NeCeAsks finals, we will lot it G0 ae is because there has been no decision othere afraid these pecple have seldan seen a proofs Company, and ask that proof be sent you if such @ thing is contemplatede I certainly ree you that | chi elge in shaping en article up | but Doyle is & good friond of mine and I do not believe that he will out its cee 2 i i f t received the picture of the University of Okiahana | "ct the other pictures baw been eet ino, the ple ishing conpany, and I wish you would rush this to me so that I can forward itas as possible. I wrote to Bruce Drake for this a mmber of times, but failed to «Peele ‘CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Drake UNIVERSITY Sr. Lours UNIVERSITY WASHBURN COLLEGE UNIvERSITY OF TULSA MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU DES MOINES, IOWA For reference or for release anytime. 1959-40 MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE BASKETBALL REVIEW CONFERENCE GAMES NONCONFERENCE GAMES W. 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SO.5 S742 38s) 84 75 “4528 5566 5430 86,1 34,2 BY LEIGHTON HOUSH (Des Moines, Iowa) Oklahoma A. & Me College of Stillwater, Okla., won the 1959-40 Missouri Valley Conference basketball championship without the loss of a single game, something accomplished only six times previously in the 35 years of title play. The deliberate-playing Cowboys, with more punch than usual, swept through 12 consecutive conference contests, overpowering all opposition with a 41.6-point offensive average and a 25-point defensive mark» The last time a Missouri Valley championship was won without the loss (more) WASHBURN COLLEGE CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Drake UNIVERSITY St. Louis University UNIVERSITY OF TULSA MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU DES MOINES, IOWA shu of a game was in 1932, when Creighton took eight straight. Nebraska, in 1916, with 8 and 0; Kansas State in 1919, with 9 and 0; Kansas in 1923, with 16 and O; Oklahoma in 1928, with 18 and 0, and Washington in 1929, with 7 and 0, were the other teams to turn the trick. Only two of the Oklahoma Aggiest conference games were close. At Des Moines, Drake was even with the champions with only a few minutes of play re- maining but fell, 56 to 28, before a late flurry of goals. The eight-point margin, however, was the closest any Valley team came to the flying Cowboys all seasons At Omaha, Neb», Creighton led the Oklahomans at the half, but loss of Center Asa Kelley on fouls set the Bluejays back and the Ags won by oe G0 ST. The 1940 championship was the third won undisputedly by Oklahoma A. & Me and the sixth the Punchers either have shared or won outright. It was the fifth consecutive year Oklahoma A. & Me has out in on the title pie since Henry Iba came to Stillwater in 1934-35 to take over the basketball coaching. Only in his first year did Hank fail to put his team in the championship bracket. The [ba-men roamed far and wide seeking more basketball worlds to conquer, Winning 14 of 17 conference games. Two of their three defeats were at the hands of the University of Kansas, runnerup to the University of Indiana for the national intercollegiate championship. The other loss was to Duquesne in the first round of Ned Irish's national invitational tourna- ment in Madison Square garden. The Aggies, just as they did in 1938, won consolation honors in the New York event. The Oklahoma Aggies! opener of the season was a defoat, 34 to 30, at the hands of Kansas, but from then until the Duquesne post-season defoat they were unbeatablo. After Imocking over Pittsburg, Kans, Teachers, 50 to 27, they headed east for an all-victorious five-game trip, beating City College of New York, $6 to 24; LaSalle, 33 to 16; Duke, 51 to 41; George Washington, 58 to @3, and Loyola of Chicago, 29 to 24, Back home, the Cowboys entered the Oklahoma City, Okla., All-college Tournament and for the third time in four years won the championship. On the way to the title they disposed of Texas Christian, 38 to 21; Southeastern Oklahoma, 535 to 16; Arkansas, 32 to 26, and Texas Tech, 37 to 24. Then, during the regular season, they took time off from conference play long enough to defeat Big Six opponents threc times, whipping the University of Oklahoma twice, 26 to 19 and 37 to 25, and avenging the earlier Kansas set- back, 22 to 20, Duquesne University finally