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""Tuesday, March "16, 1943 DAILY NEBR ASK AN rui 00 Husker Grid Plans Falter Before Wind Severe winds hampered the opening of Cornhusker spring football Monday, forcing the grid sters to function on the indoor track. Warm-up exercises were mostly the order of the afternoon, tho physical check-ups and weigh ing required some time. "We'll line up some teams Tues day," said Mentor Glen Presnell. 'Hope we can get some kind of a weather break." Some 40 gridsters reported Mon day and 20 more are expected to day. Presnell's list: Knds: M Orubauith. Rising City: Tom Hayes. Hastings; Bert GisMer. Osceola; Ro1nev Smith. Sotth Sioux City; John Sfhleslcer, Ytitnn; Jack Hien. Omaha; Kxl Nvilen. Lincoln; Dean Celwlck. Lin coln: Wilbur CraiK, York; Bob Gllla.ipie. Lincoln; Dale Proctor. Bruno. Tackles: Bob McNutt, Colby. Kaa.; Narvin Gnihauch, Rising City; Dwayne Pomeier. Geneva; Gordon Lucht. Grand Island; Neil Fonts. Seward; Leo Reck. r., Lincoln; Joe Byler. Alma; Gene Sim. Ne braska City; Cnarlea Wright. North Platte: Bob Test, Fremont ; Myron Kronkright, Litchfield; I vie Droge. DuBols. Guards: Wayne Stranathan, Glenwood. la.; Gene Wllkina. Omaha; Emmanuel Klein. Ogallala; Mario Moore. Lincoln; Bobbie A'hbnrn, Tllden; William Skog. Omaha: Charlea Duda. South Sioux City; Herb vonGoeti. North Platte; Frank Hai ard. Sioux City.. Ia.; Wayne Croissant, Osceola: Merle Ehers, Seward; George Howard. Lincoln. Centers: Joe Partington. Lincoln; For rest Bachman, Lincoln: Newman Buckley. Lincoln; Carroll Btckford, Corning, la.; Carter Kokjcr, Sidney; Kenneth Green wood. Lincoln. Quarterbacks. Fred Metheny, Lincoln; Bobby Cooper. Omaha; Dan Brestel, Her ahey; Ralph Beckwlth, Albion; Lynn Sum mers, Milford. Halfbacks: Marvin Athey, Wauneta: Henry Relchel, Lincoln: Neal McKee. At kinson; Howard Foy, Omaha; Kent Kratt. Sidney: Roy Long, Blair; Richard Thomp son. Lincoln; Howard DeBui. Lincoln: Russell F.lsenhart. Culbertson; Gordon Flagg. Ord; Corwln Walden. David City. Fullbacks: Ktrwtn Elsenbart. Culbertson: Randal! Salisbury. F.lwood; George Wright. Pcottsbluff : Jo Kessler, Wayne; Gilbert Poss, Madrid. Daily Nebraskan Opens Campaign For Football Match Between Rivals Only Solution! Doctor Allen Says Pro Cage Game 'Ready' . . . Skill Desired LAWRENCE, March 15. What ever may be the far-reaching effect of the current world war, one of the things to come out of it which will have great interest for the American populace par ticularly that part of it with an interest in sports will be the establishment on a sound footing of professional basketball. That is the contention of Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, cele brated 'University of Kansas cage mentor, currently ranked as the nation's No. 1 basketball coach. Dr. Allen bases his thesis on a study of American history. Pro fessional baseball, he points out, was a direct outgrowth of the Civil War. Professional football developed out of World war I. In both instances, the doctor pointed out. it took approximately 20 yeaia to establish the sport on a firm financial footing command ing attention of the public. Now baseball ia regarded by every American as the great American pastime, and profes sional football last year, in spite of the current war stringencies, turned out to be one of the great est financial sports successes. Pro Basketball. The pathway has already been cleared for the popular acceptance of professional basketball on a big time settle. For instance, ptac tically every- city of appreciate site in the nation already has a municipal auditorium, or field house, seating from 4,000 to 18,000 people, which provides a perfect setting for big time basketball. "Phog" lists a number of im portant reasons why he ia sure of his contention. After every war, there comes a cyclical depression, which will see a great many highly skilled athletes mustered ut of the service and war indus try without employment Professional athletics offers a bonanza for these young men. Professional basketball will be one of the solutions, with the set ting already established with the treat arenas already in operation. Sure Thing! BY GENE SHERMAN. Some person said that ping pong is a sissy game. We agreed with this self-styled wit until we tried our hand at the miniature game of tennis, played on a six foot long table with each performer using a paddle instead of a racquet. After looking like anything ex cept an exponent of the