Show Notre Dame Oklahoma Fives Fall n Wednesday College Contests A Ted Meier JEW lEW YORK Dec 9 Notre D Notre Ile and ne-and and Oklahoma expected to among mong the top collegiate bash bas- bas h ball ll teams opened their season night night and and both got sped ped down he ne Irish lost to Illinois 59 to in f overtime at South Bend Je Ile e Oklahoma went down bee be- be e f- f Texas 49 to 40 at Norman la ri n contrast Kentucky's N C A A drubbed DePaul 67 36 icking that indicated Kentucky 1 l be tough to dethrone stamped tamped itself as a conder conder conr con- con der r f for r the Western confer- confer championship e. e by its triumph r Notre Dame The Bunt came a n p behind a 27 20 time half l it and won out in the over over- s 's on cn a field goal by Burdett The regulation game ended 56 Notre Dames Dame's all- all America Kevin OShea topped the scorers with 20 points Oklahoma favored to win the Big Seven title fell behind in the opening minutes against Texas and never managed to catch up The Southwest conference boys bos had a hot night hitting on 32 of their field goal tries usually from far out in one-hand one push shots Al AI Madsen and Slater Martin Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin together tallied 33 points for Texas Kentucky Kentuck was held to a 20 13 time half edge by DePaul but the Wildcats put on a devastating de second half exhibition of speed that all but swept DePaul off the boards Coach Adolph Rupp unveiled unveiled unveiled un un- veiled a talented sophomore Walter Walter Wal Val Valter ter HIrsch whose passing helped Ralph Beard Alex Groza and the theother theother theother other Kentucky vets Temple and LaSalle two unbeaten unbeaten unbeaten un un- beaten Philadelphia q quI quintets u i it 11 t e t s trimmed Bucknell and Brigham Young in a doubleheader at Phillys Philly's convention hall Temple walloped Bucknell 82 40 and LaSalle LaSalle LaSalle La La- Salle sinkin sinking 32 of 79 field goal attempts polished off the Big Six champions 76 Princeton considered the dark horse in the eastern Ivy Ivry 1 league nearly suffered the fate of Notre Dame and Oklahoma in opening its season against Gettysburg Behind Behind Behind Be Be- hind at 44 42 Princeton poured nine points through the hoop Inthe Inthe in inthe the closing minutes to pull out a 51 48 triumph Dartmouth another Ivy league team had a close call against Boston college Emil EmU Hudak's field goal zoal In the last minute gave the Indians a 48 46 victory Penns Pennsylvania Pennsyl l vania vanla opened its campaign by whipping Swarthmore 61 44 Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard beat Northeastern 62 43 and Cornell drubbed Buffalo 67 George Washington won a Southern conference triumph over eve r Virginia Tech 54 37 while Georgia squeezed by Clemson 60 58 Navy looking ahead to an invasion o othe of oC f the midwest walloped Penn Mili Military tary 48 I |