Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1960
Harp's Hopes Are High As Basketball Season Nears
"We're looking for a repeat performance."
With these words of optimism head Kansas basketball coach Dick Harp begins a full scale practice for the 1960-61 basketball season this week.
Coach Harp said today that the Jayhawks probably will be favored to win the Big Eight championship again this year.
The Kansas basketball team which last year was the Big Eight champion and runner-up to Cincinnati in the NCAA Regionals, returns four starting and two top reserve players. With a squad possessing the background and prowess as do this year's Jayhawks Harp's enthusiastic optimism is understandable.
Two all-conference selections, Bill Bridges and Wayne Hightower, are among the six lettermen on the squad.
Bridges has received all-league honors for two straight seasons. The senior center is one of the top rebounders in the area.
Tabbed as one of the top sophomores in the nation last year, Hightower, a second All America selection, is back to defend his conference scoring leadership.
Hightower Led Big Eight
Another junior who was a starter last season, Jerry Gardner, is back at one guard spot. The other back-court man is Dee Ketchum. Ketchum was a regular for the first part of last year. He was scholastically ineligible second semester.
The two top reserves returning for the Hawks as they try for a second consecutive league title are Al Correll and Butch Ellison. Both saw considerable action in the Jays' championship drive late last season.
In addition to this group of lettermen, Harp feels there is another reason the league coaches will pick KU as the favorite.
Harp says one of KU's strengths will be in their bench. With the addition of some five sophomores, Harp hopes to have nine or ten reliable men.
Among these sophomores is Butch Ellison's little brother Nolen, Jim Dumas from Toppea, John Matt of Minneapolis, Ralph Heyward of
Philadelphia and Grover Marshall of Bartlesville, Okla.
The main strength of this year's team will be their versatility of skills said Harp. They also have what he considers to be a very good attitude and fine shooting ability.
Open With Northwestern
The Jayhawk coach mentioned defense as the thing which must be improved before the season opens with Northwestern in Lawrence Dec. 3. He added that the height of this year's team is only average but the team's speed is adequate.
Kansas faces a tough non-conference schedule. Besides an improved Northwestern team KU will face one of the favorites for the Southwest Conference title, Texas Tech, an improved San Francisco, Brigham Young, Michigan State and Air Force teams and two probable national powers. The teams which should be among the best in the nation which are included on KU's schedule are St. John's and North Carolina.
"The best over-all competition ever" is how Harp described the Big Eight this season. He said every team in the league will be improved. Oklahoma is the tallest squad in the league and may be considered favorites by some experts.
Harp said Kansas State would be the key to the championship for his team. He expects the Wildcats to be very tough and the team KU will have to defeat if the Jayhawks are to win the title.
In winning the Big Eight championship and compiling a 19-8 win-loss record, KU had to come from behind to earn a play-off with K-State. Harp said, since the conference is quite even, such a come from behind effort will be much harder this season. "The winning team will again lose between two and four games," he added.
Owens is Assistant Coach
Assisting Harp for the first time will be Ted Owens. Owens comes to KU from Camden Junior College in Lawton, Okla. He played his collegiate basketball at Oklahoma.
The 1960-61 Kansas roster is:
Bill Bridges, 6-5, senior; Al Correll, 6-4, junior; Carl Deane, 5-10.
sophomore; Jim Dumas, 6-1, sophomore; Butch Ellison, 6-1, senior; Nolen Ellison, 6-1, sophomore; Bob Frederick, 6-3, junior; Jerry Gardner, 6-0, junior; Wayne Hightower, 6-8, junior; Ralph Heyward, 6-3, sophomore; Dee Ketchum, 6-0, senior; Grover Marshall, 6-1, sophomore; John Matt, 6-6, sophomore; Howard Parker, 5-11, junior; Larry Sterlin, 6-6, junior; John Williams, 6-0, sophomore; Pete Woodward, 6-2, junior.
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Hadl and Hageman Are Pre-All América
Two Kansas Jayhawks were chosen as prospective All America candidates yesterday in an early-season sizeup of the nation's top football talent by the American Football Coaches Association.
John Hadl, playing his first year at quarterback for Kansas, and Fred Hageman, sturdy Jayhawk center, were among 58 players mentioned in the "honor roll" based on a poll of the members of the Coaches Association.
The coaches will be canvassed twice more during the season. Their recommendations will be considered by a 24-man board which will select the coaches' All America team.
Four Games in WRA
On the first of the nation-wide polls the coaches cited five University of Washington players and three each from Mississippi and Syracuse.
The Women's Recreation Association basketball began its second week of play last night.
The results of the four games played are: Miller 14, Alpha Phi 14; Pi Beta Phi 27, Corbin 15; Lewis Hall 38, Gertrude S. Pearson 19; and Kappa Kappa Gamma 19, Alpha Omicron 2.
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