The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 11

Tuesday, Februcvy 7, 1956 THE ST 11 K-STATE WHIPS HUSKERS, 66-52 Don Scarbrough Hired To Complete Staff football staff was brought to full force Monday as Pete Elliott named Don Scarbrough, 31, varsity assistant. The appointment was announced by Athletic Director Bill Orwig. Scarbrough has been head football and basketball coach at Northwestern State College at Alva, Okla. He is well known to Elliott, Bill Jennings and Dee Andros, other members of the staff. All have had contact with him during then coaching days at Oklahoma.

The Cornhusker staff now in- eludes: Pete Elliott, head roach Bill Jennings, backfieid coach Dee Andros, line coach Don Scarbrough, assistant coach (Jene Stauber, freshman coach All of the coaches except Scarbrough are now residing in Lincoln. Scarbrough will be an assistant! professor. His salary will be $6,.500 a year. Oklahoman The new assistant graduated from Altus, High School where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball. From 1943 until 1946 he served in the Navy.

He attended Cameron State Agricultural College in Lawton, lettering in football and bas- A basketball game between the ketball. He was named the top I second-ranked teams in The all-around athlete at the school in Scottsbluff, Gering Mix high school basketball ratings features the Tuesday night Nebraska prep program. Scottsbluff, ranked second to Omaha South in Class AA, visits 1949 and played with the Cameron Aggies in the Little Rose Bowl at: Pasadena, Calif. Scarbrough graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1951, letter- Added To Grid Staff Head Coach Pete Elliott has an- braska football coaching stafi as nounced the addition of Don Scar- i been head coach at Northwestern brough to the University of Ne- state College at Alva, Okla. Gering, the Class A second-place ing in football and basketball.

'New Keed' GavHan Favorite In 10-Round Bout In London By JOHN FARROW LONDON (iP Former welterweight champion Kid Gavilan of Havana was a 3-2 favorite to team. Scottsbluff is favored to win and spoil unbeaten record. Other leading games tonight; Cozad over (jJothenburg Easy repeat win for Class A leader. Ord over Loup City Chanticleers to shake off Aurora defeat. Falls City over Plattsmouth Win would boost Falls Twin Rivers stock.

The choices in other games: Abraham Lincoln over Omaha Benson. Fullerton over Albion, Omaha Cathedral over Omaha St. Joseph, His first coaching assignment was at Healdton, High School. Then he became an assist-; ant coach at the University of Tulsa for two years. In May of 1955 he was appointed head football and basketball coach' at Northwestern State College.

Scarbrough married Rosa Lee' Anderson of Marvell, in June of 1955 He and his wife will arrive in Lincoln within two weeks. Cold Bushmen Fatten Wildcats' Loop Lead By DON BRYANT Sports Editor, The Star Ni'braska was like a stranger in a fog Monday night as the Kansas State Wildcats pounded out a 66-52 Big Seven victory before 4,000 at the Coliseum. Coach Jerry Huskers just get the lid off the in the first that was story. This Was A Frequent Occurrence Roy DeWitz command of both boards during most of the contest. Watching the action are Pachin Vicens (24) of Kansas State, Rex £lk- wall (20) and Charlie Smith (14), both of Nebraska.

(Star Photo.) Time after time the Scarlet and Cream cast what locked like good shots, only to have them ring in and out. The win gives the Wildcats the inside track on the loop title with a 6-1 record. K-State is batting 1.000 on the road. Nebraska stuck in sixth place, now with a 1-3 mark. It was also the first time a Tex Winter-coached team had beaten the Huskers on the court since he assumed the reigns in 1933.

Nebraska started out cold and stayed that way during most of the first half, leaving the court at' intermission on the short end of a 36-25 score. The Wildcats had such leads 11-4, 19-8 and 36-21 during the first session, thanks largely to the ef- Tigers Trip Kansas 85-78 LAWRENCE, Kan. Sharp- shooting Missouri took off at the start and hung on to defeat Kansas 85-78 in a Big Seven Conference game, that left the two teams tied for fourth place with 3-3 records. It was second victory of the season over Kansas, while Kansas beat the Tigers in the Big Seven tournament. The Tigers, sparked by guard Lionel Smith, raced to a 12-2 advantage and then had 28-9 and 35-13 margins before Kansas rallied to cut the gap to 4.5-35 at halftime.

