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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948
Kansas - Hawks Play Tomorrow At Kansas City
Kansas will send its young basketball five against Rockhurst Saturday night when the two clubs open their 1948-49 cage season in Kansas City.
How much better this year's Jayhawk basketball team will be than the one which finished in a tie for last place last season, is a question only the winter's grind can answer. Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, K.U.'s coach will have most of last season's squad minus its two top scorers, Otto Schnellbacher and Jack Eldridge.
This means Jerry Waugh, Bill Sapp, Claude Houchin, Charlie Penny, Harold England, Guy Mabry and Maurice Martin.
At first glance this does not look like an improved picture. But most of the lads who carried the load last year were sophomores or freshmen. Allen made up his mind to sink or swim with this gang and the result was the poorest K.U. season since 1929 with only nine wins in 24 starts.
However, Big Seven foes scored a total of only 23 more points than the youthful Jayhawkers in spite of beating the Kansans eight times out of twelve. Overall K.U. lost eight games by six or less points. If they can maintain last year's scoring pace, and succeed in putting together an offensive pattern resembling traditional Jayhawker team play and plug the gaps in last year's lax defense, this year's team has a chance of finishing in the loop's first division.
Defense is the big problem. Two years ago Charlie Black, one of the nation's greatest post guards, and Ray Evans, All-American, graduated. Last year's poor defense showed how bad the club missed this pair.
The Kansans scored enough last season, 51 points per game, to win more of their conference tiffs, but failed chiefly because of shoddy covering. Emporia Teachers opened the season by nailing 67 points, a new scoring record against the Hawkers, and this was bettered twice at the end of the season on one road trip. Nebraska hit 70 tallies in Lincoln to take a 70-64 decision while Colorado registered a 77-60 win two nights later in Boulder.
Allen's second headache will be in replacing Otto Schnellbacher, his four-time all-conference forward, and Jack Eskridge, who was ruled out by last summer's league eligibility ruling.
This pair was the club's one-two point-makers, Schnellbacher with 193 markers and Eskridge with 175. Although he missed the first 10 games because of the trek to the Orange bowl which forced a slow start, Otto came within one bucket of tying Oklahoma's Paul Courty for the loop scoring title at 12.8 points per game. Eskridge ranked eighth at 11.2 getting 73 counters in his last three conference starts.
Early indications of this year's club, are that there will be more balance and depth. Saturday's starting lineup will be Gene Peteren and Harold England at forwards; Jerry Waugh, last year's star at center; and Claude Houchin and Bill Sapp at guards.
Peterson is returning after a year in the service. Houchin will be playing his second year as a regular along with Waugh and Sapp.
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Irish-Clemson Close Season
New York. Dec. 3—(UP)—Notre Dame and Clemson were heavy favorites today to wind up the long football season Saturday as members of a tight circle of perfect record teams.
Casualties were heavy among the potential giants during the 12-week season and only California and Michigan so far have finished their campaigns with neither a defeat nor a tie.
But the Irish of Notre Dame, unbeaten in 27 straight games, were favored by 201-2 points to join them with a victory over Southern California. Clemson, last of the South's unbeaten elevens, was a prohibitive choice over cellar-dwelling Citadel
Although Notre Dame may be regarded as "upset proof" coach Frank Leahy would have reason to fear the Trojans a sa jinx, if nothing else, Notre Dame's last record winning streak 26 without a defeat, was ended by a spectacular Southern California rally in 1931.
Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 3-(UP)- Kansas State, defending champion of the Big Seven, whacked Phillips university, 60 to 44, here last night for its second win in two nights to start the 1948-49 season.
Kansas State Wins Second
The K-State basketballers breezed against Emporia State at Emporia Wednesday night, 60 to 49.
It was the first and last appearance of Coach Jack Gardner's club at home until after the Christmas holidays. Kansas State will start a strenuous road trin next week, beginning with games against San Francisco and Santa Clara on the Pacific coast and stretching to Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Phillips held Kansas State partly in check in the first half but trailed, 15 to 26, at the midway mark.
Ed Head, Los Angeles, Calif,
paced K-State with 20 points. Ernie
Barrett, Wellington, Kan., was next
with 11.
Glynn Brawley led for Phillips with 13 points.
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