Tuesday, February 20, 1951 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 rn nn ni UJ uvuu .2)jl o) o) ierce Scores 25; Mercier Sparkles By Bob Banks The Scarlet and Cream cagers were forced to mane & last-min-ute goal-line stand in order to cnuplrh the Missouri Ticers. 54- 62, on the local maples Monday evening. The victory enabled Nebraska to take over sixth place in the tag Seven race, and it shoved Colo rado into the cellar spot. Bob "Buckets" Pierce racked up points to continue his assault on Whitehead's scoring record. The effort was easily the best ex hibition the veteran has put on all season. Unhampered by the niroa of civdn Lovelette. the Ne braska senior really came into his own. His biggest moments were in the first half when he got the major portion of his tallies. But offense wasn't 'his only de partment. He coutrolled the backboards throughout the en tire game, something which Ne braska hasn't been able to do in their last few tilts. The game proved one thing. The Huskers are capable of play ing the brand of ball which pro duces victories despite their mediocre season. The wraps were completed off in this encounter. They had no conference titles to worry about, no win streaks to protect, and no national ratings to crowd their style. Favorites The Missouri Tigers entered the contest as slight favorites. And they jumped into the lead as though they intended to prove they deserved that role. The Stalcup men, who early in the season were given ' a good chance of winning the Big Seven title, led Nebraska by two points With three minutes gone. But they soon waved a sad adios to this lead and never regained it. Fired by Pierce, the Huskers gradually gained momentum and led 17-13 with nine minutes gone in the first half. The lead remained at six points Until shortly before the first half ended when Joe Good and Jim Buchanan both hit field goals to give the Huskers a 35-27 halftime edge. During the first half, the Husk ers exhibited a smoother passing game than they had in most of their earlier contests. They pos sessed a definite touch of sharp ness and poise which had pre viously been absent. But if the first half was rather tuiet,.Jtben J,hesecond proved to be woolier than a kid's matinee on Saturday-afternoon. The Tigers, evidently licking their wounds over a fair-to-middling season, appeared to be com pletely lost at sea during the opening minutes. The Huskers combined their talents to manufacture a 41-29 margin. This was the widest lead ; ' ', f J - irt ' v J l?f III h m f ! ,' ; 3 It U I i 1 Kentucky Is First Champ i Kentucky became the first con ference champion over the week end. The Wildcats captured their eighth straight Southeastern title and an automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs by whipping Ten nessee, 86-61 Saturday night. Three other teams are ex pected to join the Wildcats short ly in the championship fold. The three are Brigham Young, Co lumbia and Arizona. Columbia, the only major team with an unbeaten record, trounced Harvard. 90-63, to clinch at least a tie for the Ivy League crown. Cornell fanned its flickering Ivy hopes with a 59-55 victory over Princeton. But if the Big Red stumbles against Penn or Harvard this week, it'll be all over. Brigham Young, although it lost a 54-49 decision to Utah Satur day, is a virtual shoo-in for sky line honors The same goes for Arizona in the Border confer ence. Louis Fights Walker Friday Joe Louis, still hoping to get another crack at heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles, will sharpen his punches against Andy Walker in a ten round bat tle in San Francisco's Cow Palace Friday. It will be the Brown Bomber's fourth test since he was conquer ored by Charles last September. Walker boxed a four-round ex hibition with Louis in San Jose 13 months ago. After that the Gslirornian neld Rex Layne to a drav and won the Cal heavy weignt crown by outpointing Frar.fcJe Buford. Sin losing the heavy crown to Ezztrrd, Louis has beaten Cesar Brion, Freddy Beshore, and Ome lio Agramonte. .. Buckeyes Pick Head Coach Wayne "Woody" Haynes