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