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Thursday, December 19, 1945
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Post Ail-American
Squad Ignores East
The East, which dominated the
football picture last year, wins
only two places on the 1946 All
American team selected by the
American Football Coaches As
sociation and announced today in
a copyrighted story in The Sat
urday Evening Post The South
and Midwest take three places
each, the Southwest two and the
Far West one.
Holder of seven places in 1945,
the East is represented by Army's
two great backs, Glenn Davis and
Doc Blanchard. Described by
Coach Dick Harlow of Harvard,
presidents of the Coaches Associa
tion, as "unquestionably the out
standing football players in the
country," they are the sole 1945
selections to retain their places.
The South, which failed to get
a single first-team spot last year,
comes into its own with three
standouts back Charley Trippl of
Georgia, tackle Dick Haffman of
Tennessee and center Paul Duke
of Georgia Tech.
Notre Dame, which shared the
national spotlight with Army,
also shares with the Cadets the
honor of placing two players on
the first team. They are back
Johnny Lujack and tackle George
Connor. Giving the Midwest its
third All-American player is Il
linois' guard, Al Agase. ,
Southwest Delegates.
Named to represent the South
west are end Hubert Bechtol of
Texas and guard Weldon Humble
of Rice. End Burr Baldwin ofj
UCLA represents the Pacific'
Coast.
As a result of the flood of talent
released for the first normal foot
ball vear since the war. four mem
bers of the 1945 frst team had to "boy of thirteen years weighing
be content with less favored spo j 105 pounds climbed into the ring
this year. Warren Amling, Ohio1 and won a wrestling match for
State tackle, George Savitsky, Omaha Central high schooL Today
Pennsylvania tackle, and Herman he has a record of winning 77 of
Wedemeyer, St. Mary's back, were ' a possible 80 bouts and is the
pushed back to the second team third ranking 165 pound wrestler
and Dick Scott, Navy center, to in the United States. He is Harold
the third team. Bob Fenimore, jj Bcker standout performer of Ne
Oklahoma A. St M. back, also on brafka's wrestlin team,
the 1945 first team, does not ap- "We s'-aali be able U pall
pear on any of the coaches se- down same wins this year," re
lections this year. 5 Marked Baker whea asked abaat
Besides Aatiios. Savitsky and the prospects fr this year.
Wedemyer, Uk 14S seeand team i There is a lat'aff caaapetitiaa far
includes Haak Faldberg aad teaaa rutins. Ia (act. Fat
Barney Poole. bath af Army, estdserea sure af asakiag the Muad."
Dick Barwegaa f Pardae aadj
Charles Miharr af Dake. gmaras; '
George Strahaaeyer af Natre
Dame, center, mad Araald Tacfcer
of Arm?. Bahhv Larae af Texas
and Harry CSaaer af Alabaaaa,:
backs.
In addition to ScotL the third
team is made up of Leonard Ford!
of Michigan and John Zilley of
Notre Dame, ends; Frank Wydo of
University Slate
Of Intramurals
Best in History
Students are currently engaged
in the most extensive intramural
program in the university's his- year lay erf fraaa arresting whOe
tory, according to Louis E. Means,, ia the anrrire. he law dfattrly
director of student physical wel- earned a ptsitita aa the team
fare and organized of the pro-jjwhea be retaraed ta Nebraska ia
gram. (January. 1546. He started arrestt-
S i x intra iai il pttrtive iac as a bearywetcht sllhaagh he
events, exclusive af varsity apart, weiched aaly ITS paaair. After
are underway this aeasaa. Traai iai daaa several af the
now until Christamas the total ata-1 hearier aaea. iariaalag Jim Xd-
dent body wSl have every ap-'
portunity ta partacipale ia all the ;
action tbey ataaa." Jaeaas said, jairaaaa aad finished the regular
Over 50 men are organized in anraaa auaAefeated.
ten leagues with 73 teams for thej Boker entered the National In-all-universily
basketball sched-'tercollegiate Wrestling Meet held
iJe, a record bieh. The basketball j at Still water. Oklahoma, in the
season wjU conLmue until Maich 1.1 ICS pound division. In bis first
Biggest Taurnry. j match in the lorumameot be de-
More than 200 men started Sfeated Burl Borixig from Michigan
petition in intramural mTlhxig ' State wt was previously un
latt week, with championship Jbeiilen. fie then sutlered his otJy
finals hed at the Nebraska St. kws of the season when be tangled
Mary's badtetball game at the 5
colisemn Detember 17. Thi is
by far the largest and most
spirited wrestling eompeliiiftft
ever staged at the universaly,"
Means declared.
There are aa fiitiaaal 2M
tnen eara&ed ia the H-mmivmjtj
swimaoing
ber 1S-I7-U at the calianwa
and 24 hsadbiM teaaa are mmm
encagad ha Iai aa anal Py.
Thirty
learae bawliat' at the
B1tar attrys. Vhe title ia Cbe
tndlvidaal table tenuis cham
Swonsblps. which started three
-eeks ara with 245 entrants, will
be decided by Christmas raca-tknt.
Cornell and Bob Davis of Georgia
Tech, tackles; Frank Barzilauskas
of Yale and John Mastrangelo of
Notre Dame, guards, and Levi
Jackson of Yale, Tony Minisi of
Pennsylvania, Charlie Justice of
North Carolina and Clyde Lie
Force of Tulsa, backs.
Teams Matched.
In announcing the Coaches'
All-American, Harlow paints to
the handful of unbeaten teams
and observes that the 1946 season
"was the most evenly matched
in football history." He adds that
"football played in 1946 was no
better than the football played be
fore the war, but, technically, the
came improved to the point where
it was both a better game to play
and a better game to watch.
