Tuesday, March 15, 1955
THE NEBRASKA
Traveling Along
The Sports Trail
By LEO SHERER JR.
Sports Staff Writer
This columnist is not usually radical; we don't kick dogs, call
our senators on national problems, make speeches on national prob
lems, make speeches on street corners or swing at policemen, but the
recent selections of the All-American basketball teams did make us
jump up and scream a piercing cry in anger.
we ask: "What happened to the players In the
Big Seven Conference?"
A rough consensus of the AP, UP, INS, and
several popular magazines did not name ONE Big
Seven player on any of the first three teams. This
Is absolutely outrageous. There are players in the
Big Seven that should at least be on the third sauad. L'
if not higher.
Anyone that maintains some of the players from
the Big Seven are not All-American caliber should
go out and watch them in action sometime. All
this boils down to the fact that picking of All-American
selections in the United States is tending to get
n the ridiculous side. One sports fan in a metro
politan newspaper said recently, "I'm sick of these All-(if you made
it last year) American teams. You can have them a true basket
ball fan can see the real ability in an All-Star." After this recent
episode of leaving out the Big Seven, we tend to agree!
That Crazy Tourney . . .
There is now an indefinable stillness throughout the Coliseum.
Another Nebraska state basketball show of shows has come to an end.
Here's how this writer saw the three day action of the tourna
ment: The Coliseum . . . screaming students, frustrated parents,
worried coaches and perspiring basketball officials . . . "Apples,"
"Cokes," "Programs," "Ice Cream Bars" and "Peanuts." . . . Orange
sweaters, red sweaters, crumpled programs, blue beanies and limp
Lincoln High pennants swaying in the air.
Men dressed in suits, others in slacks and blue jeans ... On the
court: passes, lay-ins, long shots and jump balls . . . The band playing
"Onward Southeast U," and the pep club screams with unheard en
thusiasm . . . "The score on the freshman court is now 60-61 with one
minute remaining," "Wait till next year when this Jones improves"
and "Well, Frank Nelson, I haven't seen you since "34."
Around and About . . .
The capacity of the famous Davis Cup of tennis is 29 quarts . . .
Bob Cerv, the former Husker baseball star, has signed again with the
New York Yankees . . . Charlie Bryant, who weighed 197 for the Duke
game last fall, won the 167 division in the Big Seven wrestling meet
last week after wrestling the 177 division all season. (Oh! For just one
square meal) . . . Want Ads: Two quarterbacks with all-around abil
ity of Notre Dame's Ralph Guglielmi and Oregon's George Shaw See
Wwe,L0nce! signed John Bo"ogna, Husker quarterback boss . . .
QUOTE OF WEEK: "Don't take life too seriously. You never get
out of it alive anyway." (poster along the gulf coast).
Holy Name Nabs Two
Nebraskan Picks AH
Tourney Cage Teams
AH Tournament Cage Teams
By HAROLD ROSELIUS
Sports Staff Writer
First Team
Bud Murray Scottsbluff
Dick Hartmann Holy Name
Dick Harvey Creighton Prep
Doug Henning Ogallala
Dick Hegarty Holy Name
Second Team
Don Hinzmann Western
Larry White Chappell
Kendall Peterson Minden
Phil Gradoville ... Creighton Prep
Bob Harry York
Honorable Mention
Howard McVay, Ogallala; Allen
Graves, Lincoln; Jim link, Chad
ron Prep; Bob Moore, Clarkson;
Ed Trouba, Dwlght Assumption;
Gary Fair, Holstein.
Omaha Holy Name nabbed two
firsts on The Nebraskan All-tournament
team to lead all classes. Dick
Hartmann, 67" center, and Dick
Hegarty teamed together to lead
Holy Name to the Class A state
championship. In the final contest
against Ogallala Hartmann and He
garty scored 54 of the total 62
points.
Hartman collected 32 points and
in the previous game against Val
entine scored 33. Hartmann and
Hegarty cleared the backboards in
both contests with Hartmann gett
ing 32 against Ogallala.
Outstanding tourney player was
Scottsbluff's Bud Murray who led
an inspired team to the Class AA
championship. Murray with adept
ball-hawking and an outstanding
array of shots pushed Scottsbluff
into a 61-61 tie with 40 seconds
left in the Creighton Prep game
after trailing seven points. Then as
a climax to the thriller, Murray
meshed a 40-foot two hand jump
shot to give Scottsbluff the champ
ionship. Creighton Prep's Dick Harvey
played fine ball during the whole
tournament .nd was the major
reason for the biggest upset of the
tournament when Creighton "defeat
ed Lincoln High. Harvey proved
his prowess as a defensive player
by keeping Al Graves, 6'8" Lincoln
center, in constant check. Harvey
Bryant Wins
At Big Seven
Mat Tourney
Charley Bryant won Nebraska's
only laurels in the Big Seven
wrestling tourney at Boulder as he
took the 167-pound championship
by beating May of Iowa State, 4-3.
