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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 5, 1960
University Daily Kansan SPORTS Jayhawk Balance Nips Northwestern
The Kansas Jayhawks overcame an early case of the jitters and gathered a wide scoring margin on a balanced second-half attack to defeat Northwestern 86-69 Saturday.
The Hawks, apparently suffering from first-game uneasiness, committed numerous mechanical errors but quickly regained their confidence to pile up a 13-point lead by the end of the first half.
Northwestern started the contest with a zone defense and a weaving, screening offense. However, the steady flow of points by Wayne Hightower gave KU the scoring cushion it needed to open a 30-23 lead with about five minutes remaining in the first half.
At this point the Big Ten team was forced into a man-to-man defense because of the long-range shooting of Jerry Gardner and Ralph Heyward.
It took Hightower, who scored 18 points in the first half, 10 minutes to score in the second half. But the Kansas offense was not seriously hurt because of the lanky junior's letup. What eventually developed into an evenly balanced scoring attack kept the Jays well ahead. It
was 67-47 when Hightower scored his first point in the second half.
Gardner and Dee Ketchum continued to score and ended with 13 and 16 points respectively.
As the game grew older, the Kansas defense perked up. Several KU steals resulting in fast-break scores added to the ever-growing lead. In the first half the Hawkers had trouble with the Wildcat screens which left a shorter man guarding a taller man. This situation gave Northwestern guard Ralph Wells many scoring opportunities. He finished the game with 20 points.
The only real Northwestern second-half threat was a peculiar-looking but very effective soft left-handed hook of Brack Snyder who tallied 11 points in the final 20 minutes.
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KU Gymnasts Win Dual Meet
Behind the 26-point performance of player-coach, Lock Bobwood, the KU gymnastics team rolled over Northwest Oklahoma State 73-36 Saturday in its first meet of the season.
The KU gymnasts captured six first and five second places of the seven events to establish a new school record of 73 points. This scoring broke the old record of 60 points set last year against the same team.
Lockwood led the Jayhawks winning first place in three events, the parallel bars, flying rings and free exercise. His 26 points established a new single meet varsity record erasing the old mark of 23 points set by him last year against Northwest Oklahoma State.
Gary Wolgamott, Northwest Oklahoma State team captain won top honors in the trampoline event to pick up the visitors' only first place of the meet.
The two other first place winners for KU and their events were Clayton Lang, side horse, and Mike Zwink, horizontal bar and tumbling.
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The KU Jayhawks will meet the Texas Tech Red Raiders at 8 p.m. tonight at Lubbock, Texas, in the second contest of the season for both teams.
KU Faces Texas Tech Tonight
Tonight's game will be the second meeting of the two teams. Last year the Jayhawks defeated the Texans 85-71.
The Red Raiders return three first string starters to this year's team; 5-10 junior, guard, Del Ray Mounts; 6-3 junior, forward, Mac Percival and 6-4 junior, forward, Roger Hening. Last year they won 10 and lost 14 and tied for 4th in the Southwest Conference.
Saturday the Jayhawks will meet St. John's in New York City and return to play Michigan State and North Carolina in two double headers the next weekend. They will meet Michigan State Dec. 16 at Manhattan and North Carolina the following night, Dec. 17, in Lawrence.
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