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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945
Jayhawkers Capture Second Big Six Game In 48-33 Victory
The University won its second Big Six conference victory with a convincing 48 to 33 trouncing of Nebraska in Hoch auditorium Friday night.
Gordon Reynolds led the Jayhawkers with eight field goals, closely followed by Dean Corder with five goals and a pair of free throws for 12 points. Strahan was high for the Cornhuskers with 10 points.
Moffett Scores First for Kansas
Charles Moffett hit the bucket first for the Kansans to give them a lead which they never lost. After Bob Costello had knotted the count at 2-all, Corder, Reynolds, and Kirk Scott hit from the field to give the winners a commanding 8 to 2 lead.
This lead remained about the same as the score worked up to 19 to 14 just before the half. Kansas scored most of her points on field goals, while Nebraska had to rely upon numerous free throws to retain the low margin.
With only a couple of minutes to go, Reynolds and Corder scored to give the Jayhawkers a 23 to 14 half-time lead.
Kansas Lead Cut to 24-21
Starting the second half with their best drive of the evening, the losers narrowed the score down to 24 to 21 on a goal and a free throw by both Bob Hahn and Art Peterson and a free throw by Costello.
After this spurt the game was completely in the hands of the winners. Corder hit a long one, Scott hit one, Reynolds got his fifth, and the Kansans wer off again in gamewinning style.
Game Reaches Climax of Excitement The fans became excited for the first time in the game as diminutive Corder twice stole the ball from the taller Huskers and either scored or passed off to a teammate. Reynolds also stole the ball and dribbled the length of the court for a couple of set-ups.
Ray Lance played well, scoring two buckets while he was in the game during the second half. Gus Daum scored a basket on an out-of-bounds play which worked perfectly and also hit a free toss, but it remained up to Corder and Reynolds to slip in the biggest share of the points.
Allen Finishes with Reserve Team
With only about two minutes to go, Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen sent in a whole new beam to finish the game. Every player on the Kansas bench thus got to play, as Coach Allen used 18 men in the game.
The Jayhawkers practiced both Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning in preparation for their next game with the Oklahoma Sooners at Norman next Saturday night. Iowa State will come to Hoch auditorium on Jan. 27 for the Kansers' next home game.
The box score of the Nebraska
game
Kansas (48) FG FT F
Reynolds, f 8 0 2
Williams, f 0 0 0
Brown, f 0 0 0
Moffett, f 2 3 3
Carlson, f 0 0 0
Froom, f 0 0 0
Corder, c 5 2 2
Peck, c 1 0 1
Lance, c 2 0 2
Heim, g 0 0 3
Daum, g 1 1 3
Woerner, g 0 0 1
Goehring, g 0 0 1
Scott, g 2 0 3
Hill, g 0 0 0
Langford, g 0 0 1
Rouse, g 0 0 0
Peterson, g 0 0 0
Totals 21 6 22
Sportorials
By JIM MORDY
Kansas looked mighty convincing in winning over the Nebraska team Friday night. Several Nebraska players said that we can give the Iowa Staters a real battle, and that we have a better than a 50-50 chance to beat them in our next home game a week from Saturday.
Kansas' chances in the title race will be half way decided by Jan.30. That is the date on which we play Kansas State and finish the first half of the double round robin schedule.
In the Jayhawkers' next two games they play the teams nestled closest to them in the league standings. Still a dark-horse team, the Kansans will become definite pent-anth threats if they can win these two. Oklahoma Not up to Predictions
Oklahoma seems to be the most washed-out team in the league so far. Doped to repeat with Iowa State as the league's best teams, the Sooners have failed miserably thus far.
Defeating the cellar Nebraskans twice for their only wins, and by a total of only six points for two games, Coach Bruce Drake still has only the Kansas State loss against him and has plenty of time to come back strong, if he can find the right combination.
On the basis of comparative scores, the Jayhawkers, with a 15-point margin over the Nebraskans, should be able to defeat the Oklahomaans, who seem to have only a 3-point margin over the Cornhuskers.
Kansas Has Lowest Defensive Average
Iowa State will be a slightly tougher nut to crack, although we have the advantage of playing them on our own field in Bob Mott and Jim Myers, the clones have two of the highest individual scorers so far. The Iowans have a 55-point offensive average in two games to
PT 7 Is Winner In Navy Tournament
The Navy intramural program saw the end of the first basketball tournament Saturday in PT 7's 32-25 victory over PT 5. Volleyball and boxing tournaments are scheduled to start this week.
