Montana Tech University of Montana - Magma Yearbook (Butte, MT)

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RUSSELL WILLS SAM SHOEMAKER JEAN BERG PAUL JOHNSON Bobcats Were rated the most popular team in the tournament due to their colorful wide-open style of play. Thus ended one of Montana State's most successful seasons. When the all- conference selections were released, Eddie Exurn and Bill Ogle appeared for the second consecutive time on the first team. Don Cos- ner was also placed on the first team. Dick Little Was named second all-conference for- ward and Iody Corbin third all-conference guard. Much credit should be given to Tuffy Feldman for his unquenchable fighting spirit, and the sportsmanship which he displayed all season. Eddie Exum, Bill Ogle, Iody Corbin, Tuffy Feldman, and Russel Wills have played their last game for Montana State and to them We give our best wishes and appreciation.

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of 65 to 49. On the next evening the Cats won the most exciting game of the season by a score of 64 to ESO only after an overtime period was played. After redeeming themselves from their first Grizzly defeats, the Cats were entered in the National A. A. U. tournament at Denver. Due to the victorious record of the Cats they were the seeded college team. They opened against Arkansas College and Won a fast game 59 to 46. ln the next game With the Teachers from New Mexico Normal the Cats Won 54 to 45. This put them up against the second tallest college team in the United States, the Warrens- lourg Teachers, who had recently Won the Na- tional Intercollegiate tournament at Kansas City, This resulted in a Bobcat defeat, 43 to 25. The FRANK KREv1c JULES GusTAFsEN FRANK STRONG FLOYD ROTH

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FRESHMAN BASKETBALL BRICKLEY BODLEY DETHMAN MURPHY ANNIN BRADFORD DOYON FJELD STARK NIISNER BOWMAN MENZEL MAY DACHS FARRELL ' At the opening of the 1938 basketball season Coach Breeden found himself with a very promising crop of freshman hoopmen with whom he hopes to carry on the basketball supremacy of Montana State. Coach Breeden innovated a new system by allowing the freshman team a schedule of its own. Due to the fact that it was a new idea, the schedule was restricted to four games, all of which they won easily, later entering the inde- pendent tournament at Belgrade which they won. lt is through the efforts of the men who turn out for the freshman team that the following strong varsity teams are built. These men work hard through long practices and with very little chance of recognition for their efforts. However it is only with the experience that they gain in such a manner and also the idea that they learn to play well as a team that such practices are rated worthwhile. We truly feel that the freshman team was successful this year and it is the beginning of another good basketball era at Montana State College-Who knows?-Maybe they're the making of another Golden Bobcat team.