January 27 - Iowa State at Lawrence
January 30 - Kansas State at Lawrence
February 10- Nebraska at Lincoln
| February 13 - Oklahoma at Lawrence
: | February 16 - Kansas State at Manhattan
February 24 - Missouri at Lawrence
March 2 = Iowa State at Ames

When someone asks me what my prospects are, I say we have only one man
on the regular team returning - Charlie Moffett - and he is the backfield
sensation fer the Jayhawkers in football. It always takes two weeks, at least,
for a fellew te get over his football bruises, so I was not too optimistic
when I said, "Well, I have two co-eds, a couple of Phi Beta Kappas, and one
athlete, and if I get them working well together I should draw a crowd; but
maybe the dean ef women won't let me play the co-eds, so I will have to look
to some of the newcomers on the squad te complete my team." The boys are
small, but they have a fine spirit. From the squad ef last year we have Don
Diehl, V-12, of Smith Center, a premedics; Dean Cerder, V-12, from Welda,
Kansas, an engineer; Louis Goehring, V-12, of Arkansas City, an engineers; and
Kirk Scott, V-12, of Newton, whe was out for the squad last year until Jan-
vary when he was restricted. This is a term which means they won't allow
you to compete in athletics if there is any difficulty in high grade performance,
academically speaking.

In the next Jayhawk Rebounds I will give you the names of all the boys.
We have some promising candidates, but again, they are young and inexperienced.
Ken sas has always been a slow starter in basketball because we strongly
stress fundamentals to the detriment of early scrimmage. We generally lose
our first few games and then limp along and give them a fight at the end of
the season. We are not bragging in this statement. This is generally what

has happened.

This letter will arrive overseas about Christmas time, and.I wish you
the best of the Yuletide greetings and a sincere hope that another Christmas
will find you boys back in the States enjoying some of the fruits of victory
fer which you have so earnestly striven. Remember, we are waiting over here
for your return and for the great Jayhawker bullfest where tall tales will
be told until the wee heurs cf the morning. I can envision a date in 1946
when a great homecoming of Kansas boys from every land in the world will
return te Mt. Oread and celebrate in a typical American way a good old Kensas:
homecominge ae

Major Fen Durand was here just before Homecoming on October 21, but Fen,

‘who had been through every situation, heroic and otherwise, hied himself.

away to a small Missouri town, Fayette, by name - the home of Central College,
down in the Tiger's lair. And there on the 2lst of October, Fen took unto
himself a blushing bride. He even passed up an opportunity to see Kansas
wallop the Huskers, something thet few Kansans have seen; but we would say
that Fen made a very wise choice, because Miss Katharine Merrill Smith is

now Mrs. Fenlon A. Durand. Of all of our alumni, there is none with a more
brilliant military fecord than Major Fen Durand of the U. S. Marine Corps,
who has written glorious pages in the history of Marine heroics.

Cpl. Hoyt Baker writes me from Camp Haan, California, and says, "I was
reading the sports page of the Leos Angeles Times today and ran across this
clippinge I guess Ray Evans is really doing all right for himself this year.
e e « « It won't be long now before your basketball season gets under way.

Is Sparky McSpadden still in school?"

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