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THE NEBRASKAN Friday, January 12, 1945 Minnesota Lad Makes Varsity Despite Height MINNEAPOLIS. Ray Chris tesen, Minnesota's hustling little tow-headed f rosh basketball guard, may have to weigh-in with both socks on and wringing wet to hit 150 pounds but all opponents will find "it wise to smile broadly if they choose to call him "shrimp." Midget of the rangiest squad In Minnesota s basketball history at a leet 8 inches, "Christy was nearly lost in a towering forest of players when he reported for basketball in October. Only 17. The 17 year old freshman won the approving eye of Dr. Carl Nordly with his scrap and propen sity for learning. When Veteran Matt Suttcn suffered recurrence of a football leg injury in the third game of the season, against age freshmen; and six have civil- the Iowa Seahawks, Christesen Man status. Bierman Takes Sooner Cinder Squad Returns Five Lettermen Over Old Duty MINNEAPOLIS. Bernie Bier- man will return on Jan. 17 to the head coaching role at the Univer sity of Minnesota where he pro duced the nation's outstanding collegiate football record in the 10-year period before he left for active duty with the marine corps in 1941. On the third Wednesday of the month Bierman, who has pro duced more national champion ship teams five than any other living football coach, will as semble in the field house at the University of Minnesota a squad of indefinite possibilities. 15 Navy Players. Of the 33 lettermen from the 1944 squad which was coached by ur. ueorge iiauser, is are en rowed in the navys V-12 pro gram; one is a N.R.O.T.C. cadet; six are seniors; five were under moved up on the list of guards. isy ine time tne tJophers were ready to take on Iowa in their conference opener last week at Iowa City, dynamic Ray was paired with Senior Eutzy Lehr man at a regular guard position. The ability of the St. Paul boy to give-and-take in the most These figures indicate that the Gopher outlook for 1945 hinges to a large degree on the futue of the V-12 athletes, who may or may not be in school at Minnesota next fall. Six Civilians. The six civilians on whom Bier- rugeed troine aeainst advors.nri; man ,s counting for 1945 duty who dwarf him is no siimriw fnH1' Guards John Kutscheid and those who saw him perform as aniFred Madson; Bill Marcotte, end all-city halfback at Murray high in St. Paul. There he won six let ters two each in football, bas ketball, and baseball. NORMAN, Okl. With five let termen returning, Coach John Ja cobs University of Oklahoma in door track and field squad has been practicing since December 1. Clarence Vicklund, Big Six out door mile and two-mile champ: Dave Day, Oklahoma AAU 400 meters king; Bill Wilson, pole- vaultcr; Bill Sylvester, quarter miler and Jack Coe, quartcr miler are all back. Lose Heard. However the Oklahomans have lost Charley Heard, their high point scorer of last year, because of an operation for correction of football injury to his ankle. The Sooners have also bidden goodbye to such Oklahoma high school talent, recently enrolled but since departed to military calls, as J. D. Cole of Shawnee, Oklahoma interscholastic hurdles record-holder; Eldon Ferguson of lulsa Central, state interscholas tic crosscountry and class A mile and 880 champion; Ivan Evans of Putnam City, Oklahoma inter scholastic 440 champ the last two years; Bill Waters, Oklahoma City Capitol Hill, state shot put champ; Laddie Harp of Fairview. state high school B 100 and 220 king; Winston Hudson of Healdton. BBencIa Wamaiiag Dick Dihaver 12 losses, and 5 ties. Last summer he took a job at the Minnesota Slate Fair grounds as a laborer so that he might 'totmhen up' enough for college athletics. He passed up football at Minnesota to concentrate on stud ies and early basketball practices. Now, together