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In Konsas' great Memorial Stadium todey 22,000 Jayhavker and Tiger partisans
cheered to the echo the valiant deeds of the sons of old Missou't and of old K.U.-
Tuose boys were playing for the love of the game. Not one cent of the total of
more than 440,000 tnken in at that game today will any of those boys receive. Many
of those boys have been dreaming for 15 years of this opportunity to play for their
university. They played for the joy of battle that was theirs. That was something
that is iniefinable thit wolls up in the breast of each young male adult who desires
to struggle, who desires to take a chmee to win or lose on the toss of the coin,
on the bounce of the ball, or the break of the ame. Had the game resulted in any-
thing but a scoreless tie today--Tonisht, those boys on one side would be momentor-
ily steeped in the gloom of defeat and the boys on the other side would be tasting
the greatest elixir of their lives. They would have felt that high exaltation of
being successful, of being winners, of having the populace cheer for them and say,
"Great, and well done!”

And this is ns it shoulé be, becsuse fame is fleeting, but it is all 1 part
and parcel of the geome of life, end it is also a part of his education. Listen to
the words of Greantland Rice on "The Way of the Gime":

"Now summer foes end tomorrow's snows
Will soon be deep;

And skies of blue which the summer knew
See shadows creep;

‘nd the gleam tonicht which is silver bright
Spans ghostly forms,

As the winds msh by With their warning cry
Of coming storms.

So the lnurel fades in the snow-swept glades
Of flying years,

As the dreams of youth fini bitter truth
Of prin md tears;

Through the cheering mass let the victors pass
To find Fate's thrust,

As tomorrow's fame writes another's name
Ou drifting dust."

What is this thing called football, with these i#n in armoured uniforms
and helmetedhesdzear? It isa gladintorial corbet in on arena where partisan
thrones yell themselves hoarse nt contestants playing 2 game that the majority of
spectators so little understend. Most of the men spectators co not know the rules
of the gane. The romen come for the occasion and to cheer these zridiron gladcia-
tors. But it is a struggle where strone men throw thuiselves at erch other in
zealous combat for the glory of their alma mter. The more frail spectators who
witness this holocaust cannot understand why these players are not torn spart, Lim
from limb. But through the years these men hive grown strong in physique throuch
struggle, and they sre vrepared for such combat. They resist force as a hoelthy
individual resists disease.

It is an interesting thing to know tmt in 2 game which lasts nearly
three hours, none of the players are in continuous action for 2 totel elens:d time
of over 12 or 14 minutes. Tue Department of Physics] Yducstion «t the University
of Kansas chose for 2 reseerch problem the Getermination of the cctunal playing time
of the average university football nlayer. The selected two tesms in action were
the University of Nebraska and the University of Kunsas. The total elapsed time
from the first whistle to the last whistle of the same was two hours, fifty-six
minutes. The actual time that the game was in oro¢ress wes 60 rinutes, yet the