| Show Topics From r a The Tep Tepee e eBy S Sa Z S By TOMMIE PORTER 3 4 The individual scoring record in basketball Is climbing again and since the present leader Ken Griffith of Alderson Broaddus Alderson-Broaddus Broaddus W. W Va college has eight games remaining this season the ceiling is not yet in sight The national record books first began to note individual scoring for or a college career when Robert H. H Many of Lehigh university put away his togs in 1930 after swishing swishing swish- swish ing ng points through through the the hoop in n his three seasons of tion ion That started something and andhree three years later Ernie Schmidt of the Kansas State Teachers college college col- col lege at Pittsburg completed four cage seasons with an even 1000 points While he was bombing the he hoop in that fashion slender Les Jes Witte was helping Wyoming top op the Rocky Mountain conference conference conference confer confer- ence with a similar display of ac ac- ac curacy On the half acre gymnasium court at Laramie Witte went into nto the R M C title series of 1934 against Brigham Young university university university sity with a year three-year total of 1966 66 points He caged 20 points in n the first game but only eight the next night when tightly guarded by big Jim Hunter in a areat great reat game Then at the national A A U in Kansas City Les climaxed climaxed cli- cli his collegiate career by hiking liking the national year four-year record record record rec rec- ord to 1043 as the Cowboys drove to o the finals The following season Glen Roberts Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts of Emory and Henry college collegen in n Virginia really hiked the record record record rec rec- ord caging 1531 points in the 80 games of a year four-year career His seasonal totals were as he garnered more than half again as many points as as' as Witte had totaled Bill Kinner of Utah went over the he 1000 mark in 1936 but h he was well below the national record record record rec rec- ord by that time Stanford's Hank Luisetti pushed the he record up to 1596 as he concluded concluded concluded con con- his collegiate caging in 1938 Then along comes this chap Griffith who now has a mere 1681 points after cracking Luisetti's ti's i's is mark with a point 27 barrage two wo weeks ago And since he has eight games remaining Griffith seems likely to push the record to formerly undreamed-of undreamed heights He le has caged points in his last four sam games s. s Utah's scholastic basketball records show that Lawrence Tuffy Tuf- Tuf Tuffy fy ty Stillman Bingham forward caged points in the league play of four seasons 23 1920 a mark which compares very favorably with the collegiate sharpshooters His seasonal totals including state tournament play were and in a grand total of 46 games Stillmans Stillman's mate Tommy Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son set another state record in caging points for 11 league games games of 1920 when Tuffy was ringing up and George Knudson Knudson Knudson Knud- Knud son was scoring Probably one of the most phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal phe phe- basketball scoring records records records rec rec- in the book was compiled complIed in inthe inthe inthe the 22 1921 season when Bobby Thompson of the then top-notch top Passaic N. N J. J high school casaba outfit rang up a total of an even 1000 points The Passaic squad then was on its way to what is yet a team record of consecutive consecutive consecutive tive victories What is thought to be the best record for women's basketball was put up by Iris Spencer of Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming Pa high school who gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered a total of 1089 points in 20 games from November 13 1925 to April 12 1926 including one game in which she scored points |
