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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Calendar, 1938=59

December 9 and 10 + K. Us at Stillwater, (lla. (Cldla. As & Me)
December 16 and 17.= K. te 06 ME See (Univ. of Texas)
DECEMBER 17 TO JATUARY 2 ~ = = CHRISTMAS VACATION

December 19 and 20 + K. Us. at Dallas, Tems (S.MeU.)

-_a— Carte Lieu Mike 0 Uv)

JANUARY 26 TO FEBRUARY 2 « « ~ EXAMINATION

February 9 « Oklae Ae & Me at Lawrence

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TO THE MEN WHO HAVE PASSED THEIR ACADEM¥C WORK SATISFACTORILY

AND ARE ELIGIBLE) UNDER THE BIG SIX CONFERENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR
“THE 1938=39 BASKETBALL SEASON ==

(list names) *

*The men not listed here are not eligible at the present time.

We are sending you the basketball schedule of Kansas as
sie arranged by the Big Six Conference when the coaches met in
Lincoln, Nebraska on the third Friday and Saturday in May, The
other games ‘Listed, such as Oklahoma A. & Me, University of —
Texas, Southern Methodist University, have been approved and
the contracts have Saad signede The game with Carleton College
is tentative. We may play them on Jemmary 2, but this is not
definite. The Washburn dates have not been arrangedp attner. ae
I thought you would like to Imow about our schedules

Now, I have a greater surprise for youe I am sending you

- some confidential correspondence which I would ask you not to

give a the newspapers, but to keep # in confidence, as a member
of the Kansas varsitye I want you to see that the National
Delasbialte Athletic Assveiation te taking definite steps to
declare a legitimate national champion from the collegiate ranks
in basketball. It is planned that this will be done for this
coming year. | :

You can we what a great Seca you men of the Kansas
basketball team will havee This will be the first year in the

history of ‘basketball that it has been possible to declare a

ve here

legitimate jcollegiate champion. This championship play-off

will take place immediately after our Big Six champion play e

 
  

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So you can lee that this means more to you men than to any other
group that has ever represented Kensas in basketball.
I have been staying here on the job every day, working
out this schedule so that you would have a fine Christmas trip,
and also so that we would be in condition to mene the Oklahoma.
Bec Cbrisitre ree A410
3 Aggies and the rest of the-beys whe are going ‘ challenge us
severely for the Big Six basketball honor.
tO oe ‘Z
I am really more enthusiastic about . — of a team
thet we will have, combined with what we do with that team, ‘than |
I have ever been in my life. When you have the wolf pack on
your shoulders you've got to fight for an existence. And this
is exactly our predicament this yeare Southern Methodist Univer-
sity is captained by Billy Dewell, the great Dodge sity oer of a
. few years agoe They think they have great prospects. For Texas,
‘) I em sending you copy of a olipping that you perhaps saw in

{ Eddie Breitz's prea: e. a few weeks | B68s Oey For Henry Tbe. and the

 

Oklahoma ke ies, it is needless for me to say much iietut that
at. Stillweter will be @er- the dedicattondof 1 ate’ new , field bouts
which has a maximum seating abit of nine thousand. Carleton
College is coached by Marshall Diebold, a great Wisconsin star
whose team oe Ikmocks off Big Ten — So you can see
‘there is not a as 3 in any game, but a tovek ride from be-
gimning to énd.

Truly, the Kansas basketball team can go places if you
men will train, ani 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

yeare

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because you mow that Iba never has a poor team and a. games fut wid
 

 

Now, I do not want you to take veer basketball too seriously.
Of course your dination come firste But every mth, whether athlete
or noneathlete, should have a justifiable pride in aplasia
physique end, bhe knowledge of being physically fit. | So take care
of yourselves in a common eis waye Remember what I told you in
spring practice regarding the push-up and the dip on your fingers and
toes. I said start this exercise three times, both morning and night,
end then the obs week execute it six times each morning and nighte
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 eonking,
then push up and touch the right ear, push up and touch the lett
eare Do this on the fingers and not the palms of the hands. Now,
I lmow you may say it is a little tough, but the fellow who won't
do this will never be the valuable member on a varsity team that
he should be. ™

