Buckeyes rally past Wisconsin 57 54 on late surge
In Madison Ohio State erases a 50 43 Wisconsin lead with seven quick baskets late in the game. Buckeye center Raidiger tops with 23 points, Denham adds 17 as Ohio State wins its second Big Nine clash while Wisconsin suffers its third conference loss.
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Skoog Sparks Gophers Past Iowa for Fourth Straight Win
Minnesota beat Iowa 61-45 as Scooter Skoog scored 26 points to lift the unbeatens to 12-0. Jim McIntyre added 15 and Bud Grant 10 while Illinois also sat unbeaten in conference action. Indiana topped Purdue 56-42 behind Bill Tosheff who scored 18.
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Detroit Track Rental Bids Reopened After Rejection
The 1949 horse racing picture at Detroit fairgrounds was scrambled again as the state administrative board rejected the Thoroughbred Turf Club bid for rental rights. Bidders have ten days to submit new offers after the rejection, with Gov. Williams urging more specific financing in proposals and clarifying plans for a new track. The Turf Club had offered 450000 for a 70 day season and a $6 million track by 1950.
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Skoog Leads Minnesota Past Iowa in Big Nine Clash
Myer Skoog the star of the game scored 26 points to lift Minnesota to a 61 45 victory over Iowa and seize the Big Nine lead. His 11 of 19 shooting highlighted a dazzling display as Iowa fans saw a rare hot night from the sophomore sensation. The win followed reconciliation efforts after a tense football season with Minnesota officials reporting a superb crowd of 14 000 and praise from Edmund Williamson and Paul Brechler for crowd attitude and sportsmanship.
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Whitey) Skoog
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St Louis University Five Voted No 1 College Team
St Louis University was named the top college basketball team in the first Associated Press poll. The Billikens received 69 first place votes and 904 points, while Kentucky finished second with 842 points and 16 first place votes. Minnesota and Oklahoma followed, with Western Kentucky and San Francisco also in the top ten.
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American track star reveals forced race by Japanese
Lou Zamperini, once an Olympic miler from Southern California, says in a war crimes trial affidavit that as a prisoner of war he was compelled to race a Japanese champion while severely undernourished after being captured following a life raft ordeal near Marshall Island. The affidavit appears in Adm. Toyoda’s record. Zamperini did not name the Japanese rival.
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Declining Carolina Parakeet Now Confined to Florida
The Carolina parakeet once ranged to Wisconsin but is nearly extinct and now restricted to Florida, highlighting a drastic contraction of its historic range and population.
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Wisconsin hunt for new football coach heats up
Lafayette coach Ivan Red Williamson visited Madison to discuss Wisconsin’s coaching vacancy left by Harry Stuhldreher. The visit followed talks with university officials about a basic T offense and full control of the program, with a regents decision pending and aims to have spring practice ready.
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Red) Williamson
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Williams Beats Bratton In Ten Round Decision
Ike Williams returned from a two month layoff to defeat Johnny Bratton of Chicago by a unanimous ten round decision in Philadelphia. Williams, weighing 138, with a hand mightily tested, drew 8,015 fans as he edged a game Bratton 7-3 on Lastky, 6-2-2 on Costello, and 5-4-1 on Daggett.
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Wauwatosa Tops Prep '5 Logan Area on WIAA List
Wauwatosa's five man unit has 27 straight wins this season while Westfield leads the Big Sixteen with 13 straight victories. The WIAA list places Wauwatosa at number one among large schools and lists 16 teams in the Little Sixteen with enrollment under 200.
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German heavyweight Hein Ten Hoff eyes Louis clash
Hein Ten Hoff arrives in the United States as a six foot four inch German heavyweight champion weighing 216 pounds. He says he would welcome a fight with Joe Louis and hopes for three or four U. S. bouts, possibly at Madison Square Garden, under a six month contract with Lew Burston of the 20th Century Sing club. Hoff held the German title after defeating Walter Neusel in 1946 and previously fought for Germany on the Russian front, later becoming a British prisoner of war.
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