Yearlings Play Prominent
Role in Spring Football
Practice at K. U.

Freshmen gridders are playing a
prominent role in spring football
practice at the University of Kan-
sas as the Jayhawks go into their
fifth week of workouts.

Three yearling backfield stand-

outs have been working in the same
combination in most of the spring
sessions. This trio consists of Ray
_Niblo, of Dallas, Tex., Ray Evans
‘of Kansas City, Kan., and Don Et-
|tinger of Independence, Mo. Evans
iis a former Wyandotte high school
lstar, while Ettinger played for
William Chrisman high.

Teaming with them recently has!
|been Marvin Vandaveer of Welling-
ton, first string quarterback a good

part of the time last fall. Vanda-
veer is bigger this spring, having ;
gone over the 185-pound mark, and ;
has been playing fine ball.

The freshman backfield aces, Ni-
blo, Evans and Ettinger, all are out-
standing ball carriers. Evans is the |
shortest of the three at six feet one
‘inch and the lighest at 180 pounds.

_ Three other yearling backs who

jhave shown ‘considerable promise

are Ralph Childs, fullback from

Kansas City, Kan.; Ed Vandaveer,

|a small, elusive back from Welling- |
ton, and Frank Vratil, blocker from |
| Larned.
| Bolstering the line at the vital |
|tackle spots are a pair of 215-pound-

| ers for;whom the coaches have high |
‘hopes, Warren Hodges of Lawrence |
and Jack Tenenbaum of Dayton, O.

| At guard, where two crack varsity |
men were lost to the army, Coach

Gwinn Henry has good looking re-

placements from the freshman team

in Gene Long of Pleasanton; Joe

Crawford of Kansas City, Kan., and

Jack Brownell from Wichita.

Right in the middle of the fight
for the center berth left by Don
Pierce are a pair of new men, Bob
Githens of Fredonia and Dale Low-

‘ery of Dodge City. Githens was an
all-state junior college selection at
pendence JuCo..
| Freshman ends looking good in- |
lelude Al Hecht of Coldwater, who
jwas shifted from the backfield this
‘spring; Paul Turner of Kansas City,
Kan., a member of the Jayhaxwks’
great freshman basketball team;
George Dick of McLouth and Dave
Doleshal of Kansas City, Kan.