His sophomore year at Pitt Mike was a reserve tackle and
the team won all but one game. Mike broke into the starting lineup his
junior year and his play during the season won him a berth at tackle
on several all-American second teams. Pittsburgh was undefeated that
season until it went to the Rose Bowl to be nosed out by Stanford 7-6.

As a senior in 1928 Mike was a unanimous all-American sel-
ection at tackle. He played on the East team in the annual East-West
game New Years Day and the Hast eleven won 20-0, one of the most de-
cisive victories in the history of the event.

Mike graduated from Pitt in the spring of 1929 and came to
the University of Kansas that fall.

Richard (Dick) Crayne
Backfield Coach

Dick Crayne replaces Glenn Presnell as backfield coach,
Dick was born April 24, 1913 at Washington, Towa. He attended high
school at Fairfield, Iowa, where he lettered in football four years.
Dick also lettered in basketball and track, before graduating in 1952.

The fall of 1932 Dick enrolled at the University of Iowa.
During his three years of varsity competition at Iowa Dick played a
different position in the backfield every year. His sophomore year he
played left halfback, his junior year he was a fullback and his senior
year saw him at right halfback.

Dick was selected as all-Big Ten fullback in 1935, captain-
ing the Iowa team that year. Dick led the Hawkeyes in scoring all three
years that he played. In 1955 he played on the West team in the annual
East-West game. Following his graduation from Iowa Dick played two
years of professional football with the Brooklyn Dodgers. His second
year at Brooklyn Dick played under Potsy Clark, former Kansas coach.
Dick came to Lawrence this spring to assist with spring practice.

Ralph L. Conger
Freshman Coach

Ralph Conger begins his second year as freshman coach at
Kansas this fall. Ralph was born near Natoma, Kansas March 8, 1903.

He attended Natoma high school and played four years of football there.

He then entered Hays Teachers' College at Fort Hays, Kan.
and played three years of college football under two K.U. football
heroes of bygone eras, "Rook" Woodward and Bill Weidlein. Conger played
on the Hays team in 1921, 1922 and 1923, with Hays winning the Kansas
Gonference championship his first year. At Hays Conger played halfback,
although in high school he had been an end.

After graduating from Hays, Ralph took a position as coach
at Glen Elder high school, where his football teams lost only three
games in three years. He then moved to Smith Center as coach and there
his teams lost only ten games in ten years. His composite high school
coaching record therefore shows only 15 defeats in 135 years.