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DAY SAVED FOR HERIDAN
45 BACKBOARD BREAFS.

The Meridan High 3chool basketball teamarrived in New
Haven for a qualifying round game in the State championship
tournament minus its star center. Pete Ruoverts, jhile his tean-
mates were holding their warm-up crill befvure sturting the game
the new glass backboards erected for the tournement contests were,
in some manner, shattered,

It took workman 45 minutes to replace them with old style
wovden boards. During that time Roberts arrived, Meridan beat
Torrington High 32 to 21, Roberts scoring 10 points.

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LAWRENCE, Kan, - March -- Sixteen members of the University
of Kansas basketball squad, champions of the Big Six, have been
recommended for letters by pr. F.C.Allen, varsity basketball coach,

Squad morale won the 1938 Big Six basketball championship,
according to pr. Allen, and as a reward for their efforts all
memoers of the squad will receive letters,

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fad Reid, director of athletics and coach of basketball at
the Warrensburg (Ho) State Teachers College resigned in Mid-
February. His team has just won for the second consecutive year
the championship of the Missouri Intercollegiate Conference,
Mr. Reid will be dean. of men at the maryville, Mo., State Teachers
College,

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Much regret has been expressed over the ueperture of
Art Kahler from the Rhode [Island cthletic picture, ,ahler, Brown
University's genial court mentor, has gevercu nis atnuletic con-
nections with the Providence school-in order to cevote his full
time to sports teams at Dickinson where he is head coach, The
Bears are losing a mighty good man, Kahler has been at Brown for
Seven years, and it has been he who has brought the court game
along to its present level, Good luck Mr, Kahler ~ Your work € t
Brown was well done,

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