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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1947
Teachers Rack Up Record Clipping Kansas 67 To 44
By BOB DELLINGER Assistant Sports Editor
A white-shirted hurricane from the Emporia State Teachers college hit the Kansas basketball team at Emporia Saturday night and left the Jayhawkers piled in the debris of a 67 to 44 score in the Kansans' season- opener.
Kansas salvaged the "B" game, winning a 45 to 44 thriller.
capacity crowd of 3,516 watched the Emporia machine roll up the
A capacity crowd of 3,516 watch highest score ever made against a Kansas team. The previous record was set by Oklahoma in 1942 when the Sooner defeated Kansas 63 to 51. Kansas salvaged the "B" game.
Dennis Shogren, a lefthanded reserve guard for Emporia, poured in eight southpaw jump shots from the vicinity of the free throw circle to take scoring honors with 16 points. Shogren shot 12 times, making eight goals for a .667 percentage. He had scored three points in Emporia's first three games.
Bill Litchfield, 1946-47 small college all-American, played a tremendous defensive game, and limited the Jayhawkers to single shots at the basket by clearing rebounds from both backboards.
Lanky Claude Houchin, game captain and 40-minute guard, led the Jayhawkers in scoring with 13 points, and "Thin Man" Guy Mabry bucketed 11 from the center position. Wilbur Reeser and Meredith Litchfield hit 10 each for Emporia, and Hal McVey and Bill Litchfield each scored nine.
Leads Scoring With 13
Kansas started fast, ringing up a 7 to 0 lead on setups before the Hornets caged one. The Jayhawkers led for nine minutes, but the Teachers found the range and poured in long shots to pull into a 19 to 15 lead. Kansas came back on a basket by Charlie Penny and two long tosses by Maryb to take a 21 to 19 margin with six minutes in the half.
Shogren dumped in the first two of his eight goals, and the Teachers pulled out in front to lead 28 to 24 at the half.
Houchin started the second half with a free throw, and Kansas came within three points of the home squad, the closest the Jayhawkers came in the second period. Four different Hornets accounted for two points each to put Emporia 11 points in front. Kansas managed to keep this margin fairly steady for five minutes, but hit a basket drought, and the Hornets ran away to a 54 to 33 lead.
From that time, it was a race for points, and Woodbury's pivot shot in the final minute set the record. Ten points were scored in the final minute of play. Joshauks. Need. Offense.
Kansas showed the need of a definite scorer from the sidelines, as the five Jayhawker forwards accounted for only nine points. Emporia got very few close-in shots on the Kansas defense, but deadly accuracy from the side of the backline gave the Hornets their points. Emporia scoring was evenly divided with five players scoring over half a dozen points. Bill Sapp of Kansas was the Jayhawkers' outstanding defensive man, and contributed seven points on a goal and five free tosses. The free throwing championship went to Meredith Litchfield who caged eight in 10 attempts.
Two long long shots by Jerry Waugh gave the Kansas "B" squad a hard-earned victory over the Emporia State seconds by a 45 to 44 count. Three quick goals at the end of the first half gave the Teachers a 26 to 21 lead at the intermission.
Emporia pulled away to an 11-point lead with nine minutes remaining in the game, but Waugh cut loose with three goals to put Kansas back in the game. Hugh Gillin added his seventh goal, and Kansas trailed by three. A free toss and a goal by Emporia put the Hornets ahead 44 to 38 with three minutes left.
