FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
By Richard Dilsaver
How does it feel to be students at a school whose basketball team is first place in the roughest, toughest basketball conference in the nation? Great, huh, even if we do have company on the top rung of Big Ten adder. I may or may not be positioned Dr F. Allen has pulled great miracles than bringing a fairly good darkhorse through a winner.
We think we have Kansas State's mighty Wildcats pretty well doped out. Four times this season the Purple have come out losers. The first defeat was to Wisconsin at the start of the season, and we'll put that one aside. But the other three losses seem significant to us.
Just prior to each of these losses, Coach Jack Gardner has sent his proteges out to get one big game. And they've won it, most impressively, each time. But immediately following each of those big games, down go the Wildcats.
Proof? Plenty of it. K-State went east to get classy Long Island U. The Wildcats wanted that one bad for it was LLIU, which had snapped a nifty victory string for the great Kansas State team of 1948. They got what they were after. Two nights later against Canisius the relapse came, and down went the Wildcats.
Next Gardner pointed for K.U. in the opener at the Big Seven tourney in Kansas City. We're still trying to forget what happened. The following night against Oklahoma the relapse came, and down went the Wildcats.
Last week end, the Golden Buffaloes of Colorado were rated pretty formidable opponents so Gardner fired up the Cats again. The result was a grueling slam victory. Two nights later after Nebraska the relapse came.
Three times they were primed, but it hasn't been so nice the next time out.
For three years past, a Nebraska football player, Tom Novak, has had opposing Big Seven coaches and players having fits and nightmares. They have been resting easily lately, content that the Novak reign of terror has stopped. Now comes another Novak on the scene and his advance notices from the Nebraska press would have you believe he is fully the equal of Terrible Tom.
This Novak is Ray, a younger brother of Tom, who has just finished a blazing prep career in Omaha at mid-year. Ray says he'll follow Tom to Nebraska U.
Omaha sportswriters have hardly
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Strengthened Indoor Track Squad Opens Season Soon
Bill Easton will have no new tricks up his sleeve when his 1950 Kansas track club begins this winter's indoor duals.
The Jayhawks will strike the opposition along the usual line—its long line of distance runners. However, the meticulous Mt. Oread ringmaster is mounting a one-two punch in the hurdles and will draw more strength from the other events than did the 1949 squad which finished fourth in both the conference indoor and outdoor derbys.
How many wins Kansas can reap from its three-meet dual slate and how close to the top it can climb in the twenty-second league meet March 3 and 4 in Kansas City, largely will depend on this latter group. The solid distance front should hold up in the 880, mile and two-mile all the way.
Anchoring the latter troupe will be two indoor record holders, Bob Karnes, returning for his fourth season, and Pat Bowers, recently crowned Sugar bowl half-mile king. Karnes set an indoor mark of 9:29.2 in the two-mile last winter. He is a six-time conference champion in this event, and also has annexed a mile twice. Bowers pounded 1:55.8 last year to set a new league indoor mark. He also won the outdoor title handily and is almost equally effective in the 1320 or mile.
Behind them will be such improving hands as Dave Breidenthal and Cliff Abel, lettered juniors, and a sophomore, Herb Semper. Another sophomore who will be heard from is Jim Dinsmore, scrappy Hobart, Ind. redhead, who will join Bowers in the half and Emil Schutzel, lettered junior, in the quarter.
Abel placed sixth in the Drake relays two-mile run last year and was a surprise fourth in the conference fall two-mile the past November. Semper was fifth in the latter race and finished a surprise twentieth in the N.C.A.A. cross-country.
A sparkling sophomore, Bob DeVinney, last year's freshman telegraphic champ in both highs and lows, is moving up to join Jack Greenwood, in Easton's hurdling threat. Greenwood placed second in both flights last May in the conference outdoor as a sophomore, won the Kansas Relays 120-yard highs and the 220 lows in the Big Seven-Southwest conference dual.
Barring a collapse in the distance and hurdling stables, Kansas will draw its ultimate power from a roster that included Jim Flovd, sophomore pole-vaulter from Salina; veteran high-jumper Bill Richardson and Delvin Norris; shot-
had space and type enough to praise the lad. We know for certain he's a whiz bang on the gridiron as a halfback and is nearly as proficient on the basketball court. He'll likely turn out a top trackman or diamond star, too. Something like the one-two of Sam and Vike Francis which Nebraska threw at the old Big Six some years back.
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None of these boys has been outstanding in the Big Seven circles yet. A few, however, carry high potential and the remaining performers could furnish enough lift to stick the Crimson and Blue high in the first division. Floyd won the freshman telegraphic pole vault title at 12 feet 6 inches. DeVinny is going to score a lot of Jayhawk points before he is through.
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The Hawkers also hope to get some help from two past lettermen, Forrest Griffith, who placed fifth in the indoor broad jump in 1947 and Bob Crowley, who won the same event at the Texas Relays that spring. There is still crying need for a sprinter and pole vault help.
Easton's 40 man squad, working in the clammy confines of the east stadium, will get a late start, meeting Nebraska in the opener February 11 in Lincoln.
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