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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 18,1946
By BOB DELLINGER
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
The Big Six tournament all-star team rightfully included Charley Black andotto Schnellbacher on the first team, but it was still a typical all-star squad.
By that, we mean that it was chosen of 10 nearly equal players and omitted some that should have been mentioned. Also it included some players on the strength of one performance.
Everyone realizes that a good team, such as Kansas or S.M.U., could defeat an all-star team easily, until the members had worked together for a few weeks.
Therefore, we would adhere to the principle followed by Coach "Phog" Allen of the Jayhawkers and pick either Kansas or S.M.U. as the all-star team.
The first team had three forwards, a center, and a guard, which shows the top-flight material in itself.
In other wards, it would disrupt the entire team.
But since the all-star team is merely an honor and doesn't have to be as good, or beat anyone, the team will probably stand for a long time.
The replacement of any of the players on a good team by a good man from an entirely different organization would do about as much good as using a tractor wheel on a 1946 car.
The only problem left is how to choose a five-man team from one or two dozen top players.
Bob Prewitt of S.M.U., who led his men to an 11-point total for three games, and Wendell Clark, a fine all-around guard from Kansas, weren't named. Neither was Owen Peck, the Jawhaker snarkplug.
Turning to football, we see that Bobby Dodd, coach of the Georgia Tech "Wreck" since 1944, is considering a job at Baylor next year.
Which leads us to believe that all-star teams aren't much good.
He is being thought of as a successor to Frank Kimbrough, whose squad wound up in the Southwestern conference cellar this season.
Dodd's team will face St. Mary's of California in the Oil Bowl at Houston on New Year's Day.
The Oklahoma Sooners are starting grid practice again this week, getting ready for their New Year's Day Gator Bowl contest.
U. H. S. seems to have an unsuccessful season to date. Maybe they'd better get back into their own class.
Jayhawkers Prepare For Aggies By Taking St. Louis 49 To 35
Kansas steered back onto the victory trail in preparation for Friday's game with Oklahoma A. & M. by whipping St. Louis U., 49 to 35, at St. Louis Tuesday night.
Wendell Clark, speedy Jayhawk guard, led the Kansans in victory by dumping in 15 points on five goals and five free tosses.
The Billikens were no match for the rejuvenated Jayhawkers as the Kansas players kept them completely bewildered with an exhibition of passing, screening, and back-board work.
Kansas defensive work was back in line, also, as big Ed MacAulay, highly-touted and well-faced to three points, on one goal and a free.
The Billikens, somewhat tired from their previous night's game at Minnesota and the subsequent trip home, were in a constant state of confusion during the series of plays, and MacAuley was generally tied up as soon as he got the ball.
The Jayhawkers worked in several new plays against the Billikens in preparation for the Oklahoma will meet at Kansas City Friday.
The game was the fifth victory for Kansas in six starts, and was the third loss for St. Louis in five attempts.
The summary:
The summary.
Kansas (49)
FG FT PF TR
Black, f 2 4 4 8
Nellbacher, f 3 2 5 8
Peck, c 2 1 3 5
Evans, g 2 0 4 4
Clark, g 5 5 3 15
Eskridge 0 2 1 2
Stramel 1 0 0 2
Enns 1 1 1 3
Sapp 0 0 1 0
Dewell 1 0 0 2
| St. Louis (35) | 17 FT | 15 PF | 22 PF | 49 PT |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Weisner, f | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Schmidt, f | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| MacAuley, c | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Raymonds, g | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Miller, g | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Schatzman | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Willett | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Cordia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wild | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wrape | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Ossola | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Cullen | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Lehman | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Obie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Null | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
12 11 20 35
Score at half: Kansas—23, St
Louis—11
Free throws missed: Kansas—9
Black (2), Schnellbacher (3), Eskridge, Clark (3), St. Louis—11
MacAuley (2), Raymonds, Miller,
Schatzman, Wild Schmidt, Wilcutt,
Ossola, Lehman, Wrap.
Skeletons In K.U.'s Closets Are No Secret; In Fact, Paleontologists Are Proud Of Them
Dinosaurs, dragons, and three-toed horses inhabit the K.U. campus—not in the flesh or in spirit but in skeleton form. They are valuable because the study of these skeletons records the whole history of the world previous to the coming of man and written records.
In all their bony glory, they decorate the glass cases of Dyche museum and are exhibits of the department of vertebrate paleontology. Those bearing red tags are type specimens, originally discovered and described by K.U.
Each spring a crew from the department, directed by Russell Camp makes a field trip into a different section of the country. Fossil bones are collected, wrapped in burlap strip bandages, covered with plaster and shipped to the University laboratories.
When the crew returns, they investigate the prizes collected on the trip. After the plaster wrappings are stripped from the fragile bones, they are strengthened with a liquid chemical to prevent their snapping.
Then comes the tedious task of removing the matrix (material in which the bone is encased, usually stone). This matrix is slowly chipped away by hand to avoid breaking the bone. A small instrument, about the size of a nut pick, and a magnifying glass are used. One hour's steady work is the limit for the eves.
When the bone has at last been separated from the matrix, it is compared with all known paleontological material. If it is found to be new, it becomes a type specimen and is set aside as a new discovery by K.U.
On a field trip into the Black Hills of South Dakota, this past year, the Paleontological crew was accompanied by a faculty member who was simply vacationing with them. For sport, he helped collect a few fossils and they were shipped back to the University with the crew's collection. Examining them, the Paleontologists discovered, he had turned in a rare fossil of the early three-toed horse, perhaps a type specimen in itself. The faculty member who made the amazing discovery? Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Turner's Boot Voted Spectacular Play
Paul Turner's 41-year field goal, which defeated Oklahoma and gave the Jayhawkers half of the conference title, was voted one of the "most spectacular plays" of the year in an Associated Press poll.
Turner's kick, which was booted in a pouring rain, was one of two field goals considered in the balloting. The other was Ken Keuffel's 30-yard boot which gave Princeton a 17-14 win over Pennsylvania.
Two other plays among the dozens mentioned were Ray Evans's spectacular exhibitions against Missouri. The first was his pass to Marvin Small with the ball traveling 56 yards in the air, the other was his 67-yard run in the last seconds of the first half.
Voted the most outstanding play of the year was Bob Polidor's runback of a Miami kick-off. Polidor, a Villanova sub, took the ball nine yards deep in his own end zone and raced to a score, tying a grid record. Glenn Davis, Army's all-American halfback, figured in several spectacular plays.
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