KU faces NU on road in 'must' game
An up-and-coming KU basketball team will be looking for its first conference road win of the season when the Jayhawks square-off against Nebraska Saturday night in Lincoln.
The 7:30 encounter will mark the season's second meeting of the two clubs. Joe Cipriano's Cornhuskers tripped the 'Hawks, 78-73, in the consolation finals of the Big Eight pre-season tourney.
But things have changed since that initial contest in Kansas City. The Jayhawks, on the strength of Dave Robisch's outstanding play, put together back-to-back victories over Colorado and Oklahoma to bring their conference mark to 3-2 and now stand 12-5 in overall play. Meanwhile, the Cornhuskers were thrashed 81-58 by Oklahoma State and dropped to a 2-3 record in conference play.
To make matters worse, Nebraska's conference title hopes were dealt a serious blow when three "Husker standouts" were
recently ruled scholastically ineligible for second semester play. The book casualties—Marvin Stuart, Cliff Moller and Jim Brooks—were all being counted on by Cipriano to give Nebraska
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guidance down the tough conference stretch run. Stewart was the team's second leading scorer with a 13.7 average and Moller was the key to the Cornhusker's dangerous full-court press. Brooks finished last season's campaign with an 11.9 scoring production, but was forced out of the starting line-up this season by sophomore flash Chuck Jura.
Tom Scantlebury, 6-2 senior playmaker, will direct Nebras-
ka's depleted forces against the Hawks. Scantlebury, a dangerous outside threat, tops Nebraska in scoring with a 14.8 point per game average. Joining Scantlebury in the backcourt is Al Nissen, a surprising soph who is currently hitting at a 50 per cent clip from the field.
Nebraska's front-line of Leroy Chalk, Bob Cratopp and Jura promises to give the Jayhawks a rough time on the boards. Chalk is currently fifth in conference rebounding and has pulled down an average of 11 rebounds a contest. Jura, another of Nebraska's excellent sophomores, has found the range on 55 per cent of his field shots, second in the conference behind K-State's David Hall.
Others expected to see considerable action in Saturday's tilt are Sam Martin, senior guard, and Ken Cauble, 6-5 defensive ace who doubles as a high-jumper on the track team.
Winning, trophies are end result as intramurals are 'too' competitive
By STEVE SHRIVER Assistant Sports Editor
The intramural program has lost some of its flavor. It seems amazing that this can be attributed partly to the increase in competition between intramural teams.
Another ironical fact is that Bob Lockwood, coordinator of the men's intramural program, cannot be held responsible for the decay of intramural athletics. Lockwood has significantly improved the program in his six years at KU, adding football playoffs, extra trophies and generating more enthusiasm into the program.
Rather the problem seems to lie with the intramural participants themselves. The competition may be too stiff, if that is possible. Too many teams and too many players are taking the intramural program too seriously. They enter and play with one thought in mind—to win a trophy and gain prestige.
The trophies and prestige associated with winning are not the idealistic end results of the intramurals. Perhaps we have
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lost the original purpose of intramurals. They are designed and offered by the university as a means of letting off steam, of playing for the sake of playing and for just plain fun.
What so many intramural athletes are missing out on, is the fun. They attach too much importance to winning and take the game too seriously. The intramurals are not designed to follow the example of professional, or even intercollegiate athletics. They are designed for the students and since it is the student's program, the students are the ones who make the program a success.
If more intramural athletes could take a different attitude toward the program, they could undoubtedly benefit more from it. They could reap the benefits
Swimmers meet
The University of Kansas swimming team will return to action Saturday night at 7:30 when it hosts Iowa State in a dual meet at Robinson gymnasium.
of the original intention of the intramural department—to play for fun.
Losing is not so bad if you have fun at it and, after all, everybody loses something, sometime. Winning could be more fun (if you had fun at it) and a trophy could be an added reward, instead of an end in itself.
more Bud Stallworth. Russell, playing spectacularly in recent games, hit a shot at the buzzer to push the 'Hawks to a 75-73 win over defending conference champ Colorado. Russell is second in rebounding for KU (9.9) and is the club's third leading scorer with a 13.5 mark. Stallworth follows Robisch in scoring with a respectable 15.5 average.
The Jayhawks' sophomore guard combination of Bob Kivisto and Aubrey Nash round-out the starting quintet.
The Captain's Table is now open until 2:30 in the dim, dark morning.
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KU's Dave Robisch, boasting without a doubt the best three-game combined scoring and rebounding spurt in the history of the conference, once again leads the Jayhawks into battle. The 6-9 junior pivot is currently averaging 30.4 points and 16.4 rebounds a game in conference action and is rapidly approaching a new single season conference scoring mark.
Affording strong scoring support are his front-line counterparts, Pierre Russell and sopho-
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