Friday, January 7, 1955
Lincoln, Nebraska
Page 3
What's NU In Sports?
Afll Big 7 Opener Shorn
Signs Of '5364 Season
k" uSt Jues,day' contest gainst Iowa State is any Indication, the
Nebraska Cornhuskers may be starting their cage season in similar
fashion to their grid campaign. If you can recall, the Huskers seemed
to be up and down all year untfl they encountered Colorado. Then they
were on their way with wins over the Buffs, Missouri, and Kansas,
taking second place in the conference. Then basketball came and the
same situation appeared. The Nebraskans seemed doomed for T mis
oZXJSS humillated by Cdorado-
Buskers Big Surprise
Ontheotherhand, the Cyclones started out good and brought an
impressive 6-2 record to Lincoln. Included in the record was a third
place finish at the conference tourney. They rallied in championship
style to pull one of the two upsets of the meet in downing Kansas 82-81,
were edged by Kansas State, 70-6 and ended up in third place with a
71-62 win over Oklahoma. In the Jayhawk contest, Chuck Duncan, the
talented 6-5 Cyclone pivot man, set a new Ames scoring mark by pour
liig in 34 tallies over the previously unbeaten Kansans. It was little
Gary Thomsons six free throws in the last three minutes that helped
tU r ? uUCSday night's affalr was completely different
story. The Cornhuskers played even ball with them for the first 20
, 5 then,began PuUin aay at the end of the first half. To
eTteam tr "2? f P", the Cornhuskers were a completely differ
?h? What,petformed m K C- Jowa State, on the other hand,
Outlde Sf Drn8hPneSSnthe,y displayed th Bi Seve
22??h?r5 "d n0t mf Cycl0ne looked like a sure"fire Player. At
the Cornhuskers even made Chuck look bad. I would be w iling
to say that Nebraska could have handled anybody that night I the
SoTSeXh S: thhen e Cornhuskers be Hght J
S a year a?o HaT81"'11, HWever' you will, recall the season
Sve J StSf C T? Pushing the t0P for about rst
ZJZnZJZ, t before they collapsed. Let's hope Jerry
Bush s quintet will continue on their winning ways.
Missouri Team To Beat
, Afte5jhe Penin8 ni8ht of play in the Big 7, it looks like the
Missouri Tigers will reign over the conference. They finally snapped
the home-court winning streak of the Kansas Jayhawks last Tuesday at
33 when they downed Phog Aliens crew, 76-65. In writing that state-
Sh Ty SltUSti? comes t0 mind- In the last five years, the
team that has emerged victor from the festivale at K.C. has failed to
St.".. rTl" conferenc8. "tside of KU in 1953. Perhaps Sparky
Stalcup will be singmg the blues at the end of the 1955 season But
from early indications, they should break the jinx.
New KU Fieldhouse
When KU completes its fieldhouse in late February or early March,
it will be the biggest arena in the midwest, outside of Minnesota's. It
will have a seating capacity of 16,500. It will carry the appropriate
nciuuuuse, namea alter the dean of American basket
ball mentors. It is a great tribute to the Kansas coach, who has won
more games than any other man in the -history of the cage sport.- This
will probably be his last year as head man at KU. At the end of the
current season, he will reach his 70th birthday, mandatory for retire
ment. It will complete 39 years of coaching, 34 of them at Kansas.
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Don Glantz, senior Nebraska has been indications that Don
Cornhusker tackle from Central will be in the starting line-up.
City, will be seeing plenty of Glantz played good defensive
action in tomorrow's nationally ball in the Husker's encounter in
broadcast Senior Bowl game the Orange Bowl on New Year's
from Mobile, Alabama. Glantz Day and earned many berths on
has been doing extremely well All-Big Seven teams in the con
in the North's drills and there ference area.
Huskers Travel
Cagers Meet Tigers Saturday;
l-Sfafe Victory Encouraging
By DAN CAMPBELL
Sports Staff Writer
Coach Jerry Bush was mighty
pleased Tuesday night as his Ne
braska cagers dumped a good Io
wa State five, 76-63. Husker fans
were treated to an exhibition of
hustle, speed, hustle and deter
mination that culminated in the
win in the second home game of
the season.
Ekwall High
It was strictly a team victory
for the Nebraska quintet. Rex
Ekwall was high scorer with 17
points and helped keep the boards
clear. Gary Renzelman was sharp,
hitting for 14 points. Chuck Smith
played an exceptionally fine game,
tallying 13 points. He was pass
ing well and using his drive to
great advantage. Willard Fag
ler was handicapped by a bruised
thigh, but did a great job of re
bounding. Stan Matzke, Norm Cou
fal, and Whitey Buel did a ter
rific job of controlling the ball
for the Huskers.
