Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 26 | Missouri Bids to Dislodge Oklahoma as Hoop Champion

Missouri Bids to Dislodge Oklahoma as Hoop Champion NORMAN Okla OkJa Dec 28 AP APAn AP- AP An open title race this year eal threatens threat threat- atens at- at ens to dislodge Oklahoma from Its at itt the top of or tho thC Big Six basketball heap For ron two years ears tho the have smashed through conference opponents opponents opponents without defeat detent registering thirty one consecutive e triumphs within tho the circuit This year they want to make mak it one forty-one but the road looks rough I Tho The return of ot only three veterans from tram last Jast years year's powerful quintet and prospects of ot s serious opposition from other teams Missouri in particular particular par par- mako make Oklahoma's outlook not so ros rosy i CHURCHILL BACK Coach Hugh V. V McDermott McDermott wh who has brought Oklahoma basketball Into the spotlight has the tho clever clevel Tom Torn Churchill V conference all aU- aU forward forward tol for for- ward and leading Big Six sc scorer last season Beason to l lead ad the tho team Laury Laur Meyer another veteran forward an antI and Bill Noble oble experienced guard aro are the only other string first S' S leftovers McDermott must find a capable center and guard at t least to fill rUl out the lineup V Should the tho make this their third year without a conference confer confer- r- r once ence defeat Churchill will wUl have the honor of ot never having played cd l In a losing ga game o for tor Oklahoma In con con- ference basketball It was late lato in the tho season three years years years- ago when the began their winning spurt That year ear they won their last three games in the theold theold old Missouri 1 Valley conference and added elg eighteen teen more more the next year Last JAst year jear when the Big Six was organized they breezed through to toa toa a ri title without a 3 conference defeat NEBRASKA A STRONG Missouri with six six-foot six letter latter lettermen lettermen men back In schools school looms as a S' leading stumbling block In Oklahoma's Okla Okla- h homa's homas mas ma's path Nebraska which ran t n n third 50 0 o Missouri in last seasons season's race also has hns a complete quintet of ot V veterans Kansas 11 has as better prospects than thanin in two years yc rs while the tho hG Kansas Aggles and Iowa State m must st d depend vend largely on new material