TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Six Lettermen Return to Missouri Tigers But Hopes Are None Too Bright
(This is the second of a series of articles appearing in The University Daily Kansan and dealing with Big basketball prospects).
Basketball hopes at the University of Missouri have both climbed and dived already this year; for a squad much improved in height over that of last season, and containing six returning lettermen, was defeated 34 to 25 by the Missouri freshmen less than a week ago.
Coach George Edwards may find consolation in the fact that, if the result of the freshman-varsity game speaks none too well for this year's team, at least it may be a forecast of power in future years.
The immediate goal of the Tigers, however, is to pull themselves out of the basketball cellar they found themselves in at the end of last season, when they finished last in the Big Six for the first time in Missouri history. The task of bettering the position will fall on a first-string five who are all lettermen and average over six feet in height. Gregg Not Eligible
A veteran forwards are George Constantz, 6 foot, 2 inch junior, and Don Harvey, who lacks an inch of reaching the six foot mark. A serious blow to Missourians is the loss of Herby Gregg, forward and co-captain of the squad, for the first semester of play. Gregg has been a consistent scorer for two years, and his pep and scrap gives a decided lift to the Tigers.
Close to Constantz and Harvey in competition for starting berths are Ed Matheny, of Kansas City Southwest, Robert Westhoff, and Melvin Stoner. Matheny won all-city recognition during his high-school playing career.
Probable starting center is Roy Storm, at 6 feet 5 inches. Storm is a town-boy, having his home at Columbia. Two other towering candidates for this position are Stewart Finlayson, 6 foot 4 inches, and Ross Burns, 6 foot 6 inches. From this giant material Coach Edwards will choose his pivot man. Mills is Outstanding Player
Captain Loren Mills, and George Evans, both slightly over six feet, are the lettermen guards. Two sophomore candidates for the guard positions are John Stabler and Earl Stark. Both were numeral-winners last year, and will probably be depended upon for some action this season even if the older veterans appear in the starting line-ups.
Other members of the Missouri
squad that have been working out to get into form for the opening game with St. Louis University this evening are Marvin Komen; Lyle Vansandt; Ray Shelley, Kansas City Central; and Conway Leary, Kansas City Southwest.
Columbia, Mo., Dec. 9 — (UP)— The University of Missouri basketball team left today for St. Louis where they open the hoop season tonight against the St. Louis University Billikens.
Coach George Edwards took a 14-man squad, including Don Harvey and George Constantz, starting forwards, Center Roy Storm, and Captain Loren Mills and George Evans, guards.
Edwards said the traveling roster for the weekend trek to the Pacific coast would be predicated upon performances in tonight's game. Only 11 players can make the coast trip. On the schedule is Gonzaga University at Spokane. Dec. 16, and the University of Idaho the following day at Moscow, Idaho.
The University of Kansas opened in 1866 with less than 100 students.
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(continued from page four) experiment with new line-ups. His only change from the White line-up of Hunter, Hall, Buescher, Johnson, and Cappie Miller was to take the latter off this set-up and give the other four the Red jer-sies. Sollenberger then joined the four to comprise the Red team.
This group won a low-scoring, defensive five-minute game from the Whites on baskets by Johnson and Hall. The Whites, with Black, Evans, Walker, and Ulrich teaming with Miller, scored only on a field goal by Evans and a free shot by Miller.
As substitutes entered the game, the Whites came from behind and won. Goals by Turner and Ettinger more than matched Buescher's goal and the 1-point Red lead.
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Announcements have been received on the Hill of the approaching marriage of Howard "Rope" Engleman and Mary Beth Dodge. The marriage will take place in Salina Dec. 21.
Engleman is at present a member of the Phillips "66" basketball team. He graduated from the University this spring after being elected president of the School of Business last fall. He is a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He set a new scoring record for the Big Six conference in basketball last winter when he made 165 points.
Miss Dodge is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She was a senior in the School of Fine Arts this fall until she left school during the Thanksgiving vacation.
The couple will live in Bartlesville, Okla.
Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullivan go ultra-modern in the racy new comedy-romance "Appointment for Love" now at the Jayhawker.