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Wednesday, March 10, 1948
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Fight Tourney
To Highlight
IM Schedule
Approximately 50 boxers will
step into the ring March. 17 to
open the 1948 University of Ne
braska boxing championships.
Matches will be staged on the
raised Coliseum ring under the
spotlights. Three instructors have
been working to get all entrants
in the best possible shape for the
slugfest. Don Thiel has been
grooming a squad of boxers at
Huskerville, while Delbert Roth
and Coach Buell Patterson have
been putting other groups thru
conditioning .paces in the Coli
t seum.
Sixty-five Expected.
Before the opening gong at least
65 boxers are expected to qualify
for the tourney and action for all
three nights promises to be fast
and furious. Bouts will be three
rounds each, 1!4 minutes per
round.
Thus far no favorites can be
picked, although some of the boys
look outstanding in early work
outs. Among these are Bob Ed
wards of Lincoln (165 lbs.), Jerry
Ferguson, of Scottsbluff (165 lbs.),
Roy Roth, of Lincoln, one of last
year's stars (125 lbs.); Fran Man
dula, heavyweight football player
from Youngstown, Ohio; Jerry
Hull (145 lbs.) of Ashland; Don
Svoboda (heavyweight) of Lin
coln; Bob Skochdople of Ravenna
(145 lbs.); Orville Vandewege of
Firth (155 lbs.); Gene Hinde of
Salina, Kansas (135 lbs.); and Don
Thiel of Lewellyn, one of last
year's outstanding boxers at 155
pounds. ,
Husker Athletic
Staff Covers
Wide Mileage
Members of the University of
Nebraska athletic staff are con
vinced that the state of Nebraska
is as large as the state of Texas.
They obtained this impression
in 1947 after traveling 36,338
miles, or one and one-half times
around the world Staff members j
visited 88 towns to show football
and basketball movies and speak
at various athletic dinners.
High Schools Covered.
This mileage total does not in
clude a thorough coverage of high
school basketball tournaments last
spring when the staff fanned out
'over the state to watch the prep
teams in action and to meet the
athletes.
These 36,338 miles "were cov
ered in eight months from Jan
uary to May and from October
to December. Of all the dates
accepted, only twice did weather
stop the safaris, pnee at Ham
burg la., and another time at
Sidney, Neb.
Two staff members spent one
night in a ditch after sliding off
a dirt highway in a driving rain
storm. On several occasions it
was necessary to "hole up" for
varying periods until highways
were cleared of snow.
1948 Coverage.
In 1948 the athletic staff has
covered a total of .4,454 miles
from January 1 until March 5,
appearing in 16 towns.
I.F.T. Wms
Two Games
In Playoff s
I. F. T. copped two games in
intramural basketball Monday
night, tripping Lutheran V-5's,
32-31, in the semifinals of the In
terdenominational League and
winning the Independent League
championship ( 29-24 from the
Lilies.
The I. F. T. five took an early
lead in the first half to put the
Lilies behind by a 13-9 score at
intermission. After halftime I.F.T.
put on the pressure with Hess hit
ting the bucket twice and Duling
adding two freethrows and a set
up. Hess was high man in the
scoring column for I.F.T. with 12
points. German led the Lilies with
three fielders and two gift tosses.
Hufnagle Field beat I.F.T.
earlier in the season but the latter
quintet came back in the play-offs
to eliminate Hufnagle.
Play-off Postponed.
The play-off game for the All
University championship between
I.F.T. and Sigma Alpha Epsilon
has been postponed indefinitely.
I.F.T. was given a scare by the
Lutheran V-5's in the semifinals
of the Interdenominational League
but managed to grab a 32-31 victory.
The V-5 team led 16-13 at the
end of the first half. However, the
play of Kreizinger, Hess, and
Kourovsky was neough to give
I.F.T. the victory. Kourovsky was
high scorer with nine points while
Hess and Kreizinger dunked eight
points respectively.
