Sunday, September 24, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
KU Squad
Opens Year
Against TCU
LAWRENCE, Kans., Sept. 20,
1944 This weekend the Univers
ity of Kansas football team
opened a four game stand on con
eecutive weekends on foreign
fields. The Jayhawkers will meet
four tough foes before perform
ing for a home crowd.
Starting Saturday night Coach
Henry Shenk's youthful aggrega
tion tangled in Ruppert Stadium,
Kansas City, Mo., with the husky
Horned Frogs from T. C. U. of
Fort Worth, Tex. The two teams
met two years ago and the Texans
walked away on a 41 to 6 score.
Denver U. is the next foe for
the Crimson and Blue machine.
This game will be played on Fri
day night, Sept. 29 at Denver,
Colo. Last year the Coloradans
had eaesy pickings with the Jay
hawkers. Coach Shenk plans to
take a squad of about 30 on the
trip.
The next non-conference foe of
the Kansans will be the bowl-
minded "Golden Hurricane" of
Tulsa university in the Oklahoma
oil capital, Saturday night, Oct. 7
These two schools played back
in 1933 and 1934 and the Tulsans
won both by scores of 7 to . The
Jayhawkers can hardly hope to
bold the strong Tulsans in check
The Crimson and Blue machine
will open the Big Six season Sat
urday afternoon Oct. 14 playing
Iowa State at Ames. Last year
the Cyclones won, 13 to 6. The
Jayhawkers last defeated the
Iowans back in 1941 by a score
of 13 to 0. The Cyclones are re
ported to have a tough aggrega
tion again this season.
The first game of the season
for the Mt. Oread crew in Me
morial Starlium will be with the
Nebraska Cornhuskers on Satur
day, Oct. 21. This will be Home
coming for the Jayhawker alumni.
Kansas has not defeated Nebraska
since 1916. Last year the Scarlet
and Cream crew won, 7 to 6.
After the Nebraska game the
Jayhawkers move up the Kaw
to meet the Kansas State crew.
Last year Kansas won 25 to 2.
The last time the Aggies upset
the Jayhawkers was in 194t by a
count of 20 to 0.
The Oklahoma Sooners close
the home grid season for the
Kansans in Memorial Stadium
Saturday, Nov. 18. The Jayhawk
ers wind up the season battling
the Missouri Tigers in Ruppert
Stadium, Kansas City, Mo. Nov.
23. Kansas sprang a surprise on
the Tigers last year, winning 7
to 6.
The Jayhawk squad this week
is busy preparing for the all-important
contest with the Texas
Christian eleven in Kansas City,
Mo. Coach Shenk gave his club
! new offensive formations and
spent much time working on
blocking and tackling. The Kan
sas squad, about 30 strong, will
leave here Saturday for Kansas
City, Mo., and will spend the
night in the city following Hie
game.
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Attention,
Debuteens!
Every girl can be a
Pin-Up Cirl here.
NEBRASKA BEAUTE
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'44 Sooners Present Promising
Squad, Face Tough Schedule
NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 23. A
formidable schedule, a promising
wartime squad. That's the story
of Oklahoma's 1944 football pros
pects. Coach Dewey "Snorter" Lus
ter's defending Big Six cham
pions play the best clubs in two
major conferences this autumn.
Texas, Texas Aggies and Texas
Christian, coached by Dana Bible,
Homer Norton and I -co "Dutch"
Meyer, will be encountered from
the Southwest conference. Okla
homa also meets all the Big Six
teams, each with a rejuvenated
outfit, and plays a late November
clash with Coach Jim Looka-
baugh's Oklahoma Aggies, who
always shoot their best loads at
the Sooners.
The opener here Sept. 30 with
the Norman naval air station
Zoomers could be the hardest
game of all. The Zoomers have
a stout tailback-fullback threat
in Len Eshmont and Emil Sitko.
Both made the Ail-American
service team last year. Eshmont
at Del Monte, Eitko at Great
Lakes. Previously Eshmont played
at rordham, Sitko at Notre Dame.
Lighter and speedier than last
year, the Sooners this fall will
blend their single wingback for
mation with a single wingback T.
The idea is to flank stronger and
heavier foes, instead of trying
to overpower them frontally.
And with Dcrald Lebow, last
year's all-Big Six tailback, and
Tommy Meason, Ardmore fresh
man, throwing, the Sooners may
try to cut enemy communications
by dropping airborn armies. Last
year Oklahoma had throwers and
receivers galore but passed only
620 net yards, as against 1.617
net yards gained running. The
boys liked to run so well that the
quarterbacks rarely called a pass.
