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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1962
By Steve Clark
Waiting round the corner is the selection of the all Big Eight basketball team. The league closes another season rather late this year, March 10.
Everybody and his brother will be picking an all Big Eight team, therefore this observer will join the throng. There will be much disagreement among the various selectors and we are anxiously awaiting to see the outcomes.
A BIG QUESTION that will face those selecting the team is whether to include both Jerry Gardner and Nolan Ellison on the first unit. If both make the first unit, it will be the first time in many years that a last-place club has placed two on the all-league first team.
From our corner we believe that both should be included in the first five. Let's face it, they are the best back-court duo in the nation. Give Colorado or Kansas State Gardner and Ellison and the two clubs would be unbeatable.
This acclaim is not only midwestern. St. Johns' coach Joe Lauchick said that Gardner and Ellison were the toughest guards his team had faced or expected to face. Arkansas' Glen Rose said the same thing.
The pair have been 1-2 in the Big Eight league and overall scoring races. We just can't see dropping one off the first unit so that two from the same school will not be represented. An all-league team has to be judged on merit, not what schools the players attend.
It appears to us that if one school has the best five boys in the league, then these five should make the all-league team. A similar situation is liable to arise next fall in football if KU keeps Bert Coan.
We would like to know how Big Eight scribes will keep Rodger McFarland, Ken Coleman, Gale Sayers and Coan off the all Big Eight backfield if all have years they are capable of having.
ADDING TO our all Big Eight five we would have to make another unforgivable sin and that is to include center Mike Wrobleski and forward Pat McKenzie, both from Kansas State, on the squad.
There is no one that will argue with Wroblewski, but McKenzie
could cause some debate. Our reason for picking him is the board strength he gives the Wildcats. McKenzie is a clutch player who can and does come up with the shot or the rebound that will pave the road to victory.
THE OTHER forward spot would go to Colorado's Ken Charlton. He has set a rapid scoring pace and one just can't afford to turn a 20-point scoring average off the team.
Second team picks would go to guards Gary Wheeler, Iowa State and Dick Ewy, Kansas State, center Tom Russell, Nebraska, and forwards Cecil Epperly, Oklahoma State and Wilky Gilmore, Colorado.
MORE JOTTINGS FROM YE FAMOUS OLE NOTE PAD: The decision on Bert Coan is just a few days away. The Big Eight conference members meet Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The conference eligibility of Coan will probably be decided at this meeting. The results will probably be announced at a press conference Friday afternoon or Saturday morning.
Tickets for the Big Eight indoor are on sale at the Allen Field House ticket office. This year's meet looks like a close one, and Kansas, while the pre-meet pick for first, will have to be at its best to add a second consecutive conference indoor title.
JIM BODINE was the KU gymnasts only first place winner in a meet Saturday in Robinson Gym. Bodine had quit the KU squad, but dropped in at the meet, and asked Coach Bob Lockwood if he could suit up. Lockwood said yes and Bodine took first on the parallel bars.
The Jayhawker swimming team leaves tomorrow for Ames, Iowa, where it seeks to defeat perennial conference champion Oklahoma. The Sooners seem a sure cinch for first on the strength of their win against the Jayhawkers earlier in the year.
Oh, yes! This next one is for our readers who are curious if we really have a note pad, or if the jottings are just random comments. Yes, readers, there is a note pad, a small white one to say the least.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Kansas State and Colorado Set for Championship Tilt
By United Press International
Kansas State and Colorado last night continued their streak to a showdown Saturday at Manhattan, Kan.
Kansas State rallied from a onepoint halftime lead to defeat Iowa State 69-54, and Colorado erased a four-point deficit in the final four minutes to whip Missouri 63-58.
COLORADO now is 11-0 in Big Eight conference play, and Kansas State is 10-1.
Jim Davis and Ken Charlton overcame the Missouri stall with 10 straight points to preserve Colorado's perfect conference record. Charlton and Wilky Gilmore each had 20 points for the victors, while Ray Bob Carev tallied 18 to pace Missouri.
KANSAS State forward Pat McKenzie, turning in the finest game of his career, scored 27 points and held Iowa State's Vinnie Brewer to two points as the Wildcats recorded their 20th win in 22 outings this season.
Iowa State hung close to Kansas State for the first half, but six quick field goals by the Wildcats at the outset of the second half blew the game wide open.
Scoring Guard
CINCINNATI — (UPI) — Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals was the National Basketball Association's highest scoring guard in the 1960-61 season, his rookie year, with a 30.5 average.
