Jayhawks Seek Revenge
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
39TH YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942
NUMBER 65
Tucker Incident, 'Pros' Phog Allen, Drake Scrap
By MILO FARNETI Kansan Managing Editor
They came out of their corners in Hoch auditorium this morning with no holds barred and Texas rules in force.
The two combatants, Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, plain-spoken Kansas basketball coach, and youthful Bruce Drake, equally plain-spoken Oklahoma mentor, gave their sides of the Geraid Tucker "migrant athlete" controversy with Jack Gardner, Kansas State coach, coming in for condemnation.
Before the situation grows much older, four battle camps will have been formed: Oklahoma, Kansas, Kansas State, and the Big Six faculty athletic council.
An ordinary pep rally was scheduled for today with the Kansas basketball team going through the "pepping up" process for the crucial, opening Big Six game with Oklahoma tonight.
Toward the end of his speech, Doctor Allen, who had previously not mentioned the Tucker controversy, threw back Oklahoma Athletic Director Jap Haskell's statement that "It smells worse than Pearl Harbor," with "They (Oklahoma) act like the Japs did at Pearl Harbor."
After Allen had spoken, Drake and his basketball squad walked to the front of Hoch Auditorium. Drake
asked Doctor Allen for permission to speak. Allen offered Drake the floor.
Drake opened by saying that Oklahoma felt that Tucker had been done a great injustice. "We will see that he is given a fair trial before the Big Six athletic council. We will present our side of the case and accept the council's decision."
During his speech, Allen accused Haskell and Drake of conducting a school for professional athletes. He charged that Haskell used his scout's job with the Boston Red Sox to attract baseball players to Oklahoma.
Doctor Allen asserted that Lester Layton, former Wichita North baseball star, roomed at Coach Drake's house and that other inducements were offered Layton.
"I expect to present Layton's name to the athletic council and ask why Layton can play with the Oklahoma baseball team and draw a salary from the Boston Red Sox," Allen said.
Oklahoma is developing more professional than amateur athletes, Allen said. "Bruce Drake himself was a subsidized athlete."
"That the Tucker incident was timed is false. The Big Six rules were plain. Oklahoma had no business taking Tucker to New York and playing him contrary to the conference laws." Allen declared. Denke asserted that, the Seasor
Drake asserted that the Sooner
athletic council has demanded a meeting with Allen and Gardner and Tucker present to investigate the facts.
He said, "This boy has not been undermined by any utility as Allen has stated. We have asked for proof and none has been forthcoming. We have asked Kansas State of any irregularities that Tucker committed in transferring from Manhattan to Oklahoma and have not received any reply."
"We were all set for Tucker to come to Oklahoma. I saw Tucker at Winfield before he went to Kansas State. Gerald's brother, Lloyd, told me that his kid brother was coming to Oklahoma. Lloyd was the only person who persuaded Gerald to jump Kansas State.
"When Tucker wished to transfer schools, Kansas State held him on the campus against his wishes. His mother had to come from Winfield to take him off the campus.
"While Gerald was contemplating moving, Jack Gardner sent a telegram to Lloyd saying that everything was all right and signed it, 'Gerald Tucker.'"
The Sooner coach said that Gardner tried to get Tucker to go to Southern California, his alma mater, if he decided against enrolling at Kansas State. "He didn't want Tucker at any Big Six school where he would have to play against Kansas State."
They Figure in 'Love' Triangle---
COACH BRUCE DRAKE
JACK GARDNER Kansas State Basketball Coach .between two fires
DR.F.C. ALLEN
Overcharged Cagers Open Hot Big Six Race in Hoch Tonight
Probable Starting Line-ups
KANSAS OKLAHOMA
Black F Roberts
Miller F Rousey
Buescher C Reich
Evans G Heap
Sollenberger (C) G McCurdy
Officials—Ted O'Sullivan, Missouri, and M. G. Volz, Nebraska.
By CHUCK ELLIOTT Kansan Sports Editor
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CHARLIE BLACK
A "Tucker-less" band of Oklahoma Sooners will take the floor in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the opening Big Six game of the season for both schools.
Evidence that the game may produce more than the usual number of thrills was given this morning at a pep convocation when a battle of words ensued between the coaches of the rival quintets, Bruce Drake of Oklahoma and Forrest C. "Phog" Allen of the Jayhawkers.
Besides the added incentive for the Sooners to win the game for Gerald Tucker, their star center who has been suspended from athletic participation this semester, the Oklahoma crew will be out to protect and increase their record of defeating the Kansans.
Roosevelt Announces An A.E.F. ★ ★ ★
(Compiled from Radio Dispatches)
President Roosevelt speaking to both houses of Congress at 11:30 o'clock this morning told the nation what to expect in the coming year.
Half the nation's income or approximately $50,000,000,000 will be spent on the war effort during 1942 Roosevelt further said that American Expeditionary Forces would soon be sent to all parts of the world, including the British Isles.
The official Dutch radio in a broadcast this morning said that General Wavell, commander of the fighting forces of the United Nations in the Pacific area, would establish headquarters soon on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies group.
Early today Japanese planes attacked the American held positions on the island of Luzon in the Philippines losing seven out of fifty bombers. Japan said ground forces were still feeling out American troop positions trying to find a weak spot in the Yankee lines.
Only Three Home Defeats
Only three times during the last six years has an invading team defeated the Jayhawks at Lawrence. The records show 49 victories for Kansas, as against those three defeats.
Oklahoma is the villain of the piece in the eyes of Lawrence basketball fans. The Sooners downed the Jay-
BULLETIN
the possibility that Gerald Tucker might play tonight against Kansas arose late this afternoon when it was learned from an authoritative source that the Oklahoma athletic board met today and may decide to play Tucker in defiance of the Big Six ruling. In such a case Tucker would be flown to Lawrence for the game.
The Kansan learned that Tucker's playing equipment is in Lawrence although he is not. Bruce Drake was not available for a comment at four o'clock this afternoon.
If Tucker is played tonight the game will be played under protest, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas coach, said this afternoon.
hawks on the K.U. court in 1938 and then again last March. In between those two defeats the Kansas teams rolled up a string of 26 straight wins at home.
The Oklahomaans also have defeated the Jayhawkers the past three times the schools have met at Norman. The record for the past four years, including the play-off game at Wichita in 1939, shows five victories for the Sooners and only four for the Jayhawks.
Oklahoma Wins Two
The records of the two teams vary considerably, both in success and the number of games played. Kansas has
Students are required to present their activity books with tickets for admission to basketball games.
played only two games but has won both of them. Denver University was
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