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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 30,1945
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MEG WENSKI
The tallest basketball team in Kansas history will enter the field for the first post-war court game Monday night with Warrensburg Teachers.
An analysis of the heights finds:
Four at six-fect five inches,
Three at six-fect three or more,
Two at six-fect two.
This makes a grand total of 18 men on the court who easily stretch over the two-yard mark. Although the Patagonian quintet won't enter the court at one time, it would be possible to line up a squad which averages slightly under six-feet five.
Home Again.
Nine others over six feet.
Back in the fold after almost 3 years in the army air corps is Otto Schnellbacher, All American in 1943, who was discharged as a lieutenant last Wednesday. Otto was another member of the famed "Iron Five" and will be on the court next week.
He Worked There Once
"Phog" will be rubbing elbows with familiar grounds when the Jayhawkers meet their first foe Warensburg. In 1912 Allen started coaching the Mules in sports and had a winning basketball team there for seven years.
So They Organized
And now it's the "Hot Stove club." And the football team can now bring guests to join the scuttle-butt behind the sacred dressing-room doors of the stadium.
Since abandoning football practice, the football team will have regular meetings at 4:30 every Monday to view football films and listen to the wisdom of various coaches and guest speakers.
Students Give $86 To TB Seal Drive
A total of $86 has been turned in before the deadline today by students from the tuberculosis Christmas seal sales, Miss Joie Stapleton, faculty chairman of the student drive, said today.
Mary Margaret Gaynor is chairman of the public relations committee of the student council which is sponsoring the drive. Other members of the committee are Patricia Bentley, Dean Corder, and Robert Witt.
Huffman Is President Of New Choral Group
Theodore Huffman, freshman in the School of Fine Arts, is the director of a new choral group on the campus, the Modern choir. The choir was organized in a meeting Thursday night.
Flaine Thalman is the accompaniist for the choir and Rosemary Harding is the Union Activities leader under which the choir is being organized.
The choir will meet from 7:30 to 9:30 every Thursday night in the Kansas room, and will sing for Christmas programs and other University events.
ON KFKU
9:30 to 10 p.m., K.U. Vesper, Dr Theodore Aszman, speaker.
Sunday
Tonight
4 to 5 p.m., 87th All-Musical Vespers.
Sutton Speaks on Psycb
Dr. Dorothy Sutton, instructor of psychology, spoke on "The Relation of Abnormal Psychology to Nursing" at the Pre-Nursing club meeting Thursday night at Watkins nurses home, Jean Blanchard, president, reported today.
K.U. Ranks in Top Six Cage Teams In Esquire Sports Poll; Illinois First
A recent Esquire sports poll ranked the Kansas Jayhawks among the top half dozen basketball teams in cage history. In the same poll Doug Mills' Illinois Hoopers were voted the kingpins of basketball by the sports writers and fans who participated. Had the poll been taken in 1940 when K.U. stood runner-up to Indiana in the N.C.A.A. finals, or during the
1942-43 season before pneumonia took Charlie Black from the court. Kansas might have occupied top rung as the "Notre Dame of Basketball," coached by Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the "Knute Rockne of Basketball."
No Esquire poll is needed to hang titles on F.C.A.-he was known as "Rock" of the hardboards before his friend Knute plane-crashed to death in Kansas in 1929. It was James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, who autographed his photograph. "From the father of basketball to the father of basketball coaching."
Illinois was more recently remembered by the voters for her Whiz Kids of 1942. It is granted that Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana have reigned supreme in the Big Ten and could not be left out of Esquire's top bracket of great basketball quintets.
Nineteen conference championships in his years at K.U. is, "Phog's" record who this season embarks on his 36th year of basketball coaching. As the cigaret ad states, no other college and coach can make this, or a comparable, claim.
However, Kansas is the real stronghold of basketball, second to none. Records and tradition bear this out.
Sixty, though he looks 40, Allen is quiet over this year's prospects, which many consider the best since the 1942-43 season. With Otto Schnellbacher, top scorer and All Eig Six forward in 1943, back next
week, K.U. well may have one of her greatest teams in history.
Don Pierce, K.U. sports publicity director, predicted Charlie Black and Co. would go through an all-victorious conference season, before Otto sent word of his discharge.
Black was All-American during his sophomore year here and was called "the greatest player I've ever seen," by Tony Hinkle, coach of the Great Lakes team which met 32 of the nation's best in 1942-43. "Phog" Allen is not really worried about Charlie's "flier's legs" but he has never been one to count his chickens.
"Little Bill" Miller, coach of the McPherson Globe-Oilers, winners of the 1936 Olympics for the United States, refuted the general consensus of Allen's greatness last year with the claim that Allen never had a "national championship" team, hence was not a great coach.
It has only been in the last 10 years of "big time" subsidized basketball that "national collegiate championships" have been a part of the American sporting scene.
Surely the great Kansas team of 1923 —Endicott, Ackerman, Charlie Black I, Bowman—which won 16 games in as many played, had no peers. Or the 1936 team—Ebling, Kappelman, Fralle, Noble, Allen—which swept through 10 conference games undaunted.
Kansas attempted to gain statehood four times.
Four Teams Enter Intramural Play-Offs
The intramural touch football championship will be decided Saturday and Sunday when the four top teams of the two divisions meet in a play-off series. Games will begin at 2:30 p.m. on intramural fields four and six.
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Division I teams entering the finals are Beta Theta Phi, who won a shot at the championship by trouncing a strong Phi Kappa Psi team yesterday, and Phi Delta Theta. Both teams have a season record of six wins and one loss.
Winners of the Saturday games will meet for the championship bout
The two Division I teams will flip a coin this afternoon to see which team will tangle with the powerful Phi Gam's Saturday. The Phi Gam's have scored 242 points to their opponent's 12 during the season.
A strong Phi Gamma Delta team, undefeated and untied in seven games, and the V-12 team, with a record of six victories and one defeat, will represent Division II.
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Zoologists to Hear Ortenburger on Monday
Dr. A. I. Ortenburger, professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma, will speak on "The Salt Plains of Western Oklahoma." at the seminar of zoology meeting in Snow half at 4:30 Monday.
Walkout Group Meets
The seven-member student and faculty committee appointed to handle the student walkout will meet at 7 tonight in Dean Henry Werner's office for a further discussion of the problem, the dean said today.
Sunday afternoon, while the losers fight it out for the consolation prize. Ballot sheets for an intramural all-star team were sent to all team managers today. The resulting team will be announced next week.
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