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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940
sports AS WE SEE IT By DON H. PIERCE
Even the most intramurally disinterested campus cuties will tell you that Chain Healy's hard-rolling Phi Gam's, already crowned intramural football champions, are at least an even bet to retain their all-University basketball crown.
Just how well the Fijis will do, however, will depend on their ability to cope with three more or less outstanding problems. These troubles include the replacing of their best intramural athlete in the last decade, rough and ready Jim "Red" Morris; the ability of four of last year's returning regulars to continue their '39-'40 pace, and the manner in which they will, or will not dispose of four other sturdy clubs rated near their own par, and a host of secondary threats, all capable of ill-doing.
Leading the high scoring purple cage horde once again will be Healy, and swart Larry McSpadden, guard and forward, respectively, and coaptains of last year's first string Intramural All-Stars.
Close behind in ability will be fisty Roscoe Hambric, jumping jack forward, who rated a second team berth in '40, and Harold Long, a steadying influence at guard. All four were regular performers last winter. From among "Swede" Olson, Wally Hinshaw, Bill Bevan, and Dick Reid will come the fifth fiji regular.
The four quintets, bracketed as number one hopes to dethrone the confident Gams include the independent's powerful Galloping Dominoe successor, the Newman club; a football-player infested Teke crew, and the nearly always potent Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Kappa Psi.
The Newmans, under the court guidance of football quarterback Marvin Vandeveer, have combined remnants of last year's twice champion Galloping Ghosts with two or three new roughers, to establish themselves as a definite threat.
In Warner "Tony" Coffin, a first and second team All-Star guard selection of the past two years, and Nelson Hare, a rangy forward, the Newmans have a pair of honest-to-gosh Indians who can go on the basketball warpath in earnest.
Couple these with Marv's kid brother Ed, high scoring Denny Gibbens, and freshman footballers Tom Robertson and Al Hinkle, and one sees why the Newmans must be considered.
Hard working John Zeigle-
meyer will once again be on deck
to direct his team's offense. Dick
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The Psis, weaker than usual last year, should bounce back with force this winter. Headlining the Red and Green's new deal will be free wheeling Harold Unsell, former all-state high school forward from Chanute and Jim Seely, an All-State Juco guard from Hutchinson last year. In the supporting cast will be Bill Hodge and Bill Knight off last year's "B" team champs and the veteran Tom Arbuckle.
The Alphs, long famed for good basketball, will be slightly below their form of the last three years, but still potentially potent enough to crash through to a championship.
Promise Rough Baptism
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
BASKETBALL SQUAD
Roster
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Exp. Age Home
*Allen, Bob C 612 168 2 21 Lawrence
Arnold, Jim F 63 185 1 21 Downs
Blair, Don G 61 178 0 18 Ottawa
Buescher, John F 61 155 0 20 Beardstown, Ill.
*Engleman, H. F 6 170 2 21 Arkansas City
Gray, Max G 62 175 0 22 Newton
Hall, Vance F 6 166 0 19 Downs
Hallberg, John F 68 210 0 19 K.C., Mo.
*Hogben, Bill F-G 61 167 2 20 K.C., Mo.
*Hunter, T.P. F 63 165 1 23 Oklahoma City
*Johnson, Bob G 6 164 1 20 K.C., Kan.
*Kline, John G 6212 195 2 21 Hutchinson
Mathews, Bill G 63 165 0 18 K.C., Mo.
Miller, Dick F 61 174 0 19 Chanute
Mitchener, Jack F 59 150 0 20 Norton
Moser, Ted F 63 165 0 20 Topeka
Niipper, Allen C 6 182 0 19 Topeka
Shanneman, N. G 61 172 2 24 Topeka
Sollenberger, G 61 184 0 20 Hutchinson
Walker, Chas. F 62 170 1 20 Hutchinson
Wise, Virgil C 58 165 1 20 Lawrence
Tonight's Schedule
- Denotes lettermen.
