1949
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
By GEORGE BROWN, JR.
Roughness plus featured the play of the Purdue basketball team in the game with the Jayhawkers Saturday.
Sun Valley, Ida.—(U.P.)The Shah of Iran went skiing down the steep slopes of Sun Valley's Boulder Basin and his skill got a ready okey from one of the world's top ski experts.
Andrew Butchko, Purdue center,
demonstrated his ability as a football
player if nothing else. Butchko
played end on the Purdue eleven,
and probably hasn't realized he's
switched sports.
At times the referees could have used football symbols when showing the score keepers what type of foul had been committed.
The Jayhawkers took a one point lead with a minute and a half gone in the game and weren't headed until six minutes were gone in the second half. Purdue, at this point, tied the score at 38 to 38.
The referees missed one in the last three minutes of play if no more. Purdue had a free throw. According to the new rule the team getting a free throw in the last three minutes of the game is allowed an "uncontested" throw and then receives the ball outside. The referees Saturday allowed the teams to line up on the free throw lanes, and Kansas got the ball off the backboard after the throw was missed. The referees woke up 15 seconds later on the next free throw by Purdue and Purdue received the ball after the free throw.
Waugh, leading Jayhawker coorer for the game, hit seven out of 18 shots from the field in racking up 18 points. He hit four of six free throws. Bill Houghland hit two for two. Houghtail also hit for a perfect score in the Creighton game.
However, the Jayhawkers came to life with a combination that brought Kansas fans to their feet. With Jack Carby, Claude Houchin, Clyde Lovellette, Dale Engle and Jerry Waugh in the lineup the Jayhawkers quickly racked up 15 points for a nine point lead.
Lovellette hit five out of 14 field goal attempts and Carby hit three out of seven attempts.
ne 30-year-old monarch, on a five-day holiday at this resort after a good-will whirl across the country, got up at dawn after hosting his official party at a farewell dinner and trying his hand at the bowling alley.
Shah Of Iran Goes Skiing
The Shah talked "ski talk" with Lang and paused occasionally to admire the craggy scenery.
Otto Lang, executive director of Sun Valley's ski school, said the Shah showed amazing agility on the steep run.
After the farewell dinner to members of his party who head back for Washington, the Shah put on borrowed bowling shoes and headed for the alley. On the first game he pitched a better-than-beginner-average of 172.
After consultation with his private physicians over an old ankle injury, he donsed dark blue ski-clothing and headed for the basin.
Wichita, —(U,P)—A recess for divorces was declared Thursday by Judge Ross McCormick, presiding judge of Dedgwick county courts. The recess will go into effect Dec. 20 and continue through Jan. 5.
'Closed Season' On Divorce
Judge McCormick declared the "closed season" on divorces as a "Christmas present."
It is an annual custom in Sedwick county to discontinue granting divorces during the Christmas season.
The average female lives approximately 41/2 years longer than the average male.
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Photo by Gagliardo-Clarkson
Bob Kennedy (9), 6'5'' Jayhawker forward, goes far under the new glass backboard for a layup shot, but failed in his attempt. Kansas' Dale Engel (21) prepares to take the rebound as he crowds out Howard Williams (10) Purdue guard.
Cleveland Browns Close All America League With Fourth Straight Title
New York, Dec. 12—(U.P.)The Cleveland Browns closed the All-America conference with their fourth straight championship and the Los Angeles Rams probably will need a perfect performance and a well shined rabbit's foot to end the Philadelphia Eagles' domination of the National Football league.
But next Sunday the Rams probably will need more than their big line and aerial attack. They'll also need some luck. The Eagles will invade Los Angeles with probably the best-balanced team in pro football, the greatest ground gainer in N.F.L. history in halfback Steve Van Buren and a perfectly good ixn on Waterfield.
The A.A.C. merged with the 30-year-old N.F.L. Friday and the Browns ended the history of the four-year-old league by beating the San Francisco Forty-Niners, 21 to 7, yesterday in the title playoff at Cleveland. The Rams won the N.FL. western division title by beating a weak Washington Redskin team, 53 to 27, at Los Angeles and will play host to the Eagles in the 1949 championship game next Sunday.
