Friday, March 16, 1951
Tourney
ay
as
North Platte
Nipped
Wow! That is the only way to
explain the Lincoln High 53-52
win over North Platte. From the
beginning whistle 'til the final
gun, the game was packed with
thrills.
North Platte took the lead in
the first quarter 14-16. Both teams
were playing hard, fast ball and
much of the time the ball was
being thrown around so fast thet
it couldn't be controlled.
Joe Carter's expert ball hand
ling kept the Bulldogs jumping
to stay in the lead in the second
stanza. Each team managed to
squeeze another 10 points to their
score.
At the start of the second half
the tempo did not decrease as
was expected in fact it seemed to
pick up. The teams were so fired
up that the referee's whistle was
continually shrilling to signify
another foul. The Bulldogs main
tained a 37-40 lead at the pop
of the time keeper's gun.
The final period was a red hot
affair, neither team being able to
attain much of a lead. The ex
pert eye of center Heinzle, for
ward Oakes and guard King gave
North Platte a slight edge in the
early minutes of the quarter.
However Lincoln High came
through with a one point lead.
The last thirty seconds was a
bedlam as shot after shot was j
missed by the Platters. !
The winners had three players j
in the high scoring column. Forke
Hanscom and Jones each scored!
10. King bucketed 15 while team-
mates Oaks and Heinzle dropped i
In 13 for North Platte. j
As it was. it appeared that vet-!
cran North Platte coach, Bill Mc
Cowin, lost the game for the
Platters. With less than a half
minute to play and one point be
hind, McCowin instructed his
charges to refuse a free throw
and try for the two-pointer.
It appears to have been poor
strategy because the Platters
were hitting their foul shots and
and overtime affair leaned
heavily in favor of the western
ers. Hotshots Carter and Sloan
of the Links had already fouled
out of the game.
Some weird officiating let the
last five seconds slip out from
under the North Platte team. The
Platters had the ball out of
bounds under their bucket and
enough time to get at least one
clean shot at victory.
Lincoln players refused to give
the ball to the referee and stood
there arguing while the last hope
ef the Bulldogs ran out. They
Were robbed!
Bunnies Roll
,Qmaua Benson came, through
es expected as they decisively
trimmed Hastings, 54-42. The
Bunnies lived up to their roles
as state champ material in out
classing a gritty Hastings squad.
The Bunnies alert, aggressive
attack slipped through the Tiger
defense for 20 field goals while
their shifting zone held the prai
rie boys to 10. The two teams
had similar shooting averages
but Hastings managed only 39
shots to Benson's 61.
The Omaha boys consistently
took the ball away from the jit
tery Hastings lads as they uti
lized a full court press. Bunnies
Skar and Campbell combined 10 1
points each with nice floorworK
to aid the Omahans. Don Muester,
a 6 3" Bunnie, put together 75
inches and 17 points to gain top
scoring honors. Muester hit 7 for
12 field goals.
Hastings needed every one of
their 22-33 free throws to keep
in the game. Jim Furrow, playing
in the forward slot, nailed down
12 for the Tigers.
The Bunnies hopped to a 37-24
half-time lead and kept the mar-
O.U. Wrestlers
To Participate
In AAU Contest
Oklahoma's hopes of placing
high in the National Collegiate
wrestling tournament next week
at Lehigh University in Bethle
hem, Pa. are in chancery with
the loss for the season of Frank
Marks, clever 167-paund sopho
mor from Edmond, Okla.
Winner of ten consecutive
bouts, the blond Marks, a divini'y
student, was scheduled to under
go a knee operation Wednesday.
He hurt the knee while defeating
Howard Snider of Iowa State
while winning the championship
bout in the Big Seven tourna
ment here Saturday night.
Beat Husker
One of Marks' victories in the
Big Seven meet here last week
was a 21-second fall over Al
Johnson of Nebraska with a dou
ble armlock, fastest fall ever
scored in the Oklahoma Field
house, home of Sooner wrestling
the past 23 years.
Port Robertson, coach of the
young Sooner team that swept its
dual meet slate of nine matches
and won six of the eight weights
in the Big Seven tournament, was
disconsolate about the loss of
Marks but doubted if the Sooners
could have won the 1951 nation
als with him.
