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SKETCH OF COACH GEORGE EDWARDS

As he begins his seventeenth year as coach of basketball at the
University of Missouri, George R. Edwards is attaining nationwide re-
cognition as one of the ablest administrators in the game.

For the past two years he has besn director of the Western NeCe
A.A. playoffs in Kansas City and also directed the national finals in
Kansas City. His work has besn so satisfactory in that respect that
he has been named to dirsct the Western and National N.C.A.A. finals
agein in 1943.

Edwards is also a member of th: National Basketball Committee of
the United States and Canada, representing the Fifth District. This
committee has complete control over the rules under which collegiate
basketball is playsd. He is also a member of the research committee
of the National Basketball Coaches Association now working on game
administration and gamc equipment. Coach Edwards was president of the
National Basketball Coaches Association in 1938.

At Missouri, Hdwardst record has been blighted by periods of poor
material, but he has usually kept his club in the first division of
the Big Six Conference, which is high in basketball prestige. Last
year, the team finished in last place for the second time in Edwards’
coaching career. In 1930, Missouri won ths Big Six titie and finished
in first place ties in both 1939 and 1940. Only Kansas, the dominant
power in ths league since its organization, has won more titles than
the Missouri Tigerse .

‘Edwards was a basketball star at Missouri back in 1911, 1912, and
1913, and captained the team in his senior year.’ He played high schoo-
basketball at Central High School in Kansas City, where he also par-
ticipated in other sports. Upon graduation from Missouri, Edwards im-
mediately went into coaching and has been following it ever since.

He first coached ail sports at Salina, Kansas, High School, and
after three years there, became a college coach, taking’ over Kansas
Wesleyan at Salinae In 1918, he moved back to his home, Kansas City,
Moe, and became coach of all sports at Westport High Schoole His re-~
cord there was outstanding, and in 1926 he was made coach of basket-
ball at the University of Missouri.

Edwards has directed both good-teams and bad, as is the case with
most coaches over a osriod of years, but always he’has commanded the
respect of his players. He is a prograssive coach, one of the first
to acclaim the fan-shapad backboards put into use two years ago. His
coaching policy is to give every player a complete chances and then try
to develop what ability is shown,

SKETCH OF FRESHMAN COACH HERBERT GREGG

Like Coach Edwards, Herbert Gregg was a former Tiger star in the
cage:game. Gregg, who will not get his degree in Education until
June, and is coaching for the first tims, played under Edwards in’
1940, 1941, and 1942. Last yoar Gregg was co-captain of the team,
along with Loren Millse