This was the third victory for
the Nebraska cagers against six
defeast. The Huskers lost their
first game to Iowa's nationally
rated Hawkwyes. In their first
home game they drubbed South
Dakota, 87-51, and then traveled to
Bradley, where they defeated the
strong Bradley club by 93-68. On
a southern road trip the Huskers
lost two good games, one to AIa
bama, 88-76, and another to Mem
Meet A Tiger
Missouri University's Norm Stewart
Leads Powerful Tiger Aggregation
CU Plays
ColoradoBeginsDefense
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" Colorado's defending Big Seven
co-champions open their 1955 title
quest this weekend with a dip into
danger-laden Oklahoma and Kan
sas and the Buffaloes are in much
tne same position as last year
when they were moving merrily
toward a 10-2 record,
The 1954 season was nearly
wrapped up before the Buffs con
vinced everyone they were a cham
pionship outfit. This year's crew
...and it's almost identically the
same as last year's ... is proving
to be as poor a salesman. After
nine games, the Buffs have failed
to establish themselves as a con
sistent team. And observers are
watching the opening set of games
with interest.' Bebe Lee's veterans,
carrying a so-so 5-4 non-conference
record, could get a big jump
toward a successful defense with a
pair of victories. But victories
come hard for the Buffs on the
road and particularly so at Nor
man and Lawrence.
Colorado basketball teams have
won twice at Oklahoma in 1950
and last season. They've captured
only one decision at Kansas in
1949. In all, Colorado owns 10 road
victories since joining the Big Sev
en in 1948. Four of them came last
winter.
Any Illusions the Buffs may have
had of an easy win over Oklahoma
at Norman were shattered in the
Big Seven tournament opener when
the Sooners, winless in four pre
vious starts, unleashed a 73-71
overtime upset. With the strong
breeze of thu home court advantage
at their backs and the advantage
has been strengthened consider
ably by the new bonus free throw
rule the Sooners will form a ma
jor obstacle to any Colorado plans
for (.successful getaway game.
Coach Bruce Drake's shuffling
redshirts own the best backcourt
punch in the league in its mighty
midget combination of Lester Lane
and Jimmy Peck. Only 5-10 and
5-9 respectively they teamed up to
author the tournament upset with
Lant! pouring through 31 points and
Peck coming up with 18 including
the winning basket a leaping one
hander from the circle with six
seconds remaining.
They came right back the text
night with 27 and 24-point perfor
mances against mhjhty Missouri.
Lane, the Big Seven's fourth-leading
scorer last year with a 19-point
average, picked up only five bas
kets against Colorado's tenacious
little guard Tom Harrold last year.
But he brushed through the com
bined efforts of Harrold and Bob
Jeanerard for 13 fielders at Kan
sas City last week.
The Golden Buffs move from
Norman to Lawrence for their last
appearance in Kansas' hostile Hoch
Auditorium Monday night and the
Herd knows what to expect in
Phog Allen's alley . . . trouble. A
young team which will have its
share of difficulty on the road, the
sophomorish Jayhawkers showed
they haven't lost the home court
touch , with four straight non-conference
wins at Hoch to stretch
their win -streak on the home
boards to 33. MU broke it last
Tuesday at 33. - ,
The 'Hawkers hinge their 1955
hopes on Guard Dallas Dobbs, one
of the league's finest. Lew Johnson,
a 6-6V4 sophomore, has apparently
won the pivot job and rookies Gene
Elstun and John Parker will prob
ably open at forward and guard.
The youth movement at Kansas
becomes apparent with the absence
from the traveling squad of Jerry
Alberts and Bill . Heitholt, two of
the team's six lettermen.
Henzel Hits 35
Phi Kappa Psi
Captures IM
Tennis Crown
By BOB ZUBER
Intramural Sports Writer
The 1954 University of Nebraska
intramural tennis tournament has
been completed. George Fisk won
the independent section of the tour
nament and John Schroeder, play
ing for the Phi Psi's,. won the inde
pendent championship. The Phi
Psi's swept the final team stand
ings with 56 points; ATO was sec
ond with 37 points, and the Betas
were third with 35 points. Com
plete results are as follows:
Individutl Champion, Phi Kappa Psi.
Team Champion, Phi Kappa Psi.
