Tuesday, March 13, 1956
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By BOB WIRZ
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Chemists became the champions
ef intramural basketball for the
1955-56 season Saturday night with
a rallying victory over Phi Delta
Theta, Fraternity champions.
The Chemists jumped to a lead
In the first period, 14 to 11, but
lost it again before halftime. At in
termission the Phi Delts were lead
ing by a slim, 23-22 margin.
In the second half the Phi Delts
tarted moving away and led by
seven points, 39 to 32, at the end of
the third quarter. Then the Inde
pendent champions took command
and behind the torrid shooting of
Dave Pederson and Bob Prokop,
soon cut the margin down. They
surged into the lead In the final
two minutes to win.
The big difference in the contest
was at the free throw line where
the Phi Delts hit 11 of 18 while
the Chemists were sizzling with 20
successful attempts in 23 tries. Pe
derson hit 14 of 15.
Pederson was the game's leading
scorer with 22 points while Prokop
had 15. Also scoring for the Chem
ists were Don Pederson five, Bob
Allen four and Jack Peterson two.
Joe Carter with 12 points paced
the loser balanced attack. Other
Phi Delt scorers were Terrv Hea-
ley and Eric Olson with nine each,
BUI Ross had eight and Art Wea
ver seven.
Chemists advanced to the finals
with a win over Avery, Selleck Hall
Champions, Friday night by a
score of 57 to 38. Ken Johnson
paced the losers with 16 points
while Dick Prusia and I,ane Bir
kel each had nine. Dave Pederson
again led the winners with 20 and
he was followed by Prokop and
Don Pederson with 11 and 10 re
spectively. The Phi Delts advanced to the
finals by whipping Delta Tau Del
ta, 41 to 28 in the All-Fraternity
championships. The Delts fell be
hind early in the game and trailed
13-2 at the quarter. Thy never
could quite overcome this deficit.
Olson and Healey paced the win
ners with 12 and 10 points while
John Biedeck with 10 and Dwight
Seibler with eight paced the losing
Delts. I
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From The Sports Desk
Kreit's Horner
State tourney notes
Boy's Town, the darkhorse of the
Class AA bracket of the Nebraska
High School basketball tournament,
came through in flying colors Sat
urday night to down the home
town favorite, Northeast. The Cow
boys finished the year with a 14-4
record and earned first place in
the final poll of the state's tcp ten.
Jerry Collier, the 6-1 Fall City
center, was in my opinion one of
the finest players in the tourney.
The senior pivot man was Fall
City's main factor in copping the
Class A crown.
Another player that looks like a
good Husker prospect is Geneva's
Larry Fiedler. The big center
turned in a 27-point outburst
against Clarkson to lead his team
to the trophy throne in the C
bracket. He is just a junior. He
outscored the tourneys leading
scorer, Bob Moore of Clarkson,
Leading their respective division
in scoring were, Class AA, Rudy
Stoehr of Northeast 34 points;
Class A, Jerry Collier of Falls City
51 points; Class B, Ken Dahl of
Wayne 40 points; Class C Bob
Moore of Clarkson 52; Class D,
John Hoagland of Brady 42 points;
Class E, Paul Collison of Farwell,
39 points.
Presentations . ,
Two awards were presented to
Nebraska basketball players at the
halftime of the Class AA finals.
Rex Ekwall, the Comhuskers lead
ing scorer, won the teams Most
Valuable Player award. He was
presented with a set of sterling
silver.
Duane "Whftey" Buel, the senior
By MAX KREITMAN
Sports Editor
co-captain, won the Joe T. Brown
award, symbolic of top sportsman
ship. His award was given on the
basis of his comeback after an in
jury kept him out of action for the
first half of the current year.
My error ...
I mentioned in my last column
that Chadron Prep was favored to
cop the Class B title. I w a s in
formed by some collegues of the
professional ranks that it was Chad
ron High not Prep that was entered
in the tourney.
