[THE KANSAS CITY STAR, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940.2/¢

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“Chuck” Taylor Didn’t Have on His N.C. A. A. Colored Glasses
When He Was Looking at, Indiana and Kansas....Two All-
Star Basketball Teams With Only One Hoosier and None
From Kansas, the Runner-up Team....Maybe He’s Giving
*Phog”’ Allen the Indirect Boost.

(By The Star’s Sports Editor.)
i MR, “CHUCK” TAYLOR, who ‘peddles basketball parapher-

  
  

 

 

nalia and is called (by someone in Oklahoma) “perhaps the
nation’s outstanding authority on the game,” has selected
two All-American basketball fives and turned them loose with

his stamp of approval.
On his first team are McNatt, Oklahoma; Huffman, Indiana;
Vaughan, Southern Cal; Hapac, Illinois; Harvey, Colorado, On his
second: Renick, Oklahoma Aggies; Waite, Tarkio; Dick, Oregon;

a LJ SS]  Glamack, North Carolina; Broberg,
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Dartmouth.

   
    

 

SN) on EITHER TEAM, Patrons of the Missouri college
SX HUH! — MAKES Union basketball and the National
Pn: SSS “ PHOG’ LOOK Intercollegiate tournament here no

     

doubt will be happy to note the
presence of Tarkio’s Waite on the
second team, but patrons of the
N. C. A. A, tournament here and
followers of Big Six basketball will
be surprised to see only one In-
diana star and none from Kansas
among Mr, Taylor’s ten selections,
Yet Indiana. won the champion-
ship game of the N.C. A. A., com~-
prising the major colleges of the
United States, and Kansas was the
runner-up.

Kansas, the runner-up team in
the N. C. A. A. championships, but
possessed of no player of sufficient
merit to win the eye of Mr. Taylor either on his first or second team.
Now please don’t be writing me scurrilous letters, any of you rabid Mis-
sourians. I'd be writing the same stuff, substituting Missouri for Kan-
sas, had the Tigers been the N, C. A. A. runner-up. And, come to
think of it, Im not so sure that Prof. George Edwards didn’t have a
player worthy of recognition among the first ten, but we'll let
that pass.

One observer suggests the possibility that “Phog” Allen doesn’t
trade with Mr. Taylor, but that seems a catty thing to be saying—or
thinking—and, of course, it isn’t our thought. Still, it’s an idea, Or
could it be that Mr. Taylor, in naming no player of the runner-up
team in the N, C. A. A., intended to convey an unwritten testimonial
to the coaching genius of Allen. C, E. McBRIDE.

    
   

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