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University Daily Kansan Monday. Jan. 13. 1958
DON WALKER
DAVE MICHAELSEN
BILLY LEWIS
LEO HAYWARD
Wilt's Back In Lineup As CU Arrives
For the third time in two weeks the Jayhawker basketball team will be trying for victory number 11 of the current season, when Coach Dick Harp's forces meet the Colorado Buffaloes at 7:35 p.m. tonight in Allen Field House.
Wilt Chamberlain, 7-foot Jayhawker all-American center, will be in the lineup for the first time since the finals of the Big Eight pre-season tournament, when KU defeated Kansas State 79-65.
KU's chances of repeating as conference champion looked good when the Jayhawkers returned from the tournament with a 10-game winning streak.
In the photos above are shown four of Colorado's starting five.
But with Chamberlain out of action with a glandular infection KU dropped two close contests, losing to Oklahoma State 52-50 in an overtime and to Oklahoma University 64-62 in the conference opener.
KU Made Good Showings
The non-conference loss to Oklahoma State did little harm, as the Wilt-less Jayhawkers proved they're more than a 1-man team by battling the nation's 8th-ranked team into an overtime before losing by only two points.
In the loss to OU the Jayhawkers again made a good showing despite Chamberlain's absence. But the second KU loss of the season was more costly than the first, for the conference defeat at Norman meant KU would enter the thick of the
conference race a game behind the pack.
As it now stands OU is 2-0, Kansas State and Iowa State 1-0, while KU must win tonight to be .500 in the campaign for the conference crown. An apparent slight advantage for KU before the Big Eight season began was more than erased by the loss to OU.
Saturday night Colorado was the victim of Oklahoma's second conference victory, losing 51-41 at Boulder. The Buffs were 7th in the pre-season tournament. They lost to Iowa State 81-43 and OU 53-52 before defeating guest team Princeton.
KU will have a slight height advantage tonight, a position the Jayhawkers were forced to give up in the last three games.
named a starting lineup of 6-foot, 6-inch center Don Walker; 6-foot, 5-inch forwards Leo Hayward and Walt Bradley; 6-foot, 1-inch guard Gerry Schroeder and 6-foot, 2-inch guard John Musciano.
KU will have Chamberlain at center, 6-foot, 4-inch Ron Loneski and 6-foot, 5-inch Monte Johnson at forwards, and 6-foot, 2-inch Bob Hickman and 6-foot Bob Billings at the guards.
Colorado Coach Sox Walseth has
May Fatten Average
Last year Chamberlain fattened his average against Colorado with 38.7 points for three games, including 45 points in the finals of the conference tournament. Chamberlain will have a chance, if he scores over 35 points, of recapturing the national scoring lead.
Going into tonight's game Chamberlain has averaged 32.2 points per
gme, Loneski 14.6, Billings 8.3, Hickman 5.2, Johnson 4.8, sophomore Al Donaghue (who started the two games Chamberlain missed) 2.5, Jim Hoffman 2.1 and Lynn Kindred 1.5.
Chamberlain has 190 rebounds,
Loneski 148, Johnson 62, Hickman
44, Donaghue 34, Billings 26, Hoffman and Kindred 19 each.
Chamberlain was released from the Student Health Service Wednesday, took part in light workouts Thursday and Friday and a full-scale practice Saturday. A crowd of 14,000 is expected tonight.
No bad luck is anticipated for the Jayhawkers tonight, as they play their 13th game of the season on Jan. 13, and barring a major catastrophe the third time out should be a charm in the search for victory No. 11.
Swim Team Downs Nebraska
The KU swimming team set four new records in winning its third victory of the season over Nebraska in a dual meet here Saturday.
The 400-yard medley relay team chopped 9.6 seconds off their old record to better the pool, varsity and dual meet records with a 4:21.9 time. The old record was 4:31.5.
The four members out of the 7-man squad turning in the fine performance were Bill Matthews, Jim Laidlaw, John Jeffery and Steve Hill.
Piety Breaks 8-year Mark
Jared Piety of Kansas broke a dual meet record that stood for eight years by setting a 2:23.6 time in the 220 freestyle. The old record was held by John Edmond of Kansas with a 2:24.5 time.
Coming off the medley team Jeffery bested the pool and varsity record of 2:29.6 in the 200-yard butterfly race by 2.1 seconds. His time of 2:27.5 also topped the dual meet record of 2:43.8 set last year by Tom Clevenger of Kansas.
400-yard medley relay—1, Kansas Matthews, Laidlaw, Jeffrey, Hill. 4-21-9
The Kansas team's next meet will be Wednesday at Kansas State, Kansas has beaten Missouri Mines and Pittsburg State and lost to Southern Illinois.
Laidlaw, also seeing plenty of duty for the Kansas team, went on to set a record in the 202-yard breast stroke, which was a new event this year. His time was 2:46.6.
