six inches} wouldn't have a chance early in the year
if we didn't get this fine conditioning in the All-
College.

"My team like most others, is made up of quite:

a few football men, and this meet is just the thing
to get them in the basketball groove, along with
regular players.

"Why, it's tailor-made for us. If we weren't in
Oklahoma City, practicing and playing hard every

day, my boys would be dismissed for holiday vaca-
tions, fatten up, miss training and it would get so we
couldn't whip our height in jack-rabbits for the first
few months.'' Seventeen other skippers echo the
sentiment.

Watch for West Texas, the All-College champs in
New York the end of this month. Those Buffs are
going to let Madison Square Garden know the
caliber of Oklahoma City's caging classic.

Sixth Annual All-College Tournament Results
Oklahoma City, Dec. 26-30, 1941

PRELIMINARY ROUND
Southeastern, Okla., 42, Springfield, Mo., 19
Baylor 64, Colorado State 44

FIRST ROUND
Oklahoma Aggies 32, Texas Christian University 25
Baylor 53, Southeastern, Okla., 38
Texas Tech 42, Washington (St. Louis) 37
Texas University 49, Oklahoma City University 32
Arkansas 44, Warrensburg, Mo., 36
West Texas State 70, East Central, Okla., 37
Southern Methodist U. 47, Colorado Mines 37
Pittsburgh, Kas., 63 New Mexico University 38

SECOND ROUND
Oklahoma Aggies 40, Baylor 29
Texas University 55, Texas Tech 45
West Texas 54, Arkansas 41
Pittsburgh, Kas., 40 Southern Methodist Univer-

sity 37
SEMIFINALS

Oklahoma Aggies 46, Texas University 38
West Texas State 57, Pittsburgh, Kas., 55

FINALS
West Texas State 37, Oklahoma Aggies, 31

 

EASTERN COACHES ACTIVE

Want Rules Makers

HE EASTERN College Basketball Coaches Asso-

ciation, organized formally a little more than a
year ago to work with and through the National
Association of Basketball Coaches to promote the
best interests of the game, met in New York on
December 29 and re-elected its first set of admin-
istrative officers for another term.

Thus the work of integrating into the national
set-up the activities of this large and enthusiastic
group based on the Atlantic seaboard states from
Virginia to Maine will be continued under the
leadership of Valentine (Dutch) Lentz, of West Point,
president; Clair F. Bee, of Long Island U., vice
president, and Everett B. Morris, secretary.

These officers will be assisted by a board of gov-
ernors comprising Blair Gullion, of Cornell; Elmer
Ripley, of Georgetown, and Ed Crotty, of Provi-
dence.

The Eastern Association came into being because
a number of coaches on this coast believed that
such an organization would serve as a means of
obtaining a clearer and more representative pic-
ture of the region's stand on problems of competi-
tive and professional interest. It would serve also
as a medium for correlating opinion on such matters
and transmitting such reactions to the national body,
the sponsors felt.

Results indicate that the Eastern group has made
considerable progress. It has a membership of more

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than 80 college coaches, many of whom were per-
suaded to join the National Association and take
an active interest in its work. It conducted last
spring a nation-wide survey of college coaching
opinion on the controversial backboard and ball
questions and it now has under study by a special
committee a plan for obtaining greater considera-
tion for the desires of college coaches in the rules-
making body.

This latter subject, of vital importance to the
profession, was the principal topic of discussion at
the December meeting. The Easterners feel strongly
that under the present organizational set-up of the
National Basketball Committee, the colleges do
not have representation in keeping with their posi-
tion in the sport. Several speakers pointed out the
difference between the functioning of the N.C.A.A.
football committee in its relations with the coaches
and the attitude which the National Basketball Com-
mittee has taken in the last two years toward recom-
mendations submitted by the National Association
of Basketball Coaches.

In the spring, before the national convention in
New Orleans, the Eastern group will hold another
meeting, go thoroughly into all phases of the sport
and make such suggestions and recommendations
as might fittingly be brought before the national
body by members who are able to make the trip.