Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bugaboo of college basketball teams this year is not Purdue, Indiana or Wisconsin, but a team of sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Last week, before 5,000 screaming trainees who packed the Station's brand-new drill hall, they swamped Northwestern, 47-to-38, for their 14th victory in 16 starts...
...Station called back into service Lieut. James Russell Cook, one of its 1918 alumni. Unlike Halas, Conzelman, Bachman and Driscoll, Cook-who was a three-letter man at De Pauw University-had chosen basketball as a professional career. For ten years (1920-30) he produced razzle-dazzle quintets at Indiana's Central Normal College; nursed one, composed of five brothers named Reeves, along to the semi-finals of the 1929 National A.A.U. basketball tournament...
With Cook as coach and a promise of petty officer ratings for players, Great Lakes at once attracted the cream of draft-age college basketball stars. It got University of Detroit's Bob Caliban, picked for an All-America basketball team two years ago; Indiana's Ernie Andres, who set a Big Ten record in 1938 when he scored 31 points in one game; Ohio U's Frank Baumholtz, voted the most valuable player in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Invitation Tournament last year; Stanford's Forrest Anderson, All-Pacific Coast forward; Missouri...
Having made about two-thirds of the team's points, Captain Mike Keene, Frank Bixler, and Dean Hennessey are easily the standouts on the squad. Besides being from the mid-West, Keene and Bixler from Indiana and Hennessey from Illinois, all three live in the north entry of Matthews Hall which always sends a special cheering section to the Freshman games. Hennessey halls from the same town and high school in Illinois as "Bunks" Burditt, star of the Varsity's victory over Dartmouth...
...fast. Early last month four freight cars bulging with corn rolled up to National Distillers' big Carthage distillery in Cincinnati. Less than 96 hours later this corn was alcohol gurgling into a waiting railroad tank car; 48 hours later the alcohol was being piped into an Indiana powder plant...