UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

January 16, 1945.

Dear Fellew Faculty Members:

Do you remember that bleak November 13th afternoon, way back in
1920, when Chanceller Lindley was serving his first year, ~ and when eur
present ehanc@gller, Deane W. IMalott, was a senier at the University? That
was the afterneon when Ceach Henry "Indian" Sehulte's searlet-clad Nebraska
football giants swept down from the nerth, as did Attila‘s Huns of old, and
ran roughshod sver the light but scrappy Kansas Jayheawkers, 20 te 0, during
the first half ef the 1920 Homesemimg Day game at Lawrence.

Kansas, outweighed 27 peunds tg the man, was no match for the
powerful Cernhuskers. Eighteen ef those Nebraska stalwarts averaged 189
pounds to the man, while the Kansas average for the starting line-up was
162 peunds to the man.

Gevernor Henry Allen, of Kansas, and other celebrities whe were
the guests of Chanceller Lindley, were astounded by the sheer driving pewer
ef this superhuman Nebraska juggernaut, Ernie Quigley, the present Ath-
letic Director of Kansas, refereed that game.

Do you remember the men who played on that Kansas team? Captain
George Nettels, Jehn Bunn, Dutsh Lenborg, Warren Woody, Frank Mandeville,
Tad Reid, Severt Higgins, Gesrge Hale, ‘mdy MoDenald, Ed Sandefur, Kenny
Welch, Horley Little, Carl MeAdams, and others.

These were the men who built that Kansas Memorial Stadiun.

Between halves the Kansas players threw themselves upon the
floor in their dressing reom, heartbreken, many of them weeping epenly.
They felt that they had disgraced themselves and their school. Fear and
depression possessed them, As a mether sponges the hands and face of a
fatigued and nervous child, so did we supervise the care of these worn and
frayed athletes. During these minutes of recuperation I went quietly from
man te man, patting them on their backs, whispering words of encouragement,
In this way I was endeavoring to drive out the fear and shame ef their
seemingly eertain and everwhelming defeat.

"Did you hear those cocky Cornhuskers as they strede off the field
after the first half, saying that the boy on the scereboard would run out
-@f chalk?" (No electri¢ scoreboards in these days.)

"They think that they have you down and out, We have just begun
to fight, and I mean it."