You say you want to win a championship. Well, let's see you
begin now, and when you come back to school borers the last week
of September is over we will be having our meeting for varsity

basketball. We are going to start practicing our fundamentals

early. If most of the boys are working in the afternoons then we

will practice at night. But we are going to practice at least
three times a week starting in late September, and by the middle
of October we may increase it to four times a week. We are

dedicating the Oklahoma A. & Me fieldhouse on the 9th and 10th’

of December, and then we go to Texas, so you see what we are up

against. I must get one game before we play the Oklahom Aggies

at Stillweter. I am going to try to get Washburn, but if we can't
 

get them we will get someone else. I want to give every fellow
a chance to make that first teame

We have a lot of wonderful material - potential, I should
say, but just whet'we do with it will depend upon how the pleyers
and the coach react to one of the Saliuhest situations thet we
have ever experiencede

Maybe the funny man who drew the pakier fumny cartoon in
the Jayhawker about the Kansas basketball team and its coach
‘picking easy opponents had strabismus (eye squint) sufficiently

‘bad to blind him from the fact that the Kansas football team,

_ “>the Kansas baseball team,’ the Kansas track team, the Kansas tennis

team, the Kansas golf team and the Kansas swimming team « all were
striving valiantly to win the Big Six championship in their res-
pective sporting events, and that is exactly wheat the Kansas
basketball team did, after getting knocked flat on their backs
in the first gene with Okiatiee.

Any asinine, contracted nitewit who would caricature such
a thing, or the pimple-brain who gave the idea to the cartoonist
did not appreciate the Kansas varsity basketball players ' effortse
Of course, we played those smaller weneets to get ourselves in
condition to play our Big Six opponents. That was Setup why
we did it, because we did. not aw the strength of so many of
our untried men. And the intelligence of such a course was proven
because our team developed after playing these weaker teams. Had
we struck stronger competition at first our boys would have floumdered
so badly that we perhaps would not have come through the way we dide

Anybody who would say that Morningside and Southwestern were weak

sisters <= well, they just don't know their basketball. Maybe Baker 5

 
was and maybe Washburn was, yet Oklahoma Ae & Me was in their
league and they were glad to chalk up two victories for champion~
ship wins over Washburn. So you can see what I think of such an
argument. JI was proud of you whem you beat Southwestern. We are
not permitted to play freshmen, and I kmow that our academic
struggles a much more sevens here on Mount Oread than they are
as some other colleges against whom we compete.

So, if you want to develop a case of rabies (hydrophobia)
in your coach, just eerind me of some of those smooth=brain
peneil-pushers who cause anything to lie on paper, or some of
these willy-nilly cartoonists whose brain is as screwy as some
of their cartoons.

Now I feel much better, but I want you to lmow that we this

year are not champions. The team last year was the championship

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team. We haven't won one, game toward the championship. This is
an entirely new aggregation. This team may go like a million
dollars, or it may be one of the surprise flops of the Big Six.
Of course, they will call us champions, but we aren't. And they
will say to a. of course, "Doc, you've got fine material = you
ought to clean up." 3 )
Remember this, a sophomore team has never yet won the
championship of the Big Six conference. So we have got to depend
ie the: old heads. But if a sophomore can beat out an old head,
then be sure that is just what is going to happen. If there is
anything worth while in athletics it is that each man has a chance,
end.I do not care whether he is a sophomore, junior or seniore If
you will train and se all you've got we will have one of the
darnedest fighting teams Kansas has ever hade Start to exercise

now and don't miss a single timee I am going to ask you when you
 

come back if you have done this, ana I don't want to ee a single
liar on my Soom. What do you say, gang? "ALL foyone and one for all"
WAS 2 slogan that made the Three Musketeers - the Donrhest, fightingest
bunch that has ever been portrayed in history.

i have still got a lot of that old fight left, and you are
going to find it oute

I trust that you have had a fine summer and that you are
working, not loafing. If you can't find a job do like the Irishman
dide He got fired, but the next day he was on a job just the samee
The boss said, "Look here, Pat,:didn't I tell you that I didn't need
you eny more?" And Pat said, "Well, begorra, boss, I found this out.
Itve got to work for somebody, and I'd qust leave be working for you
as anybody else". |

With best wishes for a very happy summer, and trusting that

 

you will be on Mount Oread fit and fighting, I am

Sincerely yours,

a | Varsity Basketball Coache

 
 
ale

You can sec what a great opportwmity you men of the Kansas
basketball team will have. This will be the first year in the hist-
ory of basketball that it has been possible to declare a legitimate
national collegiate champion. This championship play<off will take
place immedintely after our Big Six championship plays So you can
see that this means more to you men than to any other group that has
ever represented Kansas in basketball.

