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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940.
Cage Classic Tonight
Simonizing SportS By JAY SIMON
When Kansas and Oklahoma A. and M. tangle in Stillwater tonight two of the foremost basketball coaches in the business will be matching wits. Dr.F.C Allen is recognized as the dean of American cage mentors and none can come close to touching his record of 22 conference championships in 29 years.
Over a shorter period, Iba has a better mark in wins and losses, ranking second only to Claire Bee of Long Island University in this respect. New York's busy Bee, in whose teams have twice put together winning streaks of over 40 games, is leading the parade in wins and losses with a batting average near the .900 mark.
Pressing him closely is Henry Iba with a winning percentage of .860. Before he began piling up victories at the Stillwater institution, "Handsome Hank" took all comers with his powerful Maryville Teachers quintets. At one stretch the Bearcats won 42 straight.
Despite the fact that Bee and Iba both surpass Allen in the W and L column, the genial basketball professor need not apologize. His Kansas and Warrensburg teams have won 340 while losing only 76 for a 817 mark. The longest winning streak an Allen-coached team has amassed was 34 straight which was finally broken by Oklahoma in 1928.
The only teams that have been common opponents for Kansas and A. and M. so far this year are Loyola and Oklahoma. The Jayhawkers downed Oklahoma, 46 to 26, and Loyola, 40 to 36, while the Aggies downed the Sooners, 26 to 19, and the Chicago outfit, 29 to 24.
Pony Expressman
After the dual meet here this afternoon the Kansas State track team will go on to Champaign, Ill., where it will participate in the Illinois relays Saturday . . . Missouri will have its crack distance medley baton foursome and a trio of timber-toppers at the same carnival . . . The medley team, with John Munski in the clean-up slot, will be defending the first place trophy it won last year . . . Jack Bellman, the little freshman miler working out daily under the stadium, looks like he's going to be the real McCoy by the time next year rolls around . . . Missouri basketball officials have dubbed tomorrow night's game with Kansas State as "California Night," honoring three of the Tiger cagers hailing from the little hamlet of California, Mo. . . It will be o.k. if "California Jack" Gardner, the Wildcat coach, doesn't get the idea they are honoring him and decide he'd better win the game.
The hustling senior forward will be leading the Jayhawker's fast breaks against the Aggies when they go against Henry Iba's team tonight.
- DON EBLING - FORWARD
Kansas Mermen Meet K-State Here Saturday
By Charles Skidmore, c'41
After bitterly watching two swimming meets go down the stream because of lack of finances the Kansas swimming team, coached by Jim Raport, is "fit to be tied, or drowned" and should be plenty ready to go against Kansas State here at 2:30 Saturday afternoon in the season's opener.
The Aggies will bring an experienced and unbeaten team to compete in the indoor pool in Robinson gymnasium against the young unexpectedly Jayhawkers. So far this season the invaders have won over Nebraska, Colorado, and Washington U. of St. Louis. Coach "Coony" Molls has a bar-better-than-average group and his swimmers will be heavy favorites in the meet Saturday.
Coach Jim Raport said today that Kansas' chances for victory are highly problematical. With the exception of Ken Rosebush and Frank Wilson all his men are sophomores. What they will do in varsity competition remains to be seen.
Raport listed as his probable outstanding performers Marion Cooper in the back stroke; Frank Wilson and Ken Rosebush in the dashes; Lloyd Koehling in the dives; Dan LaShelle
The starters and judges have yet to be named, but the meet is open to the public. It will be the first opportunity for local fans to see the team in action, and a large crowd is expected.
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Stillwater Scene Of Tilt Between Jayhawks, A.-M.
By Jay Simon (Kansan Sports Editor)
Stillwater will certainly run deep tonight. Deep with basketball talent, and fans swarming in to see the great Kansas and Oklahoma A. and M. cage teams swing into action.
An expected throng of 8,000 will be in the Cowboys' spacious fieldhouse at 8 o'clock tonight when the Jayhawkers attempt to snap the 43-game winning streak Coach Henry Iba's classy hoophitters have compiled on their home boards.
And the Aggies will be striving equally hard to avenge the defeat Dr. F. C. Allen's charges hung on them in the season's opener here last December. Since that loss A. and M. has torn through everything that has come its way to hang up 19 straight victories.
Kansas is in second place behind Missouri, largely because the Tigers have played two more games than the Jayhawkers. Each team has lost only one game, the Kansas defeat coming at the hands of Missouri. The only other set-back the Jays have met this year was the trimming Warrensburg Teachers gave them in an overtime tilt at Warrensburg.
The Stillwater stylists are roaring along in the Missouri Valley head and hands above the rest of the loop. The same cannot be said for the Jayhawkers, but there is little doubt that the Big Six is playing a finer brand of ball than the M. V. this winter.
Pacing the Cowboy outfit will be Jess Renick, colorful Indian guard who is being boomed for all-American honors. Renick didn't show too much when he played here in December because he had had only a few days of practice after football season, but reports now say he is red hot. His 8-point per game average doesn't sound too impressive, but with a low-scoring team of the Iba caliber four buckets a night is plenty.
Two Jayhawk Defeats
Only Loss to Kansas
Rounding out the starting five are three other veterans who
Just One New Aggie
Starters for Tonight's Cage Classic
A. & M. ht. wt. pos. wt. ht. KANSAS
Harvey Slade 5-10 160 F 175 6-1 1-2 Ralph Miller
Gene Smelser 6-1 160 F 160 5-11 Don Ebling
Vern Schwertfeger 6-5 195 C 166 6-0 Bob Allen
Jess Renick 6-2 185 G 184 6-1 1-2 Dick Harp
Howard Doyle 6-0 190 G 190 6-2 1-2 John Kline
Officials: Parke Carroll (Kansas City) and Ted O'Sullivan (Missouri).
have helped the Cowboys to two straight Valley buntings and Vernon Schwertfeger, 6 foot 5 inch newcomer who has become a fixture at the pivot post.
In the backcourt with Renick will be Danny Doyle, crack long shooter, and the front line will be manned by Gene Smelser and Harvey Slade, a pair of flashy ball handlers.
Doctor Allen plans to rely mostly on the five that led off against Iowa State with Bruce Voran slated for heavy reserve duty. At the tipoff the Jayhawkers will line up with Ralph Miller and Don Ebling at the forwards, Bob Allen at center, and Dick Harp and Johnny Kline at guards.
Dr. Allen, Trainer Dean Nesmith and 11 players left for Stillwater by train last night. The men were Don Ebling, Ralph Miller, Howard Engleman and Bob Johnson, forwards; Bob Allen and Jack Sands, centers: Dick Harp, John Kline, Bruce Voran, Bill Hogben and T. P. Hunter, guards.
Cowboy and Indian
Jess Renick, colorful Indian guard, will lead the Oklahoma Cowboys against the Jayhawkers in their star-studded battle at Stillwater tonight.
HOW THEY STAND—
Missouri ... 6 1 .855 267 210
Kansas ... 4 1 .800 187 159
Oklahoma ... 6 2 .750 327 276
Kansas State ... 2 6 .250 246 321
Nebraska ... 2 6 .250 313 299
Iowa State ... 1 5 .143 183 292
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