The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-02

WlSSOula nign SCHOOL VIII UNI
Beat the Aggies is the slogan at the
university today. Tonight tse Bruins
will meet the Aggics in the first of
the state basketball championship Sc
lics, and they will go into the contest
determined TO do or to die. If fight
will win, the Aggies will go back to
Bozeman with two defeats chalkcd up
against them, but the battles will be
desperate. Coach Bcnnion of the Ag
gics is bringing over what is said to
be the best team that has ever repre-
scented the Aggies on the basketball
court.
Coach Nisscn says that he does not
expect the Bruins to win, but he is con-
fident that they will give the Aggies
the battle of their lives.
Big Bentz Gone.
The 1917 Bruin basketball team has
met with more hard luck in the way
of losing players than is the lot of the
average college team in five years. The
latest loss to the quint is that of Chris
Bentz, the gigantic center, who was
counted on as sure to keep Husk Rice
covered. Bent. has left school and his
place will be taken by Claude Nc
Quarrie, the husky center of last years
Bruin quint. The rest of the lineup
will probably be the same as in the
games against the University of Idaho.
When the two teams line up against
each other tonight there will be only
one man. Rice Of the Aggies, who has
never played in a Bruin- Aggie game
before. Ross. Bergman and Burgess Of
the state college squad were substi-
tutes two years ago when the Aggies
played the Bruins. while none OF the
university players have been with the
team more than one year previous to ,
this season.
The last game of basketball played
between the Bruins and the Aggies was
really the cause of athletic relations
being severed by the two state insti-
tutions, and it took over Il year to
patch up the relations to such degree
that the two schools We're able to re-
sumo athletic contests.
The Last Home Game.
In 1915 the Bruins and Aggies each
won one game in the state champion
ship series. The first game was played
in Missoula, the Bruins winning, SO to
25, after u terrific contest. Phil Sher-
ldan played at center against Wilcomb
OF the A@sies. and cludcd that lanky
gent frequently, registering six field
goals. while Max Flint scored four and
Ribs Robertson three. Sam Crawford,
captain of the Bruins that season, con-
tributed seven points on free throws.
For the Aggics Cotncr did most of
the scoring. making 10 points. This
: WAS the game in which Romncy shot
three field goals in the first minute
he was in the game, though after that
first flood of goals he was unable to
get away from Cummins guarding
long enough to get even a good look
at the basket. 1t must be said for
OFT Iomncy, that though he was badly
punished throughout the game. he
never "himpered and showed up as u
true blue sport all the way.
Licked in Bozeman.
The university was licked" as .Jcr-
~ Nisscn says, not beaten, at Bozc-
man, in the second game of the SC
fics. With five minutes to play in
this game the Bruins had q one point
lead, but two field goals in the final
minutes gave the Agsics the game,
% to -. Romney starred for the Ag-
sies in this game, shooting five field
goals, while Robertson and Cunmins
with four baskets each, showed up best
for the Bruins.
Scores of Aggie- Bruin games in
years past, follows;
l9l5-University, SO; Aggies, 25.
University, 81 Aggies, 90