UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION LAWRENCE September 11, 1959. To the Kansas Varsity Basketball Men Who Have Passed Their Academic Work Satisfactorily and Are Eligible to Play for Kansas Under the Big Six Con- ference Requirements for the 1939-'40 Basketball Season:* Rebert Es Allen James Arnold Bill Arthur Bob Bond Miller Cameron Don Ebling Howard Engleman Jack Floyd Richard Harp Herbert Hartman Van Hartman Vine Hogben Te Pe Hunter Maurice Jackson Bob Johnson Clinton Kanaga John Kline John Krum ‘Wn. McKinley Kenneth Messner Ralph Miller Robert Minor Donn Mosser Robert O'Neil Dewitt Petter Bruce Reid Jack Sands Louis Thompson Jack Trice Bruce Voran Robert Woodward The following are taking Correspondence Study courses to make up their eligibility: Robert Cooper Chain Healy Ralph Schaake I am sending you the basketball schedule for Karisas as arriiiged by the Big Six Conference when the coaches met at Ames, Iowa, on the third Friday and Saturday in Maye The other games Listed are Oklahoma Aa atid My, both at home and aw, Creighton University at Omaha, Southern Methodist University ~- two games at Lawrence, the dedication of the Central Missouri State Teachers College new field house, and a possibility of dedi- cating Michigan State College's new ten thousand spectator capacity field house at East La nsing, and also a game with them at Lawrence, and another contingensy of playing in a Kansas Collegiate Tournament at Topelm after Christmas, We may have © clinic game on Decembor 9th here in Lawrence, You will note that the dedication of the field house at Warrensburg is on | December 8th, but the Kansas State High School Coachos Association acetal that we have a clinic game here in Lawrence for rules interpretations and demonstrations by the Kansas varsity and by an opposing tcam for tho benefit of the high school coaches. appreciate, and this may be done. | This is sanecthing that tho high school coaches However, wo are limited to a total of 20 contests, ond either the tournament in Kansas will have to be eliminated or the trip to East Lansing. We are now negotiating for the Bast Lansing tripe It would oame during the opening of the second semester, and the gamo would be played on February 10th, Saturday nighte. Iowa State would be playing Oklahoma at Norman, and both Iowa State and Kansas would be traveling and arrive here Monday in timo - a gpme with Louie Menze's championship, ombitious Cyclones. To the Kansas Varsity Basketball Men Who Have Passed Their Academic Work A | Satisfactorily and Gre Eligible to Play for Kansas Under the Big Six Con- ference Requirements for the 1939='40 Basketball Season: * Roger Brice Bob Allen Bob Minor James Arnold ‘Donn Mosser Bill Arthur Bob 0 Neil Bob Bond Dewitt Potter _, Miller Cameron Dire tileoto Bruce Reid "Don Ebling . , , Jack Sands ~~" Howard Engleman Q, He “Tous Thompson se Jack Floyd Jack Trice Dick Harp : Bruce Voran Herbert Hartman ' Bob Woodward »., Ven Hartman | “/Bill Hogben *xThe following are taking correspondence Te P. Hunter study courses to make up their eligibility: ~ Maurice Jackson Bob Cooper e Bob Johnson. Chain Healy Sea on Clinton Kanaga Ralph Schaake oe Be John Kline Ae f } a John Krun Ne eon ie a Bill McKinley | | ie i Kenneth Messner ; i hee a Ralph Miller huh Ca 4 oA pas eau I am sending you the basketball schedule for Kansas as arranged \ ‘ek v by the Big Six Conference when the coaches met at Ames, Iowa, on the third Friday and Saturday in Mey, The other games listed are Oklahana A. and Me, both at home and away, Creighton University at Omaha, Southern Methodist University, two games at Lawrence, hin ‘deiligutdne of the Central Missouri Stete Teachers College new field house, and a possibility of dedicating Michigan State College's new ten thousand spectator capacity field house at East lansing, and also a game with then at Lawrence, and another eontingenoy of playing.a Kansas Collegiate Tournanent at Topels after Christmase We may have a clinic game on December 9 here in Lawrences You will note that the dedication of the field house at Warrensburg is December 8, but the Kansas State High School Coaches Association desires that we have @ clinic game here in Lawrence for rules interpretations and demonstra tions by the Kansas varsity and by an opposing team for the benefit of the high aoe school coachese This is sanething that the high school coaches appreciate, and this may be’ donee However, we are limited to « total of twenty contests, and either the tournament in Kansas will have to be elimimted or the trip to East Lansinge We are now negotiating for the Hast Lansing trip. It would come during moconinsemmie the opening of the second semester, and the game would be played on February 10, Saturday nighte Iowa State would be playing Oklahoma at Norman, and both Iowa State and Kansas would be traveling and arrive here Monday in time for a game with Louie Menze's