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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
NOVEMBER 7,1946
BY BOB DELLINGER Daily Kansan Sports Writer
Kansas will face one of the toughest basketball schedules in Jayhawker history this year.
The Jayhawkers will play no less than 27 games, with such teams as De Paul, Oklahoma A. & M., Colorado, and Stanford added to already-tough Big Six competition.
Oklahoma, with returning stars Gerald Tucker and Allie Paine, both all-Americans, plans to knock Kansas out of the driver's seat in the Big Six.
Other potent Sooner prospects are Ken Pryor, Jim Landon, and Rick Reich.
Iowa State also will put title contenders on the floor, and Missouri and Nebraska are not to be reckoned with lightly. That leaves K-State in the cellar.
But don't sell the Jayhawkers down the river. With last year's conference champion lineup returning, and a host of new prospects, Kansas will be up among the front runners.
The Cowboys from Oklahoma A. & M. will make three stands against the Jayhawkers, once each at Lawrence, Stillwater, and at Kansas City.
The Aggies may also wind up as Kansas opponents in the All-College tournament at Oklahoma City in late December.
De Paul, whom the Jayhawkers meet at Chicago, minus the services of big George Mikan, will nevertheless have a powerful club. Mikan, who is playing with the American Gears in professional basketball, left behind a brother who is even taller. The Jayhawkers will play eight home games, five at Kansas City's Municipal auditorium, and 14 others away from home.
Special Big Six permission had to be asked by Kansas before they could enter the All-College tournament at Oklahoma City because the extra three games swell the total over the conference maximum of 24. This permission was readily given to the Jayhawkers because Oklahoma had already been granted the same request.
Jayhawker fans on the Hill may buy tickets to only half the games this year.
The emergency measure is being taken to assure even distribution of tickets among a double enrollment. Although this makes no provision for the public, it has been accepted as the best solution to the problem.
Laffer Re-Elected Spur Club Head
Martha Laffer was re-elected president of the Spur club at a recent meeting.
Other officers elected were Carol Long, vice - president; Dorothy James, secretary; Kathryn Eaton, treasurer; and Eloise Hodgson, publicity manager.
The club plans a breakfast ride at 8 a.m. Sunday.
Sportswriters Name Schmidt One Of 27 'Linemen Of Week'
Dave Schmidt, Jayhawker end, has been selected as one of 27 "linemen of the week" by the nations Associated Press sportswriters, for this outstanding play in helping bottle up Bob Fenimore and the Oklahoma Aggies Saturday.
Only other Big Six player named was John Rapacz, Oklahoma center. ter.
Jay Janes Discuss Special Bus Plans
Arrangements concerning the special bus for the Jav Janes to the Kansas State football game at Manhattan, Nov. 16, were discussed at their meeting Wednesday.
They will sell chrysanthemums at the Oklahoma game here Saturday.
The group picture will be taken at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Lynne McNutt, Signal Barker Really Likes His Rugged Work
Kansas magnetism drew one of its native sons back from Illinois last summer and he's glad of it.
Lynne McNutt, K.U. quarterback from Colby, was a former regular at Northwestern University in 1942 and 1943 and was elected captain of the Wildcat's 1944 squad to which he never returned.
He decided not to go back when he was discharged from the navy last April. He went into the V-12 program at Northwestern, was commissioned an ensign, and that's the last he saw of Evanston, Ill.
and admitted he was "very tired." "I st
"I'd rather play football here," he said. "The fellows are a better all-around bunch of guys and it's more fun."
McNutt spent most of his time in the navy on a destroyer in the Pacific. His group participated in some of the island campaigns and also escorted the late President Roosevelt on a tour of Hawaii and Alaska.
Before going overseas, Lynne was introduced to Miss Kathleen Pollnow, a Kansas girl from Oberlin, who was working in Denver.
"My brother fixed me up with a blind date with this girl in Denver," he said, "and I left for overseas duty the next day. Eighteen months later I saw her again, and we were married last May."
Mrs. McNutt said that whether he knew it or not, she had made up her mind to marry him after their one date.
Lyne's wife and parents are enthusiastic football fans. His wife has lost as much as three pounds watching a game. His parents drive all the way from Colby starting on Wednesday before the game and not getting back until Tuesday of the next week.
The 23-year-old signal barker starred four years at Colby high and during his last three years, the team went undefeated in the Northwest Kansas league.
In 1942 at Northwestern his team played the University of Texas.
"We hadn't won a game all season," he said, "and then we went down to play Texas. I didn't know it at the time, but Don Fambrough was playing with them. We won our only game of the season that Saturday and Texas lost their only game."
Lynne is a political science major and expects to go into the School of Law next year. He has to work pretty hard to keep up because most of his nights are spent at home running over K.U. plays and figuring out what the opposition is going to do.
The 175-pounder believes the most difficult part in playing the quarterback slot is calling the plays.
"I try to keep in mind what type of team we are playing," he said, "and all the other factors such as weather, time left in the game, where we are on the field, what down it is, the other teams defense, and if anyone is particularly "hot" that day."
Lynne played 60 minutes of football against the Oklahoma Aggies
and admitted he was "pretty tired." "It isn't the physical exertion," he said, "It's the mental work that wears me out."
Scoring has been erratic in intramural touch football this season. No team has maintained a consistently high scoring pace, but some individual games have reached adding machine figures.
Three IM Grid Teams Boast Perfect Record
Beta Theta Pi rolled up the season's high in a 72 of 0 victory over Battenfeld. Phi Gamma Delta trounced Y. M. C. A. 54 to 0 to tie for second honors with the Beta's, who handed Pi Kappa Alpha a 54 to 0 defeat.
Of the eight divisional leaders, three teams have perfect defensive records to date. The unscoed-on teams are Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Phi Gamma Delta.
Point-making records of the leaders are as follows (all forfeits being omitted from calculations).
Team G. Pts. Op. Pts.
Phi Delta Theta ... 5 68 0
Sigma Phi Epsilon ... 5 86 18
Alpha Tau Omega ... 4 68 6
Sigma Chi ... 4 127 18
Phi Kappa Psi ... 4 117 18
Beta ... 4 162 2
Sigma A. Epsilon ... 3 36 0
Phi Gamma Delta ... 3 72 0
Gym Addition May Be I-M Basketball Site
Uses for the new addition to Robinson gymnasium depend on the size and shape of the building, Henry Shenk, director of men's intramurals, said today.
"We hope to use the building for handball, basketball, volleyball, and possibly archery," he said, "but the height of the ceiling will determine how we can use it."
"Intramural basketball probably will see 70 or 80 entries this year, and we are sadly in need of more space," he added.
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