He states that the trend towarn
4Tk n Jlr nnaninr T fnrmauAM
HUlta vi'.iii"B
rontiaoed. "with more emphasis
than ever before on forward pass
ing and long-gaining ground plays,
both T-formation virtues.
On defense the element of de
rpntirvn was relied on "to a de
gree never before seen in foot
ball," Coach Harlow declares.
"Lines overshifted and under
shifted, there were sliders and
loopers, backers-up shuttled in
and out of line with unnerving
suddenness.
Harold Boker
Should Boost
Husker Hopes
BY DOC UXGLUL
Back in the fall of 1939, a young
Boker started wrestling at 105
pounds but has grown up to be
a full fledged light heavyweight
at ITS pounds. During his high
school career be lettered four
years and was city and state
champion in 1941 and '42 in the
135 poimd division. He lost one
bout as a freshman and one bout
as a sophomore but was unde
feated bis last two years at Omaha
Central. His high school record
stands at 70 wins and two losses.
Air Carps Tel.
Boker entered N. U. in the fall
of 1942. but joined the air corps
before he got a chance to wrestle.
He was a turret gunner on a
B-I7 with the Eighth Air Force
stationed in England, and was
decorated with the air medal and
six oak leaf dusters.
Eea tt-aagh he had a three
244
fraaa lawa.
he aawed dawa ta the I7S
iih Wayne Walker of Oklahoma
A &. M. Walker went on to wm
second place and Boker ended up
third.
Taaghest Fae.
Wbes asked who he thought was
tlje toughest man be ever faced.
Boker pondered swhQe and came
up with this derision:
"Well, none of Utem were eary.
but Walker certainly wasn't toe
toughest. That Bocky Idoumain
ChamptOB from Colorado. Joe
JUune. was too strong to risk
taking any chances with, so I
played it sale and won.-Also this 1
240 pounder from Iowa, Jim Nel
son, gave roe a rough lime; that
wai jurt too much weight to throw j
around."
KU-Cowpoke
Battle Opens
Keen Rivalry
Lawrence, Kas. Kansas and
Oklahoma Aggies, those two dead- '
ly basketball rivals, will ring up
the curtain on their winter's three-
game series Friday night in a bat- (
Ue that shouJd stacK arouna ,um
fans into Kansas City's Munici
pal auditorium.
Although the NCAA spotlight
will be in the distant background
there won't be anything at stake
Friday except prestige. But U
Dr. rhog Allen, the Wizard of ML
Oread, and Hank Iba, the Iron
Duke ef Stillwater, that is enough
ta wheel every gan into range.
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1 cvatiuiig atruu uj uu iidutMi.
Until
last year when the National cham
pion Cowboys lashed the Jay
hawkers, 46-28 and 49-38, the vic
tor of any game in the series never
triumphed by more than a 7 point
margin.
Despite last year's twin triumph
Iba still trails King Phog 7-9 and
must fashion a clean sweep of this
season's frays to pull on top. The
two quintets will meet in Still
water February 11 and in Law
rence Feb. 24 to round out this
season's warfare. There is a pos-'
sibility that the two clubs might
clash in the All College tourna
ment at Oklahoma City which
opens the flay after ennstmas.
Oa paper the Aggies awa the
SMHCH arvire lor vuun; inc I
Jayhawkers plenty af height AH
the nation's caaehes cheered whea j
serea-foat Bab Karlaad walked
the graduation plaak. bat Iba suH
has some tan timber left ia bis
corral. Mast notable af these is
-tittle Jae" Halbert brother of
West Texas State's famed Chuck,
wha ased his six-foot eight inches
ta sab far Kurland last winter.
The Throckmorton. Texas, lad
has come along rapidly and is a
certain starter against the Allen
men Friday. Iba can pack in even
more altitude in the stringbean
form of Jim Moore, six-foot ten-
inch Fayette, Alabama, product.
He owns another towerhouse in
six-foot six-inch Bob Harris from
Linden. Texas. Along with Hal
bert. however, the starters are ex
pected to see A. L. Bennett, a sec
ond line forward last season; Tom
Jacquet. six-foot four-inch Still-
water sophomore; Blake Williams,
lone returning regular, and Joe
Bradley, a fleet, sh'arpshootmg
sophomore from Cowden.
If Iba chooses to use his height
Kansas will run into the same
barrier which wore down the
Hawkers in the Big Six tourna
ment at Kansas Ciry. The red
and blue Big Six champions
turned on a terrific finish to over
haul Arkansas, 53-52, in the semi
finals but finally went down under
SVTU. 46-49 in the finals. Both
dubs boasted a long edge in the
skyscraper department, a fact
which ran the Jayhawkers out of
gas.
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Game Saturday
Ames, Iowa. Coach Louis
Menze is weaving an intricate
pattern of practice, final exams
and study of scouting reports
all in preparation for the Iowa
State-Minnesota game here Satur
day. One day Menze is able to have
one part of his squad while the
rest takes exams and then work
with another part of the squad
later. Meantisae he is poring over
the scouting report brought back
from the North Dakota and SL
Laids games by L. C. (Cap) Timm.
None of it adds up to happy
news, except that physically the
Cydones can stand some of the
rest caused by irregular practice
sessions.
TanSaaoUL
The Gophers will be tall (6-3
average), they will be big (190
average), and they will be fast
and accurate. All this the Gophers
themselves admitted before the
season started. Four games this
year have proven the correctness
of the forecast. The average score
has been 59.75 while opponents
have averaged 35.5.
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Al Football Forum
Bernie Masterson, University of
Nebraska football coach, has ac
cepted an invitation to participate
in an open forum discussion of
football offensive tactics.
The discussion will be held at
the annual meeting of the Na
tional Coaches Association in New
York on January C and 7.
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