Will Urban Out With Re-injured Foot
Braves Top
Hoop Team
In AP Poll
After taking their 15th consecu
tive triumph by routing Drake 74
t>5 Monday night, the Bradley
•Graves remained on top of the
Associated Press national basket
ball standings released last night.
The Braves will meet St. John’s
of Brooklyn, ranked eleventh,
■"Thursday night in a contest that
might mean the end of basketball s
longest winning streak of the 1950
C1 season.
The Bradley cagers received 126
first place votes and a total of
2,320 points, a new high for the
•season. Since ten points are award
ed for a first-place vote, the high
est total that the 252 sports writ
ers and broadcasters could award
\o any one team would be 2,520.
The following teams are the rest
-«f the top 12, ranked in the follow
ing order: Oklahoma A. and M.,
Kentucky, Long Island University,
St. Louis, Indiana, North Carolina
State, Columbia, Kansas State,
Wyoming, St. John’s of Brooklyn,
and Washington.
Ducklings Face
Rooks Friday
Coach Don Kirsch’s undefeated
University of Oregon Frosh basket
hall squad will face the Oregon
State Rooks Friday and Saturday,
January 12 and 13, at Corvallis.
The Ducklings will be seeking
their 13th consecutive victory. The
Rooks broke an 11-game Duckling
streak in 1950, and they will be at
tempting to perform a similar feat
Friday night.
The Rook club is the only squad
that has defeated Coach Kirseli's
charges during the past three sea
sons. The Ducklings won sixteen
and lost four during the 1948-49
season, and all four losses were
acquired at the hands of a great
Rook quintet that lost only to
Salem High School.
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Phi Delts, Fijis, SAE,
Minturn, Kappa Sigs,
Sigma Nu Win IM Tilts
Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma
Delta, Sigma Nu, Minturn hall,
Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Ep
silon notched their first victories of
the intramural basketball cam
paign Tuesday. Of the six contests
only one was close enough to make
the referees sweat.
Ray Karnofski, also a defensive
football player, pulled a close
game out of the fire for Sigma Al
pha Epsilon. With the score 14-12
in favor of Cherney hall and less
than a minute left to play, Karnof
ski sank a free throw and then
made a lay-in to win the game for
SAE.
Low Scoring Fray
The score was nip and tuck
throughout the low scoring fray
with Cherney leading most of the
way. The game was knotted 4-4
at the end of the first period but
Cherney moved out at halftime 8-4
and led 12-9 at the third period
stop. Pat Dignan was high point
man for SAE with six points.
Phi Delta Theta demonstrated
little pity for Pi Kappa Phi as they
smashed their outmanned oppon
ents 49-1 in the highest score of
tiie afternoon. Sporting such prep
greats as Nick Schmer, Bob Tag
gesell, and Jim Nelson in their
line-up, the Phi Delts failed to ex
hibit any sign of early season
roughness.
The smooth working Phi Delt
machine rolled to a 20-0 lead at
halftime and were in front 38-0 at
the end of the third quarter. The
sun finally shone on the Pi Kap
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pa Phi’s late in the contest wnen
Garrett scored a foul shot to place
the losers in the scoring column.
Phi Gamma Delta encountered
little opposition from Alpha hall
as they trounced the men from
Straub 20-9. Both teams would
probably have scored more often
if the style of play had been a lit
tle more clean. Most of the scor
ing was done in the first half
which ended with the Fijis out in
front 14-7. DeKoning was high
point man for the winners with 8
counters.
Kappa Sigs Impressive
One of the most impressive
teams of the afternoon was that
of Kappa Sigma, which trounced
Sigma Phi Epsilon 41-14. The Kap
pa Sigs, helped out considerably
by the height advantage of Bob
Anderson and Bill Clausen, led
30-6 at the half and 35-6 in the
third quarter.
Both teams looked weary in the
final period and the Sig Eps closed
the gap to 41-14 at the final gun.
Bob Anderson captured high point
honors with 13 counters, followed
by John Martel, also of the Kappa
Sigs, with 11 points. Bowman
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Basketball Captain
Out of Bay Series,
To Face Vandals
Oregon's chances for victory in its basketball series w itb St.
Mary’s college and the University of San Francisco this weekend
were knocked down a notch yesterday. . .
Forward Will Urban, floor captain of the squad, re-injured Ins
right foot, broken last fall in pre-season practice.
The injury is not serious, physicians told Urban, and he will be
ready for the Idaho scries next week, but he definitely will not
iK'cnmnanv his teammates to the Kay city this weekend..