I have been staying here on the job every day working out
this schedule so that you would have a fine Christmas trip, and also
so that we would be in condition to mect the Oklahoma Aggies and the
rest of our conference teams who are going to challenge us soverely
for the Big Six basketball honore

I am really more enthusiastic this year about the kind of a
team that we will have, combined with what wo do with that team, than
I have ever been in my lifee When you have the wolf pack on your
shoulders you've got to fight for an existencce And this is exactly
our predicament’ this yoar. Southern Methodist University is captained
by Billy Dewell, the great Dodge City, Kansas, star of a few years
agoe They think they have great prospectse For Texas, I am quoting
from Eddie Breitz* column which you perhaps saw a few wecks ago =

"Toxns basketball fans think Promoter Ned Irish
will be making a mistake if he docsn't include

the Texas Longhorns in his visiting list for
Madison Square Garden noxt winter « « e Coach

Jack Gray can start an ontire lineeup of cx-John
Tarleton boys, and John Tarleton, if you remomber,
is the school which won cighty-four in a row bee
fore hitting the well-knowm dust late last season."

For Henry Iba and the Oklahoma Aggies, it is needless for me to say
much about that because you kmow that Iba never has*a poor team and
those games at Stillwater will be the dedicatory games inaugurating
basketball play in their new field house, which has a maximum seate
ing capacity of nine thousand. Carlcton Colloge is coached by
Marshall Diebold, a great Wisconsin star, whose tean annually knocks
off Big Ten teams, So you can see there is not a "set-up" in any
game, but a tough ride from beginning to onde

Truly, the Kansas basketball team can go placcs if you men
will train, and when I say train - I really moan train. ‘We havo men
on the basketball team who will train, and the fellows who will not,
or do not, are in for a lonesome existence this ycoare

Now, I do not want you to take your basketball too seriously»
Of course your studies come first. But cvery man, whother athlete
or noneathicte, should have a justifiable pride in his owm splendid
physique and in the kmowledge of being physically fite So take caro
onan

of yourselves in a common sense waye Ramember what I told you in
spring practice regarding the pusheup and the dip on your fingers
and toese I said, start this exercise three times, both morning
and night, and then the second week execute it six times each
morning and night. 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 resting, then push up and touch the right car, push
up and touch the left ear. Do this on the fingers and not the
palms of the hands,

Now, I know you may say it is 2 little tough, but the
fellow who won't do this will nevor be the valuable menter of a
varsity toam that he should be. You know what this is for = to
strengthen the tissues of the wrists and fingers so that you do
not sprain your thumbs and fingers during the basketball soasone
A sprained thumb is a “dead horse" in basketball. And snappy
fingers execute unerring shots with more power and poise than do
"disherag" fingors which constantly slop over the balle

You say you want to win a championship. Well, let's sce
you begin now, and whon you came back to school before the last week
of September is over we will be having our meeting for varsity
basketball... We are going to start practicing our fundamentals carlye
If most of the boys are working in the aftcrnoons then we will prac-
tice at night. But we are going to practice at least three times a
week starting in late September, and by the middle of October we
may incroasc it to four times a weck, We are dedicating the Okla»
homa Ae and Me ficld house on the 9th and 10th of December, and
then we go to Texas, so you sco what we aro up asainst, I must get
one game before we play the Oklahama Aggies at Stillwater. I am
going to try to got Washburn, but if we can%t get them we will get
someone clsce I want to give every fellow a chance to make that
first team. ‘Ic have a lot of wonderful matcrial = »otential, I
should say, but just what we do with it will depend upon how the
players and the coach react to one of the toughest situations that
we have ever experienced.

