Wednesday, January 12, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
onirs
Five Goes
SouthThis
Week-end
Still smarting from the decisive
56 to 24 defeat administered by the
oiaer, more experienced Iowa State
Cyclones' last Saturday nieht.
Coach Ad Lewandowski's Huskers
settled down
this week to in
tensive practice
sessions in pre
p a r a t i o n for
trip this week 1 1 V
ena, wnen iney
meet Kansas IT
and the Okla
homa Snnnpri: II .-.:.
in their second
taste of Big Six
competition.
"We'll just ruin Lincoln Journal.
have to get a little tougher and
start driving harder this week,"
Lewandowski said before the
squad's Monday night practice ses
sion. "Those games coming up
on our trip this week end will be
rough, but we'll come back a bet
ter ball club and we'll know a
lot more about conference pros
pects." Lew Not Discouraged.
Lew seemed not at all discour
aged as he readied his boys for the
Sooners and the Jayhawks. With
Warren Eisenhart, lanky giard,
lost to the Air Corps, the Huskor
mentor was experimenting with a
new starting five, with Artman
and Dworak at the forwards, Nel
son and Tangeman holding the
guard positions, and Hollins play
ing the post. The second five had
Kuhlman and Rooney in the front
line, Leger at center, and Gaiter
and Johns in the guard spots.
Swigert, Mitchell, Baker, Frary,
and Johnson were running with
the third quintet.
Potter, Eisenhart, and Mickel,
all departing for the armed forces,
will be missed by the Scarlet.
Eisenhart, who employed his six
. foot plus frame to excellent ad
vantage in underbasket play, is
leaving a real gap in the Husker
defense by his departure, but Lew
feels that Bob Tangeman, who
showed to advantage against Iowa
State, will plug the hole adequate
ly. With the loss of these three
me.; the Husker squad shrinks to
15 players, a considerable drop
from the 23 with which Lew open
ed the season. No further service
calls are looked for in the near fu
ture, however, and Lewandowski
feels confident that the majority
of the 15 man squad will finish
out the season.
Face Tough Teams.
In clashing with K. U. on Satur
day and Oklahoma on Monday, the
Huskers will be facing two of the
top-notch teams of the conference.
The Jayhawks, despite their loss
to Missouri lsst Saturday, will be
a rough opponent, for Phog Al
len, year in and year out, produces
one of the top quintets in the midwest.
If Don Barrington, high scor
ing Jayhawk forward who was
shackled by a tight Missouri de
fense last Saturday, breaks loose
on one of his scoring sprees, the
Scarlet may bt in for a long eve
ning. The Monday night clash with
the Sooners should prove even
tougher, for Bruce Drake's young
squad has compiled an impressive
record to date, with a 61 to 28
rout of Kansas State hist Saturday
the latest conquest in their list.
Lewandowski will take a ten
man traveling squad, the person
nel of which will be announced
later in the week. The team will
leave Friday afternoon at 4:15 am!
will return to Lincoln sometime
Tuesday.
Second (Guessing
ioRPl
i
Harold W. Andersen .
Flay of Price lirookfield, naval trainee who sparked Iowa
State to a one-sided conquest of the Scarlet Saturday niht,
evoked much comment irom those who witnessed t lie con
test. IJrooki'ield, an nil-American in his college days at West
Texti3 State, rack up 18 markers and played a bang-up floor
game for the Cyclones. Fans marvelled at the big Cyclone's
style of shooting, nearly all one-banders, had very little arch.
Brookfield seemed to shoot the ball just high enough for it to
clear the rim of the basket and drop thru the hoop (which it
usually did). One of his efforts, a one-handed swisher which
he got from the corner as he fell backward into the laps of
the fans, looked just a bit like black magic. With Brookfield
in the contest, Jowa State was an unstoppable ball-club, but
when the1 big center retired to the sidelines after eight minutes
of the second half, the Cyclones lagged noticeably and were
played to a standstill by Nebraska for the remainder of the
game.
Despite Brookfield 's undeniable ability, we still think big
Ed Beisser, Creighton U. center of last year, a better all-around
pivot man.. Beisser lacked Brookfield s uncanny basket eye,
but he was a much smoother under-basket worker and had one
shot, a one-handed pivot toss, which was practically unstopp
able. Opposing: coaches started tearing- their hair in despair
when big Ed utilized his 6' 7" to dominate the play under both
baskets.
