The Washington times., 1939-01-04
CARDED
TODETERMINE
US. CHAMPION
Play Formerly Staged
By N. Y. Writers
BY CHICK KENNY

BY CHICK KENNY
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association of which every major
college of any Importance in the
United States is member plans
a nationwide elimination basket
ball tournament to decide the
champion college quintet of the
country. The tourney will be
staged in March of this year in
either Chicago or New York.
The plan was adopted unani-
mously at the N. C. A. A. meeting
in Chicago and was revealed today
by Geary "Swede" Eppley, direc-
tor of athletics of the University
of Maryland, who attended the
confab.
NATIONAL TOURNEY
According to the plans" the
Terp director reported the
National Collegiate Athletic AS
socition will stage tournaments
in each of its eight districts and
then, after these sectional cham
pions have been crowned, will
hold national tourney in either
Chicago or New York. H. G.
Olsen, coach of the Ohio State
basketball team, has been ap-
pointed chairman of the tourna-
ment committee. This means
that the winner of District |,
comprising New England; Dis
trict 2, the Middle Atlantic
States; District 3, the Southern
States; District 4, the Midwest
section, and so on, will represent
each district with a champion
ship team"
Eppley was asked about the
basketball tournament, now spon-
sored in New York by the Basket
ball Writers Association and which
proved huge success last year.
He said the writer's had agreed to
back down and permit the N. c.
A. A. to run the event.
Already the writer's group has
announced that it's tournament
would be staged in Madison Square
Garden, March 13, Is, Is, and II.
Details concerning the project
were sent to all Observation-Disclosures
colleges in the United States some
time ago.
However, it is hard to visualize
the success of such a tournament
conducted by the N.C.A.A. method
by playing according to districts.
1t Is generally conceded that the
best team among the New Eng
land colleges, which make up Dis
trlct l, could not stand a show
against at least 20 teams in Dis
trict 2 and District 4. New York
and Pennsylvania comprise Dis
trlct 2, while District 4 takes in
the finest basketball territory Of
the Nation-the Midwest. The
New England section as far as
basketball is concerned, does not
take the floor sport seriously. It
is ice hockey that carries the
freight as well as the interest in
tnat district during the winter
months
HUGE SUCCESS
1t seems logical and has been
proven such that the process of
arranging for representatives in a
national college basketball tour
nament should be the same as
that used by the Writer'S Asso.
citation last year.
The leading college quintets OF
the nation were closely followed
throughout the campaign. Visit.
ing college coaches were asked
in their opinion, the ranking
teams in their respective section.
After careful analysis of team
records, Long Island u, New York
U. and Temple were selected
From the East. Oklahoma A. and
M. were selected from the South
west; Bradley Tech from the
Midwest and Colorado University
from the Rocky Mountain sector,
The Pacific Coast was not con.
Sidered.
AS a result the tournament
proved keen success its first
year of inception. This process
of selecting teams to competa
this year had been planned again
by the writer's.
Regardless of the manner in
which the tournament is con
Quoted, the Maryland University
director thinks it's a swell" idea