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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Mar. 4, 1960
By Dan Felger
An adage that says "Don't put the cart before the Horse" hangs over recent plans or playing off a Big Eight basketball deadlock. It could come crashing down in the next few days.
Yesterday the possibility developed that Kansas and Kansas State, currently pacing the league with 9-4 marks and just one game left to play apiece, might meet in a play-off for the conference crown. This innovation would take the place of a drawing which present Big Eight rules call for in case of a deadlock.
The plan, of course, depends upon a tie at the end of the season—the season isn't over yet.
Kansas owns a 60-47 conference win over the Nebraskans in their only meeting this year.
Both Kansas and K-State close out their campaigns against Nebraska—and the Cornhuskers are notorious "giant-killers."
Three weeks ago K-State faced Nebraska with a proud, 7-2, league mark. Nebraska chased the Wildcats back to Manhattan by scoring a' 70-60 victory.
Nebraska has been playing tic-tac-toe at the foot of the Big Eight race for most of the season. At no other time have the Cornhuskers had such a chance to play "spoiler."
Saturday Nebraska tangles with Kansas State at Manhattan. Next Monday the Jayhawkers close out their '59-'60 season by entertaining the Huskers in Allen Field House.
A Nebraksa win over either means a one-team champ in the Big Eight.
Kansas' freshman track squad will be seeking the first Jayhawker league title of the year when they compete in the Big Eight Freshman Postal meet tomorrow.
Frosh Tracksters Shoot for Title
The marks sent in by KU and Oklahoma will also serve as the results of a dual meet between the two schools. Nebraska is expected to give the Jayhawk yearlings their stiffest competition in the conference meet.
Ted Reisinger is expected to be a big point winner for the Jays as he has posted a 2:18.2 in the 1000-yard run and a 9:29 in the two-mile. Bill Hayward will lend support to Reisinger in the two-mile. Hayward also has a 9:29 clocking in the two-mile.
In running off the meet, the competing teams will send the best marks that they have for the season to the conference office, where they will be recorded and the winning team decided. Each team should receive the results of the meet by Tuesday.
Henry Korn, Jayhawker strong man, will be a strong favorite in the shot put. Korn owns a 56-3 toss for the season.
Diamond to Grid
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — Tom Wilson of the Los Angeles Rams, one of the few players in National Football League history to make the pros without benefit of college experience, played one season of professional baseball in the Milwaukee Braves farm system.
The weather is handicapping KU's baseball team.
KU Baseball Squad Handicapped by Snow
While many of the other Big Eight schools have sent its baseball squads south for a few weeks to get into shape, KU's team is confined to workouts in Allen Field House.
"Our squad is definitely improved over last year, the overall ability is better, our pitching should be better this year, and we have the addition of John Hadl, Doyle Schick, and John Tonge which should help.
Weather Hurts
"Still, we are going to be behind. We can't have any type of infield practice until we get outside. We have reached the peak possible to attain inside."
Coach Floyd Temple was beginning to feel the pressure of the recent bad weather when he said:
"We may be able to take a short trip to Arkansas before the first game but we aren't sure yet.
"This weather is a bad handicap. It will take two weeks for this snow to melt off and another two weeks for the field to dry. By then it will be time for our first game and we won't even have had a practice outside.
At this point of practice it appears that the top three pitchers will be Tom Hollar, Sam Tryon and Ken Hensley. Pushing these three will be Jim Ragan and Gerry Waldschmidt.
3 Starters Picked
Rounding out the rest of the starting squad will be Tom Dorney behind the plate, either John Tonge or Lloyd Nichols at first base and the other in the outfield. The second baseman will be Jim Talley and his partner at the keystone will be Bill Bryant. Schick will be at third base and the other two outfielders will consist of Hadi1 and Norm Mailen.
Grange Picks Toughest Foe
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Red Grange, the old Galloping Ghost from Illinois, says the toughest football player he ever played against was Cal Hubbard, then a tackle with the Green Bay Packers. Hubbard now is supervisor of umpires for the American League.
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Pete Newell Picked As Top Coach
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Pete Newell, defense-minded coach of California's NCAA champions, today was named college basketball's "Coach of the Year" in a nationwide poll conducted by United Press International.
Taylor Second
The 44-year old coach, who has announced that he will quit the profession because of tense nerves, received 89 votes from the total of 303 sportswriters and broadcasters participating in the balloting. Newell is scheduled to become Athletic Director at California on July 1.
Fred Taylor of Ohio State was second in the voting with 59 votes, followed by Chuck Orsborn of Bradley with 24. George Smith of Cincinnati with 18. Fred Schaus of West Virginia with 16 and John Hyder of Georgia Tech with 12. Adolph Rupp of Kentucky won the 1959 award.
Using the "ball control" style of play that has made him famous, Newell led California to a surprise victory in the 1959-60 NCAA tournament and this season piloted the Bears to 22 victories and one loss with two games remaining. California already has clinched a berth in this year's NCAA tournament and probably will be one of the favorites to win it.
A native of Vancouver, B. C., Newell refuses to follow the current trend of all-out offense in basketball and insists on a deliberate style of play designed to force rivals into game-losing mistakes. The system has enabled his California teams to compile a 113-43 record and his overall college coaching record shows 228 wins and 121 losses.
Newell is a protege of Jimmy Needles, the United States' first Olympic basketball coach, and still traces his theories back to his original instructor. He had a trial as an outfielder in the Dodgers' farm system but then began to coach at St. John's Military Academy in Los Angeles. After a navy hitch in World War II he became coach at San Francisco and produced the 1949 National Invitation Tournament Champions.
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