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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1947
KU, K-State Meet For 113th Game
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG
A revamped Kansas team, hoping to climb another notch in the Big Seven standings, meets its traditional rival, Kansas State, tonight at Hoch auditorium. The game starts at 7:30 p.m.
The Jayhawkers could move into fourth place and even their record at 3-wins and 3-losses with a victory over the Aggies. So far, K.U. has dropped three out of five, while the®
Wildcats have lost three straight to drop into fourth place with 3-won and 4-lost.
After losing three of their first four conference games, Coach Phog Allen's club switched from their slow, deliberate style to a fast game with more shooting and ball-hawking.
The Jayhawkers have blasted Drake, 62 to 73, Creighton, 79 to 50, and pulled out a 62 to 57 triumph over Iowa State since changing to their more aggressive tactics. These wins gave K.U. a 10-win, 6-lost season record. K-State has won eight with 11 defeats.
Kansas whipped the Aggies, 60 to 46, in the conference pre-season tourney, but both teams have changed their lineups since then. Harold England is out with a severe charley horse, replaced by Maurice Martin. Hustling Sonny Enns has won a starting guard position.
The Kansas State lineup changes should make the Wildcats much better than they were in that early-season game, especially in rebounding. Big Clarence Brannum, 6-foot, 5-inch, center, has returned after a stay in A.A.U. ball. However, at the same time the Aggies lost through eligibility a center, Ward Clark, an inch shorter than Brannum but usually a better scorer.
More important to K-State hopes has been the return of Rick Harmon. The 6-foot, 3-inch forward from Hoisington is one of the league's best off the backboards. Harmon accomplished what few players have done in recent years—out-hustling and out-scuffing Oklahoma's Paul Courty off the Oklahoma defensive backboard at Norman. Harmon also rammed in 16 points to lift the Wildcats to a 47 to 45 win. O.U.'s only league setback. Harmon missed the pre-season conference tourney and the Aggies' first league game, a 42 to 49 loss to Missouri at Columbia.
Big Gene Petersen, who has thrown in 69 points the past three games, will round out the K.U. starting lineup along with Claude Houchin and Jerry Waugh, who is hampered with a heel injury suffered in the Iowa State thriller.
Sophomore Ernie Barrett and Ed Head, and veteran Lloyd Krone are the other starters for Jack Gardner's crew. Barrett led the K-State scoring with 10 points in the K.U. win at Kansas City.
K. U.'s victory over their arch rivals in the conference pre-season tournament snapped the Purple's string of wins over the Jayhawkers at four straight over two seasons. The Wildcats won three times last year, winning 61 to 60 at Lawrence on Brannum's free throw in the closing seconds, after K.U. had piled up a tremendous halftime lead. Harmon was K-State's top hand that night, gathering in rebounds and using his speed to steal many Kansas passes.
Kansas State won a rough 48 to 45 battle at Manhattan in 1947, snapping Kansas's string of 22 consecutive wins over the Purple in a jinx that extended back to 1937. It will be the 113th meeting of the rivals, with Kansas holding a big margin of 77 victories to 35.
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Royals Into Lead In West Division
Rochester's red-hot Royals, whose current winning streak has carried them into first place in the Western division of the Basketball Association of America, were slated to clash tonight with the Washington Caps, pacemakers of the Eastern division.
Rochester took a one-game lead over idle Minneapolis in the West last night by breezing to a 97 to 65 win over Providence.
Rick Harmon, K-State's 6-foot, 3-inch forward, missed the Big Seven tournament, but since then he has helped the Wildcats win 3 out of 7 conference games. The swift Hoisington hustler threw in 16 points as the Aggies handed Oklahoma its only league loss.
Arkansas Leads SW Conference
Fayetteville, Ark., Feb. 9—(U.P.)
The University of Arkansas may be returning to its one-time eminent role in Southwest conference basketball circles.
As of today, the red-jerseyed Razorbacks from these Ozark hills are atop the conference standings—a far cry from the role predicted for them after they lost eight of their first 11 games.
True, the lead is only technical because Arkansas has played more games than Texas, Rice and Baylor—the other three clubs which also have lost two title starts so far. But Arkansas has just completed a southern swing that saw the Porkers upset two of that group and bound into the title limelight.
The road ahead is rocky with second games coming up against Texas and Rice, plus another one against the dangerous Southern Methodist Mustangs.
But if the Razorbacks show as much improvement in coming games as they have in the past few, a conference championship may be in the offing for the first time since 1944.
In the 25 years since Arkansas joined the conference, Razorback teams have won the title outright nine times and tied for two others. They won five consecutive crowns from 1926 to 1930.
Much of the credit for the improvement should go to a couple of sophomores.
They are Bob Ambler, a rugged 222-pound, six-foot seven-inch center, and Bob Williams, a lightweight flash who has just convinced Coach Eugene Lambert he fits into the starting quintet.
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