FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVF
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Tallest Jayhawkers Ever Begin Campaign Tomorrow
Probable Starters
Kansas Pos. Rockhurst
(6-2) Bob Kenney F. Pat Allegri (6-1)
(6-0) Jerry Waugh F. Leo Schleicher (5-8)
(6-9) Clyde Lovellette C. Dan Breen (6-3)
(6-5) Claude Houchin G. Larry Messina (6-2)
(6-4) Bill Houghland G. Jim Quinlan (6-2)
Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers, featuring three tall sophomores in the starting lineup, open their 1949-50 cage season against the Rockhurst College Hawks tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. in Mason Halpin field house, Kansas City, Mo., in what should be Kansas' most successful season since the 1946 club won the conference title with a perfect record.
Rockhurst was badly beaten in their opener last night at Manhattan as Kansas State set a new school scoring mark in downing the Hawks by a top heavy 83 to 34 score.
Rockhurst showed a little offensive power and a next-to-nothing defense against the Aggies. Pat Allegri, sophomore forward, paced the Rockhurst attack getting 8 points on two goals and four charity tosses.
Kansas is expected to encounter little trouble in downing the smaller Hawks, coached by Ed Ryan, and should be in command of the cage tussle most of the way.
Dr. Allen, starting his thirty-third season as head basketball coach, will field the tallest Jayhawker starting lineup in the history of the school. The starting five will average exactly six-feet fourinches and can be even more when any number of combinations play together on the court.
This starting lineup is not only tall, but packs plenty of weight along with their height. The starters will average 188 pounds per man and this will help in gathering rebounds off the boards. For their size, this crew is fast, plenty agile, and knows what to do with the ball at all times.
Even though the offensive strength will probably center around Clyde Lovelette, six-foot nine-inch sophomore linebacker James Kroger fixes is capable of splitting the nets.
This year's team is blessed with more depth of material than any Kansas cage squad in recent years, at least offensively. Coach Allen can start a second unit that is capable of being even better than his first unit on any given night, except for the tremendous scour power given the first unit by the play of center Lovelette.
These players could be as follows: Gene Petersen, six-foot seven-inch senior forward who finished second in Big Seven scoring last year with 145 points and Bill Lienhard, outstanding sophomore from Newton, at the other front-line spot. Jack Carby, six-foot seven-inch center, has shown considerable improvement this year and may crowd a starter if he continues to show the same improvement as the season begins on.
The two guard spots would probably go to Dale Engel, greatly improved player over last year's performance, and senior letterman, Maurice Martin, from Topeka. Pushing these players is the always hustling Lyn Smith, slowed up somewhat by reporting late due to play on the gridiron.
In last year's game, the Jayhawkers had little trouble downing the Hawks by a top-heavy score of 67 to 20 as Houchin racked up a 17-point total England scored nine points, while
Even after going through what might be considered the top eleven players, you can't overlook such capable performers as lettermen Harold England, owner of probably the most deadly lefthand shot in the league, hustling Buddy Bull, and Guy "Spider" Marby, one of the best shots on the team. Probably no Jayhawker club has shown so much over-all offensive strength as this year's since the famous "Iron Five" club of the 1942-43 season.
The really big question mark confronting Dr. Allen's young giants will be their ability to operate under fire and being able to throw up a defense to check such fine offensive clubs as Purdue, Cincinnati, Holy Cross, Kansas State, Oklahoma, and others. Only time will tell concerning the latter situation.
Kansas holds a 9-0 edge in the series with Rockhurst and should cop their tenth straight this year without a set-back.
Schedule For IM Basketball
Robinson Annex
Games to be Played Today:
Pbi Game vs. Lombardi Chi 4 pm
Phi Gam vs. Lambda Chi, 4 p.m.
A.T.O. vs. Alpha Kappa Lambda,
5 p.m.
