"Prexy Charles says that amount is not much in times like these. He
admonishes with this sentence: Let's go for old K.U. Let's let the old
K.U. sporot flew once more -- it's been a long time. You will be sorry if
you miss this one. Let's go for old K.U.

"The football coaches will be present and there will be many an
opportunity for the assembled multitude to celebrate their great victory ,
éver the Missouri Tigers on Kansas Memorial Firld last Thanksgiving Day
in football. Kansas defeated the Tigers in football, in track, and two out
of three games in basketball. Certainly with that athletic record and with
good food and good music, the Jayhawk Club of Greater Kansas City should
have a grand evening."

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It just occurs to me that we have not given some of you boys the
results of the Big Six basketball seasone Iowa State and Oklahoma tied for
first place with nine wins and one losse Missouri and Kansas tied for
third place with five wins and five lossese Kansas defeated Missmri in
the pre-season play-off games in the Municipal Auditorium, but lost at
Columbia and won at Lawrence. Nebraska and Kansas State tied with one win
and nine lossese

At a meeting of the Athletic Board on Friday night, March 31, thirteen
men were awarded the varsity K in basketball. They are =

Harold "Sparky" McSpadden - captain - of ElDorade, Kansas
Don Barrington, fullback on the football team - of Kansas City
Charles Moffett, halfback on the football team - of Peabody
Homer Sherwood - of Arkansas City

Bob Turner of Tacoma, Washington

William Lindquist - of Kansas City, Kansas

George Dick - of McLouth, Kansas

Gordon Stucker - of Lawrence

Willard Frank --.of Wichita

Bob Malott, son of Chancellor Malott - of Lawrence

Don Diehl - of Smith Center

Dean Corder - of Welda

Louis Geehring - of Arkansas City

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Now for the NCAA playoffs. In the Eastern N6AA, Dartmouth, Catholic
University, Temple and Ohio State were the representatives of Districts l,
2, 5, and 4 Dartmouth defeated Catholic University, and Ohio State defeated
Temple. Then Dartmouth defeated Ohio State, to be the Eastern NCAA champim.

In the Western NCAA playoffs much difficulty was encountered. Iowa
State, with a Navy unit, was finally selected, after considerable difficulty,
as the 5th District representative. In the 6th District Arkansas was selected,
but a traffie crossing accident maiming and killing some of the members
caused Arkansas to withdraw. The University of Iowa was asked to fill in,
which they did, and then later resigned. Then Missouri, with its third place
civilian outfit, finally substituted for the Southwest Conference, and made
a good showinge The Pacific Coast Conference did not have a playoff and
consequently did not have a representative, but the authorities of the NCAA
selected Pepperdine College, a school that in years previous had played in
the smaller college tournament in Kansas City. Pepperdine was a ¢ivilian

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