JAYHAWK REBOUNDS

 

November 20, 1944

Ne. 12

Dear Fellow Jayhawkers:

I have been gold-bricking on youe They elected me president of the
Country Club this fall and we have been trying to rejuvenate the place out
theree We have personally supervised the sanding of the floors, installation
of a new ceiling, painting end general repair work. And besided handling
the various drives for the University, such as the National War Fund and
Community Chest in Octeber, and now the Sixth War Loan, as well as the
general administration of the Physical Education Department, I have been
incidentally attempting te coach a basketball team.

I looked at the date of the last Jayhawk Rebounds, No. 11, and find that
it is dated September 12, 1944, and this morning is November 20, - more than
twe months since I have written you boys on the many fronts. But alibis are
never any good when a fellow has to get the job done of Jayhawk Rebounding.

So just prior to the football game with the Missouri Tigers on Thursday, Nov.
23, in Kansas City at Association Park, I will try to give you a review of the
past football season up to the present time. Coach Henry Shenk has had a
dickens of a time. On November 1, just at the time when the team should be
hitting its stride, many of his stellar performers were called to the other
fronts fer further servicing by the Navy. This is a fair and modest appraisal
eof the efforts of the fighting Jayhawkers. We have net overdone it either by
too much praise or too much alibiing.

Old-timers rubbed their eyes the 2lst of October when Kansas administered
the first licking te a Nebraska football team in 48 years on the Kansas field.
Only once in all thet time had they even been tied - the famous 20-20 tie of
1920. It was the first time in 26 years that any Kansas feotball team had
beaten a Nebraska team on Jayhawker soil!

To make the victory even more outstanding, Nebraska walloped a Missouri
team that was rated 30 points better by a scere of 24 te 20 in Lincoln a
week before, which was the major upset of the Big Six seasonto date.

To the Kansas team should go the credit for smashing this 48-year-old
jinxe The first K.U. score came in the first half when Charles Keller blocked
a Nebraska punt which was recovered by Warren Riegle in the end zone for a
teuchdown. In the third quarter the Kansas team drove 60 yards and scored with
@ screen pass only te have the play called back because of an offsidese But
Kansas was not to be denied. later, big Don Barrington after alternating
with Charles Moffett in carrying the ball down tte the Nebraska 5<yard line,
threw a quick pass to Charlie across the goal line for the second counter.

Bill Chestnut, dropkicker de luxe, kicked both extra points.

In the fourth stanza Dwight Sutherland and Charlie Meffett took turns
passing and carrying the ball dewn to the Nebraske 3O-yard line where Charlie
Meffett flipped a pass to Warren Riegle who made a sensational catch in the
end zone for the third score. The game ended Kansas 20, Nebraska 0.

 

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