Tuesday, April 17, 1951
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NU Golf, Te hnis Teams
awks Thurs
Meet Jayh
Minor sports assume a major
place In the Cornhusker sport'
light this week with the opening
of the tennis and golf season.
The tennfc team opens day un
er Edtfatd Higglnbotham.
Thursday his squad entertains
f f the Kansas Jayhawks.
He will build his team around
three returning lettermen from
last year. The lettermen are Bob
Radin, senior from Vero Beach,
Fla.; Jamie Curran, senior from
Buenos Aires; and Andy Bunten,
junior from Cheyenne, Wyo.
Sophomores
Walt Weaver and Jim Wells,
Lincoln, both won numerals in
1950 and are making strong bids
for varsity berths.
Jeff Deltbn, a senior from Lin
coln, and Frank Redman, a jun
ior from Miami, Fla., members
of last year's squad, are expected
to add depth and experience to
the Husker crew.
Other men who are competing
lor berths are Bob Crook, Don
Thompson, John Schroeder, and
Duane Dietering.
Higglnbotham said the weather
has been playing havoc with his
outdoor sessions. He has had his
team working outside four times
since the first call for players was
issued.
The team has "been using the
limited quarters of the Coliseum
on some occasions, but this type
of practice can hardly give it the
proper conditioning.
Ladder System
Hlgginbotham is using a ladder
system whereby any player may
challenge the man above him.
The Nebraska golfers meet the
Jayhawks on Thursday at Hill
crest and then travel to Manhat
tan, Kas., for a dual meet with
Kansas State.
Coaqh Marvin Franklin believes
he will have the best balanced
squad in several years.
But he suffered a severe loss
when Chick Battey, Lincoln, suf
fered an eye injury in a cnurcn
league basketball game.
Joe Gifford, Lincoln, was the
individual Big Seven champion
of the 1950 conference feet
Other top golfers on Franklin's
squad - are Dick Spangler and
Dick Lauer, Lincoln; Jack Heck
enlively, Omaha; and Doug Dale,
Ord.
Franklin ir not definitely set
on his entire squad since snow
and rain cut short qualifying
rounds last week.
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AROUND THE LOOP...
Buffs Only School
With Sid Team
By Shirley Murphy
Oklahoma's football team has an interesting opener to look for
ward to. The Sooners play William and Mary in their first home
match at Norman.
Eight of the 19 William and Mary backs for this fall were
sprinters on their high school track teams. William and Mary re
turns 28 lettermen. Coach Rube McCray of William and Mary has
installed the Split T formation assisted by Bus Entsminger, former
Missouri quarterback. When the two schools met at Norman in 1942,
th.. Sooners were defeated 14 to 7.
Coach Bilrl V. Berry of Iowa State has announced his list of
track men for the Kansas Relays.
The six men are Jim Robertson, John Dickinson, John Wilkin,
Merle Harris, Jerry Moorhead and Dick Silver.
Robertson Will face much the same field he competed against at
the Texas relays in his shot and discus events. The former Iowa
state high school champion placed third in both events.
Harris will compete in the 100-yard dash, Moorhead and Dick-
ingson in the high hurdles and Wilkin and Silver in the pole vault.
Not only is Colorado the only Big Seven school to sponsor a
varsity ski team, but it seems that they are the only Big Seven
members ttfat have a soccer club team which plays inter-collegi-ately.
The Colorado eleven played to a 2-2 tie with Colorado college
in Denver last week. This left them in third place among eight
teams in the final Denver and District Soccer association standings.
Missouri Baseballers Play
Four Games This Week
Nebraska's baseball team has
a full agenda of baseball activity
ahead of them this week as they
journey south to take on two
games with Wichita University
and Kansas State college.
Coach Tony Sharpe has nomi
nated 17 men to take the south
ern trek which opens with a
game with Wichita's shockers on
Monday and Tuesday and a two
game series with Kansas State's
Wildcats on Wednesday and
Thursday.
In last year's game with the
Shockers, the Huskers lost the
opening game, 13-12, but bounced
back to .win the second, 7-4.
Coach Sharpe did not indicate
whom he planned to use as
starting pitcher for this game.
The emphasis will be placed
on the second series with Kansas
State. The game will mark the
Huskers initial contest against a
conference foe.