Center Jones hit five fielders
to top the V-5's with ten points.
Box score:
I.F.T. (29) tg
I tilling
Kourovsky
Hens
Kreizinger
Hanson
ft
2-4
0- 0
2-3
2 3
1- 2
pfLllles (24)
3 Belling
I Blank
4f",ermaln
1 Mount ford
1 Yelldn
Horn
McClaln
ft
0-2
0-0
2-3
00
0-0
2-4
0-2
11 7-12 10 '
10 4-11
Jr. Jays, Islanders
Meet in 1st Round
Sooners Drop
Kansas State
In Cage Tilt
Oklahoma university defeated
Kansas State's Big Seven Cham
pions Monday night at Norman,
56-52. Sooner Guard Kenneth
Pryor led in the scoring column
with 20 points. x
The victory tied Oklahoma with
Missouri for second place in the
Big Seven Conference.
The Sooners trailed until 18
minutes in the first half when
they tied "the count at 24-all. At
halftime Oklahoma led 30-28.
Pryor sank ten baskets of 14
tries from the floor. The Wild
cats top point-maker was How
ard Shannon with 15.
Clarence Brannum and Jerry
Patrick of Kansas State were re
moved from the game in the last
minute of play because of in
juries. Brannum's bad knee was, in
jured, while Patrick was knocked
out but recovered. Neither was
hurt seriously.
Okl'h'ma
Courty f
Jones f
Hughes t
Day f
Leake f
Waters c
Lynn c
Merchant g
Pryor g
fg ft f Kas. St.
S 5 1 Honey f
0 13 W eath ty f
0 0 0 Putrlck f
0 0 1 Harmon f
10 1 Krone f
2 3 4 Thornton f
0 0 2 Brannum c
3 " 2 Clark e
10 0 1 Shannon (t
Johnson g
Dean g
Langton g
18 ft f
2 3 3
0
0
4
0
0
2
0
3
0
1
1
Totals 21 14 ir Totals 19 14 16
Score at halt: Oklahoma 30. Kansas
State 28.
Of State Tour
ney
Creighton Prep's hustling bas
ketball team seems to be the fa
vorite in the state high school
basketball tourney which will
swing into action today in the
University Coliseum.
Prep shares the spotlight with
Grand Island, last year's king, and
Boys Town of Omaha. The Boys
Town five knocked off the Jr.
Jays earlier in the season, but
fell before the Prep onslought in
their other two meetings.
Grand Island will face Prep in
the opening, round of play and
the winner will be a definite fa
vorite for the class A champion
ship. Harry Boykoff, former St.
John's University eager, holds the
individual scoring mark in colle
giate basketball games played at
Madison Square Garden. In his
last game for the St. John's five
in 1947, Boykoff scored 54 points
against St. Francis to set the record.
Nebraska Host
To Collegiate
Rifle Tourney
Nebraska University will be one
of the 12 host teams fr.r the 1948
National Intercollegiate rifle team
'and individual championships to
be fired Saturday, March 20.
Over 50 universities and col
leges from all over the country
have entered live-man teams in
the shoulder-to-shoulder competi
tion that will decide the 1948
championships.
Maryland Defending: Champion.
Maryland university will be de
fending both the team and in
dividual crowns. It won the 1948
championships with record scores
for the 20-year-old tournament.
Maryland posted 1408 points out
of a possible 1500 in last year's
tournament to become the sec
ond team ever to go over 1400
points. Iowa university scored
1403 in 1940.
Other host schools are Massa
chusetts university, U. S. Mili
tary Academy, U. S. Naval Aca
demy, Wisconsin university,
Louisiana State, Ohio State, Okla
homa A. & M., Farragut college.
California university and the Uni
versity of California at Los An
geles. Former Winners.
The U. S. Naval Academy has
won the tournament six times;
Universities of Minnesota, Iowa
and George Washington, twice
each; and Cincinnati U., Maryland
U., U. S. Military Academy and
Carnegie Tech, once each.
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