SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Finals Fail To Halt Practice For W.U.
Jayhawkers Workout Between Quizzes
With formal practice suspended during final examination week, Jayhawk cagers are keeping in trim with an occasional session of basket shooting. Next game for Dr. F.C.Allen's team is with Wichita University at Wichita, a week from tomorrow.
No specific hours are set for workouts until finals are over. The dressing room is open all day and the players can drop in and suit up to shoot a while any time they feel like it. Regular practice probably will be resumed Wednesday afternoon.
Buescher Expected Back
While Wichita has not enjoyed an especially successful season, the team is sure to be keyed up for its meeting with the Jayhawks. The Wheatshockers will shoot the works in an effort to turn in a big upset.
Expected back in action for the Wijchita game is John Buescher, sophomore forward. A carbuncle on his knee and a touch of the flu put Buescher in the hospital, causing him to miss the last three conference games. However, he should be ready to go against the Wheatschockers.
Star of the W.U. team is Captain Mel Vice, 6 foot 4 inch guard from Greensburg. One of Vice's high school teammates was Lloyd "Rudy" Saveley, Jayhawk intramural star. Finished Third In Sunflower
Wichita played its best ball of the season at the Sunflower invitational
Add West Va.
To Grid Slate
Another eastern trip has been added to the 1941 Jayhawk football schedule, with the signing of a game with West Virginia, announced today by Gwinn Henry, director of athletics and head football coach.
The game will be played at Morgantown, W. Va., Nov. 8. Already on the schedule was a game at Philadelphia, Sept. 26 with Temple U. The Kansas team also had two eastern trips this past season, playing Villanova and George Washington.
Kansas and West Virginia will be meeting on the gridiron for the first time. Coach of the West Virginia team is Bill Kern, a teammate of Mike Getto, former K.U. line coach at Pitt.
Henry now is seeking a ninth game to complete the Jayhawks' 1941 schedule. In addition to the contest at Morgantown and Philadelphia, Kansas will play a non-conference game with Washington University of St. Louis at Lawrence
The schedule to date:
Sept. 26—Temple at Philadelphia.
Oct. 4—Washington at Lawrence.
Oct. 11-Nahvah at Lincoln.
Oct. 18—Open.
Oct. 25—Iowa State at Lawrence.
Nov. 1—Oklahoma at Norman.
Nov. 8—West Virginia at Morgan town.
Nov. 15—Kansas State at Lawrence.
Nov. 22 or 27—Missouri at Lawrence.
tournament in Topeka during the Christmas holidays. The Wheat-shockers won two games and lost one there to finish third.
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sports AS WE SEE IT By DON H. PIERCE
EVEN THOUGH Big Six football teams may benefit by Oklahoma's loss of Tom Stidham in the form of less potent Sooner elevens, we can't help bidding a regretful farewell to the big Indian who resigned his head coach-athletic director post Friday to take over gridiron reins at Marquette University.
For whether one condoned some of Stidham's accused borderline field tactics or not, he is forced admit that the massive "Tom-Tom" was a first rate coach.
His teams played the game of football the way we think it should be played. The Sooners were invariably well coached, powerful and clever on offense, rough and savage on defense. And when another conference club dug its cleats in against the Sooners any Saturday afternoon it found that they were top-notch competitors.
had a word of praise for the opposition.
Aside from this Stidham seemed to command the respect and liking of his boys, and although he was probably the hardest loser in the loop, often
SUMMER ALWAYS GOT RESULTS In 1938 the Sooners won the Big Six championship without a defeat and dropped their only contest to a mighty Tennessee club in the Orange Bowl New Year's day.
Stidham Always Got Results
THE RECENT automobile accident death of "Wild Billy" Edwards, one of the most colorful wrestlers who ever belted an unspecting referee, has robbed the Midwest of one of its most popular sports figures.
In 1939 O.U. had another top-notch club, defeating Northwestern and Texas, and last year lost only to Texas, Nebraska, and Santa Clara. His three year conference record, one third, one second, one first.
Perhaps the powers-that-be in Soonerland will be sorry that they didn't up the athletic payroll and keep their big brave on their reservation to insure continued football and financial success.
AS IF HE hasn't had enough material worries, Jayhawker football coach Gwinn Henry will be forced to endure another next fall when one of the Red and Blue's best linemen, senior guard Jay Kern, turns up among Uncle Sams newest army recruits instead of at the stadium.
Stidham, himself, was an All-West tackle at Haskell in 1927 under Dick Hanley, whom he later assisted at Northwestern. He teamed with his huge running mate, 255-pound "Tiny" Roebuck, to play all but two minutes of the annual East-West charity game that year.
Kern, who was supposed to have reported for service this month, has been deferred until July. He is a two year letter winner.
Billy, who did much to pull fans through auditorium or fairground turnstiles, was the originator of the now famed Texas rules, which popularized the sport for a time so much that grappling became the rage for every collegiate ex-football player.
The semi-bald 49-year-old mat meanie was a past master of all known ring subterfuge and always was a sought-after entertainer. After losing his light-heavyweight title in 1930, Edwards upped his weight and turned villian in the heavyweight ranks where he had more to do with the development of the modern game than probably any other man in the Midwest.
Today the grunt and groan art has grown into disrepute by such spectacles as mud-wrestling, jelly-wrestling, fish-wrestling, and the advent of a host of unholy cherubs under the moniker of the "French Angel." "English Angel," the "Cardiff Giant" and others.
Nevertheless if you are a tried and true mat fan you may still attend. And if so take a little mental time off next time after you crawl into your ringside seat to remember referee-baiting, force-contorting and crowd-pleasing Billy with
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Mechanical Training BEST BET For Future Success . . .
TRADES IN SCHOOL AND DEFENSE--from State Journal, Topeka, Kansas January 4,1941.
With the flat statement that most of us, if dependent on the soil and ourselves, would starve, John Erskine, educator and author, come out in favor of a new system of education in an article In The American Magazine.
"This is a machine age," he declares, "and both war and peace are highly mechanized . . . our youth are still being taught as if machines and mass production were a side show instead of the main tent."
Says Noted Educator
This is a machine age. Both war and peace are highly mechanized. Our youth are still being taught as if machines and mass production were a side show instead of the main tent.
—John Erskine.
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