who is a brother of our Rutherford B. Hayes, captain of our football
team in '55. Vernon has been teaching at Waterville ans was to teach
at Wamego. Elmer Schaake, who coached a great Liberty Memorial High
School team to an undefeated championship last fall. And Jack Austin,
who played on Fran Welch's football team. Jack was in school working
on his doctor's degree and we hired him to do physical conditioing work.

These boys have charge of the A-12 group -- 776 of them who are
quartered in Lindley Hall. The A-12 group will confine their physical
conditioning to Hoch Auditorium so far as possible, using the stage
and all the basketball court, from 7:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the
afternoon. The Navy V-12 students use Robinson Gymnasiun, and the
civilians will use the west side of the stadium, the freshman football
shed.

At the present time the A-12 boys are eating their food down at the
stadium. Installations have been made so that refrigeration, kitchen
locations, and all are temporarily used under the stadium until Lindley
fall can be put in shape. The freshman dressing rooms have all been
repainted and you would hardly know the place if you would walk under
there. When you have nearly eight hundred men eating three times a day.
you can imagine that Uncle Sam-has gone to some expense to insure the
hygienic conditions for these men. Volunteer women members of the
faculty are aiding in the service at meal time for these chaps.

Now, regarding the football program. Henry Shenk, Elmer Schaake
and Dean Nesmith, the three Kansas musketeers, all of whom have played
on former Kansas teams, will start varsity football practice September
1. The schedule has undergone some change and we are bringing this up
to date. However, there may be some additional changes, and we will
notify you in our next letter.

September 24 (night) - Washburn at Topeka
October 1 (night) Denver at Denver
October 9 Towa State at Lawrence
October 16 Washburn at Lawrence
October 23 Nebraska — at Lincoln
October 30 K. State at Lawrence
November 6 Oklahoma at Norman
November 13 (open) |
November 20 Missouri at Lawrence

Many of the colleges are giving up the sport. The OPA will definitely
check on automobiles coming to football games and other athletic contests,
so I see a very curtailed out of town attendance. I seems to me that night
games in Lawrence might prove financially beneficial. It is not out
of the realm of thought that Kansas could make more money playing night
games at Haskell Stadium than they could by playing games in the University
stadium in the afternoons.

The Sunflower Ordnance plant has been greatly reduced in personnel
and production. This plant was built out here more as an alternate plant
in case the plants near the coase were bombed, and it did look for @
shile as if they might put this plant into full production. Many of these
employees and civilian merchants can get away at night, but are not apt
to sacrifice their working hours and the money that it entails to see
an athletic contest. But they will go at night.

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