Weather
The Wildcats have been hamp
ered by the adverse weather con
ditions as have Coach Sharpe's
nine. Coach Ray Wauthier has
been forced to mold his 1951 edi-
roe
y
tion around five of last year's
lettermen.
The Wildcats boast a fine
pitching staff which is headed
by Jim Iverson and Park Reite
meier. Iverson may be remem
bered as a starter on Jack Gard
ner's conference championship
basketball team.
Frosh
Meanwhile on the home front,
Coach Jim Angelis has his fresh
man diamond dazzlers working
out-of-doors. It is hoped that the
frosh will have some games this
year besides the usual varsity
game.
Traveling squad: Johnny Rego,
Bobby Reynolds, Bob Diers,
Jerry Dunn, Ray Mladovich, Bill
Fitzgerald, Bill Jensen, Bob
Lohrberg, Dick McCormick, Al
Benjamin, Del Kopf, Gil Phelps,
George Nutt, Dale Bunsen, Bill
Anderson, John Leach and Jack
ShulL
IS Has Full Sophomore Favored to
Sport Schedule
Iowa State spring sports team
will take part in five events this
week maybe.
If spring should arrive in a less
moist condition during the week
the Cyclones will open their home
baseball season, engage in a ten
nis meet, and take part in a
couple of relay meets.
Friday the Panthers of Iowa
State Teachers are slated to help
open the 1951 home baseball sea
son for the Cyclones. The two
teams will play a repeat on Sat
urday.
While the baseball team is
meeting the Tutors, the tennis
team will have its first 1951 taste
of action against the University
of Omaha at Omaha
In addition to the baseball
game, the Cyclone track team
will also be in action Saturday.
Coach Burl V. Berry will split his
squad, sending about six men to
the Kansas relays at Lawrence
with the rest taking part in the
Iowa Teachers Relays at Cedar
rails.
Missouri Alumni Faired
To Down Varsity Saturday
Choice cuts of beef will take
to the field in behalf of Missouri's
Ahimni football team' when the
Tigers' spring football squad and
the Old Grads mix it up at Co
lumbia Saturday afternoon
their annual, climactic game.
This could be the Alumni's year
to take picks on the M. U. under
grads, says Dick Braznell, ring
leader or the Alumni forces, and
they aim to do just that.
"Don't call this one of those
exhibition contests where the
Alumni play hard for five min
utes and then play out," advises
Braznell, brimming, with confi
dence. "We've rounded up two
full teams composed of players,
and several reserves, who are still
in school and they're all itching
to whip the varsity."
In mid-season form. Coach Don
Faurot concedes that Braznell's
high optimism is warranted: "This
is one year the Alumni could
easily beat us," he admits.
Tallest Jumper
At Jay Relays
The twenty-sixth Kansas Re
lays will garnish its annual track
and field circus with what may
be America's tallest high jumper.
He is Walter "Buddy" Davis, 6-8
Texas 5&M sophomore, who
will lead a thin but highly-talented
Cadet line into Memorial
Stadium here April 21.
Davis, an all-Southwest bas
ketball center, climbed 6-9 last
Saturday at Austin to establish a
new Texas Relays record. That
' figure also is slightly above the
Kansas mark of 6-8 316, which
another Texan, Bobby Walters of
UT, notched here just two years
ago.
That ceiling was expected to
weather the rigors of an annually
classy field for some time. But
with Davis jumping against the
type of competition he will draw
here, even that lofty figure may
topple.
Austin
Davis bounded over 6-9 at Aus
tin on his first effort, then missed
twice at 6-1 1 which would have
constituted a new world record.
Kansas State's Virgil Severns
pressed him all the way, getting
over 6-7 for second place and
barely missing 6-9 on his first
try.
Even in those days of beefier,
taller athletes, Davis' second
story physique is rare. He is the
most towering leaper to hit
Southwest or Big Seven pits since
Parker Shelby, also 6-8, was col
lecting gold medals at Oklahoma.
The latter forged the difficult
triple at Drake by copping his
specialty in 1928-'29-'30.
He was followed by Al Well
hausen of Kansas in the mid
thirties who alternated his 6-7
frame between goal-tending on
Phog Allen's basketball club and and accomplished his fine jump
the sawdust pit of the high jump, at Austin despite the fact be still
wellhausen, however, cut no 1 was nursing a sore ankle,
swath comparable to that of
Shelby.
