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) v Wednesday, February 27, Rex Ekvall Unanimous Staff Selection: Gains Second Star Of The Week Award By STAN WIDMAN Staff Sports Writer Rex Eckwall has been chosen Star-of-the-Week for the second time this year, for his outstanding play against the Kansas Jayhawks and the Kansas State Wildcats. Although the Cornhuskers lost both by wide margins,, Rex left the teams something to remember C3 jjC' .v Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star Ekwall ... Busker Captain I ? ! 1 S "V """UK i 1 '4 , - - ! : . 4 a .. Intramural Standings League 1-A Selleck Maclean 10 0 Bessey ..; 7 2 Andrews - 6 6 Gus II 55 Seaton I 3 6 Burnett 25 League 2-A Selleck Canfield 10 1 Hitchcock 10 1 Selleck . 67 Gus I 5 6 Seaton II 47 Manatt 46 Boucher 110 League 3-A Fraternity Phi Delta Theta & 1 Sigma Chi 9 1 Beta Theta Pi 5 4 Siga Nu 54 Sigma Phi Epsilon 55 Sigma Alpha Eps 19 League 4-A Fraternity Delta. Upsilon 92 Delta Tau Delta 82 Phi Gamma Delta 54 Alpha Tau Omega 6 4 Phi Kappa Psi - 46 Alpha Gamma Rho 27 League 5-A Fraternity Beta Sigma Psi 8 0 Farm House ... 53 Erown Palace 54- Cornhusker Co-op 65 Ag Men's Club 35 .j'. Sigma Alpha Mu 26 " Delta Sigma Phi 27 League 6-A Fraternity Pi Kappa Phi 81 Acacia . . 82 Pioneer Co-ip 73 Tau Kappa Elsilon 64 Alpha Gamma Sigma 55 Theta Chi 45 Zeta Beta Tau... 29 League 7-B Selleck Hitchcock 7 2 Bessey & 3 MacLean 5 4 Gus I 3- 6 Canfield 3 6 Manatt 36 League 8-B Fraternity Alpha Tau Omega ..... 10 I Beta Theta Pi 1 Phi Delta Theta .. 3 Prep Tourney Scores CLASS C At Osceola, First Round Rising City 54 ...Polk 41 Stromsburg 61 Valparaiso 55 At Clarkson, First Round Scribner 29 ..Fremont St. Pat's 12 Leigh 40 St. Francis 53 At Alma, First Round Alma 60 -. Elm Creek 29 Franklin 47 Red Cloud 35 At Beemer, First Round Oakland 49 Decatur 48 Norfolk S.H. 50 Pilger 47 At Atkinson, First Rouid O'Neil St. Mary's 51 Atkinson St. Joe's 40 Epringview 56 . Spener 47 At Bartlett, FLit Round i.eaar itapiai a ........ lwibj . c T- J ... I . A D.ljH 9tt CTL. btlWBIUI ........ .rmiv:v tow 1957 him by as he scored 18 points against KS and IS points against KU. His point totals weren't the whole story. He also led the squad in rebounds and played his usual excellent defensive game. These last two games just about tell the whole Eckwall Story. This is the third year in a row he has led the Husker scoring attack and the third year he has led the team in rebounds. His 15 points against KU raised his total points for the three years to 828, a new Corn husker scoring record. The pre vious record of 821 was held by Jim Buchannan. With three games left, Rex should set a record that could stand for a good many years. Most fans upon leaving Corn husker games seldom praise Eck wall for his scoring but rather for his unselfish team play and ex cellent sportsmanship. Most peo ple have no idea how many points he has scored and are rather amazed when they hear his total for the night. The same can be said for opposing teams who nev er quite realize the damage he has done to them until after the game is over. Rex has accomplished all of this while possessing none of the physi cal characteristics usually asso ciated with the basketball big man. His height of 6 4" is not exceptionally big nor is he ex tremely fast, but he makes up for these "weaknesses" with hustle, spirit and desire. A typical Eckwall play came in the Wisconsin game earlier -this season. Two men were bearing down on Jim Kubacki and ap peared to be going in for an easy basket. At just the right moment, Rex came rushing down the floor and leaping through the air, de flected the ball and went crashing into the crowd behind the basket. This is the third year that Coach Jerry Bush has installed him as a starter. Bush had this to say be fore the season started. "No one has a starting position on this club cinched except Eckwall. He is a sure thing." Bush's opinion of him has been rising ever since he met the Holmesville lad. For his fine play his first two years, Rex was selected as an All Big Seven choice on just about everybody's poll and received sev eral All-American honorable men tions. This year, Rex is ninth in scor ing in the Big Seven, both in total points and point average per game. He is almost a certainty to be an All-Big Seven choice again due to his fine all around play other than scoring. Rex was the first Husker Bas ketballer to be elected captain by the teams as a whole and this Sigma Alpha Epsilon Theta Xi, Sigma Nu Sigma Phi Epsilon Sigma Chi ..65 -.65 ..38 ..28 ..0-3 League 9-B Fraternity Delta Tau Delta ......... 