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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 15, 1946
SPOTLIGHT on SPORTS
By BILL SIMS
For several years Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, our genial cage mentor, has advocated the use of 12 foot goals in the football as the "great equalizer" for the giants who dunk their shots and the average-sized men who fling the ball as is the usual custom.
Allen's suggestion will be tested in a clinical game to be played tomorrow night before the final game of the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball tournament in Kansas City. The shortest and tallest teams which were eliminated early this week will be chosen for the game.
Records will be kept on rebounding, fouling, follow ins, and other statistics so that Allen will be able to compare these figures with similar statistics which have been kept on games in which 10 foot goals are used. These comparative figures should be quite interesting, and more will be heard concerning the suggestion after Allen has had a chance to study the comparisons. Basketball authorities everywhere will be interested to learn the outcome.
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If one of the Jayhawkers should step in a hole on the Municipal auditorium court Monday night, he shouldn't be surprised. In fact, he can blame Leroy Robison for his misfortune.
Leroy was throwing the shot for the Jayhawker track team last year in the indoor meet held in the auditorium, and a big mat was stretched across the floor in front of the shot put circle. It was Leroy's turn, and he stepped up to the circle with confidence. He put everything he had in the toss, and it was a good one
The only trouble was that if missed the mat. You can imagine what a 16 pound shot would do to a beautiful hardwood floor.
Sidelights—Few K. U. fans realize that our two All-Americans, Charlie Black and Ray Evans, will have an additional year of eligibility for basketball as the result of the recent ruling by the Big Six athletic commissioners . . . The Kansas Relais will be held this year for the first time since 1942 . . . Kansas probably can boast the youngest coaching staff of any big school in the country next year. The average age of our coaches is 33 with Wayne Replogle, end coach, as the "granddaddy" at 41 . . .
Russell To Use Schools To Alleviate Housing
Farm houses and homes from other towns were being moved into Russell to provide living quarters for returned servicemen and oil field workers.
Russell. (UP)—Abandoned country school houses may be used to help solve Russell's housing problems under a proposal advanced to dav.
The new proposal was that country school houses be moved into the city as the county school consolidation committee abolishes school district.
Fireside Forum Elects
The Fireside forum, Congregational church student organization, elected officers Sunday night. They are Raymond Schmidt, president; Martha Jewett, vice-president; and Lola Margaret McCracken, secretary-treasurer. Marjorie Bently is editor of the forum's weekly newsletter.
Eliqible Next Year
CHARLES BLACK
Tickets for NCAA Game On Sale Tomorrow
Tickets for the National Collegiate Athletic association tournament March 22 and 23 will go on sale at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City. If Kansas defeats the Aggies Monday night, few tickets for the N.C.A.A. game will be available for the University.
Women Swimmers Compete Next Week
Winners of the women's intramural swim meets Tuesday and Thursday nights will compete in the major swim meet on March 27.
Teams may enter four persons in each event, but because of the small size of the pool, half the teams will meet Tuesday night, and the rest Thursday night.
Contestants Tuesday night will be Pi Beta Phi, Miller hall, Alpha Chi Omega, I.W.W., Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega, Watkins hall, Locksley hall, and Alpha Micron Pi.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sleepy Hollow, Joliffe hall, Harmon Co-op, Gamma Pi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Gamma, Tipperary hall, Independents, and Sigma Kappa teams will compete Thursday.
WREN, KMBC To Broadcast Kansas-Aggie Playoff
Radio stations WREN, Lawrence and KMBC, Kansas City, will broadcast the Kansas-Oklahoma Aggie basketball game Monday night directly from the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City. WREN will be found at 1340 and KMBC at 980 on your radio dial. The broadcast will start at 7:45.
Sauer, Aids Stress Tactics For New Squad
About 65 football candidates have been working out this week under Coach George Sauer. Fundamentals are being stressed this week with particular emphasis on stance, charge, and blocking. Scrimmage sessions are scheduled to start next week.
Sauer has been working with the ends, and two of his assistants, Vic Bradford and Bob Ingalls, have been working with the backs and linemen respectively. The squad has failed to impress the coaches thus far.
