May + 1943.

Ur. C. BE. MoBride,

Sports Editor,. \
The Kansas City Star,

. Kansas City, Missouri.

Dear Hr. MeRride:

Dr. Allen gave me your letter and I shall attempt to answer |
some of the questions about Kansas football next fall.

' fo begin with, we are planning to have football at the present
‘time, and the Chencellor wants football. Of sourse, we may have to
wait end see just what the situation will be on our campus later in the
summer as regards players and so forth. At present we have four letter-
men on the campus: Kenneth Adams, quarterback, Card Hird, guard, Don |
Johnson, tackle, and Jumius Penny, center.

In addition, we have these me from last year's freshman
numeral winners: Robert Tomlinson, guard, Kemy White, halfback, Dale
Bush, halfback, Charles Keller, guard and tackle, Fred 'Numphrey, halfback,
Bill Jameson, tackie, Warren Riegle, end, Thomas Warren, halfback, Joe
Gray, end, Frank Pattee, halfback, Howard Bowman, halfback, and C. D.
Williams, guard and tackle. ‘Some or all of these boys may be gone by
next fall. \

The following lettermen were lost through graduation: Harlan
Altman, quarterback, Bob Githens, center, Paul Hardman, end, Grant Hunter,
Ed Linguist, and Forrest Wilson. ; :

We lost the following lettermen from last year's squad to the
armed services, and also a number of squad men: Hoyt Baker, a
Charles Black, end, Dick Channel, tackle, John Conley, fullback, Joe
Crawford, guard, George Dick, end, Ray Evans, End, Bill Ferguson, tackle,
John Herron, halfback, Warren Hodges, tackle, Gene Long, guard, John Monroe,
tackle, Lewis Musick, guard, Bill Palmer, halfback, Bernard Passnen, end,
Gene Roberts, halfback, Joe Roberts, fullback, Otto Sehnellbacher, end,
Walt Sheridan, center, Gene Sherwood, fullback, Lloyd Svoboda, guard, Peal
Turner, end, Grier Zimmerman, guard.

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few lettermen back plus a few of the freshmen and whatever 4f or 17-year-

olds on the campus. In addition, we are expecting a number of boys in