FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVI
Team Of Subs Show They Can Win For UCLA
With what was left he put together a team that is undefeated this season on its home floor and has lost only five of 22 games.
His 1949 model Bruins are virtually a cinch to wind up no worse than second in Southern division although they have four of their toughest games to go-against Stanford tonight and California tomorrow on their home court, and a home-and-home pair next weekend with U.S.C., co-leaders in the division.
Wooden gave up a highly successful coaching job at Indiana State Teachers' college, a few months ago to take over the dubious basketball fortunes of the University of California at Los Angeles.
"His secret," advises his assistant. Bill Putnam, "is his emphasis on fundamentals.
Los Angeles, Feb. 25—(U.R.) — A bunch of second-stringers from last year's U.C.L.A. basketball team, which lost more games than it won, found themselves sharing the Pacific Coast conference Southern division lead today with just four games to go.
And the man who gets the credit is a little, pleasant fellow with an Indiana twang who goes by the name of John Wooden.
"We spent 75 per cent of our practice time drilling on shooting, passing, pivoting—John says you can't get enough of that."
He found he had lost the five ministers from last year's squad which won 12 games and lost 13 while tying for last in the conference Southern division.
Wooden's style of play is not much different from what the Bruins used last year, but the little man is being hailed as a phenomenon in Western coaching circles.
Wooden insists that his team use a set break every time it gets the ball but draws the line at shooting bad ones.
"If you can't make it, pass the ball out and try it again," he tells his "racehorse" Bruins.
Wooden claims Western basketball talent is on a par with that anywhere in the country.
If the fast break doesn't produce a basket, he drills his team on straight cutting and passing to set up a score.
"With the possible exception of Kentucky, where they hand pick 'em," he hastily added. "But I think we could hold our own with most teams in the country."
Rated as one of the greatest All-American guards in collegiate basketball while playing at Purdue, Wooden was named All-Conference for three straight years in the early 30's.
He slipped into coaching ranks at a small high school in Dayton, Ky. Two years later he moved to South Bend, Ind., High school where he reduced five championship teams seven years.
His Indiana State Teachers college team last year won 29 out of 34 games, tucked away its conference title and was runner-up in the NAIL.B tournament in Kansas City
The Bruins aren't cinches to win any championships this year, but with an undefeated fresh team and most of this year's squad to draw from Coach Wooden is being hailed as the man to put U.C.L.A. on the basketball map.
New Champion Bowling Team
Atlantic City, N.J., Feb. 25—(U.P.)Official tabulators at the American Bowling Congress tournament chalked up a new name atop the team standings today—that of the American Bowling and Billiards team of New York City.
The New Yorkers displaced the De Angelis grill team of Hershey, Pn., by rolling a 2968 series.
Bituminous coal underlies more than half the state of Illinois. Its coal mining industry is large. Other minerals of the state include petroleum, fluorspar, pig iron and primary zinc.
Ducks Visiting Lawrence On Kaw
Several hundred wild ducks have been spending the last few days near the Kansas Electric Power company plant on the Kaw river four miles northwest of Lawrence.
William E. Torneden, 716 Louisiana street, an assistant operator at the power plant said the birds could be heard clamoring all through the night. According to Torneden, the ducks seem to drift along with the current until they reach a point where lights from the plant illuminate the water, then fly back upstream again.
Aggies Entertain State Lawmakers
BY DARELL NORRIS
Over at Manhattan Thursday night the Aggies roped off seating space for 150 Kansas legislators who were guests at the game. It was pre-cious seating space, too, because over 300 students with tickets were turned away from the door.
They figured it was for a good cause though, because the moment the law makers entered the cracker box Nickels gymnasium the students began chanting "we want a field house, we want a field house."
But the 300 students were not forgotted. Just before the game got underway the fans all stood up and gave a loud cheer for their poor fellow students who were left standing out in the cold.
Probably the Wildcat fans aren't the only ones who would like a bigger place to hold their basketball games. The gymnasium is so small visiting teams have to sit directly in front of the hostile (and we do mean hostile) K-State rooters. When the excitement of the game is high they aren't exactly the nicest folk to have breathing down your neck.
Kansas was not without a rooting section at the game. The freshman basketball squad was on hand to witness the Kansas defeat, and the officers of the KU. student council were also present as guests of the Kansas State student council.
One student rooter was heard to remark, "man those guys over at K.U. are really lucky to have Hoch auditorium to play in." "Just think," he said, "4000 seats."
