UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1949
Basketball Gets Underway Jayhawkers Aim For Top
Bv GEORGE BROWN. JR.
The Jayhawker Varsity basketball squad will start practice Monday, Oct. 17, Dr. F. C. Allen, head coach, has announced. The Big Seven conference ruling allows practice to start on Friday, Oct. 15. The Jayhawkers, with a 24-game schedule, will be shooting for the top this season.
"Few teams go from the cellar to the top of the ladder—the championship rung," commented Coach Allen. "It will take an exceptional group of boys performing in an exceptional way to win the Big Seven crown this year."
With the finest prospects a Kansas basketball coach has had in many years, we could do just that if the boys chose a challenging attitude of really giving and also getting into condition," he added.
Coach Allen and Dick Harp, assistant basketball coach, have spent the summer working on plays and also studying eligibility of players so that there will be nothing left undone in the way of having things in tip-top shape as practice begins.
"We have given a lot of detailed attention to plays," Allen said. "We have also tried to see if we couldn't improve our defense," he added.
Glass backboards—according to the new conference ruling—will be used in Hoch auditorium and perhaps Robinson gymnasium.
The team will be outfitted in fanning red shoes to match the var-
sities of their teammates, and the hopes that they will be the flashiest te
in the conference.
And if ash, we should flash forward, not laterally or backward, Allen said.
The make or break schedule has only eight home games. This means the Jayhawkers will usually play on foreign courts, and will have to be doubly good to win.
Home Games
Dec. 10, Purdue
*Jan. 6, Oklahoma
*Jan. 27, Iowa State
*Jan. 30, Drake
*Feb. 11, Nebraska
*Feb. 17, Missouri
*Feb. 25, Colorado
*Mar. 7, Kansas State
Games Away
Dec. 3, Rockhurst—K.C.
Dec. 5, Creighton
Dec. 15, Cincinnati
Dec. 17, Duquesne
Dec. 20, Holy Cross
Dec. 23, Springfield
Dec. 27-30, Big Seven Tour—K.C.
*Jan. 10, Nebraska
*Jan. 14, Missouri
*Feb. 6, Colorado
*Feb. 14, Kansas State
Feb. 20, Drake
*Mar. 3, Iowa State
*Mar. 11, Oklahoma
Conference games
*Conference games
The game with Creighton at Ahn on Dec. 10 finds the Jayhawkers helping to dedicate the Father' Flanagan fieldhouse. The team is to stay at Boystown after the game.
The game with Springfield, Mass College will have a little added color.
The pupil vs. coach angle will be furnished by John W. Bunn. Springfield athletic director, and Coach Allen.
Bunn played basketball and football under Allen, and was on the now famous, but then underdog, Kansas gridiron squad that played a highly favored Nebraska team to a 20 to 20 tie in 1920.
Bunn won 11 letters at K.U. in basketball, football, baseball and track.
After graduation Bunn was Dr. Allen's assistant. He then moved to Stanford as coach and from there to Springfield.
More color is added to the picture in that Dr. James Naismith developed the game of basketball while at Springfield in 1891 before coming to KU. in 1898. Coach Allen played basketball under Dr. Naismith while he was coach here. Seventeen of the players Allen is counting on are: Dave Dennis, Harold England, Claude Houchin, Guy Mabry, Maurice Martin and Gene Peterson, seniors; Buddy Bill, Bill Champion, Dale Engel and Gerry Waugh, juniors; Charlie Bates, Jack
Bill Lienhard, Clyde Louvelette and Harold Lowe, sashimores
"The nation that lackets vision perishes," quoted Allen. "We are sure the boys will give everything they have, and we hope our dreams and work will not fall short of our goal," he added.
Two Kansans Get Nation Mention
Forrest, Griffith, Kansas fulback, ranks 12th in the nation in kickoff returns and Bud French, Kansas right halfback 22nd in punt returns, according to latest official statistics released by the National Collegiate Athletic bureau.
Griffith has returned eight kick-offs 148 yards and French has 116 yards on eight punt returns. The rankings are based upon total yardage. Dick Braznell, Missouri, has 129 yards on five kickoff run-backs to rank 20th.
Mighty Oklahoma ranks seventh in rushing defense, allowing three fees an average of only 71.7 yards a game. O.U. opponents have run 108 plays with an average gain of only 1.99 yards.
