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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1942
"I'll carry it to the press" were the words of Coach Bruce Drake last night after his team had gone down to a 22-point defeat. Drake did not seem too disheartened about the game for the undoubtedly expected the result when he came.
"What can you expect when a coach builds his team around one player and then finds out at three o'clock the afternoon before a game that he is ineligible to play." Drake continued. He still insisted that Tucker had been given a raw deal.
IT'S NOT OVER YET
When queried as to his next move, Drake replied that he didn't know for he hadn't heard as yet from his athletic board which met yesterday. He imagined that a letter would be sent to Kansas State asking permission for Tucker to play but he said this would be handled by Jap Haskell, Oklahoma athletic director.
The sportily-dressed Oklahoma coach offered no alibis for the defeat but inwardly he was wishing that Tucker could have played to show the fans that Oklahoma does have a real ball club.
It is the opinion of this column that all of the Oklahoma authorities were fully cognizant of the facts before the situation ever arose. They thought, undoubtedly, that with a little luck they could pass over the situation and no one would ever be the wiser.
"If the Big Six conference faculty group does not change its action against Tucker, we will carry it to the press and let the public decide. The affair is too one-sided at the present and I want everyone to know the facts, all of them and the truth of them." Drake said.
"The boy has been done an injustice and I'd like to see it rectified. That's all I have to say now," Drake concluded, indicating that he plans to carry the case as far as he possibly can to make Tucker eligible.
At that time Kraft was told to notify the rest of the Big Six members so that action could be taken immediately. This was not done however. Oklahoma's idea at that time was to let the affair ride with the hopes of delaying action.
Virtual proof of this theory was forthcoming from Coach "Phog" Allen this morning when he said that Walter Kraft, Oklahoma representative to the Big Six athletic council, was notified two weeks ago yesterday of the oncoming situation by a phone call from Prof. W. W. Davis of the University history department.
Then when the action did come to a point and an immediate sentence was passed, the Oklahoma school accuses the rest of the conference of being unfair.
TAKE IT TO THE CLOSET, DRAKE
It merely seems to be a case of a school trying to get away with a little underhanded work and then when caught, is quick to holler. The opinion of coaches and faculty members alike is that Oklahoma is very fortunate indeed in being able to play Tucker at all.
Under the interpretation handed down Monday by the conference athletic council, Tucker is not guilty of the "migrant athlete" rule. And yet this rule was placed into the conference by-laws to prevent just such a thing as the transferring of an athlete from one university to another.
The case will continue to be aired for some time probably but instead of carrying it "to the press," Drake had better take it to the closet and tuck it down deep among the many strange cases involving Oklahoma athletes.
DRAKE LOVES TO TALK
Notes of last night's game: For the first time in the history of Hoch auditorium, the Kansas cagers sat on the west side of the scoring table. This was because the Big Six schools had complained that it bothered them to have to sit next to the band. . . . Perhaps Coach Drake didn't realize that his players would need a little peeping up with a third of the game yet to play. . . Drake talked to his players on the court constantly. . . His first chant was to "move it, move it" . . . Oklahoma was outfighting us for the rebounds and wild passes the first half. . . They were also getting more shots. . . More Drake quotes: "Set it up, set it up" . . . "Don't stop driving" . . . "Run it right, run it right" . . .
At one stage of the game, Mitch Simon, only senior on the squad, asked Drake if they should run them straight into the basket, down the middle. . . Drake said that's what he wanted so Simon called the play. . . Reich was the Sooner to attempt the deed and he was blocked completely by Solly and Evans. . . The next time Drake started yelling, Simon wiggled his fingers at him to try and make him stop. . . Evidently Mitch didn't think Drake could call the plays very good. . . The Oklahoma coach would be a poor one to sit on the bench alone. . . During the entire game he had his arm draped tightly around the neck of whatever player happened to be at his side.
DRAKE RAZZED CONSTANTLY
Drake wanted his players to run a single post but it couldn't work against the tight guarding of the Jayhawks. . . . Drake was razzed unmercifully throughout the game but his expression never changed once. . . . Once when Drake objected to a decision Miller walked to the side of the court and explained the referee's interpretation. . . . That one play was perhaps the only flaw in the entire game from the Referee's Volz and O'Sullivan side. . . The Sooner basket was okayed by Volz and O'Sullivan ruled steps and steps it was . . .
Roberts was by far the best player Oklahoma had . . . He had a good trick of dribbling around his guard down the right side of the court and either taking a one-handed corner shot or driving on into the basket . . . . Buescher, who guarded him, was unable to keep up with Roberts always because of an infection in his leg. . . . Roberts had no concerted help from his teammates. . . . Otherwise the score would have been much closer. . . . When Rousey left the game he sighed, "That's all of me."
Jayhawks Run Wild
Black Leads 54-32 Score AgainstO.U.
A six-foot-four-inch "Black-out" hit a weakened and "Tuckered-out" band of Oklahoma Sooners last night and nearly forced them to scuttle their wagon in order to escape from a rampaging gang of Kansas Jayhawkers who bombarded the basket from every angle to rack up a 54 to 32 conquest before 3,298 fans in Hoch auditorium to open the Big Six conference season.
Jones-Buescher Tangle
The second half was an entirely different story as the Kansans came back with more pep than ever and a plentiful supply of high caliber reserves while the Sooners were seriously in need of a few players such as the missing Gerald Tucker.
