RHay. December 12, 1947
Huskers Battle Touted
Golden Gopher Quintet
Coach Harry Good's Scarlet hoopsters take on another
Big Nine foe Saturday night. Nebraska travels to Minne
sota to meet Coach Dave
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A 12-man squad will leave Lincoln Friday night at 9:00
and will arrive in Minneapolis at 7:15 Saturday morning.
The Huskers will enter the test in the underdog role.
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at the rangy Minnesotans.
Encouraged more than disap
pointed by their 60-56 loss to
Purdue Tuesday night in the sea
son opener, the Huskers are set to
hand the Golden Gophers a stern
test.
Gopher Spark.
Minnesota, paced by Center Jim
Mclntyre, has been picked with
Indiana and Wisconsin by the ex
perts to battle it out for the West
ern conference championship. Mc
Intryre was runner-up among Big
Nine scorers last year as the Go
phers copped fourth place in loop
play.
The lanky pivot star, who went
wild against the Huskers last win
ter as the Gophers dropped Ne
braska on the Coliseum maples,
racked up 183 points in 12 con
ference tilts and scored a total of
314 through a season of 21 games
for an all-time individual Minne
sota scoring record.
Seven Vets Back.
Along with Mclntyre, Coach
MacMillan, in his eighteenth sea
son as head cage mentor at Minne
sota, has six veteran performers
back from his 1946-47 squad.
The Gophers will be out to in
crease their streak of 1 1 successive
wins on their home hardwoods
started last year.
Good has nominated the follow
ing men for the northward hop:
Joe Brown, Bob Cerv, Claude
Retherford, Dick Schleiger, Neil
Mosser, Rod Cox, Paul Shields,
Dick Sib, Bus Whitehead, Anton
Lawry, Bill Denker and Henry
Cech.
The Huskers will leave Minne
apolis at 9:00 Sunday morning
and are due back in Lincoln Sun
day night at 9:15.
B Clubs Grab
IM Spotlight
A single Class A interfraternity j
battle, three indepenuent tilts and
seven Class 13 tests highlighted
Wednesday's intramural cage play.
Phi Kjppa Psi. sparked by Pat
Rooney who poured 11 points
through the hoops, dropped Thcta
Xi by a 30-24 count in the only
Class A game
In independent games the Creep
ers lost to the Lilies 41-8 in a
tilt played at Ag. Pall and Chafts
blasted Methodist Spokes 33-20
and the Old Timers galloped past
the Galloping Dominoes 36-13.
Dick Hutton paced the winners
with 10 tallies.
Phi Gamma Delta slapped Kappa
Sigma 25-7 in Chiss D play. Jack
Bryant led the winners with six
points.
Results of other Class B games:
Beta Sigma Psi 24. Sigma Alpha
Mu 10; Phi Delta Theta 29, Zeta
Beta Tau 6: Sigma Chi 23, Delta
Upsilon 16; Sigma Phi Epsilon 19,
Brown Palace 8; Sigma Alpha Ep
silon 26, Farm House 15; Beta
Theta Pi 1. Pioneer Co-op 0 (for
feit). Alpha Gamma Rho met Delta
Sigma Pi Thursday night and Phi
Delta Theta battled Phi Alpha
Delta in a pair of games played
in the Ag campus gym.
WANT A SING IN "MESSIAH?
Any students who have sung in
Handel's "Messiah," either on this
campus or some other, may join
the Choral Union for Sunday's
production, if they report to the
Saturday rehearsal at 1 p. m. in
the coliseum. The announcement
came from Director Arthur West
brook who stressed that such stu
dents would NOT have to attend
the early Sunday rehearsal im
mediately preceding the perform
ance. Students should report
promptly to Westbrook upon their
arrival.
CORRECTION.
In Thursday's Daily Nebraskan
an article about Chancellor Gus
tavson's speech Wednesday stated
that the United States delegation
voted against the petition of Hun
gary to join UNESCO. The United
States delegation merely ab
stained from voting on the ques
tion, on orders from the state department.
Campus News
MacMillan's highly regarded
81 I.S. Athletes
Receive Awards
AMES. The Iowa State College
athletic council has approved a
total of 81 awards for the fall
season.
Twent y-seven major, eight
minor, and one manager's award
were made to the varsity football
squad and numerals were awarded
to forty-one freshmen.
Three major and two minor
letters and five freshmen numer
als were awarded to cross-country
team members.
Individual Bowling
Competition Set
University keglers will compete
for the individual intramural
bowling championship Thursday
night, Dec. 18, at the Lincoln
Bowling Alleys, 236 No. 12th.
Advance entries are not re
quired to enter the all-university
meet. Contestants must simply re-
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THE SEASON'S ON As Center Dick Schleiger of Nebraska and
Purdue's pivot man William Butterfield jump for the opening tip
off, the 1947 Cornhusker cage season officially gets underway. Wait
ing for the tip from Schleiger on the left is Guard Neil Mosser,
while Forward Rod Cox is poised for action on the right. Purdue
rallied in the closing minutes to snatch a 60-56 victory from Coach
Harry Good's Scarlet five.
port for competition on time.
The winner will be awarded an
individual trophy and will have
his name emblozoned on the Coli
seum plaque. Medals will be pre
sented to the second and third
place winners while merit certifi
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cates will be awarded to the first
five scorers.
Best scratch scores for five
games will be used to determine
the final places.
Dr. Lapp will be in charge of
the tourney. ,
20 Candidates
To Be Initiated
By Lettermen
Twenty men will be invited
into the "N" club at regular
initiation ceremony Monday night
at 7:15 in the Coliseum club room,
President Dick Thompson has an
nounced. All men to be initiated will be
informed by mail. They are asked
to bring all required initiation
material with them.
This is the second initiation by
the Nebraska lettermens club
this year. First fall initiation was
held Dec. 3 in the "N" club room.
All men who helped with the
last initiation and all "N" club
officers are asked to report for
the ceremony Monday at 6:45.
Newly initiated candidates are:
Tony Blazine, Dougal Russell,
Hollie Lepley, Harry Good;
coaches; Monte Kinder, Phil
Myers, track; Vern Strauch, golf;
Nick.Kallos, Gene Sundeen; gym
natistics; Robert Ackerman, Dale
Adams, Harold Becker, Ralph
Damkroger, Fred Golan, Rex
Hoy, William Mueller, Darwin
Salestrom. Charles Toogood,
Delbert Wiegand, Phil Young,
football.
VETER-ANNS.
Veter-Anns wil hold a 6:30 des
sert supper at Ellen Smith hall,
Monday, December 15. For the
Christmas exchange each member
should bring a gift of approxi
mately one dollar value, accord
ing to Evelyn Hacker, publicity
chairman.