Kansas Prep Basketball History Part 4 Update May 10, 2012 Kansas High School Basketball History
Part Four: Kansas High School Association Tournament 1921-1924 * = Overtime ! = Forfeit by Patrick Macfee
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1921 KSHSAA State Tournament March 17-19 Robinson Gym Lawrence, Ks
CH: Newton 27 Lawrence
19
1. Newton
(27-1) Frank
Lindley ARK
VALLEY
SF: Lawrence 22 Winfield
21
2. Lawrence (19-4) Max
Klein
INDEPENDENT
SF: Newton 49 Baldwin
9
SF Winfield (17-5)
John Reber
ARK VALLEY
QF: Newton 31 Wichita
29
SF Baldwin
(?-?)
??
INDEPENDENT
QF: Baldwin 30 Fort Scott 23
QF: Lawrence 28 Kansas City 13
QF: Winfield 36 Topeka 15
2R: Newton 48 Topeka-Oakland
19
Officials: L.V. "Red" Brown, Rudolph
Uhrlaub, Ray Dunmire, John Bunn
2R: Wichita 42 Buhler 27
2R: Baldwin 34 Oberlin 16
2R: Fort Scott 30 Cherokee 12
2R: Lawrence 28 Iola 22
2R: Kansas City 19 Effingham
9
KSHSAA & PRESS ALL-STARS
2R: Topeka 27 Kingman 23
2R: Winfield 32 Emporia 15
1R: Topeka 36 Long Island
10
1st Team
1R: Kingman 32 Perry 14
1R: Winfield 2 Leavenworth 0
!
Milt Johnston NEWTON
1R: Emporia 34 Manhattan
30
Lysle Mummert WINFIELD
1R: Iola 41 Great Bend
30
Tus Ackerman LAWRENCE
1R: Lawrence 39 Leona
14
Clarke Brunton WINFIELD
1R: Kansas City 2 KC-Argentine 0
!
Wilfred Belgarde NEWTON
1R: Effingham 28 Formosa 20
1R: Fort Scott 2 Girard 0
!
2nd Team
1R: Cherokee 24 Salina 18
1R: Baldwin 29 Pawnee Rock
28
Ward Hitt KANSAS CITY
1R: Oberlin 31 Arkansas City
27
Harold Testerman LAWRENCE
1R: Wichita 2 Geneseo 0
!
Walter Woods NEWTON
1R: Buhler 28 Denton
19
Clyde Vail FORT SCOTT
1R: Newton 20 Wellsville
19
George Mackie LAWRENCE
1R: Topeka-Oakland 34 Kirwin 22
Preliminary: Topeka 2 Quenemo 0 !
Preliminary: Kingman 22 Miltonvale 17
Preliminary: Winfield 2 Glen Elder 0 !
Preliminary: Manhattan 25 Scott City 18
Preliminary: Iola 32 Russell 14
Preliminary: Lawrence 30 Haven 19
Preliminary: Kansas City 26 Liberal 12
Preliminary: Formosa 2 Asherville 0 !
Preliminary: Fort Scott 29 Chapman 17
Preliminary: Salina 2 Lindsborg 0 !
Preliminary: Baldwin 30 Horton 26
Preliminary: Arkansas City 2 Concordia 0 !
Preliminary: Wichita 34 Pittsburg 32
Preliminary: Buhler 49 Portis 14
Preliminary: Newton 2 Athol 0 !
Preliminary: Kirwin 2 Agra 0 !