"We don't have as good a team
this year as we had in 1948,"
Robertson stoutly maintains.
"And the best we could do that
year in the nationals was fifth.
"In 1948 our team won the Big
Seven tourney and wrestled a
narrow 13-14 loss to an Oklahoma
Aggie team much stronger than
the Aggies are this year. On our
team that year were Ray Gibbs at
121, Orville Wise at 128, .Charley
Keiter at 136, Ken Watson at 145,
Leonard Marcotte at 155, Jim
Eagleton at 165, Leger Stecker at
175 and Henry Schreiner at
heavyweight"
Goes Into Third
sets Continue
gia as Hastings never seriously
threatened. Benson, who meets
Lincoln High Thursday at 1:50,
looks like a top candidate for
Class A honors.
Chester In
Chester and Polk started off
the game in an evenly matched
11-11, The match swayed from
one end to the other with neither
team having a visible advantage
before Chester romped to a 54-41
win.
Things began to pick up for
Chester as they moved ahead
28-22. Center Bell was the big
wheel in the Chester lineup. The
big boy just couldn't be stopped
as he plunked in point after
point. The count was tied five
times, however, before Chester
pulled ahead 22-20.
The third and fourth Quarters
were duplicates of the third quar
ter. In the third Polk began to
lag behind 41-32. A brief splurge
at the start of the fourth quarter
led by Waldon McNaught, Tom
Jtioimes and Mac CJlein cut the
margin to five points at 42-37
Fraternity A' All-Tourney Team
FIRST TEAM PO S SECOND TEAM
Chick Battey Phi Delt F Linus Strelecki Brown Palace
Lyle Altman Sigma Nu F . . , Dick Cordell Sigma Chi
Jerry Anderson Phi Psi C... Dave Brandon Sig Ep
Mel Williams Brown Palace G Ai Hansen Sig Ep
Dave Graef Phi Delt G Jerry Ewing Teke
HONORABLE MENTION: Bill Wilson Delta Sig; Don Frei Phi Psi; Tom
Ledingham Phi Delt; Al Kramer Norris House; Dick Hungerford, Harry Wray
Cornhusker Co-op;. George Paynich Delt; Bob Dwehus Pioneer House.
Fraternity B' Ail-Tourney Team
FIRST TEAM PO S SECOND TEAM
Murl Maupin Phi Gam F Rollie Reynolds Farm House
Paul Gustafson Phi Delt F... Bill Alexander DU
Bill Russell Sig Ep C Don Brandon Sig Ep
Ben Leonard Sigma Chi G Ted James ATO
Marvin Paneitz Farm House GG Ted Kratt Sig EP
HONORABLE MENTION: Don Larson Phi Gam; Hod Meyers; Wally
Reed ATO; Bob Britten Phi Psi; Walt Weaver Phi Delt.
Phi Delts,
Frat
Fraternity "A" runnerup Phi
Delta Theta placed two men on
the first five in the Fraternity
"A" All-Tourney selections to
day. Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa Psi,
and Brown Palace took the other
three first team positions.
Fraternity "B" champions,
Sigma Phi Epsilon, placed one
man on the Frat "B" All-Tourney
team and four other teams each
got one man named. The teams,
Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma
Delta, Sigma Chi and Farm
House.
The All-Tourney teams, the
second and third to come out thus
far, are filled only with men who
participated in the post-season
playoffs, and the men who
showed the best get the nod. The
All-Intramural teams, those teams
picked by the teams themselves,
will include all the teams in bas
ketball this winter and will be
gin appearing the latter part of
this week.
Battey and Graef
Phi Delts, Chick Battey and
Dave Graef, lead the way in the
"A" selections. Others that
nudged their way into the first
five are Lyle Altman of Sigma
Nu, Mel Williams of Brown Pal
ace and Jerry Anderson of Phi
Kappa Psi.
Second team berths are mon
opolized by Sigma Phi Epsilon
who won it all, fraternally speak
ing. Dave Brandon and Al Hansen
are the Sig Eps named to the
second team. Others in the sec
ond fie are Linus Strelecki of
Brown Palace, Dick Cordell of
Sigma Chi and Jerry Ewing of
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Eight men received honorable
mention to make a grand total of
18 outstanding players.
