1942
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Battle of Year At Norman
Their seven-game winning streak broken by Iowa State's superbly - performing home-lings, Oklahoma's smarting basketball team will close its Big Six season at 7:45 p.m. Friday at Norman with its climatic battle with Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's Kansas Jayhawkers.
Seven or eight thousand spectators may pile into Oklahoma's 15-year-old Fieldhouse to see this grim Sooner-Jayhawk vendetta of the maples, provided the weather is good. It's a basketball "natural" that has been brewing for seven weeks. Oklahoma HAS to Win
If Kansas wins, she cinches the Big Six championship for 1942 with nine triumphs in ten starts, having lost only her game to Iowa State at Ames earlier in the year, the Cyclones triumphing 45-41 although they were later flogged at Lawrence by the merciless Jays 44-60. Oklahoma would be assured of second place with seven wins and three losses.
However, if Coach Bruce Drake's Oklahomaans should pull down the mighty Jay quintet, the Sooners would be assured of a tie for the Big Six title and the pressure then would be on Kansas to defeat Kansas State at Manhattan and Missouri at Lawrence to gain even a tie with Oklahoma.
The game will clarify the personal coaching rivalry between Doctor Allen, veteran Kanssag mentor, and
Drake, who is in only his fourth season of coaching. Each coach holds four triumphs over the other and Friday night's clash will definitively give one the advantage. Allen Is Still King
Allen Is Still King
If Oklahoma wins, Drake's life-time coaching record in Big Six play, brief as it has been, will jump to an even .700 percent of games won, which puts the young Sooner mentor pretty closely on the heels of the veteran Kansas tutor.
But Doctor Allen is safely beyond immediate pursuit, at that. His team's recent mauling of Iowa State tories Doctor Allen's Kansas teams raised to an even 100 the no. of vichave registered in Big Six play, against only 36 defeats for a gaudy conference winning percentage of .745. "Phog" Allen is still king of all basketball coaches in these parts.
In the sparkling Kansas team, Oklahoma fans will see one of the stoutest court aggregations ever forged from the famous Allen smithy. It ranks with such great Kansas aggregations of yesteryear as the 1924 five, built around two great guards, Paul Endicott and Charley Black, the evenly-balanced 1927 team sparked by Al Peterson, a great center, and the all-victorious 1936 team upon which played Ray Ebling and Fred Pralle.
Long Sleeve, Injurybarkers
Kansas is amply stocked with seniors, juniors and sophomores. It is the most dangerous long-shooting aggregation in the league and is also the circuit's top rebounding team. Ralph Miller, great scorer and
feeder, John "Thin Man" Buescher, excellent passer and play-maker and two scintillating sophomores, 6-foot 4-inch Charley Black and stocky Ray Evans, are the brightest figures in its player personnel although Marvin Sollenberger, its tough defensive guard, has also been a big factor in the team's feat of winning all its college games but two.
Regardless of its fate against Kansas, Oklahoma will go down into court history as the basketball team that went the farthest with the "leastest" this season in spite of some terrific bad breaks all along the route.
Tucker and McCurdy Shine
The coaching feat of Drake, who took a seniorless club, one that lost two returning aces, Garnett Corbin and Allie Paine, before the season started and one important cog, Mitch Simon, in mid-season this year, to the service, not to mention the sudden disbarment for the first five games of the Big Six race of Gerald Tucker, sophomore hot-shot, and yet has driven it to an opportunity to tie for the Big Six championship here Friday night, stands out like stripes on a referee's shirt.
Drake wrote into the conference register four names the Big Six had never heard of until this season—Bob "Manacles" McCurdy, Dick Reich, Jimmy Marteney, and Tom Rousey—all of them freshmen or obscure squad men last season.
A preliminary game between the Sooner frosh and the Will Rogers Air Base team will precede the main event, and will start at 6 p.m.
Sig Alph's Win Defensive Tilt
TODAY'S SCHEDULE
5:30 Phi Psi vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.
5:30 Delta Tau "B" vs. Phi Psi "B".
7:00 Delta Upsilon vs. Sig Ep.