Kansas made it 49-42 in the first three minutes of the second half Kansas (11) goes high in the air to take a rebound away from Gary Reimers of Nebraska during the 66-52 win over the Huskers. The visitors had firm Ashland over Millard, Hebron over; waterbun 77 Deshler, Minden over Cambridge, in Argentina before he came to England. One of his defeats in Buenos Aires was by Eduardo over Superior, Wayne over Lausse. i West Point, Arcadia over North Although Gavilan weighed as Reaver Crossing over f-'at Peter Waterman to- high as 1.56 in South America, he' priend. Guide Rock over Clay match at insisted he would have no trouble I making the 149-pound limit as ioi called for in his contract for the Gavilan, a veteran of 131 pro Waterman match.

Unbeaten in 31 The blond Briton, unbeaten in 31 Minden Recaptures Lead Basketball Scores Over Foes In Class STVTK HIGH SC night in their 10-round Ilarringay Stadium. Hiincrofi fifi 72 illoH 5(1 KIlMt VCI.I.FV TOFRN UrM Kound Ml 49 Albion VC dkefield 47 I nlon 42 fights, finished training Monday and issued his usual victory prediction. show England a new keed pro starts with only one draw to mar his perfect record, admits he is in for a hard fight. shall keep on the he said. will get no Greeley 27 ter, Seward Concordia over Stroms-: spa'S 35 burg.

kkxhnky toi hnkv Also: Fort Calhoun over Springfield over Omaha Sacred i 47 Kim reek 42 TT X- Til HTATK Heart, Brady over North Platte: 9 Trade school 72 St. Inman over Chambers. omaha Gavilan been he said. tram hard. I beat this The Gavilan of 19.55 was a far cry from the sleek welter who held the championship in the 147-pound division for three years.

Campaigning as a middleweight, Gavilan lost to Hector Constance and Bob- Tourney Program The schedule of Nebraska tournaments opening Tuesday night is By RON GIBSON Star Sports Staff Member New leaders take over in three classes of The n'jrtjey 3fi high school basketball ratings as the preps start their I next-to-last week of pre-tournament play. 1 Minden regained the Class leadership it lost last week. Clarkson displaced Chadron Prep as Class leader for the first time, and Bellwood Marietta shoved ahead of Holstein and Tobias in Class E. Minden, dropped from the lass pinnacle after losses to Induna H9 HIG 8KVKN Kansas Stale fifi VKIUMSKX Missouri K.insa» 7S BIG IltinoU 92 Mkhixan Stale 8fi Iowa 78 OTHKK COI l-KGKS Waterman is supposed to be the long. Eight tourneys begin firing, i pkiahoma aam si.

puh top two and type who likes to Tecumseh will (lefend the title 93 did not play last week. The top four Class teams came through with flying colors to hold their spots. Stratton moved up to fifth place as win streak was forts of Big Jack Parr, Rov Dewitz and Pachin Vincens who got but the Jayhawkers come 10, eight and seven points respec- closer than seven points there- tivoiy. after. Twice Missouri had 15-points Parr wound up the night with 20 leads midway through the second points to lead the scoring.

The best balf. the Huskers could do in the first Chuck Denny, Missouri center, half was six from Rex Ekwall, but was high man with Zl points, the Holmesville vet managed 12 Gene Elstun of Kansas made 22. more in the second half to lead the home club with 18. When the second half opened it looked like the Wildcats were off to a picnic. In five minutes they stretched their lead to 17 points.

46-29, and a couple of minutes later it was even worse, 50-29. But a juniper and a pair of free throws by Ekwall gave the Huskers new hope midway through the half. Nebraska started hitting and outshot the visitors, 17-8, hut Bush's boys were still 12 points arrears with onlv 2:26 left. Smith Stewart Ronsuk Missouri Kansas KANS.VS 2 fi ll 0 Brainard 5 3 9 3-8 2 Green fi 6-9 2 9 2 1 3 0 2-3 2 Parker Dater Hollinger 31 12 1 0-0 0 8 6-9 4 0 (Ml 0 0-0 0 (5 0-2 3 1-2 4 2 0-14 10 1-3 3 0 0-0 2 35 8-n 20 45 35 Iowa Wins 78-74 Over Wisconsin High, climbed bark up after last read in his spare time between in its own invitational a. 1 1 I It iiktahoma ity h.l ti'aining sessions.

