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SMITH CENTER, SMI’

Capacity Crowd
For Little Six
League Banquet

Dr. Forrest C. “‘Phog”’
Allen of K. U. Was
The Featured Speaker

Probably one of the largest crowds
ever to attend a Little Six Basket-
ball League banquet, gathered at
the high school gymnasium in Gay-
lord Tuesday evening to pay homage |'
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toastmaster of the event, a position
he has held for a number of years,
t|and he introduced John Cole, Supt.
x: of the Gaylord schools who made
‘y|the welcoming address followed by
i+ |a response from E. H. Windscheffel,
iy | supt. of the Athol schools. Mrs. Le-
--| Barge furnished the musical num-
)-|bers of the evening with two voice
(1, | Solos.
Probably what was the most im-
{portant portion of the evening’s
ie| program was provided by Supt.
Fred Weed of Kensington, who an-
nounced the All Star first and se-
cond teams and presented the tro-
phy to the Gaylord squad who won
the League championship. Supt.
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© | Little Six All Stars, picked by the
coaches for their outstanding abil-
it ity and sportsmanship during the/,
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°| First Team—Paul Casteel of Gay-|ye
# lord and Eugene Frazier of Athol, | yj
forwards; Alfred Thomas ‘of Gay-| a;
lord and Roscoe Rorabaugh of Ken- | yj
|sington, guards; Herbie Borgmann |;
of Athol, center.
Second Team— Eldon True of! oe
Kensington and Bob Santner of} jp
Gaylord, forwards; Loren Conaway | yw
of Athol and Milo Wiehl of Ken- +
sington, guards; Loren Watts of
Harlan, center. a
The above boys are deserving of
_|only the highest commendation and
it is hoped that they will carry on
through life with the same high
type sportsmansip and ability shown
in their basketball the past season.
j Last but far from least on the
_|program was the address by Dr.
j|Forrest C. Allen, Phog to every
_lbasketball fan in the state, who
gave what was considered by a
large majority as the best talk of
its kind ever given in this terri-
tory. His condemnation of the young
man who starts to college and ex-
pects to make it through with ath-
letic ability alone was aptly de-
scribed in his statement “don’t sell
your academic birth right for a
(mess of pottage.” Dr, Allen also
repeated his scathing statements
_|concerning football that gained the
-|headlines of the big state dailies
when it was heard several weeks ago
but went further in his talk at
:|Gaylord and stated why he con-
sidered his statements true which
.|boiled down to a few words was,
the ‘hand picking’ of athletes for),
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prowess and the furnishing of ‘soft’
jobs to keep them in school, The
interest of every person present at
the banquet was evidenced by the
absolute quiet that reigned through-
out his address as though every-
one was waiting to hear what he
would say next. Phog Allen’s many
years of experience as coach and
physical education director and his
experience vith young people have
taught him many things concern-
ing the psychology of youth and it
was an inspiration to hear him not
only to the basketball boys but the
parents and fans of each of the
schools. :!

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