in the previous seven years under Henry. In 1931 Missouri won only two games and
lost eight.

This brought to an end the nine-year Henry regime at Missouri. In the fall
of 1933 Gwinn returned to coaching as head mentor of the St. Louis Gunners, an
independent professional team. The Gunners were given no consideration at all
in pre-season dope on professional teams. However, the team astounded everyone by
roaring through a 16~game schedule with only two defeats, They topped off the sur-
prises by tying the national professional champions, the Chicago Bears, Other pre-
fessional league teams which they defeated included the Chicago Cardinals and the
Brooklyn Dodgers. Their only defeats were at the hands of the Green Bay Packers
and the Cincinnati Reds,

This season was followed by a return to the section in which he spent his
youth, the Southwest. Henry went to the University of New Mexico asidirector of
athletics and head football coach. This was in the fall of 1934 and his first
team at New Mexico won the Border Conference championship. Henry continued coach-
ing at New Mexico until the fall of 1937 when he came to the University of Kansas
as director of athletics. He became head football coach in 1939, succeeding Ad
Lindsey. :

Gwinn is married and is the father of two children, a married daughter, Julie,
and a son, Gwinn III, who is a freshman in high school.

Victor C. (Vic) Hurt
Assistant Coach

Vic Hurt goes into his fourth season as a member of the K.U. coaching staff
this fall, He was born March 13, 1899, at Oakland City, Ind. His family moved
to Oklahoma when he was about five years old and then a few yeara later moved to
Kansas, Vic attended high school at Neosho Rapids for two years and then went to
Americus High School one year, graduating at Americus in 1916, There was no foot
ball team at Neosho Rapids, but at Americus he played center and guard on the foot-
ball team, as well as competing on the basketball and baseball teams,

After graduating from Americus High, Hurt entered College of Emporia. He played
three years of football there, the last two, 1918 and 1919, under Gwinn Henry, whom
he is now serving on the Jayhawk coaching staff. Both of those years the Henry~
coached teams on which Hurt played were undefeated. Vic played center in football,
He also lettered in basketball and track at C. of E., graduating in 1920,

Hurt began his coaching career at Coldwater High School in western Kansas,
After two years there he coached one year at Topeka High School. Following this
brief stay at Topeka, Vic went to Oklahoma Baptist University in 1923 as director
of athletics and coach of all sports, He was at 0.B.U,. eleven years and made an
enviable record there, His football teams won three championships and there was
one five-year stretch where Oklahoma Baptist did not lose a single game at home,

In 1935 Hurt went to Southern Methodist University as assistant to Coach Matty
Bell, That year the Mustangs had the best football team in the history of the
school, They were undefeated during the regular season and played in the Rose Bowl
against Stanford,

On the basis of his record at S.M.U, and 0.B.U., Vic was hired by Tulsa Univer
sity in 1936 as head football coach, During the three years he was at Tulsa, Hurt's
teams won the Missouri Valley conference championship every year. His Tulsa teams
won better than 75 per cent of their games and lost only four of their first 19 games.
In 1937 Tulsa tied Rice, the Southwest Confference champions of that season,

Vic is married and is the father of four children, three girls and a boy.