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Jayhawks Lose to O.U., 45-37; Drop Into Tie for Big Six Title
Corbin and Ford Spark Oklahoma In Upset Victory
By DON H. PIERCE
Kansan Sports Editor
A torrid bunch of redshirts from Oklahoma swept out of Soonerland tonight to blast a proud Kansas Jayhawker out of undisputed claim to the conference championship and a possible Western N.C.A.A. playoff berth as they scored a 45-37 triumph before a dismayed overflow crowd in Hoch auditorium.
A poker faced forward named Garnett Corbin and Hugh Ford, a limping giant, spelled victory for the Sooners.
Corbin rained in eight goals from long range and added a pair of free throws for 18 tallies while Ford jammed home 17 points in addition to a merciless rebound domination of both backboards.
The loss, the Jayhawkers' second of the year to Oklahoma dropped the Kansans into a tie for the loop crown with Iowa State and established the Cyclones as the Big Six nomination to meet the Missouri valley champion for the right to appear in the Western half playoff in Kansas City, March 21 and 22. Both teams boast the same won and lost record but the Iowaans' offensive-defensive margin is some 40 points better than that of the Allenmen.
Creighton's Bluejays by virtue of their 51-37 thrashing of a scrappy Washburn five in Topeka tonight,
carried off the Valley championship and will undoubtedly represent that loop against Iowa State.
Grab Early Lead
After Sooner guard Bill Richards potted a short two hander from the corner, Kansas hopped off to what many thought was the beginning of the end as Vance Hall, T. P. Hunter, and Howard Engleman sent the count to 6 to 2.
But from then on the first half show was all Ford and Corbin. The two matched goal for goal before Charlie Walker, Kansas guard, could break through with a tip-in to bring the count to 17 to 8 with eight minutes remaining.
Jonn Buescher and John Kline
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Adds To Scoring Mark 7 for 'Rope'
Held to a total of seven points by the close-guarding of Allie Paine, Sooner sophomore, Howard "Rope" Engleman, Kansas forward and new Big Six scoring champion, ran his season's total to 165 tonight as the Jayhawks fell before Bruce Drake's red-shirted Oklahomans.
The former Arkansas City high school star counted two field goals and three free throws during the course of the game.
reer of Big Six basketball, during which he participated in all but one of the Jayhawker's 30 conference games. The blond shot-maker was a valuable cog in in "Phog" Allen's cage machines all three years and (continued to page eight)
Engleman's performance tonight climaxed a brilliant three year ca-
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE KANSAS FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941.
38TH YEAR.
NUMBER 101.
Sooners Who Pierced Playoff Hopes Of 'Phog' Allen's Basketeers Tonight
Hugh Ford
THE BOX SCORE
WARREN LEHMAN
Kansas ... 7   3    .700
Iowa State ... 7   3    .700
Nebraska ... 6   4    .600
Oklahoma ... 5   5    .500
Kansas State ... 3   7    .300
Missouri ... 2   8    .200
Creighton University blew hot in the second half to wallop Washburn College 51 to 37 at Topeka tonight, and won the Missouri Valley conference championship.
FINAL BIG SIX STANDINGS
Creighton Beats Washburn 51-37 For Title
KANSAS (37) FG FT F
Engleman, f 2 3 1
V. Hall, f 3 2 1
Buescher, f-g 1 4 0
Allen, c 2 2 1
Kline, g 2 2 2
Hunter, g-f 1 0 3
Walker, g 1 0 1
OKLAHOMA (45) FG FT F
Corbin, f 8 2 2
Roberts, f 0 1 2
Zollner, f 1 0 2
Ford, c 7 3 3
Lehman 0 0 1
Paine, g 1 1 1
Richards, g 2 0 3
Marteney, g 0 0 0
Totals 19 7 14
Star in Defeat--
Playing one of the best rebound games of his career, John Kline, former Hutchinson high school and junior college star, starred in the Jayhawks' loss to Oklahoma tonight. Assigned to guard towering Hugh Ford early in the first period, Kline was a standout in a tattered Kansas defense.
Other standouts in defeat tonight were two sophomore forwards Vance Hall and John Buescher, who combined fine floor games with a 14 oint scoring splurge to keep the Kansans in the ball game.