Several candidates are expected to report as soon as the basketball season is over. Among these are Ray Evans, All-American halfback in 1942, Otto Schnellbacher, All-Big Six end in 1942, George Gear, quarterback on last year's varsity, and Charlie Black. Several others who have had experience have not checked out suits yet but are expected to do so soon.
intra-souad game April 18, will end the spring practice session. A summer practice session may be held if enough men are on the campus, Coach Sauer said.
Kansas May Become Recreation Center
Toppea-Kansas has an opportunity to become better known as a recreational center by taking advantage of the 11 reservoirs the U.S. bureau of reclamation is planning, W. C. Brady, engineer in charge of the bureau of reclamation for Kansas, believes.
"The reservoirs are planned throughout Kansas for irrigation purposes, and I've been told the federal government will finance the construction of recreation facilities around each one of them, if the state agrees to maintain the recreation facilities," Mr. Brady said.
Robert Wynne, Allen Rogers, and Sara Webb were heard at the piano in several selections. Vocal solos were sung by Mary Jane Zollinger and Maurine Breitenbach.
A student recital was presented at 3:30 p.m. yesterday in Frank Strong hall.
By the Way, Aggies Will Be There, Too
Students in Recital
Stillwater, Okla. (UF)—Oklahoma A. & M. college basketball fans flocked to the railroad depot today for tickets to Kansas City, where Monday night they confidently expect the Aggies to take the University of Kansas in their big stride.
The special train which will roll out of here at 8 a.m. Monday for the eight-hour trip northward will be packed with rooters who consider the N.C.A.A. playoff match between the Missouri Valley and Big Six champions nothing more than a necessary evil.
Thanks to that old Aggie tradition which calls for each fan to sport a clanging cowbell to give vent to his enthusiasm, the trainmen probably will be able to dispense with the whistle for the entire trip. The Aggies promised to furnish all noise necessary for safety—and then some
Railroad officials said the special would arrive in Kansas City at 4:30 p.m. Monday, leaving at 11:30 p.m. for the return jaunt afterwards. Coach Hank Iba's cagers will arrive in Kansas City a day early, but probably will return in a coach hooked to the rear of the special.
"Beat K.U." signs appeared in big orange letters over the A. & M. campus last night. All the pregame propaganda stems partly from the fact that Kansas upset the Aggies in 1940 and again in 1942 after the Oklahomaans had smashed through their regular schedule with little opposition.
Six Groups Win Volleyball Games
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Tat Omega, Sigma Chi, Kappa Sigma Phi Gamma Delta, and Phi Kappa Psi won intramural volleyball games played last night in Robinson gymnasium.
The Sig Alph's defeated the Beta's, the ATO's upset the Phi Delt's, the Sigma Chis' won over the TKE's, Kappa Sigma defeated Sigma Nu, the Phi Gam's outscored the V-12's, and the Phi Psi's won over the Delt's.
Fairmont, W. Va. (UP)—Patrolman W. S. Morgan found a man asleep in a telephone booth. The doors were jammed shut and he couldn't awaken the sleeper.
Finally, after forcing ammonia gas into the booth, he aroused the man and with great difficulty extricated him.
"Are you drunk?" the policeman asked.
"No," replied the man indigently. "It's the housing shortage."
Kurland Captain, Two Aggies on UP All-Star Team
Kansas City, (UP)—Bob Kurland,
greatest basketball player in Oklahoma
A. A. & M.'s athletic history,
today was the unanimous choice of
coaches and sportswriters in the
midlands to captain the United Press
All - Missouri Valley conference team.
The Aggies, unbeaten in conference play, placed two men on the first five, with Drake, Creighton and Washington each getting one berth. Two other Aggies, Wichita players and a St. Louis man won second team honors.
Kurland, who cracked four conference scoring records this year, expects to join the chemical division of the Phillips petroleum company when he graduates this spring and play for the famed "66" Oilers.
The seven-foot star set new game average, total field goals, total in one game and total in one half records in his final season under Coach "Hank" Iba. One coach remarked that "while Kurland is a great player, the greatest I've ever seen, it'll be a relief now that he has played his final season for the Aggies.
The other Aggie on the first five was Weldon Kern, five-foot-ten-inch forward, playing his junior year at forward.
Out of the Sticks by '46
Washington. (UP)—Rep. Hugh Delacy (D-Wash.) told the house today that President Truman advised him a month ago he believed it might be possible to withdraw all American forces from China before the end of this year.
More than 2,000 blind persons in Florida receive assistance through the state welfare department monthly.
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