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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1946)
'I I Thursday, December 12, UN Team To Battle E?azorbacks Today The undefeated Nebraska Corn huskers will get their toughest test of the young basketball season today, Friday and Saturday when the eight-team tournament at Kansas City gets underway. In addition to the six confer ence teams, the University of Ar kansas and Southern Methodist are in the field which will play in the double bracket elimination tournament at the Kansas City auditorium. Coach Harry Good's Buskers, boasting wins, over South Dakota 68-37, Ottumwa Navy 65-45, and Drake 48-44, will open the action this afternoon at 2 p.m. against the Arkansas Razornacks. Thirteen players were on the UN traveling squad which left last night. Paul Shields, Mon rovia, Indiana; Dale Livingston, Hastings; Bob Korte, Fairbury; Joe Brown, Nashville, Tennessee; Ken Anderson, Creston, Iowa; Waldo Winter, Lincoln; Rod Cox, Lincoln; Joe Loisel, West Point; Bob Cerv, Weston; Gayle Leb sack, Lincoln; Claude Retherford, French Lick, Indiana; Don Mc Arthur. Lincoln, and Matt Keat ing, Omaha, made the trip. Big Boy. Arkansas boasts a 6-foot 11 inch center in George Kok who was one of the best in the south west last year. The Razorbacks finished second in the Southwes tern conference in the 1945-46 season. Coach Phog Allen's Kansas Jay- hawkers and the Oklahoma Soon ers are early favorites in the meet, altho the other teams in the field are unknown quantities capable of springing surprises. The Oklahoma quintet, victor ious over Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Texas Teeh and Warrensburg .Teachers in .four starts, will follow the Huskers in . to action. Coach Bruce Drake's ball team tackles the stubborn Kansas State Wildcats at 4 p. m. Gigantic Gerald Tucker, Allie Paine and Dick Reich are back from Sooner teams of earlier days, and team with Paul Courty, Scooter Hines and Ken Pryor to form a potent aggregation. Wildcats Surprise. ' Jack Gardner's K-Staters have been one of the surprsise of the Big Six season to date. The Wild cats won three consecutive games before dropping a 54-41 decision to Iowa University. Even in de feat the Kansas State five was impressive for they pushed the Hawkeyes all the way and led for the first 11 minutes of the game. Missouri and Southern Metho dist open the eveni round at 8 p. m., to be followed by Kansas and Iowa State at 9:30. "ith Charlie B'a-.k. Otto Schnellbacher and Kay Evan back for more duty on the hard woods, the KU mentor. Phot Al len, is rot moaning too loudly, for TURING HS NAVY CARZL H WAS IN CONTINUOUS DEflAND AS A HOOPSTCR HEY, ROD IfcV"" slow Dowuy-y jt&& m i n-tr f a. v' S' l '117 JITH THE PRE-RJGHT Yivv I vim, yrw M( "W cr wut W It JL OVETR 13 POINTS PER W i GAME IN 31 CONTESTS Y V- ( 0r TOTAL IWG 0ZER400 SJO POINTS 1946 Tourney Pairings Prccnihpr 12. 2 o'clock Arkansas-Nrhranka. 4 o'clock Kunaits State-Oklahoma. 8 o'clock Mimiourl-S.M.U. 9:30 o'clock Kanaua-Iowa Sitae. llMmlwr 13. 2 o'clock Loirr KnnaaB-Iowa State vs. Inner Arkansaa-Ncbraxka. 4 o'clock Loner Mlaaourl-S.M.U. va. loner fCaneaa Htate-Oklahoma. 8 o'clock Winner Missouri S.M.U. v. winner Kanaaa State-Oklahoma. 9:30 o'clock Winner Kanaaa-Iowa Slate va. winner Arkanaaa-Nrbraxka. Itaranihnr 14. 