The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-02-01
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all schools competing directly
in district meeting, was wash
ed over the boards some years
ago. That program only
found one tournament In each
district. 1t was a long-drawn
out affair over a period of sew
eral days with basketball the
diet, morning, noon and night.
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A revolution in the gymnasium
setup broke that setup. More
schools in the district got larger
gymnasiums, more began bidding
for the tournaments. To pass 1t
around, the areas were broken in
to sub-districts. But larger
schools to protect the final district
scrap, seeded large schools direct
ly to the district, made the little
fellows fight 1t out. . The little
fellow accepted that for while.
But he had his eye on larger act
| ivities. He wanted to cash in on
the district now and then. So a
year ago the thing broke wide open
again. Now all schools COM
pete in the sub-district.
The whole program is centered
about the one premise that each
smaller school wants to move up
the ladder farther. Now they
want to get into the regional. It's
natural and fair that they should
for a percentage of times.
Among proposals to be consider
ed are these:
One proposes division of A and
B teams by population, the former
, to include schools in towns of 1900
or over. District competition on
an A and B basis and there would
be eight teams in the regional
tourney. One winner to go to the
state, determined by winner in the
A and B matched finals.
Another proposes the same pop
ulation division but regional tour
naments under separate cover. In
that one a hodge podge of 16
teams would go to the state play
off where they would compete on
a separate basis again. That sys-
tenn provides for a completely iso-
lated setup of A and B structure
until the final round of the state
meet.
A third proposes that schools OF
300 pupils or more be in class A
and those under that enrolment
/ in class B. With no competition
against each other in district, two
winners from the district would
move to the regional. There they
would meet in the final game. One
regional winner would go to the
state meet as under the present
setup.
There are a dozen other pro-
posals, but all follow the same
vein. A and b setups, some
division according to population
or school enrolment. Some
carry the isolation Of the two
classes only to the regional,
others bear through way to the
finals. All have some merit.
But each in itself this corner
feels, is not getting at the real
seat of trouble, If trouble there
Is.
At the best it's going to be q
hard adjustment to make. hope
that smaller schools will get their
recognition they deserve so that the
percentage of times one of them
reaches the regional meet can be
raised materially. But there's
one fault in most A and B classes
That's the status of the borderline
schools. Obviously, you make
new classes. Large schools now
speaking in their relative districts
will be made smaller. Some small
schools will become large ones in
their own class. That's ser.
ious aspect. Say the division is 30C
students. How about the school
that has 298? 1t becomes a big
school in the second class; today
it's a small one in the first water
It's obviously going to change
the status of these borderline
schools. And to what extent is the
problem that should be considered
very thoroughly. -.