Fralemilr Champion, John Schroeder.
1t fliehf champion, John Schroeder.
2nd flight champion, Don Mead.
3rd flight champion. Dick Harvey. ,
4lh flight champion, John Larsi-n. '
Slh flight champion. Wallace Reed.
6th flight champion, Ken Moorhead.
The final learn standings of the partici
pant! are as follows:
lit, Phi Kappa Pi 56
2nd. Alpha Tau Omega 37
3rd, Beta Theia Pi , 35
4th. Delta Tau Delta 32
Slh, Phi Delta Theta 26
6th, Sigma Phi Epsilon 23
7th. Sigma Chi .17
7th, Cornhusker Coop. 17
Dth, Siima Alpha Epsilon 15
10th, Sigma Nu 13
11th, Sigma Alpha Mu 12
11th, Delta Epsilon 12
3th, Brown Palace 3
13th, Phi Gamma Delta 3
Phi Delts Win
Dick Johnson tossed in the win
ning point to lead the Phi Delt C
team to a 26-25 victory over the
Sigma Nu C team. Cecil Wallier
scored 13 points for the Sig Nu's.
In other games the AGR C team
edged the Sigma Chi C team, 38-31,
while Manett, led by Wayne Cope's
22 points blasted Avery, 49-39. Joe
Houfek scored 26 points in leading
Canfield to a 66-23 triumph over
Seaton.
Bessy outlasted Gustofson II, 50
20 and Seaton II edged Andrews
by a 34-30 margin', while Mc'Clean
edged Barnett, 38-36.
Sig Eps Win '
The Inter-Varsity team beat
Presbyterian House by a 32-20
score while the Sig Eps edged
Farm House 29-27 despite the 14
point outburst of Dwight Jundt for
Farm House. Russ Ufling scored 8
points for the winners.
Jack Haldiman led the Phi Psis
to a 41-38 victory over the kappa
Sigs, and Newman beat Methodist
House 37-14.
James Daum scored 17 points to
lead Beta Upsilon Mu to a 41-21
victory over AIEE. Navy ROTC
edged the Phi Delts 29-27.
The Geologists ran wild as they
slammed the Delt Scrubs, 70-25.
Gay Henzel poured in 35 points for
the Geologists in the victory, more
than the .entire Delt team scored.
Phi Epsilon Rho edged Delta
Theta Phi 48-44, while Delta Alpha
Pi eked out a 24-23 victory over
AIA. . i
He's equally adept with the
punch shot or punch line, is Mis
souri's Norm Stewart, one of the
best reasons why Coach Sparky
Stalcup's Bengals will dangle a
Big Seven Tournament champion'
ship at NU Saturday night.
Maybe Mizzou nasn t shown a
perceptible standout thus far not
with all five starters averaging in
the double figures but the lanky
blond junior owns the top effici
ency rating through early games
which have produced wins over
Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Arkansas, after an opening loss
to Illinois.
Reiter Leads
TraiUng center Bob Reiter in the
scoring chart by only four points,
Stewart carries a 15.2 average
through the first five games. He's
the leading MU basket-sniper
both from the field and from the
free-throw line hitting 41 per
cent of his field-goal tries and
85.7 per cent on charity tosses.
In this latter specialty, he made
30 of 35 free throws in MU's first
five games to rank among the
nation's top' ten. ,
Against Indiana, Stewart used
two of those free tosses to cinch
a 64-61 upset of the Hoosiers in
the game's 'final minute. And he
did it after a time-out during which
Coach Stalcup had advised him to
"just relax and hit both of them,
son."
Grinned Stewart: "Shall I punt
or drop-kick 'em, coach?"
That tension-snapping crack was
typical of the nerveless 19-year-old
from Shelbyville, Mo. Born in
neighboring Leonard population
104 the small-town boy doesn't
awe easily in big-time basketball
surroundings. Nor did he .at
Omaha last spring when, just a
sophomore, he fast-balled Mis
souri to a pair of victories in the
Tigers' surge to an NCAA base
ball championship.
The 6-ft. 4-inch marvel can
and does keep his mates loose
and laughing, even while playing
it poker-faced on the court. He
scores oftenest on a quick, one
handed punch shot over the de
fense, but is a strong driver, toa
His defense, rebounding and ball-
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NORM STEWART
handling are of a caliber to draw
from Stalcup this observation:
Natural Cager
"Stewart may be the most
natural ball-player I've ever
coached, and he works constantly
to improve his game. We're just
not thtx same team with him out
of the lineup."