Battey and Graef were the
sparks of the Phi Delt drive to
the championship. Battey was by
far the top scorer in the "A"
playoffs and Graef was the Phi
Delt workhorse and playmaker.
Top Palacer
Mel Williams was the Brown
Palace top man. All Palacer plays
originated from his position and
he led the team's scoring in the
tourney.
Anderson was rebound king for
the Phi Psi'. He controlled bot
boards almost entirely- in the
games he participated in. Plenty
of points rolled his way, also.
Altman almost led the Sigma
but Bell got active again and
Chester pulled away.
Big Bell hit for 29 to lead Ches
ter and Gellion. also of Chester,
accounted for eight. Polk man of
the hour was McNaught with 12,
closely followed by the Holmes
brothered, who grabbed nine and
eight, respectively.
Axtell Wins
In the Class D Tournament,
Axtell rushed by a stubborn Dal
ton squad, 49-34. Both teams
were neck and neck throughout
the third quarter but a torrid
Axtell squad pushed in 20 points
the final canto. Dalton was able
to manage only 5 points in the
fourth stanza.
Morgan Wells of Axtell pushed
in 16, while teammate Loy Rush
added 11. Glenn Brestal of Dal
ton was high for both squads as
he whipped In 18.
Axtell, advancing to the next
round, meets Chester in a 7 p.m.
Friday game. Axtell, rated as one
of the tourney dark horses, will
meet its first real test in the rug
ged Chester boys.
Sig Eps
All-Tourney Teams
Nu's to two successive upset vic
tories. He sparked the Nu's past
Phi Kappa - Psi - and almost led
them to a win over the Phi
Delts.
"Whale" Bill Russell tops the
"B" selections as this Sig Ep took
care of the rebounding and
scored heavily. On his shoulders
the Sig Ep Bees roared to the
junior circuit title.
Leonard Good
Ben Leonard of Sigma Chi took
his share of glory in his part in
the Sig drive toward champion
ship honors. His ball handling
AROUND THE LOOP...
Nebraska Ranks Third
In Big Seven Sports
By Shirley Murphy
Nebraska squeezed into third place on the Big Seven con
ference all sports championship for the 1950-51 school year.
Championship place goes to Oklahoma who claimed champion
ship honors in the two most rugged contact sports, wrestling and
football, and copped second in swimming.
With six of the school year's ten sports officially terminated
the standings, low score winning, are: Oklahoma 16, Missouri 22,
Nebraska 22, Kansas 23, Kansas State 25, Iowa State 28 and
Colorado 31. Here is the table to date.
FB BB CC IT Wr Sw
Oklahoma 1 4 3 5 1 2 16
Missouri 3 24 2 2 6V4 6 22
Nebraska 2 5 7 1 Vt 3 22V4
Kansas 4 21 . 6V4 6 23
Kansas State 7 1 5 4 2 6 25
Iowa State 5 6 6 7 3 1 28
Colorado 6 7 4 6 4 31V2
The Oklahoma golf squad has retained three lettermen and
lost three. The boys returning this year are Bob Meeks, Bo Faul
kenberry and Don Bowers.
Golf tryouts for the 1951 team will be held for the first time
over the University's new 18-hole course.
Abe Stuber, Iowa football coach, is beginning his fifth year
with spring grid practice and optimistic views. A varsity-alum
clash will climax the six week training session and Stuber has
things rolling already.
"Gone will be our passing attack, most of our offense and
our defensive set-up," he said. "We'll need plenty of good weather
and a lot of material out to work with to get the job done."
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record this year as he led the
Cornhusker cagers through the
1950-51 season. Bob swept the
nets for 384 points this year to
surpass the old record set by
Bus Whitehead in 1949-50 by .
24 counters. Bob was third in
conference scoring counting
only conference contests. He
placed behind All-American
Clyde Lovellette of Kansas and
giant Marcus Frieberger of
Oklahoma. Frieberger's total
was only three more than
Bob's.
Head
and shooting made his one of the
most feared men on the floor.
Murl Maupin led his Phi Gams
to the finals of the Bee playoffs
and scored almost half of the Phi
Gam total.
Marv Paneitz was the big boy
for Farm House. Behind him the
Aggies rolled to the semi-finals
past such opposition as Phi Delta
Theta.