2 o'clock Loaera of afternoon game December 13. 4 o'clock Loaera of nlpht game De cember 13. 8 o'clock Winner of afternoon game December 13. B;30 o'clock Winner of tilglit games Decemlier 13 (championship). the Jj hawks appear to be one of the t;ams to beat. Should Nebraska topple the Ar kansas crew they will met the winner of ve Cyclone-Kansas clash. If the Huskers lose, they will be matched with the loser of the Iowa State-Kansas tussle. Finals Tilt Play continues on Saturday with the championship battle booked for 9:30 Saturday evening. Good has indicated that he will stick with his usual starting line up for the Arkansas game. That means that Claude Retherford and Joe Brown will open at the for wards, Rodney Cox will be at cen ter and Joe- Loisel and Don Mc Arthur will handle the guard slots. Phi Delta Theta Holds First Place In Trophy Race With four sports, touch foot ball, golf, table tennis, and the turkey race out of the way, the intramural standings shape up like this: Team Point Phi Delta Theta 4.V Delta Upailon 370 Sigma Alpha Epsllon 3. SO FlKma Nu ..... 310 Alpha Tail Omega 270 Beta Thrta Pt 2fi5 Ntcma Phi Epallon 265 Sicma Chi 250 IVIta Tau Delta 245 Phi Kappa Pal 1X5 Zeta Beta Tau 180 Beta SiRtna Psl 160 Phi Gamma Delta i- . 160 'arm House 130 rioneer 130 filgma Alpha Vti 130 Theta Xi 130 Brown Palace 100 Alpha Gamma Rho 60 Cnrnhusker 60 Kappa Sigma 60 Delta Sigma Pi ,. 60 Equipment Wanted Track Coat Ed Weir stated Wednesday that any man who has checked out track equip ment must report for track immediately or he will be re quired to turn in the equip ment. This is an effort to outfit men who have expressed a desire to report for track but cannot do so due to the short age of equipment. RODNEY f '7.' i. 7 $PHE 6 FOOT 24 JN. HUSKER CENTER HAILS FROM LINCOLN. HE WAS AN ALL-) oTVTc StrLEXTON ON CENTRAL'S QUINTETS OF 2942 AND 1143. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN' , Claude Etherford. Retherford Leads Husker Cage Scorers Claude Retherford, harum- scarum forward from French Lick, Indiana, paces the University of Nebraska basketball scorers after three games. The Hoosier hotshot has piled np a total 4f 31 points to lead teammate Don MeArthar by It points. McArthw caoae through with a 14 Deist performance against Drake to uip into second place. Three other members of the usual starting five hold down the next positions. Center Rod Cox is two points behind McArthur with 19 tallies, just one better than Joe Loisel's total of 18. Forward Joe Brown, although kept out of the Ottumwa game because of in juries, is next in line with 13 tal lies. Team Total. As a team the Huskers have compiled 181 points against 126 for the opposition. In the three games thus far Retherford has shared high point honors once. Gayle Lebsack took the award once as did Don Mc Arthur. Rod Cox divided honors with Retherford in the opening game against South Dakota. The complete list of varsity scorers: g fg ft pf pts Retherford 3 11 9-13 6 31 McArthur 3 8 5- 8 4 Cox 3 8 3- 5 5 I-olsel . 7 4-8 9 Brown 2 4 4- 9 3 lbsnck 3 6 0- 0 0 Kirlin 3 4 3- 4 1 Cerv 3 4 1-5 3 Shields 3 3 2- 3 0 Wright 2 3 0- 0 2 Rice 1 3 0-0 0 Kostielny 1 2 1-1 1 Keating 2 1 2-6 2 Livingston 3 1 1-1 1 Korte 2 0 3- 4 1 Anderson 91 1 0-0 4 Arenas 2 1 0-0 1 Winter 2 1 0-6 2 Schleiger 1 1 0-0 0 Means ? 