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. : UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
piel wauigme es August 7; 1941.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION -
To the Kansas Varsity Basketball Men who have passed their academic work
satisfactorily and are eligible to pley for Kansas under the Big Six Con=
ference requirements for the 1941=42 basketball season:*

 

Bob Abrams Bob Johnson .
Jack Ballard Warren Israel
Jack Beck Dick Keene

Don Blair Bill Mathews
George Dick Dick Miller
Kenneth Dugan Ralph Miller
Gordon Durne fed Moser

Bon Ettinger Browder Richmond
Bob Fitzpatrick Marvin Sollenberger
Vance Hall Paul Turner

John H allberg Charles Walker
Te Pe H unter Virgil Wise

* Those taking Correspondence Study in order to be eligible by fall:
Charles Black
John Buescher
Ray Evens
Max Kissell

Dear

We are enclosing the basketball schedule for Kansas-for the 194142
season as arranged by the Big Six Conference. In addition to our conference
schedule you will also see listed games with Denver University, Bethel
Gollege at Newton for the dedication of their new ficld house, Iowa Univer=-
sity, DePeul, Wichita and Creighton Universities. There are two games yet
to be arranged=-probably with Oklahoma A. and MN. cor with a Southwest Con=
ference team here at Lawrence.

Today is August 4th. In the evening the bleckbirds are flitting fron
the north on their trek to the southiende The dew is heavy at night and
the evenings are cool, presaging the coming of fulle When fall comes the
tang is in the aire The leaves turn brown and the wind gives on ominous
warning that winter is coming. And when frost, snow and sleet come Old
Man Winter with his hoary locks and his frigid breath will maze you like
this indoor game they call round=bell, beskctbell, or casabsabetl, call it whet
you will, the main idea is to get that little bail through the hoop=-the
game that Dre Naismith originated fifty years agoe He said, "Basketball is
a game easy to play but difficult to master". And how true that epic state=
ment ise

Personally, I declare to you that I am more enthusiastic this year
about the record that we hope to make than perhaps any other year that I
have coachede The year of 194142 will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary
of my coaching Kanses basketball teamse Physically we perhaps have some
of the finest talent that we have had for yearse Some of our men are giants
in stature, some can handle the ball like a monkey handles a coconut, but
as I run over the roster of this fine material there is not one single man
in the group but whet I can find glaring faults in some of the execution of
his fundamentalse Some can shoot and play a fine offensive game, but they