2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN this week in KU HISTORY oct.24-oct.29
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Oct. 27, 1962 - "Kansas Comet"
Gale Sayers, sophomore halfback, rushed for 283 yards against Oklahoma State, breaking records at University of Kansas and the Big 8 Conference.
His contribution could hardly have come at a better time for the Jayhawks. A string of injuries had strained their morale before the fight against the Cowboys. The University Daily Kansan reported in October 1962 that three players in the secondary unit had injured their ankles or knees.
A victory was important for both teams to stay in the race for the Big 8 Title. The Cowboys led 17-7 in the first half, according to the KU History Project's Web site.
DID YOU KNOW?
Enter Gale Sayers.
Sayers also rushed onto the film scene in 1971 in a television-movie, "Brian's Song" inspired from his football experiences. Sayers became friends with running back Brian Piccolo when both played as Chicago Bears. This friendship marked the first time in the franchise's history that two people of different races roomed together, according to the KU History Project's Web site. The film starred Billy Dee Williams as the black Sayers and James Caan as the white Piccolo.
He carried the ball 21 times for 283 yards, breaking the previous year's record of 270, the Kansan reported. Coach Jack Mitchell called it the greatest comeback victory he had seen because the Jayhawks won 36-17. He scored a goal and coach 1,600 football teams, but
"I could live to be 100 years old and coach 1,000 football teams, but there would never be a victory that would match that one," he said.
there would never be a victory that would matter.
After the game, Sayers earned the nickname the "Kansas Comet." He set seven NFL records, scored 22 touchdowns in 1965 and earned an induction at age 34 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And ESPN article wrote, Sayers is remembered for his astonishing speed and "cuts" in changing directions to elude tacklers. Bill Cosby once described him as "the man who splits himself in half and leaves the half without the football with the tackler."
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Oct. 29, 1994 - Spooner Hall Celebrates Centennial
The University's oldest academic building turned 100 years old
The University's oldest academic building turned 100 years old. William Spooner, a Boston philanthropist and merchant, died in 1880 and left the University nearly $100,000 in his will. This amount marked the largest donation ever made to a state university, Robert Taft noted in his book, "The Years on Mount Oread."
his book. The Years on Mount Great But the money wouldn't be given to the University for more than a decade.
The will that would finance Spooner Hall's construction was so complicated that it took 11 years to find its recipient. Taft wrote that the estate's executor could not transmit the bequest until he had deciphered the will. The University received the gift in the fall of 1891.
The University received the gift of a new library, according to the KU History Project's Web site. The building honored Spooner's memory by bearing his name. When it opened in 1894, Spooner Library met with high recognition and praise. The national magazine Harper's Weekly called it "simple in construction, convenient, adequate in its detail and thoroughly modern in design."
Despite its promising beginning — the Kansas Alumni magazine noted it featured electric lighting only 13 years after the light bulb's invention — Spooner Library's collection quickly outgrew the building.
1990 When it was added to the Library of Congress Today Spooner Hall houses the University's anthropological collections, formerly kept in Blake Hall, according to the Web site.
Watson Library opened as a replacement in 1924, and Spooner gained new life as the Spooner-Thayer Art Museum, according to the magazine. However, the collection again outgrew its home. In 1978, Spooner yielded again to its second replacement, the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, according to the Web site. Spooner Hall earned a spot in history in 1990 when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Information compiled from www.kuhistory.com, The Years on Mount Oread by Robert Taft, and the Spencer Research Library Archives
Howler of a costume
Grimace the English bulldog has her Taxi Cab costume adjusted by her owner Scott Warren at the Times Square Dog Day Masquerade on Sunday in New York. Grimace won best of costume in the Current Canine Characters catagory.
MTV goes behind the scenes with Madonna
PEOPLE
NEWYORK — Madonna is worried that her secret wasn't juicy enough.
When her new documentary, "I'm Going to Tell You A Secret," premiered in New York, she said she was nervous the audience wouldn't like it.
"It was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, I hope I did the right thing. Oh, that scene is too long. Oh, that's too short. Are they going to get this part? Are they going to like this? Oh, they're going to think it's boring! Just worrying the whole way, biting my fingernails off," she told ABC News Radio.
The documentary, which aired Friday on MTV, is a behind-the-scenes look at Madonna's "Re-Invention Tour."
Judge could throw out conviction of Sizemore
LOS ANGELES — A judge wants the city attorney's office to show why Tom Sizemore's conviction for beating former girlfriend and Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss should not be thrown out, according to the actor's attorneys.
The 44-year-old actor has appealed his conviction, arguing that a photograph of Fleiss with facial bruises may have been fabricated.The photograph was taken in April 2003 byTara Dabrizzi, a friend of Fleiss, who didn't testify at Sizemore's trial.
Sizemore's attorney, Michael J. Rovell, said they had been unable to find Dabrizi, who left the U.S. the day after taking the photo. The defense also questioned whether she even exists.
The Associated Press
"I completely deny that she doesn't exist," said Deputy City Attorney Robert Cha. — The Associated Press
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2005 BOX OFFICE
'Doom' debuts at top spot
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — The Rock did not meet his doom at the box office, but his latest action flick came in with a light pop instead of a bang during another slow weekend at movie theaters.
year:
"Dreamer. Inspired by a True Story," a horse racing family film starring Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning, opened in second place with $9.3 million.
"Doom," adapted from the sci-fi video game, debuted as the top movie with a modest $15.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The movie led a lackuster lineup that continued Hollywood's box-office slump, with the top 12 movies taking in $71.3 million, down 27 percent from the same weekend last year.
Charlize Theron's blue-collar drama "North Country," based on the real-life story of a woman who led a sexual-discrimination lawsuit against male co-workers at a mining company, premiered a weak No. 5 with $6.5 million.
"Stay," starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in a thriller about a psychiatrist racing to save a suicidal patient, flopped with a $2.15 million debut.
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Films in limited release opened strongly. The romance "Shopgirl," starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman in an adaptation of Martin's own novella, debuted in eight theaters with $236,000. The comic crime thriller "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, took in $174,300 in eight theaters.
Both films expand to more theaters over the next couple of weeks.
Though distributor Universal expects to make its money back on "Doom," the studio had hoped for a bigger opening weekend, said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution.
Hollywood has been in a box-office slide for most of the year, with admissions running about 8 percent below 2004 levels.
"I'm very concerned about the marketplace," Rocco said. "There are so many movies out, so much to choose from, yet the marketplace continues to fall, and not just by little amounts."
Other studio executives are sticking to the idea that the industry has simply had a prolonged run of movies that failed to pack in crowds.
that handed it over. "I've been telling people for a long time that I think it's content-driven. I don't think we had a film that jumped out for people this weekend," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., which released "North Country."
Warner has a certain blockbuster coming in mid November with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Other big films scheduled through the holidays include "King Kong," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "The Producers."
Productions
October typically is a slow time for movies. Over the same weekend a year ago, though, the box-office shot up on the unexpectedly strong debut of the ghost story "The Grudge," which opened with $39.1 million.
In all fairness, this was more of a typical late-October weekend, as opposed to a year ago, when The Grudge' surprised everyone and made this weekend look pale by comparison," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Edited by Nate Karlin
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