UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOV. 18.
PAGE THIRTY
Field House To Be Ready By 1951 Season
It seems a foregone conclusion that the University of Kansas will have a field house seating approximately 16,400 during the latter part of the 1951 basketball season.
This structure will be used not only for the cage sport but for track, winter baseball, and football practice when the weather is unfavorable. Track facilities will include an eight lap per mile track 30 feet wide.
Last week T. DeWitt Carr, Dean of the School of Engineering, and Faculty Representative for the University in the Big Seven; Joe Wilson, business manager for the University; Raymond Nichols, executive secretary; E. C. Quigley, director of athletics; and Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, head basketball coach, conferred with the state architect in Topeka regarding plans for the new field house.
In the over-all athletic picture, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, and other facilities for physical education and K.U. athletics will be incorporated into the "dream" athletic plant. However, at the present time, the field house is to be completed first, it was decided in the Topeka meeting. Later each of the individual units will be connected with the field house which will be the center of the athletic plant.
The state legislature last winter appropriated $750,000 for the proposed $2,000,000 building. It will be necessary to raise an additional $500,000 or $600,000 to construct the walls and put a roof on this building.
It is believed that the 1950 legislature will appropriate an additional sum to complete the building.
The field house will be dedicated with Coach Adolph Rupp, former pupil of Dr. Allen, bringing his University of Kentucky Wildcats here to play the Jayhawkers.
This game should be a "natural" and draw considerable national attention.
The matter of raising this initial $600,000 will be considered by the Kansas Athletic board. It is hoped it will be possible to let bids for the construction of the building sometime in February 1950.
The size of the field house is expected to be approximately 260 feet wide and about 340 feet long.
Several possible sites are under consideration. One of the favored locations is the area southwest of Lindley hall. This area offers adequate parking facilities and easy access to the Kansas State highway number 10, one of two main arteries between Kansas City and Lawrence.
With the competition of the field house, the Jayhawkers are expected to schedule as many "big name" cage powers as possible on the home court, Dr. Allen, basketball coach, recently announced. In addition to conference play, we expect to play teams like Oklahoma A. & M., University of California, Big Ten conference schools, Notre Dame, Tulane, Holy Cross and other top flight cage teams, Dr. Allen, added.
Use of the new field house certainly can't come any too soon. The existing conditions for basketball at K.U. are the most inadequate in the Big Seven. Hoch auditorium places as much of a handicap on the home-club Jayhawkers as the visiting cage squads.
Because Hoch auditorium houses much of the School of Fine Arts and is unavailable much of the time, the Jayhawkers must practice on the Robinson gymnasium court and thereby fail to gain what is generally regarded as a home court advantage.
The court in Hoch auditorium also is laid on concrete and regarded by players as the worst possible torture to leg muscles. Players frequently suffer injuries after playing a hard game in the "music hall" and can only hope their legs will allow them to be
The Basketball Roster
Here's the Javhawkers' 1949-50 basketball roster:
Here's the Jayhawkers' 1949-50 basketball roster:
| Name | Pos | Age | Ht. | Wt. | Home | Col. Ex. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Bates, Charles | F | 18 | 6-5 | 195 | Kansas City, Mo. | None |
| *Bull, Buddy | F | 20 | 6-1 | 170 | Columbus | KU'49 |
| Carby, Jack | C-G | 19 | 6-7 | 229 | Kansas City, Mo. | None |
| Drake, Jay | G | 19 | 5-10 | 166 | Lawrence | None |
| *Engel, Dale | G-F | 20 | 6-1/2 | 178 | Salina | KU'49 |
| *England, Harold | F | 22 | 6-2 | 170 | Halstead | KU'47,'48,'49 |
| Hicks, Walter | G | 19 | 5-10 | 190 | Kansas City | None |
| *Houchin, Claude | G | 24 | 6-5 | 185 | Muncie | KU'47,'48,'49 |
| Hougland, Bill | G | 19 | 6-4 | 176 | Beloit | None |
| Kenney, Bob | F | 18 | 6-2 | 185 | Winfield | None |
| Lienhard, Bill | F | 19 | 6-5 | 180 | Newton | None |
| Lovelle, Clyde | C | 19 | 6-9 | 235 | Terre Haute, Ind. | None |
| Lowe, Harold | F | 18 | 6-2½ | 175 | Topeka | None |
| *Mabry, Guy | F | 23 | 6-0 | 155 | Rock Is., Ill. | KU'47,'48,'49 |
| *Martin, Maurice | F | 21 | 6-4 | 170 | Topeka | KU'46,'48,'49 |
| *Petersen, Gene | F | 22 | 6-7 | 210 | Lawrence Neb.'45,KU'46,'49 |
| Reade, Carl | G | 19 | 6-2 | 180 | Merriam | None |
| *Waugh, Jerry | F-G | 22 | 6-0 | 155 | Wellington | KU'48,'49 |
*Lettermen
The Jayhawkers are only one behind Kentucky in two other departments, with two national championship teams, and two men named player of the year. In addition, K.U. has Paul Endacott, great guard of 1921-23, on the all-time team, and Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game and K.U. first basketball coach (1899-1907), on the all-time honor roll.
