Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11

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sport has progressed faster changed more. r.
Some say it's for the better, others say zA'&N -
give the good old days. But regardless .u ,rs,,.
of preference it's too different for an
accurate comparison
George Washington that is averaging
points per game better than the 1856 Coonias who
Is games and lost and averaged 425 points VINO
knows?
Everywhere except College Park there's hedging. Out
there 33yearod Coach Bud Mkan says current basketball
players twice good players OF ~ years ago. Burt
Shipey, coaching before Milkan born,
doesn't what he's talking about They've taken
the science out of the game" Ship says
AT GEORGETOWN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY and Amer
lean IT, there's concedng that CIV with its ashy record
Maryland with its II victories better than teams
that turned out at their respective institutions
Georgetown can go back 1928 when the Hoyas lost
only to U, to the 1923 five that the
Eastern NCAA title The Renders Five at Catholic u in
Cardinals of the mid30s had Gu in the
national basketball picture Four years American u had
a club that % games
The team 1885, captained by Tufy Leemans
made the Olympic tryouts the 1928 club the South
Conference title Maryland had 1913 season 20
1901 the championship of the old Southern
Conference beating Kentucky team coached by Adolph
Rupp These good solid teams with outstanding records
FRED MEsMER IS the authority for the good George
past played with the 1928 combina
ton along with Maurice Mccarthy intercollegiate golf cham
pion Don Dutton Harold Meenan, Bob Nork and Johnny
Dunn That when Lou Little building up all sports
at Georgetown.
Georgetown since his undergraduate days He wouldn't
say yes whether his team good Elmer
Rpleys Eastern champions Mggs Reilly Danny Krau Billy
HaSSet John Mahnken Bill Feeney The HoyaS also had
two nce-beaten teams right after World War I.
Eddie LaFond at Catholic U. has pleasant memories of
Catholic good of the 1905 Ed Lynch
Bresn Jack Fitzgerald Dutch Eber and Jojo awer Then
the Renders of the late 2Os Ray Foley Jim Carney Johnny
Long Ray Harvey Skater ODonne and Ed Kea They beat
like Princeton, Duquesne West Virginia, Manhattan
and some good Southern Conference teams.
INTHE MIDDLE sos Gu had Bus Sheary head basket
ball Holy Hermie Schmarr, of Gus all
greats; Whitley Ambrose of the overhead shot Bernie
Leb and Abe Rosenhed. They didn't lose many
Shpey coached basketball for "a years at Maryland and
has pretty positive ideas the subject His avorite
ball clubs the 925 team with its 43 record the 1929
combination with 1876 and the next years team that
the conference title.
Charley May our running guard didn't point all
that the conference Ship said
and Jack Norris didn't much But those boys
defensive burden had Boze Berger Shorty Chalmers
Ed Ronkin and (the lateJ Bob Wilson.
Twenty years players good shots" Shipey
continued. They rugged smart didn't play sissy
game with all the fouls called and didn't have
be STAR
Mllikan a star at Oklahoma AIM held mis- ground He
that basketball from the high school up and
largely because of high schools has improved tremendously
Bud believes SecondstrngeS of today could outshoo ALL
Americans of decades because of
the seamless balls.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD started winning more
games than lost years before the Colonals imported
Bill Reinhart the middle 1905 Bill quickly up
1873 1914 and IA records Were those teams good
better than the present one? Different styles Bill
how you tell?"
There CIV fans who still like the 1873 club George
CARRIER Tommy OBren Butteworth Bob Fars and Sid
Silkowz They beat Minnesota the the Gophers
the Big Ten Ohio State and Loyoa of Chicago twice One
of games they lost Washington and Jefferson whose
star Buddy Jeanette present Georgetown coach Red
Auerbach the Celtics coach played the CIV
team the following year.
You stir up fuss around GWs Tin Tabernacle by
asking if Tommy OBrien Zunic the best Colonial
courman of all time Zunic that 1874 team of 19401
The late Arthur Zahn the Southern Conference title
in 1923 with Big John Koniscew later Redskin tackle
Gallagher the st. Johns coach, Jimmy Rausch.
Are the Houp brothers. Devin Karver and Klein better
all of the mentioned? AS Renhart
you tell? But folks get kick out of just
thinking about IL.