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Page 4 University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 5,1959
League Play Opens Tonight With KU-OS Game in Allen
It is back to the wars tonight for Coach Dick Harp and his Jayhawker basketball team. A crowd of 6,000 is expected to see the team meet Oklahoma State at 7:35 in Allen Field House.
The Cowboys have met and defeated Kansas once this season. They scored a 59-48 victory in a loser's bracket game in the Big Eight Tournament during the holidays.
Oklahoma State, entering Big Eight basketball title competition for the first time this season, used a 50 per cent shooting average to hand Kansas its seventh straight loss.
The Jayhawkers then snapped back in the tournament's bottom game to knock off Missouri 84-73 for a seventh place finish. They hit their best shooting average of the season in the Missouri game—40 per cent.
Coach Harp will probably start Monte Johnson and Ron Loneski at forwards, Bill Bridges at center, and Bob Hickman and Dee Ketchum or Bob Billings at guards.
Loneski and Bridges paced the team throughout the tournament. Loneski totaled 69 points and Bridges hit 40. Bridges hit his career high in the Missouri game with 25 points. He was also named the meet's top rebounder.
Johnson opened at center this year but was shifted to forward as Harp searched for a balanced team.
Coach Hank Iba, now in his 25th season as basketball coach at Oklahoma State, will probably start Dennis Walker and Dick Soergel at forwards; Arlen Clark at center, and Don Heffington and Jack Hollingsworth at guards.
Clark, 6-foot 8-inch senior, hit 21 points when the Cowboys defeated Kansas. He was the team's leading scorer last season with 502 points.
Big Eight teams open conference play with a full schedule of games tonight and another round scheduled Saturday. All but two of the games are rematches from the pre-season tournament.
the schedule tonight shows Missouri at Oklahoma, Kansas State at Iowa State, Oklahoma State at Kansas and Nebraska at Colorado.
The entire Saturday slate is a rematch, highlighted by a duel between Colorado and Kansas State at Manhattan.
The Buffaloes had K-State all but beaten for the tournament championship before Don Walker fouled out and K-State's Bob Boozer came through with three clutch baskets for a 67-66 victory.
Also scheduled Saturday are Oklahoma State at Nebraska (Nebraska)
Big 8 Standings
All Games
W L Pct.
Kansas State ...9 1 .900
Colorado ...9 4 .600
Nebraska ...6 4 .600
Oklahoma ...5 5 .500
Iowa State ...5 5 .500
Oklahoma State ...5 5 .500
**Kansas** ...3 7 .300
Missouri ...3 8 .273
Football Writers Pick Iowa No.1
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Iowa, which climaxed its season with a 38-12 victory over California in the Rose Bowl, was chosen the nation's leading college football team of 1958 $ \gamma $ the Football Writers Association of America.
The Big Ten champions received four first-place votes and one second for a total of 14 of a possible 15 points from the five-man committee which handled the voting.
Louisiana State, the nation's only major unbeaten and untied team and a 7-0 winner over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl, was second with eight points and Army and Oklahoma each had four points.
won 55-48 in the tournament);
Oklahoma at Iowa State (the Sooners won 68-65), and Kansas at Missouri (Kansas won 84-73).
The tournament was provocative, if only entertaining enough to draw 7,500 fans—the lowest in history—for the Saturday night first round games.
Missouri, which finished in the cellar, came within three points of champion Kansas State in the opening game.
After the tournament was over Coach Tex Winter said he felt his Wildcats were pressed hard for the championship because other teams in the league were stronger, not that the better teams were weaker.
However, a check of records of pre-tournament intersectional play a year ago and this season shows
The clubs posted a 42-14 record in 56 games going into the tournament a year ago (counting Oklahoma State's 6-1) but had only 29 victories and 27 losses in the same number of games this season.
The two teams are tied for second place in the all games standings going into tonight's opening round of conference play. While the Buffs will have a chance to whittle at K-State's 9-1 mark this Saturday, Nebraska and Kansas State won't tangle until Feb. 2.
teams fell off from a .750 winning clip to only .518 this season.
Christian Athletes to Honor Top Three Football Coaches
Colorado and Nebraska were the only teams with better records going into tournament play, the Buffs showing a 4-3 this season compared to a 2-4 in 1957. Nebraska had a 4-3 compared to a 4-4.
"We feel it appropriate at this time," Munn said, "to pay tribute to some of our members for their outstanding contributions to advancing the Christian character of American youth."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — The Fellowship of Christian Athletes will honor three of the nation's outstanding football coaches, Paul Dietzel of LSU, Pete Elliott of California and Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma.
The announcement was made at the organization's headquarters here today by its president, Clarence (Biggie) Munn, head football coach at Michigan State.
Munn will make a presentation to the three coaches at a special breakfast meeting Friday in Cincinnati during the annual convention of the American Football Coaches Association.
Dietzel will receive the "Coach of the Year" award Friday night. His team was the only major college team to finish the 1958 season unbeaten. It defeated Clemson, 7-0, in the Sugar Bowl.
tion, coached Oklahoma to a 9-1 record and a 21-6 victory over Syracuse in the Orange Bowl.
Elliott's California Bears won the Pacific Coach title but were defeated 38-12 by Iowa in the Rose Bowl.
Wilkinson, a member of the FCA's advisory board and president of the American Football Coaches Associa-
G. WASHINGTON, famous father, says;
"Makes you hair look real George!"
For Bradley, the game against Oscar Robertson and friends will be a grudge fight all the way. Bradley was riding high toward the conference championship last year when Cincinnati won the title by one game.
In other Missouri Valley games tonight, St. Louis is at Pittsburg; Wichita is at North Texas state and Tulsa is at Houston.
Twice-beaten Cincinnati was ranked first in the United Press International standings last week, while undefeated Bradley was eighth.
After tonight, the entire conference is idle until Saturday when another four-game schedule is highlighted by a televised match between Cincinnati and Houston.
By United Press International
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO.
The basketball Titans of the Missouri Valley Conference—Bradley and Cincinnati—collide tonight, and the reverberations are sure to be felt in the national Standings.
Homer Floyd, star Jayhawker halfback during the 1958 football season, has signed for the 1959 season with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Interprovincial Football league in Canada.
Floyd Signs With Edmonton Eskimos
Floyd, who came here from Massillon, Ohio, ended his three-year college career as the team's leader in rushing, pass receiving and scoring. He was the top conference pass receiver.
National Standings Due for Shake-up
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Cincinnati still has the same weapon that proved so successful last year—the dependable "Big O." Robertson is the Nation's leading scorer with 281 points in eight games—a 35.1 per game average.
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