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O Wednesday, March 4, 1953 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Page 3 msta irav otr oim o By BILL MUNDELL Intramural Sports Columnist "It's going to be a long row to hoe" was the unanimous cry after the first night of intramural bas ketball playoff action came to a close Monday. A total of 19 games rendered a decision before the curtain was rung down on most of the first-round struggles and most of these caused the eyebrows to climb a notch. The "easy victories" Just towards the end of the third stanza as Ted Connor and Ben Leonard found the range to shoot them into a 30-23 lead. After Larry Dunning opened the fourth with a long looper, the Sigs had it in the bag, they thought. The nine-point Sigma Chi ad vantage lasted exactly four min utes. During this interval,, the winners were held without a counter as the Pioneers, with re newed vigor climbed into a 32- then they and Theta Chi sizzled the nets in a S8-53 Phi Psi vic tory. Behind the 23-polnt effort of Fred Longacre, upstart Theta Chi gave the leaders a battle royal. They owned their early eight point advantage and then watched the winners gain e pair of leads of 12 points, but fought back to within range each time. Coupled with Longacre's 23 llefi, Women MU Cagers Here Tonight A double-header basketball car nival, featuring a girls' cage game as a preliminary contest, will be gin at 6:30 p.m. on the Coliseum maples Wednesday nieht. Two top-ranking AAU teams, 'ated by Phi Kappa Psi "B," 48-18. the Goodyear Wingfoots of Akron, I Entering the playoffs with the Phi Psd i mm mm m & 4 nu rA vQinn)' Wbbd By BILL MUNDELL Intramural Sports Columnist The top-ranked fraternity "B" outfit lasted exactly one hour in the 1953 intramural basketball playoffs. Delta Upsilon "B" saw their championship hopes obliter- . ine ll.Z JUsV'iwAu LK"A."i",u " iu "t counters was Ray Selk's 20 to pro werent mere lor mosi teams con-J4 lie. mats we way ii aai iui l, . ,0i--)l cerned Monday night. Heavy fa- two and a half minutes, 1 vorites sighed in relief as they saw their supposed runaways shrink into meager victories. A couple of strong favorites put way their basketballs for another year. Confident Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon ran into a pair of buzz-saws in the form of Pioneer House and Beta Sigma Psi and managed to pull out wins in the final minutes. Top-ranked i Phi Kappa Psi and little regarded Theta Chi threw everything at each other but the playing floor as the Phi Psi s eked out the de cision. Sigma Phi Epsilon "B" and Phi Gamma Delta "B" saw two Ag College delegations by name of Alpha Gamma Rho "B" and Farmhouse "B" smash their cham pionship hopes with upset vic tories. It was playoff time again. Sigma Chi ended P i o n e.e r Ben'MarUn dunked a charity -Bob Bachman led the way tcc fnr th Rio In thp Inst thrf lul. uit wuiners wun ii mancers minutes for the deciding point, but it didn t look very comfort Frosh Tracksters A freshman-varsity track meet, is scheduled to get under way at 2 p.m. Saturday, Coach Ed Weir announced this week. The meet will provide the frosh cindermen their last opportunity to improve their marks before the Biff Seven frosh postal meet deadline, March 7. "We're anxi ously awaiting- Saturday's meet," Weir said. "It will five the freshmen a chance to better their events, and help the var sity squad prepare for the on coming outdoor track season." followed by Bob Reynolds' 11. The Phi Psi's meet Sigma Chi Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in perhaps the feature game of the tourney. Feature perhaps, but no more exciting than what was pro duced Monday night. Sigma Phi Epsilon found the "easy" half of the bracket too hot for comfort. Beta Sigma Psi al most provided the upset of the year as they forced the Sig Eps to come from behind in the final minutes and stall their way to victory, 43-39. Behind the nine and six-point efforts of Bill Renner and Oliver High, the Beta Sigs kept the win ners on their toes during a 22-22 first half. That tie was quickly snapped as the underdogs forged a five-point House's undefeated streak at 12lajjic, Entering the final minute, lead midway in the third period in a first-round fraternity "A"the vjct0rs dusted off their stall on baskets by High and Spike tussle, but had to come from be- ,nH ;n vain nttpmnts to eet the Dannehl. It remained for Al Han- hind and then withstand a furi-jban, the Pioneers saw the game I sen, Sig Ep stalwart who had ous Pioneer comeback in the final jg0 up jn srnoke as first Connor I managed scarcely more than ten canto. Sigma Chi won, 40-32, with! and then Carr Trumbull con-points in the last five games, to the winning DucKeis coming in tne;nected and that was it. I pull the winners to their senses. Iinal minute. Ward David of the losers ledl Four times the Sig Eps found It was nip-and-tuck all the ini- all scorers with 12 counters while, themselves behind and four times tial half. The two outfits ex-Connor with 11 and Leonard with I Hansen potted them with deadly chanced the lead five times in the nine tonped the winners. first quarter which saw Pioneer I Meanwhile, top-rated Phi Kap rntering the minute rest with anipa Psi was having its troubles. 