championship ambitious Cyclonese This basketball season should have many pleasant surprises for all of youe You doubtless have not forgotten that the National Collegiate Basket~ ball Championship Tournament of the United States will be held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 30. Also the National Basketball Rules Committee will meet ro Kansas City on March 30, 31, april le In addition to this, the National Basketball Coaches Association, the membership of which includes all the outstanding college coaches of the United States, will convene on Merch 28, 29 and 30. | Kansas has an opportunity to play for the National Basketbs11 Championship in Kansas City if she comes through. A week prior to this the semi-finals of the National Collegiate districts - 5 (Missouri ag (South western denteriel? (Rocky Mountain Seateranoett’ 6 (Pacific Coast Conference) will be held in Kansas City on March 22 and 23, and prior to this date the winners of the Big Six Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference will meet at some | designated spot to determincthe champion of this districts Then the winners of this district will play in the four-game tournament on the above designated dite, | March 22 and 23, in Kansas Citye en So you can see that Kansas has a great opportunity to play right in the front i of the nation's biggest basketball extravaganzae If you don't ‘like that big word, then I will give you anothers It will be terrific, stupendous, colossol, gigantic and emotionslly devastatingg You will remember that the Univ ersity of Oregon defeated Ohio State last year in Chicago, and at the present time Oregon is the Netional Collegiate champion in basketball. All of these pley-offs are timed so that Kensas will lose little time away from sehool, and yet play in America's national championship. This is the greatest opportunity that has ever come to @ group -thet-hes-ever represented Kansas in basketball. I have been staying on the job here pretty steadily in Lawrence with the exception of the trip I took to Atlanta, Georgia, to coach the North Georgia allstar high school boyse They used a new scheme down in Georgia in a pedagogical waye The Georgia Coaches Association picked ten allestar high school ‘seniors from the north half of Georgia and they selected me to coach that teas Then ten senior high stars were picked from the south half of Georgia, and they selected Roy Mundorff of Georgia Tech to coach that team. The visiting coaches, 186 of them, sat in the bleachers in Tech's new gymasium and watched Mundorff and me put the boys through the paces that we would exeoute in drilling our varsitye We had never seen these boys before, and you can imagine that when you only have five days to do a job like that you have to organize your work pretty carefully. The two tesuas met for a game in Tech's new gymnasium, and strange as it may seen, edgihece iaieek people turned out for the high school basket~ — ball gamee I might add that I was darn lucky to have our North Georgia boys win . the ball gamee We won by about seven points and it was the surprise of my life because we did not draw the rangy boys from our North Georgia groupe They had Augusta and the larger schools in their section and they play better basketball and poorer football in southern Georgia and better football and poorer basketball in northern Georgia, so the ones who seemed to know say. ate : Well, anyhow, we outfought them and won the game 5528, The same scheme was tried in football, and Bobby Dodd of Temessee coached the South Georgia boys and Jack Meagher of Auburn, Alabama, Polytechnic, coached the North Georgia boyse ‘The South Georgia boys won the football game 13~12, end eight thousand people turned out to see the game under the are lights in Georgia Tech's football field. ‘Tt was a very pleasant experience and it gave mo the vacation ‘that I needed. So you cam see I dan talk basketball quite naturally, having been in it so recently. I am wondering if any of you boys who received a letter last year remember this paragraph: "Truly, the Kansas basketball team can go places if you men will train, and when I say train - I really mean traine We have men on the basketball team who will train, and the fellows who will not, or do not, are in for a lonesome existence this year." I trust that we will not have to elaborate on this statement further because we want only men on the a ek ce ee play and sent ke Gril But I do not want you to take basketball too seriously. Your school work canes first, and always in my puaearenkiak with every boy I have stressed the importance of athe the job well in an academic waye But of course a fellow should take a justi fiable pride in his own physique and in the know= ledge of being physically fit, so it is not amiss to remind you of the necessity of doing the push-up and dip on your fingers and toes each at on end nighte Starb this exercise three