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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1942
Continuing with a brief glance at basketball teams west of the Mississippi it appears that Colorado is the only team that can definitely count on coming to Kansas City for the N.C.A.A. at this date.
The situation in the Valley is in quite a muddle at present and won't be settled probably until the Oklahoma-Kansas clash at Norman. A sidelight on that game, by the way, is the report that a Big Six representative from a school other than Oklahoma and Kansas will be in attendance to observe the crowd and evaluate the sportsmanship of the spectators at Norman. As the date, Feb. 27, approaches new developments continue to arise which should make the financial moguls at O.U. swell with joy. If 10,000 people tried to get into the Oklahoma-Oklahoma Aggie game last year there should be more than that try for this Big Six clash. At least a new Oklahoma fieldhouse record should be set that night.
RICE IS MOVING UP
Going on south it appears that the Rice Owls are slowly creeping up on Arkansas. At present, Arkansas has a record of five wins and one loss. Rice, which defeated Texas Christian last night, 44 to 37, moved into second place over their opponent and now the Owls have a record of five wins and two losses. Arkansas plays Texas A. and M. tonight and tomorrow night which should add two more victories to the Razorback string. Rice plays Southern Methodist tomorrow night and should wind up the victor. The show-down will come when Arkansas goes to Houston for the final two games with that school. R. C. Pitts and Gordon Carpenter are the leading Razorbacks. Pitts boasts a 13.2 average for points scored in conference games. Carpenter has a 10.7 average. Kinney and Closs are the Rice stalwarts with point averages of 14.5 and 8.7 respectively. Dwight Parks of Baylor however is the loops leading scorer with an average of 15.9 points for eight games.
Moving out to the Rockies it is sufficient to note that Colorado is undefeated in conference play and only a snow-slide down the slopes of Mt. Long could top a score run up by the Buffalo machine. Their greatest achievement of the season was a 59 to 53 triumph over the Wyoming Cowboys. The Wyoming crew was rated as the toughest opponent that would face Frosty Cox's crew but they were subdued without too much difficulty. Bob Doll, the California wizard, is leading the Buffers at present but he is getting able assistance from Kansans Pete McCloud and George Hamburg.
Out on the West Coast there is quite a turmoil. Stanford was having things quite it's own way until Southern Cal came along the other night and Julie Bescos' Trojans walked off with a 27 to 23 triumph. As a result Jim Seminoff, U.S.C. reserve center, gained a starting berth and will be in the opening line-up tonight against U.C.L.A. The leading scorer of the Southern division of the Pacific Coast league is Ernie Handelsman. The U.C.L.A. southpaw forward jumped from 20th place to 1st place in the standings during the past weekend when he tallied 53 points in two games against the California Bruins. Ed Voss and Jim Pollard of Stanford are the second and third place holders.
The real fight however develops in the Northern division where Washington State leads at present with seven victories and four defeats. Close behind is Oregon State with six wins and four losses. The University of Washington Huskies had a chance to go into a first place tie with the Cougars but lost Tuesday night to Idaho after beating them the night before. The Huskie record now reads seven won, five lost. The win for Idaho Tuesday night was the Vandals only conference victory thus far this season.
Illinois, the outstanding favorite east of the Mississippi to enter the N.C. A.A. finals, dropped its first Big Ten game of the season this week to the Indiana Hoosiers. The Illini still maintained their position at the top of the Big Ten with a record of seven wins and one loss. Minnesota is in second place with seven victories and three defeats followed by Indiana with six and three, and Purdue and Wisconsin are tied for fourth place with five wins, three losses. Johnny Kotz of Wisconsin is the leading scorer with an average of 16.5 in eight games. Otto Graham, the Northwestern sophomore football star, is next in averages with 13.5 followed by Forrest Sprowl of Purdue with 12.8.
One of the oddities about the Illinois team is the fact that four of the five regulars are sophomores. Three of these players were all-state their senior year in high school and another sophomore, but not a regular, was also a member of the all-state five in 1940. The four regulars are Ken Menke, a cousin of Bill Menke, the Indiana and Great Lakes flash; Gene Vance; Andy Phillip, and Jack Smiley. Only the latter did not make all-state but Ed Parker, the substitute, makes up for this. The lone letterman on the starting five is Vic Wukovits, senior center.
The captain of this year's team is Bill Hocking, yet he seldom plays much more than half of a game. Hank Sachs, senior guard, returned to school this semester and although he was a regular last year before becoming ineligible, he cannot break into the Illini's opening quintet this season. This was the first season in many that not a single man on the Illini squad became ineligible at mid-semester.
AMERINE AND CORPUS CHRISTI
It seems that Corpus Christi not only has K.U.'s "Dashing Dick" but also a pretty fair basketball team. The other night they defeated a city team from Austin, 64 to 40. And the latter team was no softy either for it had Speedy Houpt and Udell Moore, two former regulars on the University of Texas basketball team which lost two games to the Jayhawkers here last year.
Word from Wyoming indicates that the N.C.A.A. semi-finalists of last year have an even better team this year but have had a little tough luck in dropping three games. "Wyoming was just cold and the other teams (Utah, Brigham Young, and Colorado) were just too hot," so the story runs.
