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Open Play Today 32-Team NAIB TournamentKANSAS CITY, Mo., March 8 (U.P) Cage powerhouses from jacross the nation opened the10th annual National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball championship tournament today aiming for both a tourney title and a berth in the OlympicsbruckctEight-game first-round cards were to be played both today andtomorrow, with the second roundWednesday.The games today pitted Montana vs. New Britain, Conn.,! Teachers; East Central Oklahoma State vs. Beloit; South Dakota. State vs. Louisville; Southern 11-linois vs. Oregon Southern; Law-; rence Tech. vs. Appalachian j Teachers; Northeast Missouri vs. Arizona State; Marshall vs. Pero; and Brigham Young vs. Mississip-. _I pi Delta Teachers. |~A glance at the 32-team brack et showed that the week-long jNAIB tournament, organized by ; small state colleges, has graduated from the “little basketballstage. . .Entered were such classy teamsas Brigham Young, Denver, Xavier of Cincinnati, University ot Louisville, Manhattan College andTexas Wesleyan.Winner of the NAIB’s Olympicspot will be pitted against NCAA and New York invitational tournament winners.This year’s NAIB meet wibmake history in that for the first time a Negro player will participate.Clarence Walker of East Chicago, a substitute guard tor Indiana State, is the only Negro registered for play in the meet It was at the insistence of Mannat-an College of New York—which j vill bring no Negro players to vansas City — that the NAIB j )oard of executive directors took j i telegraphic poll on the racialssuc.The poll rescinded a rule that had barred Negroes from the .ourney. Advance ticket salesaroke all previous records.
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Harrisburg Daily Register
Harrisburg, Illinois, US
Mon, Mar 08, 1948
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