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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20.1940
By BOB NELSON
It seems that Phog Allen's Jay-hawkers are again confronted with the serious problem of losing the close games and need to develop a more balanced offense to be classified as title contenders in the Big Seven race.
So far this season, the forwards have scored very little, putting almost the full offensive burden on the guards and the pivotmen. When the back-line men fail to connect with the hawkeyers' offense comes to a near halt except for Clyde Lovellette's great offensive play off the post.
After trailing 23 to 13 at half-time in Saturday night's game with Duquesne, Kansas put on a real scoring barrage to lead the Dukes 47 to 45 with ten minutes remaining. Two more quick baskets ran the total to 51 to 45 with about seven minutes left in the contest.
At this point, the Kansas defense fell apart and Duquesne scored 17 straight points to give the Dukes a 62 to 51 lead and the game which ended with the home club on top by a 64 to 54 margin.
One thing that hurt the Kansans at the finish was the loss of Clyde Lovellette via the foul route for the third time in the young season. He had played a great game against one of the best big men in the East, the Duke's great pivotman, Charles "Big Coop" Cooper. Clyde held Cooper to 15 points and helped the Jayhawkers control the majority of rebounds.
Kansas in dropping a 54 to 56 decision to last year's tenth ranking team, the Cincinnati Bearcats, showed much strength in the rebounding department by controlling the percent of the rebounds. It seems the Kansas kid's know just what to do with the bail after they got hold of it.
The Jayhawkers lost the ball through interceptions, fumbles or wild passes no less than 30 times while the Bearcats lost it only 11 times.
Jim Holstein sophomore center who led Cincinnati's scoring with 19 points, connected on eight of 13 tries from the field while Lovellette had less luck in hitting only six out of 15 attempts from the field to go along with three free tosses for his 15-point total.
Tonight's battle between the Jayhawkers and Holy Cross in the Boston Garden will find guard Jerry Waugh, ace defensive wizard, pitted against Bob Cousy, considered by many experts as the finest college player in the country.
Many of the top coaches in the country have all but given up on trying to stop this amazing all-around player. Coach, Adolph Rupp of the Kentucky Wildcats, winners of the 1949 N.C.A.A. championship, probably sums up the play of Cousy best when he recently said, "We consider Cousy one of the trickiest individual ball players we have ever run across in basketball. He is a superior quarterback at starting plays. He has a quick change of direction which makes him outstandingly dangerous. He has every shot in the book and will go down in cage history as one of the greatest players of all time."
It is our guess that Waugh may not bottle-up Cousy, but that Bob will know he's been against a great defensive player that goes all-out as a terrific competitor and plays so hard that he nearly drops in his tracks before slowing up. Waugh has turned in some terrific defensive performances in the past in stopping such "hot shots" as Missouri's Dan Pippin, Kenneth Prory, Oklahoma's great guard of last year, A. L. Bennet, former high scoring Oklahoma Aggie forward, and Kansas State's former high scoring ace Harold Howey.
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Kansas Cage Team Meets Mighty Holy Cross Tonight
Probable Starters
| Kansas | Pos. | Holy C. |
| :--- | :--- | ---: |
| 6-7 Jack Carby | F | (Co-Capt.) Bob Cousy 6-1 |
| 6-2 Bob Kenney | F | Walter Baird 6-1 |
| 6-9 Clyde Lovellette | C | James Dilling 6-4 |
| 6-0 Jerry Waugh | G | (C-C.) Frank Oftring 6-2 |
| 6-3 Claude Houchin | G | Bob McMullan 6-3 |
Kansas, still looking for its first win of the present eastern trip, meets the Holy Cross Crusaders tonight in the BostonGarden. It will be the second and feature game of a college doubleheader. Boston college will play Lovola of Los Angeles in the opening game.
Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen's Kansas have dropped contests to Cincinnati and Duquesne, both undefeated teams, during the first half of their four-game eastern swing. The Jayhawkers are now below the 500 mark with two wins and three defeats.
Holy Cross, one of the top teams in the east, will go into this first meeting of the two schools a heavy favorite. The Crusaders have averaged 74-points a game and have held opponents to 43-points a game in running up five straight victories. Its latest victim was N.Y.U. in Madison Square Garden Saturday. Other wins for the fast-moving Crusaders were over American International, Trinity, Fordham, and Dartmouth.
The easterners have a veteran team with co-captains Bob Cousy and Frank Ofring ably assisted by Bob McMullan, Matt Forman, and Andy Laska. They're beginning their fourth year of competition at the Worcester school. All saw action with the Holy Cross N.C.A.A. championship team in 1947 as freshmen.
Lester "Buster" Sheary is in his second year as coach at Holy Cross. He succeeded "Doggie" Julian, when Julian left for the professional ranks, and guided the Crusaders to 19 victories and 8 defeats the past season. The Purple started slowly, playing such teams as Kentucky, Pulane, and St. Louis, but won 13 of its last 16 games.
Holy Cross, which is located in Worcester, Mass., is a comparative newcomer as a basketball power. The Catholic institution first gained cage prominence in 1947 when its team capped a great season with a 58 to 47 victory over Oklahoma in the championship finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament. The following year the Crusaders captured third in the N.C.A.A. playoff by downing another Big Seven member, Kansas State, 60 to 54.
In Bob Cousy, the Crusaders have one of the outstanding players in the nation. He fired in 90 points in the first four games this season from his forward position,
an average of 22.5 points per game.
Cousy, who stands one inch above six feet, has scored 1193 points in his three-year career, a Holy Cross record. He averaged 17.8 points a game last season which ranked him 12th in the nation in individual scoring.
Frank Ofting provides the other half of the Crusaders powerful one-two punch with long set shots from his guard positions. Bob McMullan, another four-year man, holds down the other guard spot. He was the second high scorer for Holy Cross during the 1948-49 season with 204 points.
Coach Sheary teams junior Walt Baird at forward with Cousy, and has Jim Dilling, 6 feet 4 inches tall, at center. Dilling, a promising sophomore, is the tallest player in the Crusader starting lineup. The tallest boy on the squad is 6 feet 5 inches.
Tacks Tax Teachers But Twins Are Safe
San Francisco—(U.P.) —The big question at the St. Francis day home was "which twin has the tacks." And the answer was neither one.
But she couldn't tell which twin it was. Both beamed and nodded when asked if they had swallowed a tack. Each shook her head just as amiably when asked: "or didn't you swallow a tack?"
Diana and Janet Nissen are blueeyed 21/2-year-old identical twins. A teacher, working on a project for the holidays, suddenly noticed a tack was missing about the same time one of the twins was gulping.
It took a fluoroscopic examination to disclose that no foreign objects showed on the twins' identical X-ray plates.
"It was awfully confusing for a while," the teacher sighed. "They're as much alike as—well, as two tacks."
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Law Gets Double Test
Boston—(U.P.)-Under a new Massachusetts law, the state foots the bill for hospital care of babies weighing $4\frac{1}{2}$ pounds or less if the parents need such help. First to benefit under this statue was a woman who gave birth prematurely to twins weighing a total of only 7 pounds, 13 ounces.
Scattle—(U.P.)—A woman called on the University of Washington for help when a trap in her basement snapped shut on a mouse. She told the university job placement service that her husband had set the trap before starting a trip to Alaska. "Please send someone out," she telephoned. "All my food is in the basement. I haven't eaten for hours."
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