--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 6 published: 1922-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "State Champions in Basket Ball," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 6 (April 1922): 541.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2506unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2506unse start_page: 541 end_page: 541 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2506unse publication_year: 1922 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1922, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # State Champions in Basket Ball STATE CHAMPIONS IN BASKET BALL FOR 1921-22 B. Y. U. l. Paul Packard, 2. Glen Simmons, forward; 3. Russel Swenson, for- ward; 4. Ralph Keeler, center; 5. Kenneth Wright, captain, guard; 6. Elwood Jackson, sub-guard; 7. Vernon Tolboe, manager; 8. Leo Meredith, suU-guard; 9. Teuton Reeve®, sub-forward; 10. "Monty" Groesbeck, sub- guard; 11. Ross Nielson, sub-center. Partridge not in the group. Once more the Brigham Young University emerges from the inter- collegiate basket-hall season with a championship pennant for its trophy room. The history of the indoor sport in Utah shows that the big "Mor- mon" university has won more intercollegiate championships than all of its competitors combined. In the sport of basket ball especially, the Brigham Young University has established traditions of winning. These traditions are wonderful stimulants for continued winning. Each year the basket-ball team is made to feel that it has a long line of successful ancestry to fight for. Each season the players are made to see back of them a series of championships and a lineage of fighters. The awareness of this history is one of the greatest factors in forcing the athletes to extend themselves to the limit to uphold past traditions. Habits of living are, perhaps, more responsible than anything else for the success of the B. Y. U. athletes. With but few exceptions the basket ball boys representing the Church university have been fine examples of "Mormon" living. It has been noticeable that the championship teams have been composed mostly of this type of young men. The athletes have observed carefully training rules in every detail. They have kept the Word of "Wisdom. They have regarded their athletic battles with prayerful seriousness.