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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1941
Sportin' Around
by Chuck Elliott
--lead the Newman's couldn't overcome.
ROSE BOWL GAME CANCELLED
This column has been trying to avoid the mention of war, believing that athletics might take a person's mind off the situation. However, it became impossible last night when California's Governor Olsen, acting upon the Army's orders, officially called off the Rose Bowl game which was to have seen the Duke Blue Devils oppose Oregon State's Webfeet.
Apparently the situation on the West Coast is much more severe than even the most frightened of mid-westerners can imagine. The next step which will probably be forthcoming will be the announcement of the cancellation of the Shriner's East-West game. The only way this game could proceed would be on the basis of its charity nature.
SEVEN KANSANS PLAY FOR COX
A most unintentional omission was made last Sunday when this column named six Kansans as members of Frosty Cox's University of Colorado basketball squad for this year. It should have been seven. Horace Huggins, Coffeyville junior college transfer, is also being considered quite highly by Cox. The only man having a chance of making the Buffalooes starting five besides Kansans is Bob Doll, a Californian. In this light it is understandable why C.U. wants to get into the Big Six. Their players would certainly feel more at home.
BACHMAN LIKES MISSOURI
Charley Bachman, former K-State coach and present grid mentor at Michigan State, is pretty well sold on Missouri's football team. The Tigers beat his Spartans 19 to 0 and two weeks later his boys turned around and walloped Temple 46 to 0.
Bachman says the three Tiger backs, Steuber, Wade, and Ice, are terrific. Most of the coaches in the Valley will agree on that point. Bachman continues to add that he thinks Missouri may have a line which is as good as Minnesota's.
If the latter is the case then the odds on the Sugar Bowl should keep dropping. In the East the odds started out favoring Fordham 9 to 5 but dropped during the past week to 6 to 5. By game time they are expected to be down to even money. And this column still takes Missouri, even if it is influenced by that Thanksgiving game on Mt. Oread.
CHICAGO LIKES THE "HIGHEST AWARD"
This column finally understands why Chicago dropped football from its intercollegiate schedule. The Maroon school believes that the experience and exercise gained in competition are the "highest reward." This is in correlation with Glaucon's idea in Plato that the highest reward goes to those who appear just but are actually unjust. Just where does that place the intramural set-up that Chicago is sponsoring so enthusiastically at the present?
IOWA STATE MAN CALLED
Week-end Clean-up: John Lobsiger, former Missouri and all-Big Six guard in basketball, is one of the leading members of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team which is playing and bumping off the better teams in the Mid-West. Included among their victims are Notre Dame and Indiana. . . . A new innovation in the Big Ten this year finds each team playing a home-and-home series with six other schools in the conference and single games with the other three schools. Henry Vogt, one of the leading candidates for the center position on the Iowa State squad and counted upon strongly in their fight for the title, was called by the draft Friday. Southern Methodist's line-up which started against Oklahoma last night included only one man, guard Johnny Sebeck, who started against the Sooners last year.
Elwyn Dees, former star Jayhawker trackman and present trainer at Nebraska, is worried about the war. He has a low draft number and dependents but he doesn't seem to think that it will be enough. Bruce Drake is only certain of three men in his Oklahoma starting line-up. They are lettermen "Ug" Roberts and Paul Heap and sophomore Gerald Tucker. He expects to rotate the other two positions until he finds the right combination. Bradley Tech, the school that played Iowa State last night and will oppose Denver Tuesday night, lost to the Cyclones last year 31 to 28. Tech won 16 out of 20 games last year. When Eason and Jacobs were named to the West squad it brought to 14 the number of Sooners that have competed in that game since 1929.
Tired Crew Will Face Javhawkers
A worn-out Denver University basketball squad will come to Lawrence Wednesday night to open the University of Kansas 1941-42 basketball season.
Friday night the Pioneers moved on to Chicago but without any better success. In the Windy City they were beaten 37 to 26 by Loyola University, a foe the Jayhawks trimmed 41 to 40 last year. Last night Denver invaded the East still further by meeting Marshall College at Huntington, W. Va.
The biggest weakness of this year's Pioneer team is a lack of poise, which is a common fault among teams not having playing experience. This is one reason for the heavy schedule which the team is undergoing in the early part of the season. When the team does gain its needed experience they will be hard to beat and that time may be coming up Wednesday.
The Pioneers will still be on a road trip in which they played four games in six nights. On Tuesday night they will face Bradley Tech at Peoria, Ill., and come direct to Lawrence from there.
They Lack Poise
Thursday night the Pioneers were swamped by the Creighton Bluejays under a 43 to 16 score. At the half the Bluejays led 24 to 6. Guards Dick Nolan and Captain Gene Haldeman and center Ed Beisser each accounted for nine points in the slaughter which indicates that Creighton will be a tough foe indeed when they come to Mt. Oread Feb. 10 to tangle with the Jayhawks.
