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- tucky Emissaries....Everett Shelton Goes Back to College
Basketball After Another Whirl in the Independent Field
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“By The Star’s Sports Editor.) 5
NIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY emissaries evidently are out-
bidding the college alumni of this sector. °

-That deduction comes from the knowledge that two

- Kansas City boys, high schoo] football seniors of last fall, are

now enrolled in the Southeastern conference’s member in Lexington,
Ky. These youngsters may not have sold their athletic ability to the
highest bidder, but undoubtedly their records in high school football

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enabled them to take advantage of the offers of the University of
Kentucky,

The young men in question are Bob Feiring, a guard on the

_ Northeast high eleven, and Roger Yost, a Paseo halfback. The latter

‘was out of the game:a part of last season with a thigh injury, but it
is said that he will be ready for fvotball this fall.

The University of Kentucky is a member of the conference that
permits the solicitation of athletes and pays tuition, room, beard and
other emoluments for athletic services.

- Everett Shelton Returns to College Basketball.

HE name of Everett Shelton may mean little to you, but if you

happen to be one of Kansas City’s thousands of tournament
basketball patrons you’ll remember the .great Wyoming university
team he brought here in 1942 to win the western playoffs in a Madi-
son Square Garden championship game and, victorious there, went
on to beat St. John’s in the great Red Cross benefit game that netted
more than $35,000 for the Red Cross.

Everett Shelton was the coach of that Wyoming team.

Shelton was in Kansas City last week. He was on his way home
to Laramie where he will take up the mantle of basketball coaching
on a 10-year contract the coming winter. When Wyoming aban-
doned all intercollegiate athletics after the season of 1942, Shelton
took a job with the Dow Chemical company at Midland, Wis. He
took his powerful player, Kominich, with him. This lad was 4-F in
the draft, and all because he stood one inch above the army regula-
tions of 6 feet 6. Kominich has another year of college competition,
and we’d hate to be offering any odds that he’ll not be back at
Wyoming when the 1944 college schedule opens.

Shelton is one of the most experienced coaches of basketball in
the profession. His coaching wisdom is a balance between what he
has learned in college basketball, and the trickiness of independent
basketball as demonstrated by the best of the A. A. U. teams. He was
coach of the Safeway Stores teams of Denver, McCracken and all
that gang, and as you know he has won a national championship in
the intercollegiate world. He knows all the answers, inciuding that of
getting, an opposing star out of the game in a perfectly legitimate
manner as far as the rules are concerned. Let him foul himself out.
If the opposing coach sizes up the situation correctly he can make
his moves to counter and quite likely successfully.

Wyoming is now going back to intercollegiate competition, and
Everett Shelton is returning to the college brand of basketball.

Bunny Oakes, former Nebraska line coach, is head football coach
at Wyoming. Elton Davis, the athletic director who has made many _
friends here on his visits with Wyoming basketball teams, has a leave
of absence from the university and is managing the Connor hotel in
Laramie.