was appointed head football coach at Ohio State Sunday evening. He formerly coached at Miami Col lege, Ohio. He succeeds Wesley Fesler who la now head coach at the Univer sity of Minnesota. Coach Hayes signed a one-year contract at a salary of $12,500. He was appointed a full profes sor in physical education and will be permitted to name his own staff of assistants. BOB PIERCE Husker center scored 25 points as Nebraska defeated Missouri. during the entire game. Nebraska appeared to be safer than a com munist behind the iron curtain. The Tigers, however, began to lick their wounds a little harder. The. Huskers were in for a lot of rugged basketball before they fi nally took home the bacon. If they had gained momentum during the first half, the Tigers literally passed Flash Gordon in the second. Fortunately, the Huskers managed to stay a cou ple of steps ahead of Flash. With nine minutes remaining, the scoreboard read 49-43 in favor of the Scarlet and Cream. And the two teams crowded more basketball into that final nine minutes than a lot of teams do in an entire- game. Don Zimmerman hit a field goal with a seven minutes left to cut the Husker lead to four points. Pierce, always handy when need ed, scored on a tip in. Dippold Scares. The clock showed three minutes and a half left when Don Dip pold, an unsung substitute, threw a mid-winter chill Into the Ne braska machine with his only field goal of the evening. But he couldn't have picked a better time to make it. The scoreboard read 51-50. The general attitude seemed to be that the Huskers would run out of steam again and drop another heart-breaking ball game, something they have done so often in the past. Joe Good let one fly which bounced off the rim. But Good, equal to the occasion, tipped the ball in for the final Husker fielder of the evening. A double foul was called by the referee. Paul Kipper sank his for Nebraska while the Mis sourian missed. That gave Ne braska their 54 points. The Nebraskan employed a stalling game which proved to be effective against the Tigers in the latter moments of the game. Mercier. Bob Mercier played a brilliant game. His floor game was superb, his ball handling smooth, and he got 7 points to boot. Only a sophomore, Mercier could pro vide Nebraskans with many sat isfying moments unless Uncle Sam steps in. The starting Husker five would have gone the whole route if Buchanan hadn't gone out on fouls. The side show to the whole affair was "Sparky" Stalcup, the Tiger coach. Perhaps he doesn't have St. Vitus Dance, but the Missouri master jumped up and down enough to convince quite a few observers that something was wrong. He ended up with a technical foul. George Lafferty, a boy who specializes in a right-hand jump shot, and Bud Heineman. who uses a converse left-hand jump shot, led the Missouri scoring with 12 and 11 points respec tively. In a freshman tilt, the Reds defeated the Greens, 54-45. Seger led the losers with 12 tallies while Kuska of the win ners bagged 21. The HuEkers make their nevt home appearance on Saturday night when they entertain the University of Colorado cagers. MIHHUI'Hl Player KO FT Heineman ( . 4 3-4 Lafferty I 8 0-0 Rubin t . 0 0-1 Hamilton f 0 0-0 Wilt, f 1 0-0 Dippold f 1 0-0 Stauffer e 3 2-5 Adami g 0 0-2 Landolt c 2 2-3 Goten , c i ..2 0-0 Zimmerman f 3 1-2 22 8-17 NEBRASKA Player FO FT AkronMa f 2 3-7 Good f 3 1-1 Pierce 7 11-14 Mercier 2 3-3 Buchanan ( 3 1-1 Kipper f 0 1-1 F 2 4 0 0 4 0 S 4 3 3 2 27 F 3 1 4 3 S 1 TP 11 12 0 0 2 2 8 0 8 4 7 82 TP 2S 17 20-27 17 54 Score at Halftime: Nebraska 35, Mla lourl 27 Official!: Ronald Oibbt (St. Thomaa) and Waldo Wagner (Iowa State). 