State played them at Oklahema City preparatery te the Seeners geing te New
Yerk. Oklahema Aggies and Texas Christian played the ether end ef a deuble-
header in Oklahema City, and Iewa State wen by 2 peimts. If it is true that
the heme ceurt is werth frem 2 te 6 peints, we could say that Iewa State get
a slight break in the schedule. But ne ene is belittling the efferts ef that
fine Iewa State team. They had the stuff and shewed their merit all the way
threugh, se we take eff eur hats te Leuie Menze and the beys in lewa. They
are the real champions.

The three games we lest were te Iewa State, Oklahoma (ene peint in an
evertime) and te Nebraska. In-recalling the het teams ef years back, I remember
Bruce Drake, Tem Churchill and Vie Heltz, and the fime 1929 team at Nerman.

We had a pretty geed team and they ran over us reughseed semething like 47

te 29. I theught that was the hettest #am I had seen until 1939 when we met
the Misseuri Tigers at Cellumbia. We had a geod team and theught that we were
te tie and then wim the play-eff, but Misseuri peured it en us frem every angle,
and every shet they teek seemed te whiz threugh the netting in this game at
Celumbia. Then in 1940 we met Indiana fer the NCAA finals in Kansas City

and held them te 4 peimts in the first 8 minutes ef play, and then they started
sheeting. And what a barrages They ceulén't miss frem any angle. They hit
impessible shets, ene after the ether. And yet we scered 42 peints against
them, but it wasn't nearly eneugh.

Nebraska scered 59 peimts en us while we get 45, and Iewa State scered
61 while we get 39. These twe games compared with Oklahema, Misseuri and
Indiana, and these are the games frem 1929 te 1945, se yeu can see running
inte twe eutfits in the same year was just tee much fer a very willing,
aggressive and hard fighting Kansas team. With every kind werd te a degged and
determined Kansas team, we did net have the material that seme ef eur eppenents
pessessed this year. But we gave them everything we had, and I am mighty
preud ef these beys te be able te take secend place, with nene ef the ether
feur lewer teams near the Kansas 7 wen and 3 lest margin.

Early in the seasenm I pieked Iewa State first, Oklahema second, Misseuri,
Kansas and Kansas State fighting it eut fer ties, and I theught Nebraska
weuld fimish last. The enly game that Nebraska wen was that 59 te 45 shellacking
they gave us, se I rather leek at their effert in that game as semething eut
ef this werld. That is the first time that a Nebraska team, ceached By
“Lew" Lewandewski has defeated a Kamsas team, but there musta lways be a first
time fer everything, and it happened. It has been six years since Kansas
dipped her celers te the Cernhuskers in basketball. But yeu will remember in
the last Rebeunds I said, "We are leeking fer treuble when we go te Linceln
en February 10."

New fer a shert resume ef Kansas efforts in the Big Six. We lesta
heartbreaker at Oklahema in an overtime game, Kansas had the game sewed up
three different times, but eur lagk ef experience caused the beys te sheet
leng shets when they sheuld have nursed the ball. Im the Iewa State game
at Lawrence on January 27, we defeated Leuie Menze's team 50 te 35, altheugh
Firebeck, ene ef their stars, was en the sideline. Then the Kansas-Kansas
State game at Lawrence was a typical Kansas-Kansas State game, en January 30.
It was a thriller, and it leeked as if Kansas was deemed te defeat, but Kansas
wen ene ef the wildest and mest exciting games that a packed Heck Auditerium
has seen in yearse The massacre at Linceln en February 10th has been receunted.
On February 13 Oklahema came te Lawrence and Kansas stepped eut in frent
and maimtaimed a lead, and leeked like mear-champiens. Kansas played a
marveleus game against the Seoners.

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