Show i r- r f- f f Sectionalism in Sports 1 I i IT TT IT V WAS VAS AS hardly surprising to read that Pur Fur purdue Purdue I due and Indiana led the other western I conference teams in iii basketball ratings this wh There is no state in the Union where T basketball is is as s popular as it is in Indiana a winning basketball team is prized I even ven cven above a winning football team I Our sports arc nationally played but there are strange sectional differences in some of them Why should basketball be more popular popular pop pop- popular ular in Indiana than elsewhere for instance Why do New England colleges still set great store on baseball while middle western schools M q nearly ignore it Why has hockey one of the best games ever invented gone ahead so much faster in Canada and New England than in the west vest The country isn't entirely uniform even ct Not in sports anyway |