Severns
Severns isn't the only lad who'll
be pushing Davis here. A second
will be OU's latest sensation,
Dick Jones, the one-shoe-off
jumper from Cleveland, Ohio.
Jones, who doubles as leadoff
man for John Jacobs' potent mile
relay quartet, placed third at
Texas with a hoist of 6-6. The
previous Saturday at Stillwater
he set a new Oklahoma record
of 6-7 by winning the Oklahoma
A&M Preview Relays. The old
mark had survived 17 years of
buffeting since being established
at 6-6V4 by Doug Barham in 1934.
Jones won the Big Seven in
door championship in a mild sur
prise at 6-3.
Severns, who shared America's
highest college leap last year at
6-8 V, is high in the picture, of
course, along with Nebraska's
Ken Meissner.
The angular K-Stater won the
Pan-American Games in March,
Weir Starts Home Track
Course Events for Preps
Home course track events,
sponsored by Ed Weir, track
coach at the University are start
ing in the Nebraska high schools.
The numeral and pentathlon
cards are being mailed this week
by Coach Weir.
The numeral winner gets a
blue diamond for 24 points and
a half-blue diamond swatch for
12 points. These can be placed on
their track jersey. A majority of
the contestants in the state high
school track meet usually have
from two to three numerals dis
played on their jerseys.
While it is an indivdual ac
complishment, the numerals be
ing awarded to those athletes who
meet certain standards in track
and field events, a team award is
also figured.
Numeral Winners
The team award is based percentage-wise
on the number of
numeral winners in each school
as against the total male enrollment.
The Nebraska School for the
Deaf at Omaha won the team
award in 1950 when 916 numerals
were awarded to athletes of 175
schools.
Seven numerals were award
ed to Nebraska Deaf athletes. The
school had a male enrollment of
17.
first year. It offers both Individ- I -11 fit I PHW
ual and team awards. It haH VFACt A VC1IJJ.
On paper, at least, Braznell
ana ail-conference halfback, in
'49 has plenty of license to feel
chesty. The Alumni's starting line,
averaging 220 pounds, should
have an overwhelming weight
edge on the Varsity. Their backs
are potentially more gifted than
Faurot's 1951 edition, and their
passing game far superior to any.
thing the Varsity can muster.
Fundamentals
In the varsity squad's favor
are the fundamental necessities
better condition, organization and
teamwork, and greater overall
team speed. If an unprecedented
run of jpring injuries is any in
dication, they won't have the ex
Tigers seriously outmanned.
Anyway you look at it, the
Alumni's outfit poses a "sizeable"
threat. Among the blocky pillars
up front are such mastodons as
John Kadlec (240), Bob Fuchs
(240), Don Kellar (245) and
Freeman Bullock (225). Not yet
paunchy, but carry more pound
age than their "fightin' weight,"!
their hefties could give Faurot's
younger, lighter forwards quite
a mauling.
As Kadlec puts it, with a glint
in his eye, "We're really going
10 Druise 'em."
SUrtinr Backfleld
The Alumni's starting backf ield
has Phil Klein, quarterback:
Braznell or Ed Stephens, right
nan; jonn uiorioso, left hall: and
Bill Houston, Fullback. Except
ror Braznell, all finished up Just
last season.
Klein, the left-handed Braznell
and Glorioso, pitching to swarm
of good receivers, should keep the
varsity's pass-defenders in hot
water. Well-versed in the art
of flagging passes are such alumni
ends as Gene Ackerman, Dick
Armstrong, Fred Hulse, Rollie
Oakes and Dale Portmann. Of
this group. Ackermann who
caught more than 1,000 yards in
passes in two seasons at Mizzou
is the No. 1 target
Quarterbacks
Varsity quarterbacking will be
handled by Bob Schoonmaker,
Jim Hook and Walter Trueblood,
currently the best-looking of tht
play-callers. Schoonmaker ' and
Hook are mere apprentices at the
q. b. trade, with only five weeks
of work behind them, while
Trueblood directed the B team
last year. Their inexperience is
typical of the greenery that will
pervade the entire varsity squad.