Newman Club vs. Deuces Wild,
6:30, west court
Robinson Gym
Dix Club vs. Rover Boys, 6:30, east court
Spooner Thayer vs. Plummer House, 7:30, east court
10:56, 11:34, cast court
4Fs vs. Jim Bream, 7:30, west court
Y.M.C.A. vs. Casuals, 8:30, west court
Delta Sigma Pi vs. Guindriblets, 8:30, east court
Oread Hall vs. Mule Trainer, 9:30,
west court
Robinson Gym "B" League
gmies vs. Runts, 9:30, cast court Games for Saturday
Y.M.C.A. No. 2 vs. Isaps, 2:30,
east court.
Kygmy Klub vs. Men of Dist., 2:30, west court
west court 1100 Club vs. W.F.A., 3:30, east
A.S.C.E. vs. Feather Merchants,
3:30, west court
A. T.O. vs. Fiji, 4:30, west court
Beta vs. Cellar Dwellers, 4:30, east court
Gistak vs. Delta Chi, 5:30, west court
court
Tall Dogs vs. Kazs, 6:30, west court
Silent Men vs. D.U. 6:30, east court
W.W.W. vs. Delta Tau, 7:30, west
.W.W. vs. Delta Tau, 7:30, west court
Petersen and Martin tied for third place scoring honors with seven points apiece.
Only two of last year's Kansas starters will be on the firing line tomorrow night and these men are Waugh and Houchin. The other three spots will go to sophomores, while last year they went to Petersen, England, and to senior Bill Sapp.
Coach Ryan, in his first year at Rockhurst, is rebuilding the Hawks with young material and will probably start four sophomores and a junior These starters will average just a bit over 6-1 and will have to battle to clear the boards against the much taller Jayhawkers.
Rockhurst was able to gather only six goals from the field and added eight free throws for their 20 points. The half-time score was 32 to 10.
The Rockhurst game is the first of a two-game weekend road trip for the Jayhawkers, Kansas will play the Creighton Bluejays in Omaha on Monday night before returning to Lawrence.
The following eighteen players will make the Rockhurst trip: Charles Bates, Buddy Bull, Jack Carby, Jay Drake, Dale Engel, Harold England, Claude Houchin, Bill Houghland, Bob Kennedy, Bill Leinhard, Clyde Lovelette, Harold Lowe, Guy Marby, Maurice Martin Gene Petersen, Carl Reade, Lyn Smith and Jerry Waugh.
Coach Allen will take his team to Kansas City by chartered bus leaving Lawrence at 1 p.m. Saturday. The team will set up headquarters at the Muehlbach Hotel and remain overnight following the game. A traveling squad of fourteen will continue to Omaha Sunday morning by bus for Monday night's contest with Creighton. The team will stay at the Fortenelle Hotel in Omaha Sunday night and return to Lawrence by bus immediately following the Creighton game.
Griffith To Play With South Team
Forrest Griffith-rated by the Kansas as the most under-rated back in the Big Seven conference, has accepted an invitation to play with the South team in the North-South game Dec. 26.
FORREST GRIFFITH
Griffith. 190-pounder, has been top fullback in the Big Seven two years running—1947 and 1848—but was overlooked this year by practically every all star picker.
The senior fullback and Jayhawker co-captain, will leave by plane about Dec. 19 for Miami, Fla The game is to be played there in the Orange bowl.
Griffith led the conference in scoring in 1947, and has paced Kansas in scoring in 1947 and 1948. He set a record of most points scored in one season for Kansas in 1947—his sophomore year. His record of 54 points was broken this year by Bud French who tallied 66 points.
Thursday's College Basketball Results
Hugh Johnson, Jayhawker co-captain and tackle last year played in the game in 1948.
Vanderbilt 65. N.Y.U. 59 (o.t.)
Vanderbilt 65, N.Y.U. 39 (U.C.)
Long Island University 66, Texas
East:
Panzer 49, Lock Haven Teachers 48
Dartmouth 76, St. Anselms 62
St. Michaels 80, Champlain 57
Buffalo State Teachers 59, University of Toronto 45
New Britain Teachers 84, Albany State Teachers 60.
Howard 39. Jacksonville 11. 40.
Bernhard 56. Macon 4. 28. Richmond
Royals 56.
St. Peters 84, Jersey City State Teachers 59.
So. Methodist 51, Centenary 49.
