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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942
--of the Aggie style of determined, slow offense and set, zone defense. In the Nebraska game K.U. took 90 shots and Nebraska banged away 56 times.
--of the Aggie style of determined, slow offense and set, zone defense. In the Nebraska game K.U. took 90 shots and Nebraska banged away 56 times.
Henry Iba, the grayish-looking man who will pit his masterminding skill against "Phog" Allen tonight in the basketball extravaganza in Hoch auditorium, is quite the man. Not only for his coaching ability which is recognized nation-wide but also for his qualities as a diplomat.
Recently a situation occurred at his school in Stillwater which caused considerable agitation among the A. & M. students and followers.The case in question was the transfer of track star Burton Cossey from the Stillwater campus to the more elite group at the state campus at Norman.
In view of a similar situation that occurred at O.U., Iba undoubtedly could have pressed charges and raised quite a commotion. However the level-headed athletic director did no such thing. He met with Lawrence "Jap" Haskell, Oklahoma's athletic director, in Oklahoma City and a peaceable settlement was made.
"Jap Haskell of O.U. and I have come to an agreement," Iba said. "The minute an athlete from either school shows up on the other campus, we will check first to see if there is any question about his leaving the other campus before he is allowed to enroll again. Haskell wants to do the right thing," Iba continued. "He'd send the boy back to us now, but we don't want him. I'm sure Jap didn't know about the Cossey case until the boy was in school at Norman. We've taken the right steps so this kind of thing won't happen again."
This all sounds mighty fine. In fact, it sounds a little too fine. A statement such as this is just what you would expect to come from a meeting concerning a ticklish situation involving a state's two largest educational institutions. But there was nothing else for Iba to do. The boy had left Stillwater for "greener pastures" and a coach would be a fool to take him back. Furthermore, it made relations between the state's two biggest schools very smooth indeed.
From his statement to the press, Iba appeared to be satisfied with the settlement of the case. But inwardly it is doubtful if he was. Whether he was or not, the public wasn't. Close followers of the Oklahoma case have their own ideas on the situation and they certainly don't coincide with results obtained. The affair should serve, at least, to slow Oklahoma down a trifle in her grand-scale collection of athletes on other college campuses.
PHOG ALLEN TAUGHT COX QUITE WELL
Give Frosty Cox plenty of credit for developing a powerful team at Colorado this year. Full evidence of this was gained last week. The Buffaloes went on a western jaunt in which they met two of their toughest foes. Friday night the Golden Buffs gained a 1-point victory in the closing seconds as Heath Nuckollos tossed in a pair of free throws to defeat Utah.
The following night was another tight scrap but for a different reason. Brigham Young, runner-up in the Big Seven at present, was the opposition and almost proved too much. Brigham Young's loss was even the more remarkable because the Buffs, in command nearly all the way, lost All-American center Bob Doll and all-conference forward George Hamburg (Beloit, Kan.) on fouls in the first half and Bob Kirchner (Topeka High Trojan) during the final period.
But even with their aces on the sidelines, Colorado kept its poise and with substitute Lee Robbins of Greeley, Colo., rising to the occasion with 14 points and Leason "Pete" McCloud (Newton High Railroader) having one of his big nights for the same total, the Buffs handed the Cougars their second defeat and their first in the small Provo gymnasium.
This proof that the Buffaloes had some substitutes capable of playing top-notch ball was all that Rocky Mountain basketball fans needed to rate Colorado the top team in the nation. Of course it will be a few weeks before that title can be settled on any team but the Buffaloes should be in there fighting when the final decision is made.
Colorado should win easy over Denver tomorrow night and then will face Brigham Young at Boulder next Friday, Wyoming at Laramie on March 3, and will conclude with Utah State at Logan on March 7. The Wyoming game will be no snap for Coach Ev Shelton's Cowboy crew are dangerous anytime and up at Laramie, being undefeated on the home court, they are laying odds in favor of Wyoming right now.
And talk about offense! Teams seem to get better the farther west they go. Illinois leads the Big Ten with 47.1 points a game, Kansas leads this entire section with 51.1, but Colorado has the unbelievable average of 56.7 points a game. This average has been compiled over an undefeated conference stretch of eight games. Their defensive mark is also worthy of note, 38.8 points a game. While on the subject of Big Seven offense, Wyoming is certainly no slouch, having averaged 53.9 points a game in nine contests, winning six of them.
