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Friday, March' 3T, 1944 THE ' NEBRASKAN a Aw n err- rn h n-- nn Speaking of Sports Who's Speaking . of sports? What sports are they speaking of? Why are they speaking of them ? II-m-m ! Read next Sunday's Nebraskan and you still won't know. Gopher Nine Starts Spring Diamond Drills MINNEAPOLIS, March 30. A familiar crack of bat meeting ball will resound throughout the Uni versity of Minnesota field house this week when Coach Dave Mac Millan starts spring baseball prac tice in preparation for the coming season. Coach MacMillan, starting his third year as head man of the var sity diamond forces, seems well pleased with the number and cali ber of candidates who have sig nified their intent!6ris of trying out for the team. According to the head coach lit tle is known about prospects of opposing schools this year. He is satisfied, however, that no one has any better material to work with than he will have for early season drills. A schedule of 14 games has defi nitely been arranged, with eight of the contests against conference foes. A few non-conference games Forty On Hand As 0,U. Spring Football Opens Coach Dewey "Snorter" Luster has begun his 1944 spring football are pending. The present schedule: April 18: St. Olaf, here. April 21-23: Inwit, there. April m-n: Iowa State,, there. Mny 2: St. Olaf, there. Mny ft-B: Wlncormln, here. May 12-13: lllltmln, here. Mny 19-20: Chicago, there. May 26-27: Iowa State, her. Daley, Smith, Other Stars To Play For Cornhuskers practice at the University of Okla homa with a squad of 40 men Gone from Oklahoma's Big Six conference championship team of last year are such players as Bob Brumlcy, Lee Kennon, Gale Ful Chum, each an all-conference choice. Bob Mayfield, all-Big Six cen ter, and Derald Lebow, all-Big Six back, return along with Homer Sparknian, Charles Hoard, Bobby Estop, Merle Dinkins, John Har ley, Bob Stover, Millard Cummings and Harold Latham. However many of these may be lost in mid season of 1944 tnru wovemDcr transfers. Several transfer players from other V-12 units and also from the fleet are reporting daily. The 1944 team will be built, from them, the returning navy players, re turning civilian players who are not in the current spring drills, and the new high school crop. Id In1 u f f 395 to $10 Second Fli Nebraska football stock soared today when university officials re ceived word that 3,000 naval train ees, including such grid stars as Bill Daley, Bruce Smith, and Frank Choneionskiovitch, will be stationed at UN next fall and will be eligible to compete on Husker teams. This unexpected move promises to give Nebraska one of the top teams in the country next fall. Bolstered with sparkling trainee talent, Husker footballers should be seven and eight deep at each position. Afporolll. Tlie athletic department was overjoyed at the announcement, and revealed that plans are being laid to hire four or five new as sistant coaches to help handle the hundreds of candidates who are expected to report. Lack of prac tice space promises to be one of the chief problems, officials de clare. "The tenth and eleventh teams will work out on the Lin coln high field," one high official stated. "We haven t found a prac tice site for the 12th and 13th teams as yet, however." Afporoill. Many of the top ranking col legiate stars of the country will be included in the naval candi dates who report for practice ses sions in September. In addition to Da.ey, Smith, and Choneionskio vitch, candidates expected to re port include Harry "Brains" Schmaltz, bruising fullback with seven years of experience at Sub normal State Teachers college, and William Hosenpeffer, known to fans the countrj over as the im mortal "Galloping Goon" of Creak-' ing Springs college. Names of the other players, many of whom are All-Americans or better, will be revealed soon. Officials of schools on the Husker schedule next fall ex pressed great concern over the ad dition of naval trainees to the Scarlet football squad. Several op ponents have already sent tele grams requesting that Nebraska agree not to use more than six All-Americans at any one time during a game. A special meeting of the athletic board has been called to rule on this request. mo U 41 LEI mm FEM FUN "You really missed something if you didn't see it," was the con sensus of opinion about the var sity basketball game last Wednes day. The Creams won with a score of 25, the Scarlets lagging about 10 points behind. The two teams, the Cream and the Scarlet, were composed of the best players from every team which entered the intramural basketball series. At the half, when the teams were running neck and neck with the to-be-defeated Scarlets holding a slim lead, the WAA officers were installed. Mickey McPher son, the newly elected president, was installed by Joyce Junge, the past president; Jean Whedon, newly elected vice president, by Ruth Ann Robinson; Fern Fiee man, secretary, by Jean Whedon; Les Glotfelty, treasurer, by Helen Johnson. The new chairmen installed are Helen Johnson as intramurals and sports board chairman; Mary Jo Gish, as concession manager; Midge Holtzscherer as publicity manager, and Betty Rhodes as expansion chairman. CLASSIFIED 10 a Una par day. Payable hi ad LOST Black wool sweater, sire 38, by