11 '0 Delta Upsilon 72 Phi Gamma Delta 83 Alpha Gamma Rho 5 4 Farm House 46 Phi Kappa Psi 36 Beta Sigma Psi 17 League 10-C Freshmen Delta Upsilon 9 0 Sigma Phi Epsilon 7 2 Alpha Tau Omega 73 Sigma Nu 4 5 Farm House 3 5 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 3 7 Phi Delta Theta 27 League 11 Ag College Ag Vets 14 0 Dudley Five 10 3 Ag Huskers 8 3 Farm House Scrubs 43 AGR Scrubs 55 Alpha Tau Alpha 58 Alpha Gamma Sigma-B 3 9 Krtisens Katts . . 211 Ag Men's Club-B 112 League 12 Independents Newman Club ....... 10 1 Presby House 9 2 Baptist House 93 Inter-Varsity 5 4 Beta Spastics . 47 Lutheran House 3 7 Cornbusker Co-op . 29 League 14 Independents A Chemists - 11 0 Dental College --8 3 Phi Epsilon Kappa ......... 74 Geologists 74 Navy ROTC 7-4 Phi Delta Phi 47 League 15 Independents Park Avenue 12 0 Little House 92 B Chemists 6 4 The Stingers 6 5 Dilberts .. 5 5 Sam's Has Beens 4 ' Delta Sigma Pi 3 6 A Street Club 39 Legionnaires 2 8 At Hartington, First Round Coleridge 54 Niobrara 48 Randolph 52 .........Hartington 59 CLASS B At Chadron, First Round Hemingford 53 .(OT) Crawford 49 Chadron 71 Gordon 33 At Grand Island, First Round Loup City 59 Imperial 44 Minden 61 : BurweU 49 At Wahoo, First Round Ashland 40 Papillion 31 Wahoo 71 Ralston 45 At Wayne, First Round Crelghton 65 ...... j . .'. . Crof ton 46 Wayne 91 ........Pierce 63 At Central Ciiy, First Round Hebron 59 Central City 50 FuHrrton 63 Sutton 59 At O'Neill, First Round Ains worth 49 ..Bassett 35 Ncligh 70 O'Neill 41 spirit of faith that his teammates have placed in him has not gone unappreciated. He has been the team's inspiration and leader in every game this year. Eckwall played his high school basketball in the little town of Holmesville, Nebraska. In his last three years there, his team lost only three games, all of these com ing in the district playoffs. Be-, cause of the defeats, he never got to play in a state tournament, but The Sports Slant By GARY FRENZEL Solong Rule on Torid Game ... Professional football received a serious setback Monday when the Supreme Court ruled that the pro game was liable to anti-trust legis lation. In 1953, the Supreme 'Court ruled that professional baseball was a sport and could not be governed by anti-trust laws. What effect the late ruling will have on baseball and other professional sports can not yet be determined. However, this apparent reversal in rulings by the high court has caused a furor among opponents of the '53 baseball decision. A bill may be introduced in Congress to declare baseball and all professional sports liable to anti-trust laws. Stranovlch Sues ... The whole mess started when George Stranovich, former back for the Los Angeles Rams, refused to play after signing a contract. He then attempted to sign a contract with another club after not playing several seasons for the Rams. Out of the rash of suits and counter suits which have followed came Monday's Supreme Court ruling. It is too early to determine what will happen next, but you can be cer tain that baseball and all professional sports as well as football will feel the effect of the latest, though not final ruling of the Supreme Court. Prep Squads In Spotlight ... With the approach of high school tournaments the eyes of Corn husker sports enthusiasts are scanning the sports pages to see how their high school teams are faring. Although only twenty-four teams will make it to Lincoln Jo compete for six class crowns, the pre tournament excitement gievs everyone a chance to expound his team's chances. Especially fevorant are the small-town graduates. It might be well to crown two class C, D, and E champs. One who actually wins the state tournament, and one who exists only in the glowing eyes of a freshman. Spring Is Near ... While the weatherman attempts to convince everyone, that it is still winter, the Husker athletic department is preparing for spring. The baseball team will play its first game Apr. 6, All-Sports Day. Spring football starts this Monday. The golf and tennis teams are preparing for practices. Meanwhile, the average Husker sporting man awaits the opening of the pits. Need Win Over ITildcalsFight Desperately In Baffle For Championship The Kansas State Wildcats nar rowed the lead of the loop leading University of Kansas Jayhawks to one-half a game last Monday night as they turned down the bid of the Missouri Tigers to beat them 78 71. The contest left the defending Big Seven Champs with an 8-2 league record as opposed to the Jayhawks 8-1 mark. Tex Winter's cagers have now won eight straight games after dropping their opening two games. The defending Big Seven Champs Courtesy Lincoln Journal Boozer . . . Jayhawk Ace could retain their loop crown or at least become co-owners of the top position depending on the outcome of the remaining' games. If the Wildcats were to win their remain ing two games, one of which in cludes a cage contest with Kan sas University on March 6 on the Jayhawks home court, they would set up a championship game with their intrastate rivals for the pos session of