The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, December 03, 1946, Page 3, Image 5

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    Tuesday, December 3, 1946
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
ig Six Gridders
Wind Up Activity
Final Bit Six Standings.
Oklahoma ..4 1 158 35 .800
Kansas 4 1 108 56 .800
Nebraska ... 3 2 106 62 .600
Missouri 3 2 105 80 .600
Iowa State ..1 4 34 160 .200
Kansas State 0 5 14 132 7000
Results Last Week.
Kansas 20. Missouri 19.
Oklahoma 73, Oklahoma A. & M.
12.
U.C.L.A. 18, Nebraska 0.
' Arizona 28, Kansas State 0.
Football activity has been com
pleted by Big Six teams, except
for a possible bowl game for
Oklahoma, and the final outcome
of the air-tight pennant chase was
, decided by the trusty toe cf KU's
Don Fambrough.
Two successful place kicks rave
the Jayhawks a pair of valuable
points after touchdown to enable
George Sauer's crew to bump the
Missouri Tigers 20-19 In the
Thanksgiving day clash between
the two schools.
Ray Evans turned in a great in
dividual performance to lead the
Kansans to victory, but the pow
erful Oklahoma Sooners would
have had the championship ban
ner all to themselves if Fanv
brough had missed one of the two
placements he produced. The
Bengal-Jayhawk mix would have
ended in a tie, thus eliminating
both crews from title considera
tion,
Iluskers Do It.
Nebraska was the only confer-
ence team to defeat the KU eleven.
Sam Vacanti connected on a field
goal to provide the Scarlet with
a 16-14 verdict.
Oklahoma bowed only to Kan
sas. and again the deciding mar
gin was a field goal, this time
produced by Paul Turner who toed
a muddy pigskin thru the up
rights In the last minute of play
during the Nov. 16 game between
the two elevens.
The Huskers finished their con
ference campaign with wins over
Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa
State, but a one point loss to Mis
souri, 21-20, was the killing blow
- to NU title aspirations. Oklahoma's
27-6 win was the other Husker
loss.
Tigers Fade.
Coach Don Faurot's Tigers
a bowed to Kansas and Oklahoma
to end their loop play deadlocked
with the Huskers in second place.
Overwhelming favorites to cop the
bunting in pre-season forecasts,
the Bengals faded in the late
stages of the race, losing their
last two conference starts.
Iowa State managed to grind
out a one touchdown win over
Kansas State to elude the cellar
position which went to the hap
less Wildcats, who were unable to
chalk up a conference victory and
scored only two touchdowns dur
f ing loop play.
The mighty Sooners closed their
regular season last Saturday by
handing the crippled Oklahoma
A. & M. Cowboys a terrific 73-12
lacing to gain revenge for a pair
of trouncings -which the Aggies
administered in previous seasons.
Dave Wallace wound up his 1946
performance with a red hot ex
hibition of place kicking as he
came through on nine extra points
and a field goal.
Talk of a post-season charity
contest between the Sooners and
once-beaten Tulsa is prevalent in
Oklahoma, and a possible berth
in the 'Gator Bowl in Jackson
ville, Fla.. against North Carolina
State is also being mentioned for
the Sooners.
Nebraska absorbed its only
shutout of the season when Bernie
Masterson's boys collided with the
unbeaten Bruins of UCLA at Los
Angeles. Although unable to gen
erate any kind of an offensive
threat, the Huskers won the ad
miration of west coast fans with
tip top defensive play until supe
rior Uclan manpower over
whelmed the Scarlet defenders by
an 18-0 count.
NU Standouts.
Tackle Carl Samuelson and
Backs Cletus Fischer and Tom
Novak were accorded high praise
for their doings against the Pa
cific coast kings who were denied
scores several times by the stub
born NU defense.
The Nebraska traveling party
will return to Lincoln on Tues
day night at 1:30 after stopping
in Denver Tuesday noon for a
luncheon with Nebraska alums in
that region.
Arizona handed Kansas State a
28-7 spanking in the final tilt of
the year for the K-Staters who
were unable to win a game
throughout the season.
