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Tuesday, December 4, 1951 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 The Benchwarmer By ED BERG Sports Staff Writer Pre-season charts Tiave placed Harry Good's basketball five at tn bottom 01 tne Big Seven barrel. Look magazine selects our Huskers lor a sixth place finish. However most Nebraska sport followers have developed a twalt and see" attitude. They have learned from the past football season that tames are not won on paper. Nebraska's 1911-52 basketball crew does lack experience. Also there Is a shortage of height on the starting five (by Big Seven standards that is). But this year's club does have an abundance of scrap and hustle plus a great deal of desire and will to win. The ball-handling wizardry of Jim Bu chanan and Joe Good, the shooting of Stan Matzke, the rebounding of Big Bill Johnson, the scrap and all-around play of Jim Snyder and Fred Seger, and the pivot play of Bud Ward should provide many thrills during the coming season. HARRY GOOD Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega have been stamped as the "teams to beat" for the intramural basketball crown. Their line-ups are dotted with former high school standouts and part-time college performers. Phi Kappa Psi, composed almost entirely of former Grand Island stars, looms as a darkhorse threat. A new intra mural rule allowing football players to play until spring practice could strengthen several clubs. Intramural director Ed Higginbotham has come up with a couple Ideas designed to improve the intramural basketball set up, A plan used for the first time this year has the competing teams each supplying one referee. Of course the officials must be from organisations other than those playing. Benefits are twofold. First of all the teams have only themselves to blame if the offi ciating isn't up to par. Secondly, the refs, who are paid on a per game basis, will be bearing down in an effort to be rehired. Higginbotham also has come up with six o'clock practice sessions. This move was necessitated by the heavy game schedule. Husker end coach Marv "Preacher" Franklin must be awfully fcroud of the Improvement shown by his defensive ends. Dennis Iknanuel and Bill Schabacker. These boys were terrific in the Colo mlo and Oklahoma games. Their performances rank as one of the Highlights of the season. It's quite a puzzle how Gregg McBride, Omaha World-Herald sports writer, managed to omit Lincoln high's Ted King from his list of All-State stars. King, probably the best running back in high school ranks, scored 106 points during Lincoln's all-victorious season. This eclipsed George Sauer's old mark of 86. Rumor has it that Nebraska will feature the single wing in its offense next year. The formation seems like a natural for the likes of Bob Reynolds, John Bordogna, Jim Cederdahl and Ray Novak. Fred Saigh didn't make any new friends by ousting Marty Marion from the managership of the Cardinals. Marion did a good job considering the talent available. Race Wide Open For Starting Center Berth On Cage Team NU Gymnastics Team By TOM BECKER Sports Staff Writer The Iowa State Teachers, bas ketball coach Harry Good said, was so-so for a starter. We have lots of work to do. Nebraska stopped the Tutors, 60-44. "Jim Buchanan played his usual good game," Coach Good said, "and freshman Stan Matzke shows promise of de veloping:." Buchanan paced the Husker Sig Eps Win University, Intramural Grid Crowns By MARSHALL KUSHNER Assistant Sports Editor A highly-potent offensive at tack and the swashbuckling run ning and passing of Ted Kratt led the Sigma Phi Epsilon foot ball team to the Intramural and All-University football titles this fall. After a controversial struggle, with the Delta Tau Delta's, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon gridiron machine was picked to face the fancy Sig Eps. The running attack was at its very best against the S.A.E.V and the Sig Eps rolled to a 6-0 win. .The clinching touchdown came in the third period when Kratt fired a bullseye pass to Bob Svanda in the end zone. Kratt's attempted drive around the end fell short by inches, and the six points scored was enough to carry the Sig Eps to the I-M crown. For the Sig Alphs, it was the vain efforts of Jumpin' Joe Gif ford and Bill Shainholtz to keep the SAE colors flying. Shainholtz was particularly bottled up by the stiff Sig Ep defense. - It was the same story in the all-University title bid as the Sig Eps bucked heads with a staunch Y.M.C.A.