stopped tho Cowboys, 34 to 30, in the Garden tournament, but they came back the following night to nose out DePaul of (more ) CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE WasHBURN COLLEGE Drake UNIVERSITY Sr. Louis UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF TULSA MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU DES MOINES, IOWA sath Chicago, Ill., 23 to 22, in the consolation. Immediately afterward they left New York, N.Ye, by airplane and managed to reach Kansas City, Moe, for the N.C eA»A. district playoff game with Kansas the next night. The Aggies, representing the Valley, and Kansas, co-champion of the Big Six, played a thrilling game before Phog Allents pupils pulled out the "rubber" decision in an overtime period, 45 to 43. The Jayhawks went on to the national finals, eliminating the Southern California "wonder team" in the western playoffs. Key man on tho crack Cowboy tcam was the Indian guard, 6-foot Z2-inch Jesse Ronick of Marictta, Okla., who won an all-conference position unani- mously for the second consecutive yoar, Big Jesse paired with another senior, 6-foot Howard (Danny) Doyle of Dale, Okla., to give Oklahoma A. & Me the greatest sot of guards in the school's history. Renick led the team in scoring while Doyle also was picked on the all-conference team. The third Aggic to make the alleconference five was Harvey Slade, senior forward from El Reno, Okla, rated the top floorman in the loop. The other starting forward usually wos a junior, Gone Smelser of Oklahoma City, Okla., but 4 sophomore, Ls J» Eggleston, saw a great deal of action and promises to become one of the greatest scorers Iba has ever coached. The fourth forward, Art Johnson, also a senior, was anothcr crack shot. Six-foot 5-inch Vern Schwertfeger, a junior college transfer from Satanta, Kone, and a letterman, Howard Francis, junior 6-foot 4-inch player, divided time at center. Jack Hopkins, Bud Millikan and Leroy Floyd were the first substitutes called upon at guard. By Winning 26 of 29 games in 1940, Iba ran. his coaching record for 18 years to 278 victories and only 61 defeats, a lifetime average of .820, an astounding mark in a game where upsets abounde Creighton University of Omaha, Nebs, wound up second with a record of cight victorics and four defeatse This mark was 2 tribute to the coaching ability of little Eddic Hickey, whose team appearcd headed for nowhere at the start of the season but which climaxod a campaign of stcady improvement by beating the foamed Kansas Ue Jayhawks, 35 to 33. Tho Jays lost twice in the conference to the champion Aggies and were upset by Washburn and Ste Louis, but beat Drake, Tulsa and Washington twice in the double round-robin. They beat Denver and Colorado State but fell before Michigan Statc twice, Iowa Statc, and Kansas Statc. Asa Kelley, center, and Vinson Roach, guard, two boys who made their sonior year.a brilliant one, led the Creighton attack, although they were helped out considerably by a junior college transfer from Kansas, Forward Brownie Jaquaye At the other forward wis the vetcran Marshall Kittleson, while & sophomore star of great promisc, Gene Haldeman, filled out at guard. Norman Engelbretson, Bob Fitzgerald, Don Floming, Gene Ziesel and Leo Scib were leading replacements. The 1940 Croighton freshmen were rated the greatest (more) CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY : OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE WasHBURN COLLEGE DRAKE UNIVERSITY St. Louis UNIvERSITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF TULSA MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU adn DES MOINES, IOWA in the school*s history, which should make the 1941 Jays very potent. Bill Williams at Drake University of Des Moines, Ia, produced his usual slick-passing, well-coached team, but lack of replacements kept the Bulldogs, who shared the title the previous year, down in third place with soven victories and five defeats. Drake lost twice to the Aggies and Creigh- ton and one to Tulsa. Two nonconference victories were scored over Grinnell and a two-game serics with Iowa State was split. Drake beat Simpson, Jowa conference champion, but lost to Illinois. On a trip into the southwest the Bulldogs lost to Maryville, Bethel, West Texas and New Mexico State twice, but beat New Mexico Ue and West Texas. Ned Swan, 6-foot 3-inch centcr from Des Moines, was