iT&ars'day FeEruary IT. 1943
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Norris Anderson !;!;
(Sports Editor) !v
Eyes of the Cornhusker sport
ing public will focua within radius
of 400 miles Saturday night. Cen
ter of the radius naturally is our
Coliseum where the celebrated
Kansas Jayhawks collectively
hope to add Nebraska's scalp to
their Big Six victim chart.
Exterior of the radius is located
at" the village of Columbia, scene
of the Saturday eve Missouri-Nebraska
cinder opening. It is the
exterior of this radius that has
citizenry of these parts scratch
ing heads in puzzlement.
If your friends have come to
look upon you as sport-predicting
expert, here's a chance to cement
your position. Not even Ed Weir,
head Scarlet cinder tutor, knows
what to expect when his proteges
open the season against the well
balanced Mizzou squad.
A prodigious soph all-round per
former exploited enough stuff in
the opening Tiger duel to certify
additional strength, aside from
the talent already acknowledged.
Maurice Alexander, the gentle
man to whom we refer, shot over
the 60-yard highs in 7.5, the 60
yard lows in 7.0, and broad
jumped 23 feet, 2 inches just "for
exercise." Alexander s timber um
ings are downright phenominal
for early season. Utter lack of
veteran hurdle talent and avail
ability of only one new hurdler of
Big Six caliber suggests a pes
sible Husker shut-out in the tim
ber events
Mizzou's top pole-vaulter. Black
well, topped the bamboo at
12-8 Vi, four inches under Howard
Debus' top mark of last year.
Debus hasn't vaulted enough this
term to retain the form essential
for a 13-foot leap. Sophomore
Don James, yet to exhibit his
goods under fire, should aid De
bus.
Speedy enough to hit tape ahead
of Red Littler in both outdoor 100
and 220 yard dashes last spring,
Owen Joggerst should annex both
indoor titles this term. His tim
ing of 6.2 thus far this season
for the 60-yard sprint is equal
to the league record. Nebraska
has only Dick Petring (6.5) and
Howard Debus (6.8 on a clear
day) to compete with the mer
cury-geared Tiger.
Long-striding Al Brown should
tinge the 440 and 880 gallups with
Scarlet Al's 880 timing of 2 min
utes flat and his 51 second quarter
are superior to the Tiger middle-
distance performers.
We assigned our two sport
scribes to figure the results of
the affair and these unpatriotic
souls turned up with adverse fig
ures. One charting read: Mis
souri, 64; Nebraska, 42. Other
figures showed the Missourians
winning, 80-33.
Figures are against the Weir
men, to be sure, but so weren't
the prospects "uncertain" when
Littler, Gino, and that magnif
icent company were untried sophs.
Tomorrow in this space we'll dis
cuss the center of the radius, the
pending Husker-Jayhawk cage
tilt
Ray Wehde Tops
Cyclone Cagcrs
AMES, Iowa, Feb. 10. The 15
point splurge against Oklahoma
Monday gave Ray Wehde, Holstein
sophomore center, the scoring
leadership on the Iowa State col
lege basketball team. Wehde has
scored 72 points.
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. . Saturday
Two veteran Nebraska spike-
man, Howard Debus and smooth
running Al Brown will shoulder
the burden of the Cornhusker cin
der machine against Missouri Sat
urday, Ed Weir's tentative entry
list revealed yesterday.
Brown, geared to shatter the
Missouri quartcrmile record now
standing around the 52s mark,
will in the 60 yard sprint, the
halfmile arid the favorite 440 yard
grind.
Iron man, Howie Debus, Musky
footballer, will toss the shot, run
the 60, broad jump, and pole vault.
Debus is the vault favorite and
will be scheduled to score behind
Missouri's Aussicker and Husker
Vic Schlekh in the shot put.
Light Workout.
All was quiet on the Husker
front yesterday with the Scarlet
conditioning lightly for Saturday's
festivities.
One happy note came with the
announcement that Dick Petring,
a Doane transfer, might be around
come Saturday to add light to
U. N. cause in the sprint, broad
jump and high jump where Weir
finds his ranks badly depleted.
Petring hit over 6-feet in the high
jump at Doane and a return to
form would bolster the Huskers.
Fifteen Huskers were just about
all Headman Weir could rummage
for a traveling squad yesterday.
Uusually boasting a formidable
crop of hurdlers, the Husker head
man who has produced four con
secutive championship clubs found
himself weakest in the barrier de
partment with only one man avail
able for timber topping, Soph Lee
Christensen.
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Fran Hassler
Quits School
In Air Corps
Husker cage stock which of
late has been bouncing up and
down with the agility of a fly
weight wrestler, went down several
notches when Frannie Hassler, 6-2
handy man, and Owen Knutzen,
spoh forward, quit school. Both
cagers are enrolled in the Army
Air Corps and received their call
early this week.
