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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1940
Track Season Opens Saturday
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A study in contrast: The coaching situations at Kansas State and St. Benedicts. At Manhattan, grid professors Wes Fry and Stan Williamson have been at each others throats—secretly most of last fall and openly for three weeks now—but the Raven coaches, Marty Peters and Don Elser, are enacting a modern dramatization of Damon and Pythias. Whereas the Wildcat duo flew off the handle and turned in their resignations, Peters stepped down from his head football position to accept the assistant coaching job under Elser, who was promoted from Peter's first loeye to his boss.
The Atchison pair came to the Raven campus after brilliant careers at Notre Dame, Elser a football and track star and Peters a standout cager. It has been said that when they arrived at St. Benedicts they flipped a coin to see who would be called head coach. Since then they have been almost co-coaches in football and basketball.
Another study in contrast is the Iowa State scoring before and after the Big Six basketball race started early last month. The "before" picture showed a Cyclone team rolling along with a 53-point per game average and Gordon Nichols, Bob Harris, and Al Budolphson all hitting at a better than 10-point clip. Since then they have been able to average but 26 points a contest and their leading scorer is Bob Menze with a puny 4.75 mark.
Five of the outstanding Jay hawker basketball players have followed family footsteps to Mt. Oread . . . Bob Allen's father is the coach and was a star player also some 30 years ago. Brother Milton played on the Kansas teams of '35 and '36. Ralph Miller's father attended the University and his uncle was a basketball player of note . . . Don Ebling's brother Ray was an all-American basketball player here and has the best example of them all . . . John Kline is the third member of his family to seek an education at the University. However, his two brothers who preceded him did not compete in athletics. . . . Bruce Voran had a sister and brother in school before him. His brother was a track man.
Coach Bill Hargiss had a star junior college shot putter who you would all know lined up for competition this semester, but the deal fizzled. Now that weight-tossers Bill Bunsen and Jim Holloway are ineligible it looks like the husky track mentor will have to throw the 16-pound agate himself. . . Manhattan students staged a big demonstration demanding a new fieldhouse between halfs of the Missouri-Kansas State game last night. . . The Wildcats have only one conference game left at home, that with the Jayhawkers Feb. 20. . . Iowa State has four left at Ames and if Coach Louis Menze gets his charges re-charged, the Cyclones might chalk up a couple of wins after all.
Win Over Ags Ties Missouri With Sooners
How They Stand
| | W | L | Pct. | Pts. | Op.
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 1 | .833 | 235 | 215 |
| Missouri | 5 | 1 | .833 | 234 | 183 |
| Kansas | 3 | 1 | .750 | 151 | 125 |
| Kansas State | 2 | 4 | .333 | 184 | 215 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 5 | .167 | 207 | 243 |
| Iowa State | 0 | 4 | .000 | 104 | 154 |
Manhattan, Feb. 6.-Missouri and Oklahoma are back in a two-way tie for the Big Six lead today after the Tigers trounced Kansas State, 44 to 28, here last night.
The victory was Missouri's second on its three-day road trip which saw them nose out Nebraska, 41 to 40, Saturday night. Both wins were needed to keep pace with Oklahoma and ahead of third place Kansas.
Nash Paces Bengals
The Tigers displayed another diversified attack, with seven players scoring two or more goals. Martin Nash, the crooked-armed little guard, looped in 10 points to pace the Tigers, and Blaine Currence was second with 8.
The Wildcats' Jack Horacek and Christ Langwardt tied the Missouri leaders in the scoring department, but the rest of the team was held well in check as Missouri took an early lead and coasted ahead at will.
Robertson on Sidelines
There will be no change in the Big Six standings until Friday night when Oklahoma and Nebraska play at Norman and Kansas State and Iowa State tangle at Ames. Missouri will meet Washington at Columbia in a non-conference game the same night for the only other game this week. The box score:
Kansas State was without the services of Joe Robertson, senior forward, who sat on the sidelines with a chipped ankle bone. Ervin Reid, star center, saw only limited action because of a shoulder injury.
