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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942
--the University Alumni Directors at 1 p. m. tomorrow in the Memorial Union building. There will be a short business meeting before the luncheon, Fred Ellsworth, Alumni secretary explained.
Pressbox Ramblings By J. Donald Keown
Just to give you some kind of an idea of the type of opposition Phog Allen's Jayhawk basketball squad will be meeting this year in the season's opener at Kansas City against the Gardner Air Base team—one Ralph Miller might very possibly be on the Air Base lineup. At least that is the report carried by a Wichita paper, where Miller is at present playing professional football. Also on the Gardner lineup will be guard Grady Lewis, whom this writer once witnessed in action with the Bartlesville team, and whom he is convinced is probably one of the greatest defensive and offensive guards of all time. Howie Engleman was previously scheduled to see action with the Gardner team, but latest reports are that he won't make it. There will be plenty of other Big Six and other college aces on Jack Gardner's lineup, however. And the Jayhawks will have only one week of regular practice before the game.
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John Cronley's rather sarcastic treatment of the Jayhawk football situation was distinctly in bad taste. After all, Memorial Stadium is used for many other things than just football games—graduation ceremonies, the Coronado spectacle, etc. It is also interesting to note that while Cronley dotted on the Jayhawk's string of seasons of below .500 performances, the Oklahoma Sooners seem to be headed toward just such a season this fall—and it may be the first of a long series of such seasons. Cronley suggests a Kansas graduate for the coaching position here, forgetting that Gwinn Henry's predecessor was a former Jayhawk star—Ad Lindsey, who was also fired from his Sooner coaching position.
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Cronley was right about one thing—the fact that insufficient financial backing is largely responsible for the Kansas plight. However, there will be no such financial backing here as long as Big Six conference rules expressly forbid subsidization. School authorities are determined to obey conference rules to the letter, whether they are enforced or not. Big Six conference officials are either too blind or too indifferent to notice many flagrant violations of Big Six regulations, many observers declare. At least if there is no intention of enforcing the Big Six rules, they could be repealed giving the Universities with athletic consciences free leash to compete as schools and Iowa State would be at a distinct disadvantage, for there is less best they can with their wealthier brethern. Even then the two Kansas wealth for them to draw upon than at the other three conference schools.
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Still being ignored is the suggestion from various sources that the Big Six follow the lead of the Pacific conference in the naming of a conference athletic czar to enforce a high sports standard. Such a move would be a death blow of course to conference schools with high hopes for national ratings. However, certainly it would bring about a tighter and more-closely knit conference. The experiment has proven very successful on the coast, and for the first time the less wealthy schools there are competing on an equal footing with the wealthy endowed universities. It would seem that only those universities who practice wholesale violation of conference rules would oppose the naming of a more definite and dependable authority than the present conference board of representatives. Those whose hands are clean would have nothing to fear by the move.
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At random—Speaking of big teams, the Wichita Commands have a center who weighs 294 pounds, a tackle who weighs 275 pounds, a second-string center at 240, a fullback at 220, a quarterback at 218, and a guard at 210 . . . The Gardner Air Base basketball squad will play more than 30 games this fall . . . In Azzi-Ratem ratings Missouri dropped out of the first 30 teams . . . Tulsa is thirtieth . . . The Football News rates Nebraska as 14 points better than the Jayhawks in their coming tussle . . . It also rates Missouri one touchdown better than the high-powered Great Lakes Naval Station squad . . . And that Great Lakes team includes such men as Bruce Smith and Pete Kmetovic . . . John "Ten Strike" Stryzkalski, the fine Marquette sophomore, has been running wild of late, and passing with deadly accuracy.
Head of Kansas Alumni Will Be Luncheon Guest
Ray S. "Red" Pierson, president of the Kansas Alumni Association, will be a guest at the regular luncheon of
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Barpaca Fleeces . . . . . $28.50
Dunbrook Coverts . . . . $28.50
McLeith Tweeds . . . . $28.50
Luxoro Fleeces . . . . $33.50
Cavalry Twills . . . $35.00
Rambler Fleeces . . . $45.00
Camels Hairs . . . . $50.00
Yes Sir — Good for You
A rejuvenated squad of bruised and battered Jayhawks cast their ears to the wind, heard a rumbling of Homecoming and Cornhuskers, and whipped through a snappy practice session with anticipating smiles yesterday afternoon.
The squad ran through a fast, but not a very rough, drill in learning how to stop Nebraska's offense. Coach Gwinn Henry also had his charges snagging passes from numerous backs.
Jayhawks Run Through Snappy Practice Drill
Quarterback Harlan Altman played part of the K-State game with a pulled leg muscle, and just before leaving the game received a hip in-
Absent from the practice because of injuries were four regulars. These men are not expected to see any action in the game Saturday.
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Sooner Team Embarks For Iowa State
Norman, Okla., Oct. 29 — After wasting four drives deep into Nebraska territory last Saturday with heart-breaking penalties and fumbles, Oklahoma's big red team was in a grumpy mood this week as it embarked for Ames, Iowa, to meet Iowa State in a Big Six conference game.
And no wonder. The Sooners are still scoreless in four out of five games this year. They lost to Nebraska 0-7. They lost their record of not having dropped a Norman opener in 18 years. They lost Sammy Stephens, senior left tackle, for the season with a broken arm.
Although Oklahoma apparently possesses too much rugged manpower for the Cyclones, plucky Cardinal and Gold teams always give the Sooners a bristling fight at Ames. Oklahoma's Big Six championship club of 1938 defeated Iowa State only 10-0 and two years ago
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Two Conference Games on Tap For This Week
Missouri's Tigers, overwhelming favorites to cop the conference championship, have a chance to regain for the Big Six some of its prestige lost in earlier non-conference setbacks. Don Faurot's squad will meet the star-studded Great Lakes Naval Training Station eleven.
Two conference and a pair of non-conference games this week make up the Big Six gridiron menu, as the pigskin season swings past the halfway mark.
The Great Lakes squad has as yet this fall failed to live up to the expectations of its followers, but is expected to make its power felt any Saturday now. The station's roster contains such backs as Bruce Smith, Minnesota great, and Pete Kmetovic, Stanford star of Rose Bowl fame. Leading the Tiger backs will be, of course, Bob Steuber, the nation's
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Hey!
Don't Forget the Battle of Bands
In Hoch Auditorium, Friday Night, Oct. 30
STARTING AT 8:00 --- TILL?
FEATURING
Johnnie Pope and his Band
With o Sidney Dawson, Vocalist o Jimmy Brown, Trumpet and Front o Warren Durrett, Piano
VERSUS
Danny Bachmann and his Orch.
Featuring  Phil Cato, Drummer Jimmy Holyfield, Tenor
Homecoming Rally
9 Wonderful Acts in Student Show Homecoming Queen
ADMISSION 10c
TICKETS SOLD AT --- Carl's - Ober's - Wiedemann's - Union Building
Frank Strong Hall - Frasor Hall