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KU's tradition carried into pro basketball
KU has a rich basketball tradition. The Jayhawks enter their 79th basketball season sporting a .679 winning percentage. Only the University of Kentucky has posted more victories through the years than the Jayhawks have.
To accomplish a record as successful as KU's, a university must be blessed with fine coaches and exceptional athletes. Kansas has known both.
What better man to start the tradition of basketball at KU than James Naismith, the inventor of the game himself? Oddly enough, Naismith, who coached for nine years, was the only losing head coach in Kansas basketball history, winning 54 and losing 66.
THE SECOND head coach at KU was W.
D. Hamilton.
Mention Kansas basketball, and the name of Forrest C. "Phog" Allen will invariably come up. Allen coached at KU 39 years, and won 218 losses for a 729 winning percentage.
DICK HARP, who followed Allen,
coached eight years.
Following in the footsteps of Naimish, Hamilton, Allen and Harp is Ted Owens, coach of the Chicago Cubs. Owens KU. Through his first 12 years, Owens has compiled a record of 223 wins
and 104 losses. Under Owens, Kansas teams have finished first in the conference five times and have gone to postseason tournaments (NCAA and NIT) seven times.
THESE FIVE coaches have coached many athletes who not only were stars at
By Eric Martincich
Sports Writer
KU, but who also went on to play professional ball.
Perhaps the biggest player in name and size to come out of KU was Wilt Chamberlain. An All-American in 1857 and 1958, Chamberlain went on to become the National Basketball Association's all-time leading scoring. Chamberlain poured in six NBA championships and led Philadelphia Warriors (later the 76ers) and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Chamberlin ranks fourth on KU's all-time scoring list. In only two seasons at KU, he scored 1,433 points and grabbed 77 rebounds, becoming the second leading all-time rebounder. In a game against Norton State in 1967, Chamberlin scored 52 points, a school record.
ANOTHER BIG name to come out of KU was Bill Bridges. Bridges was All-Arsenal, but he wasn't Arsenal.
received All-America honors his senior year. Bridges scored more than 1,000 points and grabbed more than 1,000 rebounds in his collegiate career, to become the all-time Big Eight leading rebounder, pulling down 1,081 rebounds.
Bridges signed with the Kansas City Steers of the old A.B.A. after he left KU. After the team folded, he played with the N.B.A.'s St. Louis Hawks, where he gained his fame. He played for the Hawks' organization for nine-and-a-half seasons before being traded to Philadelphia in 1971. He ended his career with the championship team that year, but Brides was chosen for the All-Star team three times in his professional career.
Another Jayhawk who went on to play professional ball is Wayne Highower. The eighth-ranked all-time score was 154,000 points, finishing with 1,128 points and 573 rebounds. He led the conference in scoring in 1960 with an 21.6 average. Selected two times to the All-Conference team, Highower played against the Warriors and the Baltimore Bullets.
Schnellbacher's memory keeps sports history alive
Otto Schnellenbacher, University of Kansas football and basketball great, says we doesn't think college football has changed that much since he played in the 1970s.
"Sure, the players are bigger and faster, but the philosophies used by coaches today aren't that much different from when we played."
Schellbacher, 52, was the last Big Eight athlete to get all-
year-round honors. She played for only one of a few athletics in history; to play professionally in both sports.
He was named to the Big Eight all-conference basketball team four times, an unprecedented feat in the Big Eight, and was an all-around star.
SCHNELBACHER played varsity football in 1942, '46 and '47 and basketball in 1943, '46, '47 an '48. Like many others of that era, his college career was interrupted for military service in World War II. He was captoconn of KU's 1947 Orange Bowl team with former KU coach Don Fambrough and was named to the All-America team that year.
Although Schnellbacher played offensive end for the KU football team, a position where catching the ball is often brought one more step forward, he brings one more thing into play — he brings one more
By Brent Anderson
by KU coach Bud Moore had proved to be the one used by the best teams.
Schellbauer was the Jayhawk's leading receiver all three years he played varaty football, and is KU's fourth leading career
The great emphasis on winning is another kind Schnellbacher thinks is related to big time college football.
"WINNING GETS to be an obsession for too many people," he said. "Sometimes it's as if nothing else matters. But I think winning really depends on whether a team happens to have a great player or two who can make the difference."
