Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — PLANS FOR HIGH SCHOOL TOURNEY ARE ANNOUNCED [ARTICLE]

PLANS FOR HIGH SCHOOL TOURNEY ARE ANNOUNCED

Jill I .A.*} Laporte, Ind., Nov. 2T.—Plans for holding the state high school basketball meet this year, wore outlined in a statement given out here today by E. R. Trester, secretary of the Indiana High School Athletic association, after the board of control had discussed ways and means of accommodating all teams in the association. According to the statement, the state will be divided into four regions, each to hold eight meets, making a total of 32 tourpeys in Indiana. Each one of these 32 tourneys will be made up of about sixteen teams. At the completion of these tourneys 32 teams will remain in the running for the state title. Two of these regions with their sixteen winners will play one series of games at some university and the other two regions will play another series at another university: 16 In Finals. In- each of these semi-fihals regional series of games Winners will result, making a total of sixteen teams left in the finals which will be played on the coliseum floor in Indianapolis. The winner of this tourney -by the elimination route will be the champion high school team o/ Indiana. Centers for the sectional tourneys have not been --selected, but dates have been selected as March 4 and 5. The semi-final regional series will be played March 12, while the state tourney will be held on March 18 and 19.

Although the two universities to hold the semi-final regional series have not been selected, Indiana and Purdue are likely bo be the ones. Both have been approached on the subject but neither has accepted or declined the offer. The plan also forwarded by the board of control calls for no more than sixteen teams in any tourney. The scheme will take care of 512 teams, while the state high school association has a membership of almost this number.