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MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE

The Missouri Valley Conference schools consisting of:

Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

Oklahome A, & M,, Stillwater, Oklshoma

St, Louis University, St, Louis, Missouri

Tulsa University, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
have voted to install the new fan shape backboards, Each of the schools are mak-
ing installation during the Holiday recess,

While the double round robin schedule of the Missouri Valley Conference
has never started until the second week in Jamary in past years, Washington Uni-
versity and St. Louis University, both of St. Louis, Mo., stole a march on the ot-
her schools and had the first meeting of the year on December 20th, Washington
won in the last few seconds 32 to 31, This precedent of starting the Conference
schedule before the Holiday season will probably be carried into the Conference,
next year,

The ups and downs of basketball were clearly demonstrated in Marquette Un-
iversity's loss to Creighton 57 to 12 on Monday night, December 16th and their vic-
tory over Wisconsin University on Saturday night, December 21, by the score of 40
to 30,

In meeting the University of Nebraska, Marquette was forced to borrow all
equipment from the Nebraska Frosh team, The Marquette equipment, carried in one
trunk had ended up in Denver, Colorado instead of Lincoln, Nebraska,

Coach Harold Browne of the University of Nebraska has been called into ser-
vice. His last work with the team was the Kentucky game which Nebraska won 40 to
39, His assistant, A. J, Lewandowski will take over until his return after a year
of service for Uncle San,

Coach Carl "Rube" Hoy of the University of South Dakota, says: "Once in a
while you have a little trouble with someone who thinks they can coach the team
better than you can, I just tell them, it sure is fine, But I don't see how
they can afford to do it, They don't pay me very much and working for nothing
would be pretty tough,"

U. S, DEFENSE CAUSES CAGE LOOP TO QUIT

TULSA, Dec, 20 (AP)--The potential effect of the national defense program
_ on organized sports was emphasized today with suspension of the Missouri Valley
A. A. U. basketball league,

| The strong amateur circuit's decision to abandon operations for the 1940-
1941 season due to the nation's rearmament effort was reported by President Wil-
liam H, Miller,

Some companies supportint teams are engaged in industry essential to de-
fense, Miller said that meant that men could not be spared from their work to
play basketball, Team managers were unable to make definite plans because of the
athletes possibly being taken in the draft,