sissy's game, we happened to venture down to the coliseum last year to witness a championship l-M ping pong match. When the teams took to the floor (or we should say table), we noticed that there was sort of a professional air about the partici pants that was lacking when we used to lob the ball around at the Union. Each player was wearing tenni9 shoes and carefully carry ing his paddle like Don Budge with his famous tennis racquet. We were very much surprised to see the caliber of ping pong that was exhibited by these ama teur I-M teams. This evening, the 1943 l-M round robin ping pong tourney gets under way at the coliseum For the first time in a long while the l-M ping pong race will not be dominated by one or two out standing clubs. Graduation plus the fortunes of the ERC have left the seeded quintets with only the caliber of material that will rep resent the average team. Al- tho the olay might not be too fast this year, an even race plus a few of last year's "greats should perk up the interest in the "sissv's" snort which has been lacking for the last few seasons Last year's I-M ping pong tour ney found the fast ZBT paddlers nipping the DU netmen for the title. Zeta Beta Tau's chances for repeating with the 1943 crown are very dismal with the loss of Buddy Goldstien, Theo Cohen and Norm Rips from last year s cnam pionship squad, plus the recent ERC call to newcomer Al White, one of the university's most out standing players. Sooner Grid Drills Open Sixth Week . . .Lifrtenin' Hunkers? j NORMAN, Okl., March 15. Oklahoma began its sixth week of serine football practice here Mon day by playing its fifth practice game. Coach Dewey "Snorter' Luster has 35 men reporting. Letter backs on the job include Eddie Davis, Don Fauble. Myrle Greathoust and Boone Baker, supplemented by Sophomores Dave Wallace, Max Culver, Derald Lebow, Ken Parker, Claude Arnold and Gene Merrell. Letter forwards in uniform Buddy Goodall. Jim Tyree, Don McDonald. Bill Morris, Stanley Green. Chris Lambert, Albert Downs, Lee Kennon, Oscar Rag land, and Sophomores Merle Dink ins, Thurman Tigart. Joe Bailey, Joe Kerbel, Clyde Chancellor. L. E. Weber. F. D. Beavers, Omer Burgett, and Jim Shoffner. Typhoons to Play Baseball Schedule AMES, Ia., March 15. Baseball will be the next varsity sport on the calendar of the Iowa State college naval training school. The Typhoons, under the direc tion of Chief Boatswain's Mate. P. J. Christman, will open their schedule about May 1. The sched ule Is being negotiated by Ensign Charles Jones, athletic officer. A letter was dispatched to Co lumbia, Mo., Monday, recommend ing a spring football match be tween Nebraska and Missouri. Such a match offers the only solution to the University of Nebraska spring gridiron situa tion. Without any other goal to achieve, the Cornhusker football "reservists" would fire into spring drills -with renewed vigor if they realized an actual game was in the offing. Below, we offer a duplicate of the letter that was sent to the Tiger lair. SPORTS EDITOR MU DAILY COLUMBIA, MO. DEAR SPORTS EDITOR: I'm certain that you recognize the fact that there will be no fel lows available for football next fall and that consequently there will be no college football. And yet spring football is being held at colleges over the nation, so why not give these spring football ers something to work for, give our papers some news, and pro mote something for a war cause? In short, we would like to ar range a Missouri-Nebraska foot ball game to cap the spring condi tioning program. Transportation is the only obstacle, it seems, to such a contest. Considering that proceeds of the game, sans ex penses, would be given to a war fund, I can see no reason why the match could not be arranged. Both teams would meet on an equal basis. Missouri and Nebras ka gridsters would both have a month of conditioning behind and would be in shape for the battle Please speak to Don Faurot about this and answer immediate ly. We're pretty sure that these coaches want to keep the candi dates "plugging" out there and they knew they had something to work for, they would all report daily. Any way you look at it, the match offers possibilities. It is the only solution to the spring football problem. Sincerely yours, NORRIS ANDERSON, SPORTS EDITOR DAILY NEBRASKAN LINCOLN, NEBR. Speedy Marv Jacobs to Run John Jacobs, Oklahoma's 48-year-old track and field coach and Clyde Littlefield, director of the Texas relay, will clash in