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iWeHnes'day, February 10, 1943 DAILY NEBRASKAN iThompson Chosen Game Captain 'Huskers Must Continue Top Olathe Performance For Victory Over KIP . . . Says Lewendowski Whether Nebraska can whip Kansas Saturday night to move into second place in the Big Six standings depends entirely on if the Huskers can continue the spirited play they exhibited last week against the Olathe Clippers. That was the opinion of Husker coach, Adolph "Lew" Lewandow pki, as he sent his squad thru a brisk drill yesterday afternoon. , "Johnny Thompson played the best game of his college career against the Clippers and his team mates weren't far behind. If the entire squad could catch the scor ing fever Johnny had against the Clippers, we may surprise Phog's boys," commented Lew, whistle in mouth. Low Scoring. "Our trouble," continued Lewan dowski, "in the matches to date has been lack of scoring punch. We've only scored 39, 38, 37, 32 end 37 in our last five games and oyr seasonal average is a mere 37.5." Rolling along with 15 conquests in their past 20 starts, the Jay hawks boast a 47-point average. Husker fans, however, haven't yet forgotten the 1941 Husker-Jay-hawk mix when the heavily-favored invaders rolled onto the Coliseum maples confident of an easy win. Fitz, Held & Co. fought the Allenites to the end, finally losing 55-53 in the most thrilling ""tilt in the league that year. jr "We're in the best condition f since pre-exam games," added the better shape than we were against Oklahoma . when exams were in full swing. I never saw such a tired bunch of boys." K-State Next. Next Husker foe is K-State Wednesday night then come matches with Missouri and Iowa State on the home maples. Le wandowski will take his caeers to KU, Feb. 23 for another crack at the Jayhawks. Johnny Thompson, high point man in the last Scarlet start with 14 points, will captain the Husk ers Saturday night. UN Swimmers Open Friday . . . With Cyclones Tho the nucleus of Mentor Bill Edwards Cornhuskcr swim squad belong to the Army Air Corps Re serve, due for active call Feb. 28, the team will have time to finish a brief war-time slate. Competition opens in the Coli seum pool Friday when Iowa State's splashers meet the Scarlet aquatic squad. Next match is dated for the home pool Feb. 20, when Michigan State's strong team in vades for a dual affair. A two-meet trip Feb. 26-27 con cludes the campaign. On the trip, Edwards will guide his swimmers into battle against Grinnell and . jowa &iaie. T Lrs Ohlfied, Big Six champion I back btroke performer and one of the nation's top performers in that event, will lead the Husker squad. Norm Coffin, second-place AAU Midwest diver last year, heads the divers. Lcs Buckley, a veteran, and Jim Chatt, a promising soph, head the pprint performers. Cyclone-Panther Match Shifted AMES, la., Feb. 9. The date of the Iowa State College wrestling meet with Iowa Teachers has been moved back to Feb. 22, it was announced today by George F. Vecnker, director of athletics. The ,mect waa orginally scheduled for Feb. 20. The shift was made to permit the Iowa Teachers team to meet Michigan State's tourine squad on Feb. 20 at Cedar Falls. Michigan -State will wrestle the Cyclones here EVh. 10 hernm :noetlnr the oiiuicii uiv luuuwuig uojr. What a Leech! .t:v.-''' Courtesy Lincoln Journal. Jim "Leech" Marteney, Okla homa's little 150 pound senior guard, is a long-armed defensive specialist from Cherokee, Okl., who came into his own in the Missouri and Iowa State games last season. Marteney, who ranks with Gerald Tucker as finest student on the Oklahoma team, is a senior in the College of Business Administration and will shortly get a commission from the unievrsity R.O.T.C. Field Artillery. Glue Fingered llllllf 5 t v. .7 X , , , t u . .3. , . . fx Courtesy Lincoln Journal. Husker grid fans remember Otto Schnellbacher as the glue fingered end who snared a goodly share of Ray Evans' ac curate tosses. Now Otto returns to the Husker court Saturday night in the role of Kansas' prize soph eager. A regular since the opening game, Schnellbacher has averaged over 10 points per battle. Handball Tourney Entry Sheets Due Handball players are now get ting ready for the all-school tour nament to be held soon. All en tries must be in by February 12, in both doubles and singles. Play ers in the finals will be determined by elimination and medals will be given to the winners. New equipment in the activity buildings includes shuffle board and badminton courts. m sV a M I It I J 1 1 S 9 . t U Jayhawk Team Built From Scratch ... It Says Here BY CHUCK EVANS. (KU Publicity H-ad) MOUNT OREAD, Kans., Feb. 9. Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen started his 26th year as head basketball coach at the Univer sity of Kansas with hopes none too bright for an overly success ful season. A goodly bunch of lettermen returned for another season of play but the squad was sadly lacking in experience as well as height. From last year's crew which tied with Oklahoma for the Big Six championship and went ahead to enter the Western N. C. A. A. play-offs, five lettermen graduated and five other lettermen weren't available for competition. Miller Missed. Most serious loss was all-Big Six forward, Ralph Miller, who led the conference in scoring with 152 points. His brilliant passing, shooting, and floor-play will be missed considerably. T. P. Hun ter, valuable reserve who started several games at guard, was the "insurance" man on the team for he could play any position and do a bang-up job. Other gradua tion losses were Charlie Walker and Bob Johnson, both three-year men who could step into a tight spot and not be rattled, and Hub Ulrich, burly guard. Undergraduate losses not count ed upon previously were Vance Hall, hot shooting forward who is now in the Army Air Corps; Marvin Sollenbereer. regular guard who will graduate in Jan uarq and is not out for the sport this semester; and lettermen Dick Miller, Warren Israel, and Don Blair who did not report thi3 winter. Hold-overs from last year's reg ular quintet were Charlie Black, forward: John Buescher, center; and Ray Evans, guard. These three formed the nucleus irom which Allen had to mould another chamDionshin five. Other return ing lettermen are Jack Ballard, forward-guard; Paul Turner, tor ward; Max Kissell, center; Bob Fitzpatrick, forward; and George Dick, guard. In Black the Jayhawks have one of the outstanding scoring aces of the nation. As a sophomore last season, this 6'4" husky shared offensive honors throughout the. season with Ralph Miller and fin ished second to the latter over the 10-game Big Six route with 128 noints. When Charlie is hot he is unstoppable for his great variety of shots cannoi De guarded. Otto Shines. At the other forward berth Allen counts stronelv on sopho more Otto Schnellbacher who gained his intercollegiate spurs this fall by nabbing Ray Evans' passes from his end spot on the gridiron. Snclly is counted upon as the lad to fill Miller's shoes and if anyone on the squad can do it, he's the fellow. Pushing him hard, however, will be letter men Paul Turner and Jack Bal lard, the latter a 6'6" giant who needs just a little more experience before he is ready for the 40 minute grind, and red-head Bob Fitzpatrick who has a sure-fire set shot. At center Buescher handles all duties with his superb ballhand ling and court generalship. He averaged 9.8 points a game last year in the Big Six. If Allen shifts Buescher to guard the new center will be sophomore Armand Dixon, a sweet floorplayer with a red-hot one-hand shot. At guard, the irrepressible Ray Evans still holds forth. Hia de fensive ability last winter made him the Btandout guard of the midwest and his scoring just started to make itself felt at the end of the season. He is the spark of the team. SStStlJ inwii Tnr tw h.t iWrK-rt t ill mm m RAY EVANS GUARD . One of the greatest all-round athletes ever to come to the Universitj of Kansas is Ray Evans, outstanding junior guard on the Jayhawk court quintet. Not only an all-Big Six performer on the basketbaK court, Evana led the nation this Fall in the number of completed passes on the pridiroo and gained Ail-American recognition by the Associated Press. Spring Series of Social Dance Classes Start Next Week in Union Ballroom The new spring series of social dancing classes will begin Feb. 17. The first of the series of six will be held in the Union ballroom at 7:30 p. m. The classes are free, and open to all students. Mrs. "Susan! 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