The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1967 Page: 7 of 8
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Subs sink TCU as Owls soar
By BILL KENNEDY
Thresher Basketball Analyst
In a year that will probably go down in Rice
sports history as the Year of the Might-Have-1
Been, Saturday's basketball victory over gargan-
tuan, highly-rated TCU was especially gratify-
ing. Th£ Owls demonstrated more team balance
against the Horned Frogs than this reporter
has ever seen in a Rice basketball team.
Rice has traditionally been a team consisting
of one or two stars surrounded by a more or
less interchangeable array of spear-carrying
flunkies. But the 1967 model Owls have reaf-
firmed the fact that basketball is essentially
a team sport in which individual heroics must
be subordinated to smooth team play.
The TCU game showed how the Owls' new
corporate image has spread even unto the re-
serves (who play so much that they can hardly
be considered second-stringers in the usual sense
at all, and are perhaps better termed "semi-
starters"). Almost one-third (28 out of 89) of
Rice's points against TCU were scored by semi-
starters Farrar Stockton, Bob Rule, and Jim
Hubenak.
Rule's performance deserves special mention,
as the 6' 4" soph guard displayed a great reper-
toire of ball-handling moves. On one play, in
which Rule, guarded by three TCU players,
faked a right-handed jump-shot and then sank
a beautiful southpaw-underhand shot, the pro-
tective undergarments of the three Horned Frog
basketeers were seen to hang in mid-air for
seven full seconds.
The Owls also showed a marked disrespect for
the Rice tradition of blowing leads when faced
with pressure defensive tactics like TCU's full-
court press. Thanks to the passing and dribbling
of Rule, Williams and Inselman, Rice broke the
Frogs' press with a minimum of problems every
time.
The Owl five came through with the big play
—a long Ivey basket, a ferocious Stockton re-
bound, a Doty steal—everytime TCU seemed
about to pull ahead. Making such plays is, to
use an old sportswriter's cliche, the name of
the game.
All was not perfection, of course, as the Owls
were frequently outmuscled under the boards
by the Frogs' tank-sized post men. The sight
of TCU forward James Cash (6'6", 220 lbs.)
getting four straight shots at a crucial point in
the second half was not a pleasant one. Rebound-
ing remains the Owls' biggest single problem.
Still, the Rice squad proved Saturday that they
can play with any team in the SWC and have
a fair shot at a first division finish.
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Rice Karate buffs take their belts
By TWAI KWONDO
Thresher Reporter
The Rice Karate Club ended
its fall semester with a belt
test in Austin on January 8
at which fifteen members were
advanced.
Jhoon Rhee, the highest rank-
ing belt in the US (sixth black),
came from Washington to ad-
minister the test to the Rice
and Texas clubs. Jeff Wooley,
head of the Rice club and his
brother John, head of the Tex-
as club, helped in judging the
candidates.
Advanced to sixth blue were
Clayton Sherman and Larry
Parker. Seventh green went to
Ellis Conoley, George Edwards,
and John Wise. Eighth green
was awarded to John Howell,
Frank Lewis, Joe Lucke, Bill
Daubin, Dick Green, Dan Banks
and Blake Redding. Cliff Morris
and John Fulcher got ninth
white.
Future plans for the club
include a tournament in Dallas
on February 20 and another
belt test at the end of the se-
mester. Seventeen new mem-
bers were added this semester
but Wooley stressed that mem-
bership is open until February
20. Workouts are held Monday
and Wednesday nights and Sat-
urday afternoon; dues will be
$15.
By I. TSALOVER
Special Guest Analyst
Pressed hard by the annual
resurgence and rejuvenation of
that ever-popular American
pastime, volleyball, the soon-
to-be-deposed king- of winter
sports (basketball) staggers to
its dying close, scheduled to
undergo its death throes next
Monday, acording to usually re-
liable doctors who have attend-
ed the patient throughout the
course of its illness.
The scene was set for the
swan song of this athletic en-
deavor beloved by so many last
week as the Pseudo-Jocks and
the Cutters, two teams which
demonstrated exceptional dura-
bility throughout the season,
emerged bloody but unbowed
from the lists of sanguine semi-
final combats.
The Jocks, led by Stuart
Long's 28 points, edged the
valiant '49ers 69-f>7; Bill How-
ard of the 49ers was the lead-
ing scorer but it was all for
naught.
Competition for the Pseudo-
Jocks will be furnished by the
Cutters, who gained their berth
by virtue of a 50-34 over the
hard-fighting Baker Bullets,
limiting 'the blazing Bullets'
basket-burning Jim Curtis to a
season-low of seven points,
which confounded all the basket-
ball experts packing Rice gym
to witness this clash of gargan-
tuas.
A full house is expected to
witness these aces in the battle
of the century which should
shame the Superbowl in page-
antry and grandeur.
The champion of the fresh-
man league was crowned yes-
terday evening (the champion-
ship game V.'as played shortly
before.), but usually reliable re-
porters were crushed, by the
surging mobs overflowing the
gym and have not yet reap-
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Coyner, Sandy. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1967, newspaper, February 9, 1967; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244991/m1/7/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.