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INDIANA RUNS IOWA GROGGY
By W.°?, Fox, dr.

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES,--Bloomington, Ind., Feb, 11.--Rollie Williams, basketball
coach at the University of Iowa, sat on a bench in the dressing room down here
last night with a scorebook spread out across his lap, He was scanning the
fieures for the first half of a game which went to Indiana, 50 to 40, The score
at the half was 23 to 9, The score with less than four minutes of the first
half left was 18 to 4,

This Mr, Williams played his basketball at Wisconsin under Dr, Walter E,
Meanwell., The doctor's plan was to pass, pivot and block, The center jump was
in good standing then, The game was slower, Big boys came in pretty handy, and
they didn't have to be racehorses,

Power plays counted, Fast breaks were broken up with something more than
speed and interception, The kid who came down the floor all aflutter and went
high into the air to shoot was apt to land in the brass section of the band,

Looked Good at Start,

Towa looked like a good basketball team for five minutes; Iowa had 2 tall
men and 3 short ones, The short ones were fast; the tall ones clever, But In-
diana had five pretty tall boys, five boys who might have been on Billy Hayes's
cross-country team, if not on his track team in the dash department.

Iowa, on offense, played three men in and two men out. When Indiana broke
the Hoosiers had three and two situations so often Iowa was just plain left be-
hind, The grind began to tell. The Hawkeyes ran out of gas, sputtered and when
bumped the least bit tumbled over, grogey.

Indiana rebounded the pants off the visitors, and that may have been the
reason Uncle Rollie Williams looked up from his book when some one asked him
what could be done about this free-scoring game today and said, "Eliminate the
backboards," |

 

Would Ban Dribble,

Just the other day Stanley Feezle said he thought it would be a good idea
to allow only one bounce, Eliminate the dribble. George Keogan thinks the ten-
second and three-second rules are silly, Piggy Lambert does, too, John Schom-
mer, the whistler, says, "The people are still pouring in, aren't they?"

Towa didn't hit when it really counted, Iowa doesn't have a senior on
the squad, Pigsy said they'd be tough at home, The Purdue strategist thought
the game would have been much different if Iowa had hit a few shots early in the
game, Rollie Williams thought Indiana had a houseful of beautiful basketball
players,

Few teams have the stamina Indiana shows, and when the shooting is over
this season it may be that ability to hang in there and run like the wind for

forty minutes that will bring to the Hoosiers their first undisputed Big Ten

title,

 

THE LAMBERT WALK OF BASKETBALL

Out on a highway one evening over a cup of cream of mushroom soup, while
awaiting a choice slab of cow, a little fellow squirmed in his seat and tried
to make something plain to me, In a way he succeeded and if I can get it over
to you you won't have to listen to a lot of Big Ten basketball scouts who say
Purdue has no system,