This year's Homecoming celebration is simplified and streamlined to conform
with the spirit of the times. It is arranged to be of interest to the soldier

and sailor student trainees on the campus, as much as for the civilian students

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asia the returning alumni who will be here.

Tomorrow, Friday, evening at 7:30 o'clock in Hoch Auditorium the referee
will toss up the ball in the tip-off for the fierce and fiery basketball game
between the Army Specialized *vakeias Unit and the Kansas varsity. The army
boys are said to be really good, with talent aplenty, ----tall ones, short ones,
expert shots and fast breaking po on the plains of Indiana,
Minnesota, and other basketball strongholds. They are not permitted to play
intercollegiate ball, but they can do this intramural sport. This is their
one big chance of the year. They are filled with ambition to do things to the
varsity----and they may do theme It will be a battle. |

Between halves of the basketball game Friday evening come the introduction
of Homecoming Queen candidates, and then the announcement of the Queen herself
wits her attendants. Ernie Pontius, that suave, debonair master of ceremonies,
will introduce the coaches and the members of the football team who are to
represent Kansas in the fateful football game on Kansas field the next daye

After the game the crowd will be regaled with as colorful a celebration
as one could imagine. Led by Russell Wiley and his brilliantly uniformed
K U band, the entire crowd marches from the auditorium to the south oe aktie
field, south east of Memorial Stadium. Rows of soldiers and sailors will

line the way, holding torches aloft to light the line of marche mn the practice

field Reed Whetstone and his Ku Ku's will have a huge bonfire.

There beside the bonfire on a platform will be resurrected the famous old

Doc Yak and his Medicine Show, dormant these past ten or a dozen years.

Doe Yak and his pep producing pillse They are guaranteed to vitalize,