A very severe blow was dealt to Denver's hopes with the loss of Harold Peterson, all - conference sophomore center, via the marriage route. "Pete" is now playing with the Denver Legion, A.A.U. team. Another loss was Bob Hogan, regular forward the past two years, who has been taken by the draft.
Two Regulars Lost Recently
Four lettermen were supposed to be regulars on this years team to play with sophomore forward Fred Jacobs. However, the outstanding crop of sophomores which moved up to the varsity ranks without a single loss in personnel has replaced two of these regulars.
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Newman Club Drops Two; Phi Gam's Go on Winning
TOMORROW'S SCHEDULE
6:00—Phi Psi "B" vs. Battenfeld "B"; Sigma Nu "B" vs. Sigma Chi "B".
9:00—A.T.O. "C" vs. Delt D "C"; Beta "C" vs. Phi Gam "C".
10:00—Fountaineers vs. Battenfeld; Newman I vs. Beta.
By BILL PORTER
P. K. A's Look Good
Carruth men outplayed their Newman opponents, as every member of the playing squad scored. The Crackerjacks had Newman III 12 to 6 at the half, then Frazier, Crackerjack scoring ace, got hot to give his team a $ ^{*} $
The highly-touted Newman II five was defeated 34 to 20 by a smoothly-working Carruth team, and Newman III was swamped 25 to 13 by the Crackerjacks in yesterday's intramural basketball contests.
Phi Gam's, playing Healy, McSpadden, Hinshaw, Phillips, and Hambric, veterans well-known to University intramural sport fans, proved too much for the Kappa Sig's and emerged with a 28 to 20 victory. Earl Lowe led his Kappa Sig teammates in a valiant defense, but Phi Gam material proved too strong.
Pi K. A. took another step toward the championship in overwhelming Sig Ep 48 to 12 in a hoop game played Friday night. Dale Lowery, Bill Mathews, and Bill Atwell, forwards, and center for Pi K. A. who scored 5, 17, and 12 points respectively, piled up the baskets while McCormick, McHenry, Engel, and Crawford, guards, kept the Sig Ep's out of scoring territory. Joe Crawford also contributed 10 points to his team's total score.
Pfitsch Scores 15 Points
In other "A" team contests, Sig Alph, led by Ken Winters and Lynn Williams, defeated D. U. 28 to 12. Frank Gage played his usual good game for S. A. E., while Phil Russell was the D. U. standout. Acacia beat A. T. O. 27 to 25 in a close contest in which the lead changed many times. Using only five men throughout the game, Acacia played consistent basketball and had a two-point lead at the final bell.
Sigma Chi and Theta Tau met in a slow-scoring fray from which Sigma Chi came out on top, 17 to 11. Both teams showed good defenses, and each seemed to lack a clicking offensive drive.
Fitsch's Pfuigerville Pfashes defeated Alpha Chi Sigma 36 to 20,
with Johnny Pfitsch pacing his own team to victory by scoring 15 points. George Wagner, Alpha Chi Sigma veteran, tied Pfitsch's scoring record for the chemists. In another Friday evening game, the Blanks, letting every man on the squad into the contest, beat Rock Chalk Co-op 34 to 18.
In the fourth and fifth divisions, Sig Alph "B" won from Phi Delt "B" in an early-morning contest. Both fives looked sleepy, and Phi Delt's missed nine out of 10 attempted free throws in the first half, which ended 3 to 2. Sig Alph's woke up in the third period, and built up a lead that a last minute rally lead by Phi Delt flash, Johnny Jenkins, couldn't overcome.
Phi Gam "B" took a 35 to 18 decision from Kappa Sig "B," with "Swede" Olson and Connie Voelker, Fiji intramural dependables, sparking their team. A. T. O. "B" won 57 to 20 from Sig Ep "B" as A. T. O.'s Joe Holt and Mark McLain piled up 18 and 11 points respectively. D.U. "B" defeated Acacia "B" 20 to 11 in a clean game in which only 8 fouls were called. Elmer Horton and Fred Gades, centers for Acacia and D.U., tied for scoring honors with seven points apiece. John Anderson officiated this exceptionally sportsmanlike contest.
Beta "B" using nine men, all of whom scored, swamped A. K. Psi "B" 42 to 17. "Dub" Hartley led the Beta's with 13 tallies. Teke "B" playing the same five men throughout the game, ran over Pi K. A. "B" 45 to 17.
In division VI, Sig Alph "C" lost to Kappa Sig "C" 23 to 13, while Sigma Chi "C' defeated a hapless Phi Psi "D" team 33 to 5.
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