5,

Homer Sherwood, V-12, of Arkansas City, has stolen the quarterback job
from Dean Corder and Bill Lindquist. This pesition is very difficult to play
and Sherwood is doing a good job of it. He came out rather lute in the season
after some Navy restrictions, but is showing fimprovement with every game.

Bob Turner, V-12, from Seattle, Washington, went home during the Christmas
holidays, as did Llcyd Paimer. They got none of the fundamentals that the toys
genera/ivy se%. during Christmas... so eee has teen quite a turnover. The men
who stayed at Christmas zime, many of them, are not playing on the team now,
meaning that had we had many of these otter bovs during Christmas our team per-
haps wculd have been further alcng,

Charles Moffett, from Penbody, was inducted into the service, went to Ft.
Leavenwerth for three days and developed a very bad case of asthma ond hay ~
fever when ticy put him to swecping out the barracks. He was cischarged from
Leavenworth, and played a sterling game at tailback in football and 1s doing a
fine jod in basketball,

Joe Brasch, V-12, from Spokane, :iashington, has been coming along but has
not broken in any of the games, Gordon Stucker, alternate to Annapolis, is a
local toy, having played a fine game at end cn the football ‘team, and started
out brilliantly at the boginning of the season in basketball but has suffered
a slump in his offensive power.

At the present time the line up is Don Barrington and Charles Moffett at
forwarc; Homer Sherword at center and quarterback; and Bob Turner and Svarky
McSpadcen, captain, at guard. 5ill Lindquist, Gordon Stucker, willard Frank,
Don Diehl, Bob l-alott and George Dick are first alternates, but it seems that
no combination will work from one game tc the next. It is like shuffling the
boys' namés in a hat: and drawing them out. I never can pick o line-vp from
one game to the next. The boys thet play splendidly in eno game will play
disappointingly in the noxt.

But why should this not be the case? ll «f these boys come from differ-
ent secticns of the country, under different systems, and being freshmen in all
cases, with the exception of Sparky, naturally we should not expect more. But
this is a war year and we are hoping that this thing will be over some time
when we can all get back to old Lit. Crend and show our friends that Kansas still
has the punch.

I want to say that:this grevp of boys is a fighting bunch, but they lack
inteliigent fignt. They fail in their fiundementals, which, after all, is real
basketball, In times of excitement one reverts to previous experiences, and
this accounts for many lapses in stratezy and gcod fundamental playing that
would have brought us victory had we carried through on zur fundamentals. For
instance, we lest to Oklahoma 24 to 23 at Lawrence on January 21 because Okla-
homa made 10 out of 12 free throws, and wo made 3 out of 8. ive outscored them
in field goals, as we did at Norman last Saturday night, by a 3 goal margin.
Oklahoma gst 15 out of 17 free throws and ansas got 5 out of 15. The boys just
tighten up on the free throw mark and con't hit. I have never had a team that
was consistently bhepaor, on free throws. «nd yet every day we throw 50 free.
throws against competition and I go arsund from fellew to fellsw working on
them. They hit gcod in practico, although some of them are as discouraging as
my good old friend, Lt. Johnsty Kline, who threw them up there from every angle