ne

, lated via the wire. “You can cite :

ae

Jayhawker Cornhuskers — >
sly arrangemen

eed oe whereby the

Us Down Kansas U. man-|

agement was holding over a num-

-against the Cornhuskers; that he

dence provided by the official

_ JHE LINCOLN STAR—
THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1944

 

 

 

 

 

ENTION was made in this
column last. week, same in
advance of the Nebraska-Kansas
game at Lawrence, that a possible

“shenannigans” was in store for
ee the youthful

ber of V-12 naval trainees who,
having completed their courses,
nevertheless were to be in K.U,
suits, «

And, at that time, this column] —

also mentioned that the scheme
brewing in the Kansas camp|
seemingly duplicated an Iowa
State deal of a year ago, when a
trainee at the Ames institution,
his special course concluded, was
kept on ice for subsequent use

scored two of the three Cyclone
touchdowns and a few hours later |
was on board a train bound for
the new navy station to which he
had been assigned, ;
The printed reference here to}

the trainee status at K. U. appar-| _

ently’ stirred the ire of a Jay-|
hawker grad, one who used the
phone yesterday to put us on the
pan, ; ;

EB Be

“Wor suggestion that Kansas
@ was set to take an undue ad-|
vantage of Nebraska was all wet,”
the Jayhawk follower expostu-

no evidence to _.
substantiate Proof At

the charge. Hand to Back |

(t’s all very
clear that you Our Charge
dished up an alibi in advance of

what you feared was coming—a |

Nebraska defeat, ° ie

We might have said “ouch” to
that one but for the fact that we

had the evidence necessary to;

make the. charge stand up. Evi-

ublicity agent, one Fred Ellsr,
ort for the Kansas U. depart-
ment of athletics. s
-We quote from a news story
forwarded to this column by Mr.
Ellsworth, in which he sets forth}
the reason why the K. U, coaching |
staff is new developing—replace-|
ts for departed K. U. players: |

 

- ARREN REIGLE, Don

- Reigle and

_ With Nebraska, of course, in-

_ lease and stand ready, on request,

| Basketball Coach Phog Allen of
Kansas on the one hand and New|

Lp Sp eee

Barrington, Charles Daig-
~neault, O, J. Endicott and John
Schimenz are gone, These five
lads completed their naval train-
ing work on Mt. Oread and have
been transferred
to other points
Barrington for further train-

Oe ing.”

Move On Familiar
names, two of the above—Bar-
rington and Reigle, :

Extra familiar, in fact, inasmuch
as Reigle was the K.U. end who
scored two of the Jayhawkers’
three touchdowns against the
Cornhusker “Kids,” :

Who is Barrington? No mystery
bere, He’s the husky, 200-pound
fullback who did most of the
heavy work for the Jayhawkers
‘in K,U’s games to date, the one

Im case the outraged Kansas
alumnus questions the accuracy of
our “quotes,” we still have the
copy of the Ellsworth press re-

to present it as convincing evi-
dence that our
hunch was 100 per cent verified
by subsequent results,

NOTHING much has come—nor

- apparently can come—
from the recent sulphurous re-
marks bandied back and forth by

York sports writ-
ers on the other, Phog Allen
Pe ree Plan Has -

on @ =. en.
charge that the Our Okay
gambling racketeers of Gotham
had been tampering with college
players, plus the alleged insinua-
tion by the loquacious K. U. coach
that the writers in question were
not in.sympathy with the Allen
demand that the gamblers be

 

Is ever so right in demanding that

ousted from the basketball temple,
eaning Madison Square Garden,
_ Whether Coach Allen was right
r wrong in his allegation that
he gamblers of Gotham had
ealt with college players, he

e college executives of the na-

“shenannigans” |

1

 

Judge Landis—of athletics, grant-
ing him blanket authority to give
sports of all sorts the “rough and
dry.” é

_ One needs have only a passing
acquaintance with college ath-
letics the country over to know |
that corruption of athletes is ram-

pant at certain institutions and in
certain conferences; also that the
house-cleaning which the National
Collegiate Athletic association
Strangely fears to do could be ac-

‘complished easily and effectually

 

gon proceed to install a czar—a
:

with a “czar of sports” in com-

mand.