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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1943
Ibamen Here This Week
Aggies Bring Strong Defense Here Wednesday
In the midst of an unusually spotty season, the Oklahoma Aggies Wednesday night will bring their strong defensive five to Hoch auditorium for one of their annual battles with Phog Allen's offensive-minded Jayhawks. The Aggies this winter have dropped four of their first eight games, but nevertheless have displayed an iron-clad defense, holding their opposition to an average of 33 points a game.
Heading the band of determined Cowboys will be Jack Herron, six-feet, two-inch guard who has been spearheading the Aggie attack this year. Herron, a fine defensive and offensive rebounder, has set the pace for A and M scorers with an average of 7.4 points a game so far this winter.
Ready and eager to assist Herron will be a group of capable Cowboys who make the Aggie quintet the tallest in Aggie history. Heading the list of skyscrapers is freshman Bob Kurland, who towers an even seven feet and already has seen considerable action against Aggie foes. Vernon Yates, sophomore forward, Lou Steinmeir, veteran center, and Sam Aubrey, junior guard, all stand above the six-feet, four inches mark.
One Starter Returns
Another Aggie courtman capable of handing the Jayhawks some headaches is Frank Bogert, junior guard, who saw considerable action for the Iba-men last year. Last winter saw Allen's charges split their two games with the Cowboys, taking the first tilt in Hoch auditorium 31 to 28, and then losing at Stillwater 40 to 33. Only one starter from those Aggie fives—center Steinmeir—will be in action this year, while Allen has three veterans who started against the Iba quintet —Charlie Black, John Buescher, and Ray Evans.
Big question in the minds of many fans is whether high-scoring Black can pierce the rugged Aggie defense. Last year he counted 14 points against them in the two games.
Missing from the Aggie lineup this year will be such Aggie acces as Lonnie Eggleston, Bud Millikan, J. T. Newman, Charles Scheffel, Jack Taylor and Gene Bell, Ralph Miller, Marvin Sollenberger, T. P. Hunter, and Vance Hall no longer wear Jayhawk uniforms.
Use Freshmen
Use Freshmen
The orange-clad Cowboys, using freshmen this season, may send some of the first year men in against the Kansas squad. Heading the Aggie frosh are Tom Boyd, guard from Tulsa; Bob Rogers, a really promising forward from Stillwater; and A. L. Bennett, forward from Holdenville.
Henry Iba, the A and M coach,
is one of Phog Allen's chief rivals
for the title of America's top basketball mentors. He entered the present season with a life-time coaching percentage of .810.
7-foot Ā-M Cager --are Violet Conard, Marita Lenski,
Francis Raw, Beverly Walters, Mary
Hughes, and Thelma Stutz. Guards
for the freshman squad are Bel
Claycomb, Lael Gray, Lucy Smith,
Catherine Burchfield, Doris Bixby,
and Betty Bacon.
When Oklahoma A-M plays Kansas here Jan. 13 fans will see the tallest intercollegiate cager of the year. Center Bob Kurland is only 17-years old but already measures 7-feet up. "Robbing Bobby" stands under the basket on defense and bats away numerous two-pointers.
Women's Class Teams Selected By Officials
Class, squads have been chosen from the women's intramural basketball teams by Miss Ruth Hoover of the department of physical education and officials of the intramural games. The games will be played the second semester.
Temporary managers for the teams are Bel Claycomb, freshman squad; Roberta McCluggage, sophomore squad; Margaret Butler, junior squad; and Phyllis Struble, senior squad. are Violet Council
Twelve women were chosen for each squad, each woman to receive 100 points for WAA.
Last year the junior squad won and six members of that squad are on this year's senior squad.
Forwards for the freshman squad
Sophomore forwards are Lavone (continued to page five)
Jayhawk Jabberwock
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The move of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to insure the continuation of college sports by urging the army and navy to permit trainees on the Campus to take part in the regular program of intercollegiate athletics is a commendable one. With the shortage of civilian athletes destined to become more and more acute, it probably offers the only means of keeping alive intercollegiate sports for the duration.
Up Now—Might Pay You!
To smooth the way for such a program, the NCAA has already scrapped its one-year residence rule for competition.
Meanwile, James E. Pixlee, chief of the physical training for the army indicated recently that he was in favor of the idea, pointing out the value of college sports in developing qualities of leadership in fliers and toughening them to endure the privations of combat duty.
HITTING THE HIGH SPOTS
Certainly such a ruling would not hurt the Jayhawk football chances this fall, for we remember watching in action in a touch football game a sailor back named Hornick, who would have really added something to the weak Kansas running attack. The former Carnegie Tech star was as fast as they come, and gave the Hopkins hall team a bad day.
This boy, Bill Brill, impresses this writer as bing a whale of a smooth basketball player who will go places next semester . . . with freshman team men competing, this year's intramural basketball teams are probably faster than at any previous time in the history of the intraschool competition . . . the Nebraska basketball squad is said to be coming up fast.
Indoor track, if it operates at all,
will do so under serious handicaps,
with naval men taking over many of
the facilities . . . keep your eye on
Jayhawk basketeer John Short before the present season is over . . .
he has what it takes . . . an article
by Tom Meany in PM compares
No Intramural Games During Finals Week
Regularly scheduled class "A" intramural games will be suspended until January 25, Henry Shenk, director of intramurals, said today. There will be no play during final examination week, and immediately following the finals the class "B" second round and consolation play will be run off.
Postponed class "A" games will also be played during that period, Shenk said.
In Friday night's top attraction, a powerful Beta quintet fell before the Delta Chi five in a thriller, 35 to 33, as Elton Winter, forward, tossed in the winning goal. Winter and Don Burt, fresh star of this winter's freshest man-varsity game, paced the high-geared Delta Chi squad to the victory.
Rans Bennett and Jim Roderick turned in fine scoring performances for the losing Beta's, while Harlan Altman and Bob O'Neil stood out on the defense.
Pi K A's Trounce Sig Ep's
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A smooth-playing Pi K A squad trounced an outclassed Sig Ep team 41 to 21 in another Friday night contest. The experienced Pi K A's were led by Bill Mathews, former varsity man, whose eagle-eye counted for 19 of the winners' points. Joe Crawford and Bill Atwell also turned in
Phog Allen to the St. Louis Cardinals' Branch Rickey . . . . Phog's criticism of the Eastern style of court play was also given wide publicity by the Eastern papers.
Team to watch out for at the NC AA tourney this year—Southern California . . . Grady Lewis, basketball great, finally appears to be slowing down a little . . . he remains quite a performer on the court, however . . . unhappy man—Jack Ballard, who was worried for fear a cold would keep him from making the trip to OU, and found his worst fears realized when that cold developed into the measles.
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