Maybe the fumny man who drew the rather funny cartoon in
the Jayhawker about the Kansas basketball team anc its coach picking
easy opponents had strabismus (eye squint) sufficicntly bad to blind
him from the fact that the Kansas football team, the Kansas track
team, the Kansas baseball team, the Kansas tennis team, the Nansas
golf team, and the Kansas swimiing team - all were striving valiantly
to win the Big Six championship in their respective sporting cvents,
and that is exactly what the Kansas basketball team did, aftor
getting knowked fiat on their backs in the first gane with Oklahoma,
when

Any asinine, contracted nitewit who would caricature such
a thing, or the pimpleebrain who gave the idea to the cartoonist
did not appreciate tho Kansas varsity basketball players' cffortse
Of course, we playod those smaller schools to got ourselves in cone
dition to play our Big Six opponentse That was exactly why we did
it, because we did not know the strength of so many of our untried
men, And tho intelligence of such a coursco wos proven because our
toam developed after playing these woaker teams. Had we struck
stronger compotition at first our boys would have floundored so
badly that we perhaps would not have cane through the way wo dide
Anybody who would say that Mornings do and Southwestern were weak
sisters «- well, they just don't know their basketballe Maybe
Baker was and maybe Washburn was, yet Oklahoma Ae and Me was in
their league and they were glad to chalk up two victories for
championship wins over Washburne So you can see what I think of
such an argumente I was proud of you when you beat Southwestern.
We are not permitted to play freshnen, and I know that our academic
struggles arc much more severe here on Mount Oread than thoy are in
some other colleges against whom we competes

So, if you want to develop a case of rabies (hydrophobia)
in your coach, just remind me of some of those smoothebrain pencil-
pushers who cause anything to lie on paper, or sane of these willy~
nilly cartoonists whose brain is as screwy as some of their cartoons,

Now I feel much better, but I want you to know that we this
year are not champions, The tcam last year was the chanpionship
team, We haven't won one single game toward the championshipe This
is an entirely new aggregation. This team may go like a million
dollars, or it may be one of tho surprisc flops of the Big Six. Of
course, they will call us champions, but we aren't. And they will
say to me, "Doc, youtve got fine material = you ought to clean upe"

Remember this, a sophomore tcam has never yet won tho
chanpionship of the Big Six conferencoe. So wo have got to depend
on the old heads, But if a sophomore can boat out an old head, then
be suro that is just what is going to happene If there is anything
worth while in athletics it is that each man has ao chance, and I do
not care whether he is a sophomore, junior or senior. If you will
train and give all you've got wo will have one of the darnodest,

.fightingest toams Kansas has ever hade Start to exercise now and
don't miss a single time. I eam going to ask you when you come back
if you have done this, and I don't want to have a single liar on my
team, What do you say, gang?

"All for one and one for all" was a slogan that made the
Three Musketecrs the toughest, fightingest bunch that has cvor been ©
portrayed in history. I have still goto lot of that old fight left,
and you are going to find it oute
I trust that you have had a fine sumor and that you dre
working, not loafinge If you can't find a job do like the Irishman
dide He got fired, but the next day he was on the job just the
same. The boss said, “Look here, Pat, didn't I tell you that I
didn't need you any more?" And Pat said, "Well, begorra, boss, I
found this oute I've got to work for somebody, and I'd just leave
be working for you as anybody clsoe"

With best wishes for a very happy summer, and trusting
that you will be on Mount Oread fit and fighting, I an

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
FCA sAH Varsity Basketball Coachs
May 24, 1938

"at the Chicago convention of the National Association of Basketball
Coaches, the motion was passed that the incoming President appoint a Tourna-
ment and Olympic Committee, this committee to communicate with and petition
the NeCeAede to take basketball ‘under its wing! in much the same way 4s it
has sponsored national collegiate championship contests in track and field,
swimming, wrestling, tennis and golfe

President Chandler of the NeA.BeBeCe, appointed the following committee:
He Gs Olsen, Ohio State University, chairman; John W, Bumn, Stanford Univer-
sity, and Dre Fe Ce. Allen, University of Kansase

Our committee; after considerable deliberation and correspondence, is
ready to make the following proposal to the NeCeAcAe:

le That the N.CeAeds assume responsibility for the conduct of a National
Collegiate Basketball Tournament in the Spring of 1959.6 This championship
play to be so arranged thot any longthy, time consuming district play-offs
be avoidede One team to represont each of tho eight N.CeAsihs districts might
very well bo chosen by a scloection committoe from cach districts. The teams
representing districts 1, 2, 5 and 4 (East of the Mississippi River) might
play a four teom tournament at some point whero intocrest would be high, travol
expenses low and time away from school negligiblee For oxample, Indianapolis,
Indiana, The other four teams from districts 5, 6, 7 and 8 (West of the Miss-
issippi River) might mect in a four tooam tournament ot Kansas City or Denvcre
Thon the two winnors could play at some central point for the NeCehehe Basket=
ball Championshipe

