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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942
Last night seems like a horrible dream to the more than 300 Hill basketball fans who journeyed to Kansas City through the rain and fog only to find that the Jayhawk cagers were in a bigger fog than anyone else. It was unbelievable to the majority of Kansas followers to see their team trampled so badly. And badly it was, there's no use kidding.
It's an old maxim that figures are the coldest things in existence but only the age of that saying gives it preference over the Red and Blue hoopsters. During the first 10 minutes of the game the Jayhawks shot 24 times and rang the bell just TWICE. A mark like that couldn't beat an intramural "C" team on the Hill.
But there are a few points that might be said for Phog Allen's boys. In the first place, and by far the most important point, they were cold. They were so cold last night that they couldn't have beaten a single team that they have played this year.
FIGURES TELL THE STORY
The accuracy of the Kansans improved very little during the next 10-minute junket but oh, how those Sailors got hot. They took 18 shots again but plunked through the hoop 8 of them for a 44.4 percentage. And the Jayhawks piddled along with 4 baskets out of 17 shots for 23 per cent. This percentage in itself wasn't too bad if they had maintained it from start to finish but even that mark wasn't a normal average for the team.
The only thing that saved the game from being a rout at this point was the fact that the Navy lads were a little bit off also. They connected for 3 goals out of 18 shots. At the end of this 10-minute period the Great Lakes outfit led 8 to 6.
The last half proved to be a battle when it came to shots and everything else but the Sailors kept a little bit the better of the argument throughout the 20 minutes. For that time the Jayhawks shot 33 times and hit the goal 7 times while Great Lakes made 10 out of 31.
times while Great Lakes made 10 out of 34. The tabulations for the game gave Great Lakes a total of 67 shots with 21 of these dropping through the nets. This was a percentage of 31 per cent. The Jayhawks shot 74 times at the basket but connected on only 13 of these attempts for a mark of 17.5 per cent.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN—BUT WASN'T
Running back to the Wichita game of Monday night, the record shows that the Jayhawks shot 69 times and made 22 buckets for a percentage of 32 per cent. In that game "Cappy" Miller was un-Holy in his shooting accuracy but this was more than offset by the off-center attempts of his teammates. Therefore that game might be taken as an average, or at most one or two points high, for the Kansans have been averaging between 28 and 32 per cent for the entire season.
If the cagars had connected for this average of 29 or 30 per cent they would have played a game that would have brought down the roof of the Municipal auditorium as well as lowering the flag of the Sailors. But this was not to be and instead the Jayhawkers exhibited their poorest form of the season.
Another factor which probably handicapped the Jayhawks more than the Navy team was the Kansas City court. True enough, many of the team had played on the court before but it still remains that a jinx seems to hang over the team whenever they enter the Auditorium. In 1936 in the Olympic play-offs the Kansans were defeated, two out of three games, by Utah State for the right to compete in New York. In 1940 Allen took his team to the City and after beating Southern California, suffered the worst whipping a Jayhawk cage team has ever gone, losing to Indiana 60 to 42.
OUR NAVY'S GOOD—ANYWHERE
The Great Lakes outfit has been caboosing all over the mid-west, playing in little gyms and spacious auditoriums. They don't know the meaning of a home court and have learned to adjust themselves to any court and any crowd. Thoughts that the game might have ended differently had the contest been played on the campus in Hoch auditorium are purely conjections but they sound mighty logical.
It is to Great Lakes' credit that they can go from court to court and still maintain their high winning percentage. But with six All-Americans and seven other all-conference players on the squad a person would think that certainly one combination of five would be hitting on any night and pull through to victory. And such must be the case with 20 wins and only three losses to their credit thus far this year.
HUNTER EARNS STARTING BERT
The 5,700 fans who saw the game last night had a chance to observe probably the greatest collection of basketball stars ever assembled under one banner. And every one of the 5,700 was firmly convinced at the end of the game that if the rest of our Navy can fire away and sink battleships as easily and effectively as the Sailors sank baskets last night, then our country need not worry too much about our safety.
Odds and ends from the game: The Navy boys took the first five shots and missed them all. . . But it never happened again. . . A shell from the K.U. bench by Phog—"Call 'em Ted (O'Sullivan, one of the referees), you saw that" as a Navy player sideswiped Miller with both hands. . . After eight minutes of play Ray Evans came dashing down the floor, drove under the basket and shot, circled behind the basket, and came up from behind the Sailor who had taken the rebound and stole the ball from him. . . Immediately after this T. P. Hunter entered the game and along with Evans was the star of the game. . . He was the top Kansas scorer and his defense was above average. . . In the opinion of this column Tepee earned a regular starting berth at guard.
Bob Calihan really had a classy left-handed hook shot. . . . Johnny
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Phi Gamma Delta Dominates Play In Intramurals
The between-semester layoff finds the three squads of Phi Gamma Delta dominating the intramural basketball picture. The three quintets leading Divisions I, V, and VI are all unbeaten this year.
Crowding the Phi Gam representatives are two fast Newman Club aggregations. The strong Newman I team heads Division II, while the Newman second team is challenging the leading Carruth Hall boys in Division III.
In Division IV a battle-royal is in progress with four "B" teams tied for the lead. Play will be resumed in all six divisions Monday night.
