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.Wednesday, March 28, 1945 THE NEBRASKAN Sooners Resume Football Practice I i i I r. na sn i a UijUUtLxiiU UU CUM UUUJUMU Nine Gopher Lettermen Report As Brilliant Prospects Appear MINNEAPOLIS. With a strong baseball squad that Includes nine lettermen and a sensational break of early warm weather that has permitted the team to get outdoors three weeks earlier than usual, Minnesota is looking forward hopefully to the conference base ball season. Coach Dave MacMillan isn't saying much, but his declaration that "no one is sure of his posi tion" is taken ns evidence the Go phers are power laden. If early-season indications are borne out, this year's nine may be the best in Minnesota's history. The pitching staff heart of any baseball team promises to be the finest In Gopher athletic annals. Gene Kelly whose fireball created such a sensation In his freshman year has apparently recovered from an arm injury which kept bim off the mound last season. Matthew "Mutsy" Nolan, leading left-hander in the conference last spring, is back. Two right-handed newcomers Bob Shumack and Jack Verby are both heralded as outstanding prospects. Shumack is a big, rugged athlete with a strong arm and blazing speed. He entered the navy after graduating from Min neapolis Central high, but re ceived a medical discharge during the winter, and enrolled at Minne sota. Verby made a brilliant rec ord at Carleton college before coming to Minnesota in the navy's V-12 program work behind the plate in workouts haa brought forth the unanimous praise of several big league base ball players who have been lim bering up with the Gophers. The rugged Faribault athlete who came to Minnesota via vari bault high school and Shattuck military academy with 14 prep letters to his credit began playing for Faribault in the Southern Minny league at 15. He was an outfielder for nearly two seasons. One day, in the absence of the team's regular catcher, Hockey volunteered to try backstopplng. He liked the position so well he stayed right there. As a freshman at Minnesota In 1943 Mealey shared catching duties with Seniors Stu Olson and Casey Dowling. He entered the marine corps in July. After re ceiving his medical discharge last fall, he returned to school in time to bolster the football squad at fullback. Coach Bernle Blerman's plans for next fall Include exten sive help from Mealey at fullback. While he has definitely "ar rived" as a baseball and football star, Hockey's "secret ambition" is to make the Minnesota basket ball squad. He played three years of basketball in high school. The ambitious, earnest Fari bault youth has a way of succeed ing at anything: he tries. If a stocky, powerfully-built young man sporting a bristly crew hair do shows up in a, Gopher basket ball uniform next winter, it will Hudson "Hockey" Mealey 's I probably be Mealey. Intramural Director Gordon Ehlers cancelled plans for the scheduled swim meet, formerly planned for April 4, yesterday. Ehlers reported the meet lacked a sufficient number of entries and therefore it would be impossible to stage the event. Despite the fact that the swim ming event was cancelled, plans for the baseball and softball tour nament went ahead at fine pace. Ehlers reported eight entries for the softball tournament already have been given to him and more are being expected before the deadline, Friday, March 30. Definite information regarding baseball and the division of teams will be given soon. If favorable weather continues to hold the soft ball and baseball competition will begin the first week of April. Softball teams that have already reported to Ehler that they wish to come in the tourney are Sigrma Chi, Fhl Gamma Delta, Sigma Nu, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Fl, J WAV Wfi jwacai v si. - a first complete coaching staff in Ithre years Is handling Oklahoma's QnAnon In f ha currant nrvrltltf fftf ball drills. With 15 letter men, including the four all-Big Six stars Dei aid Lebow, W. G. "Dub" Wooten, Merle Dlnkins and Bob May field, gone from Oklahoma's Big Six championship clubs of 1943 and 1944, Coach Dewey "Snorter" Luster secured two new coaches to help him mould a team that it is hoped will make a respectable showing next fall. Arizona Coach. Harry Phillips, the University of Arizona's line coach of 1942, is one of them. Wooten, Okla homa's honor co-captain and all- Big Six end of the last two years, is the other. Phillips will handle the Oklahoma line, Wooten the Sooner ends. Phillips is being borrowed lend lease from Arizona which gave him leave of absence. Capt. Or- ville Tuttle, now a marine, has the job anytime he can come back to it. Similarly, Phillips is bound to Arizona whenever Coach Miles Castwell calls for him. Only nine lettermen reported for Oklahoma's first day of spring practice. They were backs Basil Sharp, Max Culver, Don Weir and Louis Dollarhide, and forwards Albert Stover, Thurman Tigart, Bill Hallett, Don Tillman and Bob Gambrell. Other players among the 30 re porting were two discharged marines, Jim Bruno and Jim Hill; two transfers, Jim Parmer of Texas Aggies end Bob Brindley of Tulsa University, and four promising highschoolers, Lester "Bear" Jensen, Jim Cheadle, Bob Vaughan and Jim Huffman. Next summer, Luster hopes to add a score of fine prospects from Oklahoma's inter-scholastic crop and also a few laws from the new navy contingent coming in. - Phillips is Oklahoma's 12th line coach. The others were Cleve Thompson 1911, Ed Meachem 1914-18, Grover Jacobsen 1920, James "Bon" Tolbert 1921-23, Leith Wallace 1925-27, Luster 1929-31, John "Bo" Rowland 1932- 34, Tom Stidham 1935-36, Law rence "Jap" Haskell 1937-38-39-41 Stan Williamson 1940 and Orvule Tuttle 1942. (X)lik Dick Dilsavcr With Ed Weir's trackmen warming up for the coming events on the track calendar being the only activity on the campus sports schedule, Nebraska's sports front seems to be having the lapse be fore the battle at present. At least we hope so. If somebody doesn't get busy pretty soon to do something at least slightly ath letically inclined, this page is go ing to appear in a blaze of clear white the next time the paper comes out. But in the outer sports world, New York basketball fans who always get the cream of the crop were to get another of their cus tomary royal treats when Hank Ida's Oklahoma tangled with the University of New York last night for the N.C.A.A. champion ship. The Aggies got to the finals by trouncing Arkansas in the western division finals at Kansas City. New York's standing was gained by taking Ohio State out of the running. Monday night, DePaul, heuded by gigantic and maneuverable George Mikan who dumped in 34 points, captured the National In vitation basketball tournament crown dropping a Bowling Green delegation, 71-54. Then come Thursday night, those darned New Yorkers get still a bigger treat when the two tourney champs collide in a champion of champions mixer. No matter who won the game be tween New York and the Aggies last night, we'll string alonjj the Blue Demons from Chicago when tomorrow's mutch . rolls around. George Mikan showed just how big a threat he can be when he poured In an amazing 53 points against Rhode Island state a week ago. That's power enough to de termine our mind. 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