Scores Source: "One
Hundred Years of Hoops" KSHSAA 2011 except as follows
Effingham-Formosa, Atchison County High
School News, March, 1921,1
Only teams that entered and finished in the top four of the KSHSAA district tournaments were eligible for the state tournament. The association now supervised the event and they found enough interested schools to conduct fifteen district tournaments state wide. Forty teams of those eligible from these districts were announced as entries for the state title in Lawrence. 1
The opening round assignments and byes were determined by a complicated mixture of reward for the district winners and a blind draw for the the rest of the field. Geographical considerations were thrown in to avoid, nearly as possible, preliminary or first round games between regular season rivals. 2 Six teams failed to show up for preliminary games and five more skipped the first round contests. The cost of travel may have been a factor even though the association helped with those costs. The probability of a first round loss was a factor for teams that learned by telegraph of their opening round opponent the day before the event started. For example see Newton vs Athol , Wichita vs Geneseo, etc. 3
Coach Lindley's Newton team was one of his most dominant in his career and were led by stars Wilfred Belgarde (future KU Captain) and Milt Johnston. They lost only once in the regular season when Coach Lindley described them as "cocky" in a loss to Emporia. Wichita gave the Lindley machine their only close contest at State. Newton was comfortably ahead when their Ark Valley foe began to connect on long bombs over Newton's famous zone. Eventually Newton extended the defense to clamp down on the long range threats from Wichita. The final against Lawrence was an example of Newton's calm control of a basketball game. 4
Tus Ackerman of Lawrence was named the Captain of the All-Tourney team and he would become an All-American at Kansas University. 5 Several Newton boys made the team as well. It is probable that their offensive statistics could have been much higher - but in those days Coach Lindley insisted on working for the very highest percentage shot on every trip down the court. 6
Leslie Edmonds was a prominent basketball referee and a newspaper columnist for the Topeka Daily Capital. At the conclusion of the tournament he voiced his concerns about the direction of the state tournament. He proposed that the KSHSAA abolish the tournament. His shocking statement gathered attention to his concerns that he detailed in his column. He charged that the tournament had become a pre-enrollment rush party for the college hosting it. He objected to the large number of teams that were allowed to compete in one event. The winning team became five players with the most endurance rather than a true basketball champion. Teams could play as many as three time-shortened preliminary games in a day. He stated, "Winning teams are put thru their paces many times, their strength taxed far beyond reason. In the end, defeated or victorious, (they) are given less attention than a fast dog at a coursing meet."
He suggested the association district the state with as many as twenty districts with the winners of only those tourneys advancing to the big event. He also advised the group to move the location of the tournament around the state so the standard of athletics would be improved state wide. He pointed out all the fine facilities that had been created at other colleges since the high schools had first gathered in Lawrence in 1908. Edmonds called for an end to the girls tournament as he did not think it suitable that girls ever play more than one game per day. 7
Within a few years the KSHSAA had implemented most of Edmonds' suggestions. The girls tournament was never officially sponsored by the association and 1921 was the last year for that competition. Basketball rule makers would help with the issue of player exhaustion by more liberal substitution re-entry regulations over the next decade. The tournament field was limited to sixteen by 1925.
Newton accepted an invitation to the Interstate Tournament in Madison, Wisconsin. The tournament was cancelled and there was no published explanation in the Kansas press. It may have been that the Chicago tournament of Amos Alonzo Stagg became more popular and Wisconsin was unable to draw an adequate field. Coach Lindley only said " (We) were already to go - but couldn't find any place to go." 8 Chicago did stage a tournament that was won by Cedar Rapids, Iowa over West Lafayette, Indiana. 9
Rule Change: A player can re-enter a game once. Prior to this change, if a player left the game, he could not re-enter for the rest of the contest. 10
1. University Daily Kansan,
March 18, 1921, 1
2. Ibid, 3
3. Ibid, 1
4. Newton Evening Kansan-Republican, March 21, 1921, 8
5. Ibid
6. Curtis Buller, 11
7. Leslie E. Edmonds, "Basket Ball Notes," Topeka Daily
Capital, March 21, 1921
8. Curtis Buller, 151
9. http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=National_Interscholastic_Basketball_Tournament
10 http://www.orangehoops.org/NCAA/NCAA%20Rule%20Changes.htm
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1922 KSHSAA State Tournament March 16-18 Robinson Gym Lawrence, Ks
CH: Fort Scott
26 Newton
24
1. Fort Scott (21-4) * Russell P
Needham INDEPENDENT
SF: Fort Scott 41 Wichita
30
2. Newton
(21-3)
Frank Lindley/Frazier ARK VALLEY
SF: Newton 34 Pittsburg
30
3. Pittsburg
(20-4) C.C.
Brown
INDEPENDENT
QF: Fort Scott 39 Kansas City
33
4. Wichita
(19-5)
J.H.
Smith
ARK VALLEY
QF: Wichita 55 Haven 26
QF: Newton 42 Chanute 28
QF: Pittsburg 28 Topeka-Oakland 26
3rd Place Game: Pittsburg 2 Wichita 0 ! 8
2R: Fort Scott - BYE
2R: Kansas City 38 Winfield
32
Officials: John Bunn, Ernest Uhrlaub, G.B. Patrick
2R: Wichita 38 Lawrence 26
2R: Haven 32 Arkansas City 29
2R: Newton 30 Manhattan
22
ALL-STATE TEAMS
2R: Chanute 23 Topeka 17
2R: Pittsburg 35 Eudora
19
1st Team
2R: Topeka-Oakland 25 Caney 13
1R: Fort Scott 56 Kirwin 17
1R: Horton 0 Buhler 0
!!