Gillin went in to sink a setup, and was fouled as he came down. He calmly dumped in the free throw and set the stage for Waugh's winning goals, both of which were put in from close to the center line Kansas Defense Holds
Emporia gained possession of the
Box Score
EMPORIA STATE (67)
fg ft ftm pf tr
McVey, f 4 1 1 0
B. Litchfield, f 3 3 5 2 9
Reeser, c 4 2 2 1 10
Wright, g 2 0 1 5 4
M. Litchfield, g 1 8 2 4 10
M. Smiley 1 0 1 3 2
Shogren 8 0 0 1 16
Wilson 1 0 0 0* 2
Woodbury 2 0 0 0 4
Soph 0 0 1 0 1
T. Smiley 0 1 0 0 1
**TOTALS** 26 15 11 20* 63
TOTALS 26 15 11 20* 61
* - Technical foul on Wilson
KANSAS (44)
Eskridge, f 0 0 1 2 0
England, f 2 0 2 1 4
Mabry, c 5 1 0 2 11
Sapp, g 1 5 3 3 7
Houchin, g 4 5 0 2 13
Stramel 0 0 0 3 0
Penny 1 1 1 1 3
Waugh 1 0 0 1 2
Martin 1 0 0 4 2
Barr 0 0 0 1 0
Kissell 0 0 0 0
Enns 1 0 1 4 2
Field shots taken: Emporia State 70. Kansas 66.
Percentage made: Emporia State 371. Kansas 242.
Halftime score: Emporia State 28,
Kansas 24.
Officials: Ogden and Oberhelman. Times out: Emporia State -3, Kansas 4.
Reaves Peters Is New League Head
Reaves Peters, veteran Kansas City Sign School coach and commissioner of officials for eight years, will head a newly-created central office for the Big Seven conference.
Mr. Peters will carry the title of commissioner of officials and assistant secretary. His principal duties will be the directing of Big Seven affairs and handling of all details in connection with the conference. His office will be in Kansas City.
Presently the secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Football Officials, Mr. Peters will resign as head of the physical education department and basketball and track coach at Northeast High School in Kansas City. He plans to assume his new duties next June.
Choir To Sing Carols
ball four times in the final two minutes, but couldn't get away a shot because of the closely guarding Kansans. Joe Dunmire tied up a Hornet player completely on a crucial shot from the free throw circle, and after getting the tip, Kansas held the ball for the final 30 seconds.
The University A Cappella choir, under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, will sing Christmas carols in the central lobby of Frank Strong hall at 4:15 p.m. today. Caroling-by the choir was started several years ago and is now an annual event.
Gillin took scoring honors for the game with 17 points, 12 of which came in the first 12 minutes. Waugh, playing only the second half, hit six goals and a free for 13 points. Stokes was high for the home club with eight points.
Aggies Favored In K.C. Tourney
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New York—(UP) — The Big Six Conference stages the first major tournament of the still-young basketball season this week, and there exists the ironic possibility that the only non-league team in the league will be the one to come up with top honors.
And this same Aggie team is the one which is prepared to take off the favorite's role in the drama which begins Thursday in Kansas City.
Oklahoma A, and M. is that team. Twice the Soonerland Aggies have received "action postponed" replies to their applications for admission to the conference. But, because the Big Six is now a seven-team league with the addition of Colorado, A. & M was invited to play in the tournament in order to round out the brackets.
The Aggies won their fourth in a row Saturday night when they downed Temple, 65-49 at Philadelphia's Convention Hall. That followed an impressive win over LIU at Madison Square Garden.
Pro Football
All-American Conference Cleveland, 14 New York 3 (cham-
Bears 21 Philadelphia 28, Green Bay 14 Washington 40, Boston 13 Los Angeles 34, New York 10.
National League Chicago Cardinals 30, Chicago Bears 21
Don Faurot, University of Missouri football coach, will be head coach of the West All-Stars in the annual East-West football game at San Francisco Ne wYear's day. Faurot announced Saturday he had accepted the job. His assistants will be Lynn Waldorf, University of California, and Marchmont Schwartz, Stanford.
Faurot Will Coach West All-Stars
The Missouri coach expects to leave for the West coast about Dec.17.
Browns Down New York For A-A Pro Championship
New York—(UF)—The Cleveland Brown, who retained their All-American Conference championship Sunday by drubbing the New York Yankees 14 to 3, were hailed today as a near-perfect offensive machine that "has everything"
Before Sunday's payoff clash before 61,849 in Yankee stadium, there were many fans who thought that the Yankees, with Spec Sanders and Buddy Young, might be more potent than the Clevelanders.
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