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Several wihey pane of the football team have reported

for practice. Yesterday Gordon Stucker, of Lawrence, reported. William
"Bill" Mowery, of Salina; Bob Miller, Ve12, of Oakland, California; and
Charles Mof tent, civilian, of Peabody, Kansas, have also reported. Thess
boys will be valuable members of the Kansas basketball team. Other boys
who are trying out and giving a good account of themselves are Jerry Bales,
-@ivilian, of Mankato, Kansas; Larry Benedict, V-12, of Bennington, Kansas ;
Bob Book, oe of Macksville, Kansas; Louis Goehring, Ve1l2, of |
Arkansas City, Kannan; Sam Harris, V-12, formefly of Southwest High Schock,
Kansas City, Mos Harold Hill, V-12, of Shawnee-Mission, Kansas; Bob Luhn,
Vel2, of Langley, Washingtonj Bob Mathews, civilian, Kansas City, Missouri,
Paseo,;High School; Tom Pendergast, Vel2, of Bugene, Oregon. Two other
boys S Lloyd Palmer, Vel2, of Postville, Iowa, and Robert Le Turner, V-12,
of Tacoma, Washington, possess physical muxtit possibilities that should
insure them as traveling squad members. Homer Sherwood, V-12, of Arkansas
City, shows exceptional promise, although at the present time he is suffering
from a severe cold. I have exoused him from practice pending his recovery,
but he is one of the promising veya

| The greatest difficulty that a varsity basketball coach
faces with a sizeable squad such as this is that the boys all have been
taught different fundamentals. In fact, some of their fundamentals have
been neglected badly indeed. In previous years the Kansas coach has had
an opportunity to drill the boys during their freshman year. This is
impossible under such war time conditions. It will be along about the first
of the year before the squad will shape up into a team that has any semblance
of an ordinary Kansas tenn. Pivoting, passing and general floor work
patterns seem a lost art with this heterogeneous group. However, the morale
of the squad is high indeed, but the fundamentals, which generally have