University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1959
BIG SWEDE MEETS BIG RED—Swede Halbrook, giant 7-3 center for the Wichita Vickers, will meet his match in size when the Vickers play a Russian All-Star team Saturday night in Allen Field House. Halbrook, shown here with teammate Nick Revon, will be opposed by 320-pound Yan Kruminsh, the Russian's high scoring center, who also towers 7-3.
Syracuse Retains Top UPI Position
By United Press International
Syracuse, which will try to complete the first perfect season in its 71-year football history when it visits U.C.L.A. Saturday, remained No. 1 today in United Press International's major college ratings.
Mississippi, Louisiana State and Texas remained 2-3-4 in the latest balloting by the 35 leading coaches who rate the teams weekly for UPI.
Clemson was the only newcomer in the top 10, advancing from 14th to 10th after ending its regular season last Saturday by walloping Furman, 56-3. Southern California, beaten Saturday by Notre Dame, slipped from seventh to 12th.
Georgia, which has been moving up steadily in the ratings, moved from sixth to fifth in the wake of its triumph over Georgia Tech, Wisconsin, Washington, Texas Christian Arkansas and Clemson rounded out the top 10 in that order.
Illinois headed the second 10 group. It was followed in order by Southern California, Alabama, Penn State, Oklahoma, Northwestern, Michigan State, Wyoming, Auburn and Missouri.
Most of the leading teams now are warming up for post-season bowl games and U.C.L.A. and Navy were the only other schools mentioned on its week's ballots. They tied for 21st.
U. C.L.A. warmed up for its clash with top-ranked Syracuse by thumping Utah last Saturday, 21-6, while Navy upset Army, 43-12. Syracuse was idle last week.
Each coach on the rating board selects 10 teams in the order he ranks them nationally. Points are awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for votes from first through 10th place.
Syracuse received 26 first-place
votes and a total of 334 out of a possible 350 points. Coach Ben Schwartzwalder's team (9-0) was mentioned on every ballot and drew five votes for second, one for third and three for fourth.
Special Ticket Prices Announced by A.A.U.
A. A.U. officials in Kansas City said today that reduced rate tickets for the basketball doubleheader between the Russian and U. S. men and women's teams Saturday night in Allen Field House are now on sale.
THE TICKETS, priced at $1 for KU students only, may be purchased at the Field House.
The two games will feature all-star teams from Russia matched against the men and women's national A.A.U. champions of 1959, the Wichita Vickers and the Wayland Baptist College Flying Queens, of Plainview, Tex.
THE RUSSIAN TEAM is built around center Yan Kruminsh, who stands 7-3 and weighs 320 pounds. Saturday night, for the first time in the Russian's career, he will be matched in height by Vicker center Swede Halbrook, also 7-3.
The Vickers are led by forwards Dick Boushka and Dan Swartz, who steered them to the A.A.U. title last March in Denver. Both played on the U. S. Pan American team this past summer.
Other Vickers performers familiar to Kansas fans are Les Lane, All American at Oklahoma in 1955; Lionel Smith, a former Missouri standout, and Joe King, another ex-Sooner.
IN THE PRELIMINARY contest between the two women's teams, the Flying Queens have prepared for one of their stiffest basketball tests by including seven A.A.U. All Americans on their roster.
Queens' regulars Carolyn Miller, Patsy Neal and Catherine Washington will be joined by All Americans Nera White and Joan Crawford of the Nashville Business College team and Judy Hodson and Rita Horky of Iowa Wesleyan.
Waugh Praises Frosh Charges
Bv Dan Felger
Freshman Cage Coach Jerry Waugh praised this year's frost team as a "running bunch of kids" in a Daily Kansan interview today.
"When you take a look at our front line, you'll see why we're going to have to move. We're short, and we have to make up for this by being able to break fast," Coach Waugh said.
The average height is only 6-2, a far cry from the average of most modern day basketball teams. The tallest man on the club is John Matt, 6-6 Minneapolis center.
Flanking Matt in the front line are 6-1 forwards Jim Dumas, an All State prep player from Topeka, and Ed Douglas of Moorestown. N. J. Nolen Ellison, Kansas City, and Grover Marshall, Bartlesville, Okla., presently are listed as the two top guards on the team. Both boys are also only 6-1.
"We count Ellison as a real good prospect for the varsity," Coach Waugh said, "but freshman basketball isn't near the same thing as Big Eight varsity basketball."
Marshall, who passed up bids to play football at both Kansas and Oklahoma in order to concentrate on basketball, is also counted on along with Ellison and Douglas to give the junior Jayhawkers a boost in the scoring columns.
Also available for backboard duty along with Matt and Dumas is 6-3 Ralph Heyward, who graduated last year from Philadelphia's Overbrook
High, the alma mater of both Wilt Chamberlain and Wayne Hightower.
"Besides those six fellows Roy Scott, John Williams, Jack Galloway, John Henderson and Carl Deane should see lots of action."
The veteran frosh coach said that the performance of his club in the annual Homecoming tiff with the varsity is not necessarily indicative of future KU success.
"We'll have a little more depth than we did last year when we were 3-1." Waugh said.
"Success or failure doesn't predict the success of the varsity for the coming year. For example, OU freshmen rarely win their football games." Coach Waugh said.
"What we try to do is teach the boys to play Big Eight basketball and each game is a test to see what the players have learned.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. (UPI) — University College, the adult education branch of Syracuse University, recently offered a 12-week academic course on motor vehicle maintenance.
man team is playing a seven-footer," he mused. "I think we'll test them a little bit."
The Allied Transportation Industries Association, Inc., co-sponsored the course.
Higher Automotive Education
"We've heard the K-State fresh-
The little Jays will again play a 4-game schedule this year with all of the games coming in the second semester. Included on the schedule are Parsons junior college, Kansas State freshmen, Rockhurst varsity and the Missouri freshmen.
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