- crew and set it down with a 13-6 loss. The first score came when Kratt unwound a bullet pass into the cradling arms of Fred Peterson. After plowing his way through for yardage, Pe- Jay Linebacker A Main Factor In Kansas Defense That No. 33 is murder," said Loyola's Don Klosterman admir ingly after Kansas' four touch down comeback had nipped the Lions, 34-26. "He's not dirty, but he sure hits hard. What a bull." Klosterman was speaking of Galen Fiss, the Jayhawkers' oaken hewn 205-pound linebacker who's resounding hole-closing in the fi nal half was a big reason in lim iting the Califomians' sharp rush ing attack to 47 yards through the final 30 minutes. terson was finally halted at the one-yard line. Kratt proved his running adept ness and smashed through guard and tackle for the extra point and the Sig Eps were in a 7-0 command. But all was not in the bag for the Sixteenth Street grid ders. The Y.M.C.A. eleven retaliated on a long pass that went over the Sig Ep pass defense. The extra point try went awry and the Y men were in position they failed to overcome at the final gun. Kratt put the finishing touches on the win with a her culean aerial in the arms of Hyle "Red" Thibault. Thibault hauled the pass in and rambled 80 yards to score. Peterson administer a key block that allowed Thibault to dance up the sidelines untouched by Y.M.C.A. hands. Kratt was stopped short of the goal and the record was complete. I-M Grappling Prelims Start Tuesday Intramural wrestling will take the spotlight Tuesday, as prelimi naries get under way on the Coli seum mats. Varsity wrestling coach Al Par tin, director of the meet, an nounced that close to 100 men were entered in the meet. Weigh ing in was held Monday evening. Seven intramural champions will be crowned following the finals on Friday. Contestants are entered in the 123, 137, 147, 157, 167, 177 and heavyweight classes. The winning team will be awarded an all-University cham pionship trophy. Individual win ners in each weight class will re ceive medals. Bob Banks Is Selector Of The Year By DOUG WILCOX Sports Staff Writer Winner and still champion! Bob Banks, sports editor of The Daily Nebraskan, reigns as the king of the experts as the final averages for the ''Here Are Your Winners" selections have been compiled. Bob hit nine of ten predictions this week to give him a final .724 percentage. This mark is quite favorable in comparison with some of the nationally known prognosticates like Speir, Fraley and Williamson. Runner-up spot in the final compilation goes to consistent winning Arley Bondarin. .A member of the sports staff, Bon darin connected on eight games this week and has been high in the expert standings all year. Bondarin's percentage was .689 this season. Marshall Kushner, assistant sports editor, claims the third place spot After getting off to a rather shaky start, Kushner hit 17 of his last 19 selections to take the third place rating. His average was .678. Arne Stern, assistant business manager, and Jack Cohen, busi ness manager, ended up in a tie for fourth and fifth. Stern fell from third place while Cohen wilted down from his early season leadership in the poll. Ron Gibson hit eight on the nose this week and took possession of sixth place with a .655. Ron is a staff writer for the sports de partment also. A pair of sports writers, Doug Wilcox and Tom Becker, mon nopolized the seventh and eighth place posts with .655. Wilcox had an up-and-down season. After ascending to fourth, Wil cox fell back down the ladder. Becker pulled up from eleventh. Tom Rische, editor of the pub lication, took the worst fall toward the end of the season. After tak ing the leadership in the predic tions for two weeks, Rische fi nally ended up in ninth place with a .632. Dale Reynolds, ag campus edi tor, made good on 54 games out of 87 to win him the tenth place. Raynolds had a rather bad time with the tough games this year, although rallying to hit eight winners last week. Shirley Murphy and Don Pie per wound up in a tie for the booby prize and last place. Both hit .608 to at least give the staff of experts the pride to say that all stayed above the .600 mark. Murphy is news editor and Pie per is managing editor. The sports staff finally won its struggle for departmental suprem acy. The six sports prognostica tors averaged .672 to top the pair of students working for the busi ness staff who hit only .666. ilk ' ""fda Main Features Start Varsity. "Wild Blue Yonder," 1:00, 3:11, 5:21, 7:31, 9:44. Esquire: "Oliver Twist," 7:24, 9:20. State: "The Racket," 1:00, 3:47, 6:50, 9:52. "Hunt the Man Down," 2:39, 5:42, 8:45. WANT ADS WHEN YOU WANT RESULTS USE DULY KEBRASLUN mm aos CASH RATES Me. t Om I Te Three r.or I Fin Wseaa Day Dy. P.yi J r7 D,7, l- f M Mi .St Sl.ee I H.U U-ll M M IM 1.Tm - I LIS I l.U I 1.7 - I m. i.us sotTTw Include addresses when figur ing cost Bring ads to Daily Nebraskan business office, Student Union, or mall with correct amount and insertions dealrni Demt win ... till last to call for Jimmy ptiimps com ho for pstie Formats. 3-6831, 6-7717. Practice Piano-435.00. Bob Rut. 3-36S7 Zeiss earner, F 4.S lens, takes 130, case, new, raaaonaDia. -bm. Hare only Tuxedo left In stock. War $0 now a give away at $46. Thompson Tailors. Btuart Blag. Small apartment and sleeping room near campu. Consider child. a-4j. STAN MATZKE . . . Freshman forward scored 11 points against Iowa State Teachers. scorers with IS points. Matzke was second with 11. , Good classed Jerry Sandbulte. Fred Seger, guards, and Clarence Cook and Dave Fahrback, for wards, as boys who played a good game and show possibilities of developing. The center position, Maestro Good said, is wide open. We will still experiment. Good said that Bill Johnson. 