'um3siio3 aqj u aaijjo nrav em "i iz jqaj 9jo;aq dn uJis o paqsv aa linqjooj Jtu4d9 uj Xunedp)jd U p)S3j3)U uauiqsajj jjv .'ffliHpiT f" X iilitlls Q CO G iiasiiiSwiiiM'' From The Sports Desk by Bill Mundell Sporta Editor, Dally Nebraskan College Basketball hit the scandal headlines again this week for the second time within a month. This time five basketball players were arrested for throw ing cage games in the New York area. Three floor stars from CCNY, last year's grand slam champions, headed the list of men nabbed for "fixing" contests. Another was a player of NYU and the fifth was a former LIU eager. The arrests came on the heels of a similar episode concerning three Manhattan university players a month ago. Of particular interest to the local cage fan was the fact that one of the games "thrown' by the CCNY cagers was the contest in which Missouri upset the New York titans. The Tigers felt pretty proud of that win until Sun day. Now their tremendous upset lacks luster. In fact, it is probably a victory they would just as soon for get. On the same line, the Cornhuskers felt pretty proud of their win over the Tigers in the Big Seven Tourney in Kansas City because it came on the heels of the CCNY defeat at the hands of Mizzou. Now the Hus ker win is just a victory over another team. It is really too bad that basketball has grown so big as to come into contact with "big-league" gamb ling. Before the cage sport was moved to Madison Square Garden and the games scheduled and promoted by individuals not connected with the competing teams, basketball was never threatened as it is today. It all makes the victors of contests in the Garden wonder which games they won and which games they were given. It's good to see the sport getting cleaned up; but just how much can the game stand? ATO B' Defeats Fiji Bees; Stars Roll; Warriors Win Intramural basketball reached a new zenith last Saturday. In one of the top games of the day, Jerry Strasheim led his Warriors to a 28- 25 verdict over the Pluggers. The game was closely fought all the way. At the end of the third quarter the Warriors led, 22-21. Then Strasheim, Stockfeldt and Co. pulled away in the fourth frame by scoring seven points and limiting the Pluggers to four. Strasheim plucked off the even ing's scoring honors with 11 points. In another thriller, the Dorm A Comets defeated Nebraska Coop 29- 25. The Comets led, 16-12 at the half and were never headed from that point of the game. Al Curtas was high for the Comets with 10 points, but Charles Broughton of the Coop took high honors for the evening with 13. Geologists Caper. Still another encounter found the Geologists racking up 56 markers as they blasted the meek Pirates, 56-18. The Geologists were in the driver's seat through out the entire contest. Jack Yel ken led the winners with 17 points. The Gunners evidently ran out of powder in their tilt. The City YM.JA blasted them right off the court, 44-26. The losers were be hind by a 19-17 count at the half. C. Hanson led the winners with 12 points. Phillips 33 proved their worth by hitting the hoop for 48 points while limiting the Dusters to 31. Martin led the winners to victory with 14 points. Stars Roll In the battle of the Dorms, A was better than B and C com bined. Dorm A scuttled Dorms B and C, 70-21. Caley piled up 22 points for the winner's cause. . Another low scoring affair found the Pill Rollers going in re verse as they dropped a '29-20 de cision to the Rinkydinks. Bill Giles, of the winners, was high man for the game with 15 points. Fraternally speaking, the top ranked Phi Gamma Delta "B5' team met with its first defeat Sat urday. The high-flying Fiji Bees ran into a determined band of ATO juniors and fell by the slim margin of 27-28. Overcome Lead. - The Taus overcame a large margin to defeat the eighth team in the university. The ATO cag ers laggged 6-13 at the quarter and 12-19 at intermission. The gap was narrowed a little in a slow moving third quarter, but in the final stanza the Taus broke out of holding and emerged the victor. Maupin of the losers topped the evening's scorers with 14 but it wasn't enough. Ted James scored seven to lead the Taus. The Phi Delta Theta "B" team bounced back from there loss to the Fijis last week, to hand SAE "B" a 32-23 lacing Saturday. The junior Phi Delts also had to come from behind to win. They hurried their trick, however, and after trailing 7-8 at the quarter, grabbed a second period lead and kept it. NU Wrestlers Rally To Beat IS Cyclones Coach Al Partin's Husker wrestlers downed Iowa State 14-11 Saturday night when Heo Reese, the Huskers' undei'e 1 heavyweight, decisioned i i Jensen to break an 11-11 d. -lock. The win extended the fending Big Seven champ's sf J to nine straight victories. Nebraska grapplers won i first two matches of the mc. r? gain an early lead over the -clones. Lewis Caniglia and -old Gilliand both earned th ' t over their opponents in tb '! ! and 130 pound events. Bob Russell lost a toutJi I battle to Bob Wilson, Iowa SU; o Big Seven champion in the ! 