Fred Emmerson FORT SCOTT
1R: Kansas City 35 Kinsley
15
C.
Newland
NEWTON
1R: Winfield 29 McPherson
17
Fred
Daniels
FORT SCOTT
1R: Wichita 2 Harper 0
!
Don
Ralph
NEWTON
1R: Lawrence 2 Hutchinson 0
!
Austin Ober
FORT SCOTT
1R: Haven 2 Bancroft 0 !
1R: Arkansas City 33 Lyons
21
2nd Team
1R: Newton 32 Emporia-Roosevelt 29
1R: Manhattan 28 Coffeyville
23
Harry Benn
NEWTON
1R: Chanute 27 Wellsville
20
Allan Lanyon
PITTSBURG
1R: Topeka 38 Wheaton
14
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Blood WICHITA
1R: Pittsburg 31 Smith Center
15
G.
Jones
NEWTON
1R: Eudora 28 Salina
22
Harold Schmidt
KANSAS CITY
1R: Topeka-Oakland 2 Kingman 0 !
1R: Caney 20 Quinter 11
Preliminary: Fort Scott 50 Cleburne 12
Preliminary: McPherson 29 Dodge City 24
Preliminary: Lawrence 20 Parsons 16
Preliminary: Haven 55
Goodland 15
Preliminary: Newton 2 Garden City 0 !
Preliminary: Emporia-Roosevelt 32 Soldier 19
Preliminary: Wheaton 2 Oberlin 0 !
Preliminary:
Topeka-Oakland 16 Emporia 15
Scores Source: "One
Hundred Years of Hoops" KSHSAA 2011 except as follows
Fort Scott-Newton - Lawrence Daily
Journal-World, March 20, 1922, 2
Kansas City-Winfield/Wichita-Lawrence/Newton-Manhattan
- Lawrence Daily Journal-World, March 18, 1922, 2
Winfield-McPherson/Eudora-Salina/Haven-Goodland/Oakland-Emporia - Lawrence Daily
Journal-World, March 17, 1922, 2
Details of tournament games were sketchy as reported in newspapers of the day. The style of play was slowed as more teams adopted the zone as popularized by Frank Lindley of Newton high school. Teams that were able to get out of the blocks with a lead early and were adept at ball handling had little incentive to attack the basket. They could play a deliberate game in backcourt as there was still no half court line. An aggressive defense could be applied to break up a deliberate offense, but any fouls always brought a team's best free throw shooter to the line as Captains always designated who would shoot the free throws regardless of who was fouled. The games generally were low scoring affairs with a lot of passing.
Fort Scott was known as a team that enjoyed getting out to an early lead and then carefully salting the game away. They used this style against Kansas City. Wichita was actually ahead of the Bourbon county squad at half time. Fort Scott was able to pull away in the 3rd quarter of the game building a 28-18 lead. Then Wichita stormed back to within 1 point of the champs in the 4th quarter. After a time-out, the players from Fort Scott outscored the Ark Valley team 14-3. The boys had a closer game with Newton, but several mentioned that the Wichita game was their most competitive game overall. 1
The champions were in control of the game with Newton until the final minutes of the game. The Lindley men began to connect with several long shots and eventually gained a two point lead with little time left. Fort Scott stars Emmerson, Daniels and Ober were the leaders of the team, but it was Mac Steele who made the final two field goals to win the game. His last one went in right before the gun sounded. 2
The boys were exhausted by the five games played over three days. Players remarked that they had lost five to six pounds during tournament play. Dr. James Naismith praised the effort saying, "I admire the spirit and sportsmanship of that Fort Scott team." 3
Tournament manager Phog Allen notified Fort Scott Coach Needham that $200 would be available to send his team to the University of Chicago's National High School tournament at Bartlett Gym. The Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce added another $300 and Kansas had their first entry in Amos Alonzo Staag's event. 4 Fort Scott won an easy opening round game over Austin, MN (37-16) 5 before elimination in the second round by a powerful Rockford , IL team (33-19). 6
RULE CHANGE: High school games were now played in four eight minute quarters. 7
1 Fort Scott Tribune and Fort
Scott Monitor, March 20, 1922, 6
2 Ibid, 1
3 Ibid, March 21, 1922, 6
4 Ibid, March 28, 1922, 6
5 Ibid, April 5, 1922, 1
6 Ibid, April 7, 1922, 6
7 "One Hundred Years of Hoops", KSHSAA , 5
8 Pittsburg won 3rd place due to Wichita forfeit - Wichita left
after loss to Fort Scott. They were scheduled for other tournaments the
following week.
