University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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To the Youngsters - At first things are pretty much in a whirl for the youngster that ' s new. But after a while, with a little help from here and there, he finds his way around and gets in the K.U. whirl himself. . . . Freshmen: May you enjoy these next 20 pages, while memories are still fresh. We dedicate them to you. But we ' re thinking, too, of the seniors who may fondly recall some freshman days of their own.

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THE JAYHAWKER Chicago, and VtV t Virginia, among other , in atlilition to ty- ing T u 1 a n and Southern Methodist Nebraska ' scarlet horde had been the bane of the Tigers ' existence before Henry went to Columbia, but he ended that in a hurry. In his first year at M.U. the Tiger tied the Huskers and three of the next four seasons found them winning from the Lincoln lads. The Cornhuskers thumped the Notre Dame team that boasted the famous Four Horsemen and they downed Il- linois when Red Grange was on the loose, but they rould not beat Henry ' s Missouri teams. After winning the conference title in 1927. the Tigers tied for second with Oklahoma in 1928 and took undisputed runnerup honors in 1929. During the fol- lowing two seasons Henry was struck down witli illness and could be with his teams only a part of the time. Missouri lost as many games during those two years as it had in the previous seven campaigns under Henry. In 1931 the Tigers dropped eight out of ten and that brought an end to the nine-year Gwinn Henry regime at Missouri. For two years Henry was out of the game regaining his health, but in the fall of 1933 he donned the moleskins aguin to take over the head coaching duties for the St. Louis Gunners, an independent professional outfit. The Gunners were given no consideration at all in pre- season dope, but Henry put his football magic to work and the Gunners astounded everyone by roaring through a 16 - game schedule with only two defeats. They topped off the season by tying the Chicago Bears, na- tional professional champions. After a year at St. Louis Henry returned to the South- west, the great open spaces where he spent his youth. He went to the University of New Mexico as director of athletics and head football coach. In his three years there before c oming to Kansas, Henry met with much success, winning the Bor- der conference championship his first season at Albuquerque. Not only can Henry teach other men to excell in athletics, he was a champion himself. During his undergraduate days at Howard Payne Gwinn was an all-star end on the football team and a crack baseball player, but on the track he fairly scintil- lated. He ran the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds, the 220 in 21.2, threw the discus 145 feet, and put the shot 42 feet, all of these performances being Texas rec- ords. In 1910 and 1911 Henry ran for the Irish-American athletic club of New York, where he set a world record for the 125-yard dash at 12.2 seconds and equalled the world records of 10.8 for the 110-yard dash and 7.4 for 75 yards indoors. He (Continued on Page 75) (Photo by Charles Grabske, Jr.)

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:i THE JAYHAWKER (Photo by An Wolj . l THIS YEAR A THOI s li OF THEM STUMBLED IM ELEVENTH STREET TO THE STADIUM NEW, UNTRIED, BUT EAGER TO BE INDUCTED INTO IT ALL