Howard Ortner
Cornell University

Basketball in the astern Intercollegiate Learue gives promise of more
interesting faies than we hive had for years due orimarily to the fact that about
six of the seven teaus are very evenly matched. Dartmouth, for example, has
playec three home games in eight days aad every game wus decided in the last
minute of vtlay, two in the last twenty seconds. The lengue has swung baci: from
the original two-man officinl system and while there is the customary kicking about
officials, one cannot accuse the league officiuls of too many technical, decisions,

Harvard, the new entry into the league under ties Fessler is having a
bit of difficulty in setting started; it may take them u yeur or two to get int-
erested in the game: but the writer velieves they will sive plenty of opposition
before long, and »xrobably this year. Capacity crowds ure attending all games
and it may not be long before ull the Universities will have to have special
field houses for the ganes, In less than trelve years, five of the six teams have
moved fron gymnasiums to courts where there is a larrer seating cavacity. The
public is taking the game more seriously each yeur. a few good basketball news-
paver men in the East similiar to ..lison Danzig and Grantland Rice for football
would be one of the greatest things for the fame in the east..

Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, and Pennsylvania all have veteran teams,

Cornell and Colundia have several sophomores mingled among soe veterans and. if
they seuson fast they may unset sone of the dove. ,

Colgate, Syracuse, the New York Conference, Nev York City and New En¢e-
land are having a big.boonm in basketball interest and crowds... City. College
of New York may play Notre Dene in tiacdison Square Garden for charity.. This will
draw probably the largest crowd to attend «a basketball game in New York..

| San Barry is
University of So. California.

The Pacific Coust Conference ovened last weex with Soutnern California
playing California at Berkeley and “tanford playing U.C,Lea. at Los angeles. Cal-
ifornia won the first game by a score of 36-30 and the Trojans cane back on Sat-
urday night to win by 4 lop-sided score of 49-19,

at Los angeles somewhat the same situation took place with Stanford
beating U.C.LeA. 46-25 on Friday night and losing 32-31 Saturday., The opening -
round of our Conference shows conservatively that the teams sure evenly matched
this year where heretofore Californisx and Soutnern Culifornia have fought it out
for first place for a period of the last five years, while Stanford and U.C.L.a.
will have something to say about the race, and it looks like the pennant will go
to any one of the four at the oresent writing. The attendance at the game at
Berkeley was ?, 500 with more than 5,000 being turned aw:y, while in Los angeles
the crowd was smaller with ao reximately 4,000, | '

Statistics so far this year have shown that basket ball is increasing
in oooularity more ‘than uny other intercollegiate. soort. Of course, the seasons
are shorter than those of the ‘liddle West or East but with the increased interest
we believe that the. —— will be on a par with other sections of the country in
a year or two.

B. T. Grover:
‘Ohio University

Prominent ahong tie midwestern college circuits are ‘the activities of
the Buckeye Intercollegiate athletic Conference, which includes in its membership
six institutions, each maintaining a well equinzed. athletic organization.

In order that the highest type of intercollegiate athletic competition
could be developed, this bod: was organized on June 2, 1928, by reoresentatives
of faculty and athletic departments from Ohio University, . Ohio Wesleyan, Miami,
Wittenberg, Cincinnati, and Vennison. Of this group, Ohio Wesleyan, Ohio Uni-

versity, Miami, and Cincinnati ‘have retained . their original meabersaip.. witten-
berg has twice left the league and Marshall College of DE ne Nie — has
replaced Denison.

‘The old Buckeye association was first scanaianih in 1925 as an org-
anization within the Ohio Buckeye Conference and competition was carried on with
colleges of the association until the fall of 1928. Since its organization, a.
greater feeling of co-operation, friendship, courtesy, and sportsmanship has been
develoved and maintained by teams and student bodies of member schools.

The Conference has taken definite forward steps in fostering athletic
interests of constituent colleges and universities, including the setting up of .
scholastic standards for athletic participation, the determining of eligibility
regulations, the forming of. schedules, the suvervising of contests, and the stand-
ardizing of awards for athletic co:nvetition..

Winners of the basket ball title in the Bodese since 1925-26 are:
Cincinnati,1926; Denison,1928; Cincinnati, 1928; Ohio “esleyan and Cincinnati,1929;
Q9hio Vesleyan and Cincinnati, 1930; Ohio University, 1931; DePauw,1932; Ohio Suiver-
sity and Vittenberg;19335.

Ohio University pluced two men on the’ all-Buckeye team last year,
while Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, and iarshall were eac* awarded one position.
Sommetition seems. to be getting more difficult each season, with the caliber of
courtmen plasing in the league consistently imoroving.