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THE DAILY NEBRASKA
Thursday, December 12, 1946
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CODiELDTTEEiT
By
lorge Miller
Early indications point to a
big ye ir for the Big Six basket
ball squads. With two new
con 1" os in the conference circle,
old players returning to mingle
with the wartime stars and first
year freshmen, overflow crowds
at most games and six teams
apparently well-matched, there
should be plenty of thrills before
the pennant chase ends early in
M" -h .
It may be March before the
fiml outcome of the race is de
cided, for the second Oklahoma
Kansas clash comes on March 4
at Lawrence. Three days later
the "yhawks vind up the regular
season compc'iion with a trip to
Columbia and a tussle with Wil
bur Staleup's Mizzo Bengals.
Preseason forecasts have picked
Kansas and Oklahoma as the
teams to beat, ard this prediction
is not far out of line when the
six loop squads are examined.
If experienced hands on these
two clubs perform as expected
then Bruce Drake and Phog Allen
will continue their feuding for
the top spot. The Jayhawks went
through 10 gaties without a de
feat last year while the Sooners
ended in second place with three
losses against seven victories.
' Stranse as it may seem, the
Ol lahoma tcai"s have been con
sis inly unfortunate when it
coi. es to winning championships.
After 13 years of Big: Six basket
ball campaigning;, the Sooners
have managed to win only one
title outright while tying for four
more.
Kansas has so completely domi
nated the hardwood picture that
only one other Big Six ,quintet,
the Iowa State Cyclones, has been
able to grab more than a single
undisputed championship. Coach
Louie Menze's outfits have done
the trick four times, walking
away with the pennant in 1935,
Ml, '44 and '45.
Nebraska can point to only one
share of a title when it comes
to claiming basketball laurels.
The Scarlet team tied with Kan
sas for first place in 1937, and
finished second in '31 and '36.
Just as a refresher here are a
few statistics on last year's con
ference basketball season:
FINAL STANDINGS
Kansas . . . 1 0 562 408 10
Oklahoma .... 7 3 521 439 .?0
Iowa State ... 5 5 502 461 500
NEBRASKA . 3 7 428 535 .304
Missouri 3 7 391 437 .300
Kansas State 2 8 408 538 .200
LEADING SCORERS
Black, Kansas 173
Courty, Oklahoma 136
Weatherby, K State 127
Peterson, I State 108
Schnellbacher, KU 93
Brown, Nebraska 90
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BALLOTS FG3 THE COACHES ALL-AinrJCAN
Eridenc of tho stiff competition for 1946 All -American honors piloa
up In tho office of D. O. (Tu0 McLauUhrjr, secretary-treasurer of
tho American Football Coaches Association. Hero McLautjhry,
Dorr mouth heotf conch, and his secretary. Miss Minnie Crosby, study
some of the ballots cast by the 475 members of the Association. The
Coaches All-American selections will be published in the Dec. 21st
Saturday Evening Post In a copyrighted article by Coach Dick
Harlow, of Harvard, president of the Association.
Stark, Iowa State 89
Stramek Kansas 80
Reich, Oklahoma 80
Landon, Oklahoma 79
Every member of this top ten
group will be back in action this
season except Stark and Peter
son of Iowa State and Jack Lon
don of Oklahoma, so look for
some fancy point-making accom
plishments during the conference
games.
Iowa State fans are well pleased
with new arrangement whereby
the Cyelones play their heme
basketball games in the college
armory instead of the school gym
nasium. The Cyclone gym was
a long, narrow affair, disliked by
all visiting teams, so the new
location meets with the approval
of quintets on the Cyclwne sched
ule as well as with fans.
The old gym was unable to I
hold the number of spectator?
that desired to witness the Cardi-'
nal and Gold games( but the j
armory can accommodate over 1
6,800 fans.
Kansas State followers believe j
that the Wildcats might have
dumped the powerful Iowa five
had not a gruelling overtime bat
tle with Drake the previous eve
ning worn down the Purple squad
members. As it was, K State
Coach Jack Gardner used 12 men
against the Hawks, the same num
ber that the Hawks tossed into
the fray.
These numbers serve to dis
count the claim th-t the Hawk
eyes relented in the last half to
allow the visitors to make a re
spectable showing, for the Wild
cat lineup had just as many sec
ond stringers.
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Phog Allen, KU cage coach,
told a Hastings College banquet
how he came by his nickname.
It seems that Allen was a base
ball umpire and because of his
powerful voice a fan labeled him
"Fog Horn Allen."
A discriminating Kansas City
sports writer later changed the
spelling to "Phog" and the name
has stuck ever since.
Unheralded and unsung, the
girls' intramurals have been pro
ceeding at top sp-?ed all semester
and are now in the midst of
bowling season.
Advanced to the third bracket
of the tournament after defeat
ing Alpha Ch Omega's number
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IIOOSIER GATHERING Nebraska basketball coach Harry Good confers with a couple of his r
cagers, Claude Retherford (center) French Lick, Indiana, and Paul Shields, Monrovia, Ind. T r-
two players are included on the Nebraska squad which open the Kansas City tournament today agains
the University of Arkansas.
Cyclone Coach)
Names 15 Men
For KC Jaunt
AMES, Iowa. Fifteen players
were named in the 18 man party
which will represent Iowa State
at the first annual Big Six basket
ball tousnament at Kansas City
this weekend.
