The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-14


Clearly outclassing their opponents
the agricultural college basketball
quint won the greatest vIctory of the
season, defeating the university al
Grand Forks 10 to IL Saturday even
ing in game played at the varsity
gym. The fact that the 'U" scored
just one field basket during the entire
game, will live long in the aggies sport
history; 1t will be one of the legends
handed down from year to year to be
worked into song and rhyme.
Grand Forks Version.
The varsity version OF the game was
presented in yesterday mornings
Grand Foreis Herald as follows:
Putting, up hard fight for victory
from beginning to end and playing
against a Ave that outclassed them in
team work, the university five was de-
feated last night by the Fargo A. G.
quint, 1917. The game was undoubt-
edly one of the hardest fought con-
tests ever witnessed in this city. and
the fact that there were very few
goals made from field shows how well
each man worked in guarding his op-
pCAAEilts I1du 1t UOL. Deen Tot the GX-
cellent work of Farnham in negotiat-
ing free throws. the university team
would have been defeated by a much
larger margin, as their team work was
not of the score making variety. On
the other hand, the A. C. team had
hard work in tossing goals from the
field, obtaining only FIVE during the
entire contest. About twelve minutes
of the first half had passed before a
goal from field was scored by Haskins
of the A. c.. The university was sue
cessful in negotiating only one field
basket. it being made late in the game
by Sagen.
A Questionable Rulina.
There is a question in the minds of
a great many OF those who witnessed
last nights contest whether the uni
versity was defeated or not. With but
one minute and seventeen seconds left
TO play. Coach Dunlap sent Thexton i'm
to take Harper's place and the latter
to replace Sagen at center. At this
point in the game Referee Scott was
just putting the ball into play. Thex-
ton did not reach him In time to re-
port before the ball was put into play,
and consequently Scott blew his
whistle to call stop in the proceed
ings. At almost identically the. same
time Farnham tossed a basket, which,
had it been allowed, would have tied
the. score. Referee Scott refused to al
low the basket. The only question
which no one, not even the
referee himself. is prepared to answer
without having some doubts on the
matter-is, did the referees whistle
blow before the ball was in the air?
After the game Referee Scott stated
that he based his ruling on section 20
of rule IL, which states that if it
becomes necessary for any reason to
change players the referee may, upon
notice from the captain, call time
for the substitution; providing the
scorer has been notified and the new
player is ready to start at once"
After careful perusal of Spaldings
official basketball guide, you will find
no bearing of the above rule on the
decision made by Referee Scott. The
question now arises, did Thexton
commit a foul by going onto the floor
to notify the referee OF his intention
of entering the game? The rule says
section 3 may be applied when nee
essary. but section deals only with
delaying the game, and there was no
attempt pit that in Thexton's action.
There Isl Sothing in the rule book to
say THAI he committed foul by re-