To make the situation more em-
barrcsing, two other schools are
in Chadron, one a Parochial school
and one a college. The only con
solation of the whole situation was
that Chadron High was beaten in
the first round and my prediction
fell by the wayside.
traveling man . .
Jerry Bush, head basketball
coach, is on the way over the neigh
boring states in search for talent
for future Husker quintets. This
week Bush will be at the capital
of the prep cage sports, Indiana.
He then will visit state tourneys
at Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and New
York.
Who knows, from the melting
pots of these states could come the
future members of the Big 7
champs, Nebraska. Wishful think
ing, huh . .
The lighter side . . .
In all, there will be six home
contests next year. They will in
clude South Dakota U, Iowa State,
Kansas State, Indiana, Missouri and
Bayior. On the lighter side, we
meef Colorado at Boulder next
year. Hello Tulagies . . .
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Huskers Sixth:
(-State Captures
ig Seven Title
The 1955-56 Big Seven Basketball meet the winner of the Tuesday
season came to an end last week
with the Kansas State Wildcats be
ing crowned conference cham
pions. Nebraska finished sixth with a
three won nine lost record, and
compiled a 7-16 mark on the entire
season.
This was a dismal finish for the
Huskers who last year produced a
6-6 record while finishing in a tie
for third place.
The Comhuskers lost two games
last week. The first one was to
Missouri, 88-80 and then to Iowa
State, 94-74 to leave those two
teams tied for second and third
n conference standings with iden-
cal 8-4 records.
' Kansas lost a chance to throw
ne league into a tie when they
were beaten by Kansas State, 79
68 and then lost their finale to
Colorado 75-67. The Buffs added a
67-66 win over Oklahoma to replace
the Jayhawkers in fourth position.
Kansas State will be in action
Friday in the N.C.AA. tournament
at Lawrence, Kansas. They will
BIG SEVEN CONFERENCE
Final Standings
Team Wea Lost
Kansas State 9
Iowa State 8 4
Missouri 8 4
Colorado 1
Kansas C 6
NEBRASKA
Oklahoma 1 11
All Games
Iowa State 18 $
Kansas State 16 7
Missouri 15 7
Kansas 14
Colorado 11 11
NEBRASKA 7 16
Oklahoma 4 19
game at Wichita, pitting Memphis
btate against Oklahoma City.
Attention
All men who are interested in
going out for any spring sport at
the University this year must re
port to Student Health at 7 p.m. the
21st of March for a physical exam
ination. No one will be allowed to parti
cipate without a physical.
At The Crack Of The Bat:
Husker Baseball Cretv Travels South
To Oppose Tulsa In Season Opener
At The Big 7 Meet:
Cotter Paces Mermen
To Third Place Spot
By SHERMAN NEFSKY
Nebraskan Sports Reporter
Nebraska's swimming team led
by Gene Cotter, took third place
in the Big Seven conference swim
ming meet.
Cotter, a junior, was the only
winner on the Husker squad. He
emerged as champion in the one
meter diving after nosing out Dale
Waffmuth of Iowa State, 439.9 to
432.8.
Oklahoma led by their captain
Peter Duncan and ace backstrok
er Lin Meiering fought off Iowa
State's challenge to win their o
ond straight conference champion
ship.
New conference records were set
in all but one event. One of the
most outstanding performances
was put on by Jeff Farrell of Okla
homa when he swam the 100 yard
freestyle in a record time of :51J,
bettering the previous record of
:52.0 set by Bob McKevitt of Iowa
State in 1955.
Only five teams entered tha mo
as Missouri and Kansas S t a 1 1
don't field swimming teams. Iowa
State finished second with 10J
points, followed by Nebraska'! 32,
Colorado 31 and Kansas 25.
Sooners First:
Husker Grapplers
finish Last In Meet
By BOB MARTEL
Nebraskan Sports Reporter
The Nebraska Comhuskers will
open their 1956 baseball season on
March 24 opposing Tulsa Univer
sity at Tulsa.
The Huskers will be trying to
improve on a 1955 season which
produced an overall record
of 15 wins and five losses and
a Big Seven mark of five wins
and one loss.
