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‘Country Cousins’(Continued From Page 5)putting the Mountaineers on every sports page of the land.”“The good reputation and glory you brought to this great state couldn’t be bought for $2 million,” the governor declared.Baric and his mates gave Neely one of the $65 watches they had received for winning the NIT.Chester L Smith, then sports editor of The Pittsburgh Press, served as toastmaster for the banquet. “I never thought I’d have to come from Pittsburgh to Morgantown to find a champion,” he told the audience, “butgoodness knows they're scarce enough back home these days.”Dr. H. C. (Red) Carlson, Pitt’s veteran basketball coach, attended the fete. He praised the team as “a great one” and noted that he was “speaking from authority.”The Mountaineers had mauled theMOUNTAINEER BUS LINEMountamter Teams travel with Us. Why don't You?Groups* Partie$'ConvenfiorvtTou rs*Sport Events18 Are, WO Pk. 2)2-120$Panthers 864? that season.Dr. Charles La wall, WVU president, and Art Smith, then the athletic trainer, also spoke briefly as did Hawley who hailed the eagers as “champions both on and off the court. ”.‘ ‘They made a million friends for West Virginia in New York.” the athletic director said.One of those newly gained admirers had to be the author of these words in a New York paper:“West Virginia, welcomed throughthe back door of the fifth annual NIT at the Garden, got loose in the parlor and, in true rags-to-riches fashion, ended up by marrying the boss’s daughter.“So gone today from New York, with all its glitter and all its basketball stars, is the national basketball title. The Mountaineers of Morgantown defeatedWestern Kentucky State, 4745, in a breathtaking finale to one of the most successful of all tournaments.“A record crowd of 18,251 fans sat down at the start, but spent most of the night on their feet, shouting themselves hoarse for a couple of hillbilly teams that weren’t figured to get farther than the dressing room.”Another Gotham scribe summed up this way:“The winners started off the hard way by knocking LIU ail the way back to last summer’s practice at Jones Beach and ended up by beating the second best team in the tourney. The best team wasWest Virginia. ”
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Morgantown Dominion Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Sun, Feb 14, 1971
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