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1 - )- I ii - " - - i ,n ii in i---r infunm i i - i i j , i I, . . ii iii i ,f -..MM ii Tii" rmrin n i..-.ii . imi it wrl wr i f t:. ! 0 T C3 E r nt 1 z w L )J I Thursday, March 16, 1950 First Day's Competition Also Sees PJiinden, Friend Wins Holy Name, Albion, Neligh, and Minden entered the second round of competition of Class B in the 1950 High School Basket ball Tourney Wednesday by cap turing their first engagements. Chadron Prep, Friend, Dwight Assumption, and Wavcrly won the right to play in the second round of Class C by also win ning their first encounters. Favored Holy Name turned in the most decisive victory of the day bv trouncing helpless Paw nee City, 57-29. The powerful invaders from Omaha never gave Pawnee a chance as they rolled up a halftime margin of 23-3. Towering Howard Rudloff and Frank Trouba controlled the boards for Holy Name as well as pumping-in 19 and ten points respectively. Steve McGill also counted ten for the winners. Ned F.ckman's long shot kept Pawnee from being completely humili ated, accounting for 15 of the losers' points. Minden Powerful Minden, Holy Name's chief competitor for the Class B crown, also rolled impressively, crush ing South Sioux City, 53-34. Led in scoring by Vern Christensen and Marshall Joyce, the unde- eated Whippets caught fire in the third period and led going into the final stanza. pts II 6 7 Tt"hlr 1 0 t;ilson I Milkers c Smith K Black K 2-3 3 1 3 I 1-1 1-4 4-5 0-0 0- 0 1- 2 1-1 0-0 Prrret t Putenper f n Kenecnl f 1 Hiokev c " Plahn t 0 Totals M 10-17 13 34 Minden ' " P' Jnvce 1 00 2 rhrwtensen t 10 3'ft 1 Hell, c 1 1-3 2 3 Tomjenc 0-0 2 W ilson K 2 0-11 4 Peterson r, s " Bjorklun 1 0 0 0 South Sioux City 17 IS 34 Minden " 83 Official!: Chuck Worrall ana Don Maclay. . . J.-oan f O " I M Beck k 0 0-0 1 0 H. Beck g 0 0-0 0 0 Totala 24 S-14 U 63 Score by quartara: Albion Surprises Albion turned in the biggest surprise of the day, turning back a favored York outfit, 41-34. York was never really in con tention as they seemed to try only long shots while Albion con tinually worked the ball under the hoop to score. Jerry Johnson and Larl mer son were the big guns of the' e than, Albion attack, getting more their share of the rebounds in addition to scoring 12 and ten points. James Beaver of the Dukes led his team's scoring with nine. Albion TMyeraf .... Tievlin f . . . . Peteraon t . . J. Johnson c Brown c P. Johnson g Flanagan g Warner g . f Pts 1 3 S .....It 0 0 1-1 1- 2 0- 4 2- 4 on i-o 1- i o-o 3 Total 18 York f Carriner f 2 Reialieck f 1 Tatro f 1 .. 1'ohler c 1 K nobler g 4 Henver g 4 Toms g 2 4-12 ft I 0- 0 1- 1 0- 0 1- 2 0- 4 1- 2 13 41 pta. 4 3 2 3 8 Totals .15 4-12 12 34 Nrora by quarters: llilon VorK 8 Offlelals: Larl Delafield ; 34 41 18 25 34 and Sam Vtetnmark. Neligh Escapes Neligh blew a ten point lead in the third quarter of its con test with Mitchell and barely escaped with a 48-47 victory. The winners burned the var sity maples with their torrid scoring in the first half, leading at that point, 33-24. They could only manage seven in the third, however, as Mitchell tied the count at 40 all. A successful stalling game provided the Ne ligh boys with their win. . In one of the most thrilling matches of the day. Friend out lasted Scribner. 39-37. No more than four Doints separated the two teams at any stage in the game Keith Clouse was the man of the hour for the winners, get ting a total of 11 points while Linley Davis garnered ten. Neal McDonald led the losing scorers with 13 markers. Unbeaten Chadron Prep kept its winning streak intact, drop ping St. Joseph's of Atkinson in the first round. 40-33. Prep rolled convincingly in the first half, owning a halftime margin of 24 14. Classified FOR PA LK Complete gH Harvard rliMira Al volumes. Rrd (rather binding. Prac tically new. 4-1k.r,5. LOfiT; Gold Identification brarrlel te twen 14th and H. ami nr. Bui and Aer CampuB. A-2164. Rnhhie. FHKKKCT around rumpus car. lullfi Ply mouth with 1IH0 Ioih.'e engine. Kxcep tloually clean. Call 3-2027. WANTED: Killers to and from Tope k a this week end. hniee, 2-1137. LOST: Carol matter's brawn Spiral Psyhodynamles notebook. Reward. (I-32SII or Kxt. ill 4. LOFT: Slieaffer Gold-Top Eversharp. Trl rtiiy afternoon between Andrews and BuiuttU engraved. Pleas call 3-18H6. The Josies roared back in the third stanza, narrowing the gap to 22-24 before falling behind for good. Mlu-hell Meeker f . . Weitzel X . Beehe 1 ... HIM c Brelhmir c Van Winkle Simpson g Krey g ... Canon k . . Vandal f ... Torn Is NeliKh Francn f . Wlsrh f .. Mjckey f . Hoggins c Holthun c . Van Kirk Moon g ... Ik ft 4-0 1-3 0-0 .