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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1942
Varsity Warms Up on Frosh Tonight
Jayhawk
abberwock
by Milo Farneti
ANOTHER GREAT TEAM?
Well another one of those Kansas football seasons has been lowered six feet under. The peals of Wiley's Cowboy band warming up for tonight's varsity-fresh game usher in Phog Allen and his showy cagers, ready to absorb Oklahoma, Kansas State, Bruce Drake, Henry Iba, Oklahoma A-M, Lt. Jack Gardner and the Big Six title.
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SOONERS FAVORED OVER JAYHAWKERS
Oklahoma and Kansas lead in pre-season Big Six ratings with the Sooners holding a strong edge. Bruce Drake lost no player of consequence and gained Allie Paine, regular guard of two seasons ago. Titanic Tucker and seven other lettermen return: Paul Heap, Paine, Ug Roberts, Tom Rousey, Dick McCurdy, Jim Martenvy and Dick Reich.
Kansas lost one of the greatest players in conference history, Ralph Miller, and Marvin Sollenberger. Replacing these two with Sophomores Otto Schnellbacher and Bill Brill doesn't make the current Jayhawkers as strong as last season's team that opened with three new regulars. John Buescher, Charley Black and Ray Evans.
So Titanic Tucker's Sooners seem a logical choice for Big Six champion. Kansas may end up with Oklahoma as co-champion again—that's as far as the crystal ball will go. This may happen because the Jayhawkers have one of the three greatest coaches and the greatest psychologist in the business. At any rate, the champion or co-champions will lose two or three games over the long season.
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FRESHMEN WANT TO PLAY TOO
Prof. W. W. Davis, chairman of the Big Six faculty representatives who meet at Kansas City Dec. 11-12, reports that Kansas is in favor of making freshmen eligible for varsity sports. There's not much chance that any freshman will be around in September. Going through the motions of fresh practice seems to be a waste of time on the present basis. At the spring meeting, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa State voted against freshman play. Prof. H. H. King of Kansas State will attend the Big Ten meeting at Chicago Dec. 7 as an observer of that conference's war retrenchment.
Athletic directors meet at the same time as the Big Six representatives. They will huddle over the future of football and other sports. Sam Shirky, Missouri representative, might propose two-night stands to replace the home-and-home basketball schedule.
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WHAT GOES ON HERE?
December is the month that will see changes made in the Kansas athletic setup. So here's one among many rumors, possibly planted by Kansas City alumni with an idle and perhaps slight monetary interest (they finance some footballers) in the Jayhawk grid situation. It suggested various gents for Kansas coaching jobs. Someone was to replace Gwinn Henry and Lt. Ted O'Leary, basketball great in the early thirties, was named as successor to Phog Allen.
O'Leary refused the honor, declaring that the sizeable number of grid fans who blame Allen for Kansas' poor grid teams should spend more time studying Phog's methods and thereby discover a similar technique for winning football teams.
The present goings-on are preliminary skirmishes that will end in abolishing or curtailing football and other sports, the release of Vic Hurt and some other change in the status of Gwinn Henry, if means can be found to cancel the Old Man's $7,000 contract that
Chancellor Deane W. Malott and the Athletic board are concerned with the low finances of the athletic treasury. Some decisions will be made on the results of the faculty meeting at K. C., findings of the Athletic board early next week, influential alumni, the University budget committee and backroom sessions of those concerned.
Game-Dance Expected To Be Double Magnet
Starting lineups:
Varsity Pos. Frosh
Black F Dewell
Schmellbacher F Churchill
Buescher C Burt
Evans G Nicollet
Brill G Lear
Coach Phog Allen sends his Big Six co-champion Jayhawkers against the freshman cagers at 7:30 tonight at Hoch auditorium in a preliminary work-out before the big circuit opening against the Gardner Naval Clippers at Kansas City Saturday. Sideshow attraction will be a halftime dance to the music of Russell Wiley's Cowboy band.
