1, 1949
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Michigan Is Guest Team Of Big Seven Cage Tourney
The 1949 Big Seven pre-season basketball tournament to be held in Kansas City's municipal auditorium from Dec.27 through Dec.30 promises to be the finest ever, according to R.E.Peters, executive secretary of the Big Seven conference.
The University of Michigan is the guest team for this year's tournament and will enter the meet with an excellent record. They won the Big Ten championship in 1948 and finished third in last year's race, he added.
In Michigan's last game of the 1948-49 season, they defeated the champion Illinois team by 15 points with underclassmen doing most of the damage. With the return of several key lettermen, Michigan will be a power in this year's Big Ten conference race and one of the favorites in the Kansas City tourney. They will represent their conference for the first time in the Big Seven tournament.
By the time the annual cage classic rolls around, most of the conference clubs will have undergone one or more severe non-conference tests and each club's relative strength will be better known.
The Jayhawkers, Kansas State, and Oklahoma will clash with the top cage clubs on eastern swings during December.
Students desiring tickets to the tournament should leave their orders with Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, as early as possible in order to receive choice seats for the tourney. Each school will receive a limited number of choice seats in a block so as to keep their supporters together.
The prices are $1.00, $2.00, $3.00,
tax included, for the night games
and for $1.00 for afternoon games.
If ordering tickets by mail, send
an additional 25 cents to the total
amount for mailing and insuring
tickets, to Clyde Baker, Municipal
Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo.
Tickets go on sale by mail today.
The Jayhawkers draw a tough assignment when they play the Kansas State Aggies in the first round. This contest will be played as the second game of a doubleheader on Tuesday, Dec. 27, starting at 9:30 p.m. The first game brings together last year's co-champion Oklahoma Sooners and Iowa State College.
On the following evening, Nebraska clashes with Colorado in the first game, with Missouri and Michigan battling it out in the second half of the twin bill. The four first round winners will tangle on the third night while the losing clubs battle it out in the loser's bracket in afternoon contests. The championship game will be at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30.
Kansas will have seven non- conference games under their
belts before entering the tourney. These contests should help Kansas cage fans to get an idea on how Kansas will fare in the tourney. Four of these games will be severe tests for Coach "Phog" Allen's battling sophomore giants.
The Purdue Boilermakers visit Hoch auditorium for the Jayhawkers' home opener on Saturday, Dec. 10, in a contest that has the carmarks of a real scoring battle. Year after year, Purdue has ranked high in the Big Ten conference and this year's club is expected to be a power in that circuit.
Following the home opener against the Boilermakers, the Kansas cagers take to the road for a four-game eastern swing.
The first stop will be in Cincinnati to battle Cincinnati university, tenth ranking team in the nation last year, on Dec. 15. Two nights later, the Jayhawkers tangle with Duquesne, another toughie, in Pittsburgh.
On Dec. 20 in Boston Garden, Dr.
Allen's charges battle it out with the
Holy Cross Crusaders, probably the
top club on the East coast.
Holy Cross has another great cage club built around co-captain Bob Cousy, all-American forward and high scorer last year, and their other co-captain, Frank Offring, another high scoring forward. These two great offensive players give the Crusaders one of the best one-two scoring punches in college ranks.
The fourth road game finds Kansas playing Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., the cradle of basketball.
Should the tall Jayhawkers bring home victories over either Cincinnati or Holy Cross or possibly both, the Big Seven had better brace themselves for a rocky and rough season from Dr. Allen's young cagers.
Indians Use Live Oak To Mark Important Trail
Southport, N. C.—(U.P.)—A huge live oak at this river-mouth town is one of the few and rare relics of Indian trail-marking skill.
The giant oak, built when young and lashed to the ground, grows horizontally for several feet before towering vertically. Indians are believed to have trained the tree to mark important turns in their trails.
It is believed that comparatively few examples of these ancient road signs still exist.
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Photo by Hank Brown
The Sigma Chi intramural touch football team, 1949-8" league champions. They are, (left to right): First row: Ben Kamprath, Bob Maupin, George Holden. Second row: Tony 'Bontz, Wally Benton, Bob Duboc, Gordon Saunders. Third row: Dick Wagstaff, Dixon Vance, Jim Connell, Wayne, Livingston, Bill Stratton, Mahlon Ball.
Czech Tennis Star Blasts
Bigoted American Rankins
Sydney, Australia—(U.P.) Jaroslav Drobny, self-exiled Czechoslovakia tennis star, complained that "American Rankins are only to suit America."
Mr. Drobny said he planned to become an Australian citizen. Previously, he indicated that he left Communist Czechoslovakia to become an American citizen.
Tickets On Sale For Cage Opener
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Students desiring to attend the Jayhawkers' 1949-50 basketball opener against the Roekhurst College Hawks on Saturday night in Mason Halpin field house, Kansas City, Mo., can secure their tickets from Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, in Robinson gym. Tickets sell for $1.00.
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