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VOL. IX.
A BRILLIANT GAME.
K S. U. the Victor Despite the Decision Against it.
From Tineaday's daily Journal
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DEC. 12, 1890.
From the news in early September, Lawrence has seen enthusiastic crowds, it has seen the students go wild when Crane won the oratorical contest at Topeka and when the base ball club batted out a lost game from Washburn in the 9th inning, but never did anything approach the wild enthusiasm, the unrestrained demonstration, the wild outburst of yells from a thousand throats when Coleman was seen to break forth from a wishing struggling moss and, after a
brilliant run sears the touch down which won the game.
Five hundred University students burst over the ropes, rushed across the field, lifted Coleman on their shoulders and bore him off in triumph. It was the most brilliant, the most wildly exciting contest that ever occurred on Kansas soil.
The cheers and noise from several hundred tinn horns was deafening. But above all other sounds "Rock-chalk-Jayhawk K. U." could be heard strong and clear. The day was a perfect one, warm enough to make it comfortable for the spectators but cool enough to inspire the players to their best efforts. Baker had the largest delegation present in the memory of the oldest student and every Baker man had a tin horn.
The Baker boys are confident and the ball is rapidly forced towards the University goal. After several returns and some lively scrimmaging the ball is held near the line and the wedge play forces back the University rush line and Baker has secured a touch down. Goodale then kicks a goal and the score is 6-0.
At ten minutes of three o'clock the University team leaped over the ropes and appeared on the field, they were greeted with cheers and the tooting of horns. Promptly at 3 o'clock play commences. The University takes the north side and Baker puts the ball in play. Goodale kicks off and it isident at once that the game will be lively and hard fought.
The Baker delegation then think they are making a big noise, but wait till the University students have an opportunity.
The ball is then put in play and goes quickly into Baker territory. Sherman makes several good runs and the ball is held several times near the line, but Baker plays steady and it looks as if the University will be unable to score a touch down.
The ball is again forced near the line on a rush by Kinzie aided by good blocking and encouraged by the cheers of the crowd the Baker rush line is forced back and the University has secured the touch down. The ball is taken out and Hogg kicks a goal and the time is called with the score 6-6
After ten minutes intermission play is resumed.
Not a man has been hurt and both sides are confident. The ball is punted back and forth and goes in quick succession from Baker to University territory. In some way Champlain gets the ball breaks from the crowd and closely followed by the Baker team makes a long run and scores a touch down.
Hogg fails to kick a goal, but the University is four points ahead and the crowd goes wild. Baker takes the ball and Goodale by slugging forces it near the University line. The ball is now held near the line and the game looks doubtful. Three times did the Baker rush line use the wedge play and attempt to run back the University line, but as often did it fail. The University rush line stands like a stone wall.
Goodale gets the ball and aided by the
as around the end and scores a
touch down. Baker goes wild. "B. U. Baker, Rah, Rah, take her" drowns out all other sounds. Goodale then kicks a goal and the score is 12 to 10 in favor of Baker.
Only fifteen minutes remain and things look blue for K. S. U. The boys do not give up, but go in and fight like demons. The ball goes into Baker territory but is forced back. Pearis is hurt and Brown takes his place. The play continues fast and hard. Baker makes an off side play and Atherton breaks through the line and has a clear field before him. Sherman doubles the distance and downs him near the University line. The University club objects to the play and the mupire allows it, but then changes his mind and the bull is taken back near the University goal. Only five minutes remain, and it looks as if the Baker club would secure another touch down.
The wedge play is used in an attempt to force the ball over the line and a live, scrimmage ensues. Out of the crowd of wildly struggling men Coleman appears and closely pursued by Baker's best runners runs the entire length of the field and scores a touch down and the score is 14-12 in favor of K. S. U.
The scene that followed beggars description. Every University man went wild, hats were ruined and canes were broken. A crowd of enthusiasts piled on Coleman and then bore him off on their shoulders.
The Baker club claim that the last touch down should not be counted because the umpire had called tin.a before Coleman got the ball.
Prof. Carruth was umpire and had whistled for play to stop but had done so on the request of Pears, who had quit the game. Coleman was acting captain and any decision Prof. Carruth made on the understanding that Pears was captain he should have changed. This he refused to do and persisted in giving the game to Baker when it can only appear that he made his decision on a misunderstanding. Whatever process of reasoning Prof. Carruth may adopt to justify his decision, whatever technicalities he may find to fortify him in his position, the game will always be claimed by the entire student body, and will always be remembered as a brilliant and fairly won victory.
After the game the students marched down town in a body and after supper they celebrated the victory by a bonfire on the corner of Massachusetts and Henry street and a number of speeches were made The clubs lined up as follows:
Baker. K. S. U.
Caudray . . . Lelt End . . . Cook
Wrena . . . Lelt Tackle . . Champlaim
Muesse . . . Lelt Guard . . Frederickch
Atherton . . Center Rush . . Coleman
Cook . . . Right Guard . . Pears
Lockhart . . Right Tackle . Huddleston
Davis . . . Right End . . . Hogg
Goodale { } Half Backs { Shermann
Harris { } Kinzie
Harptsper { Quarter Back . Williamson
Pearson . Full Backs . Dyer
Sprung kneed, wheezy black-eyed, wind-broken and generally done up gobs of human clay now reap the glory of their scars and bruises. No longer will the street Arab tauntingly yell. "got licked didn't yer," when such a speciman hobbles on the street. No, doffing his cap with veneration the kids around town look upon the "misery" as a relic of a hard fought K. S. U.-Baker foot ball contest.
