Friday, January 1, 1943
CLOUDBUSTER
Page Five
Now He^s Recognized Among the Best, But
Cloudbuster Mentor Started at Bottom
Lieut, (jg-) Dyke Raese, coach of
the Cloudbusters, is one of the young
est and most successful basketball
coaches in the business. Last year his
West Virginia University team won
the Madison Square Gar-den Invita
tional Tournament defeating such for
midable opponents as Long- Island Uni
versity, Toledo, and Kentucky.
Only 33 now, Raese was graduated
from West Virginia University in
1932. While there he played football
but, according to him, was not par
ticularly interested in basketball.
Came graduation and he returned
to his hometown of Davis, W. Va.
(population 3,500), and became head
coach and athletic director at the Davis
high school. Four years as head coach
and a record of 140 victories against
only 35 defeats placed his team in the
finals of the state basketball tourna
ment for four straight years, some
thing unheard of for a school with
Davis' small enrollment.
That wasn't all. His football teams
also compiled victory after victory, and
Coach Raese modestly admits that he
thought them better than his basket-
ballers.
News of Coach Raese’s coaching rec
ords reached his alma mater, and he
returned there in 1938 as head basket
ball coach. A record of 64 wins and
28 losses was made during the four
years he coached basketball at West
Virginia. The 19'42 season was the
most successful with 21 wins and three
losses.
Most basketball teams are composed
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Coach Dyke Raese
of players throughout the nation.
Raese’s 1942 club was composed almost
entirely of West Virginia boys, most
of whom came from towns with a
population of less than 5,000.
Raese’s system of coaching is a mix
ture of a fast break and deliberate set
offense, and it is based on expert ball
handling and tricky passing. He is a
stickler for details, and spends hours
drilling basketball fundamentals into
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his players. His championship ball
club of last year had only one man iii
the starting lineup over six feet tall,
and the success of the team was attri
buted to their almost perfect passing
and knowledge of the fundamentals
of the game.
Coach Raese expects his team to con
trol the ball a lot, and as he puts it,
“We try to hold the ball until we get an
almost certain scoring play, then we
shoot.”
West Virginia sportwriters only last
week voted him the coach of the year
in West Virginia. Biggest reason for
this honor was the showing of the West
Virginia University basketball team in
the Garden. Seeded eighth it was given
little chance of getting by top seeded
Long’ Island University in the first
round. Long Island, however, was
soundly thrashed as was second seeded
Toledo the following night. The only
close game for the West Vii'ginia club
was against Kentucky in the final
round.
Here at Chapel Hill alumni won’t
bother Coach Raese, but there’s a good
chance that he’ll wake up some morn
ing minus a basketball team. That’s
how things happen when cadets come
and leave every two weeks. With Raese
at the helm, however, it can be fairly
certain that Cloudbusters opponents
will have a tough time. At least, the
Cloudbuster coach hopes so.
Assisting Coach Raese are Lieut,
(jg) Kenneth Hashagen, former Uni
versity of Pennsylvania star, and En
sign John Barr, former All-American
center from Penn State. Before enter
ing the Navy, Hashagen was varsity
coach of basketball and track at Ur-
sinus college in Pennsylvania.
Barr, who was graduated from Penn
State in 1941, was assistant basket
ball coach there last year.
