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Wednesday, January 6, 1954 THE NEBRASKAN Page 3 In The Stands Grid eelm$j Qumim or Unemployed-Coaches 1 X Oouitear UncTea Stw Faynioh By GEORGE PAYNICH Sports Editor No sooner do we ret something into print than new events make u look like a bunch of losing; second-guessers. Take the paragraph in yesterday's Nebraskan where we hinted at a possibility of some new assistant grid coaches If contracts aren't renewed soon by February 1. oo wni nappens, practically the entire ath. c letic staff is off to attend the NCAA football meetings In Cincinnati this week. If this isn't mt laati an ill.l V . ii . ... . H at iiai unuiiy men i m mil we again. But yon can never tell what can happen In Nebraska's highly explosive athletic depart raent! THE NCAA annual meeting as we all know however is quite a spot to make contacts for coaching jobs. In fact that is where all such business is conducted. Potsy Clark shouldn't v nave too mucn trouoie iinding a new job then, he has been attending these meetings for some VMM nnw nnri shnn'M Viaira iiha a i" "uiun lor assistant roacnes ana ex-nesa coaches should be more difficult this year. With all the resignations roinr on, especially In the Big; Seven, there should be quite a bit of competi tion for Jobs. We might aay that a recession has hit the coaching; ranks! The meeting by the way has no hopes In changing that awful e-ne-platoon rule. The coaches apparently have accepted the rule for another year and will seek instead some way to get more play ers into the game, more liberal substitution. THE CORNHUSKER cage squad is in a three-way tie for first place in the Big Seven by virtue of its 74-60 trimming of Xowa State Monday night. The boys may come through with a fine league showing after all. A well-balanced scoring attack from Coach Good's first five, Bill Johnson 15 points, Don Weber 15, Fred Seger 1, Bill Fagler 14, and Duane Buel with 12 points gave the Huskera the most po tent scoring machine in many moons. The Oklahoma Sooners are the next NU foe this Saturday. The Sooners invade the Coliseum to attempt to make it two in a row over Nebraska. The visitors took second place in the Big Seven tournament and appear to be gaining steam each time out. This Sooner club along with Kansas appear to me to be the top teams in the conference. But the interesting thing about the Big Seven conference Is that It never runs to form. KANSAS AND Kansas State have dominated the league In the past few years, but the favorite always seems t1 finish SP(W11 Talrc laet nuinn urVinm V. a f Kansas State Wildcats were heavy favorites to cop the crown. The Kansas Jayhawks surged out of nowhere to take top honors in the league and finished second to Indiana in the NCAA meet. Kansas won the league tournament this year, but this seems to be a bad omen to any club as far as Big Seven activity Is concerned. Acting strictly on that hunch we dont string along with Kansas but with a darkhorse, say Oklahoma. Oklahoma by the way will bring along a Grayson fellow well-known in Nebraska College Conference, John Gray son. Grayson is the assistant coach of the Sooners and is remem bered chiefly for his championship team at Nebraska Wesleyan last season and the subsequent developing of seven-foot Don Boldebuck. Without the seven-foot ace who is enrolled at Houston and Grayson, the Plainsmen are floundering badly this season. baaHHKaWte&al i I . t ? ,: L J A? - ''"V Ov. 7 - - ' 's " . - . I q ' i - . K i I . - i j :! ii i , J- Kansas Pivot The big boy to the left is the principal reason why the Kan sas University Jayhawks have been tabbed by sports writers and sportscasters as favorites for the Big Seven basketball crown. "Fhog" Allen coached teams have a habit of developing Into title contenders year after year. Although the jayhawks never field an exceptionally tali team they always manage to come up with an outstanding pivot man. Two years ago it was the amazing Clyde Lovelette and now it is Born. The 1952 all American Born averaged 22.5 points over the conference route last season with a single-game high of 44 points against Colo f - TIB t ; v' I?: - f" ' 'O s ; ' L . . i Jf h - : ' ' ' , . v 1 ' J s. t ' 1 .... . jsmr ? , r, , .v ? ' . t , f. - . ; - 1 f Husker Victory Pose Here are the boys who have Coach Harry Good, and Bill their surprising triumph over , . . . Johnson. Bottom row from left Kansas State at the Big Seven carried the load in early geason to right Don Weber, Fred Seger Pre-Season Tournament. (Ne- Nebraska cage Wins. Top row nd Charlie Smith. The boys braska Photo by Maynard left to right, Willard Fagler, posed for our camera following Small) Bruce Drake's Sooners Expected To Be Rugged Foe This Saturday Les Lane. Bob Waller, Ron Blue Pace Sooner Attack By GARY FRANDSEN I season favorites to cop the con- Sporta Staff Writer ference crown, by a slim margin oi lour poinis, o-. inc game Coach Harry Good's Nebraska basketball team, fresh from a rousing 74-60 triumph over Iowa State Monday In their Initial Big Seven start, will be out to even things up a bit Saturday night when the Oklahoma Sooners in cade their Coliseum hideaway. It was Bruce Drake's Sooners behind the torrid third-quarter shooting of center Bob Waller and guard Les Lane who whal- loped the Huskers 86-70 in the semi-finals of the pre-season Big Seven tournament in Kansas City after Nebraska had sur prised everyone ny upsetting highly-favored Kansas State the night before. The earlier Oklahoma win over the Huskers was an unusual game in several respects. www IN THE first half Nebraska looked like the club that had whipped the Wildcats the eve- nine before, but after the inter mission the situation was quickly and completely reversed. The oil-country lads played the Husk ers off their feet and turned the contest into a romp with a sizzl ing 32-point third quarter. Waller and Lane along with forward Ron Blue are the big Oklahoma runs. Big Bob Is the Sooners' 6-5 center and came through with the best Individual performance of the Kansas ICty tournament when he had a S0- plus evening against the Huskers. Lane, one of the fastest guards in the conference, has been the best all-around performer on the Oklahoma squad thus far. He led all scorers in the recent holiday season tournament with 64 points. Blue is a left-handed for ward and is one of the squad's top workers under the boards. www OTHER PROBABLE starters against the Huskers will be for ward Sterling Jones and guard Dink McEachern. Along with Waller, Lane and Blue they form what could easily be the best balanced five in the conference. All five are capable of coming through with a high-scoring per formance. In their Initial Big Seven start Oklahoma fell before Fhog Al len's Kansas Jayhawks, the pre- 'Cats Draw Fans 170,000 people saw the Kansas State Wildcats play basketball last season. This placed them among the top 16 teams in the country in season's attendance records. All Big Seven Fives To Play On Saturday While Harry Good's Cornhusk ers entertain The Oklahoma Soon ers in the Coliseum Saturday night, all pf the remaining five members of the Big Seven will see action. Kansas State, favored for an upper-division slot in the final Conference standings, opens its regular season Big Seven play against the Colorado Buffaloes on the Wildcats new court at Man hattan. The Buffs have won their lone league start of the year, downing Missouri. - Coach Sparky Stalcup's well balanced Tigers play host to loop favorite Kansas University. The Jayhawks squeezed past Oklahoma Monday. Iowa State, loser to the Huskers In their Monday nicht opener, meets Bradley Saturday. 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THE CLASSY Lane wound up as the leading Sooner point maker with 25 points, including field goals while Waller had 23. Blue flipped in 12 and the other two starters, Jones and McEach ern, came through with only three and one respectively. It was a high-scoring fourth quarter that carried the Husk ers to their triumph over Iowa State. Breaking a 45-45 tie Ne braska hit 11 out of 13 attempts from the floor to win going away. The Scarlet and Cream scoring was well-balanced - with Fred Seger getting 16 points, Bill Johnson 15, Don Weber 15, Wil lard Fagler 14 and sub-guard, Duane Buel 12. WW BOTH TEAMS have similar records going into Saturday night's tussle. The Sooners have a 3-5 record with wins over Wis consin, Washington and Ne braska. They have been beaten by Illinois, Ohio State, Oklahoma A&M, and Kansas (twice). Nebraska has managed a 4-6 mark highlighted by impressive wins over Iowa and Kansas State. Their two other victories were over South Dakota and Iowa State. The club suffered their defeats from Minnesota, Oregon State, Oregon (twice), Missouri and Oklahoma. 