TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940

 

Henry's Men
Will Play

Nine Games

By Horace Mason

Gwinn Henry’s improving Jay-
hawker football team will tackle a
nine-game schedule this fall, start-
ing winth the Iowa State game at
Ames Oct. 5. Fall practice gets*under
, way Sept. 10.

Fourteen lettermen and four men
who won provisional letters last fall
will form the nucleus around which
Coach Henry will build his team. A
number of promising sophomores
will bid against the veterans for posi-
tions in the lineup.

Lettermen back in action will be
Ward Crowell, end; Jake Fry, half-
back; Denzel Gibbens, halfback; Jim
Holloway, tackle; Ed. Hall, fullback;
Herb Hartman, guard; W. F. Jack,
tackle; Jay Kern, guard; Quido Mas-
sare, guard; Monte Merkel, tackle;
Ralph Miller, halfback; Don Pierce,
center; Ed. Suagee, quarterback; and
Hubert Ulrich, end. In addition,

 

Wayne Wilson, who lettered at cen-
ter in 1937, will be on hand.

Provisional letter winners who
will see action include Dick Brown,
tackle; John Burge, end; Chester
Gibbens, halfback; and Vincent
Graves, end.

Star of last year’s freshman team
was Don Pollom, former Topeka high
school ace. The fleet Topeka young-
ster scintillated in spring practice,
breaking loose for one long run af-
ter another. He is expected to con-
tribute materially to the Jayhawk
offense. Pollom is the holder of the
national high school record in the
200 yard low hurdles.

The opening date will be the latest
in recent years, despite the fact that
the Jayhawks are playing one more
game than they did last season. - In
1939 Kansas downed Iowa State 14-
0 and Coach Henry’s eleven will be
striving to duplicate that victory at
Ames, Oct. 5,

The Jayhawks then return to the

home field for their next two games,
meeting Drake at Lawrence Oct. 12
and Nebraska here Oct. 19. Against
the Drake Bulldogs, Kansas will be
out to avenge the defeat suffered at
Des Moines last fall. The Nebraska
game will bring up the problem of
attempting to put an end to the Corn-
husker victories which date clear

- from 1916.

The “annual Kansas classic”, Kan-
sas vs. Kansas State, is on tap for the
following weekend, Oct. 26. Last fall
this game drew a crowd of nearly
20,000 at Lawrence.

The longest trip of the season takes
the Jayhawks to Philadelphia for a
game with the tough Villanova team,
Nov. 2. Bib Six competition is re-
sumed the following weekend with
Oklahoma coming to Lawrence Nov.
9 for a conference game. The Soon-
ers again rate as one of the main
contenders for the league crown.

Back to the East go the Kansas
gridders the following week for a
game with George Washington Uni-
versity at Washington, D.C., Nov. 16.
Last year the Colonials’ beat the Jay-
hawks in a real thriller 14-7.

The “Big Game”, Kansas vs. Mis-
souri. will be played on Missouri’s
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 21. This will
give the Jayhawks only a short pe-
riod of rest between that all-import-
ant engagement and the long trip
to Washington.

When Thansgiving is celebrated in
Kansas, Nov. 28, the Jayhawks will
be playing Colorado State at Law-
rence in the final game of the season.
The 1939 game resulted in a 7-0 vic-
tory for Henry’s eleven over the
Coloradoans.

 

Sooners Fear njo-¥

The Name Allen

Howard Engleman, a member of

the University’s Western N.C.A.A.
championship basketball team, has
written Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball
coach and summer recreation pro-
gram director, that the gentry around
Bartlesville, Okla., where Engleman
is employed, “are still wondering
what you had up your sleeve at
Wichita last winter.”
Engleman, referring to the amaz-
ing victory of the Jayhawkers over
Oklahoma A. & M. for the right to
enter the Kansas City tournament,
‘Says that the name Allen “strikes
fear in their hearts.”

An interesting observation made
by “Rope”, as he is known here, is
that there is a decided lack of in-
terest and loss of love for the game of
basketball by professional players,

 

“when they’re playing for their

bread and butter.” He also admitted
he’s already homesick for the next
basketball season, more than five
months away.

Engleman, it will be remembered,
scored the winning basket in the
final hectic seconds of the game with
the University of Southern Cali-
fornia for the right to meet In-

diana’s Hoosiers for the national

 

 

championship,