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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4.1942
Jayhawk
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by Milo Farneti
ANY NOMINATION FOR EVANS OR BUESCHER?
Since someone's always naming most important this and most valuable that, how about a pre-season nomination of Charles "Bobcat" Black as Kansas cager of the year. The big junior plays with an ease that is pleasing to watch—most of the time.
THEY WON'T DO MUCH BUT TALK
At the Kansas City convention of Big Six faculty heads Dec. 11-12, the representatives will concentrate on the abolition or curtailment of all sports, beginning with track in 1943 and carrying on with football and basketball as their turns come.
But the policy makers probably will defer judgment until the March meeting, owing to the pins-and-needle status of the military reserves (chiefly army enlisted reserve that may be ordered to active duty at the end of this semester—nothing has been said to the contrary since Secretary Stimson declared Sept. 10 that army reservists should expect to be called at the end of the fall semester
By March the air will be cleared and the representatives may find themselves with no decisions to make if the enlisted reserves are called. Big Six schools will be hard put to sponsor any intercollegiate sport with engineers, chemists and medics too busy studying to spend much time on the gridiron or court.
ATHLETICS OR WAR TRANSPORTATION?
Coach Forrest C. Allen didn't like it when Iowa of the Big Ten canceled its non-conference basketball games to "relieve the overtaxed railroads of the added burden of carrying athletic teams."
He asserts that the government looks on intercollegiate athletics as "moral-builders and good training for the future service man." Also, that mail and freight increases and reduced speeds, not excessive passenger travel, "is slowing up the railroads."
A check of the figures reveals that railroads carried more than 1,000,000 passengers in 1921 and will have transported 600,000 in 1942, an increase of only 100,000 over 1941. But troop movements are probably not included in the 1942 total, as they are classed military secrets.
So, a true statistical picture of present railroad travel cannot be given. But personal experience leaves the impression that railroads and busses are usually well filled.
The government is reducing all services not directly connected with the war effort. Manpower and fuel shortages and the huge movement of war freight and service men prompts the Office of Defense Transportation to decree less travel.
Whether this viewpoint includes traveling athletic squads has, so far, been left to the discretion of universities, traveling baseball and football teams and other sports travelers.
Director Joseph B. Eastman wrote major league magnates meeting at Chicago this week that they "might find means of reducing travel during the baseball season." This opens the way for the ODT to abolish or reduce athletic travel.
The issue is: Are college athletics enough of a morale builder to offset the vital use of the railroads?
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Allen Begins Second Quarter Century Phog Hands Title To Drake
"Oklahoma looks like a first-class favorite this year," stated Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, the University's veteran basketball mentor, in opening the annual prognosticating derby on the Big Six cage outlook today.
Missouri and Kansas probably will be the strongest other contenders, according to Phog. Kansas will keenly feel the loss of last year's ace scorer, Ralph Miller, who hit his stride during the latter part of the season and succeeded in outscoring Tucker, the conference leader, during the five-game period that Tucker played. Miller's shoes will have to be filled by some less - experienced man.
Drake, the Oklahoma coach, is best remembered by University of Kansas fans for his verbal duel with Dr. Allen over the ineligibility of Tucker last year.
"Bruce Drake has most of his old boys back," Phog said, "Gerald Tucker, Bob McCurdy, A.D. "Ug" Roberts, and the other stars of last year." He also pointed out that Allie Faine, outstanding performer on the 1940-41 Sooner squad, will be in uniform again this season after laying off a year.
Nebraska would seem to be the strongest of the remaining Big Six teams, by Phog's rating. But Iowa
Kansas Corrects Errors
"Don't get me wrong, though," Dr. Allen warned, "for Kansas will be in their fighting for top honors all the way. Our squad, although inexperienced, is made up of scrappy, colorful players, and I believe that the fans will not be disappointed in their performance."
Jack Stapleton, listed on the Kansas's eleven-man all star team at left tackle as from Alpha Tau Omega, is a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Five Beta Theta Pi gridiers made the all-star team instead of four and Dick Pierce was incorrectly called Bob Fierce.
State, with a green, inexperienced squad might prove to be a dark horse.
"Our own team has a fine spirit," he concluded, "our morale is high. We have been working hard on fundamentals. We may not end up on top this year, but we will look like a basketball team."
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Women Cagers Gain 2nd Round
The second round of the women's intramural basketball tournament opens Monday with a game between IWW, who won easily over IND last week, and ETC at 7:30 p. m. At 8:15 Co-op plays its first game with IND as opponents.
Tuesday evening both courts will be available and both games will be played at 9:15. Kappa Kappa Gamma a strong team, which did not play last week, will meet Alpha Chi Omega on one court and Sigma Kappa will play Chi Omega on the other court.
The Delta Gamma's and Pi Phi's play at 7:30 Wednesday evening with the Theta's and Gamma Phi's taking over the floor at 8:15.
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The first game scheduled for Thursday night is between Miller and Watkins at 7:30. The strong Corbin all team is matched wit hthe Alpha Delta Pi's at 8:15 in the last game of the second round of the tournament.
going to be a record breaking event when Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's Kansas cagers tangle with Coach Jack Gardner's Navy Clippers at Kansas City Saturday.
Most important personage at the game will be "Phog" himself for he will be starting his second quarter-century of basketball coaching at the University. Allen started his coaching on Mt. Oread in 1908 but after two years he left to study medicine. After a seven-year coaching tenure at Warwensburg, Mo., Teachers College he came back to the Jayhawk school in 1920 and has been here since.
During his 25 years of coaching at Kansas Allen has produced 18 conference champions. Out of 486 games his teams have been victorious in 373 for a mark of 77 per cent. His lifetime coaching record shows 553 victories out of 680 games for an average of 81 per cent. His 32 years of coaching with 25 championships make him the dean of American basketball coaches.
Home Ticket Sales Approach 1941 Mark
Student season ticket reservations for home basketball games now total 1,700. Earl Falkenstein, athletic financial secretary, reported today. Falkenstein expects student sales to reach the 2,000 mark of last season. Faculty and downtown sales have passed the 500 mark, equaling last year's number.
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