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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949
K State Downs Rockhurst In Big Seven Cage Opener
The Kansas State Wildcat basketball team defeated Rockhurst 83 to 34 last night to open the Big Seven conference. Ernie Barrett led the Wildcat attack with 15 counters.
This game was the first of 63 to be played by Big Seven teams before the league opened between Kansas and Oklahoma Jan. 6 in Hoch auditorium.
By the time the annual Big Seven pre-season tournament rolls around late this month in Kansas City, cage fans should have a good line on their favorite clubs. Twenty-eight of the non-conference battles are with teams that annually rank high among the national cage powers.
Eleven games will be played with Southwest Conference clubs and another nine bring Big Ten teams against the Big Seven banners. Other cage powers to meet the Big Seven are: Bradley University twice, Holy Cross, Cincinnati, Duquesne, Long Island University, City College of New York, and Washington State of the Pacific Coast conference.
The Jayhawkers play a strong seven-game schedule before entering the Kansas City tourney. These games should provide Kansas cage followers a line on the Jayhawkers' relative strength for the classic as well as the Big Seven conference race.
Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen's tail cagers open their 1949-50 season against Rockhurst Saturday night in the Mason Halpin field house, Kansas City, Mo. Following their game with the Hawks, the Jayhawkers move on to Omaha to angle with the Creighton Bluejays Monday night.
A four-game eastern swing pits Kansas against three of the most powerful cage cubs in the nation. These teams are Holy Cross, Cincinnati, and Duquesne. Many pre season ratings place these teams in the top twenty clubs of the nation.
Coach Jack Gardner's Wildcats, built around potential All-American forward Rick Harman, takes on high ranking Long Island University, Wisconsin, Washington State College, Canisius, Baylor, and West Virginia. The Aggies, rated along with Oklahoma as pre-season favorites to cop this year's title, will get a severe test from these six loaded clubs.
Kansas State will rest their hopes on Harman, Clarence Brannum, Ernie Barrett, Lloyd Krone, and probably Ed Head, or Jack Stone, a pair of fine juniors.
Oklahoma, co-champions with Nebraska in 1948-49, will build their club around three remaining starters from last year—Paul Merchant, Wayne Glasgow, and Bill Waters. Missing this year will be their fine jump shot artist, Paul Courty, and Kenneth Pryor, greatest Sooner long shot of all time.
Two games with Illinois and single engagements with Texas am City College of New York room out their pre-tourney schedule.
Coach Harry Good's Nebraska Cornhuskers aren't expected to give the trouble they gave last year when they tied Oklahoma for the championship. With the graduation of Claude Retherford, unorthodox sharpshooter who led Nebraska in scoring for four years, Nebraska lost much of their offensive punch. They will have to rely on Milt White-head, six-foot nine-inch 215 pound postman, and Joe Malecek, outstanding junior forward, to carry much of this year's scoring load.
Nebraska plays Bradley on Dec 12, Baylor Dec. 17, and several weak opponents before moving into the Kansas City tournament.
The Colorado Buffaloes, with last year's starting lineup intact, could be the darkhorse team of the conference this year. Coach Forrest "Frosty" Cox will have plenty of rebound power in center Bob Rolander and Carr Besemann. Other starters will probably be Wayne Tucker, Bill Ley, and Kendall Hills, defensive wizard.
Seven games precede the tournament on the Buffaloes schedule. They play two games with Emporia State, Northwestern in Chicago, a pair of games with Rice Institute, a team with The University Methodist, one of this year's favorites in the Southwest conference.
Iowa State, coached by Clayton (Chick) Sutherland, isn't expected to rise much out of their co-cellar berth shared with the Jayhawkers last year. Only six lettermen are back and the team lacks height and scoring ability. The Cyclones play an eight game schedule before Dec. 27 in meeting Luther College, Grinnell, Bradley University, one of the top five clubs in the country, Drake twice, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Idaho.
Coach Wilbur Stalcup's Missouri Tigers will probably battle it out for third place in the final conference standings. The Tigers have plenty of height and rebound power in Don Stroot, six-foot eight-inch beanpole, and in Jerry Fowler, six-foot six-inch 225-pounder.
The Tigers face a six-game schedule before tourney time in playing Texas Christian University two games, Southern Methodist two games, and single contests with Michigan State and Wisconsin.
The Big Seven non-conference schedule through Dec. 6 is as follows:
Sat., Dec. 3—KANSAS at ROCK- HURST
Kansas State at Emporia State So. Dakota State at Nebraska Texas at Oklahoma
Luther College at Iowa State
MoDee. Dec. 5—KANS, at CREIGHTON
Emporia State at Colorado Grinnell at Iowa State
Owner's Name Tells Time
Tues. Dec. 6--Emporia State at Colorado
Winston-Salem, N. C. — (U.P.) Stuart Harris lost his gold pocket watch when he was in an automobile accident. He asked police to keep an eye out for it. Harris explained it would be easy to identify because in place of numbers the 12 letters of his name appeared.
Kansas State at Wisconsin
Notre Dame End Named Best
New York, Dec. 2 — (U.R.)—Monstrous Leon Hart of Notre Dame, one of the finest all-around gridiron stars of modern times, today was named collegiate player of the year by 295 sports writers and broadcasters polled by the United Press in nationwide balloting.
That honor just about completed a sweep of the boards for the 20-year-old native of Turtle Creek, Pa., who plans to play professional football after he is graduated next spring. Within the past two weeks Hart was chosen for the Maxwell and Heisman trophies and was the top vote getter on the United Press All-American team. He also was named United Press lineman of the year.
Hart polled 168 player of the year votes against 27 for his All-American teammate, quarterback Bob Williams who finished second. Williams was named United Press back of the year earlier this week in a similar poll.
Southern Methodist's triple-threat back, Doak Walker, was third in the poll with 19 votes while Eddie Lebaron of the College of the Pacific finished fourth with 16.
Players receiving more than four votes, included:
Charley Justice, North Carolina back, 8; Clayton Tonnemaker, Minnesota center, 7; Emil Sitko, Notre Dame fullback, 6.
Thief Gets Three Dollars;
Owner Loses 303 Dollar
Richmond, Va.—(U.P.)-The owners of a large Richmond department store ruefully surveyed the wreck of a big plate glass display window. Someone had tossed a brick through the window, to get three $1 bills pasted on the inside as part of a display. The window was valued at $300.
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Uncle Horace filled his house with horses
He figured to run his house by horse power instead of electric power. No more electric bills for him!
So he hitched Dobbin to the washing machine, and old Nell to the refrigerator. Bought another nag for the vacuum cleaner and more for the other jobs.
Poor Horace! All he got was a hate for horseflesh and a hatful of debts.
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And why not? Electric power is about the handiest, quickest, easiest way to get work done. And about the cheapest . . . what else can you buy that does so much, yet costs so little? (An average family in a day uses electric power equal to the work of 5 or 6 horses—and buys it for a few pennies!)
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