- Saturday, February 24 1934 -
SEC Tournament (at Atlanta, GA)
Kentucky - 32 (Head Coach: Adolph Rupp) - [Final Rank ]
Player | FG | FT | FTA | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jack Tucker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Evan Settle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Dave Lawrence | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
John DeMoisey | 6 | 4 | 9 | 16 |
Bill Davis | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
Milerd Anderson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 11 | 10 | 19 | 32 |
Florida - 38 (Head Coach: Ben Clemons)
Player | FG | FT | FTA | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jimmy Love | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
H.D. Kinsey | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
Robert Warner | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
George Smathers (*) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Welcome Shearer | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
Jimmy Hughes | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
George Gunn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 17 | 4 | 11 | 38 |
Prior Game | | | Next Game |
Vanderbilt 47 - 27 | | | Alumni 55 - 8 |
BIG SURPRISE
Comes in Dixie Play
When Florida Beats Kentucky, 38-32, In Second Round - Wildcats Trail at Half
Atlanta, Ga., February 24 - (AP) - The University of Kentucky, only team to finish the past season unbeaten and seeded No. 1 was summarily eliminated from the Southeastern Conference Basket Ball championship tournament in the second round here today by a surprisingly alert University of Florida quintet. Alabama, the second ranking team, drove into the semi-finals with a triumph over Mississippi State College, 37 to 25.
Taking the lead early in the game, which was a nip and tuck affair all the way, Florida led Kentucky into the half intermission, temporarily lost the lead midway of the second period and then forced ahead never to be overtaken, winning 38 to 32.
After Florida had rung up a 15-to-8 lead, the Kentuckians, apparently realizing their opponents stronger than they had anticipated, came to life and flashed their championship brand of ball to come within a point of the Gators at half time.
The lead see-sawed back and forth through the last period, with first one and the the other slipping ahead, but seldom to more than one point advantage. With five minutes to play Kentucky led 31 to 30.
Then Welcome Shearer, Florida guard, rung a long, looping field goal and the Gators stepped into the lead for good. Two free throws gave them a 34-to-32 margin and then Shearer came through with two field goals in succession. He was forced out then on excessive fouls, but his damage had been done and the final gun barked before Kentucky could do more toward regaining their lost laurels.
Game Postscript - [by Brownie Leach] Lexington Leader (February 26, 1934)
Down in Front
...MORGAN BLAKE, sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, complimented the Kentucky outfit highly in his column Sunday when he wrote the following:
After the game was decided in favor of Florida we assumed that the Journal photographer would forget about the picture. But lo and behold, he came up within a few hours later.
"Jumping Jerusalem!" we exclaimed, "you don't mean to tell me you asked Coach Rupp to carry out the idea after his team was beaten? It's a wonder he didn't sock you."
"No," said the photographer, "you told me to get the picture, and both Coach Rupp and Capt. DeMoisey were very gracious about it."
Now that's what we call real men. They kept their promise regardless of the fact that their hearts must have been broken. They agreed for DeMoisey to pose and that picture is on the sports page today. That was the finest piece of sportsmanship we have witnessed in a decade. We are proud that we sent our son to a school where such sportsmen abide."
John DeMoisey (#7) and Dave Lawrence (#8) recreate a shot from the Florida game