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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942
--had brought the athletic standard down to Harvard's.
Pressbox Ramblings By J. Donald Keown
While Flem Hall's explanation of the Kansas football situation is certainly novel, it just doesn't hold water. It is true that Chancellor Malott is not as football-minded as many of the more rabid student fans, including this writer, might desire. However, to accuse him of responsibility for the hapless situation is ridiculous. After all, he was hired as an educator, not an athletic coach. The task ahead of him in his own field is too great for him to be turning his attention toward athletics. The welfare of the football team is in other hands, as it should be. If blame for the team's predicament should rest on faculty shoulders, then certainly those shoulders are not Chancellor Malott's. He has his duties to perform, and he does them well. Among his duties is not turning out a winning football team.
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The question of athletic scholarships in violation of conference rules is an interesting one. This writer does not know whether Hall's charges that Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Missouri practice such subsidization are true or not—and does not pretend to have such knowledge. However, if they are true, then conference regulations become a farce. If there is no intention of enforcing such regulations, then let them be done away with by conference authorities, so that Kansas and the other two Big Six Universities can also engage in subsidization with a clear conscience. Until that time it is apparent that Kansas authorities intend to stick strictly to such conference rulings, and that determination is commendable. If Hall's statement does not have a basis of truth, then out-of-conference writers should exercise more care in making charges which can only injure the Big Six.
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By far the best of Hall's assertions is his suggestion that the Jayhawks de-emphasize their football schedule. Certainly the scheduling of the Iowa Cadet game this year was a mistake which resulted only in the loss of prestige for the University. Such games should not be attempted in the future. As for further de-emphasisization, beyond the non-conference contests, such a move would seem impractical. Aside from Big Six clubs, only Missouri Valley teams and very small schools remain available few games. Certainly the Missouri Valley is no downward step from the Big Six. Many of the smaller schools of this section are on a much more subsidized basis than any Big Six University, and a loss to such a school, even if by a narrower margin, would be much more damaging to prestige than Big Six defeats. For example the Wichita University game of some years ago.
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This week's game at Manhattan will be part of Homecoming festivities at Kansas State, complete with dances crowning of the queen, dinners, etc. Governor Payne Ratner will be present, and will present the queen and her attendants. Kansas State, like this University, has given up the idea of house decorations for the duration. Meanwhile, the football squad under Ward Haylett will be out for revenge for last year's upset. The Wildcats had five men on the bench with injuries as they battled Missouri last week, but some of them will be ready for Saturday's tilt. Expected to give the Jayhawks trouble is Earl Williams, fullback who in last year's game kicked a field goal, and who was outstanding in the Tiger game. Bill Quick and Ned Rokey have also been doing some nice punting. Other Wildcats who will bear watching are passer Ron Conrad and runner Harry Merriman.
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At random: The Football News rates the Jayhawks as a sli mpoint better than the Wildcats, while parley cards call the game even. The News designates Kansas as the 10th team in the nation, and the Aggies as the 112th . . . One press association story calls Bob Steuber, currently leading
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Calls KU Harvard Of Middle West
MIKE (JUG) ZELEZNAK Kansas State Quarterback
If the Jayhawks fail to break their losing streak at Manhattan Saturday, no doubt Mike "Jug" Zeleznak, high-stepping junior Aggie back, will be to a large measure responsible for that failure. Zeleznak last fall was the sensation of the Wildcat squad, and is due for a rash of touch-down runs this week.
Fine Arts Students Give First of Weekly Programs
Students of the School of Fine Arts presented their weekly recital at 3:30 this afternoon in Fraser theater. The following numbers were included: piano solo, "Sonata Opus 53, last movement," (Beethoven) by August Vogt; vocal solo, "Jewel Song" from "Faust," (Gounod) by Zendra Kass; piano solos, "Etude f sharp minor," (Scriabine), "Fairy Tale," (Medtner), "Dance," (Debussy) by Allen Rogers, and violin solo, "Concerto in E minor, allegretto non troppo—Allegro molto vivace" by Barbara Huls.
Saturday's contest will mark the first appearance at Norman this season of Coach Dewey "Snorter" Luster's Sooners who have just finished the unprecedented feat of playing their first four games this year on foreign fields, against Oklahoma A. and M., Tulsa, Texas, and Kansas.
Norman, Okla., Oct. 20—An Oklahoma football team that found new offensive strength in the Kansas contest will strive to protect its record of never having lost an opening game at Norman for the last 18 years when it meets Nebraska here Saturday in the 22nd annual game.
Oklahoma Gains Confidence From Kansas Contest
BUY WAR STAMPS . . .
Since that upset Central triumph, Sooner football teams have never lost a Norman opener.
Back in 1924 Central Teachers' college of Edmond, Okla., coached by Charley Wantland, a spectacular running back who played for Oklahoma and Eenie Owen back in 1908, turned on the Sooners and Owen to win a 2-0 triumph in the first game of the season at Norman.
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Malott Answers Charge of Scribe
Chancellor Deane W. Malott yesterday characterized as "too stupid to require an answer" a statement made recently by a Texas sports writer, charging him with the responsibility for the Kansas football decline.
The scribe—Flem R. Hall, sports editor and columnist of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram-had charged that the Chancellor, in attempting to bring the scholastic standard of the University up to that of Harvard University's had brought the athletic stand- [u]
Hall's statement, as carried in the widely-published Associated Press sports column, Sports Roundup, earlier this week in the "Today's Guest Star" department. The Sports Roundup is written by Hugh S. Fullerton, Jr., nationally-known sports writer, and is carried by several of the larger papers in this vicinity.
Hall's statement, as carried in the Roundup, declared: "The story be-
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