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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1962
Smile Is Contagious, But KU Football Isn't
A short, slightly stocky man with a contagious smile tipped back in his swivel chair placing his hands behind his head—preparing to deliver a long, carefully considered observation.
"I think we ought to snuff out college football," he said casually.
Perhaps this is an unrepresentative statement for Frederick Samson, assistant professor of physiology, but it revealed a dimension of the man that the varied science journals neatly stacked in the tall, metal frame cabinet did not.
"KU is becoming a better school year by year," he said, "but building a better football team has not helped its image academically."
"All good schools don't have football tegns," he continued.
"See what a minor role subsidized athletics play in schools like Harvard or Yale?"
Prof. Samson, originally a Bostonian, went to the University of Chicago, a non-football school, because of "its intellectual greatness," he explained.
School spirit should mean that the students are interested in the well-being and the future development of their school as an educational institution, he said.
"But the kind of school spirit we have now is creating a false type of hero image. The high school student is looking more and more to the college athlete as the man he should emulate," Prof. Samson contended.
"KU will become a great school," Prof. Samson added, "when students come here simply because the school has teachers who intellectually stimulate them."
He said that Kansas is exporting
Mrs. Ralph Reed
1948 Queen to be In Homecoming
Mrs. Ralph R. Reed of Lawrence will represent KU homecoming queens of the past during the 1962 celebration this Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Reed, the former Ann Cowger of Topeka, reigned at the 1948 KU Homecoming. She and her husband, Ralph R. Reed, holder of A.B. and M.D. degrees from KU, have lived in Lawrence since 1956.
Mrs. Reed will participate in the halftime ceremonies of the Nebraska-Kansas football game when queen Barbara Schmidt of Kansas City and attendants Karen Jo Emel of Colby and Anne Peterson of Clifton are honored.
many good people. But the state can import an appropriate share, he added, if the stress is placed on academics rather than on the football image.
Prof. Samson, who has traveled in Europe, pointed out that athletic competition in Moscow is not between schools, but between cities.
He compared subsidized athletics to a University-supported movie industry.
Taking a different approach, Prof. Samson questioned the theory that football players are healthier because of exercise they receive in playing football.
"When the movie industry or subsidized athletics get too big, the goals of the University are affected." Prof. Samson concluded.
"Football players are more susceptible to infectious diseases and are more liable to get smashed-up joints of one kind or another," he said.
"And if football is so good physiologically, why aren't we doing more for the girls," he quipped.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The Air Force said today that Maj. Rudolf Anderson, killed in a mission over Cuba, and Maj. Richard S. Heyser were the two reconnaissance pilots who "obtained the first conclusive evidence of the Soviet missile build-up in Cuba."
Anderson Praised for Fatal Cuban Flight
Anderson and Heyser, presumably flying U2s, took their photographic evidence on Oct. 14.
Heyser was one of the Air Force pilots who accompanied Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force chief of staff, to the White House last week for a call on President Kennedy. Although he was identified then as one of the reconnaissance pilots, he
Ham Club Meets Thursday in Lab
The first meeting of the KU Ham Club will be held Thursday night at 7:30 in Room 201 of the Electrical Engineering Lab.
Frank Scamman, secretary of the club, announced that the topics to be discussed at this meeting are the transmitter hunt and the relocation of the ham shack.
was not specifically singled out for the Oct. 14 mission.
He said the club will continue to hold monthly meetings throughout the year.
ANDERSON disappeared on another mission on Oct. 27. The Defense Department has refused to confirm Cuban reports that he was shot down and has not gone beyond its original statement that he died in action.
He is the only U.S. casualty of the Cuban crisis.
Apalachicola, Fla. He has been an Air Force officer since Feb., 1951.
Heyser, 35, is a native of Battle Creek, Mich., and his home now is
Gen. Thomas S. Power, commander of the Strategic Air Command, revealed the Anderson and Heyser roles in a statement made at Anderson's funeral today in Greenville, S.C.
In his statement, Power said "It is because of men like Maj. Anderson that this country has been able to act with determination during these fateful days."
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