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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1949
Petersen Top KU Scorer Averaging 11.36 Per Game
Forward Gene Petersen leads the Jayhawkers in scoring with an 11.36 average through Kansas' 22 games this season.
Claude Houchin, 6 foot, 5 inch guard, is second to his 6 foot, 7 inch teammate with a mark of 10.36 points a game. Although he ranks fourth in total points, Harold England has the third highest average at 9.17. England has missed the last 10 games
Jerry "The Sheriff" Waugh, highly-considered defensive man, has averaged 7.36. Waugh might claim the title of the league's least-fouling regular player. Playing almost all of every game at his quarterback position, Waugh has averaged only 1.27 fouls a game.
In the team total, Kansas has averaged 49.73 points a game, committed 15.59 fouls a game, and has a 581 percentage in free throws. Opponents have hit 45.59 points a game, committed 20.77 fouls, and have a .593 mark in free throwing.
The K.U. individual scoring table, listing games played, field goals, free throws, free throws missed,
personal fouls, and total points, is as follows:
| | gp. | fg. | ft. | mft. | pf. | pts. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Peterson, f | 22 | 93 | 64 | 43 | 62 | 250 |
| Houchin, f | 22 | 94 | 64 | 30 | 69 | 228 |
| Waugh, c | 22 | 62 | 38 | 28 | 28 | 162 |
| England, f | 12 | 42 | 28 | 16 | 16 | 110 |
| Martin, f | 22 | 30 | 41 | 22 | 44 | 101 |
| Sapp, f | 22 | 28 | 21 | 31 | 61 | 84 |
| Enns, g | 14 | 14 | 25 | 11 | 31 | 53 |
| Mabry, f-c | 17 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 30 |
| Bull, f | 19 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 27 |
| Dennis, f | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| Smith, g | 16 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 16 |
| Penny, f | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 |
| Jones, c | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Champion, f | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Engel, g | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
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Di Maggio's Heel Pronounced OK
New York, March 3—(U.P.) Cheered by a doctor's verdict that his damaged heel is strong enough to play baseball on. Jolting Joe Di Maggio was set today to rejoin his New York Yankee teammates at their Florida training camp.
The famed Yankee clipper rushed back North yesterday because his right heel, which was operated on during the winter, had pained him after only one workout.
NAIB Play For 32 Teams
Kansas City, Mo., March 3—(U.P.) The N.A.I.B. tournament-planners were busy today setting up the nation's most gruelling basketball show - open to small colleges only - for Monday, March 7 to Saturday, March 12.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball event passes up the "Big Boys" like Kentucky, St. Louis and Oklahoma A. and M. and draws its entries from small champions only.
It's a tournament no college ever has won two years in a row since its inauguration in 1938. And the hectic pace it exacts from the competitors leaves the title-winners limp from exhaustion when it is over.
The N.A.I.B. tourney features a balanced elimination bracket of 32 teams. Games are played in the afternoon and evening and once a school survives the first round, it must play—and win—four games in as many nights to take the championship.
Teams qualify for the N.A.I.B. event by means of regional tournaments or selection by regional committees. Even the defending champion University of Louisville quintet will have to qualify for this year's meet. Marshall college of Huntington, W.Va., won in 1947.
Lavelli Equals Scoring Record
New York, March 3- (U.P.)—Western Kentucky's Hilltoppers, led by their famed towel-tossing coach, Ed Diddle, today were booked for their fourth appearance in the National Invitational tournament starting Saturday, March 12 at Madison Square Garden.
The Hilltopppers and Bradley university's Braves became the third and fourth teams to accept bids for the annual post-season shindig. Defending champion St. Louis university and Kentucky accepted invitations earlier this week.
However, Yale's Tony Lavelli managed to grab the headlines again as he equalled George Mikan's all-time record of 1.870 points for his collegiate career by leading his Elimates to a 71 to 55 victory over Connecticut.
There was little activity on the college basketball front Wednesday night.
Lavelli reached Mikan's mark by tallying 32 points.
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Mikan Sets New Scoring Record
Mikan, 6 foot 10 inch center of the Minneapolis Lakers, recently added such lustre to an already dazzling reputation that experts regard him with the genuine awe befitting an immortal.
An example of this awe was reflected today in the statement of Joe Lapchick, conservative coach of the New York Knickerbockers. Lapchick told a reorted:
"Mikan is the greatest all-around basketball player that ever lived, and the highest paid and the greatest gate attraction. He's the Ruth, the Dempsey, the Hagen, the Tilden of basketball. And one helluva swell fellow along with it."
Lapchick delivered that superlative praise while chatting about Mikan's achievements at Baltimore. Mikan, 25, established two new scoring records for the Basketball Association of America as he paced Minneapolis to a 115 to 114 victory over the Baltimore Bullets. His 35 points bettered his own previous record of 48, set against Lapchick's
New Yorkers during Feb. 22 matinee at Madison Square Garden.
Later, he added 14 more points as the Lakers were tripped up by the Fort Wayne Zollner-Pistons, 74 to 50, at Fort Wayne.
And the Baltimore 53 gave the lanky, bespectacled center a total of 1,411 points for the season—a total that surpassed the B.A.A.'s previous seasonal record of 1,389, which was set by Joe Fulks of Philadelphia during the 1946-'47 campaign. And when George walked off the Baltimore Court, his Lakers still had 11 games to play.
There's no longer any question of who will capture scoring honors in the circuit; the only uncertainty concerns how many records the lofty "adding machine" will set. He threatens the goal-fuel, free-throw, and field-goal average marks.
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