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TAPPING THE PARTY LINE

A, A, Schabinger, past president of this Association, and
for many years director of athletics and head coach of basketball at
Creighton University in Omaha, is now working for the National Olympic
Committee in the organization of elimination basketball tournaments to
select the representatives of the United States in this sport for the
1936 games in Berlin. His address is 654 North 57th St., Omaha, Neb.

 

E, S. Hickey, an alumnus of Creighton and formerly the head
coach of football, has taken over the basketball instruction in place
of Mr. Schabinger.

DePaul University of Chicago has enjoyed phenominal success
in basketball under the coaching of J. D. Kelly with a record of 34

 

victories in the last 35 starts. Purdue recently broke the string.

 

Coach George Keogan also has made a fine record in coaching
the basketball teams at Notre Dame University during the last 12 years
winning 189 games and losing 63 for a percentage of .750. Twenty-five
games, some of which are doubleheaders, are on this season's schedule.
With five of these already won the team has scored more than 50 points
per game.

 

Marsh Diebold-recently pitted his 1936 team against the men
of his 1933 aggregation,- a bunch which was ever—victorious. Four of
the alumni five are now coaching the game in Minnesota high schools
and several of them brought some of their players to see if their
coaches could practice their own teaching. Publicity reports gave the
result as a 37 to 37 tie. Figure that out.

 

The-Mid-West Gonference-composed of Beloit, Carleton, Coe,
Cornell, Knox, Lawrence, Monmouth, and Ripon has returned to the round
robin system of schedule after experimentation with a more loose type
which resulted in unsatisfactory arrangements for some of the teams.
Wealth of returning material gives a pre-season edge to Carleton,- Coe
and Cornell colleges. Beloit and Lawrence report that their squads
will be composed almost entirely of new players,

 

Did you ever hear of a Basketball Archer? It isa funnel-
like contraption which is attached to the top of the basket and claims
to einige the proper arch among shooters whether long or short shots
are tried.

 

Pooling of patent rights has resulted ina campaign among
manufacturers for the sale of laceless basketballs. The product has
been on the market for several years but as only one maker produced it
the others found many defects in such a ball. All such criticism now
is retracted since several of the leading manufacturers can use the
process. It would be interesting to know how many members of this
Association have adopted the Laceless ball and the reasons for their
abandonment of the laced type.

 

For nearly a decade Victor "Vic" Hurt has been coaching bas-
ketball and other sports at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee,Okla.
Last spring he resigned to help his old friend, Mattie Bell. in his
new job of coaching the football team of the Southern Methodist Uni-
versity at Dallas Texas. In their first-year the two have watched the
team take the Southwest Conference championship in such a spectacular
and convincing manner that an invitation to meet Stanford in the Rose
Bowl game was forthcoming.