Paul Gustafson of Phi Delta
rounds out the top "B" five. His
rebounding and shooting were
instrumental in the Phi Delt advance.
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As Geology Romps, 58-36
Geology is the 1951 Independ
ent basketball champion. The
Geologists took undisputed pos
session of the honor Wednesday
night by blasting previously un
defeated Phi Delta Phi, 58-36.
The long awaited battle be
tween Geologist Jack Yelkin and
flu Delt Don McArthur never
panned out, and almost 200 fans
who turned out to see the spec
tacle were forced to watch the
contest with neither sharp-shooter
present. Yelkin and McArthur
were teammates that afternoon in
Norfolk as their team, the Lin
coln Metz, won the Nebraska
AAU championship.
With such as the case, Phi Del
ta Phi rode into the finals a ten
point favorite over the Geologists.
With both centers in action the
game was rated a toss-up.
But the Geologists came
through with some terrific team
play and fancy shooting to rout
Missouri Grid .
Chores Begin;
Few Veterans
Veteran holdovers were few
hardly enough to make two tables
of bridge as Missouri's football
ers waded into the opening round
of their spring refresher course
last week.
The overall Tiger crop is green,
very green and quarterback is
a start-from-scratch proposition,
Mizzou lettered 30 gndmen in
1950, and only 11 of these have
eligibility left. Military service
calls may trim the list even fur
ther.
Of the 65 candidates now in
suit, the number of lettermen ac
tually working out has been
sliced to seven, with four players
excused for one reason or an
other. Halfbacks Harold Carter
and Junior Wren will be com
peting in spring sports Carter
in track when a bone fracture in
his leg mends, and Wren with
the baseball team; center Bill
Fuchs has been given a waiver
to devote more time to his pre
med studies; guard Jack Lordo
and Harold Mickens, who won his
"M" as a halfback in 1949 are
among the absentees, their 1951
status doubtful because of . the
draft.
Nucleus
By positions, Missouri's meager
nucleus of experienced hands
breaks down like this: Ends
Maurice Udell and Bill Hampel;
tackle Paul Fuchs; guards Bob
Castle and Lordo; centers Bill
Fuchs and Roger Kinson; half
backs Carter, Wren and Bill
Wilkenlng; fullback Bill Burk
hart. That once-over isn't very re
assuring, least of all to Coach
Don Faurot and his staff who
must teach a lot of football savvy
to this rookie-laden gang during
spring workouts.
"Our aim," says Faurot, "is to
sort out the better prospects
among the newcomers this
spring, and bring them along as
far as possible. In this way, we'll
be able to spend more time with
the September crop of incoming
freshmen who will be imme
diately eligible for competition in
the conference."
Frosh
Outwardly, the Tiger boss isn't
fretting about his shortage of
seasoned manpower. Last year's
freshman squad, which beat Iowa
State by two points and lost to
Kansas by a conversion kick, was
regarded as the best post-war
yearling outfit at Missouri. Even
though the squad has since lost
a couple of standouts halfback
Nick Riccoiotti and end Harold
Burnine others should move up.
There's room aplenty for
hustling, able-bodied newcomers
at all stations. The need is most
acute at quarterback where grad
uation will lop off Missouri's first
three signal-callers Phil Klein,
Bob Henley and Bob Hailey.
Quarterbacks
Right now, six quarterbacks
are getting close scrutiny from
Faurot and Chauncey Simpson,
backfield coach. These hopefuls
are: Walt Trueblood, a B-teamer
from Kansas City; Bill Reynolds,
St. Joseph; Bob McFarland,
Clinton; Bob Schoonmaker, Le
banon; and John Hartwig, St.
Charles all off the freshman
squad; and Jim Hook, a junior
from Lee's Summit. Two more
will report in September. Bill
Fessler, a B team field boss last
season, is on the track squad
and Dick Wilson, another frosh
prospect, is convalescing from an
accidental head injury.
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First Half Close
The first half was close all the
way. The rock-collectors jumped
to an early lead on a fielder and
three free throws by miniature
Ron Ohnoutka and a goal by Gene
Carter only to see the lawyers
roar back just before the end of
the first quarter on three beauti
ful long shots by Bill Wenke. Ge
ology led going into the second
period, 10-8.
