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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1943
--by Don Keown
Jayhawk jabberwock
HE'S OFTEN WRONG
Norris Anderson, sports editor of the Daily Nebraskan and rabid anti-Allen man, again gets off on the wrong foot in an effort to bait the Kansas basketball coach. This time Mr. Anderson comes up with an accusation that Allen deliberately pulled his men from the Creighton game to avoid a showdown with the Bluejays. And his evidence? Well, the missing men played against Kansas State two days later, and therefore must have been available for the Creighton contest.
What scribe Anderson misses, as writers so often do with long range criticism, is that nobody claimed the Jayhawkers withdrew from school prior to the Creighton game, at least not Phog Allen. However, faced with immediate induction into the armed forces the players had asked to be allowed to spend a short time before reporting with their parents.
Such a desire was natural, and any coach in the United States more interested in developing men than winning games would have granted such a request. Allen was faced with the choice of facing one of two teams without those stars—Kansas State or Creighton.
The Aggie game was a home game—the last opportunity for the Jayhawkers to display their ability before a home crowd. At stake was an undefeated conference season, making the Kansans one of three teams to have accomplished that trick in conference history. In the Creighton game at stake only was a bid to the NCAA playoffs—not as important as it sounds, since Kansas knew they would be unable to accept such a bid anyway with men leaving for the service before the tournament date.
Naturally Allen decided to allow his men to spend the days between the Missouri and Kansas State games with their parents. There was never any pretense that we know of that the men had withdrawn from school.
Anderson seems to believe that Allen was fearful of the results of a game between his Iron Five and the powerful Creighton aggregation, which is assinine. Allen has never in his career shown a tendency to pick easy spots for his men, but has on the other hand repeatedly scheduled the cream of the nation's basketball teams for opposition (Great Lakes, Fordham, St. Joseph's, Oklahoma A and M, etc.)
Then Norris wonders why Omaha scribes did not pan the Jayhawk tutor for not bringing along his stars. Perhaps, Norris, the answer is that they were acquainted with the facts of the case, which you definitely were not.
JUST JABBER
Civic pride—the all-star team of my home town, Caldwell, defeated the Wichita Boeing Bombers only a few nights after the Bombers had beaten the Bartlesville Oilers . . . Overheard an argument at a local eatery the other day over who's tops as a sports columnist, Gene Kemper or C. C. McBride . . . Personally our favorite in this locality is Pete Lightner of the Wichita Eagle, who really knows his stuff . . . Spring football practice gets underway in the near future at Nebraska.
Allen Selects A Star-Studded Opponent Team
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, basketball coach, in announcing his all-opponent team today, has selected a team very representative of the best basketball talent displayed throughout the nation.
His star-studded first team consists of Senesky from St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Beisser of Creighton, Babich of Fordham, Tucker from Oklahoma, and Glamack from the Great Lakes service队.
The second all-opponent team, with the exception of Binetti of St. Bonaventure in Buffalo, is a midwestern selection. Other members of this quintet besides Binetti are Jenkins of Missouri, Menke of the Olathe Clippers, Mendenhall of Kansas State, and Roberts of Oklahoma.
Thirteen other opponents were given honorable mention by Dr. Allen. They are as follows:
Langer, Creighton; Bach, Fordham; Van Deven, St. Louis; Lockard, Olathe Clippers; Paine Oklahoma; Anderson and Davies, Great Lakes; Norman, and Ray Wehde, Iowa State; Maddox, Oklahoma A and M; Elson and Young, Nebraska; and Ridgeway, Kansas State.
Fifth District Is Still Without Entry
Sports Bulletin
Oklahoma was selected today by NCAA officials as the Fifth District representative for the Western playoffs to be held in Kansas City later this month.
The Fifth District representative in the NCAA playoffs was still undecided last night as a result of Oklahoma's defeat at Stillwater by Oklahoma A and M, 28 to 40.
Oklahoma had been selected as (continued to near fine)
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The Racial Question. Students Favor Negro Participation In Big Six
A poll taken of students who would be most affected by Negro participation in Big Six athletics reveals an almost unanimous opinion that such a ruling should be adopted. Members of the track team, basketball squad, and Negroes were questioned.
Alan Houghton, College senior (track): "It doesn't matter to me one way or the other." $ \textcircled{*} $
Alan Houghton, College seni to me one way or the other, but it would certainly help the University's standing in athletics."
June Mack, College junior, (Negro): "I don't see why Negros should not be allowed to participate just because they are colored. If any student has ability he should be allowed to compete."
Russell Mount, pharmacy senior (track): "I think that it is pretty silly not to let Negroes compete. I don't see why any student should be denied the right to participate because of his race. Race should have no bearing on it—some of the greatest athletes have been colored. Why should our school discriminate? And it hurts the squad not to have Roger Whitworth on it."
Richard Walker, education senior, (Negro): "I think Negroes should be allowed participation because in the first place, there have been several Negroes on the campus in the past five or six years who would have made track stars and great basketball players, and would have built up KU athletics. In the second place they should have the right to participate because Negroes pay their fees and bills like other students do."
Valle Schloesser, engineering senior, (track): "I see no reason why Negroes shouldn't participate. I'm all for it."
Gene Roberts, College freshman (track): "It's all right with me if Negroes are allowed to participate, but it will break up the Big Six. Oklahoma and Missouri are former slave states and their sentiment is definitely against Negro participation. It's OK as far as the competitors go, though."
Paul Turner, education junior, (track): "We're all Americans, why shouldn't Negroes have the same opportunities as whites."
Bill Cole, business senior, (track): "I am heartily in favor of Negro participation. Negroes have too few opportunities as it is, and this is one place where they should be given equal rights with the whites."
Frank Stannard, engineering sophomore, (track): "I'm for Negro participation because I can see no reason against it."
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