TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1943
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Sport Chatter
By Bob Bock
Summer basketball begins this afternoon under Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, Kansas' nationally known cage mentor. It is the first summer basketball practice to be scheduled in the University's history. Dr. Allen has made it definite that he doesn't want any men who are going out for football or who plan to play the grid sport this fall to report for basketball. He doesn't in any way want to interfere with Coach Henry Shenk's football practice.
Along the football front, all that can be said is that practices are coming along fine, the men are rounding into shape, and that it is HOT. Coach Shenk is hoping for cooler, more footballish weather, as the days have been too hot for the extensive blocking and contact work he has been giving and will continue to give his men. Last Friday when the mercury got up to 100 degrees the squad went back to their short pants, doffing their heavy uniforms, which would have been unbearable. Coach Shenk, who is a stickler on fundamentals, has been drilling his men extensively on blocking and hopes by September to have some blockers who can really get in there and take their opponents off their feet. Shenk also gave his men a few plays last Friday, and plans to have a light scrimage the first cool day that comes along.
One of Coach Shenks' "better boys" is Frank Gruden of Roundup, Montana. He is a guard, weighs 200 pounds, and is 5 feet 9 inches tall. Last year Gruden played with Wyoming University and was selected for a position on the All-Rocky Mountain conference second eleven.
Intramural activities perhaps will be arranged in the near future depending on interest shown". Dr. Alen has announced. "They definitely ill not be very extensive since the navy men have their own competitive sports program. Football and basketball practices afford most University athletes with all the outside sports activities they can handle, and city softball league, which has or Navy teams and one team of university students, the KU Boys,"ushes softball, the main summer cam sport, out of the picture as there couldn't be enough men left to make teams to form a league here," he added.
Therefore, stated Dr. Allen, all that could be left would be the minor sorts such as tennis, ping pong, golf, handball, and with the general usyness of everyone in this speed-up, war-time semester, they would probably not be too popular, since the tramural tournaments in golf, ping pong, and handball which were to be impleted by July 1, were never ayed off. However, Dr. Allen stated that if there are enough students interested in some sort of intramuralort program or tournament during August, such could be arranged.
Forty-seven men are reporting at ashburn University to Coach Bobaugh. The first practice session held Wednesday. Approximately players proved to be backfield candidates. Kansas hopes to schedule a game with the Capital city school, which also has a Navy V-12 program, to be played here in Merial stadium in September. Some carby service eleven may also appear here this fall as athletic officials
are trying to arrange for a game, but as yet no definite announcement can be made.
No official announcement has been made, but it is rumored that Kansas Wesleyan at Salina will not play football this coming fall, thereby leaving only Washburn College and Pittsburg Teachers planning to continue the grid sport in Kansas outside of K.U. and Kansas State.
A recent announcement by Iowa State College officials said: "The increased cost of living will have no effect on the price of football tickets this fall," Hugh Fullerton, Jr., AP sports writer, wisecracked that "What we want to know is what about the decreased quality of football?"
Nila Vaughn Gentry has gone to McPhern to work in the laboratory of the McPhern county hospital. She plans to return to school at the beginning of the fall term.
Hawaii's climate is so uniform that the native language has no word for "weather."
Shuyler To Cornell
Harlan Shuyler, former student at K.U. this summer and now in the Navy V-12 program, has been transferred from Washburn University in Topeka to Cornell University at Ithaca, N.Y. He received his transfer in order to take a more extensive training schedule.
The Hays office, one studio official intimated, has put thumbs down on zoot suits in future pictures.
CAMPUS BENCHES---or
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brary. Flanking the bulletin boards they see more use than the other, more secluded ones. No mention is made on them of the date of building or who gave them to the University.
The round seat encircling the Rock Chalk Cairn back of Frank Strong hall is another one with a good view. On the brink of the hill it looks down over the stadium and town. It was rebuilt here in 1941 after it had been torn down twice in its former position at the bottom of the hill. Now it guards the famous Cairn built from stones that were part of the old North College building. At present it is part of the military area back of Strong hall that is restricted for the sailors.
Next time you want to take the load off your feet, remember these benches. They were put there for the students to use.
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