UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1940
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NUMBER 56.
KANSAS AT FULL STRENGTH
Texans Here Monday
BIG SIX BANS PLAYOFFS
Allen Okays Rule Which Could Have Cost K.U. Last Cage Title
By GABE PARKS
Although the new basketball legislation passed Friday at the Big Six meeting may have placed Kansas cagers in third place last year, the rule has the approval of "Phog" Allen, Jayhawk cage mentor.
"It suits me fine," Coach Allen said yesterday. "Anything the Big Six decides is for the best and is all right with me."
The new rule was passed by Big Six faculty representatives and athletic directors in Kansas City.
The new rule provides that when there is a tie at the end of the basketball season, the team having the best offensive and defensive record will be awarded the championship. This includes the right to represent the Big Six conference in the fifth district National Collegiate Athletic association tournament.
The rules also provide that if it is a threeway tie and one team has won twice from the
other during the season, the winner of the series will be the conference champion.
"A tie for the championship is a rare thing," Doctor Allen said. "There has been only one triple tie and one double tie in the history of the Big Six. The thing to do is to try and win an unchallenged claim to the title."
"In the past, my policy has been to play the regulars until the game was on ice and then give the third and fourth stringers a chance, as I did in the varsity-freshman game. The new rule will work against the substitutes because now I will have to keep the regulars in as long as possible to maintain the best offensive-defensive record."
Had the new playoff rule been in effect last year, the standings would have been
year, the standings would have been like this:
w l pct. t.p. op. pts. diff.
Missouri ... 8 2 .800 406 315 91
Oklahoma ... 8 2 .800 425 354 71
Kansas ... 8 2 .800 399 349 50
"Of course that doesn't prove a thing," Doctor Allen continued. "It is impossible to tell (continued to page five)
DR. F. C. ALLEN
—“a good idea”
Simpson Sits At Console In Hoch Today
Guy Criss Simpson, assistant professor of organ and piano in the School of Fine Arts, will present the second in this year's series of vesper organ recitals in Hoch auditorium at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Simpson, who has a bachelor of music degree in both piano and organ, has done advanced study in organ under Louis Dupre, Albert Riemenschneider, Palmer Christian, nad Arthur Poister.
He was head of the Kansas chapter of the Guild of Organists last year. At the present time he is organist at the Congregational church in Lawrence.
For this afternoon's program Simpson will play "Fantasy in F minor," (Mozart) a Guilmant arrangement of a Corelli "Prelude," and will close the program with the third symphony for organ by Louis Vierne, late organist of Notre Dame in Paris.
BULLETIN
Houston, Tex., Dec. 7-(UP)—Southern Methodist beat Rice 7 to 6 today and ended the season tied with Texas A. and M. for the Southwest conference football crown.
Wheeler Emerges From Charts, Graphs, To Talk About Weather Psychologist Sees Civil War Ahead For Europe
By ED GARICH
Eight long years.
Eight hard years.
This isn't the lament of some dishard republican. But rather it is the time Dr. R. H. "Organismic" Wheeler, head of the department of psychology, has spent getting out a three-volume leaflet entitled "History of World Climate in Relation to the Rise and Fall of Government," or, "Democracy Rained Out."
In this tome, Doctor Wheeler attempts to establish world climate, and shows how rain and temperature cause Hitler, Mussolini, world wars, civil wars, and the high mortality rate among dead people.
Last week Doctor Wheeler fought his way out from behind a mass of meteorological charts and records of tree growth (which he has doggedly charted) and announced the completion of his long and arduous task.
Fights Clear
The book is practically revolutionary in character, since no other psychologist has made an attempt up to the present to be practical.
Explaining the war in Europe. Doctor Wheeler says that, since we (continued to page five)
DR. R. H. WHEELER
Doctor Wheeler predicts that the war now playing in Europe will break down into a general mess of civil wars, because the world is entering into another cold epoch. This is all part of the psychologist's "cycle" theory of climate. It seems that the world's climate goes through a series of changes which can be charted as to regularity. When the weather is changing from cold to warm cultural aspects of the society are on the upswing, and people like Benny Goodman starve to death. When the weather is cold, civil wars are popular. As well as off-the-face hats, no doubt.
War Less Intense
Varsity Not Impressive Against Frosh
By DON H. PIERCE
Kansan Sports Editor
None too impressive in their precarious 33-31 victory over the freshman Friday night, the Jayhawker varsity sweated through an hour and a half drill yesterday morning in preparation for their two-game series with a powerful Texas University basketball club, which opens at 7:30 Monday night in Hoch auditorium.
The Longhorns are the only Southwest conference team to defeat the Jayhawkers in seven starts over the past three years. Two years ago in Austin, when the two teams last met, Doctor Allen's five had to scramble to salvage the final encounter in their
Probable Starting Lineups
KANSAS Pos. TEXAS
Engleman F Granville
Hogben F Cooley
Allen C Houpt
Kline G Hull
Sollenberger or Johnson G Moore
Officials: Don Elser, Notre Dame, Earl Jones, Arkansas.
two-game tiff, after dropping the opener. Since that time, however, the Kansans have victimized the South-west country to the extent of four consecutive victories over S.M.U. and one over Rice Institute. Steers Always Near Tue.
Steers Always Near Top
The Steers, who have copped one conference title and finished second twice in the last four year, are slated to present the tallest outfit of roughers that University fans will have the pleasure of being uneasy about all year.
The invaders' front line of Cooley, (continued to page five)
Indict Dewey
Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 7-(UP)—Indictment of Alexander Harlow Dewey, former University freshman who refused to register for the draft, was returned today by a Federal grand jury here.
Dewey was arrested in Lawrence Nov. 15 after he told reporters how he refused to register for the draft. His anti-war philosophy, Deway said, just wouldn't let him have anything to do with war.