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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 1. 1943
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Jayhawk Jabberwock
By Matt Heuertz
THE PROPOSED NCAA RULE
The proposed ruling of the NCAA which would prohibit any player touching a ball during its downward are above the level of the basket is receiving much adverse comment from sports writers over the nation.
Such a ruling would discriminate against basketball players who are lucky enough to have a physical advantage over their less gifted opponents. But do they have too much of an advantage over their smaller opponents who can get around over the floor quicker with less danger of fouling an adversary. If a ruling is adopted to curb the defensive work of tall players, why not also adopt a measure curbing the offensive work of the smaller more agile players. One discriminatory ruling would be as logical as the other.
WHY NOT A 12-FOOT BASKET
If the rules committee wants to do something beneficial for the game why doesn't it adopt a ruling requiring the use of a 12-foot basket in all college basketball games. "Phog" Allen has been harping on this subject for the past decade.
If the goals were raised from the standard 10 feet to the proposed 12-feet above the court, a large percentage of personal fouls resulting from congestion under the basket would be eliminated. Then there would be no need of a discriminatory rule against tall players because they would not be able to reach higher than the rim of the 12-foot basket.
THE QUESTION OF TALL SOPHOMORES
Of course there are those coaches who may be building their teams around promising tall sophomores who are very adept at deflecting tries for field goals. However, in not wishing to ruin the plans of coaches who are building their teams around such promising players, "Phog" doesn't want his proposed 12-foot basket put into use until three years after its acceptance by the national basketball rules committee. This would give those coaches a chance to use their tall sophomores for the purpose of preventing field goals.
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Coached by Howard "Splash" Spangenberg, former Milwaukee semi-pro pitcher now a shop instructor in the ordinance school at Norman's South Naval Aviation Maintenance Base, the Sooners will play practically all service teams.
Pitcher Ray Lacer and outfielder Bill Parker are only men who were on last year's squad. Among the new men reporting are Jack Cairns, Clinton; Butch Chancello, Muskogee; Merrell McDonald, Gerber; Olen Corley, Friendship; Dale Grubbs, Henryetta; C. D. "Red" Deal, Charles Pugsley, Jim Mitchell, and Harold Hines of Oklahoma City; Gene Merrell and Bill Chandler, Tulsa; and Bill Fry, Durant.
Norman, Okla., April 1 - A practically all-freshman University of Oklahoma baseball team that plays only two college games on its 10-game 1943 slate was scheduled to begin action this week.
Frosh Dominate Oklahoma Nine
The Sooner schedule: March 31,
South Base, here; April 3, Enid Air
School, here; April 5, South Base,
here; April 9, South Base, here;
April 12 and 16, North Base, here;
April 19, Oklahoma Aggies, here;
April 23, Oklahoma Aggies at Still-
water; April 26, Gunnery School at
Lexington; April 29, Enid Air School
at Enid.
Monday Is Deadline For Sport Matches
All first round matches in handball, horseshoes, tennis, and golf must be played on or before next Monday, Henry Shenk, director of intramurals, reported today.
The deadline for all entries in the intramural track meet is also Monday, Shenk said.
Intramural Softball Play Is Continued
TOMORROW'S GAMES — 4:30 p.m.
Delta Tau Delta vs. Phi Delta Theta.
Templin Hall vs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Sigma Chi vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Delta Upsilon vs. Alpha Chi Sigma.
Intramural softball play was continued this afternoon with games scheduled for play at 4:30 o'clock between Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon, Jolliffe Hall and Alpha Chi
The young Sooners plan to give the two-mile, sprint medley and distance medley relays a whirl anyhow and may jump into some of the special events.
Sooners Enter Team In Texas Relays
Norman, Okla., April 1 — Injuries and illness will cut Oklahoma's track entry to the Texas Relays Saturday at Austin, Tex., but John Jacobs, Sooner coach and honorary referee, will take as full a squad as possible.
Ken Farris, Big Six broad jump king, has a freshly pulled muscle, Lynn "Hobo" Gilstrap, Ardmore freshman phenom, a bone injury in his foot that may prevent his jumping any more this season; Walt Lynch a pulled muscle, while Bill Reimers, sophomore dash man and Andrew Roberts, distance runner, have been too ill to practice.
Students Work In Industry
Seven hundred fifty students at Illinois Institute of Technology are dividing their time between classroom and actual work in industry.
Utah Is Among Oldest Colleges The University of Utah is the oldest state university west of the Mississippi river.
Sigma, Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau Omega, and John Moore Coop and the Blanks.
Season was opened Tuesday
The softball season was opened Tuesday afternoon on the intramural fields south of the campus.
In the only well-played game of the afternoon Templin Hall defeated Triangle, 6 to 3. In the other games Sigma Alpha Epsilon walloped Battenfeld Hayy, 23 to 6; Sigma Chi nosed out Theta Tau, 15 to 14; and Phi Kappa Psi defeated Delta Upsilon, 15 to 10.
Henry Shenk, director of intramurals, has requested that all score cards be turned in at the intramural office by the winning teams immediately after the games. Two of the winning teams failed to do this Tuesday afternoon.
32 Cyclones Report For Spring Football
Ames, Iowa, March 31 — Mike Michalske, head football coach at Iowa State College, is working with 32 men in the opening sessions of spring football.
Don Seibold, guard, is the only letterman reporting. Howard Tippee a halfback and the only other letterman available, has not yet reported for workouts.
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