times, both morning and night, and then the second week execute it six times each sedi end night. And then the third week build up to nine times twice a day, and the fourth week spring up on your fingers and toes twelve times, touching the chin and barely touching the abdomen to the floor but not a the abdomen. Now push up and touch the right ear, then push up and touch the left ear. Do this on the fingers and not on the palms of the handse 3 Some of you fellows, I imagine, are like the individual who went aH to the doctor's office for advice. The doctor told him thet all he needed was to drink a gallon of water a day - a glass every hour, and so forth. He sterted out and said, "Much obliged, doctor.” The doctor called him back and seid, "Haven't you forgotten something?" He looked all around, found thet he had his het in his hand and none of his belongings were missing, and said, "No, i think not. The dector said, "Wil, you forgot to pay me. You came in here and wanted duke advice about your health and I gave it to you." "Yes," Suk the chiseling, escaping patient replied, “but I'm not going to take ite. Many of you will expect todo this push-up, but on the first day of practice + am going to ask each one of you fellows how many have done the shelly morning and night, and to ell thet have 4 will give a dable-rich, creamy, luscious malted milk. This offer starts fran the time ym receive this letter until I ask you this question on your first day : Nasheed - You may think this exercise a little tough, but a fellow who mumks to do this mach to improve his wrists and clare) as well as his whole body physically, will never be eas member of a varsity team that he should be. You know the purpose of this -=- to strengthen the tissues of the wrists and fingers so that you do not sprain your thumbs and fingers during the basket~ ball season. A sprained tinmb is a "dead horse" in basketball. And snappy Jo a? execute wnerring shots with mare power and poise than do disherag" fingers | “ which constantly slpp over the ball, | I can hear you say that you certeinly want to win the champion- ship in the Sig Six this year end maybe a national chempionship, Well, let's see you begin now, and when the first day of basketball practice rolls eround you should report in tip-top physical condition, ‘Now, you want to know when we are going to stert. Well, it will be before the first of October, and the first day of school is on September 21, So you can see how many days we are going to loaf before we start ,==== : #6= actual prectice three times a week, and by the middle of Ootober we will Prectice four times a week. Remember, we are meeting Oklahoma A, and M, o~ December 5 at 4ewrence, and while there is still a moot discussion as to when the Thanksgiving football game will be played between Kanses and Missouri, really it is just the day after school begins after the Thanks- giving holidays that we play Oklahoma A, and M, | For one year, at least, I feel better «when I say that we are not shaiet Gn of the “ig Six. “e have been defending champions too lenes A defensive army never won a war in its life. It is the offensive arny that | | wins. You wise who played on the team lest year and went through the chaste ah Misscutt save uot forgotten that, nor will you ever forget it. But you can satisfy yourselves by coming back and showing those Missouriens et Columbie on January 18, 1940, that Senses mon don't put on exhibitions the like of which were shom at Columbia on hy BAY, — Wasn't that a head- eohe? All right, let's see what we are going to do about it, I imagine most of you will not forget the game at lowa State when we really presented the Cyclones with the ball game. But you know I never was a fellow to cry over spilt milk. I believe in going out and — esting ‘em, and this year is the year to do it. last year I remenber this line in the letter 1 sent you: “Remember this, a sophomore team has never yet won che championship of the Big Six conference." Well, we are not sophanores any more, we are a year older, and I know that we will | have a different morale than was encournter ed during a part of last yeer, I told yo I had a small bunch of fighting Georgia lads down there and those North Georgia boys just out-fought those South Georgia boys and won the pall game. Well, I am expecting that of yo Kansas boys be= cause in every game you play in the Big Six conference, a most every game, you are going to be out-resched, out-weighed, and everything but out-fought. alas c Well, here's your only chance «= better ball handling, more finesse and more fight. We won a lot of ball games last year in the last two minutes of play. Those games could have gone either way, but most of them went oat way. The law of averages would cause us to feel that we might fall short on some of tilees scores this year unless you make it happen the way thet you will it, I still remember Alexander Dumas’ Three Musketeers «= “S00 200 ans eh ee “ew all, This bunch ef Frenchnen #er many mens the toughest, roughest men that have ever been portrayed in histary. If you will pardon mo, I might add thet I still hawe a little of that old _ fight left, and you are going to find it out. And if yoo don"t train and don’t fight you are not going to have a berth on this year's varsity. I trust you have had a rine summer and that you have been working and not loafing. The rellow that can't find anything to do has fallen short. This thing of waiting around and loafing because things don't break your way shows a state of mind of an individual being unable to cope with diffi - cult situations. some fellows have said that luck has been against them, listen you «= you make your ow luck, And we made it at Coluhbie, but we also made it in Lawrence against Oklahoma and Missouri and Nebraska and Kansas “ggies and Oklehom Aggies and IOWA State and Carleton end Texas, the second game; and yes, we even made it the first game but we made it the wrong way. 4nd then against Smthern Methodist we came through a couple of times. So, I want . say that a team that won't ve beaten can't be beaten. If you think you ere beaten, you are, If you think you care not, you don't i for out in the world you will find success begins with a fellow will, It is all in the state of mind, “ Met's go, gang! Sincerely yours, Wil ‘ta tahblaeso11 gor femye 190) ; (GBA Arter “A meaty : OK Bob Bona OPK Don meting -/30 /. nn 6-Y Mile Ok, Howard Bnglemen -'/0¢ 5 ti) /¥ (2.5) Bob Cooper 42 (tom ta) 4/0 07 W etba (ia Met 27 ort i sae: -U 501 vod tem | | OK SO - a. 4 d0) La re oe Carn t-4, fe Owen Reta - 1045 WW. Ma aK ren : he Cle vine neydogie\/ 04.5 tu, Ntle fk & ee (deck sents - 97/7 VEL, eee vee Ee. YD) venta CNet 094 yn.) 2 ar OK a = cata BK penesO~ ~~ "yaad UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION LAWRENCE September ll, 1959. To the Kansas Varsity Basketball Men Who’ Have Passed Their Academic Work Satisfactorily and Are Eligible to Play for Kansas Under the Big Six Con- ference Requirements for the 1939='40 Basketball Season:* Rebert E. Allen Wine McKinley James Arnold Kenneth Messner Bill Arthur Ralph Miller Bob Bond Robert Minor Miller Cameron Donn Mosser Don Ebling Robert O'Neil Howard Engleman Dewitt Petter Jack Floyd Bruce Reid Richard Harp Jack Sands Herbert Hartman Louis Thompson Van Hartman Jack Trice Wine Hogben Bruce Voran Ts Pe Hunter Robert Woodward Maurice Jackson Bob Johnson The following are taking Correspondence Clinton Kanaga Study courses to make up their eligibility: John Kline Robert Cooper . John Krum Chain Healy Ralph Schaake I am sending you the basketball schedule for Kansas as arranged by the Big Six Conference when the coaches met at Ames, Iowa, on the third Friday and Saturdey in Maye The other games listed are Oklahoma. A» and Me, both at home and awy, Creighton University at Qmaha, Southern _ Methodist Univer sity - two games at Lawrence, the dedication af the Central Missouri State Teachers College new field house, and a possibility of dedi- cating Michigan State College's new ten thousand spectator capacity field house at East La nsing, and also a game with them at Lawrence, and another contingency of playing in a Kansas Collegiate Tournament at Topekn after Christmas. We may have 9 clinic gamo on December 9th here in Lawrences You will note that the dedication of the field house at Warrensburg is on December 8th, but the Kansas State High Sehool Coaches Association desires that we have a clinic game hore in Lawrence for rules interpretations and demonstrations by the Kansas varsity and by an opposing team for tho benofit of the high school coaches. This is samething that the high school coaches appreciate, and this may be done. However, wo are limited to a total of 20 contests, and either the tournament in Kansas will have to be eliminated of the trip to East Lansing. We are now negotiating for the East Lansing tripe It would ogae during the opening of the second semoster, and the game would be played on February 10th, Saturday night. Iow State would be playing Oklahana at Norman, and both Iowa State and Kansas would be traveling and arrive hore Monday in time for a game with Louie Menze 4g Sapient, ambitious Cyclomes, | noo This basketball season should have many pleasant surprises for all of youe You doubtless have not forgotten that the National Colleg= inte Basketball Championship Tournament of the United States will be held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 50. Also, the National Basketball Rules Committee will meet in Kansas City on March 30, 31, April le In addition to this, the Nationa] Basketball Coaches Association, the membership of which includes all the outstanding college coaches of the United States, will convene on March 28, 29 and SO. Yansas has an opportunity to play for the National Basket~ ball Championship in Kansas City