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"Probably Missouri should be the strongest of the three schools
with all-civilian tesms, They still have Delestatious, Collins, and several
other boys from their fine team last year who will pera profited by a year's
experience. Nebraska always has a good football team. Last year they had
probably the poorest teem they have ever had. Yet they were able to beat Kansas
“by one point in a sea of rain and md at Lincoln, perpetuating the 2-year old
jin. Coach Ward Haylett of Kansas State, whose team was in the cellar last
season, recently announced that things were looking up for football next year
with the return of 140 Army veterinarians to civilian status. These together
with a promising array of last year's high school stars, should provide Kansas
State with same mucheneeded manpower. p

“While the picture may ounge almost overnight, hingeing upon the
progress of the war, various decisions of the Navy, and the general manpower
situation, K. U. will have to battle hard to place in the upper bracket next
fall. However, there is a fighting spirit evident amongst the players who
partiedpated in the Jayhawker's victory over Missouri last fall which had not
been evident for several seasons and which may carry the young Jayhawkers to
greater heights in 1944. :

"It should be an interesting season, and fans are assured of good
football entertainment with the results in the laps of the gods and the hands

of the 17-year olds, the 4F's and the Navy.