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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1940
Varsity Faces Powerful Frosh Friday Night
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Tough Longhorns Invade Hoch Monday
Allenmen Seek To Add Texans To S.-W. Victims
By CHUCK ELLIOTT
With six straight victories over Southwest Conference foes already through the hoop, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's charges are marking time until Monday night when they hope to add to this string by taking the first of a two-game engagement with the University of Texas Longhorns.
The only game that the Jayhawks have ever lost to a Southwest Conference team was the first played with this conference in 1938 when K.U. lost to this same Texas U. team by a lone field goal, 34 to 36. Following this game, the Red and Blue trounced the Longhorns, 49 to 35, then moved to Dallas where they coped two games from Southern Methodist, 46 to 40 and 52 to 45.
Last year the S.M.U. Mustangs came to Lawrence for revenge and instead received the highest score ever registered against an opponent since Ottawa University was defeated 66 to 22 in the dedicatory game of Robinson Gymnasium in 1908. The score last year was 63 to 31 in the first game and the next night it slowed down to a 37 to 26 victory for Kansas.
Laced '40 Mustangs
This year Coach Jack Gray of the Longhorns has hopes of breaking this string of wins and has more than just a wish behind his hope Texas U. won the Southwest Conference two years ago when they won from K.U. and last year they took second place to the Rice Owls.
That made five victories out of six regularly scheduled games. In the Western N.C.A.A. play-offs in Kansas City in March the Owls of Rice Institute were trooned 50 to 44 to keep intact the Jayhawk record.
Three of last year's Texans, Chester Granville, Thurman Hull, and Norman Houpt. are back. Granville is a six feet two inch forward who tips the beam at 190 pounds. He was a star at Austin High School and in his first college game scored 18 points in 18 minutes of play. This year as a senior he is the leading scorer.
Hull A Danger
Hull is another senior who adds balance to Gray's team. He is a nifty ball handler and dangerous from his forward position with his one-handed shooting. He was a member of the John Tarleton Junior College team which ran up a string of 86 successes on the court before being defeated.
Houpt is the third senior on the squad who played against the Jayhawks in 1938. Standing six feet five inches, he should control the center tip and his bulk of 210 pounds will be defensive power.
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Tracksters Check Out Monday
Training for the indoor track season will begin Monday inside the stadium in preparation for dual, Big Six, and A.A.U. meets. Coach Bill Hargiss asks all lettermen, squadmen, freshmen, and others, who wish to try out for the team to check out equipment.
Last winter 75 boys trained through December and January. Coach Hargiss expects that many or more to report Monday. In preparation for this number he has had the indoor track resurfaced, jumping pits reconditioned, and has bought new equipment.
Hargiss urges all tracksters to get an early start so that he can begin preparations for early dual meets. He intends to give all boys tryouts in these meets.
A.T.O.-Teke Fray Is Featured
First intramural basketball contests will be played Thursday at 6 p.m. in Robinson gym. Number one contest will bring together Alpha Tau Omega, led by Bill Arthur, and the Teke five, a preseason favorite. The Teke's are made up of many of last year's Division II winner, the Buccaneers. The other game will find the Acacias opposing the Sig Ep's. Returning stars from last year's Sig Ep outfit were Bob Cooper and "Rudy" Savely.
At 10:00 p.m., Dunakin I elashes with the Hellhounds while Ed Hall's Delta Chi cagers find the D.U. squad as their opponents.
Saturday classes this semester together with increased Saturday classes next semester will probably tend to decrease the number of games and teams in intramurals this winter.
Henry On Grange Air Program Friday
"Red" Grange, the former galloping ghost of Illinois and now conductor of a popular radio program, will interview Coach Gwinn Henry at 6:45 o'clock Friday night over the Mutual Broadcasting system.
The program will be broadcast from the studios of KCKN in Kansas City, Kan., and can be heard over WREN. Henry will also be in Kansas City for Friday and Saturday meetings of Big Six conference coaches and faculty representatives.
Don Faurot, Missouri coach, will also be heard on the Grange program over WREN at 5:45 o'clock Saturday night.
The Kansan has complete coverage of all campus news.
sports AS WE SEE IT By DON H. PIERCE
If one's football perspective will carry him back through the past ten years, he might conclude that Nebraska's invitation to meet Stanford in this year's Rose Bowl classic in Pasadena is a just reward for the growing gridiron power of the Big Six conference in general.