I-S Cyclones Come Monday For Tough Go
"Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers will meet the Cyclones from Iowa State Monday night in a game which will probably prove to be one of the toughest of the season. Though the Jayhawkers have the advantage of playing on the home court, it will take an excellent brand of basketball to stop the cagers from Iowa State.
The Cyclones tied with Kansas for the Big Six crown last year. Predictions early in the season marked them as a likely contender again this year. This prediction will probably not prove true, as
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the Iowa State five has lost three conference games so far this season. Last year's game at Lawrence between these two teams was a thriller with the Jayhawks eking out a 44-14 victory over Coach Louis Menze the quintet.
The Cyclones so far this season have paced by Al Budolfson with an average of 13.1 points a game. This average holds third place in Big Six standings. High scorer for the Kansans is Charles Black with an average of 13.8. Budolfson was an all-conference performer last year, and is backed up by Bob Harris, who held the same title as a sophomore.
The Jayhawkers, at this point in the season, hold a better conference average than do the Cyclones. The Cyclones have won four and lost three for an average of .571. Coach Allen's boys have an average of .800, having won four out of five games played.
The only Kansas loss in conference play was the Iowa State clash earlier in the season when the Cyclones won out 45 to 41.
Kansas State Here Tomorrow Year's First Track Meet
Coach H. W. "Bill" Hargiss' Jayhawker track squad will ring up the curtain on Kansas' indoor season against a veteran crew from Kansas State tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 on the cinder path under the east wing of Memorial stadium.
Spearhead of the Wildcat attack will be Ed Darden, a senior and team captain, and Al Rues, sophomore transfer from Ft. Scott Junior College.
KANSAS-KANSAS STATE INDOOR MEET RECORDS:
The Wildcats opened their indoor campaign last week by administering a 56-48 defeat to Drake—the first time in two years that the Bulldogs had been defeated at Des Moines. Darden Is Best Aggie Bet ment, or failure in gud ments, Hard le
60-yd. dash—06.3, Mathes (K), 1940
60-yd. low hurdles—07.1, Knappen-
1940; Darden (KS), 1941
and won the lows. Rues began his varsity competition by winning the mile in 4:25.5 to chop almost a second from the Drake track record.
High jump= 6 ft. 1 in., Stoland (K),
1941
Pole vault - 13 ft., Bevan (K) and Michener (K) 1941
To match coach Ward Haylett's Darden and Rues, Hargiss will depend on Don Pollom in the hurdles and Dick Edwards in the mile. Friendly competition between Pollom and Darden extends back to high school days when Darden, running for Manhattan and Pollom for Topeka, matched strides over the sticks.
berger (KS), 1935; Dodge (KS),
60-yd. high hurdles—07.8, Dodge
(KS), 1940, Darden (KS), 1941
440 dash—53, Upham (KS), 1941
880 run—2:00.1, O'Reilly (KS), 1935
Mile run—4:29.9, Harris (K), 1940
Two mile run—9:45.5, High (KS),
1940
Broad jump-22 ft. 3 $ \frac{1}{2} $ in., Jones (K), 1941
Michelner (K), 1941
Shot put-47 ft. $ 9 \frac{1}{2} $ in., Hackney (KS), 1940
10 Wildcat Lettermen
Edwards, second place winner in the mile in both indoor and outdoor Big Six competition last year, will carry Kansas' hopes in the distances as he doubles in the mile and two mile events. Busy man for the Jayhawk team will be Ralph Schaake who will compete in shot put, high jump and both high and low hurdles.
Compared with Kansas' six lettermen — Edwards, Pollom, Schaake, Fred Eberhardt, Jim Cordell, and Clarence Miller—Kansas State lost no lettermen to the draft, enlistment, or failure in grade requirements. Haylett has the following lettermen returning: Darden, Rues, Jim Johns, Rufus Miller, Don Borthwick, Jim Upham, Kent Duewe, Merrill Rockhold, John Fieser, and Ken Makalous.
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And you'll know it when you see the new--ment, or failure in grade requirements. Haylett has the following lettermen returning: Darden, Rues, Jim Johns, Rufus Miller, Don Borthwick, Jim Upham, Kent Duewe, Merrill Rockhold, John Fieser, and Ken Makalous.
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The Wildcat's greatest strength will be in the middle distances and the weights. Johns, Miller, and Upham, all juniors, compose the power in the quarter, half and mile, and Duewe is a veteran in the shot put event.
Full Jayhawk Squad to Compete
Hargiss stated today that, while he has very little veteran material to work with this season, he plans to develop his new track men into a squad that will show better balance in the outdoor season than did last year's team.
Hargiss announced the following men will compete:
60-yd dash—Pollom, Hodge, Winters.
60-yd. 1ow hurdles — Pollom,
Schaea, Bierne.
60-yd. high hurdles — Schaake, Bierne.
440-yd. dash—Pollom, Eberhardt,
Brownlee.
High Jump—Schaake, King
Two mile run—Edwards, Miller
880-yd. run—Welty, Atchison, Eberhardt
Mile run—Edwards, Miller
Broad Jump—Winters, Hodge
High Jump—Schaake, King
Fole vault—Cordell, Houghton
Pole vault—Cordell, Houghton
Shot put—Schaake, Todd, Tenebaum
Mile relay  Eberhardt, Pollom,
Brownlee, Edwards
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