teams and the crowd stood at attention just prior to the game. The lights
were out and the spot was on the flag as it rose to be unfurled. Russell
Wiley's fine band played and the audience sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" in
that dim blackeut. I thought of the many Jayhawker teams and I thought of
each of you beys whe had steed in the place of these yeungsters and had
thrilled with the occasien. I think of each and every one of you many, many
times. It may be when I pick up the morning paper, or even at 3 or 4 o'clock
in the morning I awaken and, with the pressure of this season's games ch,,

it is uncanny how the theught ef Heward Engleman, Charlie Black, Otto
Schnellbacher, Den Ebling, Ray Evans - all ef yeu, - hew I get some of you
twisted inte this year's lineup. I might be dozing off or awakening and my
dreams get so mixed up with the realities ef life, and semetimes I have you
on my team again this year. And then I awaken te find that I have got a
bunch of kids, just youngsters, who are trying te de the same thing that you
beys did before -- take on the Big Six opponents, one at a time, using that |
old Kansas Jayhawker fight, never saying die umtil the last second is gone and
heping te emerge with another Big Six championship.

But frankly, I can only hepe for it - I cannet see it in the offing
because too many breakers lie ahead. But with the inspiration that you men
have afforded these beys, I am sure that yeu can count on them giving every-
thing they have got. The team is young, inexperienced, and at times undepend-
able due te the youthfulness of the group and the fact that they did not have
ene year of freshman training on fundamentals. It is difficult te get a co-
hesive, well-rounded team, offensively and defensively, but we are doing the
very best we can. I am hoping that every man will give everything he has get
in the same spirit that you boys are giving everything you have got. Hardly
a day goes by without some mention of some Kansas great who has dene wonderful
things on the Kansas court. And these beys sit at your feet in awe and rever-
ence in hearing ef your exploits.

Elmer Schaake, whe assisted Henry Shenk in feotball, is assisting me in
basketball and he is doing a mighty fine job. I promised you in the last
Rebounds that I weuld give yeu the names ef the boys en the team, so here goes.

For a leng time we had difficulty in deciding on our starting lineup.
However, we are fairly well set now, with Gerden Reynolds, ef Tacoma, Washe,

a V-12 student, at forward; Charles Moffett, of Peabody, forward; Dean Corder,
ef Welda, at quarterback; Kirk Scott, of Newten, and Herbert Heim, of Leaven-
worth, guardse Reynolds, Corder, Scott and Heim are V-12 students. Pressing
the regulars fer pesitions are Gus Daum, of Eskridge; Owen Peck, of Kansas
City; Everett Hill, of Lawrence; Nerman Carlsen, of West Orange, N. J.;

Leu Geehring, of Arkansas City; Ray Lance, of Pittsburg, and Odd Williams, of
Lawrence. Daum, Goehring and Lance are V-12 students. Ray Lance is the sen
of Jahn Lance, the ceach at Pittsburg Teachers. Ray played three years under
his dad and is here as a medic cadete Everett Hill, a Lawrence High Scheol
bey, is 17 years of age and he will soon get an “invitation and a greeting
from the President", when he becomes 18. Odd Williams is the sen of Dick
Williams, a Lawrence financier. Peck, Carlson, Meffett and Williams are 4-F.
Meffett, however, has already received notice of reclassification, and the
ether boys will be coming aleng soon, I think.

In addition te these boys we have Beb Brown, of Peabody; Charles Froom,
eof Vermillion, Earl Strong, of Nashville, Kansas, Gel Woerner, of Kansas
City, Me., and Francis Peterson, of Rembrandt, Iewa. Peterson leaves the
first ef February fer the service, and Woerner is a V-12. Soe we have a nucleus
of a fighting team, but how near we will come to the championship I de net
know. Suffice to say that they have surprised me exceedingly. In our early
games I thought if we finished fifth er sixth place it would be abeut our style

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