Equally just is the fact that the mighty Huskers, nine times conference champions, should receive the most coveted of all the national bowl bids. For it was the Nebraskans who brought forth the first of Big Six All-American timber, who dared to meet fearful non-conference foes when the conference was still in it's infancy, and who pioneered conference prestige on every hand.
Let us turn back the conference football pages some ten years and take a look at the calibre of Big Six schedules, a yardstick that sheds light on the strength of any team.
Iowa State played such obscure opposition as Morningside and Simpson. Kansas State met Pitt Teachers and North Dakota. Kansas tangled with Haskell and James Millikin. The only powers that dotted conference schedules at all were Pitt, Northwestern, Rice, and Texas.
Six years ago the schedules were little improved. Included as Big Six opponents that year were Hays Teachers, Warrensburg Teachers, St. Benedicts, and Cornell College of Iowa. In fact Nebraska was the only conference school playing a respectable non-conference schedule. Yet Big Six teams were barely able to finish above the .500 mark with nonconference engagements such as these.
Since that time the conference's non-league schedule has grown to include annually such national grid titans as Minnesota, Pitt, Santa Clara, Northwestern, Iowa, Indiana, Villanova, Baylor, Rice, Texas, Tulsa, New York U., and Marquette. Yet Big Six schools can boast of 47 victories in 70 starts against this sort of opposi-
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Quarterbacks Hold Last Meeting;
The final session of the Downtown Quarterback club was held at Hotel Eldridge Monday night to see movies of the Kansas - Colorado State game. Vic Hurt, assistant coach, gave fans a few slants of next year's prospects.
He said that at present things looked pretty good. The frosh are weathering their studies all right although he explained that "in order to keep up with the law of averages," several of them might "have difficulties". The Jayhawkers should get replacements in spots where needed. Hurt commended the work of two Lawrence boys during the past season. Bob Hagen, reserve back from Lawrence, may be shifted to end in spring practice, he indicated.
An outstanding freshman prospect, he said, is Warren Hodges, big tackle on the fresh squad, who like Hagen, formerly played for the Lions. "We are eager to have as many Lawrence boys on the squad as possible," the coach explained.
Hargiss To Denver For A.A.U. Confab
W. H. (Bill) Hargiss, varsity track coach and president of the Missouri Valley Amateur Athletic Union, left today for Denver to attend the national A.A.U. convention this week end. Hargiss is the official delegate from this district.
Moguls of the A.A.U. will make plans for the indoor and outdoor sports under their jurisdiction and pass upon all track and swimming records presented for recognition. Change of track and swimming distances from meters to yards is expected to be the main business of the convention.
Grad Attends Cleveland Meeting
Iva Belle Harper, University alumna and present teacher of journalism in the Liberty Memorial high school, attended the National Scholastic Press Association convention held in Cleveland last weekend.
She was recently elected president of the Kansas Interscholastic Press Association.
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Tall Yearlings Look Hot In Early Drills
One of the best freshman squads in years will hurl height at varsity experience Friday night when the two outfits collide in basketball civil war at 7:30 in Hoch auditorium.
If early season practice remains a true measuring-stick the frosh will trot out a starting lineup, which will average well over six feet. At forwards coach Gordon Gray will probably lead with 6" 6" Jack Ballard, Kansas City, Mo., Southwest high, school product and husky Paul Turner, former Shawnee Mission star. Turner at six feet will be the shortest of the opening five.
Hubbing Ballard and Turner will be 6' 3" Charlie Black, eagle-eyed scoring ace, also formerly of Southwest. Don "Red" Ettinger, 6' 2", all-around star from Independence, Mo., and 6' 2" George Phillips, Shawnee Mission, will be at guards.
Next no line for service will be guards Dick Keene, Lawrence and Bob Abrams, St. Louis, forward Max Kissell, Portis, and center Glenn St. Aubyn, Russell.
The 54 freshmen who checked out suits include Bob Abrams, St. Louis, Mo.; Dwayne Adams, Cullison; Tolbert Anthony, Leavenworth; Donald Atchison, Carbondale; Jack, Ballard, Kansas City, Mo.; Jack Beck, Dwight Lester Biberstein, Attica;
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