WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940
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Air Corp Team Work--y saying they never hoped to have "nationally famous winning football team," Baldridge quotes the resident of a football-famous western school as saying; "A winning football team is the best advertisement that a university can have—and we are going to have a winning am." Since that time, Baldridgeys, that previously little known hool has been well advertised each
Training planes of the United States Air Corp wing in over a tower of one of the buildings at Randolph Field, Texas. It is from squadrons such as these that the future eagles of this growing branch of American defense are produced.
IN GRADUATE MAGAZINE
Kansas Grad Puts Finger On Football Difficulties
By ROSCOE BORN
Whenever an old grad talks about he football situation (remember?) he usually winds up wailing andailing his arms in a most unscientific manner. At last, however, an old rad has succeeded in controlling its arms, has put his finger on the rouble.
That grad is C. W. Baldridge, '94, who was a member of the University's first football team in 1890.oints At Executive Attitude
One of the things beneath the double-pointing Baldridge finger is all about a university's executive attitude toward football teams. While some school heads have made news
football season.
"There is nothing dishonorable about honest advertising," Bald-ridge says, writing in the Graduate magazine, just off the press. "Why
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not make honest use of football at least to some extent for advertising?"
Baldridge sums up the Kansas difficulties: Two reasons we cannot build up a strong team here are: The state supports two important schools
and numerous less important ones; the youth of the students who get to the University of Kansas. Many boys reach the University too young to be competent performers in football, Baldridge says.
"Today's college football player, even more than formerly, needs to be of large stature, of more mature age, and to have muscles hardened by real work."
Few such boys, Baldridge laments, ever reach college without financial assistance from some source. "If some alumni group or some other source sees fit to aid such young men to secure a college education, even granting that their chief aim in doing so is to build up a strong football team, is there not sufficient good involved to justify the procedure?"
The fault lies in non-assistance of players, not in our coach, Baldridge says.
"Most universities have physical education departments, therefore why not physical education scholarships, as well as in any other line of study?"
A faculty member, an alumnus of the University and an English critic will compose the board of judges for the William Herbert Carruth poetry contest, it was announced today by Rose Morgan, associate professor of English.
Poetry Contest Board Selected
Elizabeth Drew, an Englishwoman who is living in Farmington, Conn., for the duration of the war will fill the bill as the distinguished man or woman of letters required in the conditions of the contest. Mrs. Drew is at the present lecturing on English literature over the country. She is the author of several critical books on English poetry and drama.
The second member of the committee is Theodore O'Leary, an alumnus of the University and the son of a former professor of the department of English, Prof. R. D.
Elect Montgomery and Lane To Kiwanis Club Offices
Two members of the staff of the University of Kansas participated in the installation of the new officers in the Lawrence Kiwanis club. Fred Montgomery was named as one of the vice presidents. Montgomery is secretary to the bureau of visual instruction.
Prof. H. H. Lane, curator of Dyche museum, was installed as a member of the board of directors.
O'Leary. At the present time Mr. O'Leary writes book reviews and editorial page articles for the Kansas City Star.
The Carruth Poetry contest was started in 1927 by a group of alumni of the University as a tribute to William Herbert Carruth, former vice-chancellor of the University and widely-known poet.
The last member of the committee and a faculty member of the University will be Dr. W. S. Johnson professor of English.
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