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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1942
Why is it that so many schools over the country are expanding their athletic set-ups whereas we here at the University are told we can't have baseball, tennis, golf, or any enlargement of the intramural program? Surely the school isn't that poor. And if the Administration is trying to save money to make up for any loss incurred with their looked-for drop in enrollment in the coming years it doesn't seem logical for educators in other schools are expecting an increase in underclassmen in the next few years that will offset any drop by the juniors and seniors.
And furthermore, if the University fathers are really trying to save money why don't they fire a few of these Conscientious Objectors that are on the state pay-roll. Does it seem right that the taxpayers of the state give their money to a government which in turn hands it over to a University that hires C.O.'s? Instead of the University using this money to pay "objectors," why doesn't it use the funds to enlarge an athletic program which would produce real, red-blooded Americans that would be willing to get into the thick of a fight to protect this country instead of sneaking away to plant trees in the hills of Arkansas or Colorado.
UNCLE SAM WANTS REAL HE-MEN
It is a definite fact that many C.O.'s are included in this school year's payroll of the University's faculty and employees. This in itself might not be too obnoxious but when the University then can deprive the athletic department of needed funds it seems that one step too many has been taken. The government doesn't want more tree planters. Uncle Sam wants fighting men, physically fit to stand the rigors of battle and emerge the victor.
Lieutenant Colonel Tom Hamilton, physical director of the United States Air Corps, told athletic directors and coaches at the National Football Coaches' Association meeting in Detroit last December that expansion, not curtailment, of football and other athletic sports was what the government wanted.
"Twenty years of slack living have left American youth soft," Colonel Hamilton continued, "and rough, competitive contact sports such as football, boxing, and soccer are needed more than anything else in the world to get our youth ready to fight."
Northwestern, Michigan, and a score of other schools have announced an expansion of their athletic programs, especially in intramurals. The scope of men's intramurals has been so widened that nearly every male student in these schools is now connected with some type of competitive athletics. These students are placed in groups of their own ability and great stress is placed on the physical conditioning of the body.
Even in the Big Six expansion is going on. Football coach Dewey "Snorter" Luster of the University of Oklahoma will call practice tomorrow for his junior varsity football squad which is to be composed of boys who hithertofore have been too little, not quite skillful enough, or too busy studying and working to come out for football.
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"We're going to get 150 football players ready for Uncle Sam, not just 50," Luster explains. "We're going to try to make them tough and fast and fit," he continues, "so when the government calls them, as it will eventually call every male student, they'll be ready physically to take everything it gives them."
What Luster is doing at Oklahoma can be done on every college campus in the country and in every sport. Most certainly it can be done here. But the Administration will have to make a change in its policy before it can be started effectively and carried on to a successful conclusion.
Instead of hiring new coaches the athletic department could double up the present coaches. Why should the University want another new football coach when Bill Hargiss still one of the best gridiron mentors in the business, is present and available during the fall months. If he can't be used on the varsity staff (and it is still puzzling why he isn't there right now) then he could very easily start and put across the plan that Luster is starting tomorrow at Oklahoma.
Henry Shenk is another man available. Shenk was one of the most successful high school coaches in Kansas and left Junction City just this year to join the Kansas faculty. Vic Hurt and Bill Replogle could also be put to very good use in the off-months of the football season. The list is supplemented even further when you consider the graduate students in physical education or the varsity athletes that are planning on teaching or coaching. All of these could be used very easily and very cheaply in a great expansion of the University varsity and intramural set-up.
GWINN HENRY GETS SOME HELP
Odds and ends; Phog ran the cagers through a tough scrimmage yesterday afternoon in preparation for the Creighton battle Tuesday. . . . He
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The question of who will represent the mid-west in the N.C.A. A. playoffs this March will get a definite answer Tuesday night when Creighton's Bluejays meet Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers in Hoch auditorium.
The Bluejays, with an enviable record to their credit, rest at the top of the heap in the Missouri Valley Conference, and the Jayhawks have suffered but one defeat in Big Six competition. These two teams are considered $ ^{*} $
Past Records Are Even
Incidentally, NCAA competition is not new to either team, Kansas after having fallen before Creighton 35-33 during the regular season in 1940, went on to place second to Indiana in the national
in past years with each team winning three contests. The Jayhawks routed the Jays 29 to 7 in 1923 and edged them out 31-29 in 1927. Creighton bounced back in 1929 and 1930 to win 44-27 and 44-20. In 1931 Kansas won 38-32, with Creighon taking the 1940 game 35-33. Kansas City Boys Rate High
Two of this year's Bluejay team—Barney Burdick and Dick Nolan—hail from Kansas City. Nolan, a jum-
Omaha, Neb.—Creighton university's veteran barricadets have a habit of stealing the ball then conducting a smashing fast break for the enemy's basket. Most adept at this scoring feat are Capt. Gene Haldeman, Aberdeen, S. D., senior (left), and Junior Dick Nolan, Kansas City, Kans., a pair of guards whose fortifying was largely responsible for Creighton winning the 1940-41 Missouri Valley championship.
NCAA finals. In 1941 Creighton downed Iowa State, co-holder with Kansas of the Big Six crown, to represent the mid-west in the NCAA district play-offs. Wyoming defeated the Bluejays 45-44 in the semi-finals.
Kansas and Creighton have met on the basketball court six times
ior who starts at guard, wo whis high school letters at Ward High of Kansas City, Kan. He was all-state forward in his senior year. He is the smallest man on the starting line-up and the key man of Creighton's fast breaking style of play.
Burdick attended high school at
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