Bryant was the Huskers only
consistent winner over the sea
son, dropping only one match in
dual meet competition.
Oklahoma won their third
straight conference championship
by amassing 60 points to Iowa
State's 48. Colorado finished third
with 27, Kansas State had 24 and
Nebraska thirteen, the same num
ber they had last year.
HS-poond Town!?. lowt Bute, pinned
Corr, Oklahoma. 6:25.
1 SO Lyons. Oklahoma, won referee'g de
cision over Lont. Colorado, 1-1.
1ST Hart, Oklahoma, pinned Miller,
Iowa State, 4-.30.
147 Youn. Oklahoma, pinned Alexan
der. Kansas Suite, 5:04.
157 Formanek, Iowa BUOe. deciaioned
Brow, Oklahoma, 3-2.
7 Hryant, Nebraska, decisioned Mar,
Iowa State. 4-3.
J77 Hodge. Oklahoma, pinned Rosen
trmvr, Colorado, 2:40.
Hearrrweirht Salerno, Colorado, deci
aioned Ellis, Kansas State, 6-4.
added scoring punch to the Creight
on attack and, if he had not fouled
out of the Scottsbluff game with
4 minutes remaining, might have
proved enough to stop the Bearcat
rally.
Last player on the first team is
Ogallala's Doug Henning who
spearheaded a short but fast and
aggressive team. Henning added
scoring punch to the Ogallala team
and gave tournament fans many
thrills with his adept ball handling
and fancy pases.
Special recognition goes to Don
Hinzmana who led Western to its
second consecutive Class D cham
pionship. Hinzmann scored 40 points
in the first contest against Nebras
ka Deaf and potted 23 against
Dwight Assumption in the finals for
a total of 63 points. Hinzmann 's 40
point effort tied Al Graves record
set last year against Boys Town.
A, B Teams
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By BRUCE BRUGMANN
Sports Editor
Alpha Tau Omega vaulted two
teams onto the top rungs of the in
tramural basketball ladder last
week as the Tau quint romped
over the Phi Delts, 42-33, and Can
field A, 57-45, and the B squad cut
down the Canfield B clan, 35-25,
to cop all-University championships
in both the A and B divisions.
The double-barreled slam of the
ATO's in basketball marks one of
the most unusual years in NU in
tramural history. In two major
intramural sports two organized
houses have captured All-University
championships. Last fall
Delta Tau Delta swept through
the two top divisions for league
laurels in A and B football.
The Tau B team, all-fraternity
champions with a win over Phi
Gamma Delta, annexed the All-University
B crown with 35-25 victory
over Canfield Wednesday night in
the PE Building. In a low-scoring
contest the ATO'S, paced by Bob
Ebers and Wayne Gunderson, sped
to a 11-6 halftime edge, staved off
a third' quarter rally which threat-
Tom Houchen,
Bentz Spark
AAU Meet
Cal Bentz and Tom Houchen,
members of the University swim
ming team, were the oustanding
participants in the men's Midwest
ern AAU swimming and diving
championships held in the Coli
seum pool Saturday.
Houchen, who won every event
he entered, took firsts in the 220
yard breaststroke, the 100-yard
butterfly and the 400-yard indivi
dual medley.
Bentz won the 150-yard back
stroke and the 440-yard free style,
and took second in the 220-yard
free style. He teamed with Hou
chen and Huskers Gordon Peter
son and Dick Hlidek to win the 400
yard medley relay.
Houchen set a Midwestern AAU
record in the 100-yard butterfly
in his preliminary heat with a
mark of 1:08.2. It was the first
time the event had been held. The
only other record set was in the
400-yard free style record by a
group of Lincoln High swimmers
in 3:57.5. The old record was
3:57.9.
Other first places taken by Uni
versity swimmers were a first in
the 100-yard free style by Dick
Hill and a first in the one-meter
diving by freshman Bill Tagney.
Teams represented in the meet
were the University, the NU Swim
Club (University freshmen), the
Lincoln Swim Club (Lincoln High),
and the Hastings Swim Associa
tion (Hastings High). No team
scores were computed.
ened the Tau advantage, 13-11, and
lengthened their stride for a ten
point final bulge.
In the fraternity and independent
A championships Canfield A nipped
the Geologists in the closing sec
onds, 56-54, and the ATO's ripped
the Phi Delts, 42-33. In the inde
pendent match Friday two strong
and evenly matched quints battled
for the top spot with the gravel
agitators leading the entire game
fourth quarter barrage of free
throws by Joe Houfek, La Verne
Torczon and Gene Torczon. Gary
Heinzle with 25 and Jim Fitzgerald
with 9 sparked the losers.
