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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 7. For
mer University of Minnesota ath
letes have maintained a consist
ently high level of employment
alter graduation, and those who
say athletes aren't smart are
wrong, according to a survey re
cently completed.
Somewhat nettled by the many
subscribers to the theory that ath
letes aren't smart, Athletic Direc
tor Frank G. McCormick recently
had Clarence Osell, instructor in
orthopedics, make a study of the
file on former Gopher athletes that
is a part of Minnesota athletic
records. Mr. Osell's findings were
interesting.
For example, he found that 27.1
percent of all former Minnesota
"M" men are lawyers, doctors,
dentists, or engaged in related
professional fields. Thirteen per
cent are engaged in selling, 8.8
percent in engineering, 6.5 percent
in miscellaneous executive posi
tions, 6 percent are teachers and
5.6 percent are in physical edu
cation. Only five out of 722 for
mer Minnesota athletes queried
were engaged in professional ath
letics. An additional 180 were
employed in miscellaneous posi
tions ranging from accountants,
air mail pilots and bakers to six
men who list themselves as re
tired. All walks of life.
"That is not the whole story
either," Osell said. "The fact that
29 percent of our lettermen are
in professions that require special
ization beyond the regular four
year training period indicates
scholastic ability above the aver
age." Getting down to individual cases
it was found that a railroad presi
dent, a geologist, a prominent edu
cator, a bacteriologist, bank ex
aminer, congressman, research
chemist, several members ofvcol
lege and university faculties, an
editor, live brokers, two judges,
three ranchers and dozens of other
business and professional leaders
once competed for Minnesota in
intercollegiate athletics. Some, of
LAWRENCE. Kan., Feb. 7.
No one man team is the Univer
sity of Kansas basketball quintet,
which meets Nebraska at Law
rence next Monday night in an
important Big Six game.
While Howard Englcman, All
American foi-ward, is without
question the outstanding man on
the Jayhawk squad, it has been
team play, rather than the work
of any one man, that has been
responsible for the success Kan
sas has enjoyed this year.
The first five works together
beautifully as a unit and no one
knows better than Englcman how
much difference the play of his
teammates makes.
Expert "feeders."
A big factor in the efficiency of
the Jayhawk offense, which has
averaged 42'4 points a game in
conference play, is superb "feed
ing" by Bob Allen and T. T.
Hunter.
Allen masterminds the offense
from his "quarterback" position
and is credited with a number of
"assists" on goals in every game.
Hunter, who has come along fast
recently, has set Englcman up
for one goal after another with
his crafty passing. The lanky
"junior also can be counted on to
make his share of the points.
Altho Allen trails Engleman in
the scoring department, his aver
age in Big Six games stands at
a healthy 11.5 mark. This scoring
pace is hotter than that being set
by any eager on the five other
conference teams.
Jays lack height.
Doing the heavy work on de
fense are Allen and the two
guards, John Kline and Marvin
Sollenberger. The short Kansas
team has to figure on the other
team having the ball more than
half the time, which makes de
fense an extra important mat
ter. '
Allen usually draws the job of
guarding the opposition's short,
fast men, a tiring assignment.
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course, played in the early days
of football.
From the 1927 Gopher football
team, one of the Big Ten leaders
in that season, Quarterback Fred
Hovde, is now assistant to the
president of the University of
Rochester and is a former Rhodes
scholar. Halfback Malvin Nydahl
is now Dr. Malvin Nydahl, Center
George MacKinnon is now a mem
ber of the Minnesota legislature,
and Guard George Gibson is a
member of the geology faculty at
Ohio State university and re
cently returned from a commercial
assignment in Egypt.
Footbairerj busy.
The 1934 football Gophers, na
tional and Big Ten champions,
seem to be continuing their suc
cesses off the gridiron. Quarter
back Vernal (Babe) LeVoir turned
down a lucrative offer to play
professional football because he
said "Football was fun, but now I
have my education. It's time to
put it to work." Today, he is an
insurance executive with an out
standing record.
All American Halfback Francis
(Tug) Lund is now a young exec
utive in the Twin City branch of
one of the nation's big motor com
panies. End Bob Tenner and Half
back Bill Proffitt are physicians,
Center Dale Rennebohm and
Tackle Dick Smith are salesmen.
Fullback Sheldon Beise, Guard Bill
Bevan and Phil Bengtson are now
assistant coaches at Minnesota,
Stanford and Tulane respectively.
Here are the tabulated results
of Osell's census of Minnesota's
former athletes:
Profession. No.
I-awyers 77. related fields 1J
loctora (W
Dentists 37 195
Phvatral education and associ
ated fields 41
Teaching 44
Selling 94
KntflneeritiK and related fields A3
Government work 32
Miscellaneous exeru positions . 47
Agriculture 21
Professional athletics 5
Miscellaneous lSrt
722
.13.'.