Wenke kept his shooting eye in
the second quarter and potted
three more loopers as the shys
ters pulled out on. top at half time
by a 22-21 score. Seven free
throws kept the winners in the
game during this stanza.
The next four minutes were
just as close as the first 20. Wen
ke hit for four more counters and
Ohnoutka and Hal Betterhausen
matched that to lead during that
time.
Then the roof caved in. With
four minutes to go in the third
frame, guard Bob Scoville of the
lawyers fouled out and the losers
fell apart. With the score stand
ing at 30-30 the Geologists really
went to town.
Mahacek Leads Way
Don Mahacek led the rout in
that four minutes and he poured
eight points through the hoops.
Carter hit four for four and Bob
Ingram and Lee Korte produced
two and three. In that short
period of time, th evictors ran
their score up to 43, while hold
ing the lawyers scoreless.
The final quarter was more of
the same. Korte got six, Carter
produced five, and Mahacek and
Bettenhausen each contributed
two. Bud Gerlach gave the Phi
Delta Phi's four points and John
Huskie Mentor
To Lecture at
Coaches Clinic
The nation's most successful
collegiate exponent of forward
passing off T formation, Howard
"Howie" Odell. head football
coach at the University of Wash
ington, will lecture before ap
proximately 350 Oklahoma high
school football coaches during
the University of Oklahoma's
fifth annual Coaches Clinic Fri
day and Saturday.
Odell's Huskies last year
boasted the nation's No. 1 for
ward passer in the national sta
tistics. He was Quarterback Don
Heinrich who completed 134 of
221 passes for 1,846 net yards
and a completion percentage of
60.9. Behind him, in order of
completions, were Cunningham
of Utah with 119, Weeks of Iowa
State with 116 and Parilli of
Kentucky with 114.
Coach Bud Wilkinson and the
Oklahoma staff are also on the
program for talks on "Building
Team Defenses." Wilkinson, Go
mer Jones, Frank Ivy and Bill
Jennings of the Sooner staff all
will discuss the subject starting
at one p.m. Friday. At 10:30 a.m.
Saturday the Oklahoma coaches
will talk on "Football Tech
niques." . I
A banauet for the visiting
coaches will be held at 6 p.m.
Friday at the Norman Country,
Mnh and movies of the 1951 Ten
nessee-Texas, Michigan-California
and Clemson-Miami bowl
games shown. A regulation game
by Oklahoma's spring looiDau
squad will be played at 2 p. m.
Saturday.
The Weather
Cloudy and warmer, central
and east portions; colder with
occasional light showers north
west and extreme west, late
Friday afternoon. Saturday;
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west and north. High Friday:
45 northeast, 50-55 southwest;
low around Lincoln: 30.
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Phi Delfts
Brogan hit for two to take car
of all of the losers' scoring in
the last ten minutes. Deadey
Bill Wenke of the lawyers fouled
out of the contest with five min
utts to play and with him went
tne last hope of the losers.
Wenke Tops Scorers
Wenke topped all the scoring as
he wound up with a 16-point to
tal. Gerlach got 12 tallies and no
other lawyer got over two.
The Geologists with Yelkin will
try to capture the All-Unaffili-ated
championship Thursday
night as they take on the Denom
inational champion Newman Club
outfit. The winner of this titie
will go into the final basketball
contest of the year as they meet
Sigma Phi Epsilon, newly
crowned Fraternity champion for
the All-University champion
ship. This game is tentatively set
for Friday at 4:30 p. m.
It was the second Independent
championship in a row for Jack
Yelkin of the Geologists although
he wasn't around in the final
game. Yelkin was the scoring cog
for Sigma Gamma Epsilon, last
year's Independent titleholder.
Holdrege Nips
Pawnee City
In night competition Wednes
day, the State high school tour
ney produced three more win
ners and one practically sure win
ner. Holdrege stalled out almost the
entire fourth quarter to edge top
heavy Pawnee City, 40-39 in the
most thrilling contest of the open
ing day. It was one man against
two in that game. The one man
Marv Nelson of Holdrege
came out on top. The two Paw
nee stars were Ned Eckman and
Chuck Jensen.
Elkhorn nipped Friend 38-37,
in a first round class C contest.
In the two late contests Wed
nesday night, Wayne shellacked
Gering 57-32 and Chappell led
Taylor 44-32 entering the final
stanza.
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