Drakets outstand- ing player, Ned was ao unanimous all-conference choice, just as he was in football. He scored 117 points to lead the loop in scoring despite the fact that he was kept out of one conference game because of ineligibility. He was the first Drake player ever to top circuit scorerse Littlco Walter O'Connor, the ball-handling wizard, again starred at guard while Toky Ahronkicl, a lettorman, played good ball at forward until he was slowed down because of injuries. Russ Thomas, forward, and Jay Cox, guard, a pair of transfors, usually complcoted the starting lineup. Dale Awtry and Lowell Baal, forwards, and Buzz Beasley, guard, were the top substitutes. Washburn college of Topeka, Kane, 2 slam-bang bunch of ball players couched by Deco Errickson, finished fourth by breaking coven in 12 games, The Ichabods also managed to win four of their oight nonconference tilts, beat- ing Phillips, Morningside, McPherson and Southwestern, but losing to Emporia twice, Kansas and Wichita. Eddie Amsbaugh was tho work horse for the Kansans and ho was rewarded with a second-team place on the alleconference team. Amsbaugh had some capable help, too, principally by Jim Mackey and Little Kayo Emmot, forwards; Chuck Ostmeyer, contcr, and Ned Wall, guard. The University of Tulsa of Tulsa, Okla., had « disappointing seasone A team that sized up on paper as a championship contender faded to fifth place with five victorios in 12 starts. The Golden Hurricane won half of their 16 nonconference contests, The team beat East Central, Springfield, Independenee Junior college, Northwestern, Southwest Missouri Teachers, Okla- hom. Baptist, Oklahoma City and Lasalle, but lost to Central, East Texas Teachers, Baylor, North Texas, East Central, West Texas, Bradley Tech, and Yalo. Harry Lamprich, junior forward, was Tulsa's most consistont scorer. Howard Crow and Bob Patterson, other forwards, blew hot and cold all winter and Frank Tenney was called in to help out. Tenney also pleyed center al- though Ira Sparks usually was the starter. At guard, Clarence Ehlers wos a (more) WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE ‘Wismuen Couiese Drake UNIVERSITY St. Louis UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF TULSA MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU DES MOINES, IOWA ve Few standout, with Jack Donalson or Harry King filling in. (Coach Tex Ryon seemed unable to find the winning combination and the players were con- stantly shifted from one position to another. The two Ste Louis, Mos, membors of the conference, Washington Uni- versity and §t. Louis U., had dismal seasons, although Washington, coached by Hudson Helimich, did surprise University of Missouri carly in the cam-= paign. The two teams ticd for last place with two victorics and 10 defeats. Washington won five, lost three nonconference games while St. Louis U. took two and lost four, one of their victories boing over Centenary. Both Washington and St. Louis had ono great playor. Capt. Les Dudon~ hoefcr of the Billikens scored almost one-third of his team's confcronce points and carnod an all-conference forward berth, while Desmond Lec, Wash- ington ccnter, did almost as woll and was placed on the loop sccond team. Both were seniors. St. Louis U. has © promising sophomore, Forward Jim McDevitt, but he was lost at mid-semester because of ineligibility. Charley McCarthy (no foolin') played conter, with Beryl Carlow, Dick Brooks, Don Bandle, Jack Brady, and Leo Steitz filling out. Jack Sterrett, who coached the Billi- kens, was succocded by Bob Koenk of St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Ia. Dutch Lutz and Bud Schwenk, football stars, helped Lee out at Wash- ington with Jack Warner, Erwin Brichan, Wally MacLean, Ted Huey, John Guze- vich, and Buddy Calloway all seeing plenty of competition. 1959-40 MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE BASKETBALL RECORDS Oklahoma A. & M. CREIGHTON CONFERENCE CONFERENCE 56, Drake 28 56, Tulsa 24 ‘. 68, Creighton 27 27, Oklahoma A. & Me. 38 42, Washburn 29 59, Drake 38 59, Washington 23 21, Oklahoma A. & M. 39 59, Creighton 21 o4, Tulsa 31] oo, Sts Lowe 23 o4, St» Louis 29 56, Tulsa 24 ' €9, Drake 45 45, Washburn 21 56, Washburn 44 52, Drake 34 42, Washington 35 41, Washington 25 55, Ste Louis 43 50, St. Louis 19 42, Washburn 31 42, Tulsa 26 54, Washington 30 Totals--Won 12, Lost 0 Totals==