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i r Friday, January 17, 1941 DAILY NEBRASKAN - CbumtL hi I i - S'm Evinger l It,J I What does it take to win basket ball tames? Well, you can prob ably delve deep Into the pages of the coaching annals for different answers. All well and good, but here's a better answer: THE FRKK THROW. Yes. that art of tossing the basketball through the hoop from the foul line has won and lost more tames thsn any of us can Imagine I'll give you some examples to bear out my point. In the past three conference games, the Okl noma Sooners have missed only six free throws out of 38 chances. 42 PERCENTAGE. That's 32 of 38 for a percentage of .842. The worst "offender" in the art of the Okies Is Center Hugh 'Ford. He has missed four of them (one was against sse braska but that didn't make any difference). In the Sooners' first Big Six game this year, the Aggies won in an overtime battle, 41-36. For i was the only Sooner failing to cash in on nine free throws. Against Kansas, the Sooners dumped in 14 out of 17 as the Jayhawkers lost, 42-31. Ford missed two in this mix and Allic Paine one. In beating Nebraska Monday night, the Sooners potted 10 out fof 12 to win 40-29. Ford and Gar nett Corbin both missed. Now we'll take the other side th? losers to Oklahoma. NEBRASKA FAILS. Kansas missed 10 out of 17 when the Jayhawkers lost to the Soon ers. Nebraska made 9 out of 21 when the Huskers played Okla homa. If the Huskers had not failed in those other 12 attempts, that would have been a one-point edge for the Scarlet cagers or a score not as decisive for the Sooners. Coach Eruce Drake of the Soon ers stresses his players to count from the free throw line. In fact. when he started practice this last fall. Drake had his candidates shooting 50 free throws each night, 100 SHOTS A NIGHT. He even went so far one night as to offer a necktie free to the player who hit 48 out of 50. For ward Dale Carlilc came through once and made the set figure. As the season wore on. Drake Increased the free throw practice to 75 per night. After defeating Kansas, Drake upped the ante to 100 each night in practice! The results have paid dividends as you can readily well see. So Drake plans to continue the prac tice of shooting gratis flips. Maybe ihe Huskers can take a lesson Trom the Sooners again. They took the first one last Monday night when the Sooners showed the basketballers how to toss free throws. Six gymnasts i i i carry Dm ioaa UN ivm team Depending on six gymnasts to carry him through seven major meets, Coach Charlie Miller, Ne braska gymnastic coach, is pre paring for the team's first meet on Feb. 8 with the University of Chicago there. In a meet each team enters three men in each event. There are five events in every meet, four of which are performed on apparatus, the other one is turn bling. This year Coach Miller will use six men with two or more enteral in several events. The six: Jake Gcier, two year letterman; Stan Southwick, one year letterman; Pete Kreischer, letterman; Ray Griffin, years experience; Guy Johnson, one letter, and Aim Pel cak, first year on team. The different events are the horizontal bar, parallel bars, fly ing rings, side horse and tumbling. In the horizontal bar event will be Southwick, Kreischer and Pel cak or Johnson. Performing on the parallel bars will be Krei scher, Johnson and Geier or Southwick. On the flying rings will be Geier, Kreischer and Griffin or Johnson while on the side horse will be Geier, Pelcak and John son. Griffin, Johnson and Krei scher and Southwick will do the tumbling in the meets. A recent addition to the equip ment that the gymnasts have available is a trampoline. Used for conditioning the trampoline is a piece of apparatus that resem bles a bed, having a piece of can vas attached to the outer frame by strong springs. "An interesting fact about this trampoline," Coach Miller pointed out, "is that more students come in to use it than those on the gymnastic team." A three minute workout on it is enough to tire the average person considerably, he also explained. In his opinion this year's team will be a good one and the coach considers that Minnesota will be the team that will be outstand ing in the Big Ten. The Big Ten has an organized conference in gymnastics but rse braska is the only team in the Dig Six to compete in this event There is a chance that next year another Big Six team will take up the sport and after that Coach Miller is hopeful that it will spread to the other schools. The schedule for this year: Feb. 8 Uni. of Chicago at Chi caeo. Feb. 20 UnL of Colorado at Lincoln. Feb. 27-Uni. of Colorado at Boulder. Feb. 28- Greeley State at Gree lev. Mar. 1 Rocky Mountain AAU championships at Greeley. Mar. 8 Uni. of Minnesota at