawkers fare Saturday night, you'll be hearing plenty from them in the next couple of years. The old doctor has a winner working with his youngsters.
Work Is More Interesting
Waukegan, Ill.,—(U.P.)-D e p u t y Sheriff George Streid, who has established a reputation for tracking down bad check artists, took an added interest in his work when he learned that someone had been cashing checks in his name.
OU Is Last Barrier On KU Victory Trail
Probable Starters
| Kansas | Pos. | Oklahoma |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 6- 4 Bill Hougland | F | Wayne Glasgow 6- 3 |
| 6- 2 Bob Kenney | F | Wayne Speegle 6- 3 |
| 6- 9 Clyde Lovellette | C | Marcus Freiberger 6-11 |
| 6- 5 Claude Houchin | G | Paul Merchant 6- 0 |
| 5-11 Jerry Waugh | G | Walter Morris 6- 0 |
Surmounting Oklahoma at Norman, annually the biggest hurdle for a Kansas basketball team, bars the Jayhawkers' championship path Saturday night as they hook up with the Sooners in the southern end of a double feature that will decide the 1950 Big Seven flag.
Ames, Columbia and Manhattan have provided death pits for great Kansas clubs of the past during certain periods, but over the long haul the roaring confines at Norman have posed the Mt. Oreadans' toughest leap.
"Those Sooners always get hot when they hear those war-whoops and razyz-dazzy music," Allen annually tells his club.
The record bears out the doctor's analysis. Only twice in the last 10 games at Norman has K.U. been able to climb over the hump. It is significant that in both instances the feat was accomplished by the Jay-hawkers' last two undefeted conference titlists in 1943 and 1946. U.O. has swept the other eight meetings of the last decade, although the collisions have been terrifically fought on nearly every occasion.
Last year Paul County went the length of the court for a lay-up with only 10 seconds remaining to pull out a 38 to 36 Sooner win. Two years ago Bruce Drake's gang had to scrap all the way to put away another sophomoric Kansas five, 50 to 46. In '47, the Redshirts erased a 14-point halftime deficit to achieve a 50 to 47 triumph.
AlthoughF only Kansas is involved in the title picture, this will be one of the team's most important Norman collisions of all-time. By winning the Jayhawkers can assure themselves of at least one-half share of the championship and a possible Fifth District N.C.A.A. playoff berth against Bradley.
By rolling over Kansas State, 79 to 68, in a wild melee here March 7. Phog Allen's sophomore sensations vaulted into a first place tie with Nebraska each with records of 8-3.
If K.U. can win while Kansas State (7-4) is knocking over N.U. in Manhattan on the same night, the Jayhawks will walk off with clear claim to the crown. A Kansas loss plus a Nebraska win would hand the Huskers the full title. The combination of a K.U. loss and a K-State win would throw the championship into the first triple tie since 1940 and leave the selection of Bradley's opponent to the fifth district selection committee. The league has ruled out a playoff such as was enacted last year when Nebraska and Oklahoma tied for the bunting.
By winning the Jayhawks can write one of the circuit's most amazing chapters, a haul from the cellar all the way to the throne room in one season. Even more surprising is the fact that Allen has built his club on a sophomore foundation, universally regarded as shaky at best. Clyde Lovellette, Bill Lienhard, Bill Hougland and Bob Kenney recently have been joined by Dean Wells and Aubrey Linville, a pair of footballers, to give Allen six second-year men capable of shouldering a varsity load.
This may be the league's best sophomore array of all-time. Certainly it is the most effective since O.U.'s famous Boy Scats erupted for second place in 1938.
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The victory will mean something to O.U. also. The Sooners, now riding fifth place with a record of 5-6, must win to maintain Drake's record of never finishing below .500 in 12 years of Big Seven warfare.
The team will stay at the Biltmore hotel in Oklahoma City and travel to Norman by auto shortly before game time Saturday. Following the game, the team will return to Oklahoma City, where they will stay overnight. The Jahawkers will arrive in Lawrence at 1:12 p.m. Sunday.
A 12-player traveling squad, accompanied by Coach F. C. Allen and Dean Nesmith, trainer, will entrain at 10:08 p.m. today from the Santa Fe station for Oklahoma City.
The following players are making the trip; Jerry Bogue, Harold England, Claude Houchin, Bill Hougland, Bob Kenney, Bill Lienhard, Aubrey Linville, Clyde Lovellette, Gene Petersen, Lyn Smith, Jerry Waugh, and Dean Wells.
Law Professor On Journal Board
Dr. James B. Smith, professor of law, has been chosen to become a member of the editorial advisory board of the newly founded Trade Regulation Law Journal.
The journal, which is to be a monthly publication, will deal with laws relating to anti-trust and unfair trade practice. The publication will record the progress of these laws and provide constructive discussions of them.
Among the members of the editorial advisory board, there will be lawyers who specialize in trade regulation laws and leading economics professors.
The board will act in an advisory capacity and without compensation.
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TOMORROW NIGHT'S GAME between Kansas and Oklahoma is an important one for Oklahoma's Coach Bruce Drake even though his team is out of the championship race. Drake has never finished a conference race below the .500 mark, but must win this game in order to break even for the 1950 season. The Sooners now have a 5-6 record, having flashed both hot and cold all year. Kansas won an earlier game here by a 56 to 50 score, the smallest margin of victory K.U. had over eight opponents in completing an undefeated home season.
Malott Praises Thinclads On Win
Chancellor Deane W. Malott this week sent the following letter of congratulations from himself and the University to Coach Bill Easton of the University track team, which the past weekend won the Big Seven indoor championship, its first such title since 1934:
Mr. Millard Easton,
Track Coach,
105 Robinson
Dear Bill:
Dear Bill:
I am leaving for the East to night, but before I go I just want to write this letter of congratulations to you and the boys for the magnificent showing you made on Saturday night.
We are tremendously proud of all of you and know that this victory will create increasing interest in our track program for the future.
Best of luck to all of you.
Cordially,
Deane W. Malott,
Chancellor
PAUL MERCHANT, Oklahoma captain, missed the game here because of a leg injury, but is expected to give K.U. plenty of trouble tomorrow night and may well hold the key to the game's final outcome.
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