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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1941
Frosh Force Varsity To Two Overtimes, Lose 38 To 37 Potent Huskers Invade Hoch Tomorrow
Tough Battle Slated Before Soldout House
By GABE PARKS Probable Starting Lineups.
KANSAS Pos. NEBRASKA Engleman F Fitgibbons Hunter F Livingston Ailen C Randall Kline G Fitz Sollengerber G Held
Officials: Darrell Hinkhouse, Beloit, and Lee Mossman, Omaha.
It will be hustle versus height when the Jayhawks match baskets with Nebraska's giant Cornhuskers in Hoch auditorium tomorrow night at 7:30 before an anticipated sell-out crowd.
Nebraska boasts the tallest team in the Big Six with an average height of 6 feet 3 inches. Most of this elevation is concentrated in Don Fitz and Sid Held, two guards, who stand 6 feet 4 inches, and in Al Randall, a 6 foot 7 inch center. With this trio go after rebounds, the smaller Jayhawks will have to rely on hustle to get possession of the ball.
N.U. In Third Place
The Big Six basketball standings are due for a readjustment if Nebraska comes out on top. At present, Kansas is in second place with three wins and one setback. Nebraska possesses a four-two record and is in third place, one half game behind Kansas.
A Kansas victory would enable the Jayhawkers to gain a game on the league-leading Oklahoma Sooners. But if Nebraska wins, the Cornhuskers will move into second place and the Jayhawks will drop to third.
An interesting offensive-defensive duel should develop between Howard Engleman, who has averaged 20 points per game in conference play, and Don Fitz, lanky Husker ace. Fitz is a past master at stopping high scoring forwards and will give Engleman a real test.
Sid Held, the other half of the Nebraska rear guard, will probably be assigned to watching Bobby Allen, second high scorer in the conference. Held was a standout as a sophomore last season, being named on many all-Star selections.
Two K. U. Wins Last Year
Kansas beat Nebraska twice last year, but in both losses, Held was a star. He tallied 13 points in the first encounter and 11 in the second.
John Kline, tallest of the Kansas, will likely be guarding the sky-scraping Randall most of the evening. Allen end Marvin Sollenberger will be trying to put the handcuffs on Fitz and Held when Kansas is on the defensive.
T. P. Hunter, junior forward who scored 9 points against the freshmen Friday, will start at forward and is counted on to relieve Allen and Engleman of some of the point-making burden.
As We See It By DON PIERCE
FOR THE first time in many a moon a Kansas football coach will have virtually every important member of his freshman team—this year a fine freshman team—on hand when spring practice rolls around. . . . Only choice frosh gridders caught behind the scholastic line this midsemester were Walt Tanner, fine 185-pound guard from Oklahoma City, Okla., and Ralph "Ham" YYounger, blocking back from Hays. . . . Cleve Bolton, another promising blocker from Geneseo was the only other who could be classed as important.
THIS AMAZING total of only three scholastic grid casualties is the lowest in the last 10 years at the University and are testament of the building efforts of Coaches Gwinn Henry and Vic Hurt and Frosh Tutor Wayne Replogle. . . . Hence when spring drills open around March 3 Master Henry may have something more than a dozen good men from which to build the 1941 football club. . . Those interested in Kansas gridiron fortunes, however, should realize that the freshman job is only half done and a repeat performance on the books this spring and for some next summer still will be necessary to number some of the best among the returning flock next fall.
MISSING AMONG the veterans next fall, however, will be a pair of stalwart guards, Jay Kern and Herb Hartman, both of whom have been drafted and must report for duty in the army next July. . . . Little Jake Fry, the Jayhawker's 155-pound secondary defense dynamo, has dropped out of school to work this semester, but is slated to be back next fall for his final year of competition.
NEWLY APPOINTED baseball coach "Phog" Allen was referred to as the "Knute Rockne of basketball" in the Feb. 10 issue of Time magazine, which mentioned Kansas as one of the top-notch teams appearing on the Madison Square Garden cage card this winter. . . The Rockne reference is a buquet tossed Allen's way to be sure, but if the Doctor continues to dominate midwestern basketball at his present pace a few future football coaching greats may be tabbed "The 'Phog' Allen of Football."
AN ALREADY staggering Missouri Tiger, which yielded two regulars, Arch Watson and Keith Bangert, to the clutches of Columbia professors at midsemester, received still another blow in Thursday night's tiff with Kansas State when their red hot scoring atom, 5-foot, 8-inch Herb Gregg suffered a reoccurrence of an old foot injury and had to be helped from the floor late in the contest. . . . It is believed that Gregg will see little or no service for the remainder of the year, and if this is so you can look for the Bengals to finish somewhere in the Central conference. . . . They have dropped all five of their Big Six engagements to date.
FRANK BUKATY, varsity third baseman in 1939, and Ralph "Red" Dugan, a pitcher for the past two years, will be Dr. Allen's assistants when baseball season rolls around. . . . "Phog" incidently, is looking for boys who pack a four-ply wallop in their bats and can upset opposing batteries on the basepaths. . . . Indoor work of the bag-punching and calisthenic variety will commence soon in Robinson gymnasium.
AS IF firing 20 points per conference game through the hoop isn't enough Howard Engleman is toying with the idea of competing in both varsity baseball and tennis when the cage season closes. . . . Engleman, a state high school singles semi-finalist in 1936 and 1937, has been the number one man on the Jayhawker net squad for the past two years, but is
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A pair of reassurances today from coach Forrest C. Allen and trainer Dean Nesmith made certain that Howard Engleman, the Jayhawk- er's phenomenal scorer, would be in his usual start- ing role at forward when Kansas squares off with Nebraska in their important Big Sig tiff. sirt
H. ENGLEMAN
in Hoch auditorium tomorrow night.
Friday night's leg injury, suffered by Engleman midway in the final half, although painful for a time, proved to be only a bruised knee. The curly-haired forward said he felt as good as ever during yesterday's brief practice session.
Hunter's Last Minute Goal Gives Win
A desperate goal from midcourt by forward T. P. Hunter in the last thirty second of a second overtime period turned defeat into victory as a frightened Kansas Varsity edged past their sensational freshman basketball club, 38-37 Friday night in Hoch auditorium.
Only a moment before Hunter's high archer had clinched Varsity victory, guard George Phillips had given the Frosh what looked like the ball game by sinking his only shot of the evening, a free throw on Ed Hall's infraction.
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