100
No profession listed
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Giants on the other teams are
guarded by Kline, with Sollen
berger taking the next tallest
man.
This trio also does the brunt
of the work on defensive rebounds.
This is the weakest part of the
Kansas game this season, due to
the lack of height. On offense it
is Hunter who, usually alone,
gets whatever rebounds Kansas
gets off the back boards.
Wishnow-
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It is registered with W. E. Hill &
Sons of London which is the most
prominent rare musical instru
ment house in the world.
It is also registered with the
Wurlitzer company where he pur
chased it.
"I have always wanted an old
Italian instrument because of a
certain edge to the tone, a pure
ness of sound, and a carrying
quality that enables it to over
reach any accompaniment and fill
any size hall." Wishnow stated.
He added that there are not more
than a few hundred concert vio
lins maue by the Gagliano family
in use today.
The instrument has become val
uable because the tone has slowly
Improved thru long years of sea
soning of the wood as a violin. To
take old seasoned wood and make
a new violin does not bring the
same result. In large halls the
old violins' accoustical properties
are such that the carrying quali
ties far overshadow those of vio
lins of contemporary makers.
The violin which Wishnow
bought is finely made. Much hand
work has been done in the instru
ment to prevent splitting and
swelling by cutting grooves. A
scroll top distinctive with Gagli
ano instruments is on Wishnow's
violin. The instrument is quite flat
with only a gentle swell in the
middle.
He's a Nebraska
He's the symbol of Husker
he s "1C grand ol man ; he
Jack Meat served as trainer for Corn
husker athletic tennis for 84 years. During
that tint he irnlnrd a reputation as the
heat loved member of the university fam
ily. In the IS years since his death, his
name has heroine it Nebraska legend. This
Is a picture of "Jimmy" Rest as recon
structed from the DAILY files dKrinr. the
years he wm at his senllh 1SOO-1823.
Kd.
By Morton Margolin.
Jack Best had been on the pay
roll of the University of Nebraska
for 27 years when the United
States went to .war In 1917, and
his name was fast becoming a leg
end around the institution. An
active 70 at the time, he watched
"his boys" march off to war.
Amorg those who went were
many to whose wants he had min
istered during the years they went
through the mill of Husker ath
letics. There was Gen. John J.
Pershing, who went as comman
der, and a host of others, who
fought on the front and behind the
lines. To the old man the campus
must have seemed dead with so
many of "his boys" gone, but to
many who went he was an inspira
tion to fight through.
At times, his rheumatism would
cripple him terribly. It was then
that students, passing the armory
(later rechristened Grant Me
morial hall) could see him get out
of his cab clutching his little red
lunch pail, and hurry to his work
in the locker rooms in the base
ment of the building. (It was not
until the stadium was finished
after his death that Husker ath
letic teams abandoned the armory
locker rooms.)
And his "N" sweater. v
He was never seen without his
A coach and his disciple . . .
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Above you see a pair who are making the Nebraska basketball
team come back into its own again. Sid Held is the big fellow
who is getting ready to guard any enemy who may be driving down
the court toward the Husker basket Held is a junior letterman
guard and ranks second in the Scarlet scoring race. Coach A. J.
Lewandowski is the fellow in the upper right hand corner who's
coaching is paying dividends in the win column. "Lew" took over
when W. H. Browne left for National Guard duty. Since then, the
Huskers have been booming toward the top in the Big Six cage race.
Nebraska's next game will be Monday night at Lawrence, Kas.,
against the strong University of Kansas quintet.
Greek women voice opinions
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only cause dissention among the sororities. It has not worked
in some schools where it was tried.
June Morrison, Kappa Dclt, is in favor of the plan. "It
lias worked at IiouKler and other schools. It will even up the
groups and give sororities the upper hand at rush week."
Betty Jackson, Theta, thinks it is all right for the house,
but doesn't see how they can restrict those in the dom.
The smaller gTOups will go off the campus.
Helen Higgins, Sigma Kappa, president of Panhel, says
it is a good idea. It will distribute the number of girls.
Kay Donovan, Phi Mu, thinks it in a good idea, because
some houses have girls in the dorm. It will give small sororities
a ehance to build up their chapter. Jt will work if it Is
earried through.
Cay Deurmyer, Tri Dell, doesb't like it. The small sorori
ties can take care of themselves. It will take too many years
to work it out, anyway. Hut she added: "It doesn't make a
bit of difference what we think."
man
"N" sweater, presented to him by
the director of athletics on the
12th anniversary of his employ
ment in the university. There was
an "N" and the year he first came
to the university, 1888, sewed to
it. He wore the garment like a
uniform proud of what it stood
for.
