Connor Elliott, Cottonwood Basketball Star late 1930s
March 1, 2009 - 8:30am — CottonwoodTexas
While searching through some old Abilene Reporter-News newspapers, I came across this article on Connor Elliott who passed away last November -
Lack of Other Sports Started Elliott as Cager
by Howard Green, Abilene Reporter News, Mar 6, 1940
If Cornelius Elliott hadn't gone to school in a rural district as a high school sophomore, one of the finest cagers Abilene Christian is due to know would likely never been developed.
Elliott vows he never touched a basketball before moving to Cottonwood. And he did so then, only because there were no other sports for him to play.
That was some four years ago, at the age of 15, when Elliott began his meteoric cage career. Today he is rapidly winning a richly deserved niche in the Abilene Christian hall of fame.
The road to success for Elliott hasn't been a rock one. Moving back to Cross Plains, the city of his birth, as a junior, he played some very fine basketball. During his senior year, he was a real standout, making the Reporter-News all-regional team.
Perhaps quite a few Texas conference coaches and rival players with that Elliott had never transferred to Cottonwood.
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, TX 6 Mar 1940