Fort Scott Tribune and Fort Scott Monitor, March 21,
1922, 6
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1923 KSHSAA State Tournament March 16-17 Robinson Gym Lawrence, Ks
1ST: Kansas City 32
Hutchinson 31
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1 Kansas City (31-0)
*
Charles Corsaut NEKL
3RD: Emporia-Roosevelt 37 McPherson
33
2 Hutchinson
(16-5)
Ralph McCarroll ARK VALLEY
SF: Hutchinson 32 McPherson
28
3 Emporia-Roosevelt (13-7) Vic Trussler
INDEPENDENT
SF: Kansas City 44 Emporia-Roosevelt
21
4 McPherson
(17-4)
Rudolph Uhrlaub CKL
QF: Hutchinson 17 Wichita 15
QF: McPherson 24 Newton 16
QF: Emporia-Roosevelt 26 Shawnee Mission
15
Officials: John Bunn, Paul Endacott, Waldo Bowman, John
Wulf
QF: Kansas City 29 Arkansas City 19
2R: Hutchinson 27 KC-Argentine
20
Coaches ALL TOURNEY
2R: Wichita 39 Emporia 16
2R: Newton 32 Olathe
26
1st Team
2R: McPherson 34 Iola 22
2R: Shawnee Mission 23 Topeka
16
Harold
Schmidt
KANSAS CITY
2R: Emporia-Roosevelt 26 Winfield
23
Herbert Proudfit
KANSAS CITY
2R: Kansas City 54 Mayetta
17
Arthur Hardfelter
KANSAS CITY
2R: Arkansas City 35 Clay Center
32
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Overall
HUTCHINSON
1R: Hutchinson 2 Ottawa 0
!
_______ Haskard
HUTCHINSON
1R: KC-Argentine 2 Harper 0 !
1R: Wichita 38 Kingsley
7
2nd Team
1R: Emporia 23 Lindsborg 17
1R: Newton 39 Caney
10
________ Dicus
HUTCHINSON
1R: Olathe 24 Agenda
18
Harold Zuber
KANSAS CITY
1R: McPherson 26 Frontenac
22
Reginald
Vance
KANSAS CITY
1R: Iola 2 Long Island 0
!
_________
Showalter MC
PHERSON
1R: Shawnee Mission 24 Pittsburg
18
Emerson
Carey
HUTCHINSON
1R: Topeka 2 Plains 0 !
1R: Emporia-Roosevelt 35 Fredonia 18
1R: Winfield 39 Quinter 19
1R: Kansas City 42 Deerfield 13
1R: Mayetta 38 Dodge City 22
1R: Arkansas City - BYE
1R: Clay Center 34 Pawnee Rock 16
NEKL = Northeast Kansas League CKL = Central Kansas League
Scores Source: "One
Hundred Years of Hoops" KSHSAA 2011 except as follows
Kansas City-Emporia-Roosevelt, Topeka
Daily Capital, March 18, 1923, 8B
Arkansas City-Clay Center, University Daily Kansan, March 19, 1923, 4
Clay Center-Pawnee Rock, Topeka Daily Capital, March 17, 1923, 10
Kansas City reached the zenith of Kansas high school basketball in the early era (1908-1924) by winning the state championship and the Chicago University National Championship in 1923. 1
The team dominated their league (NEKL) while also defeating several out of state opponents in the regular season. Some of the non-scholastic scores (not counted in their official win-loss record) defied credibility. The boys defeated the Kansas City Rainbows Athletic Club 234-2. This was a world scoring record at the time and required that Kansas City win nearly every center jump and score quickly on almost every possession. 2
The only competitive game the champions experienced was the final against Hutchinson. Ralph McCarroll's Salt Hawks played an energetic defense against the Bulldogs. They maintained a lead for most of the game before Kansas City grabbed a two point lead very late in the game. Sidle of Hutchinson scored a goal seconds before the end of regulation. In the overtime, Kansas City's Hardfelter was the one who scored a late goal that was described as a "long and seemingly impossible shot". 3
The future college stars - Schmidt, Proudfit and Zuber (KansasUniversity) - were the leaders of the team that went on to the national tournament in Chicago. The boys were a sensation in Chicago defeating Fargo, ND (47-28), Weston. ID (33-30), Chicago-Tilden, IL (44-28), and Muskegon, MI (30-26). The press described the team's defeat of Rockford, IL (42-21) as "the greatest game of basketball ever seen on a Chicago court." 4
