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    ieclnescTay, February 9, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
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Team Preps
For Coming
Jaunt South
Meet Missouri
In Return Tilt
Preparing for this week end's
southward jaunt and an attempt
to revenge their defeat by Mis
souri last Saturday night, Husker
cagers stressed offensive forma
tions in practice sessions Monday
and Tuesday.
The Scarlet will meet Missouri
at Columbia Saturday night be
fore journeying northward for a
Monday night clash with the loop
leading Iowa State Cyclones, and
Coach Ad Lewandowski is plan
ning a week of hard practice ses
sions to ready his club for the
jaunt. Monday night s work-out
was light, but Tuesday found the
Huskers driving through a hard
session, with the emphasis on of
fensive formations.
Lew's disappointment at the loss
to the Tigers Saturday was great.
"We would have been tied for
third place in the conference if
we had won," said Lew. "Now
we re in fifth place, and Missouri
has the psychological edge on us
in our game this Saturday. If the
boys show a little more stability
and cool headedness, however,
we'll have a good chance of turn
ing the tables on the Tigers."
Michalske Is
Football Head
. . . At. Iowa State
AMES, la., Feb. 8 -A. M.
(Mike) Michalske, head football
coach at Iowa Slate College on a
part-time basis for the past one
and on-half seasons, has been
named had football coach on a
full-time basis, it was announced
today by George F. Veenker, Cy
clone director of athletics for the
college Athletic Council. Michal
ske's appointment was approved
by the State Board of Education
this mornir.g.
The past fall was the first full
season for Michalske as Cyclone
football mentor. It was a season
in which Iowa State finished in a
tie for second place with Missouri
in the Big Six conference stand
ings. Iowa State won from Kan
sas, Nebraska and Kansas State.
Outside the conference the Cy
clones won from Drake and lost
to Iowa Navy Pre-Flight and Ot
tumwa Navy Air Station.
Michalske took over as head
football coach in the middle of
the season in 1942.
Penn State Grad.
In addition to his football duties,
Michalske has been helping, as
are all coaches at Iowa State, with
the physical training for armed
service units on the campus. His
particular assignment of classes
is with the Navy V-5 flight train
ing unit.
Michalske's football career has
been long and studded with high
recognition. In undergraduate days
he was an outstanding fullback
at Penn State where he received
.his bachelor of arts degree in
1926. He was line and backfield
coach under Ernie Nevers at La
fayette in 1936-37 and has been
a coach at St. Norberts College
at Green Bay, Wis.
When Michalske entered pro
fessional football he was converted
to guard. He was a star guard
with the Green Bay Packers until
1940 and was accorded profes
sional Ali-American honors six
times at that position. More re
cently he assisted with coaching
for the Packers.
Youth Panel . .' .
(Continued From Page 1.)
of the Lincoln Christian Youth
Council said that the views taken
were sensible but not radical.
Other resolutions made were:
To commend the government for
its fair employment policies and
ask for more funds for prosecu
tion of violators and to request
that a Negro chaplain be appointed
for Negro troops at the Lincoln
Air Field.
Pamona Banks, Marie Yamas
hita, Virginia Steurmer and B'U
Miller were the students taking
part in the discussion, for which
Dr. Gerald Kennedy was chair
man. Rev. Ray Kearns and Ray
Rice were in charge of the pro
pram which was attended by over
800 Lincoln young people.
SeCOGtcl GnlBCSSillg
Harold W. Andersen
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Nebraska's :5(i-:V2 over-lime loss 1o Missouri Saturday dealt
a real body blow to llusker hopes in t lie conference. Dropped
to fifth place by the defeat, the Scarlet will have an uphill
fight to belter their position by the lime final league standings
arc compiled.
Their jaunt this coming- week end promises to be rougn,
for Saturday night finds them meeting- Missouri at Columbia
and Monday will bring them against Iowa State's Cyclones
at Ames.. The Tigers will have the advantage of playing- on
their home floor Saturday and will be battling hard to main
tain their toe-hold in the first division. The Cyclones, fresh
from their 41-39 win over Oklahoma at Norman last Satur
day, hold first spot in the conference and appear to pack far
too much scoring punch for Nebraska,
Siuh exhibitions of poor taste as have marred the half
hue intermission at Nebraska's last two basketball 'games at
he coliseum present U.N. athletic fans in a most unfavorable
ioht At both the Kansas State and Missouri panics, a small
group of spectators, obviously infantile in their conception of
entertainment, tossed pennies and other small change onto the
playing lloor at halt-time in order to watch the crowd 01
youngsters who invariably hover about the floor scurry after
the coins. The youngsters can't be blamed for running after
the money, but those over-grown youngsters in the stands who
threw the coins are certainly open to criticism for such child
ish actions.
Aside from its inherent infantilism, such a practice is
exceedingly dangerous, for a player might easily slip on one
of the coins and take a serious tumble. Such poor sports
manship, too, creates a bad impression in the minds of op
posing teams, who carry back to their home states the idea
that U.N. athletic fans are an ill bred, badly behaved lot.
The truth is that Husker fans in general are tops in sports
manship, but the childish actions of a small minority give all
Nebraska fans a black eye.
Crucial Tourney Fray
Pits Against Co. C
C Company's league-leading bas
keteers will tangle with a strong
B Company quintet tomorrow
night at 6:30 in the deciding game
of the second round army tourney.
