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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941
Freshman-Varsity Clash Friday
sports AS WE SEE IT By DON H. PIERCE
With the surprising slump of Iowa State, which may be classed as a collapse by some corners, merely as hard luck by others, it takes no stretch of the imagination to tab the K.U.-O. U. contest scheduled for March 7 in Hoch auditorium as the Big Six championship decider.
The Cyclones, ranked by the preseason experts on a par with the Jayhawkers and Sooners, started the season with eight consecutive non-loop triumphs, some of which were against impressive quintets. Since conference play opened, however, the Iowans have dropped two close verdicts to Nebraska and a nip-and-tuck affair to Kansas. Their lone league victory was over a doormat Missouri club which has lost all four of its league engagements.
If Louie Menze's capable five could win all of the last six games a possible title share might be it's reward. This course of events looks extremely doubtful, however. Not even the most wishful gaze into the Big Six crystal ball can see the Cyclones getting by both Kansas and Oklahoma in addition to four other conference rivals. Here then is a fine club staggered out of the conference race early by narrow defeats.
In our mind that leaves the title-chasing squarely up to the Jayhawks and Sooners with Nebraska's onrushing Cornhuskers ready to step in at the first sign of faltering.
Bruce Drake's club is currently atop the conference standings with four victories against one defeat. The Sooners are the only club to hang a defeat on Kansas in loop play so far and they boast wins over K-State, Missouri, and Nebraska in addition. They dropped their only decision to the dangerous Aggie five. They have not met Iowa State as yet.
This leaves the Southernners five games to go, four before they meet Kansas in the conference finale. Since they must face the Cyclones twice and Nebraska once, we believe one defeat is virtually certain, for them.
As for the local boys, they have three victories against one defeat and must meet five more conference foes before closing with the faststepping, loquacious redshirts from Soonerland.
For the Jayhawks to win all five of these games, which include the towering Cornhuskers here and in Lincoln, the Cyclones at Ames, and the Jayhawker-hating Aggies and Tigers, in Hoch and Columbia respectively, is too much even for the most Brooklyn-like Kansas alum to ask. We feel they will drop one of these skirmishes, probably on foreign hardwoods.
If the above conjecture develops into reality, we would have the Sooners and Jayhawkers meeting to decide the Big Six spoils on that night of March
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Meet Again After Near Yearling Win
Determined to make the best of another shot at the Jayhawk varsity, University of Kansas freshman basketball players will be out to turn the trick Friday night which they came so near earlier in the season.
By the narrow margin of only two points, 33-31, did the varsity nose out the freshmen in their previous meeting. The yearlings were putting on a great finish as that game drew to a close and might have won with another minute or so.
Described by Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen as the "finest freshman team at K.U. in the last 20 years," the yearling quintet should have profiled by the experience gained in the first meeting with the varsity and the practice sessions since then.
Evans the Standout
Leading the freshmen will be Ray Evans, brilliant guard from Wyandotte high school Kansas City. Kan. Evans appears headed for a spot as one of Kansas' all-time basketball greats.
Also a football star, Evans had worked out with the freshman cagers only twice before the last varsity-freshman game. Despite this he was the outstanding player on the floor.
Hitting both one hand shots and from farther out, Evans paced the yearlings in scoring with 11 points. On defense, he held Howard Engleman, varsity ace, to two field goals, Eigleman's lowest mark of the season. Even more sensational, however, was his passing, which had the crowd in a frenzy of delight. Block, Rockford Good Too.
Black, Ballard Good Too
Southwest high school of Kansas City, Mo., contributed the two tallest men on the freshman team, Jack Ballard and Charlie Black. Ballard stands 6 feet 6 inches tall and appears to be the big man Doctor Allen has been searching for. Black, a 190 pounder, is quick as a cat, a beautiful ball handler and scorer.
Other starters for the yearlings will be Don Ettinger, red headed guard from William Chrisman high in Independence, Mo., and Paul Turner, forward from Shawnee Mission high in Merriam. The play of both is characterized by their drive and fire.
Opposing them for the varsity will be a lineup which probably will be composed of Howard Engleman and T. P. Hunter, forwards; Bob Allen, center; and John Kline and Marvin Sollenberger, guards.
HOW THEY STAND
w l pct.
Oklahoma ... 4 1 .800
Kansas ... 3 1 .750
Nebraska ... 4 2 .667
Kansas State ... 2 3 .400
Iowa State ... 1 3 .333
Missouri ... 1 4 .000
Gordon Nicholas, Iowa State's big center, has counted 31 points in the Cyclones' last two games to climb from sixteenth to third among the conference scorers.