Anyone could find him in the big
office at the east end of the sec
ond floor of the armory between
1 and 2 o'clock every afternoon.
He would say that it rested him to
come upstairs for a while, and his
eyes would twinkle. "I like to
watch the girls play and drill," he
told an Interviewer one spring.
"They'll be playing baseball soon
now. I like that too."
Sent to California.
"Jimmy" was the name students
had affectionately attached to
him, and the "Jimmy" stuck even
in the newspaper accounts of his
last days. The summer before he
died students and friends raised
money by a subscription campaign
to send the veteran trainer to
California-the first pleasure trip
he had taken in more than a
decade.
There was nothing grandiose
about him when he came back.
"Tell the boys I want to thank
them for the trip," was all he said
after that testimonial. He later
added, "I want my boys to fight
for the scarlet and cream nnd
never give in."
Saw Notre Dame beaten.
He saw "his boys" fight for the
intramurals;
s Jack Kest
scarlet and cream and never give
in later that year when the Corn
huskers defeated the fame Notre
Dame Four Horsemen in the first
of a series of engagements. But
old age was catching up with him,
and that was the last game he
ever saw "his boys" play.
A few months later, on his 77th
birthday, from his cot in the Lin
coln sanitarium he sent this mes
sage, "Give them my best wishes
for next year." Members of the
"N" club came out to the sani
tarium that night to celebrate
with the old man.
Loved "his boys."
Altho he was sure he couldn't
last much longer, the sole subject
of his conversation was "his
boys." He was glad the univer
sity had decided to bufld a stad
ium, for now his boys would have
"a good enough place for them to
play."
Fond of reminiscing, he would
tell stories of his early days at
Nebraska when he doubled as
night watchman and janitor. For
one year he was both coach and
trainer for the football team. To
thousands of Cornhuskers he was
the corporeal representation of the
Nebraska tradition of clean living
and good sportsmanship. This was
typified in December of 1922, two
thousand of "his toys" stood for
a moment in silent tribute to
"Jimmy Best" during the annual
Comhusker banquet.
(Story of stndrnl life durlnr. the years
Jack Best was active, and the story of
his death will appear In the Sunday issue
of the IMILY when this sketch will be
completed.)
UN visilor writes
article on Chilean
social security
Dr. Cattani, who visited the
university last fall during his tour
of American hospitals and univer
sity pharmacy departmerts. has
had an article printed in the
American Journal of Pharmaceu
tical Education.
While in Lincoln, the South
American doctor talked to univer
sity faculty members, and, at the
request of R. A. Lyman, dean of
pharmacy college, later wrote this
article explaining the social se
curity work of Chile. The article
Is entitled, "Pharmacy and Social
Security in Chile." Dr. Cattani is
a member of the Chile board of
compulsory security.
Prof. H. S. Saenz of the modern
language department translated
the article from the Spanish for
publication. A letter from Dr. Cat
tani on his voyage back to Chile
appears in the same issue of the
magazine.
Men's Glee Club
will sing in Union
ballroom Sunday
The school of fine arts will pre
sent the University Men's Glee
club and Brass Quartet in a pro
gram in the Union ballroom, Sun
day, Feb. 9, at S p n.
The program will include:
"Break Forth, O ReautoiHK' rtaavmly
IJihl" r)arh; "Awake, The Wa.-ry Ml
alfht Hour" iKeno NmiisaV be Modrle
sohals "Fsml Inrofattoa" IHtbrtlz-'
"Moraine Hrma" tHeaarhrl)) aad "Wna
derere Hoait" (SrhsimMsl r th tiles)
lub. Tkr Qaartrl will prrarnl Mmon's
"Itaartrt la lb rrm ! Mauta." Tat
arroaa' troop af aalrrtlaM by the OkM
('! 1st "O rMfa Mrfil" Mw. Xr
mssll "Ara Rest" (HomarhrlnM "I)
Mwnawr NIcM" (HrfcmattH "floods af
Hprtaf" Rachmaninoff) j an4 'Old Mafhr
Hubbard" (art la the manner ( Haa4eJ
bf Helr.
The brass quartet consists of
Robert Buddenberg. cornet; Rob
ert Krejcl, cornet: Edward Edison,
French horn; and Preston Hays,
baritone.
Members of the Glee club this
semester are:
Rlnr Androsrn, John A ronton. Alfred
Blinds, Don But. Dal Burlsiih. Mark
Carrahsr, William Chllvers. Hobart Dewey.
Edwin Etxllng, and Earl Kloe; William
Green, Cleve Genzlinger, Melvin Herms
msysr. Clarence Johnson. Richard Kuupal,
Chester McPherron. Olenn Nelson, Aubrey
Peitlt. Lester Reed, Ed Wood row Rubin
son, Erie Swedberg, and Sam Worsham.
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