Stewart came to Mizzou from
Shelbyville high, after leading
his 1952 team to a 38-2 seasonal
mark. One of those losses came
in overtime to Madison, and the
other was administered by Puxico
in the Class "B" state finals.
Stewart's coach was C. J. Kessler.
As a Tiger rookie last year,
Norm started every game' and
scored 256 points (a 12.2 average)
the highest total ever made by
a first-year varsity player in
Tigerland. Most observers rated
the blond Bengal and KU's Dallas
Dobbs as the loop's top new
comers. But Stewart still has one
carry-over scar, going into this
season.
Buff Stops Tigers
He had two sorry nights last
year, both against Colorado, when
Buff Guard Tom Harrold hexed
him with a tight sleuthing job.
Stewart got only one field goal and
a five-point total off Harrold in
their first meeting two fielders
and nine total points in the return
duel. Colorado took both decisions,
finishing as co-titlist with KU.
The get-even urge burns brighUy
within Missouri's whelhorse, and
his cohorts, this year ai they look
ahead to the conference rce.
id give away these games
we've already won, if we could just
take the Big Seven," Stewart
says.
phis State by 86-79.
Hard Knocks
In the Big seven Conference
Tournament at Kansas City, Ne
braska lost in the first round to
Missouri, 75-59. Missouri later
went on to win the tourney cham
p i o n s h i p. In the second
round the Huskers lost the most
decisive game of the tournament,
an 87-42 affair. in the final game
of the tourney, Kansas was barely
able to stave off a last minute
rally by the Nebraskans to win,
69-66.
Meet The Team
Just what do the Huskers have?
Let's look at the individual mem
bers of the squad:
Willard Fagler, 6-5Mi center from
Harvard, is a four-year letterman.
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As a sophomore, he made the
All Big-Seven team. Being able to
jump higher than men three or
four inches taller, Fagler does a
fine job off the boards. He has
tremendous possibilities as a driv
er. Rex Ekwall is a 6-4 forward
from Holmesville. H is an excep
tionally sound player for a sopho
more. Rex is the workhorse of the
team and is a terrific rebounder.
In this, his first season as a regu
lar, Ekwall has been high scorer
in almost every game.
Duane ,!Whitey" Buel, 5-10 jun
ior guard from Malcolm, came
into his own in the Iowa State
game. Coach Jerry Bush has been
looking for a take-charge guy, and
Whitey is beginning to fill the bill.
Buel is a good ball-handler and
play-maker, and has a good set
shot.
Fourth Year
This is the fourth year as regu
lar for Stan Matzke, 6-2 forward
from Lincoln. Stan is very fast
and has a very fine one-hand
shot. He has a tremendous
amount of spirit and will to win.
Matzke is the kind who doesn't
know the meaning of the word
"quit." Coach Bush has extreme
confidence in his ability to shoot
from the outside, which is a valu
able asset.
Chuck Smith, 6-1V4 forward from
Anderson, Illinois, has an uncanny
ability to jump. He is a marvelous
backboard man and can dunk the
ball with both hands. This is his
second year as a letterman.
Billy Wells, who comes from
West Baden, Indiana, is doing
great job for a sophmore. At 5-11,
Bill is the finest defensive player
on the team. Wells did an excep
tional job of shackling Gary
Thompson, Iowa State star.
Norm Coufal is a 6-1 junior guard
from David City. Norm is a very
fine backcourt man and playmak
er, and can shoot equally well
with one hand or two.
Big Man
Gary Renzelman is another
four-year man. At 6-6 Gary is
the tallest man on the squad. For
a big man, Renzelman has one
of the finest "touches" Coach Bush
has ever seen. He can hook with
either hand and has an exception-one-hand
shot from outside.
Renzelman improved greatly de
fensively against Iowa State.
Tomorrow the Cornhuskers meet
the Missouri Tigers at Columbia.
Missouri has a great basketball
team, as evidenced by the fact
that they copped the Big Seven
Tournament and are rated in the
top ten nationally.
Tigers Strong
The Tigers, who have beaten
such teams as Iowa, Indiana and
Wisconsin, have height, speed and
hustle. In addition they are all
good shots.
The Huskers are not especially
frightened, though. They met the
Tigers once, as recounted above.
Coach Jerry Bush has hopes that
the 16-point gap in that game
will be erased. As Jerry says,
"I see no reason in the world
why this team can't give a good
account of itself against any team
in the Big Seven." This opinion
was bolstered by the win over
Iowa State, who finished third fa
the tourney.
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