The last Holstein and Campbell are co-fa -1 wmvte Gavilan met was collegian vorites in the Mid-Rivers Confer-1 by Dykes and dropped two chuck Davey who was annihilated ence get-together at Doniphan. Florida siaie 90 Fastern Kcndicky 92 Milldeil W3S beating twO tOUgh ichila .39 i iMiqiiesiif teams, Central City and Hebron, while Wayne lost to Fort Wayne Nips Syracuse 99-98 in 10 rounds at Chicago, in 1953. Dodge is a strong contender the Waterman never has fought 10 Mid-State Tourney at Dodge, rounds in his career dating back i Grand Island St. will bid to 19.52. He turned pro after the; in the Tri-Valley Tournament at Olympics at Helsinki where he FORT WAYNE, Ind.

i.4’) Fort was eliminated in the second series of bouts in the welter class (139 pounds). Hogan Bassey of Nigeria, Brit- Pistons broke a three- game losing string by beating the Syracuse Nationals Monday night, 99-98. in a bruising National Bas- Wood River opening Tuesday night. Bellwood Marietta is favored in the Butler County meet beginning at David City. The Cass County Tourney at Murdock could be a wide-o peri meet, along with the Ontral Re- son amassed its greatest number of points in the school's history here in The Citadel 11469.

Stale Kenturk; HI Florida 70 HI I ninn H2 i Penn State SK I.chixh fit Wake Forest HI Richmond ill Citadel 69 Alabama SH anderbilt tieo. W'asbinxton 126............ Furman 109 Louisiana State 100 Mississippi 76 Colxate 79 PIftshurgh AL Fort 99 Sjracuse 9H Clemson Rolls 114-69 CLEMSON, S. C. BiM Clem- The Star's Top Ten CLASS 6.

Aurora 7. Pender tl4-D. 8. I niverslty (8-4). 9.

4 entrai City 10. Sutton (10-2). 10. Loup City tll-1). MADISON, Wis.

(JY-Defending champion Iowa took its fifth vic- At that juncture, Parr fouled out' tory in six Big 10 ba.sketball games but it was too late to do Nebraska by dow ning a determined Wiscon- any good. team, 78-74. DeWitz and Vicen teamed to The victory left Iowa in second broken by Class Holstein. In- put the Wildcats out by 14 again, behind undefeated llUnoLs. 14-game string was snapped Actually, the Huskers were out- Wisconsin, suffering its fifth loss in league starts, had a 21-14 lead at one point in the first half before regular Badger center John Parker withdrew from the game with four personal fouls.

Iowa forged ahead to 41-32 half-time score, but the Badgers kept after the Hawkeyes and managed to take the lead away once, 56-54. University i by Elgin, and Hershey suffered a scored only 30-27 during the second Fvlfeconsin IJiiiU loss to Elsie. Inman. Campbell and Hershey all slipped; Dodge, sporting a 13-2 record, is a new team at 10th as Hershey dropped from the chart. Maiiotlo To Top A strong Marietta club tripped "lorado Class Norfolk Sacred Heart to make the big advance Class E.

The Bellwood parochial school jumped from third to first in the ratings. Big Seven Standings CoM KIlFNt XV 1, 6 I I 2 3 2 3 3 3 1 3 6 Pet. :.7 .667 66(1 ,.566 ish featherweight champion, will meet Jean Sneyers of Belgium, ketball Assn. game from Eurtipean feathertitlehold- publican Valley Tourney at Up- two players and Coach A1 Cervi of er, in another 10-round match on land and the Niobrara Valley Con- Syracuse were ousted. 1 the same card.

I ference meet at Niobrara. Lincoln High Tankmen Are Heavy Favorites To Win Championship In Capital City Swim Meet This Week 1. Mindfn 2. Wayne tl9-l). 3.

Gl St. Mary (12-1), 4. Hebron (10-3). 5. St.

Knnaventure (12-3). CLASS 1. Clarkson (15-0). 7. Walthill 2.

Chadron Prep 8. Norfolk Sacred (13-1). Heart (12-1). 3. Arc.idla (14-0).

9. Harvard (ll-l). 4. Shelton (12-0). 10.

Seward a. XVaverly 13-01. Concordia (10-3) 6. Genoa (12-0). CLASS 1.

(16-0) fi. Western (ll-l). 2. Brady (12-0). 7.

Johnson (14-0). 3 Springfield (1.5-0). 8. ampheii 14-1). strides With impressive wins last 4.

XVilcov (10-0). 9. Inman (15-1). 5, Stratton (15-1). 10.

Dodge (TARS 1. Bellwood Mari- 6. Weston (16-2). etta (14-0). 7.

Primrose (14-1) 2. Holstein (ll-5)x. 8. Melbeta (10-1). 3.

Tobias (12-0), 9. Beiden (13-2). i 4. Farwell (14-0), 10. Ft.

