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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 10, 1945
Alumni Squad To Have Weight And Experience
The weight and experience of the alumni team will be stacked against the spring varsity's better condition, in the football game in Haskell stadium Friday night, George Dick, the alumni coach said this morning.
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Coach Dick's list of players totals only 16 so far, with three of that list yet to report; Bill Mowery, Jayhawk letterman in 1944, Clarence Douglass, All-Big Six back in 1937, and Dick Sklar, All-Big Six in 1935.
A good backfield, selected from Bob Miller, Don Faukner, and Jim Weatherby all letterman from last year; Edward Nims, a fast wingback on the 1944 varsity; and Dick himself at quarter or fullback, will carry the alumni's hopes, outweighing the varsity backfield by 10 to 20 pounds per man.
The line will average 200 pounds which, according to Henry Shenk, varsity coach, outweighs his line a good 20 pounds. With only four nights of practice however, the alumni men will be in no real condition for a game, Dick said, and will tire early.
The alumni will meet the Varsity's T-formation attack with a modification of the same, a "T-wing" formation.
Sports School Held in Rome
Allied Headquarters, Italy— Fifty American soldiers and officers recently inaugurated classes of the Mediterranean Theater's central sports school in Rome.
The school provides refresher courses in athletics to Army personnel who will serve as instructors and coaches in a post-war sports program for soldiers. Classes are held in the gymnasium and athletic grounds once used by Mussolini to train Fascist troops.
The classes will be given over a period of three months with a new cycle of students every 12 days. At the end of each cycle the soldier-students will return to duty with their outfits to begin an expansion of the unit's athletic program.
Eight civilian athletic consultants, each an expert in his field, have been assigned by the War Department to administer the coaching program. Dean of the faculty is Dr. Seward Charles Staley, director of the University of Illinois School of Physical Education.
His assistants are:
Ethan Allen, whose big league batting record was an even .300 and the "inventor" of the all-star games between the American and National Leagues.
Cecil Isbell, former Green Bay Packer player and Purdue University football coach.
William J. (Billy) Cavanagh, boxing coach at West Point since 1918.
Howard (Hobby) Hobson, baseball and basketball coach at the University of Oregon.
Bill Hargiss, University of Kansas track coach who is credited with being the discoverer of Glen Cunningham.
George T. White, Connecticut AAU commissioner and Eastern Intercollegiate Association football coach.
Dean D. Nesmith, athletic trainer at the University of Kansas.
Major E. A. Baggett, Special Service Officer, is commandant of the school.
Pledges of Northwestern sororities experienced "courtesy week" another name for old-fashioned hell-werk.
Quarter-finals Next In Handball Singles
Charles Aylward, Phi Delt, defeated Tom Sinclair, Phi Psi, by the not-so-lopsided score of 21-18, 21-18 in the only handball game to be reported to the intramural desk yesterday, bringing to a close the third round of the singles tournament in Robinson gymnasium.
The quarter-final pairings are completed by Alyward's victory, showing the Beta's and the Phi Delt's in virtual possession of the tourney. In the four quarter-final games are four Beta's and three Phi Delt's.
The quarter-final round, which will be played off by Monday.
Semi-finals to be played last night between Delta Gamma and Chi Omega were postponed and will be played 7:30 tonight.
Kappa Wins semifinal Kappa defeated A.O. Pi 35-17 in a semi-final deck tennis game last night.
Kappa Wins Semi-Finals
Kappa will play the winner of this game in finals Wednesday.
Garden Plots Are Ready For Third Year Planting
matches John McGuckin, Phi Delt,
against Howard Joseph, Beta; Ayl-
ward against Jerry Simpson, Beta;
Frank Brosius, Phi Gam, against
Bill West, Beta; and Jack McShane,
Phi Delt, against Robert Neustrom,
Beta.
In the only golf match results turned in after the weekend, Rudy Carl, Phi Psi, defeated Howard Joseph, Beta, 6 up.
"If it doesn't rain today, the faculty victory garden on the south side of the campus will be ready for its third year of planting," G. W. Smith, professor of mathematics announced.
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Planting has already been started in the West Hills garden, with potatoes, peas, carrots and onions, he added. Thirty-four faculty families have been assigned their plots in both the west and south gardens on University property.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, C. G. Bayles, grounds superintendent, and Professor Smith are in charge.
12. 100.000 Letters in February
Civil Service Ratings On Campus Explained
A total of 12,100,000 letters, weighing 242,000, pounds, was transported to the Mediterranean theater by air during February.
Two members of the civil service office of Topeka met with Universit supervisors in Frank Strong hall Friday afternoon to explain the new individual efficiency rating report which is to be filled out this week, according to Raymond Nichols, executive secretary.
Each civil service employee of the University will be rated according to a 25-point scale. The reports will be turned in to the Topeka office at the end of the week.
Corporal Maintains 200 Stoves
A Mediterranean theater corporal maintains more than 200 Army field stoves used for cooking meals of soldiers at Allied Force headquarter.
This is one of the many precautionary measures taken by Union Pacific—and other railroads—to protect passengers and freight shipments.
A long the Union Pacific main line-between stations-a signal flashes red. The train slackens speed and stops. The engineer grabs the whistle cord...one long and three short blasts. That's a signal to the flagman. It is his duty to give adequate warning to any train following. To do so, he walks a sufficient distance to the rear to insure full protection.
Safe transportation becomes increasingly important in wartime. Trainloads of troops and essential materials are constantly on the move over Union Pacific's Strategic Middle Route uniting the East with the Pacific Coast.
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