the Big Seven title. The Wildcat crew could possibly win the title if we were to suppose a bigger IF. IF Colorado were to beat Kan sas State in one of the two remain- ? : '. M '.: ' ' ;: yiiS "if : ,. ; S Your Old Lighter Worth $1 On Trade-in Of Any Ronson In Stock Cliffs Smoke Shop 121 N, 12 FRESH CIGARS The Daify Nebraskan he was selected by both the Lin coln and Omaha papers as an all-state choice in Class D. Rex is the example of a small town boy whose determination has made him known all over the state. The Daily Nebraskan sports staff is extremely proud to be able to name an athlete of this caliber as its Star-of-the-Week. We join the rest of the state in wishing him the best of luck in the coming years. KU: ling games with them (Colorado meets the Jayhawks on March 2 and March 9) and Kansas State could down their intrastate rivals on their meeting March 6, Kan sas State would win the league title wihtout a playoff. This is hop ing a little too much, however, for "Winter's Wonders" and they would probably be satisfied with a crack at a playoff game. The Manhattan townspeople have witnessed their home team come back from a 0-2 league record to become the highly touted hard court team it now is. The results o: the latest UP and AP national basketball polls have rated the Winter mentored club ninth and twelfth respectively. 5 Although the rest of the squad cannot be denied their share of the laurals, the nucleus of the club seems to be Jack Parr, rangy center, and Bob Boozer, sophomore from Omaha, Nebraska. These two have been splitting the net with a torrid pace and now have moved up into string contention for the league's individual scoring race. Parr has now moved into third place with an 18.6 average and now Boozer has edged into fourth place with an 16.5 point average per game. In the loop outings only; the leader of the race is Chamber lain who has a 22.5 average. The Big Dipper is also in strong con sideration for the national scoring race also. In second 'place is Iowa State's Gary Thompsen with 20.0 Deadline Set On l-M Votes Balloting for the Intramural All Star Basketball Team is very slow. The Daily Nebraskan Sports Staff has only received 20 ballots thus far. Intramural Managers are re minded that today is the last day that ballots will be accepted and if interest is not great enough, All Star teams wul not be chosen. FOR PINNINGS Cotter Favored In Diving: Big Week End For Husker Swimmers; Entertain Ft. Hays And KU Teams Coach Hollie Lepley and his Ne braska swimming team will close their 1957' home season this week end with two 'dual meets. The' tankers will entertain Ft. Hays on Friday afternoon and Kansas University on Saturday. Ft. Hays is a new team added to the Husker schedule. The two teams did not meet last season. The Huskers will be favored to defeat their opponents but several events should be very close. 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Also the 200 yard breast stroke should be a close fight between Fritz Helms doerfer of Nebraska and Bieber of Ft. Hays. The Kansas dual could be closer as the Big Seven opponents have six lettermen returning from last years last place club. Last season KU defeated the Huskers in their opening dual 50-34 but the Lepley men reversed the decision later on by a 52-32 margin. Edwards, Hill, and Clevenger lead the Kansas. Edwards will par ticipate in the 100 yard free style and the 400 yard medley relay. Hill will go in the 50 yard free style and both relays. Clevenger does his best work in the 200 yard breast stroke where his clocking of 2:42.6 is one of the Big Sevens better marks. Clevenger will battle with Helmsdoerfer in this event and the 200 yard Butterfly. Nebraska will again depend on such men as Carl Bodensteiner, Jerry Farrell, Bill North, Gene Cotter, Tagney, and Helmsdoerfer for important points. Bodensteiner and North will continue their friendly rival in the 200 yard free style. Likewise, Tagney and Cotter, two of the conferences top divers iiHsgsnsasBSBEM Divisioi American Btseh Anna Cars. Bassevett Field, Cvdea City, L I, M. Y. Page'3 will continue their rivalry. Also a much improved Charlie Arizumi should win the back stroke. Currently the , Huskers have a 4-4-1 season record. If Nebraska can win both dual meets they will finish one of their better sea sons of recent years in a brilliant fashion. The squad has worked very hard all year and are pointing towards a high finish next week end in Oklahoma. Last year Ne braska finished third in the con ference meet. FASHION . As I See It by Judy Ramey f NU'a Representative to Gold's Advisory Board You feel so good in playclothes by White Stag! White Stag's air conditioned sailcloth gives you that ready for sun and play feel ing. Here is the action free White Stag Jolly Top. 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