The game, scheduled for a 3
p.m. kickoff Saturday, will be
played in four 12-minute quarters.
Win Shot at Kansas Relays
Mantle Gets.
4 Hits Against
on the international pentathlon
which is a part of the Olympic
games. An athlete is awarded so
many points for his abilities in
the high hurdles, 220-yard dash,
880-yard run, high Jump, broad
Jump, discus and shot put. He
can select the five events in
which he is best.
In 1950. Dick Westin of Oma
ha Benson won the individual
crown and Beatrice High School
won the team award for the sec
ond straight year. Beatrice won
the first pentathlon held in 1921.
The sensational New York Yan
kee rookie, Mickey Mantle, cele
brated his promotion to the var
sity by smacking a round tripper
and three singles.
But the Brooklyn Dodgers still
spoiled the occasion by eking
Out a 7-6 victory over the Bomb
ers. Shortly before game time the
Yanks bought the contracts of
Mantle and pitcher Frank Shea
from their Kansas iCty Ameri
can Association farm.
A 28-year-old right hander,
Only two sophomores have .won
shot put crowns in Kansas Re
lays v history. Texas A & M's
mighty Darrow Hooper looms as
the third in early reckoning for
the twenty-sixth Jayhawker
Games here April 21.
The 6-4, 220-pound Cadet T
formation quarterback already
has exceeded the winning pegs
of the two previous second-year
men here, Hugh Rhea of Ne
braska, and Elmer "One-Man
Gang" Hackney, of Kansas State.
Rhea, former all - American
tackle, reached 48-6 to win here
in 1950. It was the third best
heave in Relays annuals up to
that time. Hackney, the brawny
Oberlin, Kan., fullback, reached
50-4 in his first Mt Oread ap
pearance. Both these men scored triples
by following their sophomore
conquests with two more Relays
baubles, but Hooper may make
the fans forget both of 'em be
fore he graduates.
Last Saturday at Austin he
broke Hackney's 12-year-old
Texas Relays record of 52-y4
with a throw of 53-1. He had ex
ceeded the old Wildcat's mark
several times during the early
spring but the Austin effort is
his best to date, and good enough,
at the same time, to cast a
shadow over other hopefuls here.
High School Record.
Competing for North Side
high of Fort Worth, Hooper set
a new national high school rec
ord with the big iron agate at
59-10 in 1948. He also won the
discus at Texas with a scale of
148-9 to become the only
clear-cut double winner in the
Longhbrn Games.
In addition to his pressing
duties behind the Aggies center,
Hooper also kicked-off and booted
extra points for the College Sta
tion eleven last season. In 52
attempts he toed through 38 ex
tra points.
Hooper will be pressed here
by two Big Seven entries,
Oklahoma's Clair Mayes, and
Fally Tanner, the Indoor cham
pion from Colorado. The burly
Sooner football guard reached
552-0 at Texas, which, though
only good enough for second
place, established a new Norman
school record.
Tanner hit 50-11 to win the
Iindoor title from Mayes, who
got 50-55 at Kansas City, and
Phil Brusca, of Missouri, who
wrote his all-time best at 50-2.
The bulky Buffalo set a new
meet and fieldhouse record at
Boulder last Saturday when he
reached 51-3 in the CU-Ne-braska
dual.
This meet was scheduled as
an outdoor affair but the shot
was driven inside, along with
most outer events, by cold and
rain.
Robertson
A fourth Big Seven hand,
Frosh Fifth in
Postal Meet
The Nebraska University fresh
man track team managed to get
fifth place in the Big Seven
freshmen indoor track postal
championships,
Kansas placed first with 58
and Colorado placed second with
52. Oklahoma got third with
36 23. Missouri had 15, Nebras
ka 12 56, Iowa State 5. Kansas
State did not enter the postal
meet
The only Husker to cop a first
was Phil Heidelk. He got a first
in the high jump with a leap of
5 feet 11 Y4 inchese.
Other Husker scoring was by
Dan Linquist of Funk, who tied
for fourth in the 60 "yard high
hurdles with :08; Cal "German of
Cozad. tied for fifth in the 60
yard low hurdles with a time of
:07.4 ,and he also got a third in
the broad jump with a leap of 21
feet; Cliff Dale of Falls City tied
for fourth in the shot put when
he heaved the iron ball 43 feet 4
inches; Darrel Moreland of Simla,
Colorado tied for third in the
high Jump with a leap of 5 feet
10 inches.
