Monday, December 3, IMS LINCOLN JOURNAL 11 31-yard of tie and Evanston.-Hl in solved as dealings revealed Group preferred Jones return only as NU athletic director BY WALT DOBBINS. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson can retire to the peaceful quiet and glowing fireplace of Holmes' quarters on Baker street. The mystery of the missing letter is solved. The mailman brought Col. Lawrence McC. Jones' long awaited reply Monday moming and it's now "official" that The Biffer is not returning to Nebraska. May B e .Wronf? Ma Athletic Director A. J. Lew- andowskl has lined up an attrac tive home basketball slate of nine games tor Husker court fans, the program featuring intersectional games with Oregon State college and the University of Illinois. In addition non-conference battles have been arranged for the NU coliseum with the University of South Dakota and South Dakota State. Besides the round-robin of con ference games with Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa Stote, Missouri and Kansas State, the Huskers will clash on foreign courts with Minnesota, Iowa and Marquette and will take part in a tourney at Kansas City in a series of non- titular battles with Kansas, Kan- stas State and' Missouri. John I. "Junior" Iludklns, former Lincoln high grid ace, Is slated to be discharged from the army Monday. He spent 14 months In 'the European war theater before being sent to the Pacific where he was stationed for nearly two years. He will make, hla home In Glendale. Dick Iludklns, a brother, Is now located at Treasure Island after seeing 18 months service In the South Pacific with the navy. He expects to attend college on the west coast. j. , . ' Lou Means, director of student welfare at Nebraska U. is making the "Mashed Potato loop' this week, being scheduled to speak at Scottsbluff Tuesday night; at Minatare Wednesday and at North Platte, Thursday, Dave Nobler Omaha." former Cornhusker back in the early 1920's and president of the Omaha N club, speaking before the Sidney high school football banquet declared according to an Associated Press dispatch that "A public expression of opinion would show 95 percent of the people favoring the return of Biff Jones as athletic director and coach. . . Football fan writes: "It has been quite some time since; I have written you, but I have been doing a lot of thinking the past few days and is seems as tho I have to set it off my chest so here goes. "Cornhusker football has certainly been at a very low ebb since our 1940 squad which played such a wonderful game at Pasadena. I'll never forget that beautiful day, the parade and the game as long as I live. "Now personally I think our football czars could have hired Link Lyman after Biff Jones lefL with the understanding that it was entirely up to him to make good with the squad. . . "I believe he would have come thru and that we would have had some representative teams in the past lour years but that is water over the dam and I appreciate the fact that 90 percent of the football followers will not agree with me but we 10 percent are entitled to our say. . . "Now we are at the crossroads again and I say How come? "One of Lincoln high's best backfleld men is having the beckoning finger extended to him from at least bile other university besides the University of Nebraska at the .moment he is undecided. "On the showing that Coach Potsy Clark made In the last four games of the season, he certainly is entitled to at least a one year contract at a very good salary. With his system and play well started, with the returning players from the 1945 squad plus new players, he should prove whether or not he is entitled to a longer contract." Cyclones pick Lorenz, Moore AMES, la. UP). The Big Six championship Missouri Tigers and runner-up Oklahoma Soon-ers and Northwestern Wildcats each placed three "men on Iowa State's all-opponent football team for 1945. The Nebraska Cornhusker, fourth In the final conference standing, were honored with two berths. Iowa State's all-opponents, J J W board's Meanwhile two members of the athletio board. Acting Athletic Director A. J. Lewandow- ski and John K. Selleck, the former being chairman of a committee from that group to select -a new coach, were re posted "out of the city" Monday. The athletic board's letter to CoL Jones, dated Nov. 13, 1945, however, verified previous published telephone .... commitments from West Point with the Biffer that he (Col. Jones) was not wanted back at Nebraska in his prewar role of, athletic director and head football coach. The board's letter, printed In full elsewhere, states In part: Both boards (athletic board and board of regents) wish you to know that they would PREFER to have you return as director of intercollegiate athletics ONLY, and that the board of intercollegiate athletics proceed at once to en gage a head football coach who could report for duty not later than Feb. 1, 1946. . On Jan. 6, 1943 at a joint meet ing of the athletic board and board of regents, however, the fol lowing statement was made to the press: "It has been and will continue to be the policy of the athletic board and the board of. regents to recognize all moral and contractual obligations to any of the personnel of the University of Nebraska now serving In the armed forces of the United States. The correspondence between the athletic board and CoL Jones was made public by Dr. R. D. Scott Monday morning. It reads In full: Lincoln, - Nebraska, Nov. 13, 1945. Colonel L. McC Jones, United States Military Academy West Pont, New York. Dear Colonel Jones: By reason of the gravity of the present situation, the athletic tvmrri"fMl that it ran no longer delay the perfecting of its athletic organization and the putting into motion of its postwar athletic pro gram. Accordingly, at a joint meeting of the board of regents and the athletic board, held Saturday, Nov. 10, 1945, these mat- 1 ...... ..-In,,. nnMra- tion. As a first step, I. as chairman of the athletic board, was instructed to make inquiry of you regarding your availability to us, your plans, and your desires, insofar as they have a bearing upon our situation I was further in structed to let you know that there is no question regarding our desire and our Intent to keep faith with your war-service leave of absence. The two boards. In joint meet- .' Ing, desired however specific in formation regarding the follow- , Ing matters, and asked that I write you concerning them:. 1. May we count upon your return to Nebraska? t. If so, when will It be possible for you to be here? S. Both boards wish you to know that they would prefer to ' have you return as director of Intercollegiate athletics only, and that the board of Intercol legiate athletics proceed at once to engage a head football coach who eould report for duty not later than Feb. 1, 1946, or preferably even earlier. Your salary as director of Intercollegiate athletics would be twelve thousand dollars a year (or at that monthly rate of remuneration), until Dee. 31, 1946, the date of expiration of our exlstlnfNcon-tract, after which the remuneration for the position of director wll be subject to adjustment. Concerning this . matter, the board is very anxious to know your reaction and your win hps. 4. Both boards feel that action on our part Is Imperative at the earliest possible moment, and request that you let us have your reply regarding these matters on or before Dec. 1, 1945. With best wishes, I am, Yours truly, R. D. Scott, Chairman Board of Intercollegiate Athletics, University of Nebraska. e Nov. 28. 1945. Professor R. D. Scott, Department of English, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Neb. x Dear Professor Scott: In reply to your recent letter, please consider this as my resignation, effective this date, as head coach of football and director of athletics at the University of Nebraska. With every good wish for the success of the University and its athletic program. With Yours truly, (Signed) L. McC Jones, Colonel, F. A., Graduate Manager of Athletics,