JAYHAWK REBOUNDS
December 21, 1943
Noe 6
Dear Jayhawker Friends:

I have just opened my new Red Cross war fund campaign plan book,
and on one of the front pages are written the words of the immortal
Abraham Lincoln;

"With malice toward none, with charity for all;
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish this work
we are ins; to bind up the Nation's wounds and to
care for him who shall have borne the heat of the
battle," --Abraham Lincoln.

How better could we express the deep meaning of Christmas than by using
these words of Abraham Lincoln to all of you boys who are now m all of
the world's fighting fronts.

I will tell you briefly concerning our basketball team. It is
young, rather inexperienced, but full of fight and courage. In our
first game, on Dec. 1 with the Herington Army Air Base, played at Law-
rence, and Kansas won by a score of 40 to 27. On Dec. 4 the Hutchinson
Naval Air Station played in Lawrence, and K.U. lest by a scored 32 to 466
On Dece 7 with the Ft. Leavenworth reception center we faced a defeat of
18 to 11 at the half, but overcame the handicap and won in a driving
finish by a score of 31 to 27.

On December 11 Kansas Played Rockhurst College in Kansas City and won
by a score of 46 to 32. On the 13th, the following Monday night, Rock-
hurst came to Mte Oread and Kansas won 43 to 28. Dean Corder, the clever
little quarterback of the Kansas team, was ill with influenza for our
game Dece 15 with the Olathe Naval Air Base, which Kansas lost 36 to 42.
Don Barrington, fullback of the football team and forward on the baskethall
team, had a severe charliehorse which handicapped him, and Sparky MeSpadden,
the lone regular from last year's outfit, hada stone bruise. All these
factors contributed to the defeat of Kansas by Olathe. Jack Bal lard,
of last year's championship team, appeared in the line-up for the Ft. Riley
C.R.T.C. Centaurs on Friday night, Dece 17 at Lawrence. Kansas was still
crippled badly but won by a score of 32 to 31. The boys went home over
the week-end, but will return this week because of the 23rd of December
Kansas journeys to Herington, Kansas, for a return game with the Herington
4.A.B. Then there will be a collegiate double-header for two nights,
December 29 and 30, between the Universities of Kansas, Missouri, Kansas
State College and Washburn University in Municipal Auditorium in Kansas
City. The rest of our schedule is as we have told you: Jan. 3, Pittsburg
State Teachers at Lawrence; Jang8, Missouri at Columbia; Jan. Il, Olathe
Naval Air Base at Olathe; Jan. 15, Nebraska at Lawrence; Jan. 18, Kansas
State at Lawrence; Jan. 21, Oklahoma at Lawrence; Jan. 29, Iowa State at
Ames; Febe 1, Washburn at Lawrence; Febe 7, Ft. Riley C.R.T.C. at Ft.
Riley; Febe 12, Oklahoma at Norman; Febe 15, Ft. Leavenworth at Leavenworth;
Febe 18, Nebraska at Lincoln; Feb. 23, Kansas State at Manhattes Febe 26,

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