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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1941
Sooner Ags Are Next Cage Foe
Battered Jays Leave Sunday For Stillwater
By GABE PARKS
Still tired from their battle with Nebraska last Monday night, the Jayhawkers are preparing for an important nonconference game with Oklahoma A. & M. at Stillwater Monday night.
Bobby Allen and Vance Hall are handicapped by charley horses, but both should be ready to go by Monday. Allen suffered his in the Nebraska fray and Hall was injured in practice Tuesday night.
Sunday night the Kansas squad will board a Pullman for Perry, Okla. From there they will drive to Stillwater. They will return to Lawrence early Tuesday morning so as to miss only one day of classes. Cowboys a Question Mark
"We were worn to a frazle after the Nebraska game," Coach Forrest C. Allen said this morning, "and have practiced only lightly since then. In fact we will have just three days to work on a defense for the Cowboys."
The Cowboys have been an unpredictable team this year. They held the lead in the Missouri Valley conference at one time by virtue of two early season wins over Tulsa and a highly-regarded Creighton five.
Then they proceeded to baffle the experts by falling before the lowly St. Louis and Washington entries. A victory over Washburn gave them a 3-2 conference record and third place in the Valley.
The Aggies' most outstanding achievement was the double defeat they dealt the Oklahoma Sooners, only team to beat Kansas in the Big Six. At Norman, the Sooners fell 28 to 19 and at Stillwater, the Cowboys held big Hugh Ford scorelead while running up a 38 to 23 score.
Revolving Offensive Again
Henry Iba, the A. and M. coach, employs what is known as a revolving offense. It consists of "swing" plays which begin at the sides of the court and open up holes in the center for short shots. With a team like the Cowboys, well versed in fundamentals and with height and agility, the revolving offensive is a dangerous scoring weapon.
Allen plans to use what he calls a "leech" defense to throttle the Aggies. The plan requires close individual guarding with the guards liable to be brushed off in close quarters. "Whether or not it will stick, remains to be seen," Allen said.
Two of A. and M's starters hail from Kansas. Leroy Floyd, cagey floor general, is from Argonia and Vern Schwertfeger, 6 foot 5 inch center, comes from Satanta.
Floyd, a six foot senior, recently shifted from guard to forward, was the sparkplug in the Cowboys' first victory over Oklahoma. Schwertfeger, who played two years at Dodge City Junior College, was the man who bottled up Hugh Ford in the second game.
Smelser On Engleman
Gene Smelser, 6 foot 1 inch senior from Oklahoma City, will start
at the other forward position and probably will guard Howard Engleman.
St. Joseph is the home town of Bud Millikan, rugged junior guard. Millikan is the shortest man on the squad at 5 feet 10 inches but makes up for his lack of height with speed.
One of the big men of the squad is Harvey Pate, a 6 foot 3 inch guard. A senior from Oklahoma City, Pate is a fine rebounder and a consistent scorer.
Sound A Warning . . .
FLOYD
SCHWERTFEGER
Starring in Oklahoma A. and M.'s top-heavy 38-23 victory over Bruce Drake the Oklahoma Sooners Wednesday, were six-foot and five-inch Vern Schwertzfeger, who held Hugh Ford scoreless for the evening and contributed eight points to the attack, and Leroy Floyd, a six-foot senior, who accounted for six tallies in addition to directing the Aggie offensive. Kansas meets the Bamen next Monday night on the Stillwater court.
Massare Signs With Pro Dodgers
Quido Massare, for the past three years a regular guard on the Kam-
sas football team said today that he had signed a contract to play professional football next year with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Professional league. No salary terms were disclosed.
QUIDO MASSARE
The 200-pound East Monongehela, Pa., product will be graduated from the University School of Engineering by completing his work in summer school and will report to the Dodger training camp in Brooklyn early in August. He was known to have feelers from four or five other professional clubs.
Massare came to the University in the fall of 1937 and earned a first string position at tackle on the Jayhawk freshman team. As a sophomore he broke into the starting lineup for keeps after only three games as a substitute and was outstanding throughout the season.
