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TTe&iea&ay, January IT, The DAILY NEBRASKA! SUIT! by June Bierbower. Don Fitu, the Husker weather man, and one of the Big Six's clas siest players, just can't keejJ away from the bad breaks. First Fits was disabled early in the season by a siege of Influenza, although It really hampered him in one rame that against Indiana, Blnce he came ba.ck in the next trame and shot the winning bucket as well as several others against Stanford four days later. Now it's a knee injury which will keen him out of the Kansas state and Kansas games for sure He was hurt in the Missouri game after about half the first period was gone, and if Nebraska had had him in there when they weren't coring in the last seven minutes of the first half, and when they were scoring in the second period, the score might have been differ ent. It's water under the bridge though, and K-State is on deck Wednesday. The Huskers won't win if they make only fourteen of eierhty basket attempts as they did Saturday nieht. and .they won't win if they're behind 26-9 again at the end of the half. Stanford games come but once in a millen nlum. However, the Huskers got in and fought against Indiana even though Fitz was out of shape, and they looked good against the Hoos lers. Sid Held as "a sophomore has been developing into a fine player, and will likely start for Fitz Fri day night, but it's hard to get along without a man as important to the team as the lanky guard from Uni. Place. Coaches who have been signed to contracts recently have, in the main, been signed for five years not for just one or two but for five Most recent example, of course was Clark Shaughnessy at Stan ford. Homer Notton, Texas aggie mentor, who was on the pan at this time a year afro, asked for and got a five year contract. Whitney Martin, head sports man of the Associated Tress, say3 that five years should be given a coach to develop a team. Martin says it takes that long for him to install his system, etc., and that a one, two, or even three year trial isn't long enough. Specifically. Martin says five years is the ideal length of a con tract because in his first year at a school the coach can start new system and go out in the state to round up all the hot shots who are seniors in high school. In his second year, they'll be freshmen, and he'll l'arn them his way of doing. Then when they're sophomores he'll form them into a team, and by their junior year, they should be plenty nifty. In their senior year, and in his the coach's fifth year well, if they don't get a Rose bowl bid, the school can fire him, but not before. That press release from Nor man, Oklahoma, which told about Jimmy McNatt's giving up piano lessons at the wise old age of fourteen to become a basketball player, has been causing the I Sooner forward no little embar- rassmcnt. Jim made a measly three points in the Oklahoma Aggie game, as A & M beat the Sooners, 26-19. So immediately, hia "admirers" at i Stillwater began a "McNatt Tiano Fund Drive," to put Jimmy back where they thought he belonged. It didn't phase McNatt, though, because he can still pound the ivor ies, they say. and he admits he could use a new piano. Wrenched knee puts Fitz in hospital K-State guard vm i ' V'j A h) &: 7 iftHv.- i'li 'V -aji.i"ir""' " -''. v. .aftiAiaj Star guard unable to play Friday night Browne uses Held at Don's post in drill yesterday afternoon Don Fitz, HuBker guard who suffered a wrenched knee in the Missouri game, underwent a minor operation for the removal of wa ter from his knee at the Bryan Memorial s U i 7 NORRIS HOLSTROM. Norris Holstrom, Junior guard has stepped into the shoes of in jured Ernie Miller for Kansas State and has done a fine job at his position. Holstrom, who played independent ball in Topeka, is in his second year with the Wildcats but did not letter last winter, and lacks only a little more scoring ability to become an A-l player. IV1N FTT7 Journal and star. Browne, hos pital, and will be out of action for an indefi nite 1 1 m e at least ten days Fitz is lost for the Kansas State game Friday night, and at best, will be able to get into the Okla homa came a week from Sat urday night, so Coach W. H. whose team didn't look in losing 46-33 Do nu. any too good against Missouri, isn't particularly pleased about the prospects for Friday nieht, or for the Kansas game Tuesday at Lawrence. Injured in first half. Fitz was injured in the middle of the first half, and was removed from the game, in which the Husk' ers made only fourteen of eighty attempts at field goals. The knee injury was the second bad break which has befallen the ace Husker guard this year, as he was hampered early in the season by a siege of the flu. Reid high scorer I j .. .v a . . N . j! J, '. i i , : ; " '--).! : , n 1 7 " ' - t V I . r- V V ' r -A ! 