Back in action go John Buescher, Ray Evans and Charlie Black, aided by newcomers Otto Schnellbacher and Bill Brill. Lettermen Paul Turner and Jack Ballard are two other Allen mainstays who will carry the major Kansas burden this season.
Co-coaches Marvin Sollenberger and Dick Miller have a green team that is long on ability and short on co-ordination. Big John Dewell, top prep cager in Kansas last season, leads the average-sized freshmen. In practice last night the fresh were scoring freely.
Dr. Allen will substitute freely in preparation for the Gardner Clipper game. Lettermen Max Kissell Don Blair, Bloch Fitzpatrick, George Dick and Sophomores Larry McSpadden and Armand Dixon and other new men are slated for action
Elmer Schaake and Milt Allen, members of championship teams of earlier years, will make the game an all-family affair as referees. Kansas does not play at home again until Jan. 4, against the Clippers.
A recent survey of Iowa State lettermen in the service reveals that 90 per cent of them are officers and more than half of the remaining 10 per cent are now at officer training schools.
Ninety Per Cent are Officers
IM Schedule Cut
BY PAUL BROWNLEE
A lack of adequate court and shower facilities for intramural basketball has caused Director Henry Shenk to reduce the schedule. The Naval Training School and physical conditioning classes have taken over Robinson gymnasium and Hoch auditorium during the time that in the past has been allotted to intramural basketball.
"There will be only divisions in Class A, no Class C basketball and Class B will take the form of an elimination tour-
Corbin Hall Defends Title In Cage Race
By MARY MORRILL
Women's intramural basketball season will open tonight with eight teams seeing action between 9 and 10:30 o'clock at Robinson gymnasium as Corbin hall defends its crown. Called at nine are games between the ETC's and the Co-ops and Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma. At 9:40 the courts will be vacated to make way for contesting IWW and IND teams and for Pi Beta Phi and Gamma Phi Beta players.
Four more games will be played Wednesday evening completing the opening round of the tournament. The schedule for these contests: 9—Corbin hall vs. Miller hall and Watkins hall vs. Alpha Delta Pi; 9:40—Kappa Kappa Gamma vs. Sigma Kappa and Chi Omega vs. Alpha Chi Omega.
Corbin hall is defending the women's basketball championship after nosing IWW out of top position in a close final battle of last year's tournament. Built around two returning players, Mildred Wells, forward, and Phyllis Struble, guard, the Corbin team should stand a fair chance of making a successful defensive stand. Competition, however, promises to be stiff.
On the IWW team this year are Lavon Jacobson, forward, and Frances Davidson, guard, both of whom figured greatly in battling IWW's way to second place last winter. Returning to the Theta line-up after placing third in '41 are Peggy Davis, Dorothy Fizzell, and Peggy Roberts. Judging from their practices Kappa Kappa Gamma will have an exceptionally strong team this season also. Margaret Butler and Peggy Ballard, returning players, and Sue Elliott, a pledge who was spotted during volleyball season will high light the lineup.
Evans, Dick Named On Opponent Team By Iowa State
Ames, Iowa, Dec. 1 — (Special)—Iowa State gridders, selecting their 1942 all-opponent team, named Missouri's Bob Stetuber as the best all-around player and placed Ray Evans and George Dick on the first eleven. The Cyclones voted three from Marquette, two each from Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, and one from Nebraska and Denver on the team.
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nament," Henry Shenk, intramural director, said today.
Freshman and varsity basketball squads also must have the use of the gyms sometime during the day and there are also varsity basketball games to be played in Hoch.
This lack of court space has been the headache of the department of physical education all year and the present plan seems to be the only means by which intramural basketball can be played at all.
"There will be only divisions in Class A, no Class C basketball and Class B will take the form of an elimination tournament," Henry Shenk, intramural director, said today.
An organization will be allowed to enter two teams in the intramural program and if it enters only one team it will play in Class A.
Division winners in Class A will compete in a playoff to determine the class A champion et the end of the season.
Fencing Club Plans Matches
The recently organized University Fencing club will meet each week at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays in Robinson gymnasium. Fencing matches with other schools are being ranged although gas rationing may interfere with the schedule.
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