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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