Calhoun i 6. Otoe (17-2), (1.5-2). By RON SPEER Star Sports Staff Member Prep swimmers from three city schools will battle for the City Swiming Championship Friday night, and Lincoln High Coach Harry Kuklin is delighted. the first time this season that the i being heavily favored will have to go all out to win a meet. ponents to the extent that the re-1 Gacusana looks like a possible serves saw as much action as the state champion in the 120-yard front line swimmers.

dividual medley this year addi- top swimmers were: tion to his free style specialty. sidelined if the score became too lopsided, and the subs carried on in the latter stages of most meets. Two returning state champions plus the anchor member of a relay team which won in the state meet last year make coachmg chores pleasant. Converse concentrates on the 100-yard free style, and has a top mark of :56.0, three-tenths of a second faster than the state meet record of Coach Kuklin matched the pair in a practice race in the 100-yard free style last week, and Gacusana Duke Snider Signs; Given 'Fine Increase' BROOKLYN Duke Snider, home run-hitting center fielder, Monday signed his contract, calling for a in salary. Red Patterson, Dodger publicity chief who released news of the pected to boost the Red and Black i though by strong Clarkson signing, refused to estim.ate the Kuklin-coached Link teams have captured the state title three times, in 1942, and Last year they whipped Boys Town in the state meet to end a four-year reign by the Cowboys.

This season the Links have a 10-0 record, and pushed. Class A Omaha Holy Name and Pender fell before Class Walthill. Pender fell to seventh. Wayne is in second place and Grand Island St. Mary's moved up a notch in the revamped ratings, which now include no unbeaten team.

Hebron beat Class A. Fairbury been and by virtue of a one-point loss I to moves into fourth spot. half. It was the fir.st-half chills Holstein, defending champ and that scuttled the hosts. Al.so, K- the leader to date, is second ahead State controlled both boards dur- of Tobias and Farwell in a close of the evening, race.

Kansas State scoring indicated a Primrose had its 13-game win balanced attack, with vicen get- streak broken and dropped in the ting 13, DeWitz 11, and Hayden list. Melbeta was embarrassed by Abbott and Fritz Schneider dunk- Mitchell Sunflower. ing 10 apiece to back up Otoe and Weston made big 20. For Nebraska. Charlie 12 and Don Smiilt's 10 were the only double digits to throw in with Ekwall's 18.

In the free throw department, the Huskers were just as cool as they were from the field, hitting only 14 of 25 for a ,56 per cent. week. Calhoun entered the list at 10th as Prague dropped out. Tutor Veteran Suffers Sprain J. V.

Olson, veteran University High basketball player, suffered an ankle sprain Monday night in practice. Coach Dale Snook reported. It is not known whether Olson will be available for Friday game with Hebron. Olson was sidelined part of last season with an ankle fracture. Other swimmers xxho are ex- i 1 St.

Bonaventure, al- Joe Gacusana, 16-year-oId junior' nipped his teammate in the final Three city schools who is also a top footballer, won lap. Northeast and Lincoln the 50-yard free style event at the; His time? A cool :55.6, seven- swimming teams, and state meet last year. Senior tenths under the state mark I tankmen will have to pull out the I Chuck Wilson won the diving and i Kuklin has coached Link swini- stops to sweep past both city Larry Converse, another junior, mers for seven years and to the city title are lettermen Charlie R(X)k, a senior who has splashed through the lOO-yard back stroke in 1:08.6, and Larry Thomas, a breast stroke and medley relay stalwart. Vanderbilt Upset TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Alabama swamped Vanderbilt 88-61 to Kansas Stale made good on 20 of take over undisputed po.ssession of first place in the Southestern Conference bashetbuH race.

The winners stormed ahead 45-26 in the first half, and the result was not in doubt after the first few minutes. Vandy i.s ranked No. 3 nationally and Alabama No. 10 in The Associated Press poll. In previous meets this year the Links have overshadowed their op- anchored the championship freestyle relay team.

He guided his first Lincoln High team 20 years ago, in 1936. in the Stanton Invitational Tourney, salary figures. He said the club remains in fifth. would not reveal whether Snider Aurora enters the Top Ten for got more or less than Roy Camp- the finst time. Aurora in sixth anella.

Campanella signed Abbott place, had a bad start but now jan, 25 the club said he received sports a good record in its the salary ever paid to a Kuklin also has Roger Corn' Aurora has beaten Ord, Sutton and Dodger Baseball writers Gary Keller, Tom Morrissey, John i Central City. estimated Campanella's contract at; Usher, Ross McGlasson and Herb' Lincoln University High is back 42 500 I in the list at eighth and could 27 for 74 per cent. It wasn't a case of no hu.stle on part. The Huskers were i moving the ball well at times and broke away for several good shots. But the ball go through the hoop.

