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Kansas smashed the Husker line for a short gain. Had Dutch forgotten
his mystic X formation? Johnnie Bunn was quickly sent into the line-up to call
the favored play, with a pass to the left side of the field. The ball was snapped
back to Bunn, who whirled back and ran laterally to the left, and, being protected
by one lone pass defender, he shot a 35-yard pass to Frank Mandeville, who dashed
over the goal line for the tying touchdown.

Pandemonium broke loose! A delirium of Kansas fans! They were weeping,
shouting, and crying for sheer joy. Cursing, pummeling, and hugging! There was -
no reason manifest now. The score was Kansas, 20 - Nebraska, 20, and still the
goal after touchdown to be kicked, and with it, the lingering possibility of a
long-awaited victory over the redoubtable Cornhuskers. It was a courageous little
team that this mad crowd was worshiping. A g: er one never wore the cleats.

But a bit too overanxious we-e theso Kansans, and they missed the point
in their kick after touchdown that would have meant victory. And, indeed, as the
years have sped on, Kansas is still waiting for that extra point against the Corn-
huskers that will bring a football victory.

Pall and gloom shrouded Nebraska's followers. Nonpartisan spectators,
who came only to see the great Nebraska machine grind into fine bits the underdog,
Kansas, now swung into great ovations for the boys who had done the impossible.
Kansas had won a great 20 to 20 moral victory.

During this autumn of 1920, a World War Memorial Stadium Drive had been
smoldering in prospect, awaiting only a propelling stimulus to set it into motion.
This stadium to be was to immortalize the 129 Kansas men and women who had died in
the war service of these United States. These Kansas football men were the spark
igniting the fuse that exploded one of the greatest student demonstrations in the
history. of the school. :

On the following Monday morning, at a great mass meeting, the students
pledged $160,000 to this splendid World War ‘Memorial Stadium.

A few weeks later, at the end of the season, a school holiday was granted
for the purpose of razing the old athletic plant on McCook Field. The men of the
university, some two thousand strong, donned overalls and jackets and, with axes,
hammers, and saws, razed-the. frail old wooden bleachers, while the women of the
university, in equal numbers,. put on aprons and went to the field of action to
serve sandwiches and hot coffee to the working men.

This practical picture of university men and women at work strengthened
one's faith in the rightness of things. But, over: and above, like a majestic pre-
lude to'a powerful symphony, was. the persisting picture of that fighting group of
boys who were down and out and who had the indefatigable courage to come back and
to prove that "a champ belongs."

We.owe the beautiful $660,000 liemorial Stadium, which nestles in the
bosom of kount Oread at the University of Kansas, largely to this valorous team.

Speaking of Nebraska games would not be complete without quoting-a part
of Alan Davidson's letter received on August 13,.1945. Alan was one of the out-
standing guards on Kansas! football varsities of '21, '22, and '23. In our Jay-
hawk Rebound we paid a fine tribute to Dell Davidson, superintendent of the stadi-
um, who has saved the Athletic Association more money than any other man. I had