-4 013 a-s 3-5 0-1 0-0 0-0 .. 2 .. 1 .. 2 . 1 .. 2 . . 0 .a 4 .. 0 .. 0 .18 'K ii 0 . . 1 .. 2 1 .V'.' 8 2S 47 ft 3- 4 1-1 1- 7 4- 10 o-i 2- 3 3- 6 ft Totala Score by quartern; .17 14-32 33 4K Mlti-hell 13 24 40 47 Nelieh , 17 33 40 47 Officials: Bob Day and Ram Skaug. Waverly Rolls Defending Class C champion. Waverly, had everything its own way in downing Callaway, 50-32. The Vikings started out slow C-CHADR0N Courtev Lincoln .Tnurtial Fiji's Lose To Sigma NU rp LaCC 1011111 Phi Gamme Delta's unbeaten string was halted at ten Tuesday night as the Fijis were handed a 27-24 setback at the hands of Sigma Nu. It was the second meeting for the two teams, the Fijis winning the first, 41-35. The two teams are tied for top honors in fraternity league II with records of 10-1 which will call for a playoff in the near future to see who gains the play- offs The game see-sawed through out with both teams owning sub stantial margins at one time or another. The Phi Gams led throughout the first half, except at the last minute when the score was tied at 11-11. Sigma Nu pulled in front al the start of the second half, but couldn't hold it as Ranking of the Fijis dunked two quick bas kets. Fijis Have Six The Phi Gams slowly built a lead and with five minntes re maining held a six-point mar gin. The Nu's caught fire. With Altman and Trout leading the way, they overcame the Fiji lead and went ahead to stay with one minute to play. A successful stallinr tame finally netted the win for the Si; Nu'i. Randy Rankin of the losers topped the scoring column, get ting an evening's total of ten. Altman of the Nu'i earned nine while Trout contributed seven. Farm House Falters Farm House's last hope of reaching the playoffs was dashed to the ground by a hot Beta Theta Pi team Tuesday night. The Betas upset the Ag cagtis, 36-29. Subby Euma led the way for the winning Betas, leading the scoring with 11 points. Roden scored ten for the losers. Pioneer Co-op paved the way for their second meeting with Brown Palace by downing- Kappa Sigma, S9-25. The win gives the Co-op a season's record of 7-4, identical to that of the Palace. The winner of their second meet ing will take undisputed posses sion of third place in fraternity league I. In their first meeting this year, the Palace won a narrow 31-30 decision. In the Co-op win over Kappa Sigma, gridder Ralph Damkroger wa;i high-point man for the Pio- r I B-MITCHELL Ja-scottsbluff I 0-SUN0L I and held a scant four-point mar gin at the first period, but built the margin to ten at the half. Rounding out the first day's activity was the Dwight Assumption-Arapahoe thriller which finally saw Assumption the win- CA la j ii no iiui. ju-io, m'.Nitiie uiu points of Arapahoe's Hoppy McCuc. Waverly fK ft Reed f .S fl-7 Shearv f 1-3 Peterson f o 3-3 Mill I fl 0-0 'tell c a 4 .1 lewett c 2 0-0 W'Haon g 0 n-1 'lunini: p 0 0-0 I.lnd.-imood g 0 n-1 Tyrrell g 0 0-0 f pta 4 1H 0 II 1 3 1 0 3 1 2 4 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 Totala IS 14-20 10 60 Callaway fe ft f pta MriiauKhey I A 2-3 ft Sellers f 1 1-2 2 WllrlK-r ( 1 1-2 0 Pitkin f 0 3-4 0 HreKa c 3 2-3 4 Janaen c 0 0-0 1 I'odtes 1 1-2 ,- Thnmaa g 0 0-0 .1 Hint it 0 0-0 0 Nanael g 0 0-0 0 Tot.i.a 11 10-18 20 32 Score by iiuartera: Waverly 12 CHllaway h 22 40 12 24 C - ST. JOSEPH'S D-HYANNIS C-CALLAWAY A- NORTH PLATTE A C-ARAPAH0E Sig Gams Hout Captured by Independent Mighty Sigma Gamma' Epsilon stands alone as king of Inde pendent basketball today. The unbeaten geologists rolled to their ninth straight victory and the Independent championship Wednesday night, trouncing Dor mitory C, 47-26. The Dorm men, who reached the playoff finals after over coming seemingly unsurmount able odds, fought the Sig Gams every second and even finished the last five minutes with only four men. The Dorm boys were without the aid of their stalwart center Lee Korte who suffered a sprained