Friday, October 6, 1967
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Robinson workmen find old footballs
By Steve Morgan Kansan Staff Reporter
As old Robinson comes down to make way for the new Humanities Building, a part of the early history of KU football has been uncovered.
Workmen razing the old structure tore the roof off and found 19 old footballs. Most of them are marked with the scores of Jayhawk football games around the turn of the century.
Vincent Bahm, Topeka, who heads the crew wrecking the building, turned the balls over to the KU athletic department Thursday in exchange for two 19-67 Jayhawk season football tickets.
Wade Stinson, director of athletics, said he hopes to have the pigskins restored so they can be displayed in Allen Field House.
"My son told me to be sure to bring home some football tickets if I didn't keep the balls," Bahm said.
He said he had had many offers to buy the balls. He felt it would be better to return them to the university where they could be displayed as part of the athletic history.
Ticket sale heads for high mark
As many as 33,000 people are expected to see the Jayhawks open their home season Saturday against Ohio.
Jay Simon, sports publicity director, said Thursday the ticket office has been "very busy," and season and single-game ticket sales are "way up over last year at this time."
Simon said he imagined the good showing so far is due to the increased enrollment and "the fact we've looked good in the past two games."
A total of 10,000 student season tickets had been sold by Thursday afternoon. Of this number, 4,000 have been sold since the start of the semester. Last year at this time, 8,900 student tickets had been sold.
Slightly less than 10,000 public season tickets have been sold, as well as 6,000 single-game tickets for this weekend's contest. This is 2,000 single-game tickets more than were sold for last year's home opener.
Last year's home opener against Texas Tech drew a crowd of 28,-165.
KU's record for season attendance was set in 1964 when 200,097 fans attended five home games—an average of about 40,000 per game.
A single-game record of 44,508 people saw Nebraska beat KU 14-7 in 1964.
Simon said there is a "good possibility" of attracting more than 200,000 fans again this season.
Some of the balls are smooth and nearly round while others are similar to those used today. The oldest-dated ball bears the date 1897, seven years before Robinson was built. That year KU beat Iowa 56-0. A few of the balls are believed to be older than that.
Some bear the name of the star of the game in which they were used. Such as Howard "Tub" Reed, star of KU's 1905 20-5 win over Nebraska, and Bill Rice, a standout player for the Jayhawks in 1903 and 1904.
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Others were used in KU victories in the old Missouri Valley Conference. The footballs show that on Oct. 18, 1913 KU won a conference game from Drake, 11-0, and later the same season crushed Washington University, St. Louis, 55-7.
Three of the footballs indicate victories over Warrensburg (Mo.), William Jewell, Kansas City, Mo., and Washburn, Topeka. All of these schools have long since left the KU schedule.
The most recent of the balls tells of a victory Oct. 25, 1915, over Kansas State, 26-0.
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One old ball reads: "This ball was used in three big games in 1898—Nov. 5, KU 6, NU 18; Nov. 12, KU 6, KC Medics 0; Dec. 3, Beta Theta Pi 6, Phi Kappa Psi 0."
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Muslim Society. 2:30 p.m. Union.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.
p. m.p. George Blood, Young Life
Demonstration, Slavery vs. Freedom:
Thoughts on Christian Duty." 829
Mississippi.
Popular Film. 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Cincinnati Kid." Dye Auditorium.
Lutheran Graduate Students. 7:30 p.m. Meet at Campus Parsonage, 1506 S. Church Hill, another instructor in Western Civ. will discuss present-day Latin America.
University Theatre. 8:20 p.m. "The Kitchen."
Oklahoma State Cross-Country
Jamboree. 10:30 a.m. Stillwater.
Football. 1:30 p.m. Ohio University Memorial Stadium.
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Parents' Day Reception. 4:30-6 p.m.
Kansas, Union, Ballroom.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Clinch-
kid Kid." Durye Auditorium.
Dedication. Kansas School of Religion. Address: "Religion in Higher Scliding. Address: 'Religion in Higher Education.' James T. Moudy, chancellor, Kansas Union University. Kansas Union Ballroom.
Museum of Art Open House. 2:30-4:45.
Art Gallery.
Tapestry Exhibit Opens.
Lutheran Students Association, 5:30
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by UCCF on "Identity."
Open House. 1:30-3 p.m. Kansas School of Religion.
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Carillon Recital. 3 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Cinchnati kid." Dyrsey Auditorium.
University Theatre. 8:20 p.m. "The
Kitchen."
ROBINSON GIVES UP SECRETS
Athletic Director Wade Stinson holds one of 19 footballs found recently in the ceiling of old Robinson gymnasium by demolition crews. The oldest ball dates back to 1897, seven years before Robinson was built.
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"No one would have found them unless he tore the building down," said Bahm.
Arthur "Dutch" Lonborg, director of events for the athletic department and former athletic director, said he had been through Old Robinson at least five times looking for things like the old balls and had not found them.
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They were stuffed between the ceiling of an upstairs room and the roof at the west end of the old building.
"You couldn't see them until we tore the roof off," he said.
Bahm also found a pair of old
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football shoes worn by KU's Sam Forter in the 1907 victory over Missouri, 4-0. He turned these and an old catcher's mask over to Stinson with the footballs.
He said he had also found several old wine, whiskey and beer bottles built into the walls. Some of the bottles still contained some well-aged brew.
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Bahm said destruction of the outer walls of the building will probably begin next week. A ball and crane will be used.
United Fund to solicit KU employes
The United Fund Campaign will be conducted among KU employees Oct. 23 through Nov. 3 with a goal of $18,000 in mind.
The $18,000 figure is part of the $108,048 set for Lawrence as a whole.
"The solicitation will be only for those on KU's payroll," said Charles A. Leone, KU's United Fund chairman.
"We are asking a fair share from each employee. This amounts to 12 hours' pay from each KU employe," Leone said.
Recital set for Monday
A former radio singer is the first performer in this year's Faculty Recital series.
Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, will sing solos at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy.
Schmidt sang on "Carnation Contented Hour" from 1932 to 1946 and later on Sigmund Romberg's radio show, "Evening with Romberg."
The hour-long recital will include a Bach cantata, "Four Serious Songs" by Brahms, "Nine Songs of Travel" by Vaughn Williams, and "Two Poems" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
He has given recitals at KU every year since he first came in 1949 as a visiting lecturer.
"This year I'm doing my recital entirely in English, no foreign languages," Schmidt said.
Paul Tardiff, instructor in piano, will accompany Schmidt's bass-baritone voice.
Another faculty recital will be given next week by visiting lecturer Gary Kirkpatrick.
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