if she comes through. A weck prior to this the semi-finals of the National Collegiate districts «= #5 (Missouri Valley), #6 (Southwestern Conference), #7 (Rocky Mountain Conforonco, 768 (Pacific Coast Conference) =- will be held in Kansas City on March 22 ond 23, ond prior to this date the winnors of the Big Six Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference will meet at some designated svot to determine the champion of this district, Thon tke winners of this district will play in the four-game tournament on tho above designated date, Mareh 22 ond 23, in Kansas Citye So you can sec that Kansas has a great opportunity to play right in the front yard of the nation's biggest basketball oxtravaganzie If you donft like that big word, then I'll give you another. It will be torrific, stupendous, coléssal, gigantic and emotionally devastatings You will romember that the University of Oregon defeated Ohio State last year in Chicago, and at the present time Oregon is tho National Collegiate champ- ion in basketball. All of these play-offs are timed so that Kansas will lose little time away from school, and yet play in America's national championshipe This is the groatest opportumity that has ever come to a group represonting Kansas in basketball. eit I have been staying on the job here pretty steadily in Lawrence, with the exception of the trip I took to Atlanta, Georgia, to coach the North Georgia a lle-star high school boyse Thoy used a new scheme down in Georgia in a pedagogical wye ‘The Georgia Coaches Association picked ton all-star high school seniors fron the north half of Georgia and they selected me to coach that team, Then ton senior high stars were picked from the south half of Georgia, and they solected Roy Mundorff of Georgia Tech to coach that teame The visiting coaches, 186 of them, sat in the bleachers in Tech's now gymnasium and watched Mundorff ond me put the boys through the paces that we would exceute in drilling our varsitye We hand never scon these boys before, and you can imagine that when you only have five days to do a job like that you have to organize your work pretty carefullys The two teams met for a game in Toch's new gyrmasiun, and strange as it may seem, 1800 people turned out for the high school basketball goemce I might add that I was darn lucky to have our North Georgia boys win the ball gamoe We won by about seven points and it was the surprise of my life because we did not draw the rangy boys from our North Goorgin groupe They had Augusta and the larger schools in their section and thoy play better basketball and poorer football in southern Georgia, and better football and poorer basketball in northern Georgia, so the ones who seemed to know, sSaYe mm. Well,. anyhow, we out-fought them and won the game 5528, . The same scheme was tricd in football, and Bobby Dodd of Tennessee coached the South Georgia boys and Jack Moagher of Auburn, Alabama, Polytechnio, coached the North Georgia boyse The South Georgia boys won the football game 13=12, and 8,000 people turned out to sce the game under the are lights in Georgia Tech's football ficld.e It was a very pleasant oxperience and it gave mo tho vacation that I noedede So you sce I can talk baskotball quite naturally, having been in it so recontlye I om wondoring if any of you boys who reccived a letter last yoar romembor this paragraph: “Truly, tho Kansas basketball team can go places if you men will train, and when I say train = I really mean trains We have'men on the basketball team who will train, and the fellows who will not, or do not, are in for a lonesome existence this yoare" I trust that we will not have to elaborate on this statement further bee cause we wont only men on the team who really wont to play and want to traine But I do not want you to tmke basketball too seriouslye Your sdhool work comes first, and always in my conversation with every boy I have stressed the importance of doing the job well in an academic wye. . But of course a fellow should take a justifiable pride in his own physique and in the knowledge of being physically fit, so it is not amiss to romind you of the necessity of doing the push-up and dip on your fingers and toes each morning and night. Start this exercise three timcs, both morning and night, and then the second week oxecute it six times each morning and nighte Then the second week exocute it six times cach morning and night. And then the third woek build up to nine times twice a day, and the fourth week -spring up on your fingers and tocs twelve times, touching the chin and barely touching the abdomen to the floor but not resting on the abdomene Now push up and touch the right ear, then push up and touch the left care Do this on the fingers and not on the palms of the hands. Some of you follows, I imagine, are like the individual who went to the doctor's office for advise. The doctor told him that all he necded was to drink