Jackson advocate., 1942-03-07
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STAG Placed Accent On OffenSe During
1912 Season, Thus Breaking Just About
Every Conference Record In Sight
By Melancholy" Jones

SOUTHERN intercollegiate Athletic Conference teams
and individuals had their minds points the season just
closed Their slogan apparently was: .It don't mean
thing if don't have that swing The was that 1912
year in which swngshots fell with the tntinnabua
ton of reverberatng hail and literally beat up
the backboards and hoops of the circuit.
Tuskegee clicked off the team 'high" in wipng awav
Fisk S1-32 in the quarterna round of the nament
Other mountainous totals were rolled up bv Florida
whipping Taadega 1920 Clark turning back Benedict 745
Tuskegee tripping Benedict 7239 Alabama State 6S
State running Knoxville $780, Flor spanking Benedict
"A and Morehouse 6433 Florida taking Benedict and
Fisk 614S Tskegee bagging Xavier 61-4S and Tuskegee
scading Fayetteville State 623O Winston Teach
ers College 61-35
There plenty of other "fat' scores, displaying
graphically the emphasis placed defense For instance
Tuskegee shacked Stman Institute 698 in her very first
outing OF the closing Most of her winning ran
in the 'fties and the thing held true for Florida
Fisk had fine shooting combination and displayed hot
qualities in dispelng LIE Moyne 62-57.
In the individual nt-making art William Ridley of
Fisk the hottest number during 1912 i'm maximum
reached Against lie Moyne in that 6257 triumph Ridley
bagged Sd and again, Morehouse beaten 54-45 by
Fisk the Dayton Ohio senior roped 34 connected for
20 against Alabama State Fisk and lived" in
the 'wenes and upper teens all chalk up sea
aggregate of 357 in games the highest 1912 point
Der-game reading of 1885.
Henry (Alice) Holden, however was the adding ma
chine scorer of the loop The long, wlowy c. State sopho
from Toledo Ohio, definitely cold the nights he
didn't ring from ID to % points.
In the recent SIAC tourney Holden was No. / scorer
with 6S points in three games6 against Morehouse %
against Florida. and "a against Knoxville.
Those SO points the COOL modest goodnatured
boys complete 1912 total through the tournament to 396
"A games for average of 1850 points game.
Horace tty) Dalton of Clark shot points in 1927
and this total lasted for Is years last season as the
STAG record Frank Botto Crozier, the Chcagoan
who carved out atme greatness for Xavier had $40 in
1941 to beat Dat0n's ancient mark
Thus the caber of offensive ball in the STAG in 1912
is the best shown by the that two different men, Ho
den 1886 and Ridley (35 beat Crozers $40 and Daons
336 by country mile.
Until this season. only Dalton 1885, Crozer (340) Dom
aid Reeves of Clark (316 and Ewood (Duck) Britt of
Florida 3O6, had passed the three century, level
SIAC point getting.
Note that in 1912, not only did Holden and Ridley with
their totals that figure but also Henry
Coo Warner of Benedict 311 and Wilson Smith of Tuske
gee, 3O1.
The spacing between Dalton Crozier was Is
in which period only FIVE men, all told could reach the
1900 mark Yet in 1912 just single hot year of compe
tiOn five different betered that lofty figure of
them breaking the record Ridley by II and Holden by
points. ...
Scorers with 200 points for 1912 their rank
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