The total of 14 is the same number of positions held by Purdue and Notre Dame, and second only to Kentucky. In 1947, the Wildcats, who are coached by Adolph Rupp, former pupil of Dr. Allen's were tied with KU.; but Ralph Beard and Alex Groza, members of their national champion teams of the past two years, have pulled Kentucky into the lead.
Kansas was rated national champs in both 1922 and 1923, winning 33 of 36 games in those two years. Endacott was named player of the year in 1922 and Charley Black another great guard (not related to Charley "The Hawk" Black, 1942-47), earned the same honor in 1923. It was a tremendous two-year sweep.
Kansas' total of 14 all-America first team positions is spread out over nine different men, five of whom were all seniors. The players named are as follows:
ready to go at top speed in their next encounter.
1922 Paul Endacott, guard
1923 Paul Endacott, guard
1902 Charles Block, guard
Kansas Ranks High In All-Time Rating Of The Helm's Athletic Foundation
1924 Charles Black, guard
With Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's name at the top of the list of the coaches' hall of fame, the University of Kansas holds a high position in all-time rankings of the Helm's Athletic Foundation.
The following football players are expected out for the squad after the grid season is completed: Jerry Bogue, Aubrey, Pat Murphy, Bob Raymer, Carl Sandefur, Bill Shaake, Lyn Smith, Archie Unruh, Duane Unrh and Dean Wells.
Those who know of Dr. Allen's selection for the hall of fame little realize that K.U. holds 14 positions on the all-America teams selected by the foundation for the past 30 years. These teams are by far the most long-established and highly-respected in basketball, but are not decided until well after the end of the season, and have received much less publicity than the many football selections.
1923 Charles Black, guard
1924 Charles Black, guard
1924 Tusten Ackerman, center
1925 Tusten Ackerman, center
Many Kansas grads, living in Kansas City and northeast Kansas, and other friends and supporters of Kansas athletics have been unable to see Dr. Allen's outstanding cage squads for many years except on rare occasions in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
The new field house will give these grads and others a break by allowing them a chance to follow the cage sport as well as Coach J. V. Sike's up-and-coming pigskin program.
By filling every nook and corner, Hoch auditorium, will allow a little over one-third of the students to attend the games. Of this small seating total, only about half the seats are desirable to give the spectators a chance to see "what-the-score-is."
1926 Gale Gordon, forward
1926 Albert Peterson, center
1937 Fred Pralle, guard
1937 Fred Pralle guard
1938 Fred Pralle guard
1941 Howard Engleman, forward
1942 Ray Evans, guard
1943 Ray Evans, guard
1946 Charley Black, forward
Other K.U. players have been selected to various other all-America teams, most of which have only come into existence in recent years. The Helms teams cover a longer period of time than any other and are generally conceded to be "the" all-America team of the year.
Erratic Corbin Takes Women's Title
In the women's intramural volleyball season just completed champion Corbin played the erratic rabbit to runner-up Delta Game steady tortoise from the first elimination game through the last nute of the championship game.
During the entire volleyball season Corbin team had its supporters biting their fingernails. They'd be "hot" one game and "cold" the next. They would either pile up a safe margin in the first half, only to "blow up" and just manage to coast through in the second half or they would barely squeeze through the first half and come back a strong winner in the second.
On the other hand the Delta Gamma team played a steady and consistently good game. They battled for each point carefully and deliberately. Their teamwork was smooth and functioning at all times. In the championship game the margin of difference between the two teams was in the homestretch spurt which Corbin brought out in the last seven minutes.
Both teams had outstanding players. They each placed several women on class teams. Corbin furnished four "A" players: Shirley Michelson, Betty Ozerenberger, Frances Pence, and Elsiemier Randell; and three "B" players: Pat Lander, Jo Pownall, and Barbara Smith.
Delta Gamma also had four "A"
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players: Nancee Bell, Jeannie Musa
mann, Jerre Mueller, and "Bar"
Schindler; but only two "B" play
Dorothy Wood and Dorothy Y
liams.
Corbin and Delta Gamma
joined by Pi Beta Phi and Kai Alpha Theta as semi-finalists on the 22 participating teams this year.
Dr. J. M. Jewett Attends Flood Control Meeting
The meeting was called by Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, the purpose of discussing the structiveness of past floods and necessity for future flood cor along the Cottonwood river.
Dr. J. M. Jewett, geologist of state geological survey, attende flood control meeting Tuesday Strong City, Kan.
She Merely Misplaced It
Tacoma. Wash.—(U.P.)-Mrs.
thur Sivertsen made a hole-in-
but missed the thrill of watching
She lost the ball in the sun after
tee shot and spent several mint
looking in the rough on a 139-y
hole.
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