Nebraska was last year's cham
pion of the freshmen indoor pos
tal meet.
chamDionshiD Yankee team. But
during the past three years he'
has been bothered with a sore1
arm. 1
Mantle and Jackie Jensen drove
in all the Yankee runs. Jensen
homered and tripled.
Iowa State's Jim Robertson, also
must be considered. He missed
the conference indoor derby, but
moved into prominence at Texas
with a trajection of 49-2. As a
high school senior at Ames, the
young Cyclone ranked seventh
among the nation's prep putters
at 58-5. He also picked up a
third in the discus at 139-0.
If Hooper can win the shot
here it wil be the first time
since 1934 this trophy has gone
to College Station. B. M. "Honk"
Irwin was the last (and first)
Cadet to bag the title when he
erected a new Relays record of
50-3. It was the first 50-foot
poke in Relays history. Darrow
may have to wait another year
or two to threaten Chuck Fon-
ville's gargantuan Relays record
of 58-, established here three
years ago.
If all good things come to those
who wait, Missouri's baseball
team should feel pretty optimistic
about their re-scheduled opener
with Washington U., in St. Louis
Tuesday.
The Tigers, who have had more
raise starts than an ancient-model
fhwer in mid-winter, will try
again to get their 1951 season roll
ing against the Bruins who've
been fighting a losing battle with
both the weather and the opposi
tion. Five setbacks without a win
show up on the Hilltop score
board, with those losses coming
to Ohio State, Illinois Normal,
Western Michigan (twice) and
Valparaiso.
Revise Scheduled.
After his first five games were
cancelled by soggy playing con
ditions, Tiger Coach John "Hi"
Simmons was forced into revising
his schedule, and the resultant
Softball Games
Are Revised
The intramural softball sched
ule will be played this week as
previously announced.
But beginning next week a
slight revision in the schedule
will be made. So teams should
watch the intramural bulletin
board in order to see when they
play.
Games postponed last week be
cause of weather should arrange
to play.
Teams which had their games
postponed last week because of
bad weather should arrange to
play them on Saturday.
The sports department is ask
ing the help of the University's
softball teams.
It would like to obtain full in
formation concerning the games
played. So if the teams want to
see their contests written up in
the sports page they should make
an effort to submit a small ar
ticle telling the details of the
game.
With a little help on the part
of the individual teams, a suc
cessful softball season will be
suppdemented by a successful
softball coverage in The Dailv
Nebraskan. i
shuffle sends Mizzou to the base
ball mat four times this week.
Following the Tuesday date
with Washington U, Missourians
tackle Ft. Leonard Wood here
Wednesday, and then swing south
for their first licks in Big Seven
competition against Oklahoma at
Norman on Friday and Saturday,
Always ahead of the conference
pek in' early seasoning, Coach
Jack Baer's Sooners had eight
games behind them by mid-April.
This isn't the cheeriest news Sim
mons has heard of late.
"Oklahoma always is extra
tough at home, especially early
in the schedule," he says. "We
beat them , twice here last year,
9-8 and 3-0, but were fortunate
to catch them in our last two con
ference games. This year, the
shoe's on the other foot and It
pinches."
Missouri's agreement with Ft.
Leonard Wood calls for a return
meeting with the Armv nine at
Ft. Wood on a date to be chosen
later. The G.I. roster lists sev
eral ball-players owned by major
league clubs, including first-base
man Preston Ward, formerly with
the Dodgers and Cubs, and Vera
Rapp, Cardinal farmhand who
caught for Houston last year.
Two Huskers
Play in Iowa
Bobby Reynolds, the Ail-American
football player, will play
baseball this summer with the
Buena Vista, la., White Caps in
the Iowa State league, a fast
semi-pro loop.
Reynolds, second baseman on
the Cornhusker baseball team,
played last year with Columbus,
Neb., in the Pioneer Nite league
Another Nebraska b acl&
Omaha's Bobby Decker, will play
for Carroll in the Iowa loop this
summer. Decker, a promising in- .
fielder, was with Audubon in the
same league last year.
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