The two biggest reasons for the success of the Colorado outfit this year might be laid directly to Bob Doll and Leason McCloud. These two lads are leading the Big Seven in scoring with averages of 14.8 and 13.5 points a game. McCloud has the 14.8 point average but just gained the lead in the past two weeks. Following close behind these two are a pair of Wyoming Cowboys, sophomore star center, Milo Komenich, and N.C.A.A. star of last year, forward Kenny Sailors. They are tied with an average of 11.9 points a game. George Hamburg ranks twelfth in scoring with an average of 8.7 points.
Odds and ends: Three members of the department of Physical Education have been accepted by Gene Tunney in his Physical Fitness program for (continued to page seven)
GENE TUNNEY PICKS THREE FROM KANSAS
JAYHAWK OFFENSE---of the Aggie style of determined, slow offense and set, zone defense. In the Nebraska game K.U. took 90 shots and Nebraska banged away 56 times.
(continued from page one) of 30 per cent is considered good enough to win most games.
Wichita on the other hand took 42 shots and made 6 of them for a mark of 14 per cent. The Shocker shots were all hurried and in the main were taken from beyond the free throw line.
When these numbers of shots are compared with those taken in the Nebraska-Kansas game it shows the
Whether the Jayhawks will be able to penetrate this
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close-knit zone defense of the Cowboys and work the ball in for close shots or whether they will be forced to fire away from long range will be an interesting spectacle to watch.
Last year the Jayhawks invaded the Iba-coached defense with nearly a 42-point offensive average and yet in two games made only 60 points. In the first game the Jayhawks lost 30 to 26 but came back to whip the Aggies, 34 to 13, at Lawrence.
Since Iba has been at Oklahoma A. and M. his teams have faced the Jayhawkers eight times. The margins of victory varied from a two-point loss suffered by the Jayhawks in 1940 to a seven-point win gained by the Kansans in 1939.
In 1936 in an Olympic preliminary the Jayhawks won 34 to 28. The Aggies gained complete revenge in 1939 when they invited Phog Allen's crew to dedicate their new $500,000 fieldhouse and in turn the Aggies came through with two straight victories, 21 to 15 and 25 to 19. Later in the year, however, the Jayhawks evened the score with a 34 to 27 triumph.
In the 1940 season a pair of games were split to keep the records even. Kansas won the first clash 34 to 30 but lost the return engagement at Stillwater 24 to 22. Last year the teams repeated their performances of the previous year as the Aggies won the first game 30 to 26 and the Jayhawks came back to win the eighth game in the Iba-Allen series, 34 to 31.
Singers To Perform At Half-Time
The "Sons of the South" are a nationally known radio and concert artist group from Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Members of the group are Bob Price, pianist; William Charles Gordon, first tenor; Algie Haugh, second tenor; Carl Braxton, baritone; and Walter Rope, bass.
Dr. F. C. Allen Jayhawker basketball coach announced today that the "Sons of the South" will be the feature attraction during intermission at the Oklahoma A. and M.- University of Kansas basketball game tonight.
These performers have sung over the Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. Also they have been called to give a command appearance before the President of the United States.
Shooting Star for Aggies
Hailed as the greatest high school player developed in Oklahoma four seasons ago. Senior forward Lonnie Eggleston is the leading scorer on the Oklahoma Aggie cage crew this year. Eggleston was an all-state forward at Walters, Okla., where he averaged 21 points a game for four years. He will be the biggest scoring threat for the Aggies in their game tonight against the Jayhawkers in Hoch auditorium.
Corbin Hall Wins Championship
Corbin Hall took the women's all-university basketball championship from the I.W.W. team in a fast-moving game in Robinson gymnasium last night. Corbin Hall, undefeated champion of the organized houses, emerged from the struggle
with a victorious margin of 23 to 18 over the Independent champions. In the first half of the game, Mildred Wells, Corbin's flashy forward, was unable to score because she was so thoroughly blocked by Evelyn
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