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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944
Olathe Clippers Are Jayhawk Foes Saturday
A revamped Jayhawker eleven will be taking the field against the Olathe Clippers at Memorial stadium Saturday in an effort to even the 1944 season to date. Head Coach Henry Shenk lost eight regulars in the November loss of Navy V-12's, and he has been experimenting with possible winning combinations all week.
Sam Hunter, regular tackle, Gordon Reynolds, George Newton, and Keith Bradley have been working out at the end positions, filling the vacant shoes of V-12's Schimenz, Riegle, and Daigneault. The 'Hawks have ben hit the hardest at end and at fullback, and there is where Shenk's worries lie.
Jim Weatherby, rugged Navy trainee from Fort Worth, Texas, is slated to fill big Don Barrington's place at fullback, while Milford Collins, Kansas City trainee, has also been seeing some action in the same slot.
Carl Hird on Clipper Team
Wayne Hird, regular Kansas center, will have a personal interest in the Clipper eleven next Saturday. He will be lining up against his older brother, Carl Hird, who holds down a tackle position for the Navy team. Carl lettered two years at the tackle position when he was at K.U. a few years ago.
Shenk is certain that the four games left on the football docket are by no means mere snaps. The Clipper eleven, though sporting a mediocre record this season, always is a rugged test for the Jayhawk eleven, and will surely be playing its best game of the season next Saturday. The Kansas State game, coming up a week from Saturday, will be another tough one. Though the Aggies have not won a contest this season, they are nevertheless out to get the Jayhawks. It will be the K-State Homecoming affair, and Kansans well remember that anything can happen at one of those occasions. Oklahoma and Missouri Tough
The battles with Oklahoma and Missouri will be real K.U. tests. The Sooners are looked on as a shoo-in for the Big Six title, while the Missourians haven't forgotten that 7-6 upset victory the Kansas eleven registered against them last November here at Memorial stadium.
Shenk scouled the Iowa State-Kansas State encounter last Saturday himself, and was only too impressed with the Wildcat abilities. He said that the score of the Cyclone-Wildcat fray indicated the latter were two touchdowns better than the Jayhawks.
Raymond Eberhart Killed In Action Near Rome
S/Sgt. Raymond Eberhart, 22, former University student, was killed in action north of Rome, Oct. 3 according to a telegram received from the war department by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Eberhart, Lawrence.
S/Sgt. Eberhart enlisted in the service Nov. 13, 1942, and reported for duty first at Camp White, Ore., and later to Camp Adaul, Ore. He went overseas the latter part of April of this year and served in North Africa and later in Italy, taking part in several engagements.
He was a voice student at the University in the fall of 1941.
Cheerleader Is Quiet Now
It's been a quiet time for Alberta Cornwall, cheerleader, since yesterday morning when she had her tonsils removed. She went home this morning and is still saying very little.
Sportorials
The Big Six football race is wide open again, and the surprise Nebraska victory over Missouri last Saturday has a lot to do with it. Most insiders, however, are already awarding the title to the powerful Oklahoma Sooners, though they have only met one Big Six eleven so far this autumn. The Sooners' decisive defeat of the T.C.U. Horned Frogs last Saturday has pushed the Oklahomaans into the football spotlight with a bang, and "Snorter" Luster's boys intend to stay there. The Sooner-Cyclone fray at Ames next Saturday is being billed as the Big Six championship game, and well it might be called.
The other two first division booths are still hotly contested. The Tigers, the Cornhuskers, the Cyclones, and the Jayhawks all have lost only a game or less, and have shown power at different times. The Tigers looked like a million dollars against the I-State Cyclones two weeks ago, but slipped badly against the Huskers last Saturday, chucking the lads from Lincoln back in the first division picture. The Cyclones still have title aspirations, but their 14-0 victory over the hapless Kansas State Wildcats Saturday was none too impressive.
First and Last Are Sure
The way things stack now, though, no one team can be rated on its past performances. Nebraska, trounced by Kansas, turned around and shell-laced a team which had been tied by Iowa State, conquerors of the Jayhawks by a top-sided count. About the only positions in the 1944 ladder which are decided are first and sixth, with Oklahoma and Kansas State filling them in that order.