Newman III vs. Jayhawk Coop.
10:00 A. K. Psi vs. Phil Delta Theta.
10:00 Hell Hounds vs. Rock Chalk.
TOMORROW'S SCHEDULE
5:30 Blanks vs. Crackerjacks.
5:30 Kappa Sigma vs. Acacia.
Phi Delta Theta suffered its second straight loss last night as it fell before Sigma Alpha Epsilon 18 to 15 in one of the best defensive games of the intramural season.
The ball-hawking Sig Alph's led all the way as they handed the Phi Delt play-off hopes a terrific blow. The winners placed all their hopes on an airtight defense which the favored Phi Delt's were incapable of solving.
It was Bob Bond, elongated Sig Alph center, who played the leading role in smothering the Phi Delt attack. He held Chuck Hunter, Phi Delt ace, to a single field goal. Frank Gage led the winner's attack, taking scoring honors for his team with six points. He also turned in an outstanding rebounding job. Kern contributed seven points to the losers' total.
Kern Scores 7 Points
The Sig Alph's held an 8 to 5 lead at half-time. During the third quarter the two squads battled on even terms, and the winners succeeded in stalling off a desperate Phi Delt attack in the last period. Sigma Chi's Are Upset
Alpha Tau Omega romped over Sigma Chi in surprising fashion to score an easy 27 to 18 win. The
A. T.O. squad held a 21 to 12 lead at half-time, and increased it to 26 to 12 midway in the third period. The winners then coated in.
Jim Webb and Mark McLain led the A.T.O. attack with ten and eight points each respectively. Bill Hyer and Harold Beck were the Sigma Chi big-guns.
Carruth hall wallopled Rock Chalk Coop 61 to 15 in a lop sided affair. Pouring goals into the Carruth basket were Mac Frederick, Ralph Anderson, and Glenn St. Aubyn. Jack Werts was the Rock Chalk standout.
The Hell Hounds found the Union Fountaineers surprisingly troublesome before downing them 39 to
29. At half-time the favorites had held but a 19 to 16 margin. Source of much of the Hell Hound trouble was little Jack Beal, Fountaineer forward, who helped himself to 16 points. Donn Mosser, Carl Unruh, and Bob White carried the scoring burden for the winners.
Newman I rebounded from the Phi Delt defeat to whip Sigma Nu 44 to 28. Junius Penny, ace Newman forward, dumped in 11 points to lead the Newman scoring. He was assisted by Frank Rengel with nine tallies. Warren Israel rang up 13 points for the losers.
Newman II also whipped their opponents, the Crackerjacks, by a 44 (continued to page eight)
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Riddled Track Squad Has 15 for K.C. Meet
It will be a squad riddled by the draft, enlistments, and injuries which carries the Crimson and Blue into the indoor Big Six track meet in Municipal auditorium at Kansas City Saturday night.
Jayhawk Cafe
Gone this year are nine point winners from last year's Kansas squad which placed third in indoor conference competition. Five of these men had another year's college competition, but
Three Kansans Off Form
Saying that "The boys thought that this war was theirs," track coach W. H. "Bill" Hargiss pointed out that, of returning lettermen who should have returned, Don Thompson and Jack Mitchener are in the air corps, Orlando Epp, J. R. Jones, and Ted Scott are in the army, and Bob Stoland is employed in national defense. Lettermen who were graduated are Kenny Hamilton, Darrel Mathes, and Bill Bevan.
Hargiss saw Kansas' chances in the pole vault fade this week when Jim Cordell injured his leg. Ralph
Schaake and Fred Eberhardt will both perform below par for the meet. Schaake has been suffering from a shin splint and Eberhards has been ill.
Pollom and Edwards Lead
The Jayhawks' chances for points in the meet will rest heavily on two veterans and a sophomore, Lanky Dick Edwards, who ran second in the mile last year, will be back for his third try at the distances in Big Six indoor competition. Don Pollom, who specializes in the hurdles and dashes, will have his second taste of indoor conference competition. Sophomore Eldridge King, who shows promise in (continued to page eight)
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