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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
SPORTS SCIENCE
Associated Press
Dr. Robert Cade, the lead inventor of Gatorade and a University of Florida professor, died Tuesday of kidney failure at the age of 80. Cade launched a multibillion-dollar sports drink industry that the beverage continues to dominate.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dr.
J. Robert Cade, who invented
the sports drink Gatorade and
launched a multibillion-dollar
industry that the beverage continues
to dominate, died Tuesday of
kidney failure. He was 80.
Gatorade inventor dies at 80
His death was announced by the University of Florida, where he and other researchers created Gatorade in 1965 to help the school's football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.
"Today with his passing, the University of Florida lost a legend, lost one of its best friends and lost a creative genius," said Dr. Edward Block, chairman of the department of medicine in the College of Medicine. "Losing any one of those is huge. When you lose all three in one person, it's something you cannot recoup."
Now sold in 80 countries in dozens of flavors, Gatorade was born thanks to a question from former Gators Coach Dwayne Douglas, Cade said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press.
He asked, "Doctor, why don't football players wee-wee after a game?"
"That question changed our lives," Cade said.
Cade's researchers determined a football player could lose as much as 18 pounds — 90 to 95 percent of it water — during the three hours it takes to play a game. Players sweated away sodium and chloride and lost plasma volume and blood volume.
Using their research, and about $43 in supplies, they concocted a brew for players to drink while playing football. The first batch was not exactly a hit.
"It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner," said Dana Shires, one of the researchers.
"I guzzled it and I vomited,"
Cade said.
The researchers added some sugar and some lemon juice to improve the taste. It was first tested on freshmen because Coach Ray Graves didn't want to hurt the varsity team. Eventually, however, the use of the sports beverage spread to the Gators, who enjoyed a winning record and were known as a "second-half team" by outlasting opponents.
After the Gators beat Georgia Tech 27-12 in the Orange Bowl in 1967, Tech coach Bobby Dodd told reporters his team lost because, "We didn't have Gatorade ... that made the difference."
Stokely-Van Camp obtained the licensing rights for Gatorade and began marketing it as the "beverage of champions." PepsiCo Inc. now owns the brand, which has brought the university more than $150 million in royalties since 1973.
CAMPUS
'Spectacle' raises awareness Student teaches bureaucracy to others on Wescoe
BY MATT LINDBERG mlindberg@kansan.com
"Anson the Ornery" (Anson Stanciffle, Lawrence senior) and two university students, who asked not to be named, perform a performance art piece on Wescoe Beach Tuesday afternoon. Anson said the pieces of tac represented false promises made by the government, and he represented bureaucracy trying to stop people from reaching the promised land.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
A man dressed in a grey suit covered in all kinds of bells and whistles, with a white cloth masking his face and white feathers with black tips attached to wood on Wescoe Beach at 3 p.m., Tuesday. While most thought he was playing a game by stopping students from placing hard pieces of tac in a clear bowl of water, he was actually explaining bureaucracy.
The man behind the mask was Anson Stanciffe, a Lawrence senior who said he preferred to go by "Anson the Ornery." Anson developed the piece for his public art works class.
"For my class, we had the option to do a sculpture or a performance piece," he said. "I did a performance to involve the community."
He said the performance was about explaining bureaucracy and all of its flaws. He said the pieces of tac represented false promises made by governments and represented bureaucracy trying to stop people from reaching the promised land.
Anson said the performance was inspired after carefully thinking what to do.
"I asked who am I going to be talking to? The KU students and KU bureaucracy," he said.
Todd Jackson, Topeka junior, who got involved in the performance, said it was interesting.
"I didn't understand what was going on when they first set-up, but it was really interesting and grabbed my attention," Jackson said.
Anson said he hoped his performance shed light on bureaucracy.
"A lot of people don't get bureaucracy," he said. "I wanted to show people there's only power in bureaucracy if you give it power."
Participants try to throw hard pieces of tac into a bowl of water in the middle of a large chalk circle. They ran to the bowl, trying not to get tagged when the drummer's drumming intensified.
— Edited by Ashlee Kieler
Jon Goering/KANSAN
COLLECTION Final designs revealed for state quarters
WASHINGTON — A grizzly bear clutching a salmon, the Grand Canyon at sunrise and a scisortail flycatcher in flight. Those striking images will be on the final batch of state quarters as the most successful coin program in history draws to a close.
The U.S. Mint on Tuesday unveiled the final five designs for the state
quarters with the first one, honoring Oklahoma, to be put into circulation in late January with the other four following at 10-week intervals after that. The states have been honored in the order they were admitted to the union, starting with Delaware. It was honored with a quarter in 1999. This started a collecting craze unlike anything ever seen before in the coin world.
Based on a 2005 survey, Mint officials estimate 147 million people
have gotten involved in collecting the quarters with their constantly changing designs."The American people have made the 50 state quarters the most successful coins in United States history," said Mint Director Ed Moy.
The final five coins will start with Oklahoma. It will feature the state bird, the scissortail flycatcher, and the state wildflower, the Indian blanket.
Associated Press
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