Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Gorillas. Namely, two games in two nights with Southwestern on the Winfield court, and opening league contests besides. The classy Builders, finalists in the Oklahoma City open tournament during the holidays, took both tiffs, the last very decisively as spearhead Lloyd Tucker racked up 29 points. If Coming home Lo engage the Emporia Teachers, Pittsburg downed the Hornets by a single point in one of the wildest cage attractions in a long time and without doubt the wildest of the season, it was a crazy one-hander from away over in the corner tossed in by Fred Crouch with only seconds to go that gave the Gorillas their margin of victory. If So ended the first semester and so ended the Gorillas starting combination. Crouch and Mahan were Russe! Neas LeRoy TJhlenhop Walter Atkinson Arthur Alexander Don Rutherford Forward Guard Forward Center Center

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Pitt Court The 1937-38 chapter of Pittsburg Teachers’ basketball dynasty wound up in the cellar. And any time Coach John F. Lance’s hoop- hitters hit the bottom in the standings that is news with a great big “N.” Talequah, Weatherford, and Ada of the Oklahoma teachers conference afforded the Gorillas little competition in their warm-ups, but in the fourth contest of the year Tom Scott, one of Lance’s star pupils back in the “good ole days,” brought his Concordia College Cobbers to town and before the evening was over John Q. Fan et al were truly agreed that Mr. Scott was entitled to his A. B. degree in basketball science. His was a clever team of ball handlers and accu- rate shooters that had the Lancemen baffled from the outset. IjNext on the local slate came these three Missouri rivals—Maryville, Kirks- ville, and Springfield—all to be met on Missouri soil. Maryville was first and they rallied to take the Gorillas, 36 to 28, after Pitt had held a commanding 15 to 8 margin at the intermission. Kirksville bowed to the locals, 40 to 29, but those always-tough Springfield Bears downed the Crimson and Gold clad basket-shooters, 25-23. Back on the home rectangle those clever Cats from Maryville again polished off the local boys. This time it was 27 to 20 and the game set the stage for the Centeral conference debut for Pittsburg. A seasoned team would have trembled to face the task confronting the James Adams Guard Harold Meadows Center Max Maletx Forward Bill Ravenscroft Forward Bill Forbes Guard

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declared ineligible and Don Rutherford and Walter “Pete” Atkinson, a pair of lettered forwards, were reinstated. H New faces appeared in the Pitt line-up for the Springfield contest here, but there was noth- ing new about the outcome. The Rears continued to keep the Indian sign on the locals as they walked off with a 28 to 23 triumph. | South- western followed up the Springfield defeat to give the Gorillas a 35 to 33 defeat on the Pittsburg planks, but the local hoop-hitters earned a moral victory. They chalked up a 21 to 14 halftime lead, rode the Builders hard all the way, held the high-geared Lloyd Tucker to one goal from the field, and only in the last fewr minutes did they relin- quish the lead to Southwestern. IjNext the Gorillas went West and were handed defeats by McPherson college and Fort Hays State in a pair of free scoring games that saw the two teams pour 198 points through the hopper. I[j The “hucklety-buck” Wichita Shockers split a two-game series with the Gorillas here as the fans got plenty of thrills during the course of the battles. The next week Pittsburg went Wichita and took another beating at the hands of the Shockers as they made it two out of three for the season. TfThis left the local forces with a pair of two night stands to finish up the season. A double-header at Emporia with the Yellowjackets and two games here with Fort Hays State. The Hornets surprised almost everyone as they took both games from the Gorillas. Tf In the final set Pittsburg and Hays split, with the Tigers taking the final game, it was the first time they had won a game here since ’way back in the twenties.