Kansas City crowds welcomed the team with a reception at Union station that the Kansas City Kansan described as rivaling the return of the soldiers from World War I. The Mayors of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri made speeches. Newsreel photographers shot the celebration of the fans and students as they arrived at the station. Coach Phog Allen of Kansas was one of the first to arrive at Union Station to meet the champions' train. 5 When the festivities concluded, the school band led a 30-block long parade to the Kansas side of the river. 6
Coach Charles Corsaut announced near the end of the school year that he would accept an offer to become head coach of basketball, baseball and track at Kansas State University. He was a graduate of Salina High School and attended Kansas Wesleyan in Salina. 7
RULE CHANGE: Several technical fouls, such as running with the ball, were changed to simple violations resulting in a loss of possession. Previously, while not a foul charged to a player, the opposing team received a free throw attempt for these type of non-contact violations. 8
1 Kansas
City Kansan, April 8, 1923, 10B
2 Kansas City Kansas High School, The Quiverian, 1923,
(Schooley Printing Co, 1923), 123
3 Kansas City Kansan, March 18, 1923, 12B
4 Kansas City Kansas High School, The Quiverian, 1923,
(Schooley Printing Co, 1923), 123
5. Kansas City Kansan, April 9, 1923, 1
6 Ibid, 7
7 Ibid, April 8, 10B
8 "Official Basketball Rules", Spalding's
Official Collegiate Basketball Guide for 1922-1923 (New York: American
Sports, 1922), 1
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1924 KSHSAA State Tournament March 21-22 Robinson Gym Lawrence, Ks
* Overtime Period ! Forfeit
1st: Emporia 32 Wichita
25
*
1 Emporia (28-1) ^ William
Rapp
INDEPENDENT
3rd: Newton 35 Hutchinson
20
2 Wichita (25-4) ^ J.H.
Smith
ARK VALLEY
SF: Wichita 34 Hutchinson
17
3 Newton
(20-5) Frank
Lindley/Stuart ARK VALLEY
SF: Emporia 40 Newton
22
4 Hutchinson (11-7) Ralph McCarroll
ARK VALLEY
QF: Hutchinson 28 Topeka 17
QF: Wichita 37 Parsons
12
^ Includes games won at the Chicago National Tournament
QF: Emporia 40 KC-Rosedale 11
QF: Newton 25 Winfield 18
2R: Hutchinson 38 Marion
28
Officials: Leslie Edmonds, Louis Menze,
2R: Topeka 21 McPherson 16
2R: Wichita 30 Arkansas City 22
2R: Parsons 21 Pittsburg
11
KSHSAA All Star Team
2R: Emporia 58 St. Mary's Academy (Jesuit) 8
2R: KC-Rosedale 29 Beloit
16
1st Team
2R: Newton 22 El Dorado 9
2R: Winfield 28 Frontenac
23
Ed
Grant
EMPORIA
1R: Marion 18 Smith Center
17
George Clow
EMPORIA
1R: Hutchinson 2 Denton 0
!
Barry
Dunham
WICHITA
1R: McPherson 46 Athol
34
Glenn Zody
EMPORIA
1R: Topeka 31 Chanute
19
_______ Reynolds WICHITA
1R: Parsons 2 Great Bend 0 !
1R: Pittsburg 27 Asherville
22
2nd Team
1R: Wichita 33 Mankato 9
1R: Arkansas City 61 Arnold
16
Louis
"Rabbit" Weller ARKANSAS CITY *
See Below
1R: Winfield 32 Concordia
8
William
Conway
NEWTON
1R: Frontenac 32 Topeka
"B"
10
_______ Holsinger KC-ROSEDALE
1R: Newton 28 Lawrence
13
________ Nordyke
WICHITA
1R: El Dorado 26 Greensburg
17
Edward Nold
NEWTON
1R: Emporia 38 Ottawa 12
1R: St. Mary's Academy (Jesuit) 24 Olathe 21
1R: Beloit 24 Dodge City 22
1R: KC-Rosedale 26 Manhattan 10
Preliminary: Marion 32 Atchison 17
Preliminary: McPherson 2 Larned 0 !