The results:
Poort, Kansas. 3, Bill Worth, Nebraska. 2;23.6.
220 freestyle—1, Pietv, 2, Jon
60-yard freestyle—1, Ron Renfer,
Nebraska. 2, Ed Poor, Kansas. 3,
John Holeman, Nebraska. 32.
Diving—1, Matthews. 2, Doug Scott, Nebraska. No third. 171.8 points.
200-yard breast stroke—1, Laidlaw
2, Jeffrey. 3, Terry Brown, Nebraska
2:42.6
440-yard freestyle relay—1, Kansas; Piety, Hill, Ed and Jon Poort.
200-yard butterfly—1, Jeffrey. 2, Joe Bonnemeir, Nebraska. 3, Bill Bodenstein, Nebraska. 2:27.5.
100-yard freestyle—1, Hill. 2, Renfer.
3, Ed Poort. ;573.
200-yard backstroke=1, Frank Thompson, Nebraska. 2, Harvey Fair, Nebraska. 3, Matthews. 2:30.1.
Sensational Soph Vs. Wilt The Stilt
440- freestyle—1, Piety, 2. Worth.
3. Jon Pooft, 5:20.2.
Basketball's newest headline act—the sensational sophomore vs. the 7-foot Stilt—will be trying to steal the show again tonight from upsets that are rocking the conference races.
By UNITED PRESS
And 7-foot Chamberlain of Kansas, idle with a groin injury while
The sophomore, high-bounding Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati who has seized the national scoring lead with an average of 32.3 points per game, will be out to improve that brilliant mark when the Bearcats play host to Houston.
Robertson, following up his 56- point Madison Square Garden record performance of Thursday, passed Chamberlain by an eyelash in the scoring race Saturday night when he hit the necessary 35 points right on the head during a 127-57 rout of North Texas State.
his 32.2 average dropped to second best, hopes to get back into action in a game against Colorado.
Robertson's sudden appearance as a top star pushed a couple of stunning upsets lightly into the shade during the weekend. Chief casualties were former national champion North Carolina, defeated 74-61 by Maryland, and previously-unbeaten Mississippi State, a 78-61 loser to Georgia Tech.
Erdelatz' Name Pops Up In A&M Muddle
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — (UP) — Eddie Erdelatz of Navy, the latest name to pop up in the chase for a football coach at Texas A&M appeared today to be the odds-on choice for the post although spokesmen for the athletic council said he hadn't been invited.
Erdelatz' name was tossed into the muddied coach's picture Sunday. The entry of the Navy coach to replace departed Paul (Bear) Bryant may have meant anchors aweigh to Jim Meyers of Iowa State who had, until Sunday, seemed assured of the post.
K. U.'s radio-isotope laboratory is one of the nation's finest.
Twenty-Six Teams Compete In Friday's Intramural Play
Thirteen games were played Friday night in intramural basketball activities. Alpha Tau Omega had the most impressive Fraternity A victory, downing Sigma Alpha Epsilon 72-12. There were three Fraternity A games, one Independent A game, four Fraternity C games and five Independent C games.
Roger Hill collected 25 points as he led his ATO team to a 72-12 trouncing in Fraternity A play. High scorer for the SAE squad was Art Scott with five points. The SAE squad was out of the game most of the way, railing 33-5 at halftime.
Phi Kappa Psi downed Delta Upsilon in another one-sided Fraternity A game, 70-31. Bob McMichael and John Flanagan tied for top scoring honors, for the Phi Psi squad and for the game, with 14 points. Jim Holt scored 11 points for the losers. The first half of play was pretty even, ending in a 23-17 lead for the Phi Psi team. However, the DU's were held to 14 points in the second half while the hot Phi Psi hit for 47.
Lambda Chi Alpha downed Tau Kappa Epsilon 46-39 in the third Fraternity A contest. H. C. Palmer was high scorer for the Lambda Chi Alpha team and for the game, picking up 12 points. Lynn Anderson, Wayne Hogan and Phil McCollum all hit eight points to tie for top scoring on the losing side.
Brainard Pulls Phi Chis Through
In the only Independent A game of the evening the Oread squad lost to the Phi Chi eam, 37-41. After trailing, 9-15, at halftime the Phi Chi squad, on shooting by Bill
**Fraternity C:** Delta Tau Delat f12
26, Phi Delta Theta IV 24, Phi Kappa Psi SI IV 34, Delta Chi III 21, Alpha Tau Omega II 23, Delta Tau Delta II 16; Alpha Epsilon Pt I 28, Phi Delta Theta II 20.
Brainard hit for a total of 13 points, getting 10 of those in the final half. His total was high for the game.
Independent C: 1800's 55 Pokes, 26;
ASME 32, KHK 13; NROTC II 21,
HICKS 16; NROTIC I 1, 69ers 0 forfeit;
cisabs 1, Bed Seeds 0, forfeit.
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