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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1948
Seven Major Cage Squads Among 'Unbeaten' Ranks
New York, Jan 10—(UP)—The dice tossed by the so-called fickle hand of fate "came seven" today for the leading college basketball teams of the nation.
Only that number, out of the many that so hopefully began the court on just six or seven weeks ago, remain unbeaten among major schools
Wilkinson Says 'No To Badger Feelers
and their names are—St. Louis, Western Kentucky, Hamline, Akron, Minnesota, Villanova, and Cincinnati.
Norman, Okla., Jan. 10—(UP)Bud Wilkinson, University of Oklahoma football coach, gave a cold shoulder to Wisconsin today by stating flatly he is not interested in leaving his present job.
The general belief seems to be that Kentucky, whose only loss was by 42 to 40 to St. Louis in the finals of the Sugar Bowl tournament, is still the Bills' top rival for the title. But Minnesota, unbeaten in nine games, was rapidly growing in stature.
And you can't count out Western Kentucky (10-0), Hamline (9-0), Akron (9-0), Villanova (8-0), or Cincinnati (6-0). At the moment, the other leading candidates around the nation were Illinois (10-1), La-Salle (9-1), North Carolina (8-1), Tulane (12-2) with both losses from Kentucky, Texas (11-2), Bradley (13-2), Utah (10-1), and Stanford (11-2).
How many, if any, of that select group can go through another six weeks of red-hot competition unmarked remains to be seen, but at any rate they had fully earned today the heaping praise they were receiving. The bounding Billikins of St. Louis, led through nine wins by towering "Easy Ed" Macauley, remain the leading candidates for the national championship.
Wilkinson will be offered a five year contract at $15,000 a year
Tough going was in prospect for nearly all these teams during the coming week, with perhaps the greatest interest stirred up by St. Louis' invasion of the East to play on Tuesday night against an unpredictable Long Island university team that apparently can either beat the best or lose to the worst, and then against tough Drake on Saturday.
But the super seven also got a warning today, a reminder that at this time last week fully 12 teams were unbeaten. In that short space, five-North Carolina, Duquesne, Lawrence Tech, Mississippi, and Army—were topped into defeat.
NCAA Votes On Sub Rule
Palm Springs, Cal., Jan 10—(UP)—Recommendations to curb the "two-platoon" system threatened to turn the scheduled meeting of the N.C.A.A. Rules Committee into a stormy session today. The committee's chairman is Herbert (Fritz) Crise of Michigan.
There was argument, first whether it would be right to curtail mass substitution and, secondly, whether rules changes proposed by the Football Coaches' association would actually do that.
Cleveland, Ohio—(UP)—Some of the newest refrigerators are equipped with heaters. The heater is produced by the U.S. Rubber Co. It is a strip of electrically conductive rubber which warms up to about 115 degrees and is used to prevent "sweat" or moisture from condensing on parts of the refrigerator cabinet interior.
The Coaches association held its annual meetings here last week while the N.C.A.A. held its annual pow-wow in San Francisco. Now the N.C.A.A. Rules Committee, which has final say on the Coaches rules requests, is to meet here to take final action. The major witness before the N.C.A.A. probably will be Lou Little of Columbia chairman of the Coaches' Rules Committee.
Little claims the new proposals, which allow platoon system substitutions only when possession of the ball changes and during time-outs and eliminates all substitutions while the clock is running, are a curb on the old rules.
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However, Harvey Harman o iRutgers, the retiring president of the A.F.C.A., believes the new rule will make substitutions more prevelant than ever.
4,000 Will Participate In IM Program That Offers Year 'Round Play
BY DOUGLAS JENNINGS
One in six of the K.U. male students are taking part in the largest intramural program in the University's history.
More than 1200 of the 7000 men enrolled are currently playing on the 128 intramural basketball squads. The same number played football.
A few calculations show that 670 basketball games will be played this season by the intramural squads. It would take the varsity squad 25 years to play the same number of contests, playing 25 games a year.
Officials worked a total of 556 hours at the 278 football games last fall. Figuring a 40-hour week this would keep one man busy for 14 weeks.
Basketball and football are only two of the nine sports offered by the intramural sports department under the direction of Don Powell. During the fall, single elimination tournaments in tennis, golf, horseshoes, and handball were held. The same four sports will be open again in the spring for round-robin competition.
After basketball is finished in February, badminton, volleyball, and softball will be offered. In March a swimming meet will be held and a track meet is planned for May.
Expenditures for equipment to keep these sports going exceed $800 annually, Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education, estimated. Ten footballs must be purchased at a cost of $10 apiece. Twelve basketballs costing $20 are needed each season and 200 softballs at $2 each must be bought. Five volleyballs cost $40, and catcher's masks cost $25 annually. Other expenses are hard to estimate as, for example, the tennis nets which are also used by varsity players.
The total number of men in all the intramural sports this year will be 4,000,Mr.Powell estimates. Some take part in two or more sports, however, and so actually 4,000 separate persons will not play.
Also, the University buys two tons of lime every year. It is used to mark three and one-half miles of lines on the football fields and tennis courts several times a year. Like the tennis nets this expense can't be estimated. It is impossible to tell exactly who wears off the lines.
The program is conducted with a minimum of problems. Mr. Powell said that football injuries, and getting the independent students interested in the program are the main problems.
Weather Brings Rose
Kendallville, Ind.—(UP)—A rose blooming in December brought the people out to the city park. It was the unseasonably warm weather.
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Wings, Barons Race To Wire In Hockey Play
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The New York Rangers, still attempting to emerge from the cellar, blaved a 1 to 1 tie with Montreal.
Detroit's roll-along Red Wings, who seem to make a career of keeping a step ahead of their rivals, boasted a three-point lead in the National Hockey league race today, a margin never widened since Nov. 10.
The Red Wings picked up a point on the second place Bruins by playing a 2 to 2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday.
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Chicago cemented its third place perch with a 4 to 2 triumph over Boston.
Donald O'Hearn put in a nightmarish night in front of the Springfield Indians' cage as the Indianapolis Caps poured shot after shot past him for an 11 to 1 victory at Indianapolis.
Meanwhile, the Cleveland Barons, who looked more like chumps than champs during the first half of the American Hockey league season, definitely were "on the march" today and promised plenty of trouble for the St. Louis Flyers, Western division leaders.
The Barons, last season's Calder cup winners, gained ground last night by humbling the Flyers, 5 to 4 at. St. Louis.
The third place Barons now rest only five points back of the Flyers and one point behind the Pittsburgh Hornets, who were idle last night.
The Providence Reds were sailing along with a 20-point margin at the bottom of the Eastern陵后 after waling to the Philadelphia Rockets, 10 to 3, on their home rink
In other games, the Hershey Bears came back from a two-goal deficit to manhandle the New Haven Ramblers, 6 to 2.
Cards' New Coach May Be Johnsos
Chicago. Jan. 10—(UP)—Sports writers today picked Luke Johnsos, a Chicago Bear's coach, as the man most likely to succeed Jimmy Conzelman as head coach of the Chicago Cardinals National league football team.
Despite Conzleman's praise for his assistants, Phil Handler, Buddy Parker and Dick Plasman, the speculating writers gave Johnsons an inside track on the vacant post.
Conzelman resigned last week, after directing the Big Red to their second consecutive Western division championship. He plans to enter the advertising business in St. Louis, his home town.
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