The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-25
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, realized the havoc Rody might cause
should he be given chance. Enda-
colt and Black played good ball while
in the game. Woesteymeyer, Beck,
Kansas substitutes looked fully as
good as the men they replaced.
The half closed 16 to IL for the
Tigers. The fans unanimously agreed
at this time that the contest belonged
to nobody
But after few minutes of play on
the second period, it was apparent
that Kansas could not stage the shoot
| ing streak necessary to win. Mis-
souri, didn't let up for a minute. Their
efforts to cage basket were fruitful,
and the Kansas forwards were handi=
capped badly, by the unwelcome at
tention paid them by Missouri's
guards
By the middle of the second half.
Kansas had evidently let down in their
| attempts to work the ball down the
| court. Rody, Endacott and Black
| were shooting from the middle of the
| floor without success.
But the Missourians were conduct
| ing themselves in a different man
ner. Bond and Browning were pivots
around which the Tiger offense
charged down the court. If a Mis-
| souri, basket was missed, two or three
Tigers caught the ball as it bounded
!
it in They We're successful several
| times.
With the score .26 to II. Kansas
Fcalled time out for q consultation.
Coach Allen sent in an entire substi-
tute team within four minutes but the
fresh men could do no more than
worry Missouri.
A huge crowd packed Robinson
! 10
supporters were scattered thru the
gymnasium and engaged in a ''raz-
zing" contest with Kansas supporters
, between the halves. Unofficial reports
say the crowd was the largest held in
the gymnasium for a basketball game
in several years.
1t was indeed a gala night for Law
renee. But the Tigers avenged the
Thanksgiving day defeat-and rubbed
it in.
The College of Emporia basketball
! team won from. Pittsburg Normals at
Emporia Tuesday night, "a to 20. The
game was rough and tumble, and
twenty fouls were called.
The basketeers coached by Bill
Bates at Southwestern defeated
Mackie's Salina Wesleyan players, SO
to Is, at Salina Tuesday night.
Maybe Purdue acted hastily in dis
| charging Lone Star" Dietz, head
coach, for putting Purdue athletics on
a professional bas:s-maybe. Dietz
received from Seattle that he had
| made money offers to high school
stars of Seattle providing they would
play football with Purdue.
But here fsNa wrench in the wheels.
Glen Carlson. an Everett Wash,
/ h n col CT Lott u,
ington university officials, denies that
| a flat offer of 500 a month was made
him by Dietz. Carlson admits, how
| ever, that Dietz informed him it was
probable that a position could be Sc
| cured for him, paying SIS a month.
but" adds Carlson, 81 was also in
| formed that if they advanced me car
fare to Purdue, it would have to be
refunded
His testimony may carry some
weight with Purdue officials who gave
Dietz the gate.
Another scintillating light in the
| 1921 football star-dom, entered the
coaching game, when Aubrey Devine,
all-American quarterback, and Iowa
Iowa and coach the freshman foot
ball squad for the 1922 season.
| Devines superb generalship. and
equally excellent individual playing
| aided the University of Iowa team
greatly in winning the Big Ten cham
pionship, and as a consequence the
university officials made a bid for his
services on the coaching end next year
The Iowa bid was not alone, how
ever.
When Harry L. williams, coach al
: the University of Minnesota, pro
nounced Devine ''the greatest football
player of all time" (probably a little
over enthusiastically the Gopher au-
thorities Immediately asked for De-
vines attention to little offer of their
own. The University of South Dakota
also evinced friendly intentions
| But Devine preferred to stay with