ISSOUBI is preparing a “warm” reception for Phog Allen
and his K. U. basketbaliers Thursday night in Columbia.
Tie down the chairs, boys; that game will make Hellzapoppin
resemble a Sunday school picnic....At the December Big
Six meeting here, one of the head grid mentors promised a local
reporter a “hot” story in “about two weeks.” The question before
the house is: Why haven’t the promised paragraphs popped?....
Henry Rohn, who'll be a familiar figure in Nebraska’s backfield next
fall, recently took unto himself a wife....Oklahoma’s Coach Bruce
Drake says the team winning eight games will win the Big Six court
title. Last year he called it seven and seven it was....In, answering
Dr. Eddie Andersor’s “I don’t believe there is a college team in the
country that can beat Minnesota on the ground,’ Walt Dobbins, in
the Nebraska State Journal, prints a play-by-play account of ‘Ne-
braska U.’s 60-yard touchdown march by land which beat the Gophers
6 to 0 last fall... A thousand copies of Fred Waring’s new U. of
Oklahoma song, “O. K. Oklahoma,” have been distributed on .the
Sooner campus by a cigarette company....That “short” K. U. bas-
ketball team averages over 6 feet and is taller than some of the
clubs Allen has piloted to Big Six crowns....Dougal Russell, the for-
mer K-State-star halfback, has a good chance to succeed “Snorter” *
‘Luster as backfield coach at Oklahoma. He'll have tough competi-
tion from at least three Sooner high school coaches, however....The
brightest light in the Iowa State line-up is Carol Schneider, sopho-
more center, who scrapes the ceiling at 6 feet 6 inches....The price
tag on Oklahoma's grid-season tickets is $9 and more than 2,000
have been sold to date....Quoting Maj. Bob Neyland of Tennessee
on this subsidizing business in coilege-athletics: “We (the Southeastern
conference) give the athlete his board, room and tuition and let
him decide what school he wants to attend. We do openly what the
Big Ten, the Ivy league and other conferences condone put won’t
admit, We have nothing to be ashamed of”....The Norman Cham-
ber of Commerce is expecting 500 guests at its appreciation party
for the QO. U. grid team Friday.. . Dean Naismith, the KU. traimer,
makes ore noise than the Jayhawk student. body during _ a. basket-
: ball ll game and | sends s tons of advice to Allen’s | perspiring lads.
3 DAN PARTNER.