OREGON FIVE HALTS OHIO STATE IN FINAL (NCAA Tournament-3/28/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 3/28/39 | AP, John Kieran

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Baseball fans won’t want to miss the sports column by John Kieran after the NCAA tournament story. It documents a spring training conversation with Lou Gehrig.

Madrid finally falls to Franco's forces as the Spanish Civil War nears its end. Poland again rejects German demands that Danzig be ceded to Germany.

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[edpc]

46-33. Wow....I am glad college implemented the shot clock a couple decades ago. When I was a kid, I remember watching Dean Smith’s Tarheels run the mind-numbing four corner stall against Lefty Driesell’s Terps. I don’t miss it.

[RayChuang88]

Dean Smith's four corners offense was the VERY reason why the NCAA instituted the 45 second shot clock. Especially after the 1982 ACC conference final when North Carolina used it to stop the University of Virginia, and boy did it annoy everyone watching it at the game and on national TV (ABC showed this game nationally).

[edpc]

Yeah, unfortunately, the rest of the NCAA was slow to follow the ACC. The only way Villanova was able to get into the finals and beat Georgetown was through the stall offense.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Basketball was very different in those days. I believe that overhand shots at the basket were still illegal, and of course dunking was both illegal and unheard of. Dribbling and the passing game was what the game was mainly about, sort of like hockey now. In addition to that the NCAA tournament, of which this was the first, was very definitely secondary to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), which was true until about 1960.