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The tournament that you speak of is the National Collegiate
Athletic-Association Tournament. The United States is divided into eight
collegiate districts, fow west of the Mississippi River and four east of
the Mississippi River. The Big Ten is number four; ther Missouri Valley: .
territory is number five, the. Southwest Conference is six, the:Rooky -
Mountain area is seven, and. the Pacific Coast area. isi:number eights: ©.

Since )} a national championship of universities and one-year
residence colleges iias been played. The plan is that the four districts
of the N.C.A.A. east of the Mississippi meet and play off the Hastern
N.C.AA, finals, and the four teams west of the Mississippi meet and play
“eff the Western N.C.AsA. finals. Then the eastern winners movt the western
winners for the N.C.A.A. championship which is, in fact, the big —"
championship ef the United States.

In 1940 Kensas won the Western N.G.AsA., and Indiana won the
Eastern. Kansas had defeated Oklahoma Aggies to determine the Fifth District
champion since Oklahoma Aggies is in the Missouri Valley Conference and we
are in the Big Six Conference, and it was necessary to decide on our Pifth
District champion. Then Southern California, Rice ( representing the rigger"
west Conference), Colorado (representing the Rocky Mountain Seer: St
Kansas played in Kansas City. Southern California defeated Colorado, and
Kansas defeated Rice. Then Kansag defeated Southern California for the
Western N.C.A.A- Indiana and Kansas met in Kansas City for the National
NoCeAhes and Indiana won.

In 1941 Stanford won the N.C.A.A. championship by defeating
Dartmouth, the Eastern winner. In 1942 Wyoming won the N.C.A.A. champion-
ship by defeating St. Johns of Brooklyn, or Georgetown, I am not certain,
the Invitation winner.

Now let me say a word about these Invitation winners. ‘They are
- nething more nor less than a selection of Ned Irish and a group of news-
paper men in New York. This tournament was formerly called the Sport Writers