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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1941
The Sooner's Top Ten Who Meet K.U. Tomorrow Night
Face O.U.In Loop Opener There
Jayhawkers Leave Tonight For Norman
Ten determined Kansas Jayhawkers will board the 10:50 Santa Fe train tonight for Soonerland and plenty of promised basketball trouble.
Co-champions of the Big Six last year with Missouri and co-favorites this year with Iowa State, the Kansans and Coach Bruce Drake's Oklahoma five will pry the lid off their respective conference schedules in Norman Wednesday night.
Besides being out for their first conference triumph, the Allenmen will be secondarily seeking to avenge defeats suffered on the Norman court for the past two years. O. U. Watch Engleman
The Sooners in their turn will have a weather eye out for Howard Engleman, torrid Jayhawker forward, who has averaged 15 points per game against the Sooners in the past two years. As a sophomore Engleman dumped in 17 points in the game at Norman, then set a new K.U. individual scoring record in the return contest with a 27-point bombardment. Last winter the blond shot artist counted but five tallies in the first contest between the two schools, missed the second game because of a knee injury, and wound up with 11 points in the memorable Wichita championship playoff battle.
Kansas will enter the game with a more impressive non-conference record, having won three and lost two. Oklahoma to date has split a two-game series with S.M.U. and lost single contests to Oregon, St. John's and Temple. Kansas won a two-game series from Texas, and a single game from Loyola of Chicago while losing to Fordham and Temple.
A Long Sooner Rest
The Sooners, however, will have had 16 days rest since their last non-loop skirmish while the Jayhawkers will have had but six.
The following Kansas players will make the trip: Howard Engleman, Bill Hogben, John Buescher, T. P. Hunter, Vance Hall, John Kline, Marvin Sollenberger, Bob Allen, Bob Johnson, and Norman Sanneman.
The expanding national defense program has nearly doubled the 1939 production figures in New Mexico's metal mining industries.
As We See It By DON PIERCE
A few months ago when President Roosevelt announced his National Defense Program, college coaches, athletes and organizations the country over voiced their desire to help in preparing the nation for national defense.
After the football season the Big Six faculty representatives and athletic directors took steps, which they no doubt thought were directed along the right path toward following out this policy.
One of the rules passed by this group was that of cutting competing conference basketball squads to ten men both as a traveling squad and for home games. K.U.'s head basketball coach, Dr. Forrest C. Allen points out that this rule is not only paradoxical but discriminating. And the following shows that the irrepressible "Phog" has some points that will take a lot of thinking on the part of any faculty representative.
In the first place Allen points out that the traveling squad limit in football is three times the number of men required to make up one team. In basketball a coach is now allowed to have but one alternate team. In addition the football coach is allowed to suit up as many players as he wishes for home engagements.
On this point one might argue that the football coach needs men in proportion because of injuries, but Allen would counter with a Mayo Clinic research report which shows that during the months of January and February, the heart of the basketball season, the human's physical resistance to flu and the common cold are much less than at any other time during the year.
Nearly any college or high school basketball coach will tell you that flu is liable to run rampant through his squad any basketball season. The recent minor epidemic on the K.U. varsity in which four men were stricken on the Jayhawker's eastern tour during the holidays is a good example.
Flu, which weakens the player's heart action combined with the strain of the game itself causes the coach to put about frequently for substitutions. With the new limit on the number of players, Dr. Allen believes that a boy's health is seriously threatened. The rule, Allen logically points out, will not increase the number of participants as the National Defense Program calls for, but will actually endanger the health of those who will participate.
Another rule passed by the conference rule-making body this year was that dealing with resulting ties for the Big Six cage championship. The rule states that if two or more teams tie for the championship the crown will go to the team having the best offensive and defensive record in conference play.
Here the faculty representatives and directors were casting about to determine some way of handling situations like that which arose last year when three clubs, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, tied for the conference court crown and forced a playoff to decide which should be the Big Six representative in the Western N.C.A.A. playoffs. It would seem that they meant well but sorely missed the boat if they wanted to cooperate with national defense plans. Allen favors the old playoff method at the same time explaining that ties have been rare.
A third new rule passed last fall limits Big Six teams to eighteen games a season, instead of the usual 20. This curtailing of the program lessens the chance of individual competition even more.
Here "Phog," who assures us that he has no intention of violating any phase of this recent legislation, rests his case.
Is there a faculty-director rebuttal forthcoming?
Fijis Phi Psi's Open New Year In Victory
Tonight's Schedule
Tonight's Schedule
6:00, Beta—Kappa Sig; Delta Tau Delta "C"—Sigma Chi "C".
10:00, Dodgers—Newman II; Mississippi Meteors—Dead End Kids.
By CLINT KANAGA
The opening intramural basketball contests of the new year last night found all favorites coming through with wins as expected. Phi Kappa Psi downed Delta Upsilon 33 to 17, Phi Gamma Delta defeated Sigma Phi Epsilon 28 to 10, Pi Kappa Alpha triumphed over Acacia 33 to 8 and Alpha Kappa Psi won from Alpha Chi Sigma 34-18.
Standouts in the Phi Psi's defeat of the D.U.'s were Hodge, Knight, and Arbuckle. This trio of Psis found the hoop consistently. Don Mosser, D.U. guard, turned in a fine performance, sinking five long shots for the losers.
Funk and D. Gibbens paced the A.K. Psi to their third win in four starts gathering 12 points apiece. The A.K. Psis moved ahead in the first half, and widened their grip to 16 points by the end of the game.
The defending champion Phi Gam five moved in front of the Sig Eps at halftime 14 to 7 and went on to win easily. Hambric, Fiji all-star last year, paced his teammates to victory with six baskets. The Phi Gam win gave them an unbroken victory string of 17 over a two year period.
The Acacia team never had a chance against a fine Pi K. A. team which humbled them 33-8. Atwell and Nagle topped the Pi K. A. scoring list with 12 and 8 points respectively.
Sig Ep "B", with "Curly Hayden leading the way, won from Battenfield "B" 28 to 15 in the only "B" team game of the evening.
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