Head coach and athletic direc
tor Louis Menze listed Clayton
Sutherland, assistant coach, Harry
G. Burrell, sports publicity direc
tor, and the following players for
the trip: Jim Myers, Sioux City;
Ray and Roy Wehde, Holstein;
Jim Buck, Lloyd Kester, Ames;
Rollin Kuebler, Carroll; and Jim
Van Dcusen, Iowa City, forwards;
Don Paulsen, Huxley; Leo
Schneider, Rock Island, 111.; Jim
Jessen, Everly; and Dean Norman,
Fairfield, centers; and Ron Nor
man, Fairfield; John Sheperd,
Gary, Ind.; Bill Block, Muscatine,
guards.
Perfect Record.
The Cyclones will take a per
tect record into the meet with a
56 to 28 win over Grinnell and a
47 to 36 triumph over the tough
Iowa Teachers team.
In addition to the 18-man bas
ketball party, Iowa State will be
represented by Dean H. D. Berg
man, faculty representative, and
Mike Michalske, head football
coach. The two, along with Menze
will be in Kansas City for Big
Six business meetings when not
attending the tournament
one team is Gamma Phi Beta,
and Sigma Kappa's first squad
which checked Carl Hall.
The weekly meeting of the Bad
minton Club will not be held
until after Christmas vacation, it
was announced by Evelyn Lukos
sky, president.
The Physical Education clubs,
joth men and women, will hold
3 joint meeting Thursday, Dec.
19 at 7:30 at Grant Memorial to
formulate future plans. Sponsors
of the two clubs, L. E. Means and
Miss Mabel Lee, will speak to
the members.
Dinner Tonicht.
The WAA is sponsoring a din
ner tonight at 6 p. m. at Ellen
Smith for all the girls who worked
in concessions during the football
season.
Basketball
This week's intramural basket
ball schedule:
Thawida, Rn. 12.
B:M (8tKF) Sigma Phi Kpallon va.
8lma Nu H)
5:00 (Krwrti) Sigma Alpha Mu va. Beta
Slicma Pal (B).
7:10 ) Cornhuakar Co-op. a.
ThMa XI B.
7:10 iVnmh) Phi Drlta That va. Pana
Hmiaa B.
7:10 (Vanity) Kappa Sigma ru. Brawn
Pal am B.
S:OS () Delta Upallon Ta. Phi
Gamma Delta (B
S:0S (KYnah) Sigma Chi va. Alpha Tan
Onwxra B).
8:06 (Varatty) Slftma Alpha Epatloit Ta.
Beta Thrta PI A).
$ 45 (8tage) ,P. E. Club X T. Ever
ready. '
8:45 (Fresh) Blue Jay va. Huiktrrllle.
8:45 (Vanity) Sigma Phi Epitlon ya.
Farm Rous (A).
Friday, TW. 13.
5:00 (8ti?f) phi Gamma Delta va. Zeta
Beta Tau (B),
Coach Weir Prepares
For Indoor
With the opening of the indoor
track season less than two months
away, Coach Ed Weir is getting
down to serious business with the
candidates who have reported
thus far. Although there are only
ten daysremaining before Christ
mas vacation begins, Weir plans to
make full use of this period by
getting his squad into condition.
After looking over the list of
prospects. Weir stated that on
paper the boys look fairly well
balanced in all events, but that
the final decision will have to be
reserved until he has seen them
perform nnder the fire of real
competition.
Several members of Coach Ber
nie Masterson's football team are
among the group which is ex
pected to report this week. The
footballers have been taking things
easy for the past week in order to
devote more time to their scholas
tic duties.
Gridders Help.
Dick Hutton and Bill Moomey,
two of the Husker backfield
speedsters who continually wor
ried Nebraska foes with their end
sweeps are counted on for points
in the sprints. Also included in
the grid group are several poten
tial weight men.
Nubbins football coach, Ray
Prochaska, will take over the job
of handling the weight men on the
track team.
Weir has arranged to hold dual
meets with the other five Big Six
schools, followed by the annual
Big Six conference indoor meet in
Kansas City at the end of the in
door season. Few of the five
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dual meets are scheduled for Lin
coln, while the only trip away for
the tracksters will be a jannt to
Columbia to meet the Missouri Ti
gers. The University of Kansas is
rated as one of the stronger teams
in the conference this yearr main
ly because of the quantity of in
dividual stars at the Lawrence
school. Oklahoma has depth on
their track squad and may be able
to pick up enough second and
third places to warrant them top
ranking in the final standings.
Missouri is bolstered by a host
of returning veterans who won
their track laurels prior to the
war.
Hopes for AM.
Here at the Husker camp, Coach
Weir must rely on men returning
from last year to form the nucleus
of his squad, but he hopes for
much support for these men from
veterans and from this spring's
crop of high school stars.
Heading the list of last year's
performers are Frits Ware in the
sprints and broad Jump, Bob Gfnu.
in the distance erents, Nerval
Barker and Ralph King in the
hurdles, and Dirk Miller and Ky
Eisenhart hi the pole aula. Ne
braska's high jnmp prospects are
the best in the last 2t years, ac
cording to Weir, fret this bright
spot may be offset by the fact
that the weight events lack any
outstanding prospects.
Altho both the quality and the
quantity of the track men is as
yet fully unknown, Weir feels that
the success of his squad this year
will depend on how willing the
boys are to get down to strict
business at the very beginning of
the season.
Komet Kh wilt hold their
regularly scheduled meeting at
the Phi Gamma Delta house
tonight at 7 X n., according
to Jack Buffington, secretary.
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