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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1948
Mathias, Verdeur Leading Sullivan Award Candidates
New York, Dec. 13—UP)—Balloting was being conducted today to pick the Sullivan Award winner, the nation's outstanding amateur athlete, and the odds favored either a 17-year-old prep school athlete or a steel-chested Philadelphia swimmer.
They would be, respectively, Bob Mathias of Tulare, Calif., the Olympic.
They would be, respectively, national and Pacific Coast decathlon champion, and Joe Verdeur, holder of two World breaststroke records and winner of 15 National swimming titles.
Mathias and Verdeur are two of six athletes selected by the National A.A.U. for its national poll. The others are Mrs. Alline Banks Sprouse of Atlanta, Ga., a basketball star; Harrison Dillard of Berea, Ohio, Olympic 100-meter champion; Basketball star Bob Kurland of Bartlesville, Okla., and Henry Wittenberg, New York's wrestling cop.
Mathias, because of his extreme youth, will get a lot of votes. A track, basketball and football star now attending Kiski Prep, he made his decathlon start in the Pacific Coast championships only last June and won with the highest point score since 1941. Three weeks later he copped the National A.A.U title and then triumphed over the world's greatest all around stars in the Olympics.
Another Olympic champion, Verdeur took the International breast-stroke title in record time at London. He has von more than 50 middle Atlantic A.A.U. titles and, although originally determined to be a dentist, altered his studies after seeing how swimming helped paraplegics so as to devote his athletic ability to the benefits of others.
Nobody could deserve the award more than Mrs. Sprouse, acclaimed as the nation's greatest basketball player. For nine consecutive years she has been named to the women's All-American team, and has been a member of a National championship team for four consecutive years.
And then try to overlook Dillard, The World and American record holder over the hurdles, he failed to make the Olympic team in his specialty. So Dillard won a place on the sprint team and then captured the Olympic 100-meter crown.
Kurland, another of our Olympic aces, is regarded as the nation's number one court performer. An A-minus student at Oklahoma A. and M., he turned down professional offers of $20,000 a season to remain an amateur and the star of the Phillips Ollers, National A.M.A.U. basketball champions.
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New York, Dec. 13—(UP)—The Bowl season rolled merrily along today with six more out of the way.
Compton, Calif., J. C., claimed the biggest prize this weekend by beating Duluth, Minn., J. C., 48 to 14 in the little Rose bowl. The only upset found Hardin - Simmons holding heavily-favored College of the Pacific to a 35 to 35 tie in the Grane bowl.
In other games the Navy's Pacific All Stars trimmed the Mexican All Star, 33 to 26 in the Silver bowl; San Francisco City college tripped Chaffey J. C., 20 to 7 in the Gold Dust bowl; Kilgore J.C., defeated Hutchinson J. C., 19 to 7 in the Texas Rose bowl and South Georgia J. C., subdued Little Rock J. C., 18 to 7 in the Little Sugar bowl.
Citation Tries For Money Record
San Bruno, Calif., Dec. 13—(UP)—Citation, the Calumet farm's wonder horse, will leave here Wednesday for Santa Anita race track where he hopes to win enough money to make him the world's money-winningest race horse. The Calumet comet easily annexed the Tanforan handicap Saturday to bring his total winnings to $885,150.
Kansas City, Dec. 13—(UP) Two Big Seven teams still have perfect records today and one of them hasn't yet opened the 1948- 49 season.
Kansas Leading Big Seven Parade
Only Kansas got through the week without bruises. The Jayhawks won their second in a row when they topped Trinity University 63 to 44.
Colorado will make its bow this week at home against visiting Michigan.
Kansas State yielded twice on the Pacific coast last week; Drake dumped Iowa State; Missouri fell before Wisconsin, and Oklahoma lost to Texas.
Big 9 Votes Spartans 'In'
Chicago, Dec. 13—(UP)—Michigan State sat in on a schedule-making session today, lining up football games for 1950, '51 and '52, as the Big Nine once again became the Big Ten.
Michigan State was accepted unanimously as a new member of the conference yesterday, filling the vacancy caused by the 1946 withdrawal of the University of Chicago.
As soon as a committee of faculty representatives "have certified to the conference that the rules and regulations of the conference are completely enforced," Michigan State officially is in. Actually, however, that is just a formality.
The Spartans will not be eligible to demand the six conference games guaranteed other members in today's meeting. They will be permitted to schedule whatever games other members may be able to furnish.
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The Kansas indoor track team will play its entire schedule away from home, Bill Easton, track and field coach said today.
I've had no will but yours ever, . what I gave, I gave with all my heart—yet you did not even remember my name!
The schedule is: Feb. 5, Nebraska.
Feb. 12, Colorado; Feb. 19, Missouri;
Feb. 25-26, Big Seven conference
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Indoor practice has started and Coach Easton believes the team will be better than last year despite the loss of Tom Scofield, high jumper and captain of last year's team; Leroy Robison, shot put; Lee Schloesser, low hurdles, and William Binter, quarter-miler.
The additions to the indoor squad are distance runners Clifford Abel, David Breidenthal, John Forney and Herb Semper; middle distance man Patrick Bowers, half-miler Tom White, quarter - milers Clarence Hughes, Ernest Meis, and Emil Schutzel, Schutzel is also a sprinter; John Greenwood and Carl Brown, hurdlers, and Arthur Hamilton in the broad jump.
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Coach Easton requests that men with track experience see him immediately in room 105 Robinson gym.
Michigan State could get the required six conference games to be eligible for the football championship until the 1953 season at the earliest.
Basketball schedules will furnish only a minor complication. These are not prepared on such a long-range basis.
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KU, Purdue Meet Tonight
Kansas hopes to stretch its perfect record against Big Nine basketball clubs to three victories tonight when it tackles Purdue in the Boilermakers' 10,000-capacity fieldhouse in Lafayette.
It will be the first meeting in history between the two clubs and the Jayhawkers' first severe test of the young season. Kansas opened with two landslide wins over Rockhurst, 67 to 20, and Trinity, 63 to 44, while Purdue was getting off to a 51 to 42 triumph over Detroit.
The Jayhawkers have won both their previous encounters with Big Nine opposition. In 1922 Phog Allen's five bested Minnesota, 32 to 11, at Minneapolis. In 1942 the JayhawkersEdged Iowa 53 to 51.
The Jayhawkers will find out how good or how ordinary they are against Mel Taube the Indians. Purdue alternated two teams against Detroit and won without trouble. Taube owns eight returning lettermen from a team that broke even in 12 Big Nine engagements last year and lists only three men under 6 feet on a 21-man squad.
Stags Into Lead As Lakers Sink
Chicago, Dec. 13 — (UP) - The Chicago Stags "backed" into the lead in the basketball Association of America's Western division today when the Rochester Royals lost possession for the first time since the second week of the season.
Rochester lost to the Minneapolis Lakers, 67 to 58. The triumph enabled the Lakers to move into third place behind Rochester. George Mikan got 22 points for Minneapolis.
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