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Show Slactcseat Qriving By FRANK K. BAKER Telegram Sperti Editor Take it from Charley "Chuck- Hyatt, who in h tfme has been one of the greatest basketball atari the country has ever known, the game is a lot tougher on the coaches than on the players. Having retired from activa play, Hyatt is qualified to make the comparison now inasmuch as he's directing tho nationaily famous Phillips team from Bartlesvilla, Okla., which will play tha Ecker quintet at the Deseret gym hera Thursday night Hyatt's name was synonymous with the "tops" in basket ball during the late '20s when he led Pittsburgh through three of its most successful seasons. Subsequently, he became one ef the top ranking players in independent circles for the next ball-dozen years, j Charley has been the winner of more "all-star" honors than ha cast remember. His name is linked with such greats ef basketball as Forrest "Red" Di Bernard!, famous rod. head who was aa all-A. A. U. tournament player for eight years, and Hank Lulsettl, the Stanford scoring ace, when- ever people start -talking ahtm tho J'droom" teams of has . ketball as Di Bernardl was a flashy type of player. Hyatt at his hast left aa Impression ef smoothness, and ha seemed to "float" about tha floor like a bug flitting across a tranquil tran-quil mill pond Instead ef having to depend on logs to carry hira from basket to basket. The former Pitt star retired as an active player at the conclusion of the 19)8 campaign after more than 1) years in the game. He played his first basketball in a Y. M. C A. league at Grafton, W. Va., and rose to scholastic attention with the Uniontown, Pa., team a few years later. He won his first all-America honors in 1921 at the national high school tournament in Chicago and began his long independent career with the Los Angeles Athletic club in 19)1, and made the A. A. U.'s all-America all-America team in big first year. Ha achieved similar honors in 1933 and 1934 with Tulsa's Diamond Oilers and did it again with theHpllywood Unlversals In 1935. He spent 1938 with a Kansas Cujr team and went to Bartlesvilla in 1937. Harold Schmidt 'resigned as coach of tha Phillips team following tha 1938 season to devote his attention to business and Chuck was picked to succeed as coach. Despite his observations observa-tions that the "coach worries more than the players," Chuck has made an impressive start as the team's championship campaign cam-paign in tha Missouri Valley A. A. U. league proves. Of course, he doesn't have to fret about material. His 10-man 10-man squad ranges from 8 feet to 8 feet 8 Inches and Includes such notables as Joe Fortenberry, who was with the old Ogden Boosters, and Ray Ebling, who set the Big Six scoring record a few years ago. The team won 11 ef Its first IS gamea this year and has gone to the national A. A. U. finals twice and finished third nee la the last three years. With a prestige like that to ' aphold, it's no wonder Coach Hyatt gets nneaty at times on the bench! 'BAMA'S IRON SOPH Jimmy Nelson, sophomore halfback, half-back, played more minutes In University Uni-versity of Alabama gamea the paat football season than any other man. |