And in basketball, unlike horseshoes, close ones count. club, now 5-10 for the year, goes on the road for two games, Kansas Saturday and Oklahoma Monday. RXVHXS mi xtf nfhuxnkx DuVVili JcUwabny (. 1-2 4 0 0-0 0 Ktibit.ki 1 0-0 0 ulh 2 H-H 1 Smith 0-1 4 4 a Biii-i 0 0-0 0 fi 6-10 5 ArwtKxl 0 0-0 0 Thom Howard Smith 23 20-27 17 0 2 0 I 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-0 5-2 4-fi Swank Sparks Reds George Swank scored 22 points, in of them on free throws, to lead the Red freshman team to a 5637 win over the Whites. Swank made 10 of 11 free throw attempts.

KF KH Finn Hairv Ful Iff Curtin (. 4 2 0 5 t) 10-11 1 7 2-3 3 2 2-3 2 19 14-25 18 17 22-27 13 HI I FS I Kield'cn 1 0-1 Johnson 3 0-fl 2 Winter 1 0-1 1 3 2-4 4 3 1-4 I White 4 4-6 2 15 7-16 l.V Kuster to back up his veterans. Southeast, competing in the sport for the first time, and Northeast the depth to whip the but both schools boast some top performers. Southeast Coach John best bet foir an individual title is Jim Frank, a sophomore diver. climb with a win over Hebron next Friday.

The record is marred by losses to Class Geneva and Columbus St. Bonaventure, Central City is another addition. Central City, with a 7-6 record which includes four losses to Class A teams and a two-point defeat by Minden, rates a 10th place tie Frank was barely edged by Lin- Loup City even though Cen- coln Wilson in a dual tral City whipped Loup City handi- meet. Other Knights performing creditably for first year men are Jack Briggs, speedy sophomore. Tom Davies, Fred Ferris, Jim Pardee, Dick Garlinghouse, Mike Drake, Bill Goldman and Ed Jancke.

Any of the youngsters could score in the meet Friday. Ken Wall, Northeast swim coach, has several boys who could startle the Links. Jim Nelson, who has been under :20 in the 40-yard free style, may push Gacusana. Letterman Don Haith is the top Rocket backstrok- er, and another lettermau, Ron Bucklin, is hope in the breaststroke. Ted Dewey paces the Rockets in the free style with NeLson, and Branch Walton has been outstanding at times in the diving event.

larkson Big Threat Clarkson, runner-up to Chadron Prep last year in the Class stale tournament, takes the reins in its class with a continued fine showing. Clarkson mowed dawn a tough Stanton Invitational field (including Class St. last week to take a slim lead over Chadron Prep. 37-game win streak was broken by Torrongton, a tough outfit. Previously Prep had a 47-40 win over Chadron Assumption.

Other big changes in Class were the advance of Arcadia from fifth to third, the dropping of Noi folk Sacred Heart from third to eigth and the addition of Seward Concordia to the list. Arcadia won the Loup Valley But a warning is in for Tournament to stay unbeaten 'Not Bad, Joe, Not Bad' did it in Joe, not says Lincoln High swim coach Harry Kuklin after a match race in the 100-yard style between Link swimmers Larry Converse (left) and Gacusana, still in the water, Charlie Rook (left, kneeling) and Larry Thomas (right, kneeling). Link swim lettermen, check clocking. Gacusana won the race, and his time was nearly a second faster than the state meet mark, (Star Photo). Ctoaches Wall and Rcta, and those fellows who keep track of records at swim meets; i The top Link swimmers have been kept in enforced hibernation by Kuklin during much of the season, and Friday night looks like the date going to turn them loose.

Shelton toppled St. Paul and Wocxi River to move from sixth to fourth. Sacred Heart took a tumble after loosing to Class Bellwcod Marietta. Concordia replaced Creighton as the lOth-place team in Class C. Class Leader Idle Utica, the Class pacesetter, Tenley Tenley Albright of Newton Center, who is more accustomed to gliding on ice and collecting trophies, for Italian sculptor Benilo Asquino Gets Facial For Posterity at Cortina The liquid soon hardens, keeping who was making masks of Olympic winners, used a special liquid on Tenley who won the figure skating crown.

the most minute characteristics of the person. From Uiis mask, the life bust is cast. (AP Wire- Photo.).