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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 22,1942
POLLARD BEST PLAYER ON FLOOR
Game Notes: Of the four teams that played Friday night Stanford was easily the class of the group. What the Indians could do with Don Burness, their co-captain all-conference forward, in the line-up is purely speculative but it seems certain that they could walk through the play-offs in easy style. The weakness of the fifth man in the Indian line-up was emphasized when Jack Dana, the substitute forward, shot nine times and failed to connect for a single goal. His substitute, Fred Linari, was even worse as he repeatedly threw the ball away on wild passes and was an extremely poor offensive threat.
In Jim Pollard the Indians have one of the flashiest players that has ever performed in the midwest. The publicity dope which was sent out concerning Pollard claimed that Pollard was capable of being another Hank Luisetti. From his performance Friday night Pollard rated the nod as the best player on the floor. On defense he was steady and dependable and on offense he was absolutely sparkling. He never took a single unnecessary shot and his teamwork and passing was of the best.
For Rice Chet Palmer was the outstanding player. He had a sweet-looking one-handed shot from out far and was the key man in setting up Rice plays. Bob Kinney, the All-American center, played much under par. Possible explanation for this was a sever charley-horse which he had on his right leg. Also when he got three fouls early in the game his style of play was slowed down considerably. Bill Closs, junior forward, played in spurts. At times he was outstanding with his hook shots and rebound work and then he would drop his standard and perform like an average player.
In the Kansas-Colorado game four players clearly stood out above the rest. Charlie Black and Ray Evans make the Jayhawkers a constant threat while Leason Boudreau and George Hamburg paced the Buffalo attack. Black equipped his early season performance against Oklahoma by Doll and Huggins to foul out besides tallying 18 points and performing an excellent job on rebounds. Evans played his usual driving game and also came through in the clutch twice to put Kansas back in the ball game after Colorado had spurted to gain a short lead.
the ball game after McCloud lived up to his press notices as he came through with six buckets in the first half which provided the main Buff offense in the open period. In which half, as Evans changed his style of guarding, the New York fish was held to two goals but continued his clever floor game and provided a menacing offensive threat constantly. Hamburg was the key man in the Colorado offense and whenever the Jayhawk defense tightened the former Beloit star would bang away from far out to split the K. U. defense.
On the basis of the two semi-final games a flashy all-star could be formed that would compare favorably with any outfit in the country. At forwards would be Pollard and McCloud, Black at center, and Palmer and Hamburg at guards with Evans being the first alternate.
Status Quo of Grid Rules To Be Kept During War
There will very likely be no further rule changes in football for the duration of the emergency, George F. Veenker, Iowa State director of athletics and fifth district representative on the national football rules committee, has announced.
"The game of football as such," Veenker explained, "means nothing for the duration. But the game of football as a means of conditioning and training men for the armed services is all important. For that reason the rules committee has made as few changes in the rules as possible and probably will make no more till the war is over." The rules committee, in public change, felt that all playe titled to a clear on the line of Illlarged
The committee, he said, was opposed to any rules changes and intends only to clarify rules which caused argument last year. One of the most important changes, Veenker feels, was the abolishing the old offside rule whereby officials could call both teams offline.
Under the new interpretation the head linesman must now call one team offside "unless both actually charge simultaneously." Spectators are not likely to notice this particular enforcement, but the head linesman no longer will have an easy way out when the offside penalty comes up.
The committee clarified the position of the center's feet by saying his feet must be on side. Several centers, especially those working in the "T" formation, obscured the ball by placing the foot alongside the ball
Illegal delay of the game in the final two minutes also brought about clarifications. The rule now says that when the three time-outs have been used and a team on the offense substitutes, the watch shall start when the substitution has been completed.
Another major change was clarifying the rule on "sleeper" plays. Where a sleeper play occurs as a result of substitutions, the play will be called back and not allowed.
When a team on the defense substitutes or calls time out, the watch shall start at the snap of the ball. In this way, the committee felt, the officials could prevent either team's trying to delay the game.
One of the minor clarifications, Veenker said, was the use of colored footballs for night games. The rule now permits the use of a white or colored ball with two black stripes.
Buffs Weather K.U. Rally
Colorado's Golden Buns doused the Kansas Jayhawk's title hopes 46-44 in capacity-packed Municipal auditorium of Kansas City Friday night by weathering a determined last half Kansas rally. Stanford nosed out Rice Institute 53-47 in the opener of the Western NCAA playoffs.
The Jays jumped to a 4-0 lead in the opening minutes of the game, and after five minutes of play Kansas still led 8-3. Colorado, steadying itself to a methodical game, tied the score at 10-all with ten minutes elapsed in the first period.
With Leason "Pete" McCloud, George Hamburg, and Bob Doll leading the way, the Buffalooes ran wild in the final five minutes of the first half to give Colorado a 27-20 intermission advantage.
It was a fighting bunch of Jay-hawkers who returned in the second half to put the clamps on Colorado's big guns long enough for the Allenmen to draw even with the Buffs. Kansas had tied the score after seven minutes of the last half had elapsed.
Weakened by the loss of its star center, Doll, early in the last period, Colorado battled on even terms with Kansas once the score was tied. In the waning seconds of the see-saw final ten minutes, the Buffalooes converted two fouls to shade "Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers at the final gun.
With Rififi' Ralph Miller showing a complete reversal of form from
Colorado fg ft pf tp
McCloud, f 8 3 0 19
Nuckolls, f 1 1 2 3
Doll, c 2 2 4 6
Huggirs, c 2 1 4 5
Hamburg, g 4 1 1 9
Putman, c 0 0 0 0
Kirchner, g 2 0 3 4
Totals 19 8 14 46
his 17-point game last Tuesday against the Oklahoma Aggies, Kansas scoring burden was shouldered by sophomore Charley Black. Using his rebounding ability and a pivot shot, Black poured six field goals through the basket and gathered six more tallies from the free throw line.
The Jayhawker's Ray Evans had difficulty in guarding the polished pivot and one-handed shots of Colorado's McCloud, leading scorer of the Big Seven conference, but he kept Kansas in the game when the going got rough with five field goals.
McCloud was easily the class of the Colorado scorers with eight field goals and three free throws. Doll, voted the outstanding player in the sports writers metropolitan tournament two years ago, showed splurges of scoring; he was benched at the start of the second half on fouls.
Gangly George Hamburg covered Miller of Kansas like a blanket; he was selected all-conference guard for the second time this year. His long set shots gave the Buffs points
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Kansas fg ft pf tp
Miller, f 2 1 4 5
Ballard, f 0 0 0 0
Black, f 6 6 2 18
Buescher, c 1 3 2 5
Hall, c 1 0 1 2
Evans, g 5 0 2 10
Sollenberger, g 1 0 2
Hunter, g 1 0 1 2
Totals 17 10 12 44
when Colorado failed to penetrate Kansas' defense.
Stanford's great height proved too much for a plucky Rice five which literally ran circles around the towering Indians. The Owls got off to an early lead, but Jim Pollard, Stanford sophomore who led Pacific conference scoring this season, soon found the range to give the Indians a 33-21 halftime advantage.
Rice returned after intermission to carry the game to the Indians. With Placido Gomez stealing the ball from the Stanford players and with Bob Kinney out-rebounding the taller Indians, Rice went into a brief lead, 41-37, with Harold Lambert and Kinney pouring in goals.
After the Pacific coast champions had forged into a 47-45 advantage with only minutes to go, Bill Closs and Kinney of the Owls were waved to the bench on fouls. The Indians then stalled their shorter rivals to close the game.
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