The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-10
EASY FOR N. D. AGGIES
NORMAL PLAYS DESPERATELY,
But POWERLESS AGAINST
BRILLIANT FLICKERTAILS.

lege basket ball team demonstrated
at the Normal gymnasium last night
the how and the why for its winning
the championship of their state last
season by outclassing the lighter
Madison Normal five in a fast. clean.
runaway match. The score was SO
to 5.
Normal fought hard. but the i'm
pregnable defense, superior weight,
brilliant floor work and superb shoot
ing of the Aggies proved too much
of an obstacle TO combat and their
ease and pep"
1t was simply a case of class"
against average basket ball and
class won easily as il always does
whether il is i'm a horse race or in
any other sport. The Aggies passed
with the ease. grace and abandon OF
French dancing masters. shot from
all angles and positions. and the
scores came i'm so fast that had an
adding machine been used to keep
tab the rapidity of the scoring would
have ground it into emery dust.
Coach Wagner's men fought with
the desperation OF bulldogs. but the
Aggies were so vastly superior in all
departments of the game that ten
minutes after Referee Artichoker's
whistle blew, IL was only a question
as to how large the cor would be.
The five points Normal got were from
two long shots by Furnstahl and Golf
the Aggie defense being as adamant
as that of the French at Verdun when
the Normals penetrated into the legit-
innate scoring zone.
The Flickertails excelled particu-
larry at long range basket shooting.
The shots were clean. too. few of
them even grazing the rim. Superb
team play carried the oval TO the
Normal goal countless times and only
the missing of many easy shots right
under the net saved the gold and
white from a worse rout
The large crowd. however. was
treated to a real exhibit of basket
ball, the North Dakotans being easily
the best team appearing on the Nor
mall court since Madison was a from
tier town. They played easily,
seemingly without effort. and the
Normals were buried under an ava
lanche of field goals. The scarlet
and gray players seemed to score al
will and they showed such a symptom
nearly every other ten seconds.
Brorby and Case were the shining
lights for the Normals. but they. too
were weaklings against the powerful
Aggie attack, their good work, how
ever, aiding materially in keeping thu
score down. Normal did not expect
TO win in the first place. but hardly
expected to be the victim of a NINA
ture battle of Bull Run.
The whole team fought desperate
ly. aggressively. fiercely. but its com
bined effort was as useless as
baby's hammer against the rock o
Gibraltar. Its best efforts Were pow
erless against the 90 per cent pure
team play OF the Flickertaiis.
Referee Artichoker. former Has
kell Institute football and basket bal
star. and now coach at the Flandrea,
Indian school. gave perfect satisfac
ton with his officiating and demon
strated to the crowd that a baske
ball game can be devoid of rough
play, and al the same time be inter
esting. when handled as the rule
call for.
After the rou the North Dakoti
players and their coach were enter
tanned at a dance and reception at tn
gymnasium which the Normal stu
dents gave in their honor. They lief
this morning for Huron, where the,
play Huron college tonight. Monda,
and Tuesday they play the South Da
kota Aggies at Brookings.
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