MISSOURI (44) FG FT PF
Harvey, f 2 0 1
Cooper, f 2 0 0
Gregg, f 0 0 0
Bangert, f 2 0 2
Watson, f 0 0 0
Currence, c 4 0 3
Tison, c 2 2 0
Lobsiger, g 3 0 1
Nash, g 4 2 1
Mills, g 1 0 2
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FG FT PF
Langvard, f 4 0 1
Horacek, f 5 0 1
Woolf, f 1 0 1
Garrett, f 0 0 0
Reid, c 0 0 1
Reed, c 1 1 0
Checksfield, c 0 1 0
Holstrom, g 1 1 2
Seelye, g 1 1 1
Graham, g 0 0 0
Guerrant, g 0 0 1
KANSAS STATE (28)
Totals ... 12    4    8
Halt-time score:  Missouri 27
Kansas Shire, 12.
Missouri Shire, missed; Missouri 8.
Kansas State, 7.
Officials — Louis House, Kansas City, and Reeves Peters, Kansas
Big Six Scoring Leaders
| | Gms. | fig. | ft. | pts. | ave. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Jimmy McNatt, Oklahoma, f | 6 | 32 | 6 | 70 | 11.7 |
| 2. Bob Allen, Kansas, c | 4 | 17 | 7 | 41 | 10.2 |
| 3. Marvin Mesch, Oklahoma, g | 5 | 19 | 10 | 48 | 9.6 |
| 4. Ralph Miller, Kansas, f | 4 | 12 | 10 | 34 | 8.5 |
| 5. Sid Held, Nebraska, g | 6 | 18 | 8 | 44 | 7.3 |
| 6. Blaine Currence, Missouri, c | 6 | 14 | 9 | 37 | 6.2 |
| 7. Herb Scheffler, Oklahoma, c | 6 | 15 | 7 | 37 | 6.2 |
| 8. Jack Horacek, Kansas State, f | 6 | 14 | 9 | 37 | 6.2 |
| 9. Martin Nash, Missouri, g | 6 | 15 | 5 | 35 | 5.9 |
| 10. Marvin Snodgrass, Oklahoma, g | 4 | 9 | 4 | 22 | 5.5 |
| 11. Clay Cooper, Missouri, f | 6 | 13 | 6 | 32 | 5.3 |
| 12. John Lobsiger, Missouri, g | 6 | 14 | 4 | 32 | 5.3 |
| 13. Chris Langvardt, Kansas St, f | 6 | 11 | 10 | 32 | 5.3 |
| 14. Ervin Reid, Kansas State, c | 6 | 11 | 9 | 31 | 5.2 |
| 15. Haskell Tison, Missouri, c | 6 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 5.0 |
| 16. Bill Harvey, Missouri, f | 6 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 4.9 |
| 17. Harry Pitcaithely, Nebraska, f | 6 | 9 | 11 | 29 | 4.9 |
| 18. Melvin Seelye, Kansas State, f | 6 | 9 | 11 | 29 | 4.9 |
| 19. Dale Carlile, Oklahoma, f | 6 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 4.9 |
| 20. Bruce Voran, Kansas, g-c-f | 4 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 4.75 |
| 21. Bob Menze, Iowa State, g | 4 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 4.75 |
Cooper The Hooper-
CLAY COOPER - FORWARD
Clay Cooper, speedy Missouri forward, who is adept at hitting two-handed jump shots, is one of the most versatile athletes at the Tiger school. Cooper played halfback on the football team and runs the 440 with the track team.
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Edwards Names Rifle Team
Forty-nine members of the University R.O.T.C. unit have been selected for the men's rifle squad, Major Raymond F. Edwards, assistant professor of military science, announced today. Members selected are:
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With nine lettermen and a flock of "rarin'-to-go" sophomores on hand, Coach H. W. "Bill" Hargiss is hard at the task of getting a team in shape to meet Nebraska Saturday night at Lincoln in the opening indoor meet of the year for both schools.
Indoor Meet With Huskers At Lincoln
Although Hargiss has nine numeral winners around which to build this year's Jayhawker track team, only two can be counted on as'sun point getters in a conference meet.
Co-captains Ray Harris, long striding distance runner, and Bob Stoland, holder of the Big Six indoor high jump record, will be Kansas' prize track exhibits this year.
Other lettermen are: Bill Greene, senior spinner; Darrel Mathes and Dick Driscell, junior sprinters; Glen Foy, senior hurdler; Joe Ryan and Charles Toberan, senior distance runners; and Bill Beven, pole vaulter.
Missing from competition will be last year's stars Ernie Klann, distance runner; Chet Friedland, weights; Paul Masoner, hurdler and sprinter; Don Bird, pole vaulter;
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