Show BIG AS A BARREL Collegiate Star Scores 56 In K C. C Tourney B By SKIPPER PATRICK KANSAS CITY March 11 AP AP- AP Anything that might happen In the remaining five tI days of ot competition In in the national intercollegiate basketball basketball basket basket- ball tournament N NAIB A I B likely will wm willbe willbe be an anticlimax to the record breakIng breaking breaking break break- ing proceedings of ot the first eight games With several of ot the better scoring teams yet to make their debuts heres here's the tournament record that went by bythe bythe bythe the boards during yesterdays yesterday's opening card Nate DeLong foot 6 Inch 5 freshman freshman treshman fresh tresh- man center of ot Wisconsin State Teachers Teach Teach- ers era River Falls plunked In 22 field goals and ond 12 free tree throws throw for 56 points breaking the N NAIB A I B record of ot 38 points set by Pete Foto of ot George college in 1942 Points Point Marshall college of Huntington W. W Va set a a a- anew new team scoring mark in beating Wisconsin State DeLong and andall andall all to 80 The combined Mar Wisconsin Marshall State score points topped any single game scoring in the previous el eight ht tournaments The old tournament ment game record of ot points points Indiana Indiana State 83 Stevens Stevens Stevens Ste Ste- vens Point WIs Vis 45 in 1942 1942 was was beaten In tour lour of ot the eight games yesterday All told a grand total of ot 1014 points was scored in th the first eight games an average of at points per game or 63 points per team Point making wasn't limited to the River Marshall-River Falls contest how how- ever Clift McNeely the little Texas Wesleyan forward who tops the nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's scorers brought his total for lor 31 games to points as he scored 31 points in leading his team to an 84 50 50 4 victory over Linfield college of ot Ore Tallies 31 Mickey Marty of ot Loras college Dubuque Ia la the third highest scorer in the nation was also a point 31 maker but his team dropped a 71 63 decision to Minnesota State Teachers of Mankato Hank Epp of ot the Minnesota Minne 1 sota aggregation got 28 points Scores In first round play Minnesota State Teachers Mankato Mankato Man Man- kato 71 Loras college Dubuque Ia la 63 University of oC Houston 60 Montana State Bozeman 58 Arizona State Flagstaff 49 49 Youngstown 0 O. O college 45 |