1950
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Beta's, Phi Delt's Win Hill Championships In IM Basketball
Beta Theta Pi led the Dark Horses throughout the game, played Feb. 28, which decided the Hill championship in division "A" intramural basketball to win 37 to 34. In the contest for division "B" Hill honors, Phi Delta Theta eked out a 35 to 33 victory over Spooner-Thayer on Charles Hall's field goal in the final 30 seconds.
The Betas defeated the Dark Horses 37 to 34 to win the 1950 inframural "A" basketball championship in a game played Feb. 28. The losers caught fire in the fourth quarter for 14 points and were seriously threatening the Betas at the final gun.
Coach Jerry Waugh's Beta club led throughout the game from four to 13 points and wasn't seriously challenged until the losers scored 10 points in the last three minutes.
The Beta scoring was well distributed with Bill Champion taking honors with nine points.
Odd Williams, who took scoring honors in the game with 15 points, all in the second half, helped his team fight back from the short end of a 17 to 8 halftime margin by hitting five goals and adding four out of four charity tosses.
The Bets got off to a fast start and led the Dark Horses 10 to 4 at the end of the first quarter. The Independent champions could only match their first period total of four points in the second quarter and trailed 17 to 8 at halftime.
Henry LaRue and Ralph Moon scored six and five points respectively in the first half to pace the Betas while the Dark Horses could only split the cords for three goals and a pair of free throws.
Better passing and outstanding work on both backboards helped the Betas increase their first half lead to 31 to 20 at the three-quarter mark. Ed Lee, second high scorer for the Dark Horses with seven points, scored two goals to Joe Mendenhall's goal to cut the margin to nine points with 3:30 remaining.
Darell Norris followed with a layup to shorten the Beta's lead to seven points. Mendenhall and Williams traded goals in the period of about 20 seconds. Mendenhall scored again to ring up the winner's final points with 40 seconds remaining and give his team a 37 to 28 margin.
The remainder of the contest was a long one for the Betas. Williams scored four points on a pair of free throws and a goal in the next 20 seconds to close the gap to five points. With 10 seconds left, Cliff McDonald connected for a goal to close out the game's scoring.
Box Score for 'A' Game
The Phi Delts edged Spooner Thayer 35 to 33 to win the intramural "B" league championship Feb. 28.
BETA "A" (37)
Fg Ft Pf Tp
Champion, f ... 4 1 2 9
Mendenhall, f ... 3 0 2 6
Lowrie, f ... 1 0 0 2
Moon, c ... 1 4 1 6
Winter, g ... 3 0 4 6
LaRue, g ... 3 2 2 8
Stickrod, g ... 0 0 1 0
The Phi Delt's jumped into a 5 to
DARK HORSES (34)
Totals ... 15 ... 7 ... 12 ... 37
Fg Ft Pf Tp
Murphy, f 2 0 1 4
Norris, f 1 0 2 2
McDonald, f 1 1 0 3
Ashley, c 1 1 3 3
Lee, g 3 1 3 7
Williams, g 5 4 1 14
Kennard, g 0 1 1 1
Totals ...13 8 12 34
Halftime score—Betas 17, Dark Horses 8.
Missed free throws—Betas (5) — Mendenhall, Moon, Winter 2, Stickrod, Dark Horses (6) — Murphey, Donald, Ashley, Lee 2, Kennard.
Officials—Russ Sehon and Dick Cloke.
Box Score for 'B' Game
PHI DELT "B" (35)
Fg Ft Pf Tp
Wilhelmy 2 1 3 5
Wynn 5 2 3 12
Hall 3 2 2 8
Hanna 1 2 5 4
Mehl 1 0 3 2
Hedrick 0 2 0 2
Scheideman 0 1 0 1
Thompson 0 0 1 0
Bissel 0 1 2 1
Totals ... 12 11 19 35
GROENEEL THIJLAND
SPOONER THAYER (33)
| | Fg | Ft | Pf | Tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| McMullen | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Cain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Fiss | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Cashell | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Spencer | 4 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| Compton | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Dyerson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | — | — | — | — |
Totals ... 11 11 14 35
Haltime score—Spooner Thayer 15, Phi Delt "B" 13.
Missed free throws—Phi Delt "E" (7)—Willhelmy 2, Wynn 2, Hall, Hanna, Thompson.
Officials—Russ Sehon and Dick Cloke.
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0 lead on goals by Pete Wynn and Charles Hall and a free throw by Tom Hanna before Spooner-Thayer's Oliver Spencer could hit from the field to narrow the gap.
John Wilhelmy hit for the Delta followed by a free toss by Spencer and a jump shot by Galen Fiss which brought the count to seven to five.
Hall scored on a lay-up for Phi Delt and Spencer added a free throw and a jump shot from in front of the goal. Joe Compton hit a free throw and Spooner-Thayer
trailed 9 to 11. John Hedrick hit for the Delts and Compton, Spencer, and Fiss scored for Spooner-Thayer to give that team a 15 to 13 halftime lead.
Compton opened the scoring in the final period with a free throw for Spooner-Thayer. Hanna and Wynn combined goals and free throws to give the Delts a 22 to 16 lead before Fiss hit for Spooner-Thayer. Fiss then added a free throw followed by a charity toss by Spencer. Hedrick and Buford Bissel came through
with a free throw apiece for the Delts while Spencer was adding four free tosses for Spooner-Thayer. Spooner-Thayer led 25 to 24 at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
The final period saw a comeback of the Phi Deltas with Hall scoring the winning goal with 30 seconds remaining in the game.
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Dept. of Men's Intramural Athletics Robinson Gymnasium University of Kansas
1949-50
Dear Fellow Jayhawker:
This is the second in a series of informative letters to the faculty and the student body of the University of Kansas. We are making available this information because we feel that we have pertinent facts that should be of interest to you.
Did you know that the men's Intramural athletic department has scheduled and played, in the last two months, a total of 550 basketball games on the limited space of two basketball courts?
Did you know that a university's varsity basketball team playing 25 games a season would take 22 years to play 550 games?
Did you know 145 teams representing 1350 men participated in this program each week?
Did you know that this represents one of the larger student basketball programs in the United States?
Do you know that 112 teams and over 1000 men participated in the Intra mural volleyball program last year?
Do you know that Wednesday, March 1, at 4:15 p.m. in room 202 Robinson Gymnasium an informative meeting will be held for all team managers and other students interested in participating in the sport of volleyball?
Do you know that entry blanks are now available in room 107 Robinson Gymnasium? Entries must be submitted with fees. Deadline for entries, 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 3.
Do you know tournament play will begin on March 6? Follow the University Daily Kansan and the Intramural bulletin boards in Robinson Gymnasium.
Do you know that a special division is being set up for the faculty. If there are any "oldies" who feel that spark of youth remaining, we invite them.
To the men who have participated in the basketball portion of K.U. Intramurals, we can sincerely say that we were happy to have you, as an individual, and your team as a unit, in this student program.
Sincerely,
Student Intramural Managers and Staff