Show Four Unbeaten Schools Falter In Mondays Monday's Basketball Play Will m ilI By BJ Grimsley NEW V YORK Dec 28 UP Col R-Col- Col- Col lege ege basketballs basketball's thinning ranks of unbeaten unbeaten teams reeled Tuesday under the heaviest s single blow of the he young campaign Four quintets were swept from the tie perfect list W list Washington a ash s h i n g t ton o n State tate Canisius Indiana and Pur- Pur due ue This left only 18 major teams till still without a blemish Of these seven even had to survive tough tests Monday londay night Outfits managing to carry carryon on without a setback were Bradley Stanford LaSalle of Philadelphia V V e C est s 5 t e ern r n Kentucky Duquesne Lawrence Tech and Alabama The seasons season's longest winning string tring was snapped when Washington Wash Wash- ington State which had scored 10 straight victories was tripped by U UCLA C L LA A 54 44 in liv the Pacific Coast conference tournament at San Francisco Bradley thus became the nalon's nations nation's nations nation's na- na tion's lon's biggest wi winner ner achieving No NolO in a r row w at the expense of ot St SL Marys Mary's of California 69 Canis Canisius ius which had won six was toppled by Western Vestern Kentucky at Buffalo N. N Y 65 59 65 giving the blue grass boys their seventh triumph triumph tri tri- without reversal Indiana bowed to Butler 64 55 and Purdue lost to Notre Dame Damo 50 51 on Leo Barnhorst's free throw in the thela last il 10 se seconds in a doubleheader at Indianapolis Stanford's Indians won their ninth straight by humbling Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon 70 62 62 in the P pee C C one ment-one nent one of three tournaments that hat got into the holiday hollday swing The other meets were the Big Seven at Kansas City and the all all- college event at Oklahoma City The program was further spiced by jy doubleheaders at Madison Square Garden in N New cw York Convention Con Con- v hall in Philadelphia and Buffalo Bufalo N. N Y The P PC C C tournament also saw California trounce Washington the defending conference cham chain 55 S S S I. I 73 49 and Southern California California Cali Cali- forn fornia a upset Oregon State 60 40 LaSalle and Lawrence Tech of Detroit joined Western Vestern Kentucky as teams that now have lined up seven straight victories LaSalle had to overcome a 13 point deficit to whip Louisville 76 71 at Convention hall hallin m n Phila delphia Utah won the first game of this show beating St. St Josephs Joseph's of Philadelphia 78 Lawrence Tech won over Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado State 45 Duquesne took its fourth by conquering Rutgers 53 43 Alabama winning No 5 upset a favored Southern Methodist university university university uni uni- 42 39 in the college all-college tournament at Oklahoma City In other tournament games the Oklahoma opened defense of ot their title by overpowering Texas Tech 26 47 Baylor toppled Auburn 59 44 and Texas turned back Colorado A. A and M M. 56 Defending champion K Kansas a n s a s State won its first game in the Big Seven conference me meet t defeating defeating defeating de de- de- de Nebraska 48 Iowa State was also a victor ousting specially invited Harvard 56 Another tournament opens Tuesday Tues Tues- day the day the L Los s Angeles invitational and and some more damage will threaten the undefeated ranks North Carolina State and Hamline both without a setback are entered entered entered en en- in the team eight-team field |