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Friday. April 6, 1945 THE NEBRASKAN and the coaching staff is looking produce assistance to the one re turning letterman at each of the (See MINNESOTA, page 4) hopefully to incoming V-12 units and the fall freshman class to Cornhuskcrs Begin Spring Grid Session Plans for informal spring foot ball practice at the University of Nebraska were announced today by A. J. Lewandowski, acting athletic director. The sessions will pen on Monday, April 9, and run thru May 5. Lewandowski, who will be in charge of the daily sessions, said emphasis will be upon the fun damentals of football including passing and kicking along with general conditioning. Candidates for Cornhusker football reporting each day from 4 until 6 p. m., five nights a week, will dress in sweat suits. About 40 candidates for the 1945 Husker team are expected to turn out for the informal prac tice sessions. Lewandowski said that men who may not be in school next fall will be welcome to attend the daily workouts. Squad Minnesota Gophers9 Backfield Provides Of feasive Fireworks Sooner Cinder Reveals Two Surprises NORMAN, Okla., April 5. Two Sooner Pinocchios who never ran or jumped competitively before this season are members of the 16-man University of Oklahoma track squad that left here Friday for the Texas Relays Saturday at Austin, Tex. They are Homer Sparkman of Andarko, Okla., blocking back the last two years on Oklahoma s Big Six conference championship foot ball team, and Carlos McCullough f Fayette, Mo., an intramural swimmer-boxer who played last fall on Oklahoma's all-victorious Junior Varsity football team. Navy R.O.T.C. Students. Like Geppetto, the wood-carver who fashioned a puppet that be came a real flesh and blood char acter in the story Walt D:sney made famous a while back, John Jacobs, veteran Sooner track coach, has made formidable war time trackmen out of Sparkman and McCullough, neither of whom ever wore a track suit until this year. Although most football flayers wouldn't run half a mile even for a Camel, Sparkman was clocked in 2:00.5 while losing the 880 to Bob Umstadt, Texas' Southwest conference champion, in the Southwest Exposition meet three weeks ago at Fort Worth, Tex. Jumps 23 Feet McCullough broad-jumped 23 feet in last week's Skyjacket In vitation meet here, getting off one lap of 23 feet 6 inches ihat was foul by only the length of one steel spike. Both were In school here last winter and spring but did not come out for track. Sparkman was out for spring football. Mc Cullough, who played basketball and softball at Fayette, Mo., high school, didnt know he had any track talent until Clarence Vick hind, Sooner distance runner, talked him into coming out. Mc Cullough broad-jumped 18 feet his (See SOONE SQUAD, pate 4) MINNEAPOLIS. Tho an ac curate estimate of the University of Minnesota's football strength will be impossible until full-scale fall practice starts Sept. 3, the array of veteran backfield talent in school at present, if intact on that date, will provide Bernie Bierman's Gophers the physical means for some real offensive fireworks. Of the lettermen halfbacks from last year's squad who are enrolled for spring quarter, John Lundquist, Bob Kasper, Bud Gullickson, and Phil McManus are engaging daily in spring football workouts; Wayne (Red) Williams who set an all-time Minnesota ground gaining record last fall, and Matthew (Musty) Nolan are on the Gopher base ball squad; and Tom Gates who played both halfback and full back has yet to report. Ragged Sophomore. Merlin Kispert, the rangy, rugged V-12 sophomore who car ried most of the quarterback load last fall, is running at this post in spring football, uaie itappana who spelled him off is expected out soon. Vic Kulbitski, fullback power house whose mid-season return last fall after his medical dis charge from the marine corps sparked a stretch drive toy the Gophers, is in school and eligible for further competition. His un- derstudv. Hockey Mealey, is number -one catcher for the base ball team, but is counted on for extensive duty in the fall. Bob Jensen and John Kutscheid who won letters last fall at guard are participating in spring drills. Davy Day, another ''M" winner at guard, is ' expected out. Bob Graizitrer. a three-time letter winner at guard who is eligible for another season of competition under war-time rules, is playing baseball. Replenish Line. It is in the center, tackle, and end positions that Line Coach Dr. George Hauser will have to do extensive replenishing. 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