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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