Iowa State had already wound
up its gridiron activities, the Ne
braska game on Nov. 16 being
the last football fireworks for the
Cyclones.
Louis E. Means
Asked To Head
PE Committee
The executive committee of the
Central District Association for
health, physical education and
recreation has asked Louis .
Means, director of student phys
ical welfare at the university, to
head the resolutions committee at
the association's next convention
to be held in Minneapolis, April
16-19.
The committee is composed of
Dr. Arthur Wendler, University of
Iowa; Miss Edna McCullough of
the State Teachers College, Era
poria, Kansas; Miss Marion Wag
ner, University of Kansas City
and Leonard Marti, University of
North Dakota.
Navy Man Aids
Grappling Coach
Wrestling Coach Jerry Adam is
getting first rate assistance in
drilling the Scarlet grapplers for
the coming mat season.
Lt. Commander John "Sandy"
Landreth, on duty with the naval
NROTC unit at the university, is
aiding Adam, working especially
with candidates in the lighter
weight divisions.
Landreth was South Pacific
A. A. U. champion in the 115
pound class, and was captain of
the wrestling team at the naval
academy at Annapolis where he
was undefeated in eastern colleg'
iate competition during two sea
sons, competing in the 121 pound
class. He also coached the unde
feated wrestling team of the U.S.S
Nevada.
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South Dakota
To Be First
NU Cage Foe
Initial action for the Nebraska
basketball team will come Wed
nesday night when Rube Hoy
brings his South Dakota cagers to
town for the opening game of the
season.
Coach Harry Good, in his first
year as director of the Husker
cage aggregation, has announced
that Joe Brown, Claude Rether
ford, Rod Cox, Joe Loisel and
either Ken Anderson or Don Mc
Arthur will be the tentative
starting lineup for the Scarlet.
Brown, a letterman on last
year's NU quintet and sixth high
scorer in the Big Six, and Rether
ford, a French Lick, Indiana, pro
duct who played under Good at
the University of Indiana in 1943,
will probably open at the for
wards. Cox to Start.
Cox amassed over 400 .points
while playing for the St. Mary's
pre-flight team last season and
was an outstanding high school
player for Lincoln. He will get
the nod at center.
Joe Loisel, who received All
American honorable mention dur
ing his time at Creighton, is set
to go at one guard post, while
Anderson, a Creston, Iowa, pro
duct and McArthur, 6 foot 5 inch
athlete who starred at Lincoln
high, batle for the other spot on
the starting combination.
IM Basketball
Play Begins
On Thursday
The intramural department has
announced that inter-organization
basketball play will begin Thurs
day, Dec. 5. The schedule for this
season's play will be released to
day. The department has listed the
following playing regulations:
No Shifting.
A player who has represented
his group in Class "A" games can
not then play on the "B" team,
except that he may play during
the first scheduled "A" game and
then be transferred to the "B"
team. A player is permitted to go
from a Class "B" team to Class
"A" team at any time, but can
not then return to the "B" team.
Referees Wanted
All men interested in offi
ciating intramural basket ball
games for the coming season
are asked to meet in the N
Club room in the Coliseum at
5 p. m. Tuesday, December 3.
Officials will be paid for their
services and it is imperative
that they attend this meeting if
they wish to officiate.
It is the spirit of the rule that
an entire Class "A" team may not
be shifted to Class "B."
Good sportsmanship also de
mands that every organization en
ter its best team in the "A" di
vision. The administrative council
reserves the right to determine
whether or not a group has com
plied with this interpretation. Vio
lation will entail loss of points
in that sport in which the viola
tion occurred.
CORSAGES FOR THE
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PHONE 2-2775 135 S0.12TH
1. BILL KRAMER
Junior in the Dentistry College, Bill hails from Lincoln. Hell assist you in
the men's and women's shoe sections, at Magee's.
2. BOB TRENCHARD
Christmas gifts and furnishings for the gentlemen are his business at
Magee's. Bob is from Cambridge, and a Junior-year student in ye olde
Business Administration college.
3. DAN JONES
On campus, he's a freshman in the Engineering College, fit Magee's. he
waits on the trade the men's furnishings section, first floor.
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