Loss of Hassler particularly af
fects the Husker reserve strength.
A 6-2 performer on the Nebraska
squad is scarcer than cavier at
company mess and height will be
needed against Kansas Saturday
night
Mentor Lewandowski continued
to withhold his starting lineup.
Game captain, Johnny Thompson,
however, appears a cinch start at
one forward berth with either
John Fitzgibbon, John Botorff, or
Kenny Elson scrapping for the
other position.
Max Young may be moved to
a backcourt post to cover the
Jayhawk scoring powerhouse,
Charley Black. Fitzgibbon may
move into the other guard post
. . . To Olathe
LAWRENCE, Kans., Feb. 10
It took a little mite of steel to
prove to the remaining four mem
bers of the "Iron Man" five that
the University of Kansas basket
ball team could continue winning
games even though forced to play
without the services of one of
the nation's greatest stars.
The Kansans received a terrific
blow to their championship hopes
Wednesday when Charlie Black
was sent to the student hospital
with virus pneumonia. Black, who
was all-Big Six forward last year
as a sophomore, was the leading
scorer on the team as well as
the best rebounder in the Mis
souri Valley.
Against the Olathe Clippers
Wednesday night, Coach "Phog"
Allen broke a string of 15 con
secutive games in which the "Iron
Man" five had started and played
the majority of each. With Black
absent, Allen refused to use a
single regular during the entire
game and the substitutes dropped
a 10-point decision.
Typical Allen!
During that game the other four
regulars sat on the bench with
their coach and advised him con
cerning faults, technique, and sub
stitutions of the players on the
floor. Coach Allen maintains that
much benefit was derived by the
procedure which allowed the reg
ulars to sit on the bench for a
change and watch the mistakes of
other players.
Saturday night, however, was
a different matter as Black was
still missing but the other four
men had to get in and battle.
One other time during the sea
son had the Jayhawks played a
game realizing Black Was not
available and they nearly dropped
the contest to a weak Rockhurst
team.
Barb Cagers
Open Season
Barb basketball opened fire last
Monday evening with four games
being played at the coliseum. In
the evening's best game, the Blitz
Kids lived up to their name by
"blitzing" the ACBC's 20-10. The
Blitz front line composed of Bris
tel, Konkrite, and Schlesinger
were the big guns in the win with
each counting six points. Buil
made four for the losers, and
Rikli played an outstanding floor
game.
Madhouse-5; Volunteers-1.
Eckdale saved the Volunteers
from a complete whitewashing
when he cashed in on a gratis toss.
The outcome of the game found
the "S" Street Madhouse the vic
tors 5-1. Sloan led the winners
with three points.
Pioneer-6; Brown Palace-5.
By virtue of Hagel's field goal
in the waning minutes of the
game, the Pioneer Coop, overcame
a Brown Palace lead for a 6-5 win
over the Palace five.
Hagel's goal was the only one
registered from the field by the
winners.
Cornhuskers Fall.
Led by Peterson and KuTl, the
Sinfonia quintet raced by the
Cornhuskers 13-6. Both Peter'
son and Kull tipped in six points.
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Max Young's steady play over his three-year career as a Husker
stamp him as backbone of the current quintet. His fine defensive
performance should place him in the running when all-league se
lections are chosen next month.
Sure Thing!
BY GENE SHERMAN.
(Intramural Editor.)
Since this corner believes that
it has spent enough time discuss
ing the chances of teams in the in
teifraternity race, we thought we
should devote some space to the
fortunes of the Barb teams.
After seeing Monday evening's
play, we quickly came to the con
clusion that a two way race be
tween the Blitz Kids and the Stri
bonia quintet should develop.
We were very much impressed
by the play of the Blitz Kids
against the ACBC's. With Bristel,
Konkrite, and Jones forming the
nucleus, the "Blitzes" have an out
fit which would have more than
an even chance against the top
notch fraternity opposition.
The Sinfonia five (the name has
got the opposition stymied)
seemed to be a little slower in their
13-6 conquest of the Cornhuskers,
but they should be a pretty tough
team by the time they meet the
Blitz Kids.
Coming back to interfraternity
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play, we find that a large number
of varsity footballers were seen
doing their best for the Id house
team last Thursday. Roy Long
held down one of the Fiji guard
spots, Dale Bradley started for the
Sig Alphs, ends Geny Kathol and
Ed Nyden performed for the Delts,
Dwayne Domier and Bert Gissler
starred for the Beta Sig9, and Bob
McNutt turned out to be the big
man on the Sig Chi five. McNutt
came out of the evening's play
with the distinction of being tne
only man to leave a game via the
foul route what a thing for a so
ciety editor to be doing).
After the I-M scores appeared
in Sunday's edition, we noticed
that the Farm House-Sigma Chi
game had been omitted. To all
those fans who have been asking
us for the score here it is. Farm
House 14-Sigma Chi 11. We won t
let it happen again.
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