Cox May Eliminate
His Coachs Team

Another of those student-vs.-coach situations may arise in the
N. C. A. A. Western Divisional Basketball Tournament, which
opens at the Municipal Auditorium Friday night, if the pairings
make it so. . . The Colorado Buffaloes, winners of the recent Na-
tional Invitational Tournament at New York, are coached by
Frosty Cox . . . Cox formerly‘ ;,
played at Kansas University, an-
other team in the tournament,
under Dr. F. C. Allen, present
coach , . . Cox even acted as
Allen’s assistant coach and should
know the crafty mentor’s moves
by heart.

 

Uses Kansas Boys

Too, Cox hasn’t entirely re-
lied on Colorado material for
his team which, incidentally,
won its third straight Rocky
Mountain title this season...
Six of the’ Buffalo team
hail from the Sunflower
State . . . Gene Grove and
Bill Gates are from Hutchin-
son, Paul Schmidt and Lea-
son McCloud come from
Newton, George Hamburg is
from Beloit and Jack Harvey
from Frankfort.

The Buffaloes haven’t trailed
at the half in any game this
season . *. . They haven’t done
badly, either, losing that lead in
only two in 19 contests.

Holds Fouls Down

Ralph Vaughn, All-America
star of the Southern Cali-
fornia team, which is an-
other of the teams in -the
tournament, committed only
13 fouls in 24 conference
games during 1938 and 1939
. . . Vaughn also connected
for 36 points in one game
in 1939 <°..... .Coach ‘Sam
Berry, of U.S.C., has tutored
four All-America basketball
players.

 

 

 

 

Rice should be tops in basket-
ball circles for some time yet
to come . . . Levi Craddock, 6-
foot 4-inch forward, is the only
senior on the team . . . Bob
Kinney, scoring leader on the
team, is only a sophomore and
is but 18 years old . .. Rice
finished the season with a T-
man squad and is reportedly
bringing only nine: players to
the tournament.

 

 

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Scoring Leader on Rice Quintet—

Frank Carswell, All-Southwest Conference guard for the last
two years, will be one of the stars on the Rice Institute basket-
ball team which will play in the N. C. A. A. Western Divisional
Tournament at the Municipal Auditorium Friday and Satur-
day. Carswell counted 283 points this season as the Owl won 21
games while losing only 3.