But everyone at Manhattan isn't crazy over the Wildcat basketball team. Stopping at a gas station in Aggieville just three blocks from the gymnasium we asked the attendant who was going to win the game tonight. "What game?" was his reply. We thought that was funny, but when he said he didn't follow football very much he left us wondering. Here he didn't even know which season it was.
As a pre-game speciality the Wildeats freshman team played a practice game, and it seems that next year's edition of the K.S. basketball team will not be without a tall man. Lewis Hitch, who stands 6 feet 8 inches as a standout performer in that game and he looked like he may be a pretty fair man under anybody's basket next year in the Big Seven.
Jack Gardner played 15 men in the game. Ken Mahoney, forward went into the game with less than a minute to play and took two shots. His total points? Four.
San Diego - (U.R.)-The woman of the near future will have a buxom, hour glass figure, shorter skirts and longer hair, according to Earl Mac-Pherson, who puts those pretty girls on calendars.
Hour Glass Figure Next, Says Expert
MacPherson explained that calendars are prepared two years in advance and the artist must anticipate styles.
He said, for example, that he and his wife were working with new French bathing suits before the first ones ever were seen over here.
The artist has been using San Diego State college girls for his models for the past four years.
'Abuse' Causes Two Skyline 6 Refs To Quit
Denver, Feb. 24—(U.P.)—One of the most successful basketball seasons in the history of the Skyline Six conference was entering the last lap today with only one blot on an otherwise spotless record.
That blot, and it threatens to spread to other conferences, was the bickering over officiating and charges of "home-towning."
During the past few years it has become increasingly evident that eastern and western teams played a different style of ball, and were used to having fouls called a certain way. When they visited foreign courts and fouls were called differently they returned home mumbling to themselves.
In the Rocky mountains the situation erupted when two officials submitted their resignations. They said they no longer could take the "abuse" handed out by the fans or the "criticism" thrown at them by coaches.
As an example of what they meant the two retiring whistle blowers pointed to an early season Utah-Wyoming game. These two teams were deadlocked for the loop lead and met in a crucial match at the home court of the Cowboys.
When the game was over Wyoming had won. Then the Monday filberts got together and re-hashed the scoring. They found that Utah had a total of 28 fouls blown against them while Wyoming got marked for only 16 infractions. Immediately the cry of "home town" officiating went up.
The two officials who worked the game then came in for criticism. Whether they deserved it probably will never be known. But a quick look at the game, play by play, would indicate the charges were false.
In the game, which was hard fought from start to finish, the home team, Wyoming, got possession of the ball with two minutes left to play. They began a systematic ball control game to protect a two-point lead and in these two minutes, while Utah tried aggressively to get the ball and score, the officials blew 10 fouls against the visitors.
This brought the total fouls called against the Utes to 28. But if it hadn't been for those last two minutes the fouls would have been only 18 against Utah, 16 against Wyoming. Hardly enough to call "home towning."
Officiating will have to be put on a national basis before charges of this nature cease. Western coaches are going to say "we wuz robbed" when they visit eastern arenas and eastern mentors are going to say the same thing when they go west.
New York, Feb. 25—(U.P.)-Rivals of mighty Kentucky wondered today, are the Wildcats getting weaker or just getting bored?
It's a touchy situation, that's sure. It's a situation that should get better in the next year or two as a move is pressed' for standardizing the rules. Until it is, though, there are going to be more charges levelled against the officials which will spoil what otherwise would have been successful seasons.
Is Kentucky Bored Or Weaker?
Two weeks ago the dribble demons from the bluegrass committed basketball murder on Xavier university of Cincinnati by a score of 96 to 50. Meeting again in Cincinnati last night, Kentucky had to put on pressure to win. 51 to 40.
Kentucky's title rivals like St. Louis, the Oklahoma Aggies, Illinois, and Western Kentucky, feared that the Wildcats were just getting tired of the 80-plus scores they have been running up in game after game.
First-seeded Western Kentucky and third-ranked Eastern Kentucky took forward strides in the Ohio Valley conference tourney at Louisville, Ky. Western trounced Tennessee Tech, 73-42, and Eastern ripped Murray State, 73-41.
Independent IM Teams Arrange Tournament
Eight independent intramural basketball teams have arranged for their own tournament. The teams are Oread hall A-1, A-2, B-1, and B-2, J.O.'s F.O.'s, Battenfield, Alpha Chi Sigma, and Kappa Psi. The playoffs will be started today and will be run off on weekends.
The Oread hall teams will play each other which was not possible in regular intramural play. The chemical engineers team, J.O.'s F.O.'s will meet their rivals, Alpha Chi Sigma chemistry fraternity, in one of the opening games.
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