It is the belicf of our committee that such a plan for 1939 would be
feasible and practical, It should produce cnough revenue to pay all expenses
and it is not likely to meet with stronuous objections from conferences and
from individual schools who frown on postescason contests, ctce In 1940,
the Olympic year, o more ambitious and comprehensive program of elimination
tournaments in each district might well be considercde

2. That a Games Committee to conduct the NeCeAeAe Championship play be
appointed. It is suggested this committee might be composed of the Tourna= —
ment and Olympic Committee of the National Association of Basketball Coaches,
plus a representative from cach district of tho NeCeAsile

Personnel as follows:
District #1 « Woslcy Feslor, Harvard University
District #2 - H. He Salmon, Jre, Now York City
District #3 = Curtis Parker, Centenary Colloge
District #4 - W. S. Chandlor, Marquette University
District #5 = George Edwards, University of Missouri
District #6 « Jamos Ste Clair, Southern Methodist
District #7 « Le Mahoney, Denver University
District «~ J. Fred Bohler, State Colloge of Washington

Our committee urges that the NeCeAche act on our proposal at its earliest
convenience so that the plans for the Tournanont Play in 1939 may be gotten under °
under way very soone"
RED FACES IN NEW YORK

BROADWAY FANS BET HEAVILY
ON AMERICAN LEAGUE.

i:

Reports From Far West Say That
-Louis-Baer Bout Wouldn’t
Draw More Than $100,-

000 Gate.

By Eppie BRIEvTz.
(Associated Press Correspondent.)

NEw ‘vorx, July 7.—Lots of red
faces around this town today....
Broadway lost its shirt betting on
the American league....Fourth of
July must have been pretty tough
on Mike Jacobs, who still is laid up
with lumbago....Mebbe reports from
the far West that a Joe Louis-Max
Baer bout in California wouldn’t do-
much more than $100,000 had some-.
thing to do with it....They’re toss- |
ing a big party in St. Louis tonight
for J. Ed Wray, who has been sports
editor of the Post-Dispatch there
for thirty years....This grand vet-
eran of the sports world is celebrat- |
ing his sixty-fifth birthday.

The minute the National Boxing
association named Tony Galento No.
1 heavyweight challenger, Tony

sign across his

bar reading

‘Bring On
That Big Bum, |

Ts O:llis”. bs

Wally® Berger

began clicking

as soon as he

left the Polo

grounds to

wee. Texas bas-

etball fans
think Promo-

ter Ned Irish

tars ats = will be making

Clicks with the Reds. Scere aka
the Texas Longhorns in his visiting
list for Madison Square Garden next
Winter....Coach Jack Gray can’
start an entire line-up of ex-John
Tarleton boys, and John Tarleton, |
if you remember, is the school which
won eighty-four in a row before hit-
ting the well known dust late last

, SOASOM, mer tei
t ¥ ee

Nebraska State Baseball |
‘league is made up of cities from |
‘ho less than three states. ...The guy
with the broad grin is Coach Howard |
Kissell of Findlay: college out in
Ohio, and no wonder....He lost only |
three men off his crack football
team; his basketball squad comes
back to the campus intact, and only
one lad will be missing when the
baseball team reports....In other
words, he is sitting pretty....Enos
| Slaughter, who is going great guns
for the Cardinals, has been made an
honorary member of the fire depart-
ment down in Roxboro, N. C., his

home town.

_ Cincinnati is—and always was—a
red-hot baseball town when the Reds
are winning....When the club gal-
loped off with the bunting back in
1919, a rabid fan in Cynthiana, Ky.,
walked sixteen miles every day io
learn the score....George Moye, for-
mer Florida football star, will fill in
for Jeff D. McCord as diiector of
Athletics at Emory university, while
McCord takes a year’s leave of ab-|
sence....Healthy sign: the way the.
Illinois boxing commission sat down |