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Friday, January 17, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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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