Evening star., 1945-02-19
Army, Irish, Buckeyes
Lose Cage Prestige
As Rivals Surge
BY JOE REICHLER. !.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Old man upset was in rare form
last week and as result many of
the country's top college basket ball
teams saw their chances for ma
tional honors go glimmering.
The biggest surprise came at the
expense of West Points previously
unbeaten five which had it's three
year z7-game winning streak snapped
by Pennsylvania Saturday, 61-52,
before 11,505 Convention Hall fans,
the largest basket ball crowd in
Philadelphia In seven years.
Led by Howie Dallmar and Phil
Harmon, who scored Is points be-
tween them, the Quakers rang up
their 11th victory in 16 starts with
a second-half rally that wiped out a
1925 halftime Army lead
City College of New York, winners
of 10 of IL games this season and in
line for bid to the national invi-
tation tournament next month,
dropped surprise $3.50 decision to
the oft-beaten Canisius five at Buff
falo and powerful Notre Dame was
the victim of a stunning upset when
it was shaded by Marquette. 56-55.
Great Lakes TrampIes De Paul.
Earlier in the week, De Paul, gen.
orally regarded as the strongest COL
lege squad in the Nation, was tram
pied by the four-timeS beaten Great
Lakes outfit.
Other surprises included Illinois
victory over Ohio State which
knocked the Buckeyes from the top
OF the Big Ten standings; North
Carolina's conquest of Duke for the
Blue Devils first Southern Confer
ence loss; Browns defeat of previ-
ously once-beaten Rhode Island
State; Brigham Young's triumph
over Colorado u, the Big Seven
leaders first league loss, and Al
br1ght's 1910 defeat of Muhlenberg.
Navy retained its clean slate with
a 1913 victory over North Carolina
Pref1ight for the Middies' 18th
straight win. Rensselaer, Poly, the
only other undefeated outfit, made it
IL in a row by crushing Holy
Cross.
Rice, South Carolina, Bowling
Green, Valparaiso, Akron and New
York U. gained stature with impor-
tant victories while Kentucky re-
versed defeat by Tennessee,
drubbing the Vols, 40-34.
Penn Takes Over in East.
A glance at the major conferences:
Eastern intercollegiate League
Penn the champion, displacing
Dartmouth; Cornell gained second
place with 1873 defeat of Columbia.
Big Ten Conference-Iowa in first
place with I'll record, although
threatened by Illinois CID which
trounced Ohio State to drop the
Buckeyes into third place with 30.
Southern Conference IS out h
Carolina, unbeaten in nine games,
finished in first place. Duke, beaten
only by North Carolina in seven
games, placed second. The cham
pionship tourney opens at Raleigh
luuSQdy.
Southeastern Conference = Ken
lucky forged into the lead with
a 40-A triumph over Tennessee to
avenge an earlier setback. The
Wildcats own a Al record as against
Ia for the Vols Florida dropped
from the top as well as from the
1ndefeated column when Auburn
edged out a 42-40 victory over the
Gators Tuesday. -
Rice Finishes Unbeaten.
Southwestern Conference - Rice
ended league season unbeaten. Ar
kansas beat Southern Methodist
twice to clinch at least a tie for
second place. With Rice already
having declined, the second place
team will receive the bid for the
NCAA tournament at Kansas City.
Big Seven-Utah took over first
place with TO record as Colorado
U. dropped to second with IL when
beaten by Brigham Young.
Pacific Coast Conference-Oregon
State tied Oregon for lead In North
ern division by beating Webfeet,
45-43. UCLA went to the top in
the Southern division by beating