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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949
Jayhawkers Down Rockhurst 55-34
Bv BOB NELSON
After building up an impressive 33 to 9 halftime margin, Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers had to fight off a second half Rockhurst rally to win 55 to 34 in the 1949-50 cage opener Saturday night in Mason Halpin field house, Kansas City, Mo.
Neither team showed a balanced offense or defense and each club showed early season "jitters" in committing numerous mistakes throughout the contest.
The towering Jayhawkers, tallest in the history of K.U. basketball, controlled a majority of the rebounds against the shorter Hawks and often kept the losers from getting more than one shot at the basket when setting up their offensive patterns.
Dr. Allen's starting five, composed of Jerry Waugh and Bob Kenny, forwards; Clyde Lovellette, center; and guards Claude Houchin and Bill Hougland, played about 26 minutes of the contest and outscored Rockhurst 41 to 11 during their playing time.
Lovellette, six-foot nine-inch sophomore center, paced the Jayhawkers' scoring and took game scoring honors by 14 points. Ten of this total came in the first half.
Two other outstanding Kansas sophomores, Kenney and Hougland, scored eight points each as did the veteran Jayhawker guard, Claude Houchin. The other Kansas starter, Waugh, connected on two of four shots from the field in the first half of his four points.
At the start of the second half, Coach Allen started Gene Peterson, senior letterman at forward, and sophomore Bill Lienhard at the other front line spot; Jack Carby, six-foot seven-inch sophomore, at center; and letterman Harold England and Lyn Smith at the back-line spots.
During the second half, Rockhurst's field goal shooting percentage increased from a first half low of nine percent to a still poor 23 percent and the Hawks managed to outscore the "cold" Jayhawkers 22 to 25 and prevented the game from becoming a rout.
Kansas started the game by building up a quick 5 to 0 lead at the two minute mark as Houchin hit a 2-pointer. Lovellette added a free throw and Kenney connected for the first of his three first half goals.
Pat Allegri, Rockhurst forward,
followed by connecting for the first
of his team's three first half field
goals. Lovellette and Hougland hit
goals to run the count to 9 to 2 with
three minutes gone.
After leading 17 to 8 at the midway point of the first half, Kansas scored 18 while Rockhurst could
add only a charity toss by guard Jim Quinlan in the last 11 minutes of the first half. The halftime score was Kansas 33. Rockhurst 9.
Dr. Allen's reserves were outscored by Rockhurst 8 to 17 in the first 10 minutes of the second half to run the score to 41 to 26 in the Jayhawkers' favor.
At this point, the starting Kansas five entered the game and built up the lead to 48 to 26 as Houchin hit a set-up. Lovellette connected with a hook shot, Kenney added a free toss. Lovellette another pivot shot off the post. post.
While Buddy Bull, junior forward, was adding a charity throw for Kansas, Bill Biliad, center, forward Leo Schleicher, and Allegri added field goals for the losers along with a free throw by Quinlan to close the gap to a 49 to 33 count with about four and a half minutes remaining.
Kansas closed out the scoring by Hougland hitting a long push shot, Dale Engel and Bull hitting from the charity line, and Guy Mabry connecting with a one-handed push shot from the corner to run the count to 55 to 33. Bob Williams added his third free throw of the contest to close out the game's scoring and left the score board reading. Kansas 55. Rockhurst 34.
In the first half, Kansas connected for 14 field goals on 37 shots for a respectable 38 percent. Seven goals on 35 second half shots gave K.U. a 25 percent record or an over-all game record of 29 percent from the field on 21 goals out of 72 tries at the basket. At the charity line, Kansas hit 13 out of 23 tosses for 56 percent.
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ROCKHURST (34)
G GA FT-A PF T
Allegri, f 3 9 2-2 4
Clemmer, f 0 4 0-0 0
Schleicher, f 1 8 0-2 0
Williams, f 0 8 3-8 2
Breen, c 0 0 8-2 2
Billiad, c 2 5 3-5 3
Meara, c 0 0 0-0 0
Messina, g 3 9 2-3 4
Haley, g 0 0 0-0 0
Quinlan, g 0 9 3-6 2
Rheem, g 1 4 1-1 3
TOTALS ... 10 64 14-29 19 34
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G GA Ft-A PF TP
**Kenney, f** .3 9 2-2 8
Bates, f. .1 0-0 3 0
Lienhard, f. .0 5 1-2 0
Waugh, f. .2 4 0-0 2 4
Peterson, f. .0 2 1-2 0
Bull, f. .0 3 2-3 2 2
Mabry, f. .1 4 0-0 0 2
Lowe, f. .0 1 0-0 0 0
Lovelette, c. .5 17 4-7 3 14
Carby, c. .2 4 2-4 3 6
Hougland, g. .4 6 0-0 3 8
Martin, g. .0 1 0-0 0 0
England, g. .0 1 0-1 4 0
Houchin, g. .4 10 0-1 1 8
Smith, g. .0 1 0-0 1 0
Drake, g. .0 0 0-0 0 0
Engel, g. .0 1 1-1 0 1
Reade, g. .2 0-0 1 0
TOTALS ... 21 72 13-23 25 55
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