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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MARCH 28,1945
1945 Football Team To Use T-Formation
The Kansas football eleven will run some of its plays from a "T" formation this fall, head coach Henry Shenk announced this morning. The ruck out for spring football practice at the present time are experimenting with the grid sensation of 1944, and indications are that they will employ it in many types of plays. Inexperience Is Keynote
Although about half of the 35 men now out for football practice have never played the game before, Coach Shenk is highly pleased with fall prospects. Shenk hopes to built a team around lettermen Charlie Moffett, Gordon Reynolds, Dorwin Lamin, Don Stockdale, Cecil Langford, and other men from last year's squad who will still be on the campus.
While most of the practices up to the present time have been in the form of drills, some scrimmages have been held. Practice will be concluded in two weeks with an intrasquad game.
Eain Hampered '44 Practice
Spring practice last year began on March 27 and lasted about a month. Many of the men who were out for football then, however, were not on the Hill last fall when the season began. Weather conditions, which have improved considerably in the last few days, hampered practice last year to the extent that very little was accomplished. The rain which greeted practice this spring prevented any outdoor work for the first few days, and the present fine weather cannot last.
Variety of Songs to Be Sung
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Some of the songs they will sing are "Invocation" (Harris), "Silent Stings" (Bantock), "Greetings to Spring" from an arrangement of "The Elite Danube." Two numbers the group presented in the last convocation will be given, "Moonlight and Roses" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." "Tm a Jayhawk" and the "Alma Mater" will be the final numbers. Anne Krehbiel, graduate student, will act as accompanist.
Arrangements for the trip are under the direction of Fred Ellsworth, Alumni Association secretary.
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Aggies Triumph Over N.Y.U.
The Oklahoma Aggies are the National Collegiate A.A. champions by virtue of their 49-45 victory over New York university, Eastern title holders, last night at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Bob Kurland, the Oklahomaans '7-foot center was too much for the New Yorkers to stop, as he tossed in 22 points and fed the ball to his team-mates for the remaining count.
Kurland shot 15 points in the first half and managed to keep scoring in spite of a desperate N.Y.U. rally in the last period. His terrific performance earned him the vote as the outstanding player of the tourney.
From the whistle, it was a close game, with the lead changing hands six times before the half when the Aggies got things under control and pulled ahead 26-21.
When the Violets threw a two-man guard around the tail Aggie center after the intermission, Cecil Hankins took over and led the Oklahoma onslaught by running his own count to 15 points for the game.
In the last five minutes New York tried to pull victory out of the fire just as they had done in beating Ohio State in the last two minutes of an overtime period for them to win the Eastern N.C.A.A. championship.
The Violet coach tried to stretch out the game in the last minutes by sending in a number of substitutions.
The Aggie victory sets them up to play De Paul of Chicago, winner of the national invitation, also in the Garden, tomorrow night for the mythical National Collegiate championship.
The De Paul-Aggie fight will be significant because De Paul dropped the Oklahomaans from the national invitation tourney last year by a 41-38 score in the semi-finals. Both Kurland and George Mikan, the De Paul long boy went out of that game on fouls.
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Week's Engagement NOW — Ends Saturday
JAYHAWKER
MARY O'HARA'S THUNDERHEAD in TECHNICOLOR!
SON OF FLICKA
with RODDY McDOWALL • PRESTON FOSTER • RITA JOHNSON
A 20TH CENTury-FOX PICTURE
Into our possession yesterday came a clipping from the "Denver Post" of last Wednesday containing a sports column written by Jack Carberry, the Post's nationally known veteran writer of every sort of sports event. The item strayed from us somehow, but we'll try to reproduce it as best we can. Carberry Comments on Phog
Mr. Carberry, long a supporter of the annual Denver A.A.U. tourney, was concerned with the visit of "Phog" Allen to his fair city. Phog, he claimed, said he had come to town to watch some good basketball. Friend Carberry, however, knew that couldn't be the case, since the K.U. cage coach was there on an early tourney day, when none of the fancy teams were yet in action. Allen Is Quoted
Our fellow writer pointed out that Coach Allen is an outspoken opponent of the A.A.U. tourney, and also repeated Phog's comment that the brackets looked as if they were padded with weak teams this year in order to draw a few more customers. The strange part of the story, however, is that Mr. Carberry, long a staunch backer of the amateur tourney, then proceeded to criticize the very fundamentals under which it operates. He pointed out that, though war time restrictions limited the field this spring, ordinarily no teams from either the East or the Southeast came to the tourney. Such unusual representation thus drips the fans of the opportunity of Viewing some of the better amateur teams in the nation. There'll Always Be Allens?
Sportorials
We Run Across An Article
By EARL BARNEY
TONITE and THURSDAY
Our esteemed journalist concluded his remarks with the comment that there will always be the Phog Allens, criticizing and ridiculing a thing until it has either improved or fallen by the wayside—and Mr. Carberry doesn't want the A.A.U. tourney to fall by the wayside.
Incidentally, the tourney itself is a Kansas City baby, having first
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seen the light of day in the western Missouri metropolis. When the baby had grown to a size where it could take care of itself, it hopped across our state to the mile-high Colorado capital, where it has continued to this day. Kansas City has also been the father of the western N.C.A.A. finals, being the only city in which the tournament was able to make money for a long time. It was, incidentally, Dr. Allen who finally put the entire tournament on a paying basis.
What Will Denver Do?
But whether or not the Denver tourney can become a truly national tournament is a real problem. Denver is not the basketball capital that Kansas City seems to be, although large crowds do turn out to see their favorites in action. Denver, too, is not a centrally located city, and many an eastern team just couldn't see going back West to play in some tournament they had never heard of. So if Denver insists on keeping the A.A.U. enterprise within its territory, it will have to try some trick that hasn't been thought of yet.
Parrot Lost in Texas
A reward is being offered on the campus of the University of Texas for the return of a green, yellow, and red pet parrot who recently flew away. His vocabulary consists of 'Hi' and "Go Away."
Don Amechee Francis Dee "Happy Land" and Robert Lowery "Dangerous Passage"
THURSDAY, Thru Saturday
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ENDS TONITE
Two Features
No. 2 Hit
SUNDAY----4 Days
Just a Couple of Sweater Boys Working Their Way Through Girl's College
ABBOTT and COSTELLO
"HERE COME THE CO-EDS"
Track Squad Trains For Oklahoma Meet
The University of Kansas track squad has been speeding up the tempo of its workouts in preparation for the outdoor meet April 16 with Oklahoma, Coach Ray Kanehl announced today. The Big Six outdoor event is scheduled to take place May 19 at Lincoln.
So far this season, the Crimson and Blue thinclads have turned in an average performance, winning one of three dual meets and salvaging 12 points in the Big Six indoor meet last March 3. They dropped meets to Nebraska and Missouri, while trouncing Oklahoma here on February 10.
Jim Sargent has been a steady performer in the high jump, while Norvall Jackson has placed regularly in the hurdles. Lynn Leigh, Dean Patterson, John Jackson, Kenneth Danneberg, Richard Hudson, Harvey Morrow, and John Sites have done most of the placing in the other events.
First Summer Session 1903
The first summer session at the University was held in 1903.
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Music Week Festival
University Concert Course
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60 ARTISTS including a 60 CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Hoch Auditorium Wednesday Evening April 11 8:20 o'clock
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