PA THAWE REP OUR DS

 

January 19, 1945

Ne. 13

Dear Fellow Jayhawkers:

We are leaving this evening for Norman, Oklahoma, where we play
the Oklahoma Sooners on their fieldhouse court Saturday night, January 20.
As usual, we are expecting a typical ding-dong battle with the boys from
Soonerland. I told the boys the evening of January 5th, at Columbia, after

we had licked the Tigers down there in our first conference game 45 to 28,

that "I'll bet when our friends pick up the paper in the morning and read
the results of this game they will be as much surprised as I am now." It
certainly was a smashing upset. We had not been looking any too well, and
George Edwards' Missouri Tigers had defeated us on December 23rd in Muncipal
Auditerium in Kansas City by a score of 48 to 39.

The night before, in Kansas City, we had defeated Fritz Knorr's Kansas
State team 63 to 40. (Knerr is serving his first year as coach at K-State.)
We looked awfully good in that game, but it appeared as if we were in-and-
outerse |

Now, let's start at the beginning and give you the results of the
games played earlier. We dropped our first game with Washburn at Topeka
on December 4, 35 to 40. Then Dee Errickson's Washburn team played us here
on December 8, and we licked them 31 te 27. On December 12 we played Lew Lane's
Reckhurst College team in Municipal Auditorium, and won 47 to 23. We played
them a return game here on December 19, and won 47 to 28.

Our first Big Six Conference heme game was played last Friday night,
January 12, when “Lew" Lewandowski brought a tall, aggressive Nebraska team
te Lawrence, but the Kansas jinx still holds on Lew and he lost, 48 te 33.
Lew has not wen a game from Kansas in his six years of coaching at the
Husker institution. But we are looking for trouble when we go te Linceln on Feb.
10. ;

Iewa State and Kansas have each won two games and have lest none at the
present writing. Iowa State has three eld men back and some of them are men
returned from the service, so they have quite an advantage in experience and
agee Their offensive-defensive ratio record is also better than Kansas.

Iowa State plays Missouri at Columbia Saturday night, but the Missouri team
apparently has hit the tebeggan, so Iewa State should win. Iowa State defeated
Nebraska at Lincoln by 12 points, amd Kansas State at Ames by 29 points.

Now, regarding the persennel of the squad. Dean Nesmith is still with
us as trainer and friend of the boys, but he has been preparing fer Army
specialized service and may be called before the next game. I cannot tell you
what area he will be assigned te but some of you Jayhawkers will be seeing
him soon, which I knew will be geod news to yous. He will go overas trainer.
I was asked to go November lst, but Chancellor Malott would not release me.
Nothing would give me mere pleasure than to give that old Reck Chalk yell with
a gang ef you fighting Jayhawks. Last Friday night at the Nebraska game the

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