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Only three letter men are reporting for practice. Charlie Moffett, All
Big Six halfback, has been reclassified and will soon be in the armed service.
Gordon Reynolds, All Big Six basketball forward and end on football team, was not
reassigned to K.U. for medical training. His loss will be a severe blow. Doc
Lambkin, tackle, was assigned to fleet duty and also will not be back. The three
letter men around whom the coaches will have to build a team are Leroy Robinson,
fullback from Lawrence High School, Tex Langford, center from Texas, and Dud Day,
diminutive guard from California. Frank Pattee, a member of the freshman squad in
1942, has been discharged from the Navy and will undoubtedly be an important cog
in the grid machine of 1945. That is the story as far as experience is concerned.
The coaches will have to rely upon 17-year old freshmen and inexperienced Navy
boys for the football wars. Every time Coach Shenk looks at his fall schedule com-
ing up, he ages considerably. on:

The schedule is as follows:

Sept. 22 Texas Christian... . . Kansas City Ruppert Stadium (night )
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Oct. 12 Washburn ......... Lawrence, Haskell Stadium (night)
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Nov. 10 Marquette ...... . . Milwaukee , ,

Nov. 17 Kansas State .... . . Lawrence (homeconiing game )

~ Nov. 24 Missouri... «. «+.» - Kangas City Ruppert Stadium

The coaching staff at present consists of Henry Shenk, Head Coach, Dean
Nesmith, Assistant Coach and Trainer, and Ralph "Red" Huffman, a new addition to
the staff from Fort Hayes, State Teachers! College, who will act as assistant line
coach. George Dick, former star end of K.U. has been helping with the summer ~
pracbhiee.,. i

"Way Back When"

A quarter of a century ago! It was just 25 years ago this season that I
was coaching the Kansas Varsity football team and faced as drab an outlook as Coach
Shenk faces this season. I was running over our Kansas Varsity football record of
1920. Kansas, with an average weight of but 162 pounds per man, was the lightest
team ever in Jayhawker history. Scanning those games, I thought it might be inter-
esting to some of the old-timers to list the schedule with the results of the games
and the coaches of the teams who were then coaching football. Billi Hargiss was at
Emporia and he is now in Italy with the Army Specialized Training Program. Ernest
Bearg, after his turn at coaching Washburn, went to Illinois to help Bob Zuppke
and then became head coach at Nebraska: for several years, later returning to Wash-
burn as head coach with the promise of putting the Ick&bods in the Rosebowl. But
this never materialized. Bearg is now an insurance man on the West Coast. Dwight
Keam, Bearg's co-coach, is now an insurance man in Topeka. Dr. "Red" Payne was
coeching the Iowa State team for the Dream Touchdown game on which we outdreamed
him. Dean Johnnie Bunn of Stanford University, California, has an interesting com-
mert in this Jayhawk Rebound regarding Dr. Payne. Charlie Bachman is now coaching
Michigan Stute College at East Lansing, Michigan. Bennie Owens is Director of
Physical Education at Oklahoma. Big, genial Henry "Indian" Schulte has passed on
to his reward after-serving Nebraska football and track at Lincoln for a generation.
Jimny Phelan, who was at Missouri after the first World War, had outstanding suc-
cess at Perdue and at the University of Washington at Seattle.