Friday, February 5, 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Huskcr Fray
OL.ATHK. Kas., Feb. 3. Bill
Menke, r.wigy center of the U. S.
Naval Training tSation's basket
ball team, was an All American
selection during his college days
at the University of Indiana. He
scored 15 points to lead his mates
in their first start against the Ne
braska Cornhu.skers.
A native of Huntingburg, Lid.,
Menke is a boatswain's mate sec
ond clas.5. lie is assigned to the
recruit training department.
Bill hold:) the all-time scoring
record at Indiana and was among
the Big Ten's first five scorers in
each ot' his three years of varsity
basketball.
Alternating at center and for
ward, he paced the Hoosiers to
one of their most successful cam
paigns in 1940. Altho beaten by
Purdue in the Western conference
ponn.int ch.'iw, the Hoosier drib
blers went on to win the national
collegiate championship at Kansas
City.
AH Big Ten.
In addition to All-America hon
ors, Menke was named on the All
Western conference team and won
the Balfour award as Indiana's
outstanding basketball performer.
Bill also won a track monogram
at the Bloomington school, where
he competed in the 220 and 440
yard dishes. He was graduated
last June with the degree of bach
elor of science and served as an
athletic instructor at Culver Mili
tary Academy before the Navy or
dered him to active duty.
PatiuJy night will find the
CornhuskTS on the firing line
here, hojiuirt to stop Menke.
Short Drills Scl
For OU Club
NORMAN, Okta., Feb. 1. Al
tho Oklahoma surrendered Its
third anil fourth football coaches
to the nation's physical fitness
j.rogrtm H.-t week, Head Mentor
Dvwcy "Snorter Luster, an artil
lery officer in the first World war,
hi.-, announced an abbreviated
fcrmg fo Uall practice starting
Feb. S. wither permitting.
OrvilL Tuttle, burly 30 year old
Sooner lio. conch in his first sea
son of co'i iung here last fall de
veloped four Oklahoma linesmen
named on tiie Associated Press's
all E;g Sit team, Kud Dub Umb,
Tackle Homer Simmons, Guard
Clare Morfoid and Center Jack
Marsee, ha accepted a first lieu
tenant's commission in the marine
physical unit and will report with
in a few diys.
Jack Bier, 23 year old assistant
freshman football coach who also
developed strong Sooner baseball
teams, has been commissioned an
ensign in the navy's physical fit
ness program and reports soon for
training at Chapel Hill, N. C.
Previously Oklahoma had lost
Lawrence "Jap ' Haskell, her ath
letic director and line coach, and
Frank Crider, freshmen football
mentor, to the navy's physical fit
ness set-up and Scout Guy War
ren to the marines. Haskell is a
lieutenant-commander stationed at
Jacksonville, Fix. Crider is a lieu
tenant (Jg.) assigned to Iowa
City, la.
Toirefs. Totcels,
Cry of Laundry
AMES, Iowa, Feb. 2. Think
you are busy? Then take a look
at the plight of the college laun
dry at Iowa State College.
In normal times the laundry
handks about 74,975 towels a year
for the Department of Physical
Education for men. At the pres
ent reading, with the year less
than half over, 69,000 towels have
been laundered for the depart
ment as a result of increased en
rollment In the new physical
hardening program.
Soph Stalwart
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Sophomore Armand Dixon, a
great floor-player with an accur
ate one handed shot, has won his
spurs as a regular guard on the
KU team which will invade Coli
seum maples a week from Satur
day. A'eirsv? ...
Service Call
Will Deplete
Cornhuskers
Cornhusker football coach, Clen
Presnell is slated to face a very
acute manpower shortage when he
calls NU footballers to spring
practice next month.
As figures released this week
revealed that 28 squadinen are
involved in the army, navy and
marine reserve program with onlv
the date of their actual induction
into service units unsettled.
His coaching staff already
stripped of line mentor, Elmer
Holm, who is headed for the
United States coast guard. Pres
nell will probablv be without the
service of Marvin Athey, Joe By-
icr, lion Cooper, Charley Duda,
Ki Kis.nhart, Jack Hazen, Roy
Long. Bob McNutt. Fred Metheny,
Gene Wilkins. Bob Gilla.spie. John
Peters, and Newman Buckley of
the reserve officers' training corps.
To the army reserve will go Forrie
lia i hni an and Melville Chaloupka
with Howie Debus. Dirk Therein.
son and Herb von Gootz in the
navy.
Classed in the same catecorv are
Joe Partington, Vic dark, Dwayne
uomeier, Alvin Grubuugh. Kd Ny
din. Hank Reichel and George
Wright in the marine reserve, plus
Harold Hungerford already in the
army air corps.
Did You
Know
That . . .
More than 400 members of the
University of Minnesota teaching
and research staff, counting all
ranks, are absent in some form of
military or war-related service.
Dr. Andrew Leon Harvis, assici
ate horticulturist at Ohio agricul
tural experiment station, has be
come assistant professor of pomol
ogy at Cornell State college of
agriculture.
Dr. Donald Bertrand Tresidder
will become president of Stanford
university Sept 1, succeeding Dr.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, who will con
tinue as chancellor.
More than 100 Texas schools
have organized victory physical
fitness clubs under a program
sponsored by the University of
Texas interscholastic league.
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Coach "Chili" Armstrongs
frosh cagers lost their leading
scorer. Jerry Curry, last week
when the Sioux City flipper left
for the army.
Curry had contributed 38 points
in the four frosh games to date.
Next high scorer is Dick Thomp
son with 27 tallies.
Latest frosh victory was over
Phi Gamma Delta, 44-37. Sehlesig
er and Dean tied for scoring hon
ors with eight points while Don
Andreson, former Benson all-city
ace, led the Fiji team with 14
points.
Box Score:
Freshmen
FG FT PF TP
Thompson, f
Schlesiger, f
Dean, f
Breetzhe, f
Tawson, f
KJratz, c
Hetrich, c
Hayes, g
Chris, g
Englebart, g
Hinde, g
Aukes, g
Connealy, g
McCluhan, g
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2
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1
2
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0
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0
4
0
1
0
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0
0
1
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0
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19 6 4 44
Phi Gamma Delta
FG FT PF TP
Andreson, f 7 0 3 14
Nutzman, f 2 0 0 4
Copple, f 2 0 0 4
Loerch, f 0 0 0 2
Sawyers, c 0 0 2 0
Raitt, g 0 0 0 0
Campbell, g 6 0 2 12
Jester, g 0 10 1
Long, g 0 10 1
16 3 7 37
Halftime Score: Freshman 21, Phi
Gamma Delta 19
Final Score: Frosh 44, Phi Gamma
DelU 37..
Thellowa farmer's doctor is cooi
ideraWy older than the medic of
the city dweller, according to fig
ures compiled by Kaethe Mangle
bert, Iowa State college economist
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Bruce Drake, Oklahoma's "kid
coach," never handled a basket
ball team until he took hold of
the Sooncrs four years ago.
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Washington State Opens
Police Class To Women
For the first time Washington
State College has opened its police
work classes to women. The head
of the college's Police Science Di
vision reports that women are
showing a lot of interest in the
work, and that he foresees no dif
ficulty in placing women gradu
ates in jobs.
University of Wisconsin is the
temporary home of 480 WAVES
receiving , radio code and com
munications training.
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