The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
TEACHERS TROUNCED NEW
MEXIC0'S TWO FASTEST
B. B. SQUADS LAST WEEK

Teachers college varsity basket ball
squad added another brace Of VIC
tories to its already long list, giving
, it Ia wins in Is starts.
Both opposing teams were strong.
Phoenix Junior college fell 45-34,
and Normal University of East Las
Vegas, N. NJ, the squad to which be-
longs the honor of handing the local
Teachers their first defeat, in Las
Vegas, week before last, fell Satur-
day night, 25-23.
Following three more games here,
this week, Teachers varsity squad
will rest until the state tournament
in Phoenix. The opponents scheduled
for this week are: Wednesday night,
University of New Mexico, tonight
and tomorrow night Tempe Teachers
college. The locals have defeated each
of these teams this season.
A peculiar and manifestly unfair
condition obtains regarding the
awarding of state college basketball
championships.
While Flagstaff has beaten every
other state team this year in every
game played against state teams,
and even though it should again de-
feat Tempe this week that does not
decide the state championship.
The state honOrS are awarded-ir-
respective of performances up to the
beginning of the tournament-to the
squad winning the tournament.
1t is possible for Flagstaff with
admittedly the best team in the bunch,
to get the worst of the breaks in
the tournament. These tournaments
are always played in the Salt River
Valley, admittedly purely as busi-
ness proposition, with Salt River
valley officials and Salt River valley
rooters in great majority. This turns
the edge against the visiting teams.
Moreover it is unfair to the other
cities in the conference. Flagstaff
always loses money in sending its
squad so far away to play and never
has opportunity to get any of it
back by having the tournament here.
Flagstaff Teachers college theor-
etically has won the basket ball
championship of the state. But some
other school may be acclaimed
champion as result of the tourna-
ment.
Comfortably Beat p. ]. c.
Phoenix Junior college appeared
on the court with determination
to get revenge for the defeat re-
ceived earlier in the season at the
hands of Flagstaff but Flagstaff
took the lead at the tip-off and held
it until the end of the half when a
long shot by Phoenix tied the score
24-24. Phoenix made two baskets at
the start of the last half and jumped
in the lead but Flagstaff came back
with a rally and began to shoot
field goals from every angle.
When the game ended Flagstaff
had increased its lead to a comfort
able margin and Phoenix brought up
the rear. Score 45-34.
Detloff, Flagstaff center was high
point man, having seven field goals
and four free throws. Wilson was
next high Flagstaff man with sew
en- field goals and one free throw.
Huff, the towering Phoenix forward
made the majority of points for his
team. scoring eight field goals and
one free throw. Huff's stuff was
solved in the third quarter and the
Flagstaff guards, Kieren and Me-
Clure, kept him so, well guarded in
the last quarter that he was unable
to score.
Narrow Win Over N. M. Normal
Flagstaff took the lead at the
start of the game with the Normal
university of East Las Vegas, but
the game was anybody's game un-
til the final whistle at the close of
the extra five minute period neces-
sary to play off the 1928 tie score
at the end of the. game. Schlansky
was forced out of the game early
in the second half on account of in
iuries. In the extra period he was
sent back in and the basket he made
was responsible for the victory OF
his team, 25-23.
Detloff was again high point man,
having four field goals and two free
throws, while Wilson was second
with three field goals and two free
throws. Hargrove was responsible
for Is points of the total Of % made
by the New Mexico boys.