The Al^ JLi"AlVl Jl^xvlCyA •.. Selected by the Nationai Assoeiaiio FIRST TEAM • SECOND TEAM Forward BOB COUSY Holy Cro88 Forward JOHN PILCH Wyoming Forward DICK SCHNITTKER Ohio Slate Forward PAUL ARIZIN Villanova Center SHERMAN WHITE Lono; Island U. Center DON LOFGRAN San Francisco Guard PAUL UNRUH Bradley Gxiard CHET GIERMAK William & Mary Guard BILL SHARMAN Southern Cal. Guard DON REHFELDT Wisconsin N.C.A.A. DISTRICT ALL-STAR TEAMS MAINE SEW HAMP5HIHE NEW YORK NEW JERSEY MARYLAND DIST. OF CX)HIMBIA ILLINOIS OHIO VKRMOIVT MASSACHUSETTS PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE VIRGINIA NORTH CAROLINA INDLVNA MICHIGAN SOUTH CAROLINA KENTUCKY RHODE ISLAND CONNECTICUT WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN MINNESOTA TENNESSEE MISSISSIPPI GEORGIA LOUISIANA ALABAMA FLORIDA F BOB COUSY Holy Cross F P. ARIZIN Villanova F B. J. ADCOCK Vanderbilt F D. SCHNITTKER Ohio St. F F. OFTRING Holy Cross F ED DAHLER Duquesne F JIM RIFFEY Tulane F MEYER SKOOG Minn. C J. ROCKWELL Harvard C S. WHITE L.I.U. C C. GIERMAK W. & Mary C D. REHFELDT Wise. C M. FORMON Holy Cross G C. COOPER Duquesne C DICK DICKEY N. C. State G R. O'BRIEN Butler G J. OSBOIJRN Yale G L. FOUST La Salle G C. ANDERSON Ga. Tech. G KEVIN OSHEA NotreD. Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention John Burke, Springfield; Bruce John Azary, Columbia; Gerry Cala- Sam Ranzino, North Carolina State; Ron B(mtemps, Beloit; Dick Dall- Blount, Rhode Island State; Frank brese and Bob Zawoluk, St. John's; Bob Lavoy, Western Kentucky;Jim mer, Cincinnati; Dill Erickson, Illi­ nois; Bill Garrett, Indiana; Hal Malioney, Brown; Bob McMullan Jack Kilcy, Syracuse; George King, Line and Bill Spivey, Kentucky; Morris Harvey; Bob MacKinnon, Haskins, Hamline; Ray Ragelis, and Andy Laska, Holy Cross; James Dick McKenzie, Alabama; Joe Canisius; Curt Norris, Colgate; Jim Northwestern; Charles Share, Bowl­ Noertker, Virginia; Jimmy Slaugh­ Mullaney, Tufts; Tom O'Brien, Reilly, Svvarthmore; Ed Roman and ing Green; Henry Vaughn, Akron; Boston College; Vin Yokabaskas, Ed Warner, CCNY; Paul Senesky, ter, South Carolina; Sumner Tilson, Lou Watson, Indiana; Bill Schroer, Connecticut. St. Joseph's. Virginia Tech. Valparaiso. 8 MISSOURI NORTH DAKOTA ARIZONA TEXAS WYOMING COLORADO CALIFORNIA OREGON SOUTH DAKOTA KANSAS ARKANSAS UTAH MONTANA WASHINGTON IDAHO NEURASKA OKLAHOMA NEW MEXICO NEVADA IOWA F M. WHITEHEAD Nebr. F T. HAMILTON Texas F JOHN PILCH Wyoming F W. SHARMAN So. Cal. F JOE OSSOLA St. Louis F JACK BROWN So. Meth. F LOY DOTY Wyoming F ED GAYDA Wash. St. C C. LOVELLETTE Kansas C G. McLEOD T.C.U. C M. HLJTCHINS B. Young € D. LOFGRAN San Fran. G RICK HARMAN Kans. St. G J. MCDOWELL TCX.A&M G JOE NELSON B. Young G L. SORIANO Wash. G PAUL UNRUH Bradley* C L. BLEVINS Arizona G R. MINSON B. Young G G. STANICH UCLA Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Clarence Brannum, Kansas State; Bob Ambler and Jim Cathcart, Ar­ Glendon Anderson, Colorado A ik jM; Gene Conley, Washington State; Dave Dunlop, Grinnell, John Fric- kansas, Don Heathington and Odell Kenny Berrett, Utah Stare; Keith Rene Herrerias, San Francisco; dersdorf, Wichita; Wayne Glascow, Preston, Baylor; Joe McDermott Frank Guisness, Washington; Bob Oklahoma; Norm Jespersen, Iowa Bloom, Wyoming; Bob Cope, Mon­ Teachers; Lou Lehman, St. Louis; and Warren Switzer, Rice; Wade Payne, Oregon State, .Alan Sawyer, tana; Syd Rven and Dale Toft, Gene Melchiorre, Bradley'; John Oliver, Arizona State (Tempe); John UCL.\; George Yardley, Stanford; Rennicke, Drake; Jack Shelton, Denver, Glen Smith, Utah; Jack Stu Inman, San Jose; Billy Hagler, Oklahoma A & M; Ed Weber, North Dewitt and Walter Davis, Texas C.kota. A & M. Quamme, Colorado Cxillege. California. • Bra(IK->, nienibi-r of Missouri ValU'y Con­ Collier's for March 25, 1950 ference, nssi^niMl to Dislrir.t 5 by N.C.A.A. PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED u In College Basketball By BILL FAY of Bashethali Coaches .' i IHE line-ups tell the authoritative story of 1 how the coaches selected the 1950 All-Amer- t* ica in college basketball. First, they picked an All-Star team in each of the eight National Col­ legiate Athletic Association districts; then, they sifted this honor squad of 40 candidates for the nation's five best players. More than 200 members of the National Asso­ ciation of Basketball Coaches took part in the All- America balloting. Their recommendations were consolidated and evaluated by Collier's All-Amer­ ica board of famous coaches, which includes Vadal Peterson of Utah, chairman; Gordon Ridings, Co­ lumbia; John Bunn, Springfield; Roy MundorlT, Georgia Tech; Paul Hinkle, Butler; Edward