ankle before the game. Start Fast The powerful geologists started out in usual fashion and managed a 9-2 lead after three minutes. A mild Dorm rally closed this margin to four points with about ten minutes gone. Gene Yelkin and Chuck Nunley led the way as the Sig Gams spurted to a 19-11 half time lead. The Sig Gam reserves played most of the third period and even they seemed to be masters of the neers with 14 markers. Churchill of the losers potted seven. Top ranked Delta Tau Delta gained a berth in the playoffs Tuesday by turning back a stub born Tau Kappa Epsilon outfit, 42-35. The Tekes were definitely hot as they pressed the Delts ail the way. Halftime score read 17-12 Delts. Elmer Vandel and Hal Brectzke topped the Delt scor ing with 14 and 11 points, re spectively. Breslin netted 12 for the losing Tekes. Cornhusker Co-op won its first game of the year Tuesday by upsetting Delta Sigma Phi. 42 38. The Co-op boys routed the fa vored Delta Sigs for three pe riods only to see their big lead disappear In the last five min utes. With only those five re maining the Co-op held a 41-20 lead. The spirited Delta Sig rally was led by Clark iietcke who led the scorers in the game with a total of 16. Don Nelson topped the winning scorers with 11. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN i 11 Initiated By N-Cluh Eleven boys were initiated into the ranks of the N Club Wednesday night. ui the cieven, eight were I football players, one was team 1 manager, one was a member of the baseball squad, and two I were members of the football .Mciu. Dean Callan, who played baseball in 1941, left for the army soon after receiving his "N", and didn't have a chance of being initiated until this week. Although there is no hazing in the N-Club Coach Bill Glass ford and Backfield Coach Bob Davis were "forced" to sing a duet. 12 i Amonn the football nlavers 3 I who joined the ranks were Nick 3 i Adduci, Chicago; Don Bloom, 5 j Omaha. Bill Maxe. Brainerd Minn.; Fran Nagle, West Lynn, Mass.; Dick Regier, San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Frank Simon, Burchard; Walt Spellman, Oma ha; and John Dierks, Nebraska City. Dierks was the student manager. OF ATKINSON B-NEUGH C - B ALBION C-DWIGHT ASSUMPTION D-GRESHAM, - GRAND ISLAND .YORK C-FRIEND A-HASTII D-GLENVIL B- MINDEN 'D-HILDRETH Are Ninth Victory Championship game as they upped the margin to 11 points and a lead of 29-18 going into the final ten minutes. I i At this point the regulars took j over and really went to town for I live minutes. Kerr and Nuss spearheaded the attack. Hinman Out With five minutes remaining Art Hinman of the Dorm re ceived his fifth foul and left the C men with only four players. At this point the Sig Gam reserves took over again until the final whistle. Two men shared scoring honors In the championship game, one from each team. Chuck Nunley of the winners and Vern Welch of the losers each got an evening's total of 11 points, Nunley getting five of his on free tosses. ' The two Yelkins. Gene and Jack contributed eight points to the geologist attack, Gene on four beautiful long shots. The rest of the scoring was well dis tributed among the rest of the players. The Independent champs will now await the outcome of the three other leagues before re suming action in quest of All University Honors. Current favorites to win the other class championships are Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Tau Omega in Fraternity class "A", Phi Gamma Delta in Fraternity class "B", and the Lutherans in the Denominational class. i 1 1 ii i 1 1 1 1 j . -. I r.-r.t . , ,r J" . Musher Gridders Turn-in Impressive Ground Aftacfx With close to three weeks of spring football behind them, the Nebraska gridders have made an impressive showing on the ground, but their air attack has been suffering a drouth. Coach Bill Glassford opened this week with a two hour scrimmaR-e in which the offen sive team crossed the goal line eleven times. The offensive team was Riven the ball on its fourth scoring play of the day. Ferguson ' picked up some good blocking, and swept around end for 60 yards. Nagie Passes Quarterback Fran Nagle, West Daily Nebraska.. Selections in Ilich C7 MUNDELL'S SELECTIONS Class "A" Grand Island over Boys Town Scottsbluff over Falls City