a gallon of water a day = a glass every hour, and so forthe He started out and said, "Much oBkiged, doctor," The doctor called him back and said, "Haven't you forgotten something?" He looked all around, found that he had his hat in his hand and none of his belongings were missing, and said, "No, I think note" The doctor said, “Well, you forgot to pay mee You came in here and wanted some advice about your health and I gave it to yous" _ "Yes," the chiseling, escaping patient replied, “but I'm not going to.take ib ek, Many of you will expect to do this pusheup, but on the first day of practice I am going to ask each one of you fellows how many have dono the pusheup morning and night, and to all that have I will give a double-rich, creamy, luscious malted nilke This offor starts from the time you rececive this letter until I ask yOu this question on your first day of practices You may think this oxercise a little tough, but a fellow who won't do this much to improve, his wrists and fingers, as woll as his whole body physically, will never be the valuable maber of a varsity team that he should be, You Awe know the purpose of this = to strengthen the tissues of the wrists and fingers so that you do not sprain your thumbs and fingers during the basketball seasone A sprained thumb is a "dead horse" in basketball, And snappy fingers execute unerring shots with more power and poise than do "“dish-rag" fingers which constantly slop over the balle I ean hear you say that you certainly want to win the championship in the Big Six this year and maybe a national ochampionshipe Well, let's see you begin now, and when the first day of basketball prac- tice rolls around you should report in tip-top physical conditione Now, you want to know when we are going to start. Well, it will be before the first of October, and the first day of school is on September 21. So you can see how many days we are going to loaf before we start actual practice three times a week, and by the middle of October we will practice four times a weeks. Remember, we are meeting Oklahoma As and Me on December 5th at Lawrenco, and while there is still a moot dis~ cussion as to when the Thanksgiving football game will be played between Kansas and Missouri, really it is just the day after school begins after the Thanksgiving holidays that we play Oklahoma A. a nd Me For one year, at least, I feel better when I say that we are not ehampions of the Big Sixe We have been defending champions too longe A defensive army never won a war in its life. It is the offensive army that winse You boys who played on the team last year and went through the debacle at Missouri have not forgotten that, nor will you ever forget ite But you can satisfy yourselves by coming back and showing those Missourians et Columbia on January 18, 1940, that Kansas men don't put on exhibitions the like of which were show at Columbia on Maroh 2nd. Wasn't that a headache? All right, let's seo what we are going to do about it. I imagine most of you will not forget the game at Iowa State when we really presented the Cyclones with the ball gamee But you Imow I never was a’ fellow to cry over spilled milk. I believe in going out and getbting tem, and this year is the year to do it, Last year I remember this line in the letter I sent you: “Remember this, a sophomore team has never yet won the championship of the Big Six Conference," Well, we are not sophomores any more, we are a year older, and I Imow that we will have a different morale than was enéountered during a part of last ycare I told you I had a small bunch of fighting Georgia lads down there and those North Georgia boys just out-fought those South Georgia boys and won the ball game. Well, I am expecting that of you Kansas boys because in every game you play in the Big Six Conference, or most every game, you are going to be out+-reached, out-woighed, a nd everything but out=foughte Well, here's your only ehance «- better ball handling, more finesse and more fights We won a lot of games last year in the last two minutes of plays Those games could have gone either way, but most of then went our waye The law of averages would cause us to feel that we might fall short on some of those scores this year unless you make it happen the way that you will it. I still remember Alexander Dumas? Three Musketeers = on 5) om "All for one and one for all". This bunch of Frenehmen many years ago were the toughest, roughest men that have ever been portrayed in historye If you will pardon me, I might add that I still have a little of that old fight left, and you are going to find it out. And if you don't train and don t fight you are not going to have a berth on this year's varsitye I trust you have had a fine summer and that you have been working and not loafing, The fellow that can‘t find anything to do has fallen short. This thing of waiting around and loafing because things don't break your way shows