Preliminary: Parsons 32 Topeka-Washburn 16
Preliminary: Wichita 31 Eudora 22
Preliminary: Winfield 33 Kansas City 26
Preliminary: Newton 45 Oakley 7
Preliminary: Emporia 2 Seneca 0 !
Preliminary: Beloit 22 Havensville
19
* The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame says he graduated from
Arkansas City High School in 1927. But 1924 was his last year of eligibility for high school
sports. He played football for Arkansas City in the fall of 1923. He was barred from Ark Valley competition in
basketball due to an undefined league rule. The KSHSAA did allow him to compete in non-conference games and their
tournament contests. The confusion about Arkansas City may
have resulted from Weller's time at Arkansas City Junior
College after 1924. He then moved on to play for Haskell where
he was an All-American football player.
Scores Source: "One
Hundred Years of Hoops" KSHSAA 2011 except as follows
Frontenac-Topeka "B", University
Daily Kansan, March 23, 1924, 2
Thirty-eight entries were set for the bracket in the 1924 tournament - only those who made the finals of the 19 district tournaments from around the state were eligible for the State Tourney in Lawrence. 1 Four teams were no-shows for their first contest. It was not clear if they skipped due to travel expenses or unfavorable match-ups in the tourney draw. Denton, a small school north of Atchison drew Ark Valley power Hutchinson in the first round and it is likely they would not make the trip for an almost certain loss. Seneca failed to show against undefeated Emporia in a preliminary game. When Tribune faced a long trip for an almost certain loss to Emporia, Ottawa was allowed to take their place and lost for the third time in the season to Emporia. 2
Everyone expected the show down in the finals between Emporia and Wichita and it proved to be the the closest contest either had in the tournament. Wichita held a lead at halftime through the excellent play of Berry Dunham, Ross McBurney and sharp shooter _____ Davis. Emporia's fortunes looked lost when Ed Grant was carried from the floor with a dislocated knee. But his substitute Baird went on to score four field goals that was the key in avoiding disaster. George Clow at center and Glenn Zody deserved the all-star team designation with their defensive play. Still, it was Baird that saved the game by hitting a shot with 6 seconds left in regulation. Clow got Emporia off to a good start in the overtime period and the Spartans finished their Kansas season undefeated. 3
Emporia received an invitation to the Chicago tournament and Wichita accepted an invite offered because of their overtime duel in the state finals. H.O. Crisler of Chicago University declared the tournament field as the finest collection of state championship teams in the history of the event. Thirty-nine teams representing thirty-one states competed over five days at the Bartlett Gymnasium. 4
Coach Rapp's Emporia team was known for a very stifling defense. He called it a "team defense" (zone) that was the main factor in the wins over Elgin, IL (30-15) and Two Harbors, MN (39-9). 5 Yankton, SD squeaked by Emporia in the quarter-final 13-11. They used a deliberate offensive attack that surprised the favored Emporia five. Their Captain was able to penetrate the defense in the middle for timely scores. Emporia panicked in the final quarter and was unable to close the gap. Ed Grant - the Spartan's best player was slowed by the knee injury form the previous Kansas tournament. Gus Fish was praised by the Chicago press as the most outstanding Emporia player against Yankton. 6
Wichita was eliminated in the second round. 7
Rule Change: The player fouled must shoot his own free throws. Prior to this change, the Captain could appoint the player on the floor to shoot free throws for the team. 8
1. University Daily Kansan,
March 17, 1924
2. Emporia High School Echo, March 24, 1924, 3
3. Lawrence Daily Journal-World, March 24, 1924, 2
4. H.O. Crisler, "National Inter-Scholastic Basketball
Tournament The Univerity of Chicago", Reach Official Basketball Guide
1924-1925 (Philadelphia: A.J. Reach Company, 1924), 109
5. Emporia High School Echo, March 24, 1924, 1
6. H.O. Crisler, 110
7. Ibid, 118
8. A.J. Reach Company, "Official Basketball Rules for
1923-1924", Reach Official Basket Ball Guide 1924-1925, (Philadelphia: A.J.
Reach Company, 1924)
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