The big stick of last year's squad,
third baseman Don Brown, is back
for another fling. Brown led the
Husker hitters last spring and is
expected to bat in the cleanup
position this season.
Coach Tony Sharpe's pitching
staff will sorely miss Fran Hoff-
mier, the ace of last years mound
corps, who graduated last spring.
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Counted on to fill Hoffmeir's shoes
are Willie Greenlaw, Roger Bot
torf and Dick Gier, all portsiders.
Greenlaw turned in a couple of
fine mound performances last
spring including one stint in which
he whiffed seventeen opponents
and looks like he might be the
man to carry the load.
The Husker schedule calls for
22 games this season, nine of which
will be played at home.
Nebraska will swing south dur
ing spring vacation to oppose Tul
sa at Tulsa, Houston at Houston,
Rice Institute at Houston, and Bay
lor at Waco. All these meetings
will be two game series except
the Tulsa clash which will be a
one game tilt.
During last year's southern swing
the Huskers won five out of six
contests. Brown led the team with
14 hits in 25 trips which included
two home runs for a respectable
.560 batting average.
The Comhuskers will play host
to the Offutt Air Force Base
Flyers on All Sports Day April
28. The Flyers turned out a fine
club last year which consisted of
quite a number of minor league
players.
Norm Coufal, regular shortstop
last seas6n covers a lot of ground
and is sure-handed in the double
play situation. In addition to his
fine defensive play, Coufal was
also a better than average sticker.
Batting in the number two spot,
the Husker shortstop accounted for
more of his share of extra base
hits.
Sophomores from last year's
frosh squad who could be a big
help to Coach Sharpe are Frank
Napp, Don Smidt, Jim Kubacki,
Dick Kleiber, Gary Reimers, Rod
Wolfe and pitchers Cal Johnson
and Charles Ziegenbein.
The Huskers will close their sea
son on May 25 with a game
against Iowa State at Ames.
Winning five final events, the
Oklahoma Sooners wrestling squad
won the Big Seven grappling meet
at Ames, Iowa.
The victors tallied 85 points to
come out on top of the second
place Iowa State Cyclones, who
scored 76 points. Kansas State
finished third with 31 points, Colo
rado fourth with 27 points, and Ne
braska last with eight tallies.
The one-two combination of OU
and I-State is exactly the same as
the way the two schools finished
in the conference swimming meet.
Three Huskers got as far as the
semi-finals before losing. Marshall
Nelson advanced to the semi's be
fore being pinned by OU's Dick
Delgado in the 123-pound class.
In the 167-pound division, the
Huskers Bob Pickett lost to the
Sooner's Bill Kale. Don Brand,
Nebraska's heavyweight entry lost
to Gordon Roesler of OU.
In the finals, Bob Lyons of Okla
homa decisioned Bob Mancuso of
K-State, 3-2 in the 130-pound class.
In the 137-pound division, Dean
Came of Iowa State beat Don Hart
of Oklahoma, 10-5.
The 147-pound class found Don
Studebaker of OU pinning Roland
Alexander of KS in the timo of
6:30. Bob Formanek of IS re
peated as the 157-pound champion
by decisioning Jerry Broff of Okla
homa, 5-2.
Iowa State's Frank Powell won
the 167-pound contest by decision
ing Bill Kale. The Sooners Don
Hodge won the 177-pound class by
pinning Gene Frank of the Cy
clones in the time of 2:41.
Gordon Roselor is the heavy
weight winner via a decision over
I-State's Don Jensen.
Last year these same Sooners
won the crown with the Cyclones
taking second.
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Notice
AH men interested in varsity
golf should report to the N club
room, Wednesday afternoon at 4
p.m. for a meeting with coach
Jerry Bush. This includes all mem
bers from last year's team and any
others who are interested in try
ing out this year.
Notice
, Everyone entered in Intramural
squash, handball, or table tennis
matches is reminded to keep
checking the bulletin boards in
the men's Physical Education build
ing to find the time and place of
their matches so that they may
ot lose out by forfeit.
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