Thursday. Feb. 22, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Jayhawks End Losing Streak
The last place Kansas Jayhawkers halted a seven-game losing streak as guards Jerry Gardner and Nolen Ellison scored 53 points in a 73-70 win over the fourth-place Nebraska Cornhuskers last night at Lincoln.
The losing skein which saw the Jayhawkers go winless since their Jan. 13 victory over Missouri at Columbia, was three short of the school's longest losing streak, 10 consecutive losses which occurred in 1948.
Even though victorious, the Jayhawkers remained one-half game out of last place. The Jayhawks' record stands 2-8. MU has a 2-7
Kansas' Freshman basketball team shoots for a clean sweep over arch rival, Kansas State, tonight at 7:30.
KU Frosh Meet K-State Tonight
Coach Ted Owens hopes to have the services of Dick Rugles, 5-11 guard from LaGrange, Ill., who missed the first game last week because of a lame knee. However, he'll send up the same lineup that scored a 69-49 win at Manhattan behind George Unseld's 35-point explosion.
The Wildcats come in 1-1, having beaten Nebraska 65-46 earlier. The victory at Manhattan is KU's only start to date.
"If we're complacent over that game we'll get beat," Owens said. "We beat them at Manhattan a year ago, then lost here, you'll remember."
PROBABLE STARTERS
Kansas State Freshmen
Larry Cohan (6-2) — F
Steve Rogers (6-3) — F
Herb Graves (6-5) — C
Bob McConnell (6-0) — G
Sam Robinson (6-0) — G
Kansas Freshmen
David Brill (6-5) — F
Mike Shinn (6-5) — F
George Unseld (6-7) — C
Wayne Loving (5-11) — G
Dave Schichtle (6-2) — G
Charlie Conerly Gives Up Football
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Charley Conerly, one of the National Football League's top passers and quarterbacks for the last 14 years, has decided he's chucked his last pass.
Conerly, 42, announced yesterday that he is retiring after a career during which he threw 173 touchdown passes and led the New York Giants to four Eastern Division championships.
"Football got tougher every year," said the greying ex-University of Mississippi All-America. "And I mean mentally as well as physically. You lose something every year. The other players on the club took pretty good care of me the last few years so I wasn't bumped around much but it was tough to get set mentally for so many games."
Conerley has a 225-acre cotton farm near Clarksdale, Miss., and is an advertising model for newspaper, magazine and television layouts.
"Td like to stay in football or in sports but I'm not interested in coaching as a career or in reporting games on radio or TV," he said.
Conerly joined the Giants in 1948 and in his rookie season threw 22 touchdown passes. In 14 seasons, he completed 1,418 of 2,833 attempts for 173 touchdowns and 19,488 yards.
Switch
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Pete Hall of the New York Giants is one of many players asked to try another position in professional football than the one trained for in the collegiate ranks. Hall came to New York as a quarterback from Marquette but was forced to switch to end.
NEW YORK — (UPI)—Despite his acknowledged hitting ability, veteran catcher-outfielder Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees has never led the American League in a single offensive department for a season.
Yogi
record and Oklahoma State a 3-7 mark. Saturday night, Kansas will face Oklahoma State which defeated them 72-68 at Stillwater 10 days ago.
THE STORY of the Jav Hawkes' win rested in Gardner and Ellison's scoring production, and clutch shooting late in the second half by forward Carl Deane.
Gardner's 30 points was his personal high. The senior scored 20 points in the first half. His previous high was 29.
Less than a minute earlier, Deane, who replaced Ellison who fouled out with 1:29 remaining, stepped to the free throw line with the same 1-1 situation to protect a KU 57-64 lead. Deane, who has been used sparingly this year, connected on both shots to put the Jayhawkers in front 69-64.
Dumas, after being held scoreless the first half, scored 10 points in the second half, eight of them coming in the last seven-and-a-half minutes of play.
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DUMAS MADE both shots giving the Jayhawkers a more comfortable three-point margin.
With 15 seconds remaining in the game Dumas was fouled by Chuck Sladovnik and stepped to the line with a 1-1 situation, and the score KU 69, NU 68.
Tom Russell was the big show for the Cornhuskers. Russell set a new school scoring record with 38 points. The 6-7 senior scored 22 points of his total in spearheading the Cornhuskers's second half bid to defeat the Jayhawkers.
THE JAYHAWKERS built an 11-point lead in the first seven minutes, of the game. Leading the Kansans' first half assault was Gardner, Elison, and center Lee Flachbarth.
Nebraska led only once during the ball game, 2-1 in the first minute of play. The game was tied twice, once with two-and-a-half minutes elapsed in the first half, and the other two times with less than seven-and-a-half minutes to play in
The Jayhawkers led at halftime
NEW RECORD — Nebraska's Tom Russell set a new UM school record against the Jayhawkers last night by scoring 38 points.
40-29, but this meant little, especially since KU blew a 14-point halftime lead over the Oklahoma Sooners Monday night.
NEBRASKA COACH Jerry Bush started an all-sophomore lineup with the exception of senior center Russell. As the Cornhuskers quickly fell behind, Bush inserted seniors Rex Swett and Bill Bowers, and junior Ivan Grupe who sparked the Cornhuskers' second half drive.
The Cornhuskers whittled away at the Jayhawkers' margin and narrowed it to three points with 10 minutes remaining to play. Gardner and Ellison were unable to hit and the Jayhawkers scored only 13 points in this period to Nebraska's 21.
Phi Gamma Delta and Vice won Intramural "B" championships in the fraternity and independent basketball divisions.
REBOUNDER — Ivan Gruppe, 6-5,
226-pound junior, was the game's
top rebounder last night at Lincoln.
Grupe pulled 13 rebounds off
the boards.
Intramural Teams Win League Titles
The Cowards won the Independent C division title. They defeated PiR2 33-16. Bill Gamm scored 22 for the winners, Bob Haneman, eight for the losers.
Phi Gamma Delta defeated Delta Upsilon 22-15. Steve Wickliff was high point man for the winners with 15 points. Lynn Mitchelson scored seven for the losers.
Beta Theta Pi and Phi Gamma Delta advanced to the finals of the Fraternity C division, Beta Theta Pi defeated Phi Kappa Psi 37-19. Phi Gamma Delta defeated Beta Theta Pi #2 29-24. John Bumgarner of Phi Gamma Delta and Mick Pivonka of Beta Theta Pi #2 scored 13 points.
Vice defeated MBA 49-40. John Fuerst scored 21 points for the winners, Rowland Nofsinger scored 16 for the losers.
By Steve Clark
The Jayhawkner dressing room was all smiles after the Nebraska game last night. It was the first time in a month-and-a-half that this atmosphere had prevailed in the KU locker room.
Last time was on Jan. 13 at Columbia, Mo., when the Jayhawkers defeated Missouri 65-54. In the seven games between the Missouri and Nebraska victories there would be a gloom in the KU locker room that couldn't be cut with a knife. But last night it was all smiles.
"THIS IS GOING to serve as an impetus to beat Colorado," said guard Nolen Ellison. "They shouldn't have beaten us Saturday and we're going to avenge that defeat. We're going to beat Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and win the rest of our games."
"Colorado's going to be tired after playing Kansas State and we'll get them out there," Ellison continued. (Kansas State and Colorado play at Manhattan on March 3. Kansas plays Colorado in Boulder on March 10.)
Ellison further predicted that Kansas State would defeat Colorado and that the Buffalooses would be down for the KU contest.
THE LAST TIME we saw forward Jim Dumas as happy as he was last night, was at Columbia. The 6-1 forward who contributed to the Jayhawkers' victory in the clutch, said, "It feels great to win. It's been a long time."
Fraternity brothers Jerry Gardner and Lee Flachsbarth were discussing the victory in a corner of the locker room. "You were sure putting them in tonight, Fox," Flachsbath said to Gardner.
PROBABLY THE MOST happy of all was Coach Dick Harp. The word around Allen Field House after Monday's loss to the Oklahoma Sooners was that the coach was really despondent.
"Yea, in the first half," replied Gardner. "I couldn't hit anything in the second half. I was putting up the same shots, but they weren't going in."
Harp hates to lose, but he takes losing reasonably well. Unlike many coaches he does not throw turtrants, but meets reporters after the game in a congenial manner. Tonight the coach carried his same congenial air, but there was an air of relief also. A relief that the Jayhawkers' would not set a new school record in consecutive games lost.
Harp commended the efforts of Gardner and Ellison, and the clutch play of Dumas and Carl Deane.
HE WAS STILL PERTURBED over the fifth foul called on Ellison. Ellison said he did not touch the
man and from the press gallery this was apparent.
The foul came with 1:29 remaining and Deane subbed for Ellison capably.
What could have been the best feature story of the basketball campaign was eliminated last night. The feature arose from the Jayhawker's last win at Missouri.
WHILE AT COLUMBIA, Coach Harp ripped his only pair of pants. He was going to buy a pair, but KU Sporas Network announcer Tom Hedrick loaned Harp a pair. KU won that night and Hedrick termed the pants "lucky pants."
Hedrick was going to have Harp wear the pants last night, but the announcer and his contingent did not arrive in Lincoln until about 45 minutes before the game. So the coach wore his own pants, KU won the game and a good feature story went down the drain.
For Jayhawker fans who follow the out-of-town games by radio, the Kansas Sports Network is now able to be heard in Lawrence. Station KJAY, 1440, Topeka, has boosted its power so the games can be heard here.
PREVIOUSLY THE STATION'S power output was not high enough for clear reception of the Jayhawker's game. The station now has a power output of 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts at night.
Tonight the network will carry the KU Freshmen-Kansas State Freshmen. KU won 69-49 at Manhattan, but Coach Ted Owens is extremely worried about tonight's game.
He expects the Wildcat freshmen to throw a zone defense against the Hawks and has been working his squad on a zone offense this week.
K-STATE freshman coach Ernie Barrett referred to KU's 6-7 freshman center George Unseld as "another in a long line of great Kansas centers," so if you haven't seen the frosh play, tonight's a good opportunity.
Saturday the Freshmen meet the nation's number one junior college team, the Coffeyville Red Ravens. The Red Ravens have defeated freshmen teams from Oklahoma State, Wichita and Tulsa and have an undefeated record.
Friday night Coach Bill Easton's indoor track squad meets Oklahoma State and Kansas State.
This is the last meet for the Jayhawkers before the Big Eight indoor meet March 2 and 3 at Kansas City. Earl Falkenstein announces that tickets are on sale at the Field House ticket office.
The Big Eight indoor is something to see. It has been said that "once you see a Big Eight indoor meet you'll never miss one."
Basketball Tonight!
K.U. FROSH VS.K-STATE FROSH
7:30 p.m.
(ALLEN FIELD HOUSE)
Talented Hawklets will be shooting for two in a row over the Kittens.
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