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IOWA STATE COLLEGE
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James Henderson

IOWA STATS COLLEGE BASKETBALL - 1939

Member of Big Six Conference Team Name - Cyclones
Colors = Cardinal and Gold Enrollment - 6,100

Coaching Staff

Louis % Menze, Head Coach Ray Donels, Freshman Coach
LeRoy Timm, Assistant Coach Beryl Taylor, Trainer

SCHEDULS FOR 1958-359

(With scores of last year; Iowa State scores first)

Dec, 5 = Cornell at Ames (26-28) Jan. 28 - Kansas At Ames (23-31)

Dec, 10 - State Teachers at Cedar Jan. 28 = Creighton at Omaha
Falls (30-26) Jan, 30 - Nebraska at Lincoln (23-

Dec. 12 = Grinnell at Ames (28-26) 50)

Dec. 17 = Drake at Ames Feb. 4 - Missouri at Ames (38-35)

Dec. 31 -— State Teachers at Auies Feb, 11 =- Kansas State at Manhattan

(35-28) (29-51)

Jan. 7 « Kansas State at Ames (41-30) Feb. 18 - Oklahoma at Norman

Jan. 9 + Missouri at Columbia (34-43). ~- — (29~4.6 )

Jan. 16 ~ Oklahoma at Ames (32-35) Feb. 20- Kansas At Lawrence (18-31)

Jan. 18 = Drake at Des Moines , Feb. 27 = Nebraska at Ames (32-35)

THE PROSP=ICTS

Iowa State has its strongest, best-balanced squad in many years.
The Cyclone first team is going to be taller and more experienced than
the 1938 quintet, bv far the smallest in the Big Gix. The promising
sophomores of last season are juniors now, fully seasoned in Big Six
play. They showed flashes of smooth play a year ago, but they were
just too small and green to hold their own 40 minutes a game against
some of the top teams in the Midwest. The sophomores arc much taller
than usual and aid in giving Iowa State a squad of 16 capable men.

COACH LOUIS MINZE

Menze enme to lown St te from Central High School in Kansas City,
Mo. in the fall of 1928 and coached his first Cyclone basketball five
in the winter of 1929, first season of the Big Six conference. A
graduate of “larrensburg (Mo.) State Teaehers College where he played
basketball under Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen, now at Kansas, Menze compiled
an enviable coaching record in Kansas City prep school circles.

Menze is freshman baseball coach and varsity football end:cosach.
He has developed such star cagers as Jack Fleming, Jack Roadcap,
Torvald Holmes, Vvaldo Wegner, Bob Blahnik and Lester Lande. His 1935
Cyclone quintet broke Kansas' long reign as Big Six champions.