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The game was played on old McCook Field with her wooden bleachers
with a crowd of 10,000 risking their lives and their toda”

the Jayhawkers.

Nebraska, with Henry Schulte coaching, and composed os Dale, Hubka,
Swanson, Pucelik, all 200 pounders, soon smashed over a 20-0 score
during the first half. Kansas with ner 162 lbs. of individual
dynamite came back the second half and threw three touchdown for-
ward passes, all to Frank Mandeville for a 20-20 tie.

Lonborg threw two of them and John Bunn threw the last one. Sande-
fur after kicking two goals from touchdowns missed the third one
but at that the Kansas team catapulted herself to a glorious tie
victory.

It was that thrilling come-back »f the Kansas team that warmed the
cockles of the student body and the followers of the Jayhawkers
‘and that game in fact built the Kansas Memorial Stadium.

The game was played on November 15, 1920 and on Monday morning,

November 15, 1920 a wild and joyous Kansas student bodyyraised a
subseription pledge of (160,000 toward the building of the Kansas
Stadium. The evaluation of the completed stadium at present is
p600.,000,..00,.

The Athletic aa completed tne building of the giant Kan-
sas horsesho the only completed stacium in the Big Six and the
largest and. Wont beautiful in this conference area, 7 rr
Kansas with a fighting, midget team, the lightest team in the his-.
tory of Kansas, scored in every game that she played.

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Kansas scored 117 points to her' opponents 60. She won 5 games,
Lost 2 and: tied Nebreska in the game that built the stadium.

 

This information solicited by Fred Ellsworth, Alumni Secretary,
University of Kansas.