The Glee club covered itself with glory at No. 6, last Tuesday evening.
UNIVERSITY PIPE ORGANS
Prof. Penny is Working Hard to Make it go.
Prof Penny's scheme for putting a grand pipe organ in University Hall is working out nicely. Everybody seems to be heartily in sympathy with this most commendable undertaking, and the prospects are bright for success.
The need of a suitable organ in University chapel to be used in the daily devotional exercises, in concerts and on all occasions where music is a feature, has been long felt. But the cost of a pipe organ of size and worth to be suitable for one of the finest college auditoriums in the country is evidently so great that much hesitation has been shown in undertaking to obtain the organ. Prof. Penny, however, with characteristic energy has set to work in a way that will commend itself to every one. His scheme is to offer series of musical entertainments, there being six, we believe in the course. Tickets for the course are sold at $1.50, and each ticket bought is considered as a donation to the organ fund of $1.50 or enough money to purchase one pipe. Each ticket represents an admission to a series of concerts which will more than repay the purchaser. Those wishing to aid the organ fund in a sum greater than $1.50 are cordially invited to do so, and for each $1.50 donated, if you please to call it so, a course ticket is given the donor which may be presented to any friend of the doner, or better, purchaser. The Glee club concert which is to occur tonight is the first of the concert series. The Glee club will make a tour of the state during the holidays, the proceeds of the trip to be given to the organ fund. The club will make another trip in the spring, the money made to be turned over to the athletic fund.
About $200 worth of tickets have been purchased by the faculty members of the University, and Lawrence citizens are responding liberally. Every student should have a hand in the o'taining of the organ. The growing fund is in the hands of Mr. Moody, secretary of the University, he having consented to act as custodian of the money.
This organ fund should not and will not interfere at all with other University enterprises demanding money. The Athletic fund is to be helped rather than hindered by Prof. Penny's activity. The tour of the Glee Club next spring after the winter's practice, and after it has by this first trip for the organ fund gained for itself a reputation, will swell the Athletic fund to a very perceptible degree.
Prof. Penny is a new man but
his energy and his earnest work for the advance of Lawrence and University musical interests are gaining him a reputation in our midst.
Get your girl and attend the Glee club concert at the Opera House this evening. The boys are well drilled under the efficient management of Prof. Peuny, and this is their first public appearance in Lawrence.
Yellow and Sky Blue.
The concert to be given tonight by the University Glee club promises to prove a splendid success. Every loyal student and friend of the University should be present to tend to the efforts of the singers their good will and enthusiasm. As this is the first of the six entertainments for the organ fund, the proceeds will go to that purpose, except the door money which will go to defray the expenses the club has already incurred for costumes, music etc. Many of the old college songs, with the original interpretations that Prof. Penny has given them, will be brought out with charming effect. Not a few of the songs, however, are new and of a class of music worthy the merit of the finest taste.
The University Mandolin club under the able direction of Prof. Saunders will be a pleasant feature of the entertainment.
The boys have all been doing noble work for the last few months and their first appearance should have the hearty patronage of all. The cause is certainly commendable.
Take Heed.
When we returned to Lawrence this fall we had hopes of a year of retired and quiet work. Consequently upon our arrival we at once sought the seclusion of our boarding house. Since then we have been undecided whether we have been in Bedlam or not. The evidence leads us to think we are there, although the presumption, based upon our personal character is against this conclusion.
The facts are these: hardly had we got seated in the arm chair in our room than we heard sundry noises cleaving the air. This startled us. Upon enquiry however we learned that it was only the sound of a flute in the house across the streets two violins in the houses on either side of us, and a piano, banjo, mandolin and singing girl in another house near by. As a further explanation of our present dazed state suffice it to say that the sound of these instruments has never to our knowledge abated since from early in the morning, until late at night. Moreover we fear that neither musicians nor ourselves get
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sleep enough. Our fear however is mainly for ourselves. To sleep or not to sleep is optional with them, but we have no choice. Student musicians, this is getting monotonous. Have a care or otherwise we shall be compelled to leave this cruel world and depart to that bourne from which no traveler returns.
The Glee club will appear at the Opera House to-night, in all their glory of mortar-bords and college gowns. The program will consist of college songs, comic selections and some, that will bring tears to the eyes of the audience. So prepare to shed tears and to split your sides laughing. The club has won rounds of applause wherever it has appeared, and no student can afford to miss this evening's performance.
University Lecture Course.
Leland J. Powers the Prince of inpersonators and his talented wife will appear at the opera house Monday Dec. 15.
Mr. Powers will give his impersonation of Dickens' noted David Copperfield. Those who have heard him are loud in their praises of his work.
Mrs. Powers is a Prima Donna and is favorably spoken of by the press in Chicago and New York.
Says the Chicago Times; Mr. Powers is the star of the company, the support of the brass band and orchestra. He has also acquired immense popularity wherever he has appeared and those who heard him at the Chautauqua last summer are loud in their praises of his work.
The chart is open for holders of course tickets Friday morning, 8 o'clock at Crews.
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