IS PACIFIC COAST BALL
BETTER THAN BIG TEN?
by The Associated Press
Either Pacific Coast confer
ence football is getting better
or the Biig Ten brand is slip
ping, a check of the records
showed today.
PCC teams have defeated Big
Ten opponents four times in 6
games this season with one
more to go — and Sou'.hern
California is a near unanimous
choice to make it five out of 7
over Minnesota Saturday at
Minneapolis.
The record is a complete!
switch from that compiled on-j
ly a year ago. Western teams
won only 'twice in six encoun
ter* during the 1954 regular
season play.
Coast winners this year have
been Stanford. 6-0 over Ohio
State; UCLA, 33-13 over Iowa;
Southern California. 33-21 over
Wisconsin; and Washington,
30-0 over Minnesota. The los
ers are Stanford, 38-14 to Mich
igan Ststf.e, and California, 20
13 over Illinois.
Last year the only two PCC
victories over Big Ten foes,
were by slim margins — Stan-’
ford’s 12-2 from Illinois and
Southern Cal’s 12-7 from Nor
thwestern. On the other side of
the ledger, Michigan State
crushed Washington State 54
0; Minnesota walloped Oregon
State 44-6: Michigan beat Wash
ington 10-0 and Ohia State beat
Californio 21-13.
AJgJam'st ocher non-con rerence
opposition, though, the Coast
isn't doing as well. Last year
PCC teams broke even in 24
games with all other non-lea
gue teams, excluding 'the Big
Ten. This fall, with seven such
games sltill on the schedule, the
records show ony seven victor
ies against nine defeats.
AU-tt&me PCC records, dat
ing back to 1916. Show mem
ber teams with a combined 31
39-3 s'lai.e against the Big Ten
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and a 179-131-16 mark against
all other non-eonlference teams
What albout the Rose Bowl?
POC teams have won only 1
twice in lil games with Bilg Ten
teams While posting a 14-10-3
mark against all other schools.
The Iasi Coast triumph in the (
Pasadena post-season classic,
was Southern California’s 7-0;
over Wisconsin in the 1953
game. The first was in 1921,
when California whomrped Ohio
State, 21 0.
The Big Ten has won 8 of the
9 Rose Bowl games played be
tween the two conferences
Since the present series star ed
in 1947.
Gil Nettings
by Gil Truitt
Editors note: This is the first
in a series on local teams.
In 1940, when the famed
Sitka City Team called it quits
after running up five consecu-'
tive seasons without defeat and
winninlg as many titles during
that span, local basketball en
thusiasts saw the end of op era
that mlany thought would never
be revived.
Alter finiishmg a lackluster
season in 1945, the Sitka ANB
seemingly had no future as a
local cage threat, what with
Sheldfon Jackson dominaiting
all the spotlight as an independ
emit power that Stretched from
Haines to Metlakat!a. A new
era was 'being ushered in, but
few were aware of it. Suffer
ing a disasterous season in 1946
the Tribe, this time engineered
by Moses Johnson who had
just returned from the wars,
came back in 1947 and was the
talk of the town for more than
four months, driving from the
cellar and into the playoffs
only to lose a stirring 55-53
thriller to a great SJS team.
Disappointed again in 1948 af
ter dropping a heart breaking
31-29 decision to another SJS
team in the semi-finals of that
year, the ANB was all set for
the big push that was to begin
in 1949.
The addition of Nick Kasa
kan, an all time ANB great who
had come out of retirement “for
just one more year/’ and Her
by Didrickson and Roger Lang,
the hot-shot twins who had
just completed brilliant careers
at SJS and were later to form
the nucleus of many great ANB
squads, were all that the local
Tribe needed to sweep past a
powerful Metlliabatla VFW five
in the finals of .he 1949 Gold
Medial tournament. This 1949
contingent has been called by
many the greatest independent
outfit this basketball hotbed
has seen since the colorful City I
Team hung up their suits for
the last time in 1940. '
Certainly one of the most
successful quints in the South
eastern region, boasting seven
consecutive city league titles j
besides representing Sitka five
times as fiamlists in the Gold
Medal, the ANB clan is all set
to aeiend. its local crown ana
unless the scarlet and white
stuimMes somewhere alonl>' the:
line between now and Febru- i
ry, should carry the Sitka ban j
ner for the tenth successive'
year. j
With Biill Peters at the helm
for the first time as manager,
there is little reason to suspect *
a sudden collapse in the ANB !
camp. Morale is at its highest j
pdjtcsh since the 1949 campaign
and if John Bor bridge should
suddenly end bis retirement, 1
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and if Mer/i'e Williams will stay
healthy for at least one season,
the ANB picture looms bright
est since its near miss in 1950.
With Buddy H. R. Lang return
ing to this Island city next
week, the Tribe should have its
strongest rebounding team since
1950.
Enjoying the best season last
year since leaving SJS some
seven years ago, Herb Didriek
son shows every indication of
picking up where he left off
last spring. Old standby Roger
Lang and newcomer Tommy
Lang should provide -the scar
let and white With additional
rebound power, long an ANB
weakness. Moses Johnson, ev
erybody’s favorite, and Joe
Truitt, will! undoubtedly keep
the running game at the same
consistent tempo that bais been
an ANB trademark for years.
Taking on its most ambitious
schedule in many seasons, the
Tribe must trim its roster from
the many hopefuls turning out
in order to tune-up for its big
cfllash with the Ketchikan Rock
ets who will be invading this
city next month. After that,
unless plans should suddenly
change to keep the Juneau Im
perials from coming to show
| to local fans why they are the
j defending Southeastern champs
1 the local titilists should have
their hands full. Wrangell, on
the march once more after a
; apse of many years in the inde
pendent circuit, are now in the
process of booking a home and
home series with the scarlet
clad quint immediately follow
ing the visits by the Rockets
and Imperial's.
Carry the Sitka banner has
become a habit with the per
i (continued on page three)
Union merger
nears completion
I NEW YORK {IP) Prepara
tions for merging the AFL and
the CIO into one big laibor or
ganization are practically com
pleted, report lia/bor leaders
George Meany and Walter
Reuit/her.
Alaskan pulp
developing pu'lp mills in Alaska
under American ownership to
insure our newspapers a Stable
supply at reasonable prices. I
would appreciate your views
as to what can be done to alle
viate the situation, at least
temporarily.”
i
Eisenhower
spect of a compromise here be
tween the Western and Soviet
approaches.
The conference which began
here Thursday is an outgrowth
of the Geneva summit meeting
in July when heads of the four
governments spent a week Of
cordial but highly generalized
’ talks abouit Germany and oth
er worild problems. It is also a
i continuation of negotiations
j carried on at a foreign minist
i ers meeting on Germany at Ber
i iin in January-February 1954.
Fin ay, whose government at
Paris is threatened with dissol
ution tomorrow because of in
ternal French problems wa®
, chairman for the opening ses
sion.
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