WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Pro-Title Tilts Favor NFL Cards AAC Browns
New York, Dec. 15—(UP) —The two warring Pro football leagues, the national and All-American, play their championship games Sunday and the odds posted today proved that an inter-loop "World Series" would be quite a contest.
In the National league, the Chicago Cardinals are favored by $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ points over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Over in the A.A.C., the colossal Cleveland Browns, undefeated in regular season play, are picked by 17 over the Buffalo Bills.
Cleveland has one of the best backfields in pro football. Otto Graham is the A.A.C.'s leading passer and fullback Marion Motley the leading rusher. Add to them such redoubtable ball packers as Special Delivery Jones and Bob Cowan or Dub Jones and you get the idea. It's all icing on the cake with Mac Speedie, the league's leading pass receiver, and Dante Lavell at the ends.
Coach Red Dawson of Buffalo has
Coach Red Dawson of Buffalo has said that he'll make no special preparations for this game. That comes under the "what's the use" category as the Brown's have already spanked the Bills twice in previous meetings. His chief weapons are George Ratterman, the conference's fourth leading passer; Chet Mutryn, a fine runner, and Al Baldwin, a good pass receiver.
The N.F.L. game shapes up as the best contest but it, too, is simply a replay of a regular season game in which the Cards clipped the Eagles' wings, 21 to 14. It becomes a necessity with the Cards billed as the Western division champs and the Eagles as eastern titlists.
Both squads are loaded with talent. The defending champion Cardinals, who beat the eagles in last year's playoff also, are loaded for bear. A backfield composed of Ray Mallouf or Paul Christmas, Charlie Trippi, Elmer Angsman and Pat Harder made it the highest scoring team in the loop.
IBA Aggies Smother LIU
New York, Dec. 15—(UP)—The Oklahoma Aggies left New York to
Oklahoma Aggies left New York to play after their annual basketball agmigeature to Madison Square Garden, but they were a good bet to play a return engagement come tournament time.
Displaying their now-famous possession game, the cautious Cowpokes walked to a 46 to 38 victory over a good Long Island university five last night in the huge Eighth avenue arena.
The Aggies limited themselves to only 46 shots at the basket, but made 16 of them count for scores. Bob Harris, lanky center, dunked in seven of those baskets and added two free tosses for 16 points. Lou Lipman led the losers with 19 tallies.
At Boston, the Holy Cross Crusaders made it four straight victories without a defeat by edging Bowling Green, 72 to 68, in overtime. George Kaftan, the high-bounding Cross center, dunked 21 points, two less than Bowling Green's Charlie Share.
In the second game at the Boston garden, the crowd saw another overtime session as Dartmouth edged Harvard, 72 to 68. Ed Leede, Indian captain, was unstoppable as he posted 34 points. Bill Prior led the Harvards with 24 markers.
in the midwest, St. Louis University's Billikens came back from a three-point deficit at the half to edge strong Kansas State, 51 to 45, and Cincinnati trampled Kentucky Wesleyan, 81 to 46.
Prefabricated houses made of straw have for the first time been exported from Sweden and are now being erected in Belgium.
Defensive Play Featured In Close Fought IM Games
Close, hard-fought playing high lighted the intramural basketball games Tuesday night. Three fraternity "A" games were played and four independent "B" games. The biggest margin separating any two teams was the seven points the Men of Distinction managed to total against the I-Fives, while the Sig Eps were winning by six points over the D.U.'s.
The Pi KA guintet squeezed out a $ ^{\circ} $
The PI KA quarter one point victory over the Sigma Nu's in the evening's most exciting game. The game started off slowly with Sigma Nu's "Skip" Williams scoring four points. In the second period the sharp shooting Williams continued to hit the target and at the half the score stood at 16 to 9 in favor of the Sigma Nus.
The third quarter saw the Pi KA's long-shot man, Jim Grey, rack up six points to help even the score, which stood at 21 to 18 for the Pi KA's.
In the early seconds of the fourth quarter the score was tied up 21 to 21. A Pi Kap free throw put them above. Sigma Nu's Wiedemann again tied the score with a free throw at 22 to 22. Zuercher then sunk one to give the Sigma Nu's a two point lead. A free throw by Pi Kap Grey and another ringer by Don Guard gave the PI KA five their victory.
The Alpha Tau Omega team rode rough-shod over the Lambda Chi's 26 to 14. The first quarter was slow with the ATO's getting six to the Lambda Chi's two.