with his high school pal, Joe Knoblauch, with whom he played three years of basket ball and football, he is a Min nesota basketball fixture. Youngeste Starter. . The Gophers' candidate for "yourgest basketball starter in flir, T) -1 T,,., I ... l. , n ii-c uis iin uk wuni ue 10 un-roc o? mi ; T lo ,, . OJ, "U, ' " Powerhouse fciuitviuiii n i ctLuiiu uuat, plans lO take a hand at conference base- baa before Uncle Sam beckons. state class B 880 chamn. Bob Wil- Hudson Mcalv, fullback: and,1,ams ol "eatherford and others. Halfbacks Johnny Lundquist and uiners ineligible. Matthew Nolan. Also Jacobs apperently will When Bierman picks up thejlose Realise of poor grades some reigns on the 17th he will be'promisin nin school boys who starting his 11th season as head !rreccntl-v came in via Navy V-12. coach at Minnesota, his alma'Jack Osborn, navy trainee who mater. In his ten years at the helm was ount in the Big Six out between 1932 and 1941 he nut his door two-mile last year, has an Maroon and Gold elevens at the!noiinced ne not report for top of the National football pic-irack- Basil Sharp, rangy hurd ture with a record of 63 victories. ler"spnn,er from Pawnee, hasn't Gather around all ye people, feast your eyes with the pound ings of our typewriter. Wouldn't it be a shame if you were to miss what will probably be the last of Bench Warmings for many a moon. Yes, we know it wouldn't. But come second semester or high water, we'll soon be bound for the Great Lakes or other points of naval training to launch a new career that of a gob. Thanks to all the loyal readers, loyal meaning that they at least read the column once, for taking time from your cramming and coking to look into the inner pages of The Nebraskan and find out how the alma mater had fared in her contests of football and basketball or to see if Gamma Zeta Nix had won in her intra mural ventures against another Greek team. Tho the women in the Rag office would slit your throats if they had a chance and always de mand a coke if they have to re write a head of ours. It's still been fun getting into the games on a press card and then coming back to the inner sanctum to pound out a story to all the read ers of The Nebraskan. It's been worth all the eigaret- mooching of Pat Chamberlin and Les Glotfelty just to write to our heart's content or should we say to the content of Andy and Goody. But enough of the dilly-dally. Glad to have been here. See you after the war. Let's get to our business, the sport's world. Wednesday night the Lincoln Air Base Wings and Patterson Field Air Tec provided Nebraska basketball fans with a nice game of courtplay, nice being spelled sensational. Two happy thoughts exist from the contest. The Wings won and Coach "Chuck" Taylor of the Air Tecs is asking for a re-match on the Nebraska court. This should satisfy anybody and everybody. The Air Tecs get another chance at the Wings, the Wings get an other chance to prove the Air Tecs the first time wasn't a mis take and Joe Fan should get to see another wow of a ball game. Professional football along with its colleagues, pro basketball, pro baseball, and other play for nay games have been in the spotlight recently as to whether the boys who play the games should be made to go into defense work of the armed services. No definite stand has been made of the issue. In Six Championships. this time the cacv 'Silver reported yet because of a football injury. The green Sooner squad of 30 men now reporting includes Max Fox" produced six Big Ten cham- Culver, Muskogee: Virgil Grene, Barnhnrt. Fiitramurals Get Started on Court The whistle was blown to in- nions 1934. '35 ftipH with DhirO Howard n.nlr fliff 37, '38, '40, '41 and four undis- i Howard Hopps. jr., and Bill Kin-Coop- 21"8 Beta Tneta Pi nipped puted National titlists in 1934.khelo all of Oklahoma Citv: Bill'lhe Pm Gams ln a close one b? court and that because of their short stature, the Oklahoma play ers must stand farther away from the goal. And yet the Sooners have been guilty of some very poor charity tramural basketball Tuesday night shooting this season. They hit only with first competition beginning 18 of 37 free tosses for 48.6 per then. cent in their three All College The Brown Palace quintet had 'tournament games against Texas comparative ease as they took one Tech, Arkansas and Rice at Okla- of the openers from Cornhusker Terry Sooner Quint Is Not Tall Enough NORMAN, Okla., Jan. 11 Out rebounded by both Kansas State and Nebraska and suffering a costly one-point defeat to the for mer team, the University of Okla homa's Roundball Runts were lag ging a full game behind Iowa State and Kansas as the Big Six' conic: er.ee basketball race went into its second week. Averaging only 5 feet 10 inches thru their starting five, which plays most of each game, Coach Bruce Drake's short-s t a t u r e d booners will try to find them selves during a long home stand that finds them meeting four con secutive Big Six foes before home crowos. Runts vs. Huskers. The Runts will dash wi'h Ne braska Saturday at Oklahoma City's Municipal Auditorium, with Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's Kansas Jayhawkers here January 20, with recognition country. His undefeated 1940 binder. Ridge Farm, III.: received extensive! anliuskirk, Kansas Citv; John as top team in the'Dempsey, Limestone, N. Y.; Stev len Little, Carmcl. Calif.: Tom Bump, Waterloo, Iowa; Donald a 24-21 score. Two games were to be played Thursday night to complete the week schedule. Next week on Tuesdav iiight. Kappa Sigs and Beta Sigs will battle it out along with a contest between the Sigma Nu and Sigma Chi quintets. Zeta Beta Tau will meet Theta greatest opportunity to achieve .Keys and B;on McBride of Wichi this all-important possession. jta. Kas.; Frank Leach, Lexington, This is proved in Oklahoma's Ky.; Homer Sparkman, Anadar teairf statistics to date. In their 11 ,ko; Dan Hat lev. Havworth III games this campaign, the Runts Claude Martin. ElvH.i m-iin .Tnhn have relinquished the ball to their Uphoff. Los Anprles; Joe Richard-!Xi Thursday night with Pioneer coniDinea opponents times on son. Sherman, Tex.; Bob Collins,lLo"P anfi the big Alphs provid rebounds, 109 times on errors, 54 U'ilkinsbtirg. Pa.; Marvin ColeJ'nS the second game of the eve times on jump balls and 24 times Flippin. Ark.: Herman Johnson ning on the coliseum floor, on violations. jOakland, Calif.; Jim Robinson'! A11 Karnes start at 7:30. Equip. wnn uicir smallest starting five (jouid: and Fred Hawley, Pasa-:ment cage will be open at 7:00 in years, UKianoma is nearly al- dena, Calif. ajs out-reDounoed and to win must compensate for it with good ball-handling, shooting, guarding and tactics, a whaling big order, Goose Tatum's 15 Points a Game Is Tops (Cfur'my Bomb Bay Vw r.p rl Maintaining their average of 63 points a game, the Wings have homa City late in December. Drake Means Business. Drake has always emphasized good free-throwing. Last year his Big Six co-champs hit 105 of 150 free throws in their 10 conference games for an average of exactly 70 percent, very good. The Soon ers bucketed 15 of 17 against Kan sas, 18 of 24 against Missouri and 9 of 10 against Kansas State. Ken neth Pryor, all Big Six freshman forward, hit 17 of 21 in league play, Allie Paine 28 of 35, Grover Ramsey 22 of 28 and Jack Landon 19 of 26. Best Xite in 1943. Oklahoma's best night in 1943 was 13 of 14 against Kansas State and 19 of 23 against the Norman Navy Zoomers. In 1942 the Soon ers hit 11 of 13 against the Okla homa Aggies, 15 of 16 against Kansas and 18 of 21 against Mis souri. In 1941 the Sooners cashed 8 of 9 against Kansas State at Chancellor C. S. Boucher left x-nt,,,,., T. , , Manhattan, 12 of 14 against Iowa . . - -i ii jii.n.. itKii . i ,i it . . . Lincoln Tuesday night to attend When the University of Oklahoma ! Mate and 14 of 17 a6ainst Kansas, a meeting in Washincton. D C "n,e" ' A1?, r uCr! y:'Ur,ahoma In 1940 Drake's team set a Biff k ...,; ' 7. -.urfsnciuuu iim siuiceo. ii con- c; .. a , w.i. t.ccuinc IUIIUIHUI.