1 pound class. In his first appearance on the mat this year, Al Johnson, Husker letterman, fought to a draw with Howard Snider in the 167 pound class. The dual meet featured no pins. Only the tie between John son and Snider interrupted th parade of decisions. Summary: 123 pounds Lewis CaniglU (N) decisioned Darwin McDon ald, 9-3. 130 pounds Harold Gilliland (N) decisioned Bob Lewis, 12-6. 137 pounds Bob Wilson (ISC) decisioned Bob Russell, 6-2. 147 pounds Ed Jones (ISC) decisioned Kenny Fisher 6-2. 157 pounds Dave Maxkie (N) decisioned Bill Bollinger, 31. 167 pounds Howard Snider (ISC) drew with Al Johnson, 1-1. 177 pounds Bob Wlrds (JSC) decisioned Harley Richardson, 22-3. Heavyweight Herb Heese (N) decisioned Don Jensen, 9-1. Keene and Jensen Pete Keene topped the victor's scoring with 11 while Paul Gus tafson added eight. Bob Jensen of SAE took scoring honors with 12 margers. In another clash of the Greeks, the Sigma Nu kept on the win ning beam by smashing Beta Sig ma Psi, 31-20. Bob Roesar and Bill Beal topped the Nu scoring column with 12 points apiece. Dean Sheer potted seven for the Beta Sigs. i 7 7 K7 ff v U' , , - LEONARD KEHL . . . Husker vaulter, has been consistently bringing home points for the Nebraska tracksters in that event. AROUND THE LOOP... Coach Good loins Popular Sport Club By Shirley Murphy When Coach Harv Good complained after Lovelette .s 30-point performance against Nebraska that it was just a case of too much Lovellette, Big Seven coaches wel comed him into their organization. The group is better known as the "We Just Can't Stop Lovellette Club.". "Athlete of the Week" at Iowa State last week was none other than Bob Brown, the record-breaking swimming star. He proved his prowess at Nebraska Saturday by setting a new pool record and surpassing the Big Seven record. Brown's time in the 50-yard was 22.9 seconds Bud Heineman, Missouri sharpshooter, had an inter esting scoring record during the first 15 basketball games this winter. He was about five points better at home than away, averaging 14.3 points on the home court and 9.3 on enemy floors. Lucky for Nebraska!. . . Ted Owens' feat of sinking nine long field goals dur ing the Nebraska-Oklahoma game is believed to be with out parallel in Sooner basketball history. He fvered the crowd by firing 13 times long range; hitting nine and com ing close on three others, though one missed entirely. Last year Owens barely made the traveling squad and played so little that he took only 14 field goal shots all year, hit ting four for 2S.6 percent. He made 47 percent this year in mostly long shots. Wonderful success story!. . . Bob Jones of Kansas State has solved the mystery, to the Lovellette success. He says "Lovellette, who is not 'an enormous scoring machine,' but is merely a foot taller i than most folks, has been labeled and libeled by most of the newspapers in this part of the country." His latest and top title is "the leaning tower of Kansas.". .. I Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests I luinbor 12...THE iOf ij OOIIHIJIUG DOVE j f I "Some of them nj V 8 are pretty sad!" ! I I : r ill DnOOOOO Melancholy and deiected. this eloomv miss f"YVvvv-frO elancholy and dejected, this gloomy miss found little to titillate her in the recent deluge of quick trick cigarette tests! She was not enthralled by the idea of judging cigarette mildness with just a fast puff or a single sniff. But, joy of joys! . . . happiness came to her when she discovered one test that left no doubt in her mind. 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