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We lost to Nebraska at Lincoln in one of the hottest games that I have ever seen the
Cornhuskers play. Towa State got a furthor break in the fact that Kansas pleyed
Oklahoma at Norman, and Iowa State plaved them at Oklahoma City preparatory to the
Sooners goirs to New York, Oklahoma Aggies and Texas Christion played the other

end. of « doubie=header in Oklahoma City, und’ “Towa State won by 2 points. If it is
true that ths heme court is worth from 2 to 6 points, we could say that Iowa State
got & slight break in the schedule. But no ono is belittling the efforts of that
fine Iowa State team. They hed the stuff and showed their merit oll the way through,
so we take off our hats to Louie Menze and the boys in Iowa. They are the real
champions.

The three games we lost were to Iowa State, Oklahoma (one point in an overtime)
and to Nebreska. In recalling the hot teams of years back, I remember Bruce Drake,
Tom Chvirchill and Vic Holtz, and the fine 1929 team at Norman. We had a pretty
good team and they ran over us roughshod something like 47.to 29. I thought that
was the Lottest tcoam I had seen until 1939 when we met the Missouri Tigers at Col-
umbin. We had a good team and thought that we were in.the championship hunt, which
proved later we were to tie and then win the play-off, but Missouri poured it on us
from every angle, and every shot they took seemed to whiz through the netting in -
tnis game at Columbia. Then in 1940 we met Indiana for the NCAA finals in Kansas
City and held them to 4 points in the first & minutes of play, snd then they started
shooting. And whet a barrage! They couldn't miss from any angie. They hit imposs-
ibie shots, one after the other. And yet we scored 42 points against them, but it
wasn't nearly enough.

Nebraska scored 59 points on us while we got 45, and Iowa State scored 61
while we got 59, Those two games compared with Oklahoma, Missouri and Indiana,
end these are the games from 1929 to 1945, so you can see running into two outfits
in the same year was just too much for a very willing, aggressive and hard fighting
fonsas team. With every kind word to a dogged and determined Kansas team, we did
not heve tha material that some of our cppcnents possessed this year. But we gave
them evueryshing we had, and I am mighty proud of these bors to be able to take
sscorc place, with none of the other four lower teams near the Kansas 7 won and 3
lost: Ravesas

Earity in the season I picked Iowa State first, Oklahoma second, Missouri,
Kansas ond hansas State fighting.it cut for ties, and I thought Nebraska would fin-
ish 103%. Ths only game that Nebraska won was that 59 to 45 shellacking thoy gave
uS, so I rather look at their effort in that game as something out of this world.
That is the first time that a liebraska team, coached by “Lew Lewandowski has de-
Teated a Kansas team, but thero must always be a first tine for everything, and it
happened. It has been six years since Kansas dipped her colors to the Cornhuskers
in basketball. But you will remember in the last Rebounds I said, “We are: looking
for trouble when we go to Lincoln on February 10." aan ;

Now for a short resume of Kensas efforts in the Big Six. We lost a heart-
breakex at Cklahoma in an overtine geme. Kansas had the game sewed up three differ-
ent times, but our lack of experieace caused the boys to shoot long shots when they
should have nursed the ball. In the Iowa State game at Lawrence on Januury 27, we.
defeated Louie Menze's team 50 to $5, although Firebock, one of. their stars, was on
the sideline. Then the Kansas-Kensas State seme at Lawrence was a typical Konsas-
Kansas State game, on Jenuerv 30. It was a thriiler, end it looked as if Kansas
wes doomed to defeat, but Kansas won one of the wildest and most ex:citing games
that a packed Hoch auditorium has seen in years. The massacre at Lincoln on February
10th has been recounted, On Feoruary 13 Oklahoma camo to Lawrence and Konsas