a 20-yard hurdle race in a big event to be run at the Aus tin, Tex., carnival April 3. Jacob and Littlefield were rivals some 20 years ago. - Li xJ Courtesy Journal. One of the fastest veteran backs available, Marv Athey is primed to exhibit his off tackle slashes and end sweeps in the first drill Tuesday. Regents Delay Coach Problem "We are trying to work out a satisfactory solution to our prob lems and are making progress." So stated a official of the Uni versity of Nebraska athletic board and regents which met last week to discuss the school's wartime coaching situation. Big problem seemed to center around the uncertain wartime status of Head Coach Glen Pres nell currently enrolled with the naval reserve. Three Tulane Athletes Lose Lives in War NEW ORLEANS, La. (ACP). Tulane officials have noted a curi ous parallelism in the university's war record. To date three univer sity athletes have given their lives in service of their country. Each was a member of the army air corps. Each died as a result of a plane mishap. Each had been a member of the Tulane boxing team two years and won his letter in that sport. Wallace Captures Table Tennis Meet AMES, Ia., March 15. Jack Wallace of Des Moines is the all campus champion in Iowa State's intramural table tennis tourna ment. Wallace, a member of Del ta Tau Delta, defeated Bruce Henderson, Farm House represent ative from Coin. By Norria Anderson ft ' !;!; 5 w' ' l !;!; (Sports Editor) ' , V .,, & " ; j::,,,, 7 . . A ; Drake Shows Bright Record NORMAN, Okla., March 15 Oklahoma basketball teams coached by Bruce Drake, Sooner court great of 1927-29, have won 35 and lost 15 Big Six conference games for a percentage of .700 during Drake's five year coaching stint here. I Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen's Kansas Jayhawkers have been the tough-yPar 0f eligibility? est club for uraxe to or&i, inr records show, each having de feated the other five times in regularly-scheduled Big Six con ference play altho Dr. Allen's Jay hawks also nipped the Soonera in a Big Six playoff game at Wichita, Kas. in 1940. Conversely, Drake's Sooner teams have given Kansas more difficulty than any other Jay hawk foe. Of the ten Big Six games the Jayhawks have lost the past five years, Oklahoma was the conquering team in five of the ten. In other wsrds, one-half of all the conference defeats suffered by Kansas during that period were dropped to Oklahoma. Shall Football Die? "llold-that-line! Hold-that-line !'' Paean of t he pigskin is currently rucking spring sports circles. Kvery i'lal field ami for-sale-sign plastered lot from htat-shiminering (!;ilvcston to frosty-hewed Minneapolis is resounding to the hollow thump of punts and 'the solid smack of body blocks. Like every other university, Nebraska officially opened spring grid conditioning Monday when Mentor Glen Presnell summoned candidates together with a whistle toot. Like every other university, Cornhusker grid candidates reported with no hope of being available for autumn competition. Elsewhere on this sheet is a letter, sent from Daily Nebras kan officials Monday, which offers a real solution to the t'ni versity of Nebraska spring football enigma. There are several points which should drive tandem with the letter to Missouri: (1) (!len Presnell, outside admitting the idea "a good one," had no connection with the promotion. (2) Problem arises: If the game is played in our stadium, how will the outstate audience get here? That can be an swered by a glance at the outstaters here for the recent state cage tourney. Nebraska is not yet as large as Texas and a bit of coupon-saving can get the motorist practically any place over the state. We also have busses and railroads. (.1) Another question emerges: Will the gridmen lose a Kig Six approval can be obtained for the game and the eligibility could thereby be saved. A four-year tradition was broken Monday by the mid west Associated Press excluded Cornhusker performers from the 1942-43 All-Big Six basketball five. Bob Heinzelman. John Thompson and Max Ynunsr were given honorable mention bcrth. Scene in the Cornhusker dressing room Monday: Perform ers rushing hither and yon, checking equipment and taking phy sical tests. Chili Armstrong stopping to comment on the cold wave Presnell: "Not a very good day to start practice. But we'll send the kids thru some exercises indoors and possibly line up a team or two. Hope we can get a better break on the weather tomorrow." '