The Box Score
The Box Score
**KANSAS** g ft f tp
**Engleman, f** 11 2 1 24
Sanneman, f 0 0 0 0
Hunter, f, g 2 0 2 4
V. Hall, f 3 1 1 7
Buescher, f 2 0 7 4
Allen, c 4 0 1 8
Walker, g 4 0 0 0
Kline, g 2 1 1 5
Sollenberger, g 1 0 2 2
E. Hall, g 0 0 0 0
Blair, g 0 0 0 0
Totals 25 4 8 54
**WICHITA** g ft f tp
Calhoun, f 2 1 1 5
Kincaid, f 0 0 0 0
McDonald, f 3 1 1 7
Williams, c 4 2 7 10
Dalton, c 0 2 3 2
Vice, g 4 1 2 9
Hayes, g 3 0 3 6
Totals 16 7 12 39
Missed free throws- Wichita, Calhoun, McDonald, Williams; Kansas, Hunter, Hall, Allen 2, Kline.
Officials—Abin Hishaw, College of Emporia; Don Elser, Notre Dame.
Mrs. Harry Lansing Dies at Columbia, Mo.
Mrs. Harry Lansing, wife of the University assistant football coach, died at Columbia, Mo., Saturday evening after a long illness. She is survived by her husband and an eight-year-old son, A. B. Lansing.
Mrs. Lansing was graduated from the University of Missouri where she had been employed in the office of the M.U. registrar.
Among those attending the funeral services in Columbia was Gwinn Henry, University athletic director and head football coach.
Barry Wins First Golden Gloves Bout
Kansas' only representative in the Golden Gloves tournament now being held at Topeka passed his first test easily. Lee Barry floored Foster Scott of Fort Riley in the first round with a short right to the jaw.
Footballers View 1940 Orange Bowl Films
Barry is the only member of Coach Jim Raport's boxing squad not prohibited by Big Six rules from competing in the tourney.
Fifty football candidates attended the third weekly meeting of gridders in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building last night to view films of select games of 1939 and the Georgia Tech-Missouri Orange bowl clash of 1940.
The meetings will continue until the opening of spring practice March 1, head coach Gwinn Henry said.
LEADING SCORERS IN BIG SIX GAMES
| Pos. | gms. | fg | ft | pts. | ave. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Howard Engleman, Kansas f | 4 | 33 | 14 | 80 | 20.0 |
| 2. Bob Allen, Kansas, c | 4 | 14 | 18 | 46 | 11.5 |
| 3. Gordon Nicholas, Iowa State, c | 4 | 15 | 13 | 43 | 10.75 |
| 4. Hugh Ford, Oklahoma, c | 5 | 14 | 17 | 45 | 9.0 |
| 5. Don Fitz, Nebraska, g | 6 | 19 | 15 | 53 | 8.8 |
| 6. Herb Gregg, Missouri, f | 3 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 8.7 |
| 7. A. D. Roberts, Oklahoma, f | 5 | 18 | 7 | 43 | 8.6 |
| 8. Sid Held, Nebraska, g | 6 | 19 | 13 | 51 | 8.5 |
| 9. Jack Horacek, Kansas State, f | 5 | 16 | 8 | 40 | 8.0 |
| 10. Al Budolfon, Iowa State, f | 4 | 14 | 3 | 31 | 7.75 |
| 11. Allie Paine, Oklahoma, g | 5 | 16 | 5 | 37 | 7.4 |
| 12. Carol Schneider, Iowa State, g | 4 | 11 | 6 | 28 | 7.0 |
| and Garnett Corbin, Oklahoma, f | 5 | 14 | 7 | 35 | 7.0 |
| 13. Dale DeKoster, Iowa State, g | 4 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 7.5 |
| 15. Tom Guy, Kansas State, c | 5 | 13 | 4 | 30 | 6.0 |
| and Chris Langvardt, Kansas State, f | 5 | 11 | 8 | 30 | 6.0 |
| 17. John Fitzgibbon, Nebraska, f | 6 | 14 | 7 | 35 | 5.8 |
| 18. Keith Bangert, Missouri, f | 4 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 5.75 |
| 19. Al Randall, Nebraska, c | 6 | 13 | 7 | 33 | 5.5 |
| 20. Arch Watson, Missouri, c | 4 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 5.25 |
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