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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 13, 1957
Harp Says SMU Best Team Yet
Jayhawker basketball Coach Dick Harp said he expects the SMU Mustangs to be the toughest team Kansas has faced this season and probably the toughest opening NCAA assignment ever handed a KU team.
The Jayhawkers will meet the Mustangs at 9:30 p.m. Friday in the NCAA regional tournament in Dallas.
SMU has won 35 games in a row on its home court and has annexed the Southwest Conference crown three years in succession.
"We aren't concerned about playing at Dallas," Coach Harp said. "We feel the best team will win no matter where we play. KU has played some of its best games away from home this season."
A battle is shaping up between the Jayhawker's Wilt Chamberlain and SMU'S Jim Krebs. The 7-foot Chamberlain was selected on the Associated Press all-American first team, while the 6-8 Krebs made the second team.
"It should be a great contest between them," Harp said. "I feel Krebs is a great center, but I still think Chamberlain is the best. It will be a great challenge for Chamberlain to play against Krebs. The four inches difference in the height should make some difference."
Worried About SMU Accuracy
Worried About SMU Accuracy
Harp is very concerned about the speed and shooting ability of the Mustangs. They are eighth in the nation in field goal percentages, with a 437 average, and are 10th on the free throw line with a .733 mark.
SMU has averaged 12.3 fouls per game, which ranks them first in the nation in that department.
KU will try to counter the SMU speed advantage with an edge in height. The Jayhawkers hold a slight height edge at every position.
"It will be a question of which team uses the advantage they have," Harp explained. "If they run, we will probably try to run with them. With their fine record from the free throw line, we will
also have to be very careful about fouling. Our plan is to try to make them commit more foulls."
Ku is expected to go with the same starting lineup that has started the last 11 Jayhawker games. Gene Elstun and Ron Loneski will man the forward positions. Chamberlain, the nation's fourth leading scorer, will be at center and Maurice King and John Parker will open at the guard positions.
Lew Johnson is also expected to see considerable action.
Will See Much Action
Will See Much Action "Johnson will play his share of the time," Harp said. "His outstanding play in recent games has earned him the chance to see considerable action in the tournament."
Harp said he has not decided whether the Jayhawkers will use a zone or man-for-man defense.
"I imagine we will use some of both," he said, "but I won't decide for sure until later today." The Jayhawkers will leave by plane from Kansas City at 11:05 am. Thursday. They will arrive in Dallas at 1:22 p.m. the same day and work out later that evening.
Lightweight Champ Wins Ninth Straight
HOUSTON, Tex. — (UP) — Joe Brown, the little-known lightweight champion of the world, plans to add a few more non-title victories to his 9-fight streak before defending his crown again.
Brown posted his ninth in a row last night—a split 10-round decision over Armand Savoie, an unranked Canadian, in a non-title bout.
Wilt, Thompson Share Honors
In dealing a hand of 13 cards in a bridge game, the probability of drawing a perfect hand—13 spades—is one in 635,013,599,600.
Wilt Chamberlain "Mr. Big," and Gary Thompson, "Mr. Little," of Big Seven Conference basketball swept every honor worth taking in final UP and AP polls.
The two all-Americans were the only unanimous choices on both ballots. Thompson edged the "Dipper" by a narrow margin to win the "Player of the year" award.
Russell (Sox) Walseth, Colorado,
was named UP "Coach of the Year."
Wilt won the conference scoring crown with a 25.4 average, highest since 1952 when Clyde Lovellette hit for an average of 28 points a game.
The fabulous Philadelphia sophomore finished No. 4 on the national scoring tables with a 29.5 average for 23 games.
However, Thompson, "The Roland Rocket," was chosen as the outstanding player because he outscored Wilt two out of the three times they met and was one of the finest playmakers the conference has ever seen.
Gene Elstun, Jayhawker 6-3 senior forward, was selected on the AP first team along with Wilt, Thompson, and K-State's towering duo of 6-9 Jack Parr and 6-7 Bob Boozer.
Maurice King, spring-legged KU senior forward; Don Schwall of Oklahoma; Rex Ekwall of Nebraska; Lionel Smith of Missouri, and Dave Mowbray of Colorado made up the AP second team.
The UP had Lionel Smith, Missouri's 6-2 sharpshooting guard in place of Elstun on the first team. Otherwise the first team was the same as the AP selections.
The UP second team consisted of King, Elstun, Joe King of Oklahoma, Dave Mowbray of Colorado and Lyle Frahm of Iowa State.
Of the 43 collegiate selections to the Helms Athletic Foundation Athlete of the Year award, the University of Southern California is represented by eight--more than any other college or university.
'Player Of The Year' Award Goes To Chet (The Jet) Forte
NEW YORK — (UP) — Columbia's Chet (The Jet) Forte, a little man who plays basketball in a big way, turned back the clock today by outspeeding the gangling giants of the college game to win the 1957 United Press "Player of the year" award.
The 5-9 pre-medical student, as sound fundamentally but an even better scorer than the solid little men who dominated the early years of basketball, gained the honor by a clear margin in a nationwide poll of 281 sportwriters and broadcasters.
Forte received 63 votes in widely-scattered balloting to win over Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain, brilliant 7-foot KU sophomore, who had 51 votes. Grady Wallace of South Carolina, the national scoring leader, was third with 35 votes.
The selection of Forte, Ivy League scoring champion, came at the end of a surprising campaign in which he fought right down to the wire with four physical gaint for the national scoring chamntonshba.
Kansas Reserve Out For Season
Reserve basketball forward Gary Thompson will be out for the remainder of the season because of a serious illness.
The Wellington junior has been in Watkins Memorial Hospital for the past few days suffering from a peptic ulcer.
Thompson has played in seven games this year, and was hitting at a 1.0 clip.
He follows forward Ronnie Johnston, scholastically ineligible at semester, and guard John Cleland, victim of a late season ankle injury, into drydock.
Rams Sign Big Tackle
LOS ANGELES — (UP) — Don Smith, a 230-pound tackle from Miami of Ohio, has signed with the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. Coach Sid Gillman said Smith would be tried as an offensive guard.
He finished with an average of 28.92 points per game and awaited the results of other scoring contenders in post-season tournaments to learn his final standing.
It also followed his selection to the United Press all-American team along with four players from seven to 15 inches taller than he.
The top three were followed in the balloting by Elgin Baylor of Seattle with 32 votes, Lennie Rosenbluth of North Carolina with 27, Hot Rod Hundley of West Virginia with 24, and Gary Thompson of Iowa State with 15, with a scattering of 34 votes to other athletes.
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