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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1942
Sportin' Around by Chuck Elliott
Kansas is over the hump! At least they have maintained their position in the conference and now have a short breathing spell before coming face to face with those Oklahoma "Tucker is Back" Sooners. And that's something to look forward to. Harold Keith, publicity director for the Oklahoma school, has declared that the game is nearly a sell-out at this time and the few seats left are going fast.
--several times and dribbed in for easy set-ups.
The next good point for Oklahoma was the playing of Bob McCurdy, another sophomore. According to press dispatches he guarded Held all evening and prevented him from scoring a field goal and just one free throw. It might have been done by McCurdy alone but that is doubtful. Held seems too tall for the six-foot Oklahoma to fool all evening. And then when the boxscore shows that both Tucker and Held went out of the game on fouls with Tucker receiving six chances at the free throw line, it looks as if Held had his hand in guarding Tucker and vice versa. But this column can't vouch for the above because there was a game on the local campus last night that proved much more interesting.
HOW ABOUT THOSE SOONERS?
But Oklahoma also kept pace last night by downing Nebraska 37 to 29. Looking at the game just from a box-score angle it appears that Oklahoma has only one or two good things worthy of note from that game. First of all and undoubtedly most important is the scoring that Gerald Tucker did. He made 17 points last night, which coupled with his 18 points against Missouri, gives him a 17.5 average to lead the conference. There is no doubting that he is a great player and this average substantiates it. Furthermore, when a person considers that Tucker is the type of player that will never shoot when a teammate is open or has a better shot, it is all the more remarkable. Add to this his ability at rebounding and feeding passes to his teammates and you have a pretty handy fellow to have around.
When the shot chart was recounted for the Oklahoma-Nebraska game it showed that the Cornhuskers made only 10 out of 74 shots for a percentage of 13.5. Comparing Nebraska's showing against Kansas Saturday night, the Huskers must have been even worse last night. Against the Jayhawkers the Nebraskans shot 56 times and made 10 for a percentage of 17.8.
Then when you look at the winning team's percentage of shots it shows that Kansas made 24 baskets out of 90 attempts for a mark of 26.7 per cent. Oklahoma made 15 out of 44 chances for a percentage of 34 per cent.
These charts would indicate that Nebraska controlled the ball most of the game last night. Therefore Oklahoma couldn't have looked too flashy. And with Nebraska hitting even a poorer percentage of its shots last night than against Kansas, the Sooners are put to shame for their failure to build up a bigger margin of victory than eight points. And on their home court after Nebraska had played here two night before, tsk, tsk.
JOHNNY GLENN: A REAL KANSAS FOLLOWER
Probably the most interested spectator at the two games over the weekend was Johnny Glenn, wholesale coal and ice distributor and formerly connected with the athletic department at Northwestern University, who was visiting Coach "Phog" Allen and "his boy," John Buescher. Both Glenn and Buescher are from Beardstown, Ill.
After watching the two games Glenn was of the opinion that this year's Jayhawker team was much better than the 1940 team which went to the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament against Indiana University in Kansas City. And Glenn should be in a fairly good position to know for he has been following Allen's team since 1934 and has never seen them lose a regularly scheduled game. The lone defeat that he has seen was in the post-season N.C.A.A. affair when Indiana triumphed.
"This year's team has more potentialities, both scoring and defense, than any of the teams I've seen play for "Phog." The only thing that might hold them back is their attitude. Right now it is perfect and I only hope it remains that way. It should by all means but if they do happen to get over-confident and too cocky they will be just like all teams and lose their golden opportunity."
Although Illinois is leading the Big Ten race at the present time and are his home-state club Glenn doesn't expect them to go too far. "Never in the history of the Big Ten," he said, "has a sophomore club such as Illinois is this year gone very far. Of course, their lead at the present time will probably give them the Big Ten title but I expect them to crack before they go very far along in the N.C.A.A. play-offs."
Glenn said that Kansas gained a great deal of prestige on that midsemester tour. Especially when they beat Iowa, he said. Iowa has got a good team and has been losing most of its games by just one or two points. The DePaul walkaway was another impressive point that went well with Eastern fans.
"It's a tough place," he said, "to play at Bloomington. The moment you walk onto the court the crowd is on you and they never let up. The same situation holds true, more or less, at Ohio State where they have four big furnaces at each corner of the court which handicap the players no end."
Besides thinking that Illinois will lose one or two games before long, Glenn thinks that Indiana and Minnesota are the best teams in the Western Conference with Indiana holding the edge. Indiana has lost only one game at home since 1937 and that was to Wisconsin.
One of the main reasons why Illinois beat Wisconsin at Madison this year the fact that three of the Badgers were sick and not because the Illini were that much better. Players in the East all look older than these fellows around here, he thought. Finally he concluded that not only did they look older but that they actually were older.
Women's Basketball Title in Robinson Theta vs. Corbin Tonight
BY SHIRLEY HENRY
The basketball championship of women's organized houses will be decided tonight at 9:00 in Robinson gymnasium when Kappa Alpha Theta will meet Corbin Hall. The winner will play the I.W.W. team next week for the title of all-University championship.