Southwest;
Oklahoma Alumni 46, Oklahoma 40
Houston 48, Hardin Simmons 36
Alva State, Teacher 7, C
boun. Howard 59, Jacksonville Th. 40.
Kansas State 83, Rockhurst 34
 Iowa 76, Colorado College 54
Augustana (III.) 52, Cornell collere 46
Northwestern 54, Western Michigan 43.
Cabital 110, Rio Grande 48
Kalamazoo 48, Calvin College 41
Valley City Teachers 60, Moorhead
Teachers 44
nental Oilers 46.
Midwest:
Capital 110, Rio Grande 46
Wyoming 42, Montana State 39
Idaho 60, Eastern Washington col-
f Education 39
San Jose State 43, University of San Francisco 38
Tombstone Bears War Scars
Boston—(U,P)—Daniel Malcolm's tombstone in Copps Hill burying ground still bears scars made by musketballs when British soldiers in 1776 used the stones during target practice.
Battenfeld Over Little Saint Is Only Close IM Game
Battenfeld and Little Saint, in the independent "B" bracket, produced a 23 to 22 contest to enliven an otherwise run-of-the-mill day in first-round intramural basketball. Two contests—Oread vs. Gamma Delta and Dreamers vs. Kappa Psi—were postponed.
Independent "B" games
Battenfeld barely edged the Little Saints 23 to 22. Bill Pearn of Battenfield led scorers during the game with eight points.
Navy was the 25 to 15 victim of the Spartans. At halftime the Spartans led 14 to 4 and coasted through after intermission. Dick Dilsaver and Mel Brown of the victors led scorers with nine and eight points respectively.
Fraternity "A" Games:
Duane Unruh and Bob Drumm helped Kappa Sigma run up a 39-13 win over Sigma Pi. The game was in control of the Kappa Sig squad all the way, with a half-time score of 18-6.
SigmaNu, paused by John Ivie's 20 points, easily defeated Delta Chi, 46 to 13. The speedy forward hit seven of his ten field goals in the second half. Charles Hanna added seven points to the winners total.
Jack Winter and Hank LaRue were high men for the Betas with 8 points each.
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and George Washington were known as "the pen, the tongue and the sword of the American Revolution."
Phi Kappa Sigma upset Sigma Chi with a 26-17 victory. The score was tied at the half 13-13, but a rally by the Phi Kaps during the second half ended the game with a 9 point margin for the Phi Kap squad. Norman Harris was top scorer for Phi Kappa Sigma.
The Beta team romped over Phi Kappa Tau with a final score of 33-18. The Phi Kappa Tau squad lead early in the game 8 to 3, but the Betas had tied the score by halftime, 9-9.
Pi Kappi Alpha made a game of it for the first half, but faded and Sigma Phi Epsilon won 31 to 16. Lou Deluna netted nine points in the second half for Sig Ep to take game scoring honors with 11 points. Dan Clinger scored eight points for Pi K. A.
The Medic Whiz Kids, never trailing, downed Triangle, 30 to 20. Big Bob Van Citters of the Whizzes tipped in four goals for eight points to take scoring honors. Paul Thome collected six points for the losers.
Christmas is rolling around again—getting closer than most of us realize. This season always poses a problem for most of us as to just what to get for everyone. It's nice to give necessities, but the thrill comes in getting something that will give pleasure and usefulness long after the "kick of getting" it is past.
In instances where it's acceptable, we suggest giving a 'hobby, not a toy.' Of all the avenues open to the public for entertainment, photography is the most fun. Kits are available, containing all the necessary materials for printing pictures, at $7.50, for enlarging at $12.95.
The "Photocraft" enlarging kit contains camera, trays, film tank, enlarger, safelight, graduate chemicals, and paper. It is for 828 size film and a remarkable kit for that price.
In the visual education field you can't beat "Viewmaster." Viewer and 3 reels sell for $3.00. It is three-dimensional, like the old stereopticon viewer, with the Fairy Tales and many other reels. This item is versatile enough for all kids from 3 to 100.
There are also cameras, enlargers, movie cameras, projectors, and accessories. Your dealer will be glad to help you in every way that he can.
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