Aggies Best in Valley
One of the most surprising football defeats in the country was registered in Oklahoma Saturday. The Oklahoma Aggies, unbeaten but not considered a top notch ball club, severely trounced the powerful Tulsa Hurricanes for the latter's first defeat in two years. The Tulsans had been eyeing their fourth consecutive bowl bid, and did not expect the Cowboys from Stillwater to offer them much in the way of a battle, but they reasoned without the Aggie passing attack. The Cowboys now loom as the number one team in the valley to date. They clash with the Oklahoma Sooners three weeks from Saturday in a battle that should decide the name of the best college team in these parts.
M.U. Is Pessimistic
Students at the University of Missouri were rather disappointed in their team's showing at Lincoln last Saturday. Some of the more pessimistic ones were already conceding the Turkey Day fray with Kansas in Kansas City to the Jayhawks, for last year is still in their minds. Incidentally, the afore-mentioned contest is expected to draw 20,000 fans, which will be the largest Big Six
The first issue of the K Union, official bulletin of the Kansas Memorial Union, was distributed today in the enrollment line. The four-page publication is edited by Dixie Gilland, College sophomore.
K Union Distributed At Enrollment Today
News of the Student Union Activities board and Union operating committee is featured in the bulletin. Several stories tell of the Union plans for clubs and parties. A feature article entitled "The Fleet Has Landed at K.U.'s Campus Center" shows the Student Union building as a campus canteen for Navy students.
crowd this year. Ruppert stadium managers are building extra bleachers to seat some 2,500 more fans, thus assuring almost everyone of a seat.
The Union calendar, on page four of the bulletin, gives a complete schedule of Union activities for the winter semester.
John Bortka, ex-K.U. back, played a big part in the 41 to 7 beating given the Miami Naval Training center by the Third infantry of Fort Benning at Miami Oct. 22.
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Filling the quarterback spot, Bortka teamed with All-American Billy Hillenbrand of Indiana University, Lou Saban, another ex-Hoosier, and Joe Dowd, former Army end, to run and pass the Navaltars dizzy. Bortka scored one of the six touchdowns made by the infantry, and under his direction, they completed 10 out of 19 passes.
The information about Bortka cane from Pvt. Lee Graham, former K.U. student, who is stationed at Homestead, Fla.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott left last Monday for New York and Washington, and will attend the meeting of the department of commerce in Hot Springs, Va. He will return Monday, Nov. 6.
Chancellor Malott in New York
Ten to Represent K.U. At KSTA Convention
Nine teachers from the University and one graduate will be guest speakers at the 81st annual convention of the Kansas State Teachers Association to be held in six Kansas cities tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday. The convention sites will be Topeka, Pittsburg, Wichita, Salina, Hays, and Garden City.
Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business; C. J. Posey, professor of geology; L. R. Lind, assistant professor of Latin and Greek; and Miss Joise Stapleton, assistant professor of physical education, will speak in the Topeka meetings Saturday morning.
The four speakers in Wichita from the University will be D. M. Swarthowt, dean of the School of Fine Arts; Mrs. Ruth Gagliardo, graduate of the University and book review editor for the "Kansas Editor"; John W. Ashton, professor of English; and J. N. Carman, associate professor of romance languages, Dean Swarthowt and Mrs. Gagliardo will talk Friday afternoon, and Professors Ashton and Carman will speak Saturday morning.
Mrs. Margaret Wulfkhuhe and Mrs. Gagliardo will be on the Salina program for Saturday morning, and Miss Maud Ellsworth, assistant professor of education, will be the Friday afternoon and evening speaker at Hays.
Lt. Col. Meng Visits Campus; Is Contstructing Army Bridges
Lt. Col. Carl Meng of the American Engineer Corps visited the campus yesterday. Col. Meng was a graduate of the University in 1924 and has seen service in both World War I and II.
He has been with the Persian Gulf Command building transportation facilities for supplies to Russia, and is now with Gen. Hodges constructing bridges for transportation supplies to the front in France.
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