Thus far Mildred Wells has been the outstanding player on Corbin's team. Tall and a good ball-handler, she is noted for her scoring record as well as her excellent floor work. Also
Alta Bingham, at guard, has shown good defensive work. Teamed up with Wells and Bingham, are Marguerite Demint, Phyllis Struble, and June Cochren.
On Theta's team, Peggy Davis is outstanding for her good all-around playing, including floor play, ball handling, and scoring ability. She is backed up by Betty Roberts and Eileen Miller as forwards with Dorothy Fizzell, Nancy Donovan, and Marty Green showing a strong defense.
Both Corbin Hall and Theta have excellent teams, neither having been defeated. A cup will be awarded the winner.
Theta's have won four games, over Alpha Chi (30-16), Chi Omega (35 to 16), Watkins Hall (12 to 9), and Pi Phi's (16 to 6).
Corbin, also winning four games, defeated the Delta Gamma's 32 to 17, the Gamma Phi's 19 to 10, the Alpha Delta Pi's 37 to 11, and the Kappa's 22 to 12.
Breeze By Cyclones--several times and dribbed in for easy set-ups.
Buescher Passing Excels
Budolson broke the ice for the northerners with a set shot and Rollin Kuebler, the high-scoring surprise package of the Cyclones, followed with a tip-in to put the Iowans the closest they ever were to the Kansans.
Johnny Buescher, who played a marvelous floor game the last half and who is 60 per cent responsible for the Kansas scoring power by his uncanny ability to pass the ball safely to the forwards, started the scoring off with a free throw with two minutes gone. Miller popped in two goals and Kansas led 5 to 0 with six minutes played. Iowa State had taken nine shots, missing all of them.
Miller took a pass from Black for a set-up and the latter followed with a one-handed post shot for another
KANSAS
| | G FT | MFT | F MP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Miller, f | 11 | 4 | 3040 |
| Turner, f | 0 | 0 | 02 |
| Black, f | 8 | 1 | 338 |
| Hall, f | 0 | 0 | 03 |
| Ballard, f | 0 | 0 | 02 |
| Buescher, c | 1 | 3 | 135 |
| Evans, g | 4 | 1 | 0140 |
| Johnson, g | 0 | 0 | 04 |
| Hunter, g | 1 | 1 | 334 |
| Walker, g | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Totals | 25 | 10 | 511200 |
IOWA STATE
| | G F T | MFT | F | MP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Budolfson, f | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Harris, f | 1 | 1 | 1 | 326 |
| Damon, f | 1 | 0 | 0 | 114 |
| Kuebler, c | 7 | 2 | 2 | 337 |
| Hayes, c | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Schneider, g | 5 | 1 | 2 | 140 |
| Mikelson, g | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Harville, g | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
| Uknes, g | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Totals 19 6 6 12 200
Officials— Ted O'Sullivan, Missoui;
Louis House, William Jewel.
bucket. Buescher dropped in another free throw to give Kansas a 10 to 4 lead at the 10-minute mark.
Evans hit a one-hander from the side but Kuebler came through on another freak bucket. Buddison
Charlie Black came through with another beautiful pass as he pushed the ball behind his back to Evans who drove in for a set-up. Kuebler tallied again when an Iowa State rebound bounced off Buescher's head into Keeb's hands for a perfect set-up.
Get Surprise Score
raced in for a set-up but missed. Miller followed in for the rebound but was pulled to the floor by Budoldfson. Kuebler picked up the free ball while everyone was thinking the whistle had blown, dunking in two points.
Black hit a one-hander from the side before T. P. Hunter fouled Schneider who made one out of two and then Kuebler fouled Hunter who likewise made one out of two. At the 15-minute mark it was 17 to 9 as Schneider hit a one-hander from the corner. George Harville connected for a point on Black's foul and Red Hayes made a setup to put Iowa State within three points, 17 to 14, with two and one-half minutes left.
Black dropped a one-hander and Hunter made a long set shot 10 seconds before the gun. Budolfson followed five seconds later with the final bucket of the half, score being 21 to 16, Kansas.
The second half was an entirely different matter. Although Kansas led
stantly the last period but it wasn't even close.
Start Scoring Streak
Miller dunked in a free throw just before Schneider scored on a tip-in. With the score now 22 to 18 the Kansans started rolling. Black on a tip-in, Buescher on a free throw, Evans on a gift shot, and Evans on a back overhead shot after a bounce pass from Miller was the way the scoring ran for the next minute and a half.
Black came back with a delayed one-handed set-up but Schneider countered with a hook shot. Evans drove in for a set-up after taking Miller's pass, Buescher came through on a delayed set-up, and Miller popped in a one-hander closeby. 36 to 22, Kansas, with seven minutes played.
Budolson dropped in a free throw on Hunter's foul and Bob Harris made his only field goal of the evening on a long shot. Black faked
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