8-7 advantage. The second period Finding themselves behind 2-10 was no different and the,ount at with only four minutes gone, the intermission stood at 17-17. Phi Psi's gave it all they had tolto be exact, accuracy from far out to bring the ead back into safe keeping. The last one gave the winners a 39-38 advantage which they kept the rest of the way or three minutes The Sigs breathed easier I gain a 15-12 quarter lead and 1953 Gym Squad Best In History; Better Next Year The Husker gymnastics team isitional meet at Boulder for the certain to be one of the best second straight year. This left teams in national collegiate cir- the NU team with only one loss cles next year. for the season a dual meet at These were the words of Coach the University of Iowa which the J. G. (Jake) Geier, Husker gym'Hawkeyes won by a 53-43 mar mentor, as he reviewed the Scar-1 gin. let team's winning season lues- "we nave ne Desi team in me, . , M c ff netted a free day. hstoty of the University Vwith Marv Paneitz fielding The Nebraskans completed, year, the coach smiled, and d erthe-basket tally, their season last Saturday, win-j there are no gzraduating seniors Thg Weeji Fijjs netted fi 7.6 ring the All-Collegiate Invita-onne squad. ouarter bulee. but saw it evapor- miimmmmm i '."i " 1.V ate in the second canto on three Pat Mallette and Dave Brandon actually led the Sig Eps in scor ing with 13 and 11, but it was Hansen's nine that came when they were most needed. High and Renner topped the Beta Sigs with 12 and 11, respectively. Farmhouse "B" used the final quarter to best advantage and fashioned a 32-30 upset squeaker over Phi Gamma Delta "B." Trailing 27-24 entering the fourth Quarter, the Aggies' Fred Schmidt went to work with five imnortant counters. A pair of Marv's contributed the final v . 1 JAKE GEIER . . . Ills NU gym tiastics squad completed its most successful season In the history of the school last weekend. The Husker gym team won the All College Invitational at Boulder for the second Btralght year, Winning eight of nine dual meets and one triangular plus the AC1 win. And even our top scorers will be up against some top competi tion from the freshman gymnasts who'll be eligible for varsity com petition next year," he added. Expected to come from the frosh ranks to strengthen the squad are Bruce Riley, Ken Kolar, Bur rell McMaster and Roger Nichols. Team Captain Tom Kidd led the team in scoring with a total of 262 points for the season. Kidd straight coals bv Coffee. Rex Fischer potted a pair in the third to bring the Weejis back, but they couldn't hold up in the fateful fourth. Ray Gard of the winners led the scoring with 11 points while Fischer topped the Fijis with ten. Meanwhile another league V team was -receiving its lumps. It lor Ohio, and the Santa Maria Golden Dukes of Santa Maria, Calif., will compete in the headliner, sched uled to begin at 7:45 p.m. Both teams bolster All-Amerl-can, All-Conference and All-Service talent, and are well up in the race for this year's NIBL crown. Such stars as big Jim Mclntyre, Minnesota; Jay Handlan, Wash ington and Lee; Sherman Near man, North Carolina; Omer Meek er, Peru State Teachers College; and a host of others will display their talents before Coliseum fans. Kicking off the activities will be an AAU girls game between the Commercial Extension School of Commerce team from Omaha and Lincoln's Elgin National Watch Company's AAU performers. The Elgin girls are the Citv Class A girls cage champs, and the Omaha team has copped the nine. top Bee record of 11-1, the DU's, who led the ratings going into the tourneys, were no match for the hot Phi Psi's as they counted only two points in the opening frame and but one in the second canto. Charles Betzelberger was the big gun for the winners, getting a 13 point total. Bob Johnson's six fourth-quarter points stood up for the DU Bees. The Mustangs and Ag Men's Club "A" fought on even terms all the way before the Mustangs claimed a 37-34 victory. The Ag gies, who had copped first place in league IX, didn't have it in the fourth stanza, however. Six free throws was the lump sum of the Ag Men's final-canto scoring while the Mustangs were ringing up ten. Cap Dierks of the losers led the scoring with ten points while Jerry btrasheim topped the victors with two centers racked up 19 points apiece. It remained for the re maining Rockets to provide the winning counters. The other Ag league IX repre sentatives proved more fortunate. The University Aggies 'brushed aside AIEE in a 44-21 contest whhile the Ag Parasites