Wednesday, Dec. 2. 1950 University Daily Kansan
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Varsity to Open Season Saturday
By Dan Felger
Coach Dick Harp's Jayhawkers will draw up the curtain on the 1959- 60 basketball season with two games in the next five days.
Saturday night KU opens at Evanston, Illinois, the den of the Northwestern Wildcats. Then the Kansans tangle with Texas Tech Monday night at 7:30 in the first game of the 59-60 season.
Yet, there are a number of questions which must be answered if KU is to improve over their 11-14 mark of last year.
One of Coach Harp's biggest problems is welding Hightower, Bridges
Of the coming season, Coach Harp says:
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"We will have a better team. I think we'll shoot for a better percentage and for the first time since '53, possess over-all versatility."
and Donaghue into a front line that will live up to expectations.
Hightower, the 6-8 sophomore from Overbrook High, the same Philadelphia school that produced Wilt the Stilt, is scheduled 'to open at forward.
Big Bill Bridges returns at the center slot after a fine sophomore year. Last season the 6-6 pivot man staked a claim on 343 rebounds in 25 games to capture the conference crown in that department. He also became the third soph in KU history to score over 300 points when he rammed home 308.
In the Varsity-Frosh contest Bridges switched positions with Hightower throughout much of the game.
In his freshman year, Highower averaged 25.7 points and 20 rebounds a game as he paced the fresh to a 3-1 record.
The Philadelphia will be stepping into the position vacated by the graduation of Ron Loneski, who led the Kansas scoring efforts last year with a 19.0 average.
"Bill looks real good at forward," Coach Harp commented.
If Hightower and Bridges can play both positions, the Jayhawker front line will be more versatile than was hoped.
Flanking Bridges on the other side of the court is 6-5 veteran Al Donaghue, who averaged 10.6 points a ball game last season.
In the backcourt, the return of defensive whiz Bob Hickman promises headaches for the scoring aces of Jayhawk opponents again this year. Last season the 6-2 senior
Veteran Jim Hoffman, 6-3 sophomore Goatee Goetze and 6-6 Larry Sterlin, another sophomore, will also see duty on the front line.
Donaghue has cut 15 pounds from his last season's playing weight of 227, a fact which could make him an even better defensive player than last year.
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