1 M :tJ Pitcaithicy still ahead in scoring Pit leads Huskers; second to KU's Miller in Big Six standings Harry Pitcaithley, Jackson' pride and joy, boosted his lead aa top Nebraska sharpshooter last week to 92 points, 26 points bet ter than his nearest rival, Don Fltz. Pitcaithley also holds sec ond place in Big Six conference scoring, only one point behind Mil ler of Kansas, who leads with 20 counters. Fitz has 66. In the Nebraska scoring, Fltz has an aggregate of 66 points, while Sid Held follows in third position with 53. Omaha's Irv Yaffe and Al Randall moved into fourth and fifth places with 48 and 44 points, respectively. Therien seventh. Bob Therien, who has finally found his batting eye displaced Lyle King in seventh place with an aggregate of 21 buckets. Randall and Yaffe are similarly neck and neck in the conference scoring race. Both are in twelfth place with 12 points apiece. Pitcaithley is three points ahead of Bob Allen, Kansas, and Clay Cooper, Missouri, and four ahead of Herb Scheffler, Oklahoma, and Bruce Voran, of Kansas. Ervin Reid, Chris Langvardt and Melvin Seelye of Kansas State, the Husk ers' next opponents, nave 14, li and 11 points respectively in two games. ERVIN REID. Ervin Reid, senior center for Kansas State has been a power in the Wildcats' offense ever since he was a sophomore at the Manhattan school. Thus far this season Reid has led the K-Staters in scoring, and will be their main threat of fensively against the Huskers at Manhattan Friday night. Frosh Leonard Chadelc plays in Omaha's newest show-a 4-team hockey league Leonard Chadek, Nebraska freshman, says, "I really got a go ing over," concerning Monday night's amateur hockey show in Omaha. Chadek. who came Omaha South, was a member of The players are furnished all the equipment they need except for shoulder pads. Only team wearing shoulder pads last night was the Ak-Sar-Ben outfit, a group of big here from who may the class of the On the Towers team at a defense fight, had three penalties. Conference scoring: O KG FT Miller. Kanwis 2 8 Pitcaithley, Nebraska.. J 6 7 Allen. Kansas 2 Cooper, Missouri 2 4 Schef ficr, Oklahoma . . 2 a 3 Vornn, Kansas 2 4 7 K. Reid, Kas. State... 2 5 4 McNatt, Oklahoma ... 2 1 2 Harvey, Missouri 2 4 Schneider, la. State... 2 1 Carltle, Oklahoma .... 2 S 3 EblinR, Kansas 2 4 4 Randall, Nebraska .... 2 Yaffe, Nebraska 2 5 2 Watson, Missouri 2 8 0 Ford. Oklahoma 2 4 3 Lancvardt, Kas. State. 2 4 3 Cooper, Missouri 1 4 3 Seelye, Kas. State 2 3 4 Husker scoring: C FC. Harry Pitcaithley 10 33 Don Fltz 10 25 Sid Held 10 19 Irr Yaffe 10 18 Al Kami all 10 1 Frank Talln-.an 10 16 Hartmann Coetn Bob Thenen & 10 Lyle KinK 8 8 Charley Varaati ...... 8 3 Bruce Duncan 8 3 bes Livingston 7 O John Hay 5 O Warren Radtkt 1 0 PK Pta 20 19 lft 16 15 15 14 14 14 13 13 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 10 FT PF Pta 28 18 82 14 t 18 18 11 17 4 8 1 1 7 8 0 16 15 12 12 66 53 48 44 39 25 21 IT 7 6 0 the Murphy-Did-Its, who beat the position was Don Flasnick. former Nebraska rowers, 1-0, in tne nrst game of the first amateur hockey show in the town's history. Chadek didn't do any scoring that got in the books, but one of his shots bounced into the net when it slid off the side of a Pow ers' goalie's foot. However, the score wasn't marked up, and the referee refused to allow it, al though the Murphy's protested vigorously. It was the first hockey game in which the Omaha student, who is taking a pre-med course here, played, although he says he has liked to skate all his life. "You tell 'em it's tough," he said, but Chadok's going to play with the Murphy's every Monday night in the weekly shows in Omaha. The four-team league has the Ak-Sar-Ben All-Stars, and the Union Stockyards in it along with the Murphy's and Tower", and Monday night the Ak-Sar-Ben team won, 3-1 from the Stock yards la a game replete with funny incidents, a fight, and rough, if not polished, play. Husker wrcstlinsr star. Flasnick uses his size to good ability, but as yet isn't a polished skater. Ray Smith, a member of the Husker freshman football team last year, was at a defense posi tion for the Ak-Sar-Ben team, which also had Al Truseott,' big Creighton U. fullback. Smith is attending Omaha U. this year, and both he and Flasnick were in the penalty box twice Monday night on two minute penalties. 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