Another reason that winning becomes so important to people, especially alumni, Schnellbacher said, is that if they have contributed money to the athletic program, they expect some positive results.
"I don't necessarily think KU) alums care that much whether the team win," he said. "If they see some creative and exciting things, I think we should."
"If you go to a businessman and ask him for money for a football program, you're going to hear from him if you don't get any results. I don't think a coach who consistently has 3-8 seasons can survive at KU."
Schellnacher, a native of Sublette, was recruited by KU basketball coach Phog Allen for his team, but was coaxed into playing football, too. The teams he played on, Schellnacher said, are hard to compare with this year's KU football team.
"EVERY BALL team has its unique personalities and qualities,"
Otto Schnellbacher
he said, "Each one is different. Ray Evans, for example, could do everything —run, pass, track, block—but he might not be able to run the race."
Evans, another KU All-America football player, was a teammate of Schnebellchner in 1946 and 47. Evans also was on the All-America team in 1953.
Schnellbacher, who has attended almost all of the KU home games since he graduated, has been an insurance executive in Topeka for more than 30 years. Before he moved to Topeka, he played for the New York Yankees of the old All-America Conference for two years, then played two years for the New York giants. He was an all-around defensive back in 1949, '50 and '51.
He also played one year of pre basketball, the 1948-49 season, for the St. Louis Bombers of the NBA, a team now known as the Atlanta
Schnellbacher was inducted into the Kansas All Sports Hall of Fame in 1972, the 32nd Kansan to be so honored.
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WESLEY, AN All-America choice in 1966 was the No. 1 draft choice of the Cincinnati Royals (now the Kansas City Kings). He spent nine years in the N.B.A. playing for Philadelphia and Milwaukee before winding up his career with the Lakers.
Another name that students are probably familiar with is Jo Jo White. White has been with the Boston Celtics since he was drafted by them in the first round of the 1969 draft. White played at KU from 1968 to 1969, and American honors his junior and senior years.
White, who scored 1,286 points as a Jayhawk, played in the University Games and the Pan American Games in 1967 and was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1968.
"HE'S A GREAT all-round player." Owens said of White, one of his former players. "I think that he finally gained the confidence he served so much throughout his career."
One of White's teammates, Bruce Sloan, was noted for his defensive abilities. Graduated from KU in 1968, Sloan served in the Army two years and tried out for the Philadelphia 76ers, who released him. Sloan is the publicity director of the Kansas City Kings.
This is Sloan's fifth year with the Kings' organization.
ONE OF THE biggest names to come out of KU basketball in recent years is Bud
Stallworth, who led the Big Eight in scoring his senior year, is the third highest scorer in Jayhawk history. Many fans can recall his outstanding finish at KU in a game against Missouri in which he scored four goals and the most points scored in a conference game.
Ron Fanz was another KU player who joined the professional ranks. After graduation, Fanz played in the A.B.A. for a few years before he was now a housing contractor in Merseyside.
Stallworth, who was drafted by Seattle, was hit with injuries his second season there and put on the injured reserve list. The 28-year-old Stallworth was picked up in the expansion draft by the New Orleans Jazz before he begin his sixth season in the pros this fall.
DAVE ROBBSH, a member of the Inu-
tahua Careers, started his professional
career at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.
Bud Stallworth — New Orleans Jazz
A. B.A. Robisch is an All-America choice at Kansas in 1970 and 1971. In 1970, Robisch averaged 26.6 points a game to lead the conference in scoring. He is second only to Clyde Lovelieve in total scoring at Kansas and is the third leading rebounder behind Bridges and Robisch. Robisch was in a Big Eagle team in each of his last three years at KU.
Pierce Russell, who attended Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., had a brief career in the A.B.A., spending three years at Washington State University since retired and now lives in Kansas City.
Roger Brown, a teammate of Russell's and Robisch's, got his start with the Lakers, drifted around the A.B.A. and is now with the Detroit Pistons.
THE MOST recent addition to the pro ranks from KU is Norm Cook. Cook, a junior last year, decided to forego his senior year and sign with the Boston Celtics.
Owens said why he thought athletes at KU have gone on to star in the prox.
"We get talented recruits," he said. "We then teach them good fundamentals. The pros like this. They want complete ballplayers."
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