Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-26 | Page 18 | Hawkeyes Top Point Makers

i Top lop Point Makers CHICAGO Feb 26 INS INS INS-If If Big Ten basketball teams were playing their old game 12 conference conference conference confer confer- ence schedules rather than the expanded game 15 cards six teams would have shattered the old team scoring record of points established established es established es- es in 1941 by Wisconsin Iowa's currently in ina ina ina a tie for second place nave set the scoring pace for the conference conference confer confer- ence to date and in their first 12 games they chalked up points or 52 more than the record Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Indiana Indiana In In- diana and Northwestern all bettered bettered bet bet- the old standard for the 12 game distance and Purdue and Ohio State both came within four fourpoints fourpoints fourpoints points of tying it Big Ten teams averaged ponts per game for their first 12 contests compared with for tor last year and during the season of 1932 just a decade ago Individual scoring records remained remained remained re re- re- re on the books for the 12 game distance with Johnny Kotz the Wisconsin flash registering points to fall 11 short of the point mark set by Jewell Young of Purdue in 1938 Chuck Carney of Illinois holds the all- all time scoring record of points but he established it in 1920 when one player could shoot all of the fre throws for his team Kotz failed by a single field I goal to tie Youngs Young's record of 69 in a game 12 season also set in 1938