This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1962
Page
1
West Virginia, 8-0 in the Southern Conference, faces Richmond after an earlier 97-61 win. Meanwhile top teams such as Ohio State, Kentucky, Cincinnati and Villanova weighed in with wins and shocks, reshaping the national rankings as the season tightens.
Ottawa University Braves beat College of Emporia 61 to 54 in Emporia to claim their fifth Kansas Conference win. John McAninch led with 20 points, Tom Kinder added 18, while Pete Wong topped Emporia with 19. Ottawa moves to 5-2 in conference and 8-5 overall. next at Baker.
Saturday Cleveland defeated Kansas City 98 to 87. Sunday Kansas City beat Cleveland 120 to 104, giving Kansas City a 2-1 lead in the first half play offs. Monday features New York versus Kansas City at Pittsburgh, Cleveland at Pittsburgh, and Hawaii at San Francisco with further games Tuesday James Cleveland versus Kansas City at New York and Pittsburgh at New York.
Princeton defeated Rantoul 39 to 30, posting a 3-3 Franklin County league mark. Free throws carried Princeton as they hit 13 of 22 while Rantoul made 4 of 18. Rukes led Princeton with 10 points alongside Cole 9 and Johnson 10 for Rantoul.
The Kansas City Steers enter the second half of the American Basketball League season as defending champions after winning the first-half title with a 2-1 playoff over Cleveland. They beat Cleveland 120-104 as Nick Mantis scored 25 and Larry Staverman 24. Jack Adams led Cleveland with 30, while Larry Siegfried added 26 after intermission.
Gene Fullmer, the world NABF middleweight champion, aims at Archie Moore for the light heavyweight title but insists on a fair purse share. He spoke after being named Fighter of the Year by the New York Boxing Writers Association. Fullmer wants a straight middleweight match with Downes or Pender first if possible.
Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 135 points over a weekend, including 73 in regulation against Chicago lifting his mark and 62 in Boston Garden against the Celtics. Celtics win 145-136. Syracuse defeats New York 141-118, Cincinnati tops St Louis 119-114, Detroit beats Los Angeles 118-108.
After weeks sharing the Kansas Conference lead, Bethany College of Lindsborg tops the standings with Ottawa and Bethany’s wins over Emporia State and Sterling. The page lists upcoming games: Tabor at McPherson, Kansas Wesleyan at Fort Hays, Ottawa at Baker, plus matches involving Omaha, Washburn, Bethel, Tabor, Friends, and Southwestern. Sterling has dropped three straight after a 10-win start.
Great Bend Kammers top the team division with 3269 in the state American Legion bowling tournament. The three week event wraps up next weekend.
Weber, a 32-year-old St. Louis pro, won the national All-Star bowling title with a 248 final game after a 19-pin margin over Roy Lown of El Paso. He shared the spotlight as the tournament produced five perfect 300 games. Mrs. Shirley Garris of Chicago captured the women’s title with 647 in three games, defeating Joy Abel.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.