TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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By BOB DELLINGER Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas fans at the Missouri-kansas game put on the most disgraceful and disgusting exhibition of "sportsmanship" seen on any court in many years. The so-called "rooters" deliberately hurt their team's chances to win an important game by booing members of the Jayhawker team and the Kansas coach.
We've little to say regarding booing or yelling at officials—that's been an accepted part of the game since it was invented. But the utter stupidity or deliberate opposition to the team—call it what you wish—displayed Monday night completely destroys any sympathy we ever had for a basketball crowd.
Coach Allen has been in the game for 39 years, winning championships in 27 of them and coaching a losing team only once. He is recognized as one of the all-time greats of the game. It's obvious that the basketball knowledge of any grandstand coach pales into nothing in this comparison.
There can be no question that his decisions are made for the betterment of the team, and there can be no question that he is more qualified than anyone else to make those decisions. Crowds at other Big Seven schools have been rated harder on the officials, but no other crowd we've ever seen could top the K.U. spectators in unsportsmanlike conduct.
We won't plead with members of that crowd not to let it happen again—anyone who would pull that type of stunt is either too stupid to know the difference, or too steeped in his own ego to care.
The officials take a lot of abuse in any basketball game but the arbiters at Saturday's game with Nebraska must have left the game with wet shoulders to add to their troubles. The wet shoulders must have been caused by the excessive crying over decisions by the Nebraska team.
It surprised us that no one tossed a towel onto the floor as the red-shirted Nebraska players / continually pulled the cry-baby act after every foul was called. The pained looks displayed by Nebraska players after fouling, even extremely obvious fouls, would have put the war crimes pictures to shame.
No other team we have played this year has been so out- and-out babyish without particular cause. The Missouri and Kansas players uttered mild beeps after some fouls, and ten clammed up—a trick for which we admire them (for shutting up, that is). Perhaps we'd better issue the warning to all visitors to Lincoln to take along life preservers to keep from drowning in Nebraska tears.
Doc Flibel, our genial announcer at basketball games, issued what seems to us an unreasonable request at the Nebraska game Saturday. He asked all spectators not to try to reserve seats, while at the same moment several of our varsity football players were busily engaged in holding some of the best seats in the house for the Chancellor and other University brass.
There might be some complications in fighting off some husky bruiser from some choice seat reserved for a friend, but if the administration can get someone else to do the job, surely we're entitled to fry.
Oklahoma 79, Nebraska 57
Tulane 59, Georgia Tech 55
Georgia 73, Chattanooga 55
Kentucky 82, Vanderbilt 51
Centenary 69, La. Tech 36
Bradley 76, North Dakota 51
Iowa 70, Illinois 61
Wisconsin 51, Mich. State 39
St. Louis 68, Notre Dame 51
Purdue 53, Minnesota 51
Northwestern 47, Ohio State 45
St. Benedicts 84, Pittsburg (Kans.
Teachers 37
Basketball Results
Oklahoma A, & M. 35, Creighton 15
Drake 69, Tulsa 53
Members of the Ku Kus will pass the hat at basketball games for donations to the March of Dimes drive sponsored on the campus by the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.
The Ku Ku club will sponsor an all school dance April 16, Raibh Reg Robertson, acting president, said at the business meeting Thursday night.
'Outside Pressure' Forces Masterson To Quit NU
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 10—(U)P —University of Nebraska officials expressed bitterness today over "outside pressure" which prompted football coach Bernie Masterson to resign after two unsuccessful seasons.
Masterson, a former Cornhusker football star, admitted that "circumstances beyond my control" caused
Ku Kus Announce Dance
To Be Heid April 16
28 Letters Are Given
Twenty-eight varsity football letters and 40 freshman numerals have been approved for award, University athletic officials announced to-day.
The following varsity team members, who carried Kansas through a season of undefeated play and into the College bowl games, Years day, were named for letters;
John Amberg, Hally Brot, Jack Fueber, Dave Fischer, Shenel Garnett, James Griffith, John R. Idoux, Henry Lamping, Albert R. Lowrie, Mike McCormack, Wm R. Reinders, im Sattierdecker, Imse Schröter, Dylan Galgall, R. Stinson, Simon J. Wall, Donald Wilson, Robert Wolfe, Glen W. Bloom, Gene Cox.
Hoyt Baker, Richard Bertuzzi, Ralph Brown, Joseph Crawford, Dot Ettinger, Ray Evans, Don Fambrough, Jack Fink, Clarence French, Forrest Griffith, William Hogan, Hugh Johnson, Ed Lee, Clifford McDonald, Lynne McNutt, Charles Moffett, Dick Monroe, Terry Monroe, Frank Pattete, Steve Renko, David O Schmidt, Otto Schnellbacher, T. A. Scott, Marvin Small, Brian Sperry, Kenneth Sperry, Richard Tomlinson, and D. D. Pittenger, manager.
Jack W. Bushno, John Eutlich, John Goodson, Jr., Phil Hawkins, Duane Kimball, Albert Krause, Ted Law, Jim Lord, Kenneth Medearis, Ernst C. Meis, James A. Mooney, Victor Nalley, Bob Near, Tom Nelson, Frost Noll, Frederick Reith, Jim Retter, Matt Rodina, Glenn Starmer, and Thomas White.
Freshman numerals were awarded to the following players:
him to take the surprise move.
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson issued a caustic statement in reply, castigating pressure groups, mainly alumni in Lincoln and Omaha, who had been clamoring for a new coach.
Most of the clamor has been for Col. Lawrence "Biff" Jones, who is leaving his post as graduate manager of athletics at the West Point military academy.
"When the university hired Masterson as its football coach, it was aware, or should have been aware of his qualifications for the job it gave him," Gustavson said. "It gave him a five-year contract in 1946.
"The real principle here goes beyond the football scene. I regret that Masterson has resigned because of pressure from a segment of public opinion which by no stretch of the imagination was unanimous over the state. I hope that a situation of this kind will never occur again."
Eight men were recently initiated in to the Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry fraternity.
AXE Initiates Eight
Masterson, in his letter of resignation indicated he didn't want to take the step but thought it best to do so.
Masterson was quarterback for the Huskers in 1931, 1932, and 1933, and starred for the Chicago Bears before returning here for the 1946 season. His teams won only five of 18 games during those two seasons, but material at the school hit a low point during the war and the one-time big recruiting system which combed the state for football players was not put back into operation.
They are John H. Gerety, Judson E. Goodrich, Harold M. Hubbard, E.
Eugene Innis, David R. McGuire,
Russell B. Mesler, Ralph Reg,
Robertson, and R. Joseph Steininger.
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