Lincoln. Mar. 10 Illinois Normal univer sity at Lincoln. Revenge seeker . . . IHilliii Wrestling team sends four to NationalGuard New Classes Begin Feb. 3 You will get "'Right Now" re sults with our specialized busi ness training. Thorough preparation for Sec retarial, Accounting and Busi ness Administration. Write or Call Today! LINCOLN SCHOOL OF COMMERCE UN graduate discusses Ialin customs on air South American food and cloth ing customs will be explained by Mrs. Thomas Snipes, a graduate of Nebraska, who will be inter viewed over a statewide wireless i v ,' j" , ( ) ' X ; A 1 IT Pictured above is Larry Beau mont, star Kansas State for ward, who promises to be a fly in the ointment of the Huskers, Friday night, when the men. from Manhattan play host to the Husker cagers. Beaumont plans to be a big factor in re versing a Nebraska victory which the Scarlet escaped with last week by a 33-23 count. Dark Horse club impressive in 28-8 win nast Davis Hall M. By Bob Miller. Losing four wrestlers to the Na tional Guard, Jerry Adam, Husker wrestling coach, will have a Job ahead of him in the effort to round his team in shape before the first meet on Feb. 4. Floyd Ring, Eddie Schwartz kopf, Sam Salerno and Foster Schmidt were included in the Na tional Guard when the latter was mobilized and their places on the team will be hard to fill. Bob Burruss, Husker center, is reported to be considering com ing out in the light heavyweight division and his presence will strengthen the team. In the event he does come out his main opposition will be in the form of Bill Rumbolz. McConnell a help. Ed McConnell, letterman in the 128 pound division, has reported and will be able to wrestle in either the 128 or 135 pound divi sion as the need arises. In the 121 pound event Milton Kuska and Dick Terry are bat tling it out while McConnell has the 128 division in his power. Jack Debusk, Hub Rodman and Kenny Husemoller are the leading aspirants for the head position among the 155 pounders. Geoi; Cockle, letterman and Harold v.alkup are entered in the 145 pound event with Cockle hav ing the advantage. In the heavy weierht class Dick Peters. Bob Sauer and Herb Jackman are all scrapping for the first place spot. The vk Ulmg season, opening on Feb. - with an engagement with Kent university leads up to every college wrestler's goal, the National Collegiate meet at Le high university in Bethlehem, Penn.. on March 28 and 29. The (See WRESTLERS, page 4.) Husker cagers leave for same with K-Statc Kansas State and Nebraska will break the tic that binds them to night. Below the top teams in the Big Six, the Wildcats and the Huskerg have won a game apiece in the league race. The winner of that game at Manhatton, Ka M anhattan, Kas., tonight, will put the vic tor back in the conference cage running. The Wildcats beat Oklahoma and lost to Ne braska, while the Huskers have won from Kansas State and lost to the Sooners. Seniors Don Fitz, Al Randall and Junior Sid Held will lead the Huskers into battle Friday night. The other two positions will prob ably be filled by Sophomores John Thompson and John Fitigibbon. Heading the attack for the boys of Coach Jack Gardner will be Jack Horacek and Dan Howe. Tom Guy, Larry Beaumont and Norris Holstrom. Probable starters: N-brsKa Toa. K-SUt FitzRibhon Hor-k Thompson f Howe Rnndnll c Ouy Held E Holstrom KHz R Beaumont Officials Parke Carroll. Kansas City, ami K. C. QuiKloy, St. Marys Time of game - 7 30 p. m., Friday. Dark Horse, 1940 basketball champ, started right this year with a 28-8 win over Davis Hall, Tues day night. It was a grudge win for Dark Horse, as Davis Hail beat the former quintet in the volleyball finals last week. A well balanced offense clicked for the victors, as Bob Anderson bucketed seven points to lead the scoring. Scoring 16 points, Roger Leaf green led T. K. B. to victory over Ak-Sar-Ben by 23-11, while Don Waddick of the Heagy's Manor quint came through with 12 count ers to give his team a 30-6 win over Tappa Kegga. Tighter defensive play featured the Pioneer Co-op-Omega Club thriller, as Harold Sears scored all but two of his team's points for a' 14-11 Omega victory. In other games Tappa Nu Kegg beat Strat ford 11-9, Husker Inn outlasted the Boomerangs by 9-6. while A. E. I. and Husk's "U" Kolonels each doubled the score on their op ponents, A. C. B. C. and the Galloping Gosts, respectively. network radio on the Farm Facts and Fun program at 1 p. m. Sat urday. Mrs. Snipes has recently returned with her husband, also an alumnus of the university, from a three years stay in Brazil. .-y'-Vss". ( 4 n Dob HO Ftate Journal. Union college's library prizes a letter from John Blair, its first president, written in 1798 to a colleague in Virginia. 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