iripped Phi Delta Phi, 36-23. In the latter contest, the shys ters never recovered from a 17-3 first quarter although narrowing the count at times. Willie Pier son led the winners with 13 tallies while the Ag Farasites tripped dle-de fees with eight. A 20-7 first half paved the way to the Uni Aggies' victory. After that it was no contest. Wayne Fratis with 18 and Denny Bergin with 14 were chief point-getters for the winners while Weldon Vlasak was high for the Engi neers with nine. Mid-West AAU championship title for the past six years. Elgin's rec ord is 10-1, as compared to an 18-2 record for the Omahans. It will be the first AAU girls' cage game on Coliseum records. The - heavily-favored Rockets were hard-pressed to gain a 42-35 decision over Holdrege "A." It was a personal scoring duel be tween Rocket Marv Lawton and Holdrege Dean Hutchins as the Laying Weekend Plans participated in every event ex- was fourth-quarter trouble cept two, and was a consistent Sigma Phi Epsilon "B, also, as scorer. He won the individual! Alpha Gamma Rho rang up a trophy at the All-College meet. 136-31 win. Following Kidd in scoring were Danny Fogcl, 176 points; Max Kennedy, 133 points; Don Hodge, ITS if' . v i i . .4 X ' ; -A ' f ' ""WMI 1 - i Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star CONFERENCE POINTERS . . . Husker swimming Coach Web Emery gives pre-meet advice to his star diver, Gene Cotter, in preparation for the Big Seven swimming championships Friday and Saturday at Norman. Cotter has been a consistent winner of the diving event In conference dual meets this season. The favored Sig Eps, behind the 13 points of Jerry O'Connor, ral lied to a 19-15 first-half margin. II8V2 points; Charles Sprague, 65jbut found O'Connor stopped in points; Bert Linn, 40Vfe points; the second half as well as them Dick Raecke, 25 Vi points; and'seives. AGR Wayne Frost went on a personal scoring spree in the final half of action. His 12 points pulled Big Seven Rankings Continue Unstable IM Playoff Scoreboard Fraternity A Sigma Chi 40 Pioneer noma 32 Phi Kappa Pil .18 Theta Chi S3 Alpha Tau Omeaa 56 . . . . Farmhouse 28 Theta XI 50 Zeta Beta Taa 30 Phi Delta Theta 52 PI Kappa Phi 24 Phi Gamma Delta 41 Cornhusker Co-op 2(1 Beta THeta Pi 7:1 Acacia 31 Sigma I'hl EpiilOB 43 Beta flltma Pal 39 Fraternity B Sigma Chi 30 Beta Theta PI 20 Farmhouse 32 ... Phi Gamma Delta 30 Alpha Gumma Rho 36 . Sig Kp 31 Phi Kappa Pl 48 PeMa Vpslloa 18 Independent Latherans 53 Farmhouse "C" 24 Ax Pantiles 36 Phi Delta Phi 23 Heagr Manor 39 Klleri 27 M -Street Boys 42 Methodists 24 Rockets 42 Holdrege "A" 35 Mustang! 37 Ag Men "A" 34 L'ni Aggies 44 AIEK 21 Unbeaten Lutheran Student As sociation chalked up win number 13 for the year as they romped over the Farm House Scrubs, 53 24. Bill Luther with 18 was the big scorer for the winners while Harlan Skinner with 16 and Ned Luther with 15 were right behind. Rex Meyer led the Farmers with ten. Phi Delta Theta showed their heels to Pi Kappa Phi in a 52-24 rout. The issue was never in doubt as Bill Giles. Joe Carter and Louie Roper chalked up 13, 12 and u points, respectively. Doug Innes was all the Pi Kaps had to offer with seven marker's. Heagy Manor stopped the Fliers in the second half and fashioned a 39-27 victory. Galen Johnson with 16 and Mai Moller with 13 provided the winners with enough to win. Clark Betcke tallied mor I than half of his team's counters, ! getting 15 for the losers. The M-Street Boys found no competition from the Methodist House and chalked up a 42-21 vic tory. It was practically determined in the first half as the Boys ran to a 25-9 margin. Roger Rankin and Jim Thorell led the winners with 15 and 14, respectively. Rich Satterfield topped the Methodists with ten. Zeta Beta Tau looked great hv the first period of their fray with Theta Xi and then collapsed, 80 50. Leading as much as eight points at one time, the Zetas sud denly went cold while Theta Xi warmed to the occasion. Rex Christensen led the win ners with 14 tallies while Arly Bondarin netted 12 for the losers. Beta Theta Pi warmed up in a 12-10 first quarter with Acaci and then showed no mercy to the Masons in a 73-31 romp. It was a high total that may well with stand the pressures of the rest of the tourneys. Ron Smaha topped the winners with 22 counters, being assisted by Bob Howey's 13 and Tom Har rington's 12. Dean Cunningham reaped the Acacia scoring honors with 15 to his credit. Sigma Chi "B," the defending champion, and Alpha Tau Omega had too much for Beta Theta Pi "B" and Farm House. The Sig Bees crushed the Betas. 