Black continued his scoring streak by taking the ball away from Heap in a scramble under the basket and starting a concerted Jayhawk offensive.
With four-and-one-half minutes gone in the period, an amusing sidelight occurred as Don Jones fouled Buescher and then Buescher fouled Jones a moment later. While walking away from the free-throw lane, Jones ran his hand through
Bisch's crew haircut in an attempt to muss it up. Buescher returned the compliment while the referees walked unconcernedly ahead of the players.
A minute later Jones ran interference for Reich as the latter intercepted a pass to dribble down the court for a set-up to make the score 34 to 25 for K.U. The game started to get rough at this point and Jones went out on fouls.
CHARLES BLACK
Black Nears Record
Substitutions became more frequent at this stage of the game as the tiring Sooners were unable
The box score:
18th box score:
KANSAS (54) fg | fg | ft mft | pf mp | pf
Black, f | 10 | 5 | 2 25 | 2 38.
Hall, f | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.4.
Miller, f | 5 | 1 | 0 11 | 3 33.
Ballard, f | 1 | 1 | 1 3 | 0 2.5.
Walker, f | 1 | 1 | 0 3 | 0 3.0.
Evans, e-g | 0 | 0 | 0 3 | 3 37.
Buescher, c | 4 | 2 | 1 10 | 3 24.0.
Johnson, c | 0 | 0 | 0 0 | 6.0.
Sollenberger, g | 1 | 0 | 1 1 | 3 18.
Ulrich, g | 0 | 0 | 0 0 | 2.0.
Hunter, g | 0 | 1 | 1 1 | 1 10.5.
Blair, g | 0 | 0 | 0 0 | 2.5
Totals... 21 12 7 54 13 200.0
OKLA. (32) fg ft mfp tpf mp
Roberts, f ... 4 4 1 12 2 36.0
Gray, f ... 1 0 0 2 2 8.0
Reich, f ... 2 1 0 5 0 38.0
Marteney, f ... 0 0 0 0 2.0
Heap, c ... 2 1 2 5 2 30.0
Lehman, c ... 0 0 0 0 1 7.0
Rousey, g ... 1 2 3 4 3 30.0
Jones, g ... 0 0 2 0 4 12.0
Simon, g ... 2 0 1 4 2 20.0
McCurdy, g ... 0 0 0 0 1 17.0
Totals    12, 8   9 32 17 200.0
Score at half  - Kansas 26, Okala-
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Officials — Ted O'Sullivan, Missouri, and M. G. Volz, Nebraska.
to keep up with the Kansans who swept ahead to their biggest margin of victory since the third game of the 1939-40 season when they overwhelmed Southern Methodist University, 63 to 31.
Buescher left the game with three minutes to go and received a big hand as did Evans and Miller in the next minute. But the big ovation was reserved for Black who was taken out with 45 seconds remaining. He had scored his 25 points with three minutes to play and at that point had a chance to break the school's scoring record of 27 points which Howard Engleman set against Oklahoma on the same floor in 1939. The conference record of 30 points was set by Oklahoma's Jimmy McNatt against Nebraska in 1940.
Miller Returns To Form
Charlie Black, tall, lanky, black-haired sophomore, was the long-range bomber who caused the Sooners to blink their lights and run for the storm cellar. He sent ten goals swishing through the hoop and added five charity shots to bring his total to 25 points for the evening.
Black's favorite shot of the evening was a high, one-handed arch shot which started from out past the free throw lane after he had whirled from a modified post position to leap into the air and face the basket before firing. Six of his baskets were by this method.
Black was not the only offensive threat for the Jayhawkers as John Buescher and Ralph Miller formed a convoy to aid in sinking the rough and ready band of Sooners. Bisch scored four buckets and two free throws although playing just a little over half of the game. Cappy finally showed signs of returning to his high-scoring days of old as he played his best ball of the season to gather in five field goals on a free throw.
Oklahoma's cause was not as drab as the score might indicate. Especially was this so in the first half when the Sooners were trailing only by six points at intermission. A. D. "Ug" Roberts, queer-acting, slink-shouldered forward, was the main cog in the Red and White attack but he couldn't stem the onslaught by himself.
Roberts Leads Sooners
Roberts Leads Sooners
Although Roberts played most of the game on the floor he managed to garner 12 points. His four field goals were all set shots from near the side of the court, midway back. Paul Heap (continued to page five)
Oklahoma Fans Urge Withdrawal From Conference
Norman, Okla., Jan. 7. — (UP)—Oklahoma official and student indignation over the Gerald Tucker eligibility case was soothed none today by the victory of Kansas 54 to 32, at Lawrence last night.
Brandt added in his statement that "there will be no drastic action taken."
It was revealed that fans have "urged" the university to withdraw from the Big Six conference in protest to the Tucker ruling.
Tucker Came of Own Will
However, he said, "Tucker came here on his own volition and by no stretch of his imagination can he be called a migrant athlete."
Pres. Joseph A. Brandt announced that "we have been urged to withdraw from the conference by people over the state" as a result of the Big Six decision to hold Tucker ineligible during the first semester.
Tucker, 19-year-old sophomore from Winfield, Kan., was declared ineligible because he had not spent two full semesters in school here since his transfer from Kansas State college in November, 1940.
"No Drastic Action"
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