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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944
From the Sidelines
By Bob Bock, Kansan Sports Editor
We're still sticking by the Jayhawks to come through with an upset over the Sooners tonight. Here are our reasons:
It will be the fightin'est team and the quintet with the greatest will to win that will come out on top—and we believe that the underdog Jayhawks can rise to the occasion just like their brothers of the gridiron did against Missouri, and win this most important of all basketball games. The Jayhawks will have another reason to come through tonight: their great coach, Phog Allen, has been sick all last night and today with the influenza and may not be able to make the game. To win for Doc should be reason enough. Phog has not missed a game since the Oklahoma game here in 1933, but the two times he was absent on account of sickness, his team won, and one of those was against Oklahoma in 1934.
Matching Player for Player
We also see the Jayhawks as having just as potent a five as the Sooners. If big, powerful Don Barrington, all fired up, can't take care of the 6-4 Ramsey, we'd like to see the man who can. Sparky McSpadden is our counter for the Sooner's great Allie Paine and we think the Jayhawk captain capable of coming through with as good a performance as the much publicized, all-Conference Paine. Moffett, leading the Big Six scorers, is just as good as Pryor, whose main threat was supposed to be his scoring ability. We also consider Lindquist and Gohring as the equals of Landon and Vaughn. Taughan was just a squadman last year for the Sooners, while Landon was the unheard of mate of Pryor at the forward berths for Capital Hill. Well, we'll see!
KANSAS AND---the Sooners. He is supported by Grover Ramsey, naval trainee from Oregon State's freshman team, who has scored 40 points in three conference games, three behind Paine. Ken Pryor, freshman forward from Oklahoma City Capital High, is being boosted as "the most sensational fresh star up from Oklahoma schools in years." The two other starters will be Jack Landon, freshman forward, who was Pryor's teammate last year, and Richard Vaughan, senior guard, a squadman last year. Paine is the only Sooner with previous varsity collegiate experience.
(continued from page one) Coach Drake and his school, spirit has run high.
Last year's ever-victorious Jay-
hawks trounced the Sooners twice—
48 to 44 at Norman, and 42 to 35
here. In the first game the Sooner's
all-Big Six guard, Allie Paine, held
the one-and-only Charley Black to
right points while gathering 13,
mostly long set shots, himself.
Paine Is Contain
This same Paine is back again this year as captain and high scorer for
The situation is the same with Kansas as their hustling captain, "Sparky" McSpadden, is the only Jayhawk with former varsity experience. McSpadden stepped in last year when Black went out with pneumonia. In big Don "Duck" Barrington, Allen hopes he has the man that can take care of big Ramsey, the Sooners' main rebounder. Moffett Is Conference Leader
Charley Moffett, present conference high scorer with 44 points, will be given a real test tonight, as he will probably be guarded by Paine, who is said to be able to stay as close to you as a subpoena server. Allen can counter Pryor with a "hot shot" freshman of his own, Goo Lou Hringhe, who was second high scorer in the tough Ark Valley League last year, playing with Arkansas City. High scorer was Winfield's big Bob Brannum, currently setting the world on fire with the University of Kentucky, coached by Ad Rupp, another of Allen's former pupils. The other member of the Kansas quintet will be smoothworking Bill Lindquist, freshman at Creighton U., last year.
The Sooners are a traditional man-to-man team, but Coach Drake has been experimenting with a zone defense and may spring same on the Jayhawks tonight. He would have plenty of height and reach in Ramsey, 6-4, Vaughan, 6-3, and a 6-4 sub, Walt Flannigan, who may also see some action.
Navy Team Bows To Flyers 62-33
Finding the bucket from all over the court, the Fort Leavenworth Flyers defeated the University Naval Training School team 62-33 at Ft. Leavenworth last night.