1M Schedule
Wednesday’s IM Schedule
All “A” games)
3:50 Court 40—Nestor vs. Theta
Chi
4:35 Court 40—Merrick Hall vs.
Tau Kappa Epsilon
5:15 Court 40—Sigma Chi vs.
Sherry Ross Hall
Varsity, Freshman
Swimmers to Meet
Varsity swim coach John Bor
chardt announced that there will
be an important meeting of all
varsity swimmers at 4 p.m.
Thursday at the men’s pool.
Also, freshmen swim coach Tom
Nekota will meet all freshmen
swimmers at- 4 p.m. on Friday
at the men’s pool. Swim captains
will be chosen.
SPORTS STAFF
A1 Karr
John Barton
Phil Johnson
If you decide to start on the road
to thinness, here’s hoping you lose
your weight.
Doctors saia tne injury uus uuie
is a separation of the bones in Ur
ban’s right foot. The tall forward
apparently suffered the mishap in
the same way it struck him last
fall, and realized it as it happened.
He was able to walk from the floor.
Webfoot Coach John Warren
said yesterday the team will miss
Urban, and chances for victory in
the southland are decidedly lowqg,
in his absence. Urban will prof^
ably remain in Eugene, going to
Corvallis at least one night of the
weekend to watch the Oregon
State-Washington games.
New Guard
Warren experimented with a
position change in yesterday’s
workout.
Mel Streeter, lanky swift-mov
ing forward who played center last
year, was given a tryout at a guard
position.
Streeter, according to his men
tor, can use his terrific speed and
agility to good effect from the
guard spot.
Warren said he has been look
ing for a good “feeder,” a guard
who is adept at feeding the ball
to the post man in the keyhole
position. Streeter may be the man,
he added. Mel is also a good shot
from the guard position, and is
particularly dangerous in plays
calling for the guard to cut by
the center.
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Six-Foot, Five-inch 'Moose' Loscutoff
Excels at Scorina, Backboard Work
By Bill Gurney
You don't have to be 6 feet, 5
inches tall to play center in North
ern Division basketball, but it
helps a lot.
Ask Jim Loscutoff, a big blond
guy with a crew cut, who has ac
counted for 128 points in IS games
this season for Coach John War
ren's Ducks.
We were talking to Jim one
night in the training room before
practice. The sheer size of the
man is perhaps the most noticable
thing about him; his 226 solid
pounds make him lugged as well
as tall, and a capable workman on
the backboards.
Jim said his favorite shots are
a long one-hander from the corner,
and a whirling hook shot from the
post position. Said hook is poetry
in motion from the stands, besides
being very tough to guard.
Bay Area Man
A 20-year-old Californian, Jim
attended Commerce high in San
Francisco, and Palo Alto high in
that city, which is now his home.
He was one of the top basketball
players in the Bay area, while
playing baseball and football as
well.
As many athletes do, Jim early
acquired a nickname. He was play
ing high school football, missed a
key block, and his angered coach
made a statement in which Jim
was referred to as “You big
moose,” and Moose they have call
ed him ever since.
Jim’s basketball skill was pol
ished to its present luster in Cali
fornia’s fast junior college compe
tition. Playing for Grant Tech in
Sacramento, he scored over 1000
points in two seasons, winning All
Conference honors.
His first year the team took
sixth place in the National J. C.
finals at Hutchinson, Kansas.
Rivals to Friends
Jim and Duck teammate Bob
Peterson are former hoop rivals
but are good friends now. They
came to Oregon together last sum
mer session, and liked it so well
they decided to stay.
Loscutoff mentioned that they
played two games against each
other in junior college.
“I sorta outscored him,” said
Jim.
Both of the big guys seem to
have taken in stride the jump
from junior college to Coast con
ference ball; although Loscu'R^pJ
stated:
“It’s quite a lot tougher up
here.”
Likes Jazz
On the campus, you can find Jim
at the Phi Delta Theta house. He
likes to listen to his collection of
Jazz records for relaxation; he
favors the jazz philharmonic ser
ies.
Also he plays ping-pong; a sport
at which Peterson offers “no com
petition at all.”
But just before he went upstairs
to pound the Mac Court maple
boards, he said this of the North
ern Division race:
I think we’ll finish close to the
top, especially since we’ve got Pet
erson in there.
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Maybe Mikan Might
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NEW YORK —UP)—George
Mikan of the Minneapolis Lak
ers is well on the way to his
fourth straight pro basketball
scoring title.
The National Basketball as
sociation season is half over, and
Mikan holds a 239-point lead oty|,
' his nearest competitor, Alex 1
| Groza of Indianapolis.