4. v Bob Waller Selleck Says: In an interview with the United Press Tuesday, acting Chancellor John Selleck stated that while the University of Nebraska would never be able to field a team of the caliber of Notre Dame an nually, this does not mean that Nebraska would be destined for mediocre clubs -in the future. Selleck declared that in the fu ture Nebraska teams would have to depend chiefly en homegrown talent. His method of keeping talent at home would be to ex pand the scholarship program at Nebraska from a present number of 70-80 to perhaps 125-150 to at tract athletes. The increase In cost for such a program would jump to $125,000 for a 150 group plan. Costs are based on a $900 yearly basis for each athlete. How this program would be fi nanced was not disclosed, bnt alumni support was hinted as a likely source by Selleck. Selleck warned of the danger of too large of an alumni contri bution. Alumni would feel that they had a right to help manage the program. The problem then, said the acting Chancellor, is Just how far one must go to obtain SikeSf Tatum Up For Aggie Football Post Another college football coach called it quits Monday. Ray George, head football coach at Texas A. M. whose team lost Its last five Southwest Conference games, resigned with the an nounced intention o f entering private business. George told reporters he Is through with the coaching bus iness. Among the names listed as possible successors was J. V. Sikes, former Texas A. M, foot ball star who resigned as coach at the University of Kansas last November after a bad season. Other names up for specula tion included Mike Michalske, A. M. line coach; Dick Todd, former Aggie and professional football player now an assistant on the Southern Methodist staff; Maryland coach Jim Tatum and Army coach Red Blaik. (I aUGuiv financial aid without giving up control of the program. Nebraska football has not de teriorated, opined Selleck. He laid the cause to better development of athletes and athletic programs In other states, especially Okla homa, Kansas and Missouri. Selleck favors a program which gives the men of the state of Nebraska the same opportunities as men of other states have and are receiving. He summed up his remarks by stating that he hoped Nebraska could have just as good an ath letic program at an educational program. Taus, Betas, AGR Cagers Win Monday Post-holiday Intramural actlv lty barely got underway Mon day evening as only three cage games were played. However activity will be at full steam throughout the rest of the week as most intramural teams am slated to see action before Sat urday. Monday night the 1953 All University champions, Alpha Tau Omega, looked In top form as they crushed hapless Delta Tau Delta 58-32. The fast and rancy TauS took the early lead and were never seriously threatened by the out classed Delts. Towering Bob Brown and guard Ken France led the winners with 13 points apiece. Charlie Smith tallied 13 for the losers. Meanwhile the Betas were thrashing the AGR's. 59-C4. Bis; Phil Wetngart powered the Beta attack by singing the nets for 21 points. In the other Monday night game the Alpha Gamma Sigma's managed to outlast the Ag Roc kets 44-34. Dale VanVleck added 12 to the winning cause while Gene Shriver tallied 10 for the Rockets. Slain Feature Clock Varsity: "3 Sailors and Girl," 1:30, 3:29, 5:28, 7:27, 9.26. State: "Marry Me Again," 1:15, 4:06, 7:00, 9:45. "Affair With a Stranger," 2:80, 5:21, 8:15. GET RESULTS USE "NEBRASKAN" WANT ADS ,jsGENt KELSON .TECHNICOLOR . JACK E LfOttANT 31,000 ACTUAL STUDENT INTERVIEW SHOW COLLEGE SMOKERS PHEFEU LUCK TO ALL OTHER BRANDS! 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