The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-02-24
STATE HONORS GO
To JACK RABBITS
STATE COLLEGE WINS BASKET.
BALL CHAMPIONSHIP BY
LARGE SCORES
UNIVERSITY IS ENTIRELY OUTCLASSEO
Coach Vests WhirIwind Machine
Routs Coyotes 40 to IA
In Two Tits.

State championship laurels now rest
gracefully upon the greatest basket.
ball team that ever represented State
college as a result of W. crushing
defeats administered to the State uni
VerSity team upon the armory floor
last Thursday and Friday which put
an emphatic quietus on any aspirations
which that school had toward cham
pionship honors. The score in both
games by an unusual coincident, was
the same, 40 to II. These are the
largest score State has made against
any opponent this year. No team in
South Dakota has been able to cope
successfully with the marvellous ma
chine which Coach West has built up
this season around that star vertean,
Captain Eugene Carey.
In the two games played with the
Coyotes last week, State outplayed
the visitors at all stages of the game.
The almost total inability of the uni
versity to score was at times pitiful
to the spectators. State was in pos
session of the ball more than three
fourths Of the time and points were
accumulated at the rate of one a min
ute. The visitors scored but six goals
from the field in the two games. Coach
Vests squad scored at will and every
man on the State lineup scored points
from the field in the course of the two
games.
Stellar basket shooting on the part
of Captain Carey was the feature OF
the contests. In the first game Carey
made eight free throws out of eight
attempts. He made more than one
half of the total points. AS another
feature vas the remarkable playing
of Thompson, the big guard for State,
who will be a unanimous all-state
choice this season. In the first game
he scored more field goals than any
other player on the team. On defense,
Thompson is a bulwark that few play
ers can penetrate.
Thune at center for State, was an
other big point getter. Thune got
every ball at the tip off away from
Harlow, the university center, and
State worked many plays from center
for baskets without the Coyotes once
touching the ball. Willadsen and
Johnson were the other two important
cogs in the State machine and besides
playing the floor we'll succeeded in
finding the hoop in several spectacu-
lar long shots. Patterson and Burn
side saw action in both games and
played well.
With the South Dakota champion
ship safely won and put away, Coach
West is out looking for new fields to
conquer. Negotiations are under way
for games with Carleton college, cham.
pions Of Minnesota, and Des MOines
college, champions of Iowa. The Of
fetal season for State college, how
ever, ended with the two-game series
with the university last week.
After the game Friday night the
student body held a big celebration
and bonfire. The Pleasant Hour the
alter was raided and a large number
celebrated by witnessing the high
priced movie show being shown at that
place, without the formality of payine
admission.
The members of the university squad
and their mentor, Coach Stewart.
spoke highly of the cOrdiality and hos
pitality of State college during their
stay in Bookings. Friday morning
he visitors were shown about the co..
lege by a member of the faculty who
pointed out the points of interest.
They We're also guests of the college
at lunch.
Coach Howard Wood, athletic di-
rector Of Sioux Falls school. refereed
both games. Mr.. Wood is probably
the best qualified basketball official in
the state and he oficiated well at these
two games.
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