And when Kansas' Alma Mater song was sung, the Kansas followers
could visualize the university in a definite way -

"Far above the golden valley

Glorious to view, |
Stands our noble Alma Mater

Towering toward the blue."

The three special senses, seeing, feeling and hearing, would
stimulate a greater school spirit and it was with that thought
in mind that work to place the stadium in its present location
was indulged in.

Not only is the Kansas Memorial Stadium a place for great football
gemes and pageants, but the Kansas Relays, a national institution,
as well as Kansas great Interscholastic Meet in which more high
school boys assemble here than any one place in Kansas, but the
baccalaureate sermon and the commencement exercises of the univer-
sity as well as the freshman initiation and other great meetings
are held in this giant and beautiful Kansas horseshoe.

So well has the stadium been constructed that not one flaw nor
crack shows in this magnificient structure. The straight sides
were constructed in 1921. The dressing rooms and end towers, seat-
ing 5,000, were built in 1925 and the bowl or north end of the
horseshoe was built in 1927.

This giant horseshoe 621 ft. long and 465 ft. high houses a splen-
did indoor running track, dressing rooms, storage Spaces and an
equipment room not excelled anywhere in the west.

The Modine heating plant located in both the varsity and freshman
dressing rooms provides the finest and most modern accomodations
for athletes. An underground sprinkling system insures a durable
playing turf for the football contestants.

By locating the stadium north of the university all the competitive
athletics are on one side and the intramural and Physical Education
activities are on the other side. By keeping these two branches

of activities separate best results are obtained kecause the Ath-
letic Association furnishes-all equipment and coaching personnel
necessary for athletic work.
And, too, the stadium being located at this point makes it much
more accessible to highway travel.

 

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