Tilberg, former Bethany player, rested in the first half, but connected for 13 points in the second half to lead the scoring and increase the defeat of the Navy team. Koskela, MM, and Pyle, V-12 from Macksville, led the Navy scoring with 10 and 9 points respectively. Throughout the game, Pyle, looping the ball in with a pivot shot, suffered a "jinx", and the ball rolled off the rim continuously.
Both Pyle and Heim, giants of the navy team, were forced to guard loosely because of the abundance of fouls called on them in hair-line decisions. Each had three fouls when the gun sounded.
Stout Urges Bigger Breakfasts
Half-time score was 26-12, Flyers.
As a part of the school's campaign for more and better breakfasts, students at Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wis., were served milk and graham crackers for five cents at the school milk bar.
The main Sooner advantage should be their height and consequent rebound advantage. Allen has stated that this year's Kansas team is the poorest rebounding team he has ever seen. "Why," he says, "they don't even use what height they do have; rather than going up for the ball they seem to wait for it to fall in their hands." "It's like waiting to pick apples off the ground rather than to jump and reach for them," Allen facetiously comments.
Kansas hasn't lost to Oklahoma since Feb. 27, 1942 when the Drakemen went on a rampage and broke the conference scoring record by smashing Kansas at Norman, 63 to 51. In their long rivalry Kansas has won 33 games to Oklahoma's 16. However, since the formation of the Big Six in 1929, the Jayhawk's advantage stands at only 21 to 12.
Regardless of the one-sided score, 34-18, the game between the Kappa Alpha Thetas and the Alpha Chi Omegas was a good fast one. Peggy Davis, Theta, was hitting all through the game, scoring 20 points for her side. Kathryn O'Leary, Theta, was going strong during the entire game.
The biggest upset in the women's basketball tournament this season came about last night when Corbin hall defeated the Kappa Kappa Gammas, 20 to 15. This is the first game the Kappas have lost in the tournament. Close throughout the entire game, with plenty of fast movement, the players fought hard for the scores. Shirley Rhodes, Corbin, was high point woman, making 13 of the points for her team. Norma Jean Pyke, Corbin, and Margaret Lillard, Kappa, played exceptionally well.
Chi Omega, Corbin Delta Gamma, Theta Win Cage Games
In a roughhand-tumble game with 30 fouls, the Delta Gamma beat the Gamma Phis, 19-9. Three players were fouled out of the game. Marilyn Nigg, Delta Gamma, was high scorer with 9 points.
Another rough game was played between the Chi Omegas and the Pi Phis. The score was 25 to 10 in favor of the Chi Os. Thirteen fouls between the teams gave them both opportunity for a number of free throws.
Hoverstock Employed at Typist
Eula Ruth Hoverstock, 1735 Illinois street, has accepted an appointment as typist at the University, the Kansas department of civil service announced yesterday.
Irish Rascals, V-12's Remain Undefeated
The S.O.W. quint led at the half, 15-14.
The Irish Rascals remain the only undefeated team besides the V-12 in the Lawrence League by its feat of the S.O.W. Ads., 33-29 last night in the Lawrence Community building.
Hoke, S.O.W. forward, led the scoring with 13 points, seconded by Fare, also of the S.O.W. team, with 12 points. Hare, with 10 points, and Colliens, with 7, led the Irish Rascals.
The Blank vs. S.O.W. Tech. game, also scheduled for last night in the change of schedule due to the Naval Training school game at Leavenworth, was not played.
'Old Glory' Moves From Fowler Shops To Lindley Hall
It wasn't so simple, that job of removing the campus flagpole from in front of Fowler shops to Lindley hall, as workmen this morning discovered.
The metal pole was so heavy that as it turned over it bent, and the anchorage in cement was so strong that workmen did a lot of drilling to break the pole loose from the foundation.
But by tomorrow the buildings and grounds department expects to have Old Glory flying at the new location.
Fellowship to Study Wire Rope
A graduate fellowship is being offered at the Illinois Institute of Technology for the advanced study of the mechanics of wire rope.
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