39-20. while the Taus came from behind to swamp the Aggies, 56-28. The Jones boys again led the ATO's, Dave getting 16 and Hobe notch ing 14. Doug Dale contributed an additional 13. Don Johnson led the losers in their early 9-3 lead and wound up as high man with 11 counters. Larry Gallion's 15 was high for the Sig Bees. Hans Gosch led the Beta Bees with eight. Phi Gamma Delta ran wild after an 8-5 first quarter to trounce Cornhusker Co-op, 41-20. Ed Schmidt led the way With 13 points for the Fijis while Harry Wray topped the Cocos with six. Ray Fallstead, 17 points. The Season Records Dual Meets Nebraska 7HV Kannas 3Vii Nebraska 77 North Dakota It 5& a;-:::::::.Co,MTl2X trW" famous AGR stall that saved Nebraska .14 Naj Pier 41 Nebraska 41 Xehraka 70 , ffnw I . M Nebraska 73 Colorado AaeM 21 Triangular Meet Nebraska. SIlMii North Dakota fltate 12V4i Kansas Ktale. So. All-College Invitational Nebraska srnred 12 points to "LV I radn Htate, Colorado, l)ener I .. Kansas Male, 4'olorado AAM and Kansaa. Van Lines Harsh Decision Ousts Toronto Sports Page Howard Vann Is there really too much emphasis P"t or. college athletics or are there just too many people who arc looking for an , argu ment' Since when docs one par-e of sports news printed in ,8 Jchoo'l newspaper tend to turn the whole college's eyes towards Dorts activities and emphasize an institutions sports? I am referring specifically to the article which appeared in The Dailv Naskan lJ month stating the snd case of the Univcrsi y S Toronto disbanding their school sports page to de-emphasize a tPOrExpressinR my own ideas on the subject with absolutely no reflection on Anyone else on the sports staff, I consider the entire case in most instances u.s childish. . Ever since the basketball scandals two years ago there seems to be . general tendency to condemn a school who wins a champion ishiD or some major national title. P Naturally when a conch puts a team on. the field he wan to his bunch of boys to develop into one of the nation's best. Is th s season enough to condemn a whole school for too much emphasis ! nThJvc absolutely nothing against the policy which the Toronto newspaper decide! on but it was just another of a long line of actions designed to de-emphnsize sports and it's time that some definite conclusion be reached arout the matter . It has been hashed over time and time again with the same hing befng S every time. Naturally the first thing a student comes to college for is an education, but there Is also knowledge in participating in extra-curricular activities including athletics. P Mos men at one time or another glance at the sports page if for no other reason than to see how the local team is doing. Sports play a major part in the world today and not only in col- There are men who make a livlihood through coaching college mhletcs men who go to the international Olympics, publicity men, am ..rV, -nr.nr.ftpH in some wav or an- ana numerous ouu-r nun wn ... other in collcse athletics. They are striving to improve conditions WheHere'sthonctsoiution. Let those who continually harp for dc emohasls rest the case for the present. In any situation there is always room for improvement and schools are striving to Improve ti.o de-emphasis "crisis." No matter where you go, there will al ways be competition! You can never tell what the outcome of any sporting event will be until the final moments arc over. Of course there are always the favorites and underdogs but every once in a while there is an exhibition which the fans remember season after season. Such is the case of NU's fine finish in the Big Seven Indoor Championships. After the first days competition NU was expected to fight it out with Colorado and Missouri for the sixth position but clutch performances by the Huskcrs nabbed the team third place after a dismal indoor season. Hats off to Coach Ed Wier and his fine bunch of boys who Q really did a spectacular job at Kansas. 0 the Aggies out of the fire and when they had the lead, it was the victory. OConnor with 18 and Frost with 16 contributed the bulk of the contest's scoring. Walt Finke of the winners and Bob Postma of the losers each helped their cause with six points apiece. As the Big Seven race for the championship rolls into its final two weeks the runner-up posi tions are still in doubt. j Kansas moved one step closer, to their second championship in' two years last Monday night as, they walloped the University of j Colorado, 78-55. B. H. Born, tow-j ering center foi the Jayhawks' broke the Big Seven scoring rec-' ord which had been broken twice previously this season. Born dumped 44 points through the hoop on 16 fielders and 12 out of 20 free throws. ' Main Feature Clock Varsity: "I Confess," 1:26. 3:27, 5:28, 7:29, 9:30. State "The Promoter," 1:38,1 3:36, 5:34, 7:32. 9:30. i Masterpiece ol Suspense! KARL MAIDED BRIAN MM. Also Sensation! Cartoon "MADELINE" ENGINEERS, SCIENCE IY1AJO A representative of the Du Pont Company will be on this campus March 6 to interview Bachelor and Master degree candidates majoring in Chemistry Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Contact your placement office for interview appointment s M.t.. 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