The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
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Heels Are Heroes

Heels Are Heroes
NEW YORK, Jan. 5-LR-Hav'
ing completed most of its early
season roaming around the coun-
try, college basketball settles down
during this week to conference
campaigns.
All major groups, from the Pa
cific Coast conference to the East
ern intercollegiate league, begin
the battle for championships, TAX
ing over the spotlight from the in
tra-league tussles and the meet
ings with independents
These latter affairs had a big
fling last night, however, and
wound up by ending such vaunted
winning streaks as boasted by
Long Island (nine in a row. and
Panzer of New Jersey IA in a
row over three-year period. On
the other hand, Seton Hall, another
Jersey school, stretched its string
to 80 straight by walloping Illinois
Wesleyan 1926, Villanova made it
ten straight by trouncing Detroit
1887, and Iowa State, preseason
favorite in the Big Six campaign,
passed its seventh consecutive hur'
die by downing Drake $3.50.
! The biggest upset of the Madi-
son Square Garden season h e
saw Long Island suffer from an
attack of "overconfidence-itis' and
lose to fighting Michigan State
quintet 1926. This left only New
York university's hot-and-cold Vio-
lets to uphold Pa Knickerbocker' S
annual reputation. Panzer, unbeat-
en- since December, 1887, dropped
close one, 43-40, to John Mar
shall.
By conferences, the picture
looked something like this:
Eastern intercollegiate league
Columbia and Dartmouth finished
their pre-conference competition
by downing Brown 1896 and Ro-
chester 1926, respectively, but
Princeton's Touring Tigers wer e
handed a 1923 setback by North
western. Getting the league race
under way, Cornell tangles with
Yale and Dartmouth meets Har-
ward Friday. Columbia entertains
Navy, and Harvard and Princeton
meet Army during the week in non
conference affairs.
In other parts of the east, Ford
ham nipped North Carolina 42-41
last night to the accompaniment
of 'boos'' from Madison Square
Gardens customers for a late foul
called against the Tarheels, and
City College Of New York handed
Springfield its fourth straight set
back, 44-37.
Big Ten-John Kotz, with 13
points, helped Wisconsin to 46-31
win over Nebraska; Northwestern,
downing Princeton, ran its pre-con-
ference campaign record to four
wins in five outings; Minnesota
mauled Montana 1898 and Chicago
came from behind to trounce Mar
quette 1923.
Big Six-With Iowa State show
ing the way, conference tie a m S
turned in a record of 10 wins and
18 losses against non-conference
teams. Conference struggle begins
with four games this week, chief
Of which finds those old rivals,
Kansas and Oklahoma, tangling on
Wednesday.
Chief Of the independents in the
midwest, Notre Dame had to go
all out to take 48-47 decision
from Kentucky squad on which
ten players were suffering fr m
colds or influenza.
Southern conference - u games
this week, with North Carolina
opening defense of the crown
against Washington and Lee Fri
day. The Carolinians left Madison
Square Garden last night, beaten
by point, but definitely the he
roes with the crowd.
In other Dixie doings, indepen-
dent Virginia whipped Tennessee
41-30 for its first start Of the sea-
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