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.. Conference Games; January 5 - Missouri at Columbia

3 _.January 12 - Nebraska at Lawrence
January 20 - Oklahoma at Norman
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

x ‘When, someone cate me what. my prospects are, r say we have only one
man on the regular team returning - Charlie Moffett - and he is the backfield
sensation. for the Jayhawkers in football. It always takes two weeks, at least,
for a fellow. to.get. over his football bruises, so. I was not too optimistic when
I said, "Well, I have two co-eds, a couple of bhi Beta Kappas, and one athlete,
and if I get, them,working well. together I should draw a crowd; ,but maybe the
dean. of. ‘women won't let me play the coneds, so. Iwill have to look to some of the
newcomers. on ‘the. squad | to. complete my. team,"' The boys are small, but they have
a. fine. spirit. From the. squad, of last. “year we have Don Diehl, ‘V-12, of Smith.
Center, a premedic; ‘Dean Corder, V-12; from Welds, Kansas, an engineer; Louis.
Goehring, V-12, of arkansas City, an emgineer; and Kirk Scott, V-12, of Newton,
who was,out for the squad last year until January when he was restricted. This
‘4s a term which.means they. won't allow you to. compete ‘in athletics ip there. ‘is.
any uitéionlsy in high grade performance, ‘academically SPAPATHES (

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etasy - ' Th ‘the next Jay hawk Rebounds . I will give you, the names. of ‘all ‘the |

boyse We. have some promising candidates, but again, they are young and inexper-
denced. Kansas has always. been a slow starter in basketball because we strongly
stress fundanentals to’ the detriment. of early serinmage. We gonerally lose. our
first few games and then limp. along and give them a fig ght at the end of the
SCASON. . We are not bragging in. this statenent. This is genorslly, what has
happeheder poftiton evad &leas - as uit ei

This lekhamn ‘will arrive overseas ‘about Christmas. time, | and * 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 for
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 hours of the jaorning, I can envision a, date in 1946. when a great
homeeoming of hansas boys from every. land in the world will return to Mt. Oread
and celebrate in a typical American way a good old Kansas ene

rus: 3 Major. Fen Durand was here just. before Woe gn aee on, ‘October. 21, but
of Fen,. who had been through every. situation, heroic. and otherwise, hied hinself .
away to a small Missouri town, Fayette, by nome - the home of Central College,
down in the Tiger's lair. And there on the 2lst of October, Fen took unto hin-
self a blushing bride. . He even passed up, an opportumity to ‘see Kansas wallop
the Huskers, something that few. Kansans have seen; but we would say that Fen
made a very wise choice, because Miss Katharine Merrill Smith is now Mrs. Fenlon
Ae Durand....Of all of our alumni, there is none with a.more brilliant military
record than Major Fen Durand of the Ves Marine ‘Corps, who has written glorious
pages. in, the | history of Marine heroics.. :