Squadron
Sports Schedule
JAN. 4
Basketball
Devastator vs. Helldiver
Skyrocket vs. Mariner ,
Wildcat vs. Buccaneer
Soccer
Devastator vs. Helldiver
Skyrocket vs. Mariner
Wildcat vs. Buccaneer
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JAN. 5
Basketball
Kingfisher vs. Mustang
Catalina vs. Coronado
Vindicator vs. Buffalo
Soccer
Kingfisher vs. Mustang
Catalina vs. Coronado
Vindicator vs. Buffalo
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JAN. 7
Basketball
Coronado vs. Mustang
Helldiver vs. Mariner
Devastator vs. Buccaneer
Soccer
Coronado vs. Mustang
Helldiver vs. Mariner
Devastator vs. Buccaneer
Volleyball
Vindicator vs. Devastator
Wildcat vs. Buccaneer
Buffalo vs. Catalina
Skyrocket vs. Kingfisher
Pushball
Mustang vs. Coronado
Mariner vs. Helldiver
Track
Devastator vs. Coronado
Buffalo vs. Buccaneer
Wildcat vs. Helldiver
Wrestling
Devastator vs. Coronado
Buffalo vs. Buccaneer
Wildcat vs. Helldiver
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Basketball
Buffalo vs. Skyrocket
Kingfisher vs. Wildcat
Vindicator vs. Catalina
Soccer
Buffalo vs. Skyrocket
Kingfisher vs. Wildcat
Vindicator vs. Catalina
Track
Kingfisher vs. Mai'iner
Catalina vs. Mustang
Vindicator vs. Skyrocket
Wrestling
Kingfisher vs. Mariner
Catalina vs. Mustang
Vindicator vs. Skyrocket
Boxing
Devastator vs. Coronado
Buffalo vs. Buccaneer
Wildcat vs. Helldiver
Kingfisher vs. Mariner
Catalina vs. Mustang'
Vindicator vs. Skyrocket
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There’s another bonecrusher on the
base these days.
Rougher than football or lacrosse,
as trying on individual endurance as
hockey and basketball, and embodying
the team spirit of a good tug of war
with a mob scene thrown in—pushball
is here.
Disguised undei’ a compai’atively
mild name, this old game newly added
to the athletic curriculum provides
cadets with an opportunity to man
handle each other in general and prac
tice highly individualized bUtzkreig
tactics in particular.
Lying quietly in state on the 60 yaid
line at the beginning of the game, and
every now and then when combat tem
porarily ceases, a six-foot diameter
rubber ball provides the center of at
tention for 22 charging athletic cadets
—11 on a side.
Intent merely on committing legal
ized mayhem—and nothing more the
sweat clothed gladiators attempt to
steamroller opposition by pushing the
i;ubber goliath over, under or around
each other and through a set of goal
posts on either end of the field.
Points scored thusly are tabulated
and duly entered on the record by the
scorekeeper, providing a winner at the
end of play. The cadets, however, use
a different system of scoring—points,
in their eyes, are scored by counting
the number of opponents strewn up
and down the field at the time the goal
is made.
Thus, another quiet and digniiied
team sport enters on the roster of body
building athletics being used by the
Navy in its Pre-Flight program.
Sport Slants^
Outstanding athletes are so numer
ous in the Pre-Flight School here that
most of them go about their daily
chores completely unnoticed. Buddy
Hassett, who only last October, played
first base for the Yankees in the World
Series, has just completed his V-5
training here, and he will stay aboard
as an officer in the athletic department.
Pete Appleton, a pitcher of no little
ability who starred with the surpris
ing St. Louis Browns last year, has also
come aboard as an officer. Like Has
sett, he took his V-5 training here.
Adolph Kissell, who played halfback
for the Chicago Bears this past fall,
has come aboard as a cadet. He par
ticipated in 10 games with the Bears
this year which means that he must be
a pretty fair professor of the grid
iron. We talked to him after the up
set victory of the Washington Red
skins over his former mates, an e
was anything but happy about the
whole affair. We couldn’t help but
think how much he wanted to partici
pate in that game. He came migbty
close, we might add, for we noticed that
he was listed among those players
eligible to participate. At the present
time, he’s trying out for the varsity
basketball team.
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Comdr. John P. Graff spoke before
the coaches and athletic directors of
the Southern Conference recently m
Richmond.
“All rules are out in this war and
American soldiers must be in good phy
sical condition to hand it out,” said
our Skipper, who spoke on the import
ance of physical development. “It is
not a case of ‘We can take it’ any
more. The Marines handed it out at
Wake Island. Once there was only a
day’s supply of ammunition at Guadal
canal, but we still have it. The reason
the Marines are outstanding soldiers
is because they areUaught the im
portance—the necessity—of good phy
sical condition and are well trained.”
Comdr. Graff added that the four
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