In their first meeting, back in Oc
tober, the C-men topped the
Hustlers, 34 to 23; but in the first
round of army competition, Com
pany B nosed out the blue team,
37-28, to win first place honors.
Tomorrow's game will be their
third contest and will be a nat
ural "grudge fight" to decide who's
best in local hoop circles.
Currently leading the pack with
a 3 and 0 record, Company C needs
to topple the boys in green to win
the title. B Company lost their
last intramural venture to an im
proved Air Corps five, 49-39, while
"C" nosed out the 348th crew, 28
to 26, in the first game of this
round.
"B" Starters.
''B's" attack is led by former
CCNY great, Bob Scheer. The
lanky center, always reliable de
fensively, has been the team's
leading play-maker, and recently
has been hitting the double figures
consistently. Bunny Fuller, second
high scorer in the league last
round, is another mainstay of the
Green's offense. Close on the heels
of Scheer and Fuller for B Com
pany individual scoring honors
this round is Charlie Suchy, with
a 9-point-a-game average. Doug
Brady, dependable set shot artist
and a good deefnsive ball player;
and burly Ellis Jessen, who is
plenty tough off the boards, com
plete the contenders' probable
starting line-up.
Center for the Blue Wave will
be the current league high-scorer
Cliff Lind, former DePaul varsity
player. Shifty, driving Milt Dobrer,
who was born with a basketball
in his hands, will be in there fight
ing at one forward post, along
with native son John Bottorf,
whose on-'-handed push shot is
poison from anywhere around the
foul circle. Chuck Burdette, a
good man off the defensive back
board, and possessor of a nice eye
for set-shots is slated for one
guard. Steady Al Burnstein, pillar
of the team's defensive strength,
and always good for 8 or 10 poirts,
will line' up at the other guard
position.
Raiders Nipped Both
Both teams met the top service
team in this section of the coun
try, the Air Base Raiders, recently
B Company sticking till the last
few minutes, only to lose 53-42;
while Company C battled the tal
ented Base quintet on even terms,
losing out in the last two minutes
47-45. This game should be the
best of the Army tournament
games to date both teams gun
ning for the win which will feive
them the edge in the series.
The starting whistle will blow
at 6:30 sharp tomorrow night in
the Coliseum.
Iowa Hawks Top Big Ten;
ISC Climbs to Big Six Lead
Smashing Chicago 103-31, the
undefeated University of Iowa
cagers established two new scor
ing records last week, and took
over the first place berth in the
Big Ten title race. Dick Tves.
high scoring young Hawkeye,
netted 19 field goals and five free
throws for 43 points to erase Andy
Phillip's, Illinois, record of last
year.
Great Lakes Naval Training
Station remains the number one
team in the nation, with North
western, Marquette, Dartmouth,
Kentucky, and both the Seahawks
and Hawkeyes of Iowa, following
close on the heels of the sailors.
Led by Captain Otto Graham.
Northwestern smothered Minne
sota's Gophers 57-32 in the first
game of a double header in Chi
cago Stadium. With All-American
Graham soon to be transferred to
active duty with the navy, the
Wildcats will be hard pressed to
maintain their place in the Big
Ten title race. Notre Dame fell
before DePaul's tremendous height
advantage in the nightcap of the
twin bill.
Cyclones Lead Big Six.
In the Big Six, Iowa State ec ked
out a 41-39 victo.y over the Okla
homa Sooners to take undisputed
possession of first place, while
Missouri's overtime victory over
Nebraska upped the Tigers to the
first division.
Avenging a previous defeat and
at the same time tipping Purdue
frortT the ranks ot the undefeated,
Ohio State trimmed the Boiler
maker "5", while in Ann Arbor,
Benny Oosterbaan's Michigan
Wolverines swept two game
series' to make it seven straight
losses for Indiana.
Undefeated Dartmouth finished
its intercollegiate season by
ir,nnr.in(r Cornell 58-46. In New-
York two former Notre Dame reg
ulars, Bob Flaught and Orlando
Bonicelli, receiving navy training
at Columbia, helped their new
Alma Mater defeated NYU 46-43.
Army's West Pointers continued
as a top eastern team by down
ing Rochester 57-43.
Rice Drops Texas.
In the southwest, a favored
SMU snuffed the Texas Long
horns 49-46, and Arkansas pound
ed over Baylor 36-34 to share the
Southwest conference lead with
Rice, who dropped Texas 56-34. -
In the Southern conference,
Duke handed the Tarheels of
North Carolina their first league
defeat, 41-40. after trailing 18-1
midway in the first half.
On the west coast, Washington
clipped Oregon State to continue
their unbeaten record at the head
of the northern half of the Pa
cific Coast conference, while Ore
gon knocked off Idaho twite.
Rocky Mountain region play
found Utah still leading the pack
with 11 wins and but a single
loss, while Kentucky was leading
quints in the Southeast with an
other 11-1 record.
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Dance Club . . .
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Coombs, Bemette Hadan, Joy
Laune, Grace Peters, Maydelle
Platn-r, Ruth Rchubaoh, Marguer
ite Klindt, Lillian Snyder and Pat
King.
In charge of lights will be Jane
Johnson, Fem Freeman, Bonnie
Colmer. Doris Anderson and Miss
Janice Carkin.
TEAM STANDINGS
W. L. Pt. Op.
Company C .... 3 0 136 71
Company B .... 2 1 92 80
Air Co.- 2 1 125 96
Field House ... 1 3 76 125
Company A .... 0 3 80 "!37
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