THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. I. NO. 4.
NEW FOOTBALL QUARTERS.
The football training table will be started within the next ten days at 1401 Tennessee street and until then the men will continue at 1202 Kentucky. Mrs. Burgess will have charge of the entire table and the athletic board will have charge over her.
Football Team to Have New Training Table and House all of Their Own at 1401 Tenn.—Mrs. Burgess in Charge—Men Welcome the Change With Joy
With Joy.
There are too many other people in the dining room now so the men cannot have any private talk and Coach Kennedy cannot instruct the men in the secret formations. One of the most important places for a coach to work with his men is at the training table and this is where most of the coaches get in their best work on the men in addition to the secret practice Mrs. M. Bugess who is now in St Louis and has been running the University of Kansas restaurant at the World's Fair will be the manager under the supervision of Manager Plank and the athletic board. Mrs. Burgess had charge of the table last year and every man was pleased with the treatment, the food and every detail of the service. The new quarters will be furnished immediately and will be the football men's headquarters as regards the training table, secret discussions and as to plans and tactics. The new quarters and the change were officially announced last night to a KANSAN reporter Everything is expected to be working by the time of the Haskell game.
JUDGE GREEN REFUSES RE-ELECTION.
Says He Will Not Stand for Another Term Under Any Circumstances—Will Be Nominated and All University Demands He Accept.
As announced in the KANSAN Judge Green who has been president of the athletic association for so many years will not stand for re-election. But two other people on the hill knew it at the time and on account of the exceptional popularity of Dean Green but few thought there was any truth in the report. At least few believed that Kansas would no longer have a man like Dean Green to guide the affairs of the athletic association.
Friday in chapel Chancellor Strong announced that he read a statement to the effect that
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 29, 1904.
ATHLETIC CANDIDATES.
There should not be a whirlwind stir in politics, if stir there must be, until nearer election which is next Tuesday.
The Freshmen team will play Fort Scott high school next month.
A prominent Beta leader told a KANSAN reporter at press time that he didn't know what his ticket would be as yet. The "Boss Busters" ticket comprises Yale, who was seriously hurt while upholding the honors of the Freshmen, Oldroyd, the Sophomore chief; Fred Ray, Kepner, Sherwood, and possibly two more.
MANDOLIN CLUB.
5 Cents per copy
The Mandolin Club promises to be the best this year in the history of the institution. Twenty two men were out Wednesday night trying for places.
It is proposed this year, to add tour new instruments, a cello, flute and two banjos, making more of a mandolin orchestra. Under the energetic leadership of Heim Goldman. An itinerary is being mapped out for the Xmas holidays to include southern Nebraska and Northern Kansas.
The club in conjunction with the Glee Club also intend to give a concert in Kansas City on Thanksgiving night.
CHANCELLOR STