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Jayhawks Give Sparky A 'Going-away' Present
By Steve Clark
It was apropos that Missouri Coach Sparky Stalcup should win his last game against the Kansas Jayhawkers, and that's what happened last night in Allen Field House as Coach Dick Harp's crew scrapped all the way, but fell behind in the final eight minutes of action to bow 79-66.
Meanwhile Coach Harp, whose Jayhawkers have lost two straight, has to look discouragingly to tomorrow night's encounter here with the fourth-ranked Kansas State Wildcats who shellshocked the Hawks at Manhattan 70-45.
Stalcup is retiring at the end of this season after coaching 27 years. 16 of them at the University of Missouri. Kansas has always been a menace to Stalcup as his teams have lost to the Jayhawkers 11 of the last 13 meetings. His record against Harp was 1-11 going into last night's contest.
Harp's first comment about the K-State game was "Is there any way we can cancel it."
THE KANSAS COACH leaned back in a straight chair in Trainer Dean Neumith's office after the game, and sipped a soft drink slowly. There was no despondence over his team's loss, just a resigned air that comes when a coach's team is outclassed by taller, more experienced foes, and is carrying a 5-10 season record.
BYGONES BECAME bygones as his 1961-62 Missouri Tigers gave their coach a going-away present from Allen Field House that was probably as dear to Stalcup as any birthday or Christmas gift he has received, namely a win over Kansas.
"what can I say," said Harp, "these kids are as fine a bunch of boys as I have ever associated with, and they give 100 per cent every game.
"Our major problem is getting a consistent effort and maintaining it. We played the first five minutes of the game real well, and the first 10 in the second half well, but the other
25 minutes we just didn't get the job done."
THE JAYHAWKERS started the game with the surge of a pent-up tornado as they quickly commanded a 12-4 lead at the end of the first five minutes. Nolen Ellison, who tied for top individual scoring honors with Missouri's Ken Doughty with 22 points, hit two quick jumpers, Jerry Gardner hit on a jumper and stole the ball for an easy lay-in, and Jim Dumas and Harry Gibson each contributed a basket to account for the Jayhawkers early scoring.
THE CRIMSON AND Blue were down, but not out, as they staved even with the Tigers until the final minute of the first half when Doughy connected on two free throws and a last-second jumper to give the Bengals a 43-7 halftime lead.
The Jayhawkers fought "tooth and toe-nail" to protect narrow one, two and three point margins, but succumbed to a strong Tiger comeback, falling behind 29-28 with over four minutes remaining.
Missouri fought back, led by Doughty and Lyle Houston, who was the Tigers' main scoring punch in the MU-KU encounter at Columbia, to narrow the margin to three points in the next five minutes, and tied up the Jayhawkers with 8:27 remaining in the first half.
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Coach Harp calls his squad a bunch of scrappers and that's what they are. Recovering from their last-minute first-half letdown the Jayhawks fought back to tie the Tigers 48-48 in the first six minutes of second-half action. The Jayhawkers even surged ahead to a 54-49 lead with 13 minutes left to play, but as Harp said, they couldn't maintain a consistent effort.
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Missouri rallied and tied the Jayhawks 58-58 with over eight minutes left, and then battered Kansas unmercifully in sweeping to a 71-62 margin with four minutes remaining.
Ellison, who had connected on five of eight field goals in the first half, was able to hit on only three out of nine in the second half. Gardner, who went into the game with a 20.5 average, was having an ultra-cold night hitting only six out of 22 shots.
GARDNER WAS cold in his shooting, but he played an outstanding game in setting up Ellison for easy buckets under the basket. The $5-11\frac{1}{2}$ senior stole the ball six times, deflected the ball four times, recovered two deflections and one jump ball, and forced one jump ball to set the Jayhawkers in scoring position numerous times.
Another Jayhawkter, Jim Dumas, 6-1 forward, rebounded phenomenally against his 6-5, 6-6 and 6-7 opposition. Dumas was the game's leading rebounder with 12. Every time he left the floor it seemed he was going into orbit. When he couldn't jump as high as his opponent, he would take the ball away when the opponent returned to the floor.
The Jayhawkers were not giving up, but they were down, and out!
Tiger Coach Wins First and Last, But None In-between
By Ben Marshall
"I might win the first game and the last game on the schedule, but damn few games in between," said Sparky Stalcup last night after his Missouri Tigers beat both the odds and the Kansas Jayhawkers, 79-66, at Lawrence.
"Doughty (Ken)," Stalcup said, "played everything well but defense." The MU mentor was referring to Doughty's sporadic job in containing Kansas backcourt ace Nolen Ellison, who pumped in 22 counters for the Hawkers.
Coach Stalcup, sipping a soft drink and puffing a cigarette, had nothing but praise for the KU guard combination of Ellison and Jerry Gardner.
"In my estimation," he said, "those two make the finest pair of guards this league has ever seen. They killed us all night long on the give-and-go."
Stalcup added that Gardner was extremely effective in setting the Hawker offense. "That boy's (Gardner's) passing was very sharp, and
he and Ellison work well together. Where we got in trouble was when we tried to switch on defense and try to cover them at the same time."
The congenial Tiger mentor had praise for KU forward Harry Gibson, who added nine counters to the Hawker cause. "Gibson hit a few, especially in the first half, that really put us down for awhile."
He said that the turning point in the game for Missouri came midway through the second half when the Jayhawkers enjoyed a 56-51 lead, their largest margin of that period. The Tigers then quickly erased the deficit and never trailed again.
Continuing, the MU coach predicted, "Dick (Harp) will play KState well, and Gibson could break loose on them. They (Kansas) had to play at Manhattan without him.
"Our boys were really high for this one," Stalcup said, "and they probably won't sleep all the way home." ___
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