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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1643
Bill Hargiss Quits Track Post Will Direct Decide Division Champs This Week
He Will Direct Pratt-Whitney Recreation
Bill Hargiss, Kansas track coach since 1933, resigned yesterday to accept an offer as director of recreation at the Pratt and Whitney aircraft factory now being built at Kansas City, Mo. Athletic Director Gwinn Henry will take over Hargiss' track duties.
Hargiss will be in charge of physical fitness and social recreation for 36,000 workers and their families. The company will provide him a budget running into the hundreds of thousands, large recreational facilities and six assistants to administer the program.
After a few weeks' tour of investigation of other companies recreation facilities Hargiss will return to Kansas City to set up the Pratt and Whitney program.
Hargiss came to Kansas in 1928 as head football coach and served for five years. He coached Kansas' only Big Six football champion in 1930. When Coach F. C. Allen, then director of athletics, named Ad Lindsey football coach early in the 1933 season, Hargiss stayed on as track coach.
During his long career, Hargiss coached at College of Emporia, Emporia State and Oregon State before coming to Kansas.
Baseball Players Will Meet Tuesday In Robinson Gym
Students interested in playing baseball this spring will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night in the K-club room at Robinson gymnasium. Ballplayers unable to attend can report to the athletic office that they wish to play. A petition will be submitted by team members to the Athletic Board meeting Feb. 23 requesting funds to support baseball.
Co-operating with the city of Elmira, N. Y., and gathering muchneeded information for the government, Elmira College sociology students have been conducting a womanpower survey.
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Buescher's Marital Status a Puzzle Nonchalant On, Off Court
(This is the first in a series of five individual sketches of Phog Allen's Iron Five basketball quintet.)
By MARY MORRILL
When John Frederick Buescher attained the momentous age of six, his father bought him a basketball. It seemed like a harmless toy little Johnny would tire of a few weeks after his birthday.
Ten years later when "little" Johnny was approaching six feet and sleeping and eating basketball in king-size quantities, Papa Buescher began to wonder just what he had started. Last month he knew. Looking out on a St. Louis basketball court with Mama Buescher and Little Brother Buescher it was plain to see that the sixth
Navy May Save College Athletics
New York, Feb. 1 (INS) — Jolted right down to their callows by the Army's decision outlawing intercollegiate sports for soldier-students it sends to college, campus athletic daddies are waiting hopefully for a kind word from the Navy.
According to reports seeping into New York from Washington important Navy men have been disposed to give students in their specialized training program a crack at intercollegiate competition.
Whether the Army's verdict will influence the Navy away from that decision remains to be seen.
Nothing that the Navy will do can serve to ameliorate the blow to intercollegiate athletics already delivered by the army. A majority of 281 colleges and universities picked by the joint committee for the selection of non-federal educational institutions will be subject to army regulation.
Thus, there is already every reason to be certain that 150 or so institutions will have little or no intercollegiate sports after this spring.
On the other hand, intercollegiate sports can be saved at about 100 other colleges and universities if the Navy wig-wags a go ahead.
birthday celebration had started one of the Middlewest's smoothest ball handlers down the court.
To fans this John Buescher is the
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Kansas Will Play Football in 1943 --Gwinn Henry
Football at Kansas will be played in 1943 as long as there are enough gridders around to fill positions, Coach Gwinn Henry said yesterday, even though soldiers sent here will not be allowed to compete. Henry has issued a call for the beginning of spring practice about March 15.
Although the imminent army enlisted reserve call and a possible naval reserve call sometime during this year will affect nearly all of the men students, Henry will go ahead with football if it can be played this fall.
Dr. W. W. Davis, Athletic Board chairman, said that Kansas would carry on with athletics if it could. "No plans have been made as yet to discontinue athletic competition," he said.
tall lean fellow with the poker face who takes spells of standing non-chalantly in the middle of the court with the ball behind him and then firing unexpectedly at some teammate or breaking loose himself. At which point the score keeper works himself up into a dither, and Jayhawk fans go wild.
Buescher, whose last year's nickname of Thin Man has been revised to Swisher, is a pretty normal sort of person in spite of his genius for ball handling. He is in love ("but deeply"), he wants to be a coach some day or do sports research, and he is uncommonly proud of his home town, Beardstown, Ill.,—a place that he considers ideal to be brought up in because when the river floods you can swim in the streets.
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John's favorite spectator sport is baseball and his favorite form of amusement the movies (Ada Kay's are the same). Height of his goal in the realm of physical education is to go back to Illinois and build Beardstown's sons and daughters into sprouting commandos. Another Phog Allen
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The blond athlete's love dates back to Jan, 14, 1942, when he met a former Gamma Phi on the Hill, Ada Kay Kirchhoff. In John's own words Ada Kay, now a secretary at the Hercules plant, is "tall, pretty and wonderful."
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Jan. 14 means "more to him than July 4 ever meant to Thomas Jefferson and his buddies." John stopped here in the discussion of his private life to deny the accusations of his teammates that he is already married.
If he can't do this, the Swisher intends to reform college basketball. Among his revisions will be the segregation of players according to height (making 6-foot teams, teams for those under 6 feet, etc.) and changing the backboards. This last reform is so technical John himself hasn't quite figured it out but he swears that in time he'll do it.
From the standpoint of the average coed, the greatest tragedy on the Hill today is the fact that the
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Division IV Title Goes To AC Sigma
Monday Games
Monday Games
7:30—Triangle vs. Delta Tau
—Phi Delt vs. Beta
8:30—Delta Chi vs. Sig Alph
—ATO vs. Sigma Chi
Tuesday Games
8:30—Phi Delt B vs. Phi Gam B
(B Team Championship)
An undefeated Alpha Chi Sigma team emerged this week as winners in Division IV. In defeating A K Fsi Wednesday night, the chemists brought their season total to seven victories and no losses. In second place in the division with one loss is Theta Tau.
PERFECTION . . .
Beta's Challenge in Division I
If the favored Phi Delt's can overcome the Beta five tomorrow night they will remain in first place in Division I, but a Beta upset will cause a tie between the two teams. If the Delta Chi's, as well as the Beta's, win tomorrow night the division will be in a three-way tie between these teams.
Fiji's and Phi Psi's are co-champs with a 7-1 record in Division II. There still remains a playoff for the division crown, but both teams are assured of a place in the cham-
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After a weekend lull in intramural basketball, leading contenders in the four divisions go into the week that will decide which teams will go into championship playoffs. Two teams from each division will enter the tournament starting Feb. 24.
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