6-7 sophomore, has more of the style oi the play that the Comhuskers use because he was on the fresh man squad last year. "Johnson has to be more ag gressive and agile, he is weak on rebounds," Good added. The other center prospect, 6-6 freshman, Chuck Ott, is playing his first year at Nebraska and has yet to get on the Husker style of play. Since the post position is the key position in the Nebraska at tack, the caliber of the pivot man will determine the fortunes of the team. The Comhuskers are presently working on offensive patterns and polishing their defensive play. Good believes that his fast break offensive must improve. Although the fast break to not the Huskers' main attack, it is a good threat against other teams. Freshman Paul Fredstrom, Good said, is coming along at his new position, forward. "With as many freshmen as we have on the team, it takes some time to unify the attack," he added. We have a representative group, Coach Good said, from the state. Some will come along in a year or two. They are en thusiastic and eager to learn. Nebraska's next game will be the Minnesota affair Saturday at the Coliseum. The Golden Gophers are ex pected to have one of the best teams in the Big Ten conference this year. Leading the attack will be Art Anderson, 6-4, Bob Gelle, 6-3, and 6-1 Dick Mean;, former Lincoln high all-stater. At Minneapolis last year, the Gophers dropped the Huskers, 55 41. In the Big Seven, Good believes that Kansas and Kansas State are the best. ' It is not known about the rest of the teams except that Oklahoma had the best freshman team in its history. It would be difficult to prog nosticate the standings of the other teams because the schools have two groups to draw from. Basketball teams of the Big Seven not only can use members of the last year's freshman teams, but also this year's freshmen. Basketball is more unpredict able, Good said, than any other sport, therefore it's hard to say where the teams will place. The sixth annual Big Seven Pre-season basketball tournament will be held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 26, 27, 28, and 29. Stanford University will be the guest team. Past winners of the tournament are: 1946 SMU. 1947 Kansas State. 1948 Oklahoma. 1949 Missouri. 1950 Kansas State. Each team will play three games during the tournament; consolation games will be played the afternoons of Dec. 28 and 29 at 2:00 and 3:45. Previous guest teams: 1946 Arkansas and SMU (then Big Six). 1947 Oklahoma A and M. 1948 Harvard. 1949 Michigan. 1950 Minnesota. Schedule of games in the open ing rounds: Dec. 26 Kansas vs. Colorado 8:00. Oklahoma vs. Stanford 9:45. Dec. 27 Kansas vs. Nebraska 8:00. Iowa State vs. Missouri 9:45. The remaining Nebraska sched' ule: Tuts., Dec. 11 Northwest Missouri, here. Sat., Dec. 15 Fresno State, here. Wed., Dec. 19 SMU, away. Thur., Dec. 20 SMU, away. FrL, Dec. 21 University of Tampa, away. Sat., Dec. 22 University of Miami, away. Sat., Jan. 5 Colorado, here. Sat., Jan. 12 Kansas State, there. Mon., Jan. 14 Kansas, here. Sat., Jan. 26 South Dakota, here. Mon., Jan. 28 Iowa State, there. Sat., Feb. 2 Missouri, here. Sat., Feb. 9 Oklahoma, here. Mon., Feb. 11 Colorado, there. Sat., Feb. 16 Kansas, there. Mon., Feb. 18 Oklahoma, there. Sat., March 1 Kansas State, here. Mon., March 3 Missouri, there. 4 ! 'hi1- I I J - -4 WWII llallalWlM 0J Mi. v Husker Varsity Gymnastics Team (1. to r.): Leo Geier, Milo Bra beck, assistant coaches; Ira Epstein, Team 'Captain Paul Hughes, Jerry Tubbs, Bob Norton, DeWayne Behrens, Tom Kidd, Bob Yar wood; Jake Geier, head coach. Four Veterans Anchor Husker Gymnastic Squad Gymnastics coach Jake Geier will build his 1951-52 team around lettermen Paul Hughes, Jerry Tubbs, Bob Yarwood and Ira Epstein. Added to this core of letter men will be Tom Kidd and De Wayne Behrens. These six men are the only experienced men on the squad, as Bob Norton, who was slated to be a starter, will be lost to the service. Norton was in the Naval Reserve and was called up. Geier will augment this corps of lettermen with a promising crop of freshmen. Most promising of the yearlings so far has been tumbler Danny Fogel. The Geiermen will face a sched ule which includes seven meets and several exhibitions. Among the exhibitions are five exhibi tions to be given at the halftime of Nebraska baketball games. Next on the team schedule are the team tryouts, to be held Dec. 12. The tryouts wll be held as an intra-squad meet, to be udged on an individual basis. Husker fans will get a chance to watch the gymnasts in action, as there are four home meets scheduled. All home meets will be held on court three in the Physical Education building. Starting time for all meets is 2 p.m., except for the state high school meet which begins at 9 a.m. Here is the complete 1951-52 Cornhusker gymnastic schedule: December 12 Team Tryouts. December 15 Kansas State Here Basketball Exhibiton. January 5 Basketball Exhi bition. January 11 Gymnastic Clinic at Hastings. January 14 Basketball Exhi bition. January 15 Exhibition Northeast High School, 1:10 p.m. February 2 Minnesota There. February 9 Basketball Exhi bition. February 16 Iowa U., Colo rado U., Here Triangular. February 23 Greeley Here. February 25 Basketball Ex hibition. March 1 All College Invita tional at Greeley. March 8 State High School Meet Here. March 21-22 N.C.A.A. at Boulder, Colorado. March 29 Navy Pier, Here. N.C. Football Coach Fired Beattie Feathers, football coach at North Carolina state college, was dismissed from his position Monday. He will be replaced as soon as a three-member committee can obtain a new head mentor. 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