Hickey, St. Louis; Jack Gray, Texas; Everett Shelton, Wyoming; and A. T. Gill, Oregon State. Any discussion of the personnel of this year's All-America must start with Bob Cousy of Holy Cross. His deft passes set up the plays which made the Crusaders the nation's No. 1 ranking team through most of the season. His flicked, one-hand shots accounted for 25 per cent of the Crusaders' total offense—and his astute defensive maneuvers frequently confounded the opposition. Against Kansas, for instance, he intercepted two passes and scored two baskets within four seconds. In the last two minutes, with Holy Cross leading 55 to 53, he went into a dribbling stall and controlled the ball until the game ended. Desperate Kansas defenders fouled him twice in those hectic final mo­ ments and he converted both free throws. Final score: Holy Cross, 57; Kansas, 53. The great passers in pro football—T-formation experts like Johnny Lujack and Otto Graham -can watch two or three potential receivers simultane­ ously. Coaches have a name for this rare skill— peripheral vision. Cousy has it, too. He frequently jumps for a shot, then passes to a teammate cutting in from the corner to, a better shooting position. Phog Allen, the Kansas coach, commented: "I think that Cousy can watch both corners and the basket, too." Cousy is a one-sport man. He plays basketball every day in the year. Last summer he worked as a waiter in a hotel in the Catskill Mountains and practiced three hours on an outdoor court every afternoon (perfecting the fine art of dribbling be­ hind his back). Bob lives in Saint Albans, N.Y. He's a senior, twenty-one years old, six feet one inch, 180 pounds. Not a big fellow as basketball players are measured, but the pros can't wait to grab him. "You know something," one pro coach commented recently, "that Cousy's going to be the greatest player since Nat Holman." Cousy's running (and shooting) mate at forward in the All-America line-up is Dick Schnittker of Ohio State. That name should be familiar to football fans, too, because Dick is the big fellow (six feet five inches, 206 pounds) who played of­ fensive end on the Ohio State eleven which edged California in the Rose Bowl last January 2d. Although Dick was an all-Ohio end in high school he did not participate in varsity football at Columbus until last September when Sherwin Gandee, the Buckeyes' ace pass catcher, suffered a shoulder injury. Whereupon, basketball coach Tippy Dye suggested to football coach Wes Fester that Schnittker fill in for Gandee, temporarily. Fesler accepted—and Dye did not recover his bas­ ketball captain and leading scorer until Ohio State tied Michigan for the Big Ten championship in the final game of the season. Then Fesler said, "Go ahead, Tippy. He's yours for a couple of weeks." Schnittker practiced for (Continued on page 87) Collier's for March 25, 1950 PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 18 One of those DAYS Bv HAL and BARBARA BORLAND Norm didn't think he'd ever get anywhere. He didn't know he was ah-eady there T WAS twenty-five after seven when Norm pulled him­ threatening customers, drivers and rival dispatchers alike. self half awake and crawled out of bed, quietly so he She had practically taught Norm the business. Sometimes I wouldn't disturb Lib. Steve, in his crib, whimpered Norm thought that in an extreme emergency Edna would softly. Norm got a warm bottle for him while he set the cof­ climb into a cab and personally deliver a load of dynamite, fee to perk. Then he got under the shower. or anything else, halfway across the country. The fact was It had been one of those nights. Lib had that impacted that Edna couldn't even drive a car. wisdom tooth out yesterday, and Steve was cutting teeth. She sat back now and said, "Bill's sick. Flu. The doctor So what does a man do? He lets his wife sleep, poor kid, put him to bed. Frank and Jack got off on schedule. Noth­ and he gets up every time the baby raises the roof. Four ing in the mail that I can't handle. Alfred has checked the times. Or was it five? snub-nose." Norm's head was still fuzzy and his eyes were only Norm already had his coat off. "Get Libby on the wire," half open. He got out of the shower and started to shave, he said. He went into the washroom where he changed nicked his cheek with a new blade and couldn't find a styptic from flannels to corduroys and pulled on a sweater. He pencil. Then, half his face still lathered, he remembered grabbed his leather windbreaker and went back out to the the coft'ee. phone. Dressed only in his shorts, he raced to the kitchen. Libby "Lib, Bill's sick. I'll have to take that load to Winwood was there, in a robe.