Five Games Tonight On Intramural Card
6:00—Alpha Tau Omega vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon; Acacia vs. Sigma Ep.
10:00—Dunakin vs. Hellhounds; Delta Chi vs. Delta Upsilon.
11:00—Phi Delta Theta vs. Phi Kappa Psi.
Promising soph prospects are Earl Musser, Ed Moses, Paul Thayer, Charles Bliss, and Bill Mackie.
Tau Kappa Epsilon, boasting of four of last year's great Buccaneers, will tangle with Alpha Tau Omega tonight in the featured opening intramural basketball game of the season. Ulrich, Teke forward, finished third in last year's scoring averages, while Lindquist, Fry, and Dalyrimple supported him well on a high class team. The Arthur brothers, Bill and Charles, will give the Tekes the most trouble.
Another choice contest will be the Phi Delt-Phi Psi game. Newcomer, Kern, Stauffer, Lynch, and Hunter will start for the Phi Delts, while Nolan, Arbuckle, Seeley, Dickerson, and Unsell will compose the Phi Psi five.
In the other games, Delta Chi, led by Hall, Burton, and McCarty, opposes Delta Upsilan; Dunakin engages the Hellhounds; and Acacia
Lettermen and squadmen back from last year's team which finished fifth in the Big Six are Marion Cooper, backstroke, Joe Morton, dashes, Tom Walton, distances, Dan La Shelle, distances and backstroke, Paul White, diver, Harry Ham, diver, and Gene Nelson, breaststroke.
Swimmers Open Season
The varsity swimming team has begun training under Coach Jim Raport in preparation for dual meets with Big Six schools and the Big Six championship meet set for late in February.
Frosh Cage Stock Climbs; Evans Reports
Freshman basketball stock was on the upgrade today with the announcement that Ray Evans, former Wyandotte high school star, would probably be in the starting lineup at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night when the yearlings square off with "Phog" Allen's varsity at Hoch auditorium.
Evans, who abandoned football
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Texans Stress Ruggedness; Are Rangy
Finesse basketball, as demonstrated by a smooth University of Kansas cage team, will collide with rough and tumble court tactics favored by the powerful Texas Longhorns, who invade Hoch auditorium Monday and Tuesday nights for a two game series with Dr. Forrest C. Allen's Jayhawkers.
The caliber of basketball played in the Southwest has improved greatly in the last few years. Texas' outfit plays the dashing, rugged type of ball that is characteristic of Southwest teams.
Texans Have Size
Rugged builds are the rule rather than the exception among Southwest conference basketball players. Twin scoring stars of the Longhorn team are Granville, 6 foot 2 inch guard who weighs 191, and Houpt, 6 foot 5 inch center, who scales in at 198.
Kansas, on the other hand, will rely mainly on finesse to make up for its lack of size. The Jayhawk crew is a brilliant ball handling aggregation, a fact which should pay dividends.
Soillenberger May Start
For Texas' special benefit, Dr. Allen probably will move Marvin Sollenberger, sophomore guard, into the lineup in place of Bob Johnson. Sollenberger, a husky defense man, weighs 184 as compared with Johnson's 165 pounds.
The Jayhawk star sophomore forward, John Buescher, may not see action against the Longhorns because at present he is not making the "C" average in his studies required by Dr. Allen.
Pharmacy Group To Hear Kirby
Dr. Frank B. Kirby, director of education at the Abbott laboratories, Chicago, will speak at the weekly School of Pharmacy convocation at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow.
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Women's Intramurals
By JEAN MILAM
The W.A.A. hockey and volleyball feed will not be held tonight as is stated in the K Book but will be given next Thursday night in the Memorial Union building.
Drawings have not been completed for the ping pong tournament but the matches all will be played on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. This Friday at 4:30 o'clock the TNT's will meet the ETC's, and at 5 o'clock IND will play Miller Hall.
First round play in the Memorial Union table tennis tournament will be completed this afternoon with the second round scheduled to begin tomorrow and end Saturday afternoon.
Table Net Tourney Into Second Round
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