At least one Big Six school. Iowa Stafce, is retaining a full
. . i i i i a : , , 1..
program in swimming, wnicn nas ueen a war-iuuc chsujihj
here at Nebraska U. The tank-snort was, in pre-war years, one
of the most flourishing on the Husker athletic program. Iowa
State and Nebraska were usually the two top teams in the
conference and staged an annual battle for first-place honors
in the Big Six meet.
I.oih' leltermen on Coach Ed Weil's track squad is Dean
Kratz who placed for the Huskers in the half-mile run in last
vpar's Bii? S x outdoor championships, uean, noMeer, is ex
pecting a call within a month from the ti
whiskers (no, Mabel, not Santa Clans).
gent with the
Weir Issues First Track
Call for Varsity Squad
Hostlers Trim
Co. A Quintet
In 53-31 Win
Company B's intramural champs
lost no time in opening their bid
for the title in the second round
of league competition by taking
an easy one from a shaky aggre
gation from Company A, 53-31.
in the coliseum last night. Lt.
Heslei's team stretched their
string of victories to six in in
tramural play.
Bob Scheer, looking none the
worse for his furlough, led the
Hustlers' scoring spree, amassing
a total of 17 points. Olivera, A
Company's ace shot, vainly spark
ed his team with 13 tallies, 12 of
them scored on field goals in the
second half. B-man Bunny Ful
ler, runner-up for individual scor
ing honors in the first round
robin, produced ten markers,
Hustlers Never Threatened.
After the first few minutes, the
Hustlers were never threatened,
and incidentally showed that they
have a second-string live that can
hold its own in any competition.
in f ptal Co. B IB f PN
1 1 ;i .lessen If 2 1
1 3 Berwick
1 13 Suehy rf
Co. A
A ho It
Cli-ever
Ollvra rf
Plokett
Fallon
O'Reilly
Livingston c
Mallon Ik
Kennedy rg
Kemp
Juievlc
Tota Is
1 3 Baker
0 0 Kuller c
0 0 Larson
1 3 Scheer Ik
1 I Anson
1 3 Brady rg
0 2 Anderson
0 0 ti
12 7 311 Totals
22 9 53
Mark This Down for a Good Date
EIEETOf scinr
In a Concert of Humor and Satire
4:00 P. M., Sunday, Jan. 23
UNION UAIJJtOOM
NO CHARGE TO STUDENTS AND TRAINEES
Tigers Take Spot
In Big Six Loop
By Upsetting KU
High point of the opening week
of Big Six cage competition was
Missouri's upset of the favored
Kansas Jayhawks last Saturday at
Columbia.
With Iowa State romping over
Nebraska and Kansas State, and
Oklahoma also spanking the hap
less Wildcats, the rest of the
week's games ran strictly true to
form. The Jayhawks had taken
the Tigers into camp just the week
before, hence the general surprize
when the Tigers reversed the ta
bles. Conference games this week see
Nebraska clashing with K. U. at
Lawrence and Oklahoma entertain
ing the Missouri Tigers, both
games falling on Saturday night.
In the outstanding non-conferencf
tilts, Oklahoma meets Oklahoma
A. & M. at Stillwater on Wednes
day and Iowa State plays host to
Ottumwa Navy on Saturday.
Coach Ed Weir, Monday after
noon, issued a call for candidates
for the varsity squad, expressing
his confidence that there are many
boys in the university who have
the ability necessary to represent
the Huskers in intercollegiate competition.
' I feel certain," said Weir, "that
there are fellows in school who
have had track experience but feel
that their ability is too limited for
varsity competition. The truth of
the matter is that we want all the
candidates we can get, especially
those with track experience, how
ever limited It may be."
Weir emphasized the fact that
practice, including suiting-up and
dressing again after the work-out,
takes only an hour a day, from
5:00 to 6:00 p. m. "This should re
lieve the minds of those boys who
want to come out but feel that
their doing so would mean long
hours of practice," the coach
pointed out.
Former Huskers Speak.
Husker track stars of recent.
years who are now in the armed
forces praise their cinder competi
tion in college as a real asset to
them in their present military life,
according to Weir. Such stars as
Red Littler, Harold Hunt, Bill
Smutz, Herb Grote, Al Brown,
and little Bobby Ginn all Big Six
champions in their respective
events tell Ed in their frequent
letters how much their track train
ing at UN has helped them since
1
they hung up their spiked shoes
and donned uniforms.
"Every student who faces mili
tary service in the near futuie
should be whipping himself into
shape now," concluded Weir, "and
track provides excellent opportun
ity for such body building." I know
that there are boys in school who
can help us, and I'm equally cer
tain that we can help them."
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