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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Jan. 20, 196
By Warren Haskin
It was just about this time last year when we played our friends up the Kaw that they decided to give us the label "Snob Hill."
To many this was enough of an insult to really pour it on our Silo Tech friends after the Jayhawkers won the first encounter last year at Lawrence, 64 to 62.
It must have been forgotten fairly fast, however, because a few weeks later, the Wildcats showed no mercy as they tromped KU 68 to 57. Then came the final game, the play-off for the Big Eight championship.
One year later, a new basketball season is well underway and the Jayhawkers are right where they ended last season-picked to win the championship.
A few changes have taken place including the best rebounder in the league last year, Bill Bridges, turning into a top-notch scorer.
One thing that is sure to happen will be one team winning by a close margin. But which team will be on top?
First of all, the Jayhawkers will be facing a team that is riding a 10-game winning streak. Tex Winter's Purple hasn't lost since December 9 at UCLA. Their victims since have included USC and North Carolina, the Big Eight tournament field, and their first two league foes. Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.
They went into the conference lead at 2-0 Monday when the Cowboys upset KU here.
Coach Harp's team can regain the lead by winning before the two weeks for the examination break. The last meeting between the two teams was in the Big Eight tournament finals where KU lost in a bitter, 66-69 overtime contest.
Secondly, the Wildcats have impressed many sports writers around the country and are currently ranked among the top 10 teams in the nation. Naturally, this means KU will go into the game the underdog.
The way the picture looks right now, it would be hard to predict a KU victory. But there are a lot of little things that don't show in the main picture. They look like little dots in the background now, but before the night is over, you might be noticing more dots than ever before.
A point to look for is Wayne Hightower having a good scoring night. He is in second place in the Big Eight scoring derby and a good night could move him into the leadership.
Bill Bridges is currently averaging 15.6 and if he maintains this during the final 11 games of 1961, he can reach the coveted 1,600-point total attained by only 14 pervious conference players.
Another little dot in the background of the overall picture is guard Dee Ketchum. This fireman has come to the rescue of the Jayhawkers many times in the past three years and tonight should be no exception.
Two other guards who will have to be hot are Nolen Ellison and Jerry Gardner. KU must hit from the outside or they are doomed. Both of the hustlers are capable of hitting 20 points on a given night. Tonight has to be the night for one of them.
After discussing five of the KU players, there is still one left who could mean the difference between victory and defeat. This is the regular forward Al Correll.
After my rambling on here, you can see as well as I do that I don't have the faintest idea who will win tonight. But I do have a hunch . . . and that's all it is . . . that Coach Harp will be able to have pleasant memories after the game.
I'll go with KU by a score of 79-74.
KU'S SCORING KING—Wayne Hightower, Kansas' leading scorer will lead the Jayhawkers as they battle league-leading Kansas State at 7:35 tonight. Hightower is averaging 20.5 points per game. In Big Eight competition the 6-8 junior is averaging 22.7 points per game, the best in the conference. He needs only 12 points tonight to take over sixth place on Kansas' all-time career scoring lists. He has totaled 898 points thus far, moving past 1957 KU star Gene Elstun's total scoring mark Monday night.
Sig Eps Trounce Sigma Nu
Action last night in intramural basketball was light with only six games on the schedule and one of them turning into a forfeit.
The most one-sided affair of the evening was Sigma Phi Epsilon's trouncing of Sigma Nu. The Sig Eps coasted to an uncontested 57-30 victory in Fraternity A division play.
The closest A division battle of the night was the 36-30 win posted by Delta Chi over hard-fighting Kanna Sigma.
In another Fraternity A game Phi Gamma Delta hung on to sup pass Delta Tau Delta, 57-48, in the highest scoring contest of the night.
The only other competition was in the Independent C division.
Botany and the Chemical Engineers were the winners of two close, low-scoring games. Botany set down the Cowards, 24-19 while the Chemical Engineers won over Phi Beta Pi, 21-16.
BALTIMORE — (UPI) — Johnny
Unitas, sensational quarterback of
the champion Baltimore Colts,
couldn't make the Pittsburgh Steelers
team in 1955.
K-State, NU Swim Here
The Hucksters also posted a win in this division as they were awarded a forfeit over Templin.
The KU swimming team will have its first home meet of the season when it takes on Kansas State and Nebraska in a triangular meet at 2:30 tomorrow in Robinson Pool.
In dual meet competition with Nebraska, the KU swimmers have won nine and lost 20 meets. With K-State, the Jayhawkers have won 17 meets, lost 10, and tied one.
Jeff Farrell, Olympic Gold Medal winner from Wichita, and ex-Oklahoma University star, presently holds the KU pool record for the 100-yard freestyle, with a time of 51.9 seconds. Last night in practice, All America Eldon Ward, Wichita junior, KU's ace freestyler was clocked at 50.4 seconds for the same event.
Dick Reamon, Topeka junior, hit a time of 2:09 for the 200-yard butterfly, a time which betters the conference record by nine seconds, the pool record by 4.6 seconds, and Reamon's own varsity record, set at Iowa University last weekend, by 6.2 seconds.
Tomorrow's meet will be the first triangular meet between the three schools.
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