In 1939 the hard working star turned in another top-notch season and was named on the Topeka Daily (continued to page five)
sports AS WE SEE IT By DON H. PIERCE
AS A RESULT of Howard Engleman's 22-point splurge against Nebraska Monday night, Husker guards Don Fitz and Sid Held are minus $1.00 apiece... The two Nebraskans boasted recently to Kansas State's Larry Beaumont that Engleman would get no 20 points off them. In fact, they said he would be lucky to get 10. . . The 26-year-old Aggie soph, who already had been subjected to a 24-point display in Manhattan, called the pair on the statement, and the bet was made.
THREE-FOURTHS of the men reporting to Dr F. C. Allen in the first baseball meeting of the year Tuesday night were primarily softball players, many of whom starred in last year's intramural warfare . . . Allen believes softball playing is a detriment to a baseball player because of the marked difference in batting swings which the game demands.
THE OVERWHELMING 38-23 defeat suffered by O.U. at the hands of Oklahoma A. and M. Wednesday in Stillwater marked the fourth consecutive victory for Henry Iba's boys in the intrastate series . . . Last week the Ags tripped Bruce Drake's club, 28-19 in Norman and last year the scores read, 26-19 and 37-35 . . . All of which means that with the suggested possibility that this year's Missouri Valley N.C.A.A. representative may be chosen on the basis of results of games between O.U., K.U. and A. and M. thus eliminating a playoff, Kansas must grab at least a split with the Aggies and decisively defeat the Sooners in their remaining three games with the Oklahoma schools or plan to stay away from Kansas City this March.
KANSAS CITY'S big Charlie Black, 195-pound, 6 foot 3 inch freshman basketball star, may be among footballers reporting for spring practice drills next month .. Black played a year of good (continued to page 56)
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Draft Damage Greets Luster In Soonerland
Norman, Okla., Feb. 14 — Dewey "Snorter" Luster, Oklahoma's new football coach, is back on his home heath, busily marshalling that uncertain portion of the Sooner football squad not hit by the draft and military enlistments for the Oklahoma spring practice starting at Owen field next Monday afternoon.
Captain and end of Bennie Owen's undefeated Missouri Valley championship Oklahoma eleven of 1920, the 135-pound Luster, a shrewd tactician who spent the past season as backfield coach of Steve Owen's New York Giants professional club, succeeds burly Tom Stidham who resigned recently to accept a three-year contract as head coach at Marquette.
Both Luster and Lawrence "Jap" Haskell, new Sooner athletic director who captained Bennie Owen's Oklahoma football team of 1921, came into power here as a result of the new economy policy for Oklahoma football determined upon by the university board of regents.
New Athletic Policy
This new policy favors a smaller football coaching staff, a smaller football coaching salary budget and the employment of well-qtqualified Sooner alumni for university coaching jobs whenever possible.
It was designed to elininate entangling long-term coaching contracts, top-heavy salary budgets and unreasonably high salaries for coaches.
In accordance with it, the Oklahoma regents gave both Luster and Haskell year-to-year contracts same as those received by university faculty members. No coaching salary at Oklahoma will go as high as $5,000 in the future, the regents decided. The Sooners will get along with only three varsity coaches, Luster naming Athletic Director Haskell his line coach and Dale Arbuckle, quarterback on Bennie Owen's Sooner team of 1926, his new backfield coach. Arbuckle was one of Stidham's staff of five coaches.
A full-time freshman coach, preferable one who can also double as coach of another sport, will be hired later, Luster said.
Stidham is taking Robert "Doc"
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No Football De-Emphasis
Director Haskell denied that the economy policy at Oklahoma meant de-emphasis of Sooner football. "We'll go on playing strong schedules," Haskell said, "and we will try to go on building strong Oklahoma teams."
Although 22 Oklahoma lettermen were left over from Stidham's team of 1940, the new coaches are alarmed at the way the experienced men melting away before the selective draft and other branches of the military service.
Guard Olin Keith and Captain Gus Kitchens have been lost to the air corps, Guard Paul Woodson has quit school, Ends Lyle Smith and Louis Sharpe are advanced R.O.T.C. students and may be called at any moment while six other lettermen, among them several outstanding players, have low draft numbers.
"Looks like the only ones we are sure of are the married boys who have children," Luster declared, wryly.
"We may have to hold another spring practice in August," Haskell added.
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