Sigma Nu's Williams was high point man with 10 points. Pi Kap Jim Grey was second with nine. The game was noted for its low foul total as 19 personal fouls were called against the Sigma Nu team to 16 personals and one technical on the Pi KA's.
In the second period the ATO quintet warmed up getting 12 points to the Lamba Chi's four. The halftime score was 18 to 6.
A slow starting Sig Ep team out-scoored the DU's 25 to 19. DU lead at the end of the first quarter 7 to 2 but in the second period the winners came to life and were ahead at the half 17 to 9.
Lyle Woodding was high point man for the winners with two field goals and four free throws for a total of eight points, and B. Wood was high point with eight for the losers.
The third quarter saw the Lamba Chi's pick up five points, four by high point man Howerton. In the final period the ATO's went all the way finishing with Levy as their high point man with nine points and Lee with six.
The 801 club defeated Oread no. 1 in an independent "B" game 29 to 24. Brown got seven points for the winners and was helped by Getty and Broderson with five points each, and Dugan's six. Hall was
Big 7 Power Slips Further
Kansas City, Dec. 15—(UP)—The Big Seven, generally considered a power circuit in basketball, barely stood above the .500 mark today in non-conference play so far in the new season.
Kansas State, last year's Big Seven champ, dropped its third game in five starts when it lost last night to St. Louis university at St. Louis, 45 to 51.
The defeat was the ninth for Big Seven teams in 19 games. The only club still showing an unsullied record was Colorado, and the Buffs have yet to play their first game.
A pair of Big Nine teams blasted Kansas and Oklahoma to start the week. Kansas lost to Purdue at Lafayette Monday and Oklahoma bowed to Illinois at Champaign.
Tonight is a blank on the schedule, but Kansas State will meet Indiana at Bloomington and Missouri will open a two-game set with Baylor at Columbia tomorrow night.
Missouri and Baylor will meet again at Columbia Friday, and on that same night Colorado will open against Michigan at Boulder and Nebraska will meet Purdue at Lafayette.
Saturday's card will offer: Nebraska vs. Cincinnati at Cincinnati; Iowa State vs. Canisius at Buffalo, N.Y.; Kansas State vs. Long Island university at New York; Oklahoma vs. Ohio State at Norman; and Kansas vs. Drake at Des Moines, Iowa.
high scorer for the losers with eight.
high scorer for the losers with eight. The Seruran Yobs took the Latinos 33 to 29. Denny and Gomez each scored eight points for the winners. Hylon was high man with 15 points for the losers. Wadke added eight for the losers.
A Newari woman of Nepal, India can get a divorce whenever she wants by placing a betel-nut under her husband's pillow.
In one of the more exciting games, Linda's Boys edged Battenfeld hall by a 30 to 27 count. The game was close all the way but in the last few minutes Linda's Boys pulled ahead.
What's This About The Birds and Bees?
Bees sleep through Christmas, but who wants to hibernate?
THE BIRDS FLY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS AND SO CAN YOU
Plane travel costs are small and arrangements easily made at—
You can do it too—
Browns Land 6 On All-Star Team
The Air Travel Desk of Betty Jost
New York, Dec. 15—(UP) —The talent-wealthy Cleveland Brown's hit the jackpot today on the United Press All America football conference All-Star team, placing six men on the first eleven and three on the six
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The Brownies, western division champions every season in the three-year history of the league and now aiming at their third conference title, reflected their all-round power in the selections of football writers. They placed an end, a guard, a tackle, a center, and two backs on the first team, and an end and two guards on the second.
The first team is composed of ends MacSpeedie of the Browns and Allyn Beals of San Francisco, tackles Bob Reinhard of Los Angeles and Lou Rymkus of Cleveland, guards Dick Darwegan of Baltimore and William Willis of Cleveland, center Lou Saban of Cleveland, quarterback Otto Graham of Cleveland, halfbacks Chet Mutryn of Buffalo and John Strzykalski of San Francisco and fullback Marion Motley of Cleveland.
Graham, named the league's most valuable player by a United Press poll, was a sure-fire choice because of his tremendous offensive power.
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Girls To Shoot Against Nevada
The girls' rifle team sponsored by the R.O.T.C. is preparing for matches with the University of Nevada, Saturday, Jan. 15. The girls saw a 30-minute film on trigger squeezing and correct firing and practice shooting Tuesday.
There are two practice sessions for two separate groups. One group fires from 7 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the other practices from 8 to 9 p.m. on the same days.
Several of the girls were on last year's team but most of them are firing for the first time this year.
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