Otticer Arrives
To Train Cadets

Lieut. (j.g.) Ben Douglas has ar-
rived in Lawrence to assume the du-
ties of athletic officer at the war
training service school for naval
aviation cadets at the University.

For the last three months Lieu-
tenant Douglas, formerly head coach
at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa,
has been on duty at the Navy Pre-
Flight school at Iowa City, Iowa.
His duties have been in the basket-
ball and military departments,

Lieutenant ‘Douglas was gradua-
ted in 1931 from Grinnell where he
|participated in football, basketball,
and track. He began coaching ai
\the Greenfield, Iowa, high school,
ithen moved on to Cornell College
at Mount Vernon, Iowa. He went
‘from there to the Maplewood, Mo.,
|high. school where his pupils: inclu-
ded: Paul Christman and the Orf
twins, all of whom later won fame
jon: the. Missouri football team. For
the last: three years, Lieutenant
Douglas’ has been head coach at
Grinnell.

' Lieutenant. Doitglas i is married Saath
has one son. — His family will join
jhim here if he can find suitable:
housing accommodations.
| With the arrival of Lieutenant
Douglas there will be a stepping up
lof. the athletic training given to the
naval aviation cadets stationed at
Kansas: Approximately one and
one-half hours daily will be devoted
ito physical conditioning. The great-
lest emphasis will be placed upon
|swimming but there will also be in-
‘struction and competition in basket-
‘ball, soccer, military track, gym-
‘nastics and tumbling, wrestling and
‘touch football.