Division I
The standings:
| | w | l | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Phi Gamma Delta ... | 6 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Sigma Chi ... | 4 | 1 | .800 |
| Phi Kappa Psi ... | 3 | 1 | .750 |
| Alpha Tau Omega ... | 3 | 2 | .600 |
| Delta Chi ... | 3 | 3 | .500 |
| Theta Tau ... | 3 | 3 | .500 |
| Tau Kappa Ep. ... | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Pfugerville ... | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Kappa Sigma ... | 1 | 3 | .250 |
| Acacia ... | 1 | 4 | .200 |
| Alpha Chi Sigma ... | 0 | 5 | .000 |
Division II
| | w | l | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Newman I ... | 4 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Pi Kappa Alpha ... | 5 | 1 | .832 |
| Phi Delta Theta ... | 4 | 2 | .665 |
| Beta Theta Pi ... | 4 | 2 | .665 |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon ... | 3 | 2 | .600 |
| Sigma Phi Epsilon ... | 3 | 2 | .600 |
| Alpha Kappa Psi ... | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Delta Tau Delta ... | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Delta Upson ... | 1 | 4 | .200 |
| Sigma Nu ... | 0 | 4 | .000 |
| Kappa Eta Kappa ... | 0 | 5 | .000 |
Division III
| | w | l | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Carrush Halls | 5 | 1 | .832 |
| Hell Hounds | 4 | 1 | .800 |
| Crackerjacks | 4 | 1 | .800 |
| Newman II | 3 | 1 | .750 |
| Jayhawk Coop. | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| John Moore Coop. | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Blanks | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Battenfeld Hall | 2 | 4 | .333 |
| Rock Chalk Coop. | 2 | 4 | .333 |
| Fountainears | 1 | 3 | .250 |
| Newman III | 1 | 4 | .200 |
Division IV
| | w | l | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Phi Delta T. “B” ... | 5 | 1 | .832 |
| Delta Tau D. “B” ... | 5 | 1 | .832 |
| Sigma Alpha Ep. “B” | 5 | 1 | .832 |
| Beta Theta Pi “B” | 5 | 1 | .832 |
| Phi Kappa Psi “B” | 4 | 1 | .750 |
| Delta Upsilon "B" | 1 | 4 | .200 |
| Battenfeld “B” | 1 | 5 | .167 |
| Alpha Kappa Psi "B" | 1 | 5 | .167 |
| Acacia “B” | 0 | 8 | .000 |
Division V
| | w | l | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Phi Gamma D. “B” .. | 5 | 1 | 0.000 |
| Sigma Chi “B” .. | 4 | 1 | .800 |
| Carruth Hall “B” .. | 4 | 2 | .667 |
| Tau Kappa Ep. “B” | 4 | 2 | .667 |
| Alpha Tau O. “B” .. | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Pi Kappa A. “B” .. | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| Sigma Nu “B” .. | 1 | 4 | .200 |
| Kappa Sigma “B” .. | 1 | 4 | .200 |
Division VI
w 1 i pet.
Phi Gamma D. "C" .5 0 1.000
11 Won Out of 13 Is Creighton Mark
One of the finest basketball teams in the land, the Creighton Bluejays, will invade Lawrence Tuesday night to clash with the University of Kansas Jayhawks in what should be a great game.
Buried beneath an avalanche of All-Americans last night the Jayhawks today began picking themselves out of the wreckage left by the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team. Showing their backers that they are a better team than they looked
Omaha. Neb.-There's seldom a hole twixt the floor and the goal when Ed Beisser, six-foot, six and one-half inch Creighton university center, stretches toward the net. A junior from Des Mores, Ia., Beisser was named on the 1940-41 All-Missouri Valley five and is doing yeoman work at center again this season in spite of a leg fracture sustained on a summer job. Beisser's long suit is an uncanny pivot shot.
Phi Kappa Psi "C" .. 4 0 1.000
Sigma Chi "C" .. 3 1  .750
Beta Theta Pi "C" .. 2 2  .500
Delta Tau D. "C" .. 2 2  .500
Phi Delta T. "C" .. 2 2  .500
Phi Kappa Psi "C" .. 2 2  .500
Kappa Sigma "C" .. 2 2  .500
Sigma Chi "C" .. 1 2  .333
Tau Kappa Ep. "C" .. 1 5  .167
Sigma Alpha Ep. "C" .. 0 4  .000
Alpha Tau O. "C" .. 0 4  .000
Two Losses For Creighton
Besides being up against a sensational array of stars in the Great Lakes game, the Kansas cagers had a 'cold' night at the baskets. Seventy-four times the Jayhawks blazed away and sixty-one times they missed.
The loss to Great Lakes left K.U. with a season's record of nine victories and two defeats. Creighton, at the same time, has been winning eleven games while losing two.
The blots on Creighton's record were put there by Minnesota and Long Island U. Following the loss to Minnesota, however the Bluejays came back to crush another Big Ten team, Ohio State, 60-34.
High spot of the season for Creighton came Wednesday night when the Bluejays hit a sizzling hot pace to down the Great Lakes team 59-45. The Navy quintet has lost only three out of twenty - three games this year and the Creighton defeat was the only loss by more than six points.
On Kansas' side of the ledger is its victory over DePaul. The Jayhawks blasted DePaul 46-25, just one week after DePaul had beaten Long Island. The latter is one of the two teams which holds a victory over Creighton this season.
T. P. Hunter's excellent play in recent games may result in that lanky senior ousting Marvin Sollenberger from the Jayhawks' starting lineup. A fine rebound man and defensive player, Hunter also has come through with badly needed points in several games.
If he starts against Creighton, T. P. likely will draw the assignment of guarding the Bluejays' great center, 6 foot $6 \frac{1}{2}$ inch Ed Beisser. Even a job like this doesn't worry the tall Jayhawk senior, however.
30 Students Enroll In New Navigation Class
The new Navigation class of N. W. Storer, associate professor of physics, has an enrollment of 30 students, 19 of which are enlisted in the Naval Reserve V-7 program. The class will study finding latitude and longitude by methods used in the air and on the sea.
Professor Storer is teaching approximately the same material that the enlistees will learn in the naval program.
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