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University Daily Kansan Friday. March 22, 1957
KU Meets San Francisco In NCAA Opener Tonight
The Kansas Jayhawkers face the first of two barriers in their drive for a second NCAA basketball championship tonight. They go against defending champion, San Francisco at 9:30 tonight in Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
The game will not be televised in this area but will be brought by radio over stations WIBW and WREN.
The nation's No.1 ranked team, North Carolina, plays Big Ten champion, upset minded Michigan State, in the first game beginning at 7:30 p.m.
KU will bring a 23-2 mark and some outstanding records into the tournament.
Wilt Chamberlain, 7-0 sophomore, made every all-American poll; Gene Elstun and Maurice King have been selected for post season all-star teams, and the team ranks No. 2 in the final balloting.
However, the Dons, who battled back from a 6-5 early season record to post a 14-1 record down the home stretch, do not impress easily as seen by their rude upset of California in the regional final.
Brown Sparks Comeback
One of the main reasons for the rejuvenation was the return of 6-3 guard Gene Brown to the lineup. He sat on the bench with a broken hand while the team dropped four of five games on an Eastern trip.
Brown, leading scorer with a 15.0 average, is the team's floor leader. His play resembles that of the Don's playmaker of last year, all-American K.C. Jones.
The Dons have the height to make it tough for the Jayhawkers. This could be a sore spot because Kansas has depended on superior rebounding power to win the close games this year.
Dons Have Towering Backline
KU holds a 1,128-805 season rebound edge over opponents. Only Iowa State and Oklahoma outrebounded the Jayhawkers.
The towing San Francisco backline of 6-7 forward Mike Farmer; 6-9 center Art Day and 6-5 forward Mike Pcreaseau will contest strongly off the boards and have the height to stop Wilt for the first time in this tournament.
The games shapes up as a defensive battle with both teams ranking in the top five defensively. The Dons allowed opponents an average of 54.6 points a game while the Jayhawkers held the opposition to 58.8 points a game.
However, Kansas holds an offensive edge with a 72.5 point a game average compared to 63.2 for San Francisco. About 40 percent of the KU points have come from the giant Chamberlain who is averaging 29.8 points a game.
Wilt is drawing the most support from senior co-captain Gene Elstun. Elstun needs 39 points in the two tournament games to become the fifth Jayhawkter in history to top the 900-point mark.
No Senior Starters
The Dons have a possible experience handicap in having no seniors on the starting lineup. However,
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Brown and Farmer were both regulars for the NCAA tournament last year. Day and Al Dunbar were starters on the Hannibal LaGrange junior college team last year.
Kansas, on the other hand, will start 3 seniors and have 4 more on the 12-man squad.
In the first game of the tournament, North Carolina will be favored over the scrappy Spartans from Michigan State. Unbeaten after 30 games and with all-American Lennie Rosenbluth in the lineup, the Tar Heels are favored to go all the way.
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Then, too, they upset a fine Kentucky team on the Kentuckian's court to win their regional, after trailing by 12 points at halftime.
However, no one is selling the Spartans short. Picked for fourth place in the Big Ten this year, they reeled off a 10-game conference winning streak before losing the final game to Michigan.
Miranda, Uribe Win Table Tennis Doubles
Balbino Miranda, Amero, Columbia graduate student and Antonio Uribe, Kansas City, Kan., junioris, won the table tennis doubles tournament Wednesday night in the Student Union Ballroom.
The team of James William Doty, Mission sophomore, and Jerry Williams, Olathe freshman, placed second.
Tourists and businessmen flying the "commuter" air lanes between North and Latin America have come to know well Trinidad's growing capital, Port of Spain. There, cosmopolitan people of many nationalities and tropical dishes add exotic touches.
Football Game Set For Clinic
Muddy grounds and intermittent rain forced the postponement of football practice Thursday. It will be made up at a latter date, so far unannounced.
The team will take the field for its first intra-squad game serimimage of the spring season at 2 p. m. Saturday. The student body and public are invited to attend.
The two-day rest before the game scrimmage should fire the Jayhawks up to a high pitch. A rather interesting afternoon is expected:
Wednesday saw the return, of Tom Russell, Groves City, Ohio sophomore, to tackle after being out of action with the flu.
Tom Horner, Johnston, Pa. junior.
240-pound end candidate, reported
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and is expected to play in Saturday's
contest.
The coaches, meanwhile, are making preparations for Chuck Mather's annual Coaching Clinic. Some of Kansas' all-time great football players now playing professional ball will be on hand to speak.
High school coaches from all corners of the state will be in Lawrence this week-end hoping to get some tips from the KU coaches.
Canadian Football To Portland
EDMONTON, Alta. — (UP) — The Edmonton Eskimos and the British Columbia Lions of Canada's Western Interprovincial football League will play an exhibition game at Portland, Ore., Aug. 2.
The libraries of the University of Kansas consist of approximately 500,000 volumes.
Wilt Chamberlain, KU's 7-0 center, has been named to the 1957 Look Magazine all-American team, and will fly to New York this weekend.
Wilt Is Look All-American
He will board a plane in Kansas City for New York Saturday night after the Jayhawks complete play in the NCAA tournament.
Senior guard Maurice King will make the trip also since he will be playing for the West team in the Fresh Air Fund game in New York next Tuesday.
Other members of the Look all American are Eigh Baylor of Seattle, Chet Forte of Columbia, Frank Howard of Ohio State, Rod Hundley
of West Virginia, Jim Krebs of SMU, Guy Rodgers of Temple, Len Rosenbluth of North Carolina, Gary Thompson of Iowa State, and Charlie Tyra of Louisville.
All 10 of these stars will be in New York for a round of appearances in connection with the team. The team will appear on the Steve Allen television show.
Evidence of transplanted Oriental culture and customs in Trinidad can be seen in silver ornaments worn by Indian women, in mosques and temples, and in rice fields where barelegged men in dhotis work water buffaloes from India.
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