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Florida, Knoxville, Tuskegee, Clark To Be
1912 Tournament Seeded Teams; Ridley,
Holden, Haines, Warner Leading Scorers


THE 1912 RE-ToURNAMENT basketball race wound
up with first division clubs and eight second dvsoners
Of the first six, exactly four teams Florida Knoxville Tus
egee and Clark that order will receive the seeded spots
the ninth annual STAG tournament drawings Wednesday
night in Logan gym.
Although first DIVISION s. c. State and Morris Brow
fell outside the seeded list doing what is technically called
rurninr Wild i'm the brackets alng with such pO entail
stumbling hccls Xavier MOreh0use Re edc and Fisk
all of boast at least outstanding UPSET against some
highly rated upperdog.
This year to date, Florida has 13 loop games and
lost only two but of the victories S. c. State does
not in the standings. Tuskegee boasts win Le
Moyne in Memphis and Alabama State in Brming
ham which do not count Xavier had win Knoxville
that does not get recognition in the standings and also had
over LeMoyne which goes out.
The provisions governing the visitation pre-tOmna-
ment championship that to qualify for TIE title the gv'n
team must play at least 12 conference In home and
home series where clubs play each other twice. only the first
game in the set counts in the STAG standings.
The 3429 win by Florida at S. c. State the 1926 win
by Xavier in Knoxville Tuskegees 4337 win over Ioyne
in Memphis and Xavier 1855 triumph LIE Moyne in
New Orleans second contests in home-and-home
res. Tuskegee's 6833 win Alabama State in the Br
mingha1n city auditorium simply what is technically
termed extra game and s Of course dsalowed in the
standings the post "bowP games
in football in the of the TuskegeeFlorda Orange
Blossom football classic
Under this condition, Knoxville has eight games,
lost Florida has r. lost two with Tuskegee boast
nie exactly the and Clark pulling with nine
wins four losses ahead of S. c. State with eight six
losses and Morris Brown with nine wins, seven losses
The Dickinson Rating System figures those how
which will be used in determining the ewnner and
also the four seeded teams down Tuskegee this week.
Currently, the rating of the first Division clubs of the
loop according to the Dickinson Rating SYSTEM Florida
2625, Knoxville 24OO Tuskegee 22O0 Clark 2143, S. C.
State 1928 and Morris Brown 1906.
Florida has beaten six first Observation-Disclosures Brown
and Tuskegee twice EACH Clark, and c. State Knoxville
has two first division wins both Morris Brown. Tus
kegee boasts only two those Morris Brown and S. c.
State Clark slunked three Florida Norris Brown and S.
c. State S. c. State trpped three first dvsiones Florida
Norris Brown and Clark; with Morris Brown tripping first
division opponents in Clark and S. c: State.
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Norris Brown Clark and S. c. State-and the most first
division two each against Tuske"ee, Morris Brown
Clark. and S. C. State for an aggregate of eight.
Loss Of second-game wins Knoxville and LIE Moyne
costs Xavier first division berth for The first time
history
The complete pretournamen of Florida during
1912 is reproduced below:
Florida defeated Norris Brown 4241 and $685. Tuske-
5752 and 5444 Alabama State 1888 and Fisk
A541. s. c. State 1929 in void game 5O-41 Benedict
6544 and Talladega 1920 Only other game on the entire
list was Al setback by the A. T. Bulldogs in Green's
bOrO.
Knoxville is team to be reckoned with this year. Czech
Wallace O. Hawkins has his most interesting cmbination
since the old Saul SanfordLamb JohnsonSam McTeer-Ber
The coOrfu and highly well balanced Knoxville cast is
Captain Leonard swng) Jordan Crack Heuderson
Edward Red) Christian Greene (Cooe) Farmer Maurice
(SOop) JONES' Leroy (Sparky) Preston, Sammy (Sain)
Moore Clifford lCHf Ross, George (Jelco) Carpenter Al
oo Mosey James ''""y' D'n'es ana sSsR
The Knoxville team won the unanimous endorsement of
Aantans than fortnight ago when, having beaten
Morris Brown in Knoxville the club repeated the dose in
the Gate City 5435 Norris Brown helpless against
Knoxville than against other team faced 942-and
that saying plenty because the Wolverines played and
looked good against tough hombres like Florida Tukegee
S. c. State, Clark MOrehOuse, and Benedict.
The current totals and averages of leading STAG sharp
shooters are Ridley of Fisk 219 and 179 Holden Of S.
State 1859 and 146 Haines of Morehouse 224 and
16) Warner OF Benedict (219 and 460) COPELAND of S.
State 95 and 1926 De Zonie of Clark (92 and 1477)
Watts of Florida 187 and 124) Tatum of Benedict GIGS
and 1, Hall of Florida 62 and 108O), Britt of
Florida 142 and 947 Fields of Benedict 4O and 933)
Edmonds of Florida (121 and SOD and McMath of More
house Clio and 9.54).,
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