Ram end Tom Fears caught 10 passes to boost his 1949 total to 77, breaking the league record of 74 set by Don Hutson for the Green Bay Packers in 1942. Bob Shaw, the other Los Angeles flanker, tied an N.F.L. record by catching four touchdown passes.
Ram quarterback Bob Waterfield and Norm Van Brocklin, his rookie understudy, beat Washington with a rain of passes. Waterfield threw two touchdown passes and Van Brocklin threw four. Redskin quarterback Sammy Baugh completed his 13th N.F.L. season by throwing three touchdown passes and scoring the other Washington touchdown on a sneak through the line.
The Eagles never have been beaten by a Waterfield-directed team and will be after their second straight N. F. L. title. Early last month, Philadelphia played Los Angeles and outpassed and outrushed the western club to score a 38 to 14 victory.
It was the same old story at Cleveland as the Brownns completed their sweep of all four A.A.C. championships, breaking the all-time pro record of three straight titles held by Green Bay of the National League. Including title games, the Brownns compiled a record of 55 victories, four losses and three ties before the A.A.C. collapsed.
Otto Graham, Marion Motley, Mac Speedle, and the two Jones boys, Edgar and Dub, led the methodical Brownns to victory. Edgar Jones got the first Cleveland touchdown in the first period when he climaxed a 56-yard drive with a two-yard plunge. Motley made it 14-0 when he ran 65 yards through center in the third period and Dub Jones got the last Cleveland touchdown in the fourth period after a 23-yard pass from Frankie Albert to Paul Salata had given San Francisco its only score.
After the game, Cleveland coach Paul Brown announced the retirement of two Browns veterans, center Lou Saban and guard Bob Gaudio, and said he wasn't sure he
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Pro Football Leagues Are Now One Happy Family
Philadelphia-U.P.)The National league and the All-America conference ended their professional football war and announced they had combined to form the National-American Football league.
The announcement was made by Bert Bell, N.F.L. commissioner and J. Arthur Friedlund, head of the A.A.C.
The new league, which will begin operating next year will consist of the Baltimore Colts, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams, New York Bulldogs, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins.
The league will be divided into two divisions—National and American.
Bell was elected commissioner of the new league under a 10-year contract.
Contracts of coaches and players of the A.A.C. extending beyond 1950 are being assigned to the new league. Bell said.
Bell said that Buffalo and Cleveland consolidated their interests to form the new club with its home in Cleveland, although by arrangements between the owners of both clubs the new team will be able to play exhibition games in Buffalo.
The Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Dons also consolidated their interests, while the interests of the Chicago Hornets were purchased by the new league, Bell said.
Emil R. Fischer of the Green Bay Packers was chosen president of the league's national division, while Daniel Sherby of the Cleveland Browns will head the western division.
The merger of the two leagues in effect ended the All-America conference's four-year campaign to set up as a major professional football league.
The conference was founded in 1944 and was promptly taunted by then National Football league commissioner Elmer Layden, who said: "they don't even have a football."
The A.A.C. actually began competition in the 1946 season and played for four years, including this one, always seeking recognition and working agreements with the national league.
The war was costly to both sides. The lack of a common player draft hoisted salaries, and the lack of a common schedule made some teams across-the-street rivals eating into one another's following for attendance.
Last year, after the regular playing season, an attempt was made to get the two leagues together. At the time the All America conference wanted to hold out for two separate leagues while the National league insisted that the two most profitable A.A.C. franchises, San Francisco and Cleveland, merge with the N.F.L.
The stumbling block apparently became Baltimore, which would have been eliminated under that plan. Settlement of the Baltimore differences with Washington franchise holder George Marshall ended the war.
Bell said that the new league will be formed officially on Dec. 19, day after the N.F.L. championship game in California.
At the meeting, representatives of the 13 clubs in the new league and those which were absorbed also will work out draft arrangements concerning new and reserve players.
The status of all players of both the N.F.L. and the A.A.C. who are not on the active list of the 13 teams in the new league will be determined at a league meeting Jan. 19. Site of the meeting has not been determined, Bell said.
Bell said that Horace Stoneham, owner of the New York Baseball Giants, was the guiding figure behind the creation of the new league. Stoneham arranged for Bell to meet with Friedland and George Weiss, vice president and general manager of the Yankees. The contacts were made in New York and on Wednesday Friedland came to Philadelphia to complete the plans.
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