0 2-2 1 Sandstedt 2 0 1-10 Denker 1 0 1-1 1 21 19 18 13 12 11 9 8 6 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 181 I 1 Total S 89 43-71 iZ Convocation Dr. Janet Fowler Nelson Psychologist Or Sociologist 'WHY EDUCATION FOR MARRIAGE and PARENTHOOD" 7:30 Thursday, December 12 Union Ballroom A Gift That Endures A PHOTOGRAPHIC-; PORTRAIT is a source of much pleasure to one's friends. As a token of affection and remembrance, it is certain to be appreciated, find when done by Townsend, it is certain to be artistic and distinctive. Bieterman Leads 'B Squadmen BY CUB CLEM According to statistics compiled by the Nebraskan sports depart ment, Bernie Bieterman is leading all "B" squad members in scoring for the three intrasquad games played thus far. His total comes to 35 points, including 14 field goals and seven free shots. Following: him are Dick Srb with 27 and Don Rice with 26. Rounding out the first ten are Jack Dedrick with 21, Vaughn Kostielny with 20, Bill Denker with 19, Bill Saler with 19, Jim Vaa Burgh and Bob Robinson with 17, and Don Bauer with 16. Srb leads in free shots, with 11 sunk out of 14 attempts. Don Davis and Don Rice lead in fouls committed with seven apiece. Whites First Team In compiling team figures, we find that the Whites have scored 72 field goals to 49 for the Reds. They trail in free throws, having made 30 out of 51 while the Reds were sinking 31 out of 66. They have made 49 fouls to 44 for the Reds. The Whites have outscored the Reds 174 to 129. Complete statistics follow: Player , fg ft fla pts Bieterman 14 7-10 3 35 Srb 8 11-14 2 27 Rice 12 2-3 7 26 Dedrick 9 3-7 4 21 Kostielny 9 2-6 2 20 Denker 8 3-4 5 19 Saler 8 3-9 5 19 Robinson 6 5-5 4 17 Van Burgh 8 1-2 5 17 B.iucr 4 8-12 4 16 Williams 4 3-4 4 11 Dufphey 4 2-5 4 10 Schleiger i 2-4 1 10 Busskohl 4 1-7 3 9 Milikfn 4 1-4 2 9 SlmpFon 3 3-5 3 9 Winter 3 0-3 4 9 Wenke 3 0-4 2 6 Meginnls 2 1-2 6 5 Berquiat 2 0-2 6 4 Davis 1 2-2 7 4 rti...inH 1 1.1 A 9 I tr iin.on 0 0-0 4 0 T.-iims Whiles 72 SJ0-51 49 171 F.eds 49 31-66 44 123 Niw Party A general meeting: to form a new pePUcal party on cam pus is r?Ped for tonight at 8 in Sosh aaditorium. Page 7 Malowney Boast s Top Individual Bowling Score Several outstanding records have been hung up in the bowl ing tournament thus far. In the fraternity leagues, Malowney of Phi Gamma Delta has the best single game with a score of 243. Blinde of Beta Sigma Psi Nas the best single series with i $55 total, while the Beta Sigs a 'so have the best team series, co t act ing an impressive 2355 total. The independent league has been dominated by the Lilie team in the three departments. Vofs is the individual leader with a 219 game to his credit. Reiling has the best sngle series, pressing close behnd Blinde of the fraternity leagues, with a 552. The Lilies' team also is close, having amassed a 2309 series total. ;wan Anyone now contributing Art work should drop by the Awg wan office Friday afternoon, r -wording to Walt Simon, tdi tor. !UStCAl sit .rfetfe n hmiki: SAT., DEC. 14 AllM. 1 Ml FA. PIT'S TAT :m talk Bokery and Luncheonette THE TALK OF THE . TOWN Meet Your Frietuh at Omr Luncheonette Delicious Coffee, Food L Ud Pastries ' 1310 O St. MS . ..atii If, Til... Jr li --ill WfllWMWCfM j pi' i 4 7 v . r i ,': v I '.'! ,'.Y u ",t r-.v ; v . !. 1 V . hi 'si PLAYING WITH 00ANE 58 Years at 228 South 11th AND 5T. HARY 5 , a