Dick Ewy had 13 points for Kansas State, while Marvin Straw scored 11 to lead Iowa State. Straw fouled out with 8:39 remaining in the game, and 6-10 center Bob Stoy of the Cyclones was sidelined with his fifth foul a minute later.
Kansas State's leading scorer for the season, 6-8 Mike Wroblewski was limited to six points on three field goals.
Applicants must write a letter stating their desire to serve on the committee. Students interested must also submit a record of their activities and their first semester grades. Grades must be verified by the registrar's office.
Freshmen who are interested in serving on the KU Relays Committee must submit applications by tomorrow.
Relays Committee Applications Due
Expected to carry a big load for the Kansas Jayhawkers' try for a second consecutive Big Eight indoor track title this weekend is middle-distance ace Bill Thornton, Bartlesville, Okla., senior.
Letters should be mailed to Stuart Barger or Neal McCoy, student cochairmen of the Relays Committee, track office, Allen Field House.
KU's Bill Thornton to Carry Big Load at Conference Meet
The Big Eight meet will be held on Friday and Saturday at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. Preliminaries will start Friday evening with the finals on Saturday.
Thornton will be handicapped this weekend because he has not been feeling good for the past two weeks. Coach Bill Easton sent the 6-0, 153-pound runner to the hospital after the 600-yard dash Friday.
Competition will be keen at the league meet. A star-studded field of Colorado's Charlie Heath, Missouri's Jim Baker and Greg Pelster, Oklahoma's Bob Wilcox and Oklahoma State's Charlie Strong could go to the starting post in the 600-yard dash.
Relays Committee selections will be made by Barger, Mccoy, track coach Bill Easton, and Edwin R. Elbel, professor of physical education. The committee is responsible for carrying out the administrative details of the KU Relays, which will be held April 20-21.
Heath posts the fastest time of the conference, a 1:11.1 effort. Thornton set a new Allen Field House record of 1:11.8 two weeks ago while defeating Baker and Wilcox.
Thornton's running style is unique and quite pleasing to spectators. He is a slow starter and usually falls far back in the pack as the runners fight for positions.
Thornton possesses strong endurance and a pair of long, powerful legs. He will reach his peak going into the stretch drive, when other runners are tiring. His come-from-behind victories thrill Jayhawker followers.
After the positions are established Thornton starts to make his moves. He is usually able to move into third place going into the last lap of the race.
Friday, Strong, in the KU-OSUKSU triangular, overcame Thornton who had passed him earlier, and outlasted the Jayhawker down the stretch.
A big question mark concerns Thornton's ability to fall far behind and then come back in the league meet as he does in duals and triangulars.
This is a question that Thornton himself is concerned with, and he is practicing and planning on starting faster this weekend.
Thornton will double in the 880-yard run, his outdoor specialty. He will be running behind captain Bill Dotson in that event. His fastest indoor time is 1:53.7 which he ran last year at the Chicago Daily News indoor meet.
Thornton transferred to KU from Coffeyville Junior College where he was the national junior college half-mile champion and runner-up in the national cross country meet.
His prep days were spent at Bartlesville, Okla., High School where he was a miler, his top effort being 4:38.
J. F.K. once tossed a long-winded State Department report right in the waste-basket. It was his reaction to the department's endless red tape. In this week's Post, you'll learn how the State Department is bogged down by paper pushing and committees. What Kennedy is doing to streamline the operation. And why one insider feels the situation is just about hopeless.
TOP HAND—Bill Thornton, KU middle distance runner, has his work cut out for him in the 600-yard dash at the Big Eight Indoor track meet at Kansas City, Mo., Friday and Saturday.
Ohio State, Cincinnati Leads Poll
NEW YORK — (UPI) — The defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes was the unanimous pick as the nation's No. 1 college basketball team for the second straight week today in the United Press International coaches' ratings.
The Buckeyes, whose only loss last season came in the final of the NCAA championships, drew the first-place vote of every one of the 35 coaches who comprise the UPI ratings board, polling a perfect score of 350 points. The coaches based their ratings on games played through last Saturday.
The Cincinnati Bearcats, second
every week of the season behind Ohio State, held their customary spot again this week, picking up even more strength for an unusually high number of 306 points. Thirty coaches named them No.2, three picked them for third and two named them fifth.
Kansas State, fourth a week ago, advanced a notch this week, swapping places with Kentucky. The K-State Wildcats received 250 points compared to 228 points for Kentucky.
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