The championship of the first of two basketball tournaments was decided at general quarters Saturday, with all hands present, Chief G. W. Gathings, in charge of the V-12 sports program, said. The second basketball tourney will start around Feb. 1.
PT 7 will try to keep its top position when it begins the volleyball tournament in a game against PT 10 in Robinson gymnasium at 4:30 p.m. today. PT 8 will play PT 9 today also.
The boxing tourney will get started with four bouts scheduled for Thursday. Chief Gathings said that 30 men have entered and will weigh in today at the gymnasium. According to preliminary statistics, Chief Gathings reported that all weight groups are well represented in each PT. Don Davis, S1/c, and M. Hargrove, S3/c, will help Chief Gathings run off the tournaments.
Nebraska (33) FG FT
Hahn, f 2 1
Bloss, f 0 1
Strahan, f 3 4
Buckley, f 0 0
Peterson, c 2 4
Hollins, c 0 2
Costello, g 2 1
Helderson, g 0 0
Koenig, g 1 0
Hoeman, g 0 0
Totals 10 13
Only Nebraska can be counted out of the title picture at the end of the second week. None of the other five teams have lost more than one game. Kansas State does not have the defense, or Misouri the offense to become a serious threat; however, these two teams must be watched for upsets.
lead the league. Kansas leads in defensive play with a 30.5 average against Missouri and Nebraska.
Sooners Win 48-45 From Fighting Huskers
Big Six Standings
| | W | L | Pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| KANSAS | 2 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Iowa State | 2 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | .667 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 1 | .500 |
| Missouri | 0 | 1 | .400 |
| Nebraska | 0 | 4 | .000 |
Oklahoma barely won from Ne-braska in a 48 to 45 overtime thriller in Oklahoma City Saturday night. The Cornhuskers gave the Sooners a terrific battle before succumbing in the second overtime, showing a complete reversal of their form against Kansas the night before.
After a 36-36 deadlock at the end of the regular playing time, Harold "Scooter" Hines, Oklahoma midget star, calmly sank two free throws with seconds left in the first overtime to tie up the game again. In the final overtime the Huskers finally bowed to the fighting Sooners. Kansas State Wins Over Herington
Kansas State won a non-conference victory over the Herington Air Base team, which had only lost one game in 12 starts previous to their Saturday night defeat, by a 51 to 46 score.
Mouriu was taken apart by the Iowa Seahawks to the tune of a 74 to 38 defeat. The Seahawks had no trouble at all in getting through the Tiger defense.
All Teams Play Conference Games
Games this week feature Nebraska at Kansas State, Kansas at Oklahoma, and Iowa State at Missouri in conference encounters. Iowa State plays a powerful Ottumwa Naval Base quintet tonight at Ames. The Ottumwa team has won five of seven starts, losing to the Lincoln Air Base once, and splitting a pair with the Iowa Seahawks.
L. R. Wilcox, a student in the University before his induction into the infantry four years ago, is missing in action, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wilcox, of Lawrence route 5, have been informed.
Wilcox, of Infantry, Is Missing
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Jan. 26 Is Date Set For Football Banquet
The annual football banquet at which all players finishing the season will be guests will take place Friday evening. Jan. 26 at the Eldridge hotel, E C. Quigley, director of athletics announced today.
Chief Justice Hugo T. Wedell, of Topeka, will be the main speaker. Justice Wedell was graduated from the College in 1915 and from the School of Law in 1920. He re-
sided at Chanute at the time and was one of K. U.'s outstanding athletes.
Other speakers on the program will include members of the athletic department. Football movies will be shown.
Games Tonight
7:30 p.m.—
Kappa Sigma vs. Sigma Nu S.A.E. vs. Beta
8:30 p.m.—
Phi Delt vs. Delta Tau
Phi Psi vs. Dick's Demons
S.W.A.C. Will Meet Tonight In Union
Regular Sunday noon co-operative meals will be served each week at Henley house, under the sponsorship of the Y. W. C. A., Frances James, cabinet member, has announced. Twelve representatives from unorganized houses were guests at a trial meal given by Miss Jane's' Y. W. C. A. commission group yesterday. Arrangements for the weekly co-ops were made following the meal.
No one person will be placed in charge of the co-op set-up, Miss Janes said, and different jobs will be rotated from week to week. The co-op plan has been organized because of the difficulty of obtaining meals for students in unorganized houses and houses where meals are not served.
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