a state of mind of an individual being mable to cope with difficult situations. Some fellows have said that luck has been against theme Listen you — you make your own lucke And we made it at Columbia, but we also made it in Lawrence against Oklahoma and Missouri and Nebrasin and Kansas Aggies and Oklahama Aggies and Iowa State and Carleton and fexas, the second game, = and yes, we even made it the first game, but we made it the wrong waye And then against Southern Methodist we came through a couple of times. So I want to say that a team that won't be beaten can't be beatene If you think you are beaten, you aree If you think you dare not, you don tte "For out in the world you'll find Success begins with a fellow's will -- Ttts all in the state of mind," - Let's go, gangd Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coachs UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE January 5 January 12 January 18 January 23 February 12 February 20 February 24 February 26 March 1 March 8 December 5 December 8 December 18 & 19 February 15 March 4 1939~1940 BIG SIX CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Oklahoma at Lawrence Kansas State at Lawrence Missouri at Columbia Nebraska at Lawrence Iowa State at Lawrence Kansas State at Manhattan Nebraska at Lincoln Iowa State at Ames Missouri at ‘sev ainas Oklahoma at Norman NON*CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Oklahoma A. & Me at Lawrence Central Moe Ste Teche, at Warrensburg Southern Methodist U. at Lawrence Oklahoma Ae & Me. at Stillwater Creighton University at Omaha, Nebre wil ‘both ‘ths ape you » geyetile Bact Divestar af Tiysieal Bivention ani Roerention, ee ee ee : Bob Allen James Arnold Bill Arthur Bob Bond Roger Brice Miller Cameren Bob Cooper Don Ebling Jack Engel Heward Engleman Jack Floyd Ed Hall Dick Harp Herbert Hartman Van Hartman Chain Healy Bill Hogben T. P. Hunter Maurice Jaekson Dear Varsity Men: September 29, 1939 Bob Johnson Clinton Kanage John Kline John Krum Bill McKinley Kenneth Messner Ralph Miller Bob Minor Donn Mosseér Bob O'Neil Dewitt Potter Bruce Reid Steve Renko Jack Sands | Louis Thompson Jack Trice Bruce Voran Bob Woodward I want to. make a statement regarding varsity basketball practice. We will hold our practices 9%n Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30, The locker room will be open at 2:30 for these who do not have classes and have caught up on their studies, but the regular prace@ tice will start at 3:30. - During October we will practice on three days a week. In November we will step it up to include Wednesdays and Fridays, and in late November wewill practice Saturday because we play the Oklahoma Aggies here on December 5th. Last year we permitted the varsity men to play touch football. So many of the men were injured and there were so many absences en account of practices and games that we did not fare very well. Consequently, I am making a ruling now that none of the varsity men who come out will be permitted to miss basketball practice nor will they be permitted to compete in intramurals during the basket~- ball seasone ‘ Our first practice is Monday afternoon, October 2. I trust that we will see you Monday afternoon, with the exception of the varsity football mens Very sincerely yours, D9 <2 Varsity Basketball Coache Robert Allen October 13, 1939. Clinton Kanaga James Arnold John Kline Bill Arthur John Krun Bob Bond Bill McKinley Miller Cameron Kenneth Messner Beb Cooper Ralph Miller Don Ebling Roger Brice Jack Engel Bob Ifinor Howard Engleman Donn Mosser Jack Floyd Bob O'Neil Ed Hall Dewitt Potter Diek Harp Bruce Reid Herbert Hartman Steve Renko Van Hartman Jack Sands Chain Healy Ralph Schaake Bill Hegben Louis Thompson T. Pe Hunter James Trice Maurice Jackson Bruce Voran Beb Jehnson Bob Woodward — Dear Varsity Team Members: On September llth I wrote you a very lengthy and informative epistle regarding our aims and desires for a success= ful season, 1959-40. Already I have observed a break-down in training among some of the members of the squad. This is the final warning. When any of you men come on the floor and I plainly detect that you have been smoking I will immediately ask you to check in your suit. This will be for the season and there will be no begging back on the squad. I have always told every team that I have coached that I do not want players on the squad who dissipate. I only want those who are willing to pay a price. Remember, I do not dismiss you from the squad — you dismiss yourself from the squd by not obeying training rules. There are rules that you are supposed to follow and when you break those you would dismiss yourself if you had the courage to do what you are supposed to doe No ene on the team or outside of the team has given me information on your failure to keep training rules. I detect those myself and take nobody else's word for ite This is finole ft Vory corAlally yours, / > a oS CO i