Before I start my talk of the evening, I wish to congratulate
Ray Kanehl, the youthful track coach of K.U., and also the University of
Kansas track team upon their splendid victory last Saturday afternoon,
February 12, over the ancient Missouri Tigers at Columbia, by a score of
67 to 37. This makes rather a unique record. Henry Shenk, Elmer Schaake
and Dean Nesmith in their first football coaching experience at Kansas
tramped over the Tiger football team, and now Ray Kanehl in his initial
venture as track coach at Kansas, whipped the Missouri Tigers. This appears
as a good omen for first year varsity coaches at Kansas. The basketball —

coach at Kansas this year cannot boast of the records of the yearlings.

THE HEROIC SPIRIT OF YOUTH

Harold "Sparky" McSpadden of ElDorado, Kansas; Don Barrington of
Kansas City, Kensas; Dean Corder of Welda, Kansas; George Dick of McLouth,
Kansas; Don Diehl of Smith Center, Kansas; Charles Moffett of Peabody, Kansas;
Willard G. Frank of Beloit, Kansas, and Ottawa University; Louis Goehring of
Arkansas City, Kamsas; Gordon Stucker of Lawrence, Kansas; William "R411"
Lindquist of Kansas City, Kensas; Homer Sherwood of sitiianines City, Kansas;
Robert "Bob" Malott of Lawrence, Kansas; Lloyd Palmer of Postville, Iowa;
Robert “Bob” Turner of Seattle, Washington; Joe Brasch of Spokane, Washington;
Howard Hall of Kansas City, Missouri; and Bob Bock of Macksville, Kansas -
are members of the Kansas varsity basketball team. These sixteen boys are
just names to some people. But to me they are real people, and in addition
they are a symbol of the sacrificial spirit of yo&th, - that heroic spirit
that resides in the breast of every teen-age boy when he begins to worship

a hero.