The Sooner staff of Luster, Dale
Arbuckle and Bruce Drake is
readying two back fields for. the
1944 wars. The No. 1 combina
tion at present includes three
starters from last year: Lebow,
the 170 pound tailback, Charlie
Heard, the 165 pound wingback
and Homer Sparkman, the 148
pound blocking back. Billy!
Wright, a 170 pound fullback
from Lubbock, Texas high school.
is playing departed Bob Brum-
lcy s spot. It s an all-navy quar
tet.
The No. 1 outfit is nearly all
civilian. Meason, the 17 year old
Ardmore boy, is at tailback and
Basil Sharp, 190 pound Pawnee
boy, at fullback. Both were high
school players last year, but good
ones. Archie Bradley, sub end
of the 1942 team, is at wingback.
The blocking back is 18 year old
Don Weir, a sandy-haired naval
COLLEGE DAYS
Are Here Again
They look smooth the
war is still going on ... so
last year's wardrobe has to
stretch farther. We have
been giving fine campus
service for years. Come in
soon
ABLE
CLEANERS
& LAUNDRY
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played at Kerrville, Tex., high
school. He is the son of Hienie
Weir, center and captain of Dana
Bible's great Texas Aggie outfit
of 1921 that licked "Bo" McMillin
and the Centre college Praying
Colonels at Dallas in a post-season
upset, 22 to 10.
Oklahoma's problem is develop
ment of reserve linesmen. The
Sooner backs clearly overshadow
ths forwards. Gone from last
year's short-handed team are two
all-Big Six linesmen, Tackle Lee
Kennon and Guard Gale Ful
ghum, not to mention Guard Don
Link, also a starter, and such let-V-12
lad. whose last football was
termen as Omer Buigert, Lewis
Dunn, Jim Desmond and, Joe
Breeden.
Don' Tillman, fighting 165
pound guard who played 60 min
utes in Oklahoma's surprising
20-13 trimming of Missouri for
the conference title, hasn't report
ed yet because of an operation on
his eye. Replacements for all
those departed gladiators arei
weak.
Luster's 1944 outfit must also
contend against precedent. No
Oklahoma team winning a cham
pionship ever repeated the fol
lowing year. Tom Stidham's Soon
ers of 1938 had even better pros-
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With the season opener against
the Minnesota Gophers now less
than two weeks away, another
upset seems to be in store for the
Husker squad. Duane Berkey, 210
pound center, is slated for army
service in the near future. Berkey
returned to his home early this
week and received his 1-A classi
fication sometime Tuesday. The
loss of Rcrkey would weaken the
center of the line considerably mid
perhaps cause considerable jug
gling in the starting lineup.
Junior Collopy, top defensive
back and all-slate star of last
year, is being worked in the
pects in 1939 but finished third.
Bennie Owen's undefeated Okla
homa teams of 1911, 1915, 1918
and 1920 lost a total of 15 games
in 1912, 1916, 1919 and 1921.
Everybody points for a defending
champion.
The 1944 schedule:
Sept. 30 Norman NAS Zoom
ers at Norman.
Oct. 7 Texas Aggies at Ok
lahoma City.
Oct. 14 Texas at Dallas.
Oct. 21 Kansas State at Nor
man. Oct. 28 Texas Christian at
Oklahoma City.
Nov. 4 Iowa State at Ames.
Nov. 11 Missouri at Norman.
Nov. 18 Kansas at Lawrence.
Nov. 25 Oklahoma Aggies at
center position in the event that
Berkey should not return at all.
Collopy had been alternating with
Buzz llollins at fallback but his
outstanding" defensive record is
enough prof that he will be in
valuable intbe center's lineback
ing position.
The possible drafting of Berkey
by the At my would raise to throe
the total of fust-string guilders
lost since the start of the season.
The other men loit are Dob
Schleiger, piomising Oiniilia North
sophomore, lost to the armed
forces, and Bert Gissli-r, veteran
wingman, Vvho left leienlly to
help his father on the farm.
Oklahoma City.
Dec. 2 Nebraska at Oklahoma
City.
Night games.
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during the regin oi Louis XIV of
France.
Iceland spar, 'a transparent ele
ment which has the property of
polarizing light, is mined in New
Mexico.
Colorado has 16 national for
ests, five containing more than
a million, acres each.
Among the AiaVts, sacred trees
are believed to be haunted by
angels or jinns.
Most of the American buds
known as hawks do not kill poul
try or small birds.