Best Tourney Game
The Rockhound Canfield game
was probably one of the best of
the intramural tourney. Canfield,
favored by most in the contest,
wilted under a scoring onslaught
and found themselves on the short
end of a 32-24 halftime score after
fighting to a 13-13 first quarter dead
lock. Finally shaking off the cold
spell,.Canfield snapped to a 45-41
count at the third stanza and, col
lecting 11 free throws in the final
period, gained the close decision.
In the deciding fraternity clash
before 5000 fans in a preliminary
state tournament game, the Taus
raced to a 14-9 first quarter count
over the Phi Delts as Al Blessing
dropped in two rebound buckets by
halftime as the scoring duo of Bill
Giles and Dean Sloan was out
matched by a trio of jump shots by
Dave Jones, Rod Schroeder and
Blessing early in the stanza and
the six straight points by the
games high scorer John Swanson.
Phi Delts Rally
Bob Brown and Schroeder Col
lected two buckets early in the
second half before Erik Olson and
Bill Ross moved the Phi Delt scor
ing machine into action with three
charity tosses. Early in the fourth
quarter Bill Giles notched three
gift throws and Olson added two to
narrow the gap to 35-29. Swanson
added two free throws for the Taus
and Brown's jump shot with 4:07
remaining spurted the ATO's into
a lead which was never relin
quished. Swanson, ramming in 14 points
and snatching a good share of the
rebounds, played a fine game along
with Giles, who was battling against
the tall Tau trio of Blessing, Brown
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and Swanson under the boards, and
Ross and Sloan, the Phi Delt play
makers. Saturday night, playing before
the state high school championship
throng, the ATO's pushed back a
hard-scrapping Canfield A squad
to snip an impressive win string
and garner All-University A hon
ors. The ATO clan drew blood on
the opening tip-off as Schroeder
slapped in a driving lay up. La
Verne Torczon and Schmelling drop
ped free throws to knot the count,
but quick fielders by Schroeder
and Brown shot the Taus into a
two - point lead. The quarter buz
zer ended with a 13-9 count.
Blessing, Brown Hot
Blessing and Brown teamed with
Schroeder to boost the Taus to an
18-11 mark with three minutes gone
in the second canto but Gene Torc-
Singer Wins Handball
Singles For Third Year
Len Singer, representing Zeta
Beta Tan, won the handball tourna
ment singles championship for the
third consecutive year in a finals
match against George Fisk. Zeta
Beta Tan's doubles team, com
posed of Singer and Al Rice, also
won the handball doubles crown.
Phi Delta Theta won the team
trophy, accumulating their winning
points over the two-and-a-half
month season. Phi Delt entries
Sam Ellis and Dick Skold entered
the finals in the doubles.
zon, Lavern Torczon and Joe Houf
ek picked up slack with a pair of
closing jumps and two free throws
to run the count to 22-21 midway in
the quarter.
Sharp passing by Jones, result
ing in two quick baskets by Brown
and some excellent outcourt snip
ping by Blessing, squelched the
Canfield rally and pushed the Taus
to a 34-25 halftime edge. By the rest
period Brown had collected 13
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In the third period Canfield ral
lied with four minutes gone to close
the gap 38-32, but a gift toss by
Keith Kuxhausen and a driving
bucket by Brown sped the Taus to
a 44-34 mark at the end of the per
iod. In a basket' for basket fourth
stanza the Canfield quint tried to
smoke up another rally but the
Torczan point-manufacturing com
bination was not enough to throttle
i final Tau surge, which saw five
players inking the scoring column.
LaVerne Torczon, showing signs
of weariness from a vigorous after
noon workout with the football
squad, potted 20 points for Can
foeld. His cousin Gene added 20 and
Joe Houfek, well shackeled by
Blessing, dropped in two free
throws and one fielder for four
points. Brown led all scoring with
25 counters. Schroeder added 14,
Blessing 6 and Jones 5 to the
winning cause.
IM Ballots
Ballots nominating men for the
All-University team mast be
turned in to the Nebraskan sport
desk by Friday, March IS at I
p.m. Each manager except those
of "C" teams will nominate twa
All-Star teams, as follows:
1. Each team manager will
nominate 5 men from his own
league for an All-League Team.
2. Each "A" team manager will
also nominate S men from the
Class A leagues for an All A
Team.
3. Each "B" team manager wtn
nominate 5 men from the B leagues
for an All "B" Team.
4. Each SeDeck Quadrangle "A"
team manager will nominate S men
from the Dorm A leagues for aa
All-Selleck Quadrangle "A" Team.
5. Each Senect Quadrangle "B"
team manager will nominate S
men from the Dorm B leagues for
an All-Selleck Quadrangle "B"
team.
6. Each Independent team man
ager will nominate S men from
the Independent leagues for an
AO-Independent Team.
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