In total defense (rushing plus passing), Kansas State is 11th, allowing 189 and Nebraska has allowed 204.3 for 20th. The rankings are based only upon total yardage. Strength of the opposition is not taken into account and only the first 20 are listed. In pass defense Kansas State is seventh, yielding only 53.7 yards a game and Nebraska is 10th, allowing 57.
O. U. 7th in Defense
Aggies 9th in Punt Returns
Aggies 5th in Punt Returns Kansas State is ninth in punt returns (based upon average per return) with a 20.9 average, but Iowa State has the top individual in total yardage in little Don Ferguson, who has 170 yards for 12 returns.
Nebraska is the fourth-ranking team in kickoff returns with 34 yards for each return, and Oklahoma is sixth with a 28.5 average.
Kingsville, Texas—(U.P.) Texas A. and I. College has invited 20 colleges from eight states to compete in an intercollegiate rodeo here in November. The A. and I. Rodeo Club, a branch of the South Texas fair, will sponsor the比赛.
Colleges Compete In Rodeo
When Jack Mitchell, Oklahoma's great quarterback in 1948, was graduated the past spring football fans were sure the Sooners would slip this year. But, now, those same fans are saying that Darell Royal may become even greater than Mitchell, and Oklahoma certainly isn't slipping.
Students Invited To City Golf Meet
Here's your chance to give those golfing clubs a good dusting off.
Pat Conn, Lawrence Country club professional, has invited all University students to take part in the 1949 Men's Medal Play Golf City championship. All tournament play will be on Sunday, Oct. 23. All entries must be in by Friday, Oct. 21. Conn said today.
The tournament will have four flights, four scoring levels thus being recognized. Flights A, B, and C are scheduled to go 18 holes but the championship flight will go 36 holes
Locker room talk favors Dick Ashley, present Big Seven golf champion, in the championship flight, said Bill Winey, Jr., Kansas golf coach. He said that Jack Hines, a graduate student, is another top contender.
Following competition Oct. 23 the traditional trophy presentation will be held. The entree fee provides two days of golf, a chance at winning one of the four prizes, and also enables the golfer to attend the banquet, Conn said. Students interested may call the Lawrence Country club to make arrangements.
Minnesotans Want Economy
Minneapolis, —(U.P.)—Many Minnesotaans feel it would be wise for the national government to cut spending, but there it strong opposition throughout the state to any reduction in funds for the armed forces or war veterans' benefits, according to a survey by the Minneapolis Tribune's Minnesota poll.
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With one first-round match still remaining, two upsets have already been registered in the Varsity fall tennis tournament. The tournament finals will probably be played next week, Varsity coach Dick Richards said today.
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The two men who show best in this fall tournament, a similar one to be held in the spring, and intra-squad practice will represent Kansas in conference play next spring.
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Richards paced Kansas to the conference tennis championship in 1948 when he was Big Seven singles champion. Hervey Macferran, who will be the Jayhawks number one man this spring, was a member of the championship 1948 team.
Virgil Samborn upset third-seeded Bill Thompson 6-0, 1-6, 8-6, in first-round play. John Freiburger turned in the other upset, downing second-seeded Russell Muth 6-3, 6-2.
Other results in first round play:
Dale Ferguson defeated Jack
Louis Smith defeated John Jell 6-0, 6-0.
Bob Swartzell defeated Bob Mat-
ters 6-3, 6-2
Audre Davis defeated Robert
Zuchbuchen 4-6,7-5,6-1
Hal Titus defeated Richard Meuc
tus 7-5, 6-3.
Charles Crawford, seeded number one in the tourney, will meet William Mason in the other opening round game. Bob Swartzell is seeded number four.
Second Look At New Look
Bill Mason got in the tournament by winning preliminary matches from Gene Gates 6-1, 6-3 and Kendall Martin 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.
Omaha, Neb.—(U.P.)-Elmer Ora Bradley, 32, was booked for investigation here after betraying an unusual interest in women's fashions. Witnesses said he backed up for a good run and "dove" through the $850 plate glass window of The Aquila, a women's apparel shop.
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Cheney, Wash.—(U.P.)—Mr., and Mrs. George Ford moved into house trailer 101 as the school year got under way at Eastern Washington College of Education here. The Ford's problems were no different from those of scores of other families moving into the 76 other trailers, except Ford—who measures six feet eight inches, could not stand erect in his new home.
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