-C oi me secutive free throws thru the . JUI n.niic uy nu Association of Land-Grant Col- fLi-!, P ig all ten of their free throw: he Boucher A 1 tends Land-Grant Meet Charily Shots No Trouble for OU coin Tuesday, Jan. 16. .i u,6C -msouri SCored 945 points in the 15 bas- (Conti Tigers here Januarv 2C and withii.vu T j... I lLO"u Kansas State here February 10. por.ents have been able to score rhtUlyT? Oklahoma s team 535 against thc Wil-g an avcrage bassoovs.- j charts in the Sooners' first 11 c,f 3fi nr.ir.t r ;. 0 games reveais now important is offensive rebounding and how sadly the Runts have lacked it. In Oklahoma's worst defeats Frank Ijrtlrl Goose Tatum continues to lead! TR. MrrT. the Wings in individual scoring ,M.ii,n. ' ! with a total of 231, averaging al- . .. . . . . ... i'w aKauiab ivcsiiacia Oldiu dim lllxi'IKlliL'S Ol WniCn V.AM(.. V . T.., 1 : . is piesident. The meetinc is!. . j r, c-:.. S fh I, '" 1 ,t0,Jan'.14 and conference record for charity shot the Chancellor will retuin to Lin-L.rinev.11,il.itv Coach Bruce Drake's Roundball Runts missed their first four free throws at Manhattan, then potted 17 in a row before Ed Lindenberg duobed No. 18. Five different players were in on the record Harold "Scooter" Hines, 5 foot 5'.fe inch forward, hit six, Jack Lan don four, Don Buelow three. Bill haley two and Howard Bine gar two. Concert . . . nued from Page 1.) Albrrt Rmldish. In Sionc, limn Ulh. Kdn Maa. JmcK KIIIIm, Marcai-H against Iowa State at Norman for 100 percent. Marvin Mesch looped in five, Marvin Snodgrass two, and Herb Scheffier, Dale Carhle and Matt Zollner one each. this season, the 40-52 loss to Iowa most 16 a game. He has tallied 97 Pre-Flight's Seahawks t Kansas City and the 28-43 trimming to Rice's rangy Owls at Oklahoma City, Drake's Runts were badly out-maneuvered at the back boards, capturing only three of fensive rebounds to the Seahawks' J 18 and grabbing only seven to Rice's 20. Oklahoma's highest margin of starters victory, the 61-31 trimming of Texas Tech at Oklahoma City, was achieved the night Drake's Runts hustled their season's high of 14 offensive rebounds. In other words, a basketball team has to get the ball to score, and 1 abounding affords by far the field goals and 37 free throws. All five members of the start ing lineup, Tatum, Lumpp, Kratft, Ehlers and Ahearn, have scored more than a hundred points apiece. Ahearn, with the lowest total of the quintet, has nlaved in one less game than the other TROMBOVf'.: fan-.. 11 Vr-.-T.. r,t Nntvd, HKhu-4 Buh, HaruM Riwr. TVMI-4M: I'hjlli. Utrhrr. HAKI-: lU-vrrly Murray. ORf.W: Mrn K.,l-n.. riVO: Dorothy Tl.. ( MfrH-r t tl- I nlv-rHjr farvlly. 26 Out of 39. The Oklahomans have netted 26 of 39 free throws in Big Six play so far this season for 66 per cent, good considering the fact all were made away from the home WELCOME to CHRIS' GOOD EATS 244 N. 13th TONITE SMITH WARREN ORCHESTRA Dancing f to 12 A dm. 58c plus tax University Orchestra Concert .Miles Dresskell, Conductor 3:00 P. M., SUNDAY, JAN. 14 and Free Variety Show Bob Hope anI Paillette GotManl in THE GHOST BREAKERS 8:00 P. M. SUNDAY, JAN. 14 Student Union Ballroom U. S. GOVERNMENT It E J E C T W COMBAT oi BOOTS T HIS Combat Boot needs no breaking-in ... it has a heavy. soft, raw-side-out leather up pers . . . extra fine band, strap and buckles ... an all rubber cord sole and, a high test triple wear heel. Bring your Ration Book No. 3 128-132 No. 10th Str.