Benson over Hastings Northeast over North Platte Class "D" Hildreth over Hyannis Panama over Tehling Sunol over Millard Glenvil over Gresham EPSTEIN'S SELECTIONS Class "A" Grand Island over Boys Town Scottsbluff over Falls City Omaha Benson over Hastings SCRIBNER A-0MAHA BENSON A-B0YS TOWN n.uni v kiAuc 0-MILLARD A -LINCOLN NORTH EAS1 D-PANAMA B-PAWNEE CITY A-FALLS CITY outh l ouxom) o-uehlingV I .1 a akClVAUIRIri T v Champs; 47 fo 26 SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON g ft Pf G. Yelkin 4 0-0 0 Reider 0 0-1 4 Blank 1 3-3 0 Peters 1 0-1 1 J. Yelkin 2 4-6 0 Nunley 3 5-8 2 Nuss 2 1-2 5 Faust 0 0-0 1 Kerr 2 0-1 5 Busby 1 2-4 3 8 0 5 2 8 11 5 0 4 4 Totals 16 16-26 21 47 DORM C g ft pf tps Krofih 0 0-0 5 0 Hinman 1 3-5 5 5 Welch 4 3-3 3 11 Overing 1 0-2 4 2 Krotter 1 2-6 4 4 Hemphill 0 4-10 3 4 Totals 7 12-26 24 26 No more intramural games are scheduled until March 18, Satur day except for a few specially scheduled contests. Thursday's feature attraction is the playoff of Fraternity league II between Sigma Nu and Phi Gamma Delta. The two teams have split a pair of games this year and finished the regular season in a first place tie. The winner of Thursday's battle will represent League II in the class A playoffs to begin soon. Saturday's feature contests in clude Alpha Tau Omega "B" against Sigma Nu "B" and Phi Gamma Delta "B" against Beta Sigma Psi "B." In other "B" bat tles Saturday, Phi Delta Theta will take on Delta Tau Delta while Delta Upsilon tangles with Beta Theta Pi. Saturday is the last day of regularly scheduled games for this season. 'J! Tho trn.tr-l!fft best-seller blazes r j screen- ward! AIIIIH) WaJt llnry art".. Hprt Hrta Headliam Lynn. Mass., passed his way for three tallies and went over from the two in a third attempt. In Nagle's first scoring attempt he tossed a flat pass to Bloom, who skirted down the sidelines for 25 yards. Nagle 30-yard line each time a score was made. Looking outstanding in this week's drills is Gerry Ferguson, Scottsbluff veteran, who made an excellent showing in Mon day's work-out. Ferguson was the only man to score two touch downs. The first one came when he took a pitch out from Fran Nagle Sports Writers' Sciiog! Tournev Northeast over North Platte Class "D" Hildreth over Hyannis Panama over I'ehling Sunol over Millard Glenvil over Gresham BANK'S SELECTIONS Class "A" Grand Island over Boys Town Omaha Benson over Hastings Scottsbluff over Falls City Northeast over North Platte Class "D" Hildreth over Hyannis Panama over I'ehling Millard over Sunol Glenvil over Gresham Going into the second day of the tourney competition, all three prognosticators are tied with a percentage of .750. All three picked six out of eight games correctly in the first day of play ing. Banks slipped-up on the Mit-chell-Neligh and Arapahoe Dwight Assumption contests while the Arapahoe defeat also stymied Mundell along with the York-Albion game. Epstein picked two other battles to guess incorrectly: the Minden-South Sioux City and Friend-Scribner contests. Kentucky Mauled By CCNY in NIT Led by the torrid shooting of All - American Ed Warner, the City College of New York pounded Kentucky. 89-50, in the quarterfinals of the National In vitation Basketball Tournament Tuesday night. Nat Holman's eager Beavers played like champions before the 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden. Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, the team he labels as potentially his best ever, was completely confused before the home-town squad and suffered its worst beating since Rupp took over in 1931. Warner topped scoring with 26 points, the same number he grabbed in CCNY's opening win over San Francisco Saturday. Kentucky, 1948 Olympic cham pion and winner of the NCAA title last year, was jolted from this same tournament in the quarterfinals a year ago by Loy ola cf Chicago. In the first game Tuesday night, Duquesne edged La Salle. 49-47 giving them the right to meet CCNY in the semifinals, to night. The other semifinal match sends top-seeded Bradley against St. John's of Brooklyn. Both teams advanced Monday night. The finals of the NIT are sched uled for Saturday. Elections... (Continued from Page 1.) Delta. She was sophomore at tendant to the Ivy Day queen last year. Organizations' Work. AWS board has charge of the women's point board and han dles sign out sheets for organized houses. It also sponsors the an nual Coed Follies show. BABW coordinates activities of unaffiliated women. Among its current plans is an achieve ment award, to be given the organized, independent women's house which makes the most ad activities. Coed Counselors arrange coke vancement in scholarship and dates and special counseling for entering freshmen women. The organization is designed to help new students adjust themselves well to University life. MAIN FEATURES START r "Mrs. Mike" 1:09, 3:14. 5:19, 7:24. 9:31 "Flying Serucers" 1:00, 4:00, ,7:00, 10:00 'TiratM of Capri" 2:26, 5:26. 8:26 r I1H AHB 0' "Western Renegades" 2:29. 5:05. 7:41, 10:17 m. j sss-mw PAGE 3 and scored around right end from five yards out. In the then faded way back and pitched a 35 yard pass to Bob Reynolds, freshman flash from Grand Island, who took the ball away from two defenders and raced 35 more yards for a 70-yard scoring play. Nagle's third scoring pass was a short flip to Frank Simon, Burchard, who broke away and crossed standing up to complete a 70-yard touchdown march. Adduci Scores Other long scoring sprints in Monday's drills were by Nick Adduci, Chicago fullback, with a 55-yard run; Farley Pickering, lanky halfback from Junction City. Kans, who scampered 70 yards: and Jim Sommers, youwg Lincoln Central grad, who paced away a 40-yard touchdown run. In contrast to Monday's drills, the work-out on Tuesday was not too successful. Passing was emphasized with Nagle continuing to carry the load. Other boys taking their turns in the slot were Dutch Meyers. Lincoln, and Dick Hea cox. Gary. Penn. I.ine play looked impressive, and the boys were displaying blocking and tackling which looked sharper than it has looked in previous years. Glassford's first offensive unit had Geoi ge Faynich and Ted Connor ends: Don He.:: and Bob Mullen, tackles: Walt Spellman and Don Strasheim. guards: Ken Schreder, center; Nagle. quarter back; Ferguson and Bill Mueller, halfbacks, and Adduci. fullback. Other boys seeing action on the offensive lines were Ray Rifen bark, and Joe McGill, centers; Bill Maxe and Carl Brasee, guards; Dick Gocglcin and Charles Toogood, tackles; and Dick Regier, Frank Simon, and Larry Carney, ends. Boys in the backfield v ere Reynolds. Ron Clark, Bill Win gender, Tony Winey, and Far ley Pickering, halfbacks; and Chuck Buehrer. fullback. Ron Clark Out Injured in this week's prac tices was Ron Clark who cracked up in Monday's prac tice. Clark, Ravenna sophomore, suffered a back injury, and is expected to be out for a week. Boys carrying the offensive load are Verl Scott, center; Hus mann and Richard Coll, guards; Wayne Handshy and Keith Fiene, tackles; and Robert Man ion and George Prochaska, ends: The backfield combination had Jack Ladds in the safety post; Clayton Curtis and Gerald Dunn at halfback; and Joe Ponsiegeo backing up the line. Last night Glassford stressed passing, contact work, and fun damentals. The practice session was concluded with scrimmag ing. Newt Copple InAAUMeet One of the spiciest matches at the Midwest A.A.U. Wrestling Championships in Omaha will be the welterweight clash. This match pits Fred Pisasale, Omaha University ace, against Newt Copple, former University f Nebraska star. Pisasale is the deefnding champion from last year. During the regular col legiate season this year he was undefeated. Copple once held the Big Seven 145 pound division crown. He was runner-up in the national A.A.U. meet last year and cap tured the individual champion ship the year before that. Copple has maintained a steady Interest in the Cornhusker wrestling squad. He has contributed a trophy in behalf of the Nebraska wrestlers. Baseball ctjach Tony Sharpe has issued a call for all fresh men baseball candidates to be present at a meeting on Mon day, March 30 In the N-Club Room of the Coliseum at 7:30 p. m. 3 HOVRS OF GREAT SHOW INCLUDING THE "Original Youth Opportunity" Cost-To-Coit Broadcast m rttiON wtw sum IWWAU) -rod won A JAT M I .11 - H(W $OHO 6b mif moists srS la, linflal Tal Tickets on Sale at y.. -.. vpr-k Store March U I fCJ0f... i'tyj CTA J " mum Sao at Mna - mm mm ,-r fMf npw.-, ' j-itrT- . . a . -: -v"f '?- -. (.