at "Ole Miss", was later assistant football coach at that institution,
the University of Mississippi, until his induction into the hee,

The Machinists’ Mates have an outstanding group of athletic officers.
Chief Starkey is a great baseball fan, having played some semi-pro ball;
Lieut. McGuigan played football “t Rockhurst College in Kansas City, and
Lieut. Zeller was a football and basketball star at Indiana University
before playing with the Chicago Bears.

The Chief Specialists of the V-12 group are a hardy and aggressive
group. Chief Ralph Hayes, an expert boxer, has developed Golden Gloves
champions at Cedar Rapids, lowa, for many vanes In Robinson Gymnasiun
at 4:30 any day in Cae week wal be found fifty or more husky mit-wielders
under the watchful eye of Chief Hayes, swinging kmock-out blows at their

opponents, and at the same time developing the manly art of self defense
which in naval language means the survival of the fit. Chief Troy Odom
played halfback at Tulane University in 1934, 1935 and 1936. Chief Bob
Garver is an expert swimmer, and has had outstanding success as a Red
Cross swimming instructor. Chief Don Davis, who played baseball and
basketball at Kansas State College, and later coached in high school,
is a fine organizer of V-12 intramural teams.

There is just one objective of all Army and Navy xecsthine =- to
prepare men physically and technically for service “oaks, The man.
who is in top physical condition fights better and longer than the one
who isn't. For example, a man who enters the service with no experience
in body chee’ sports may get a completely knew mental experience from
his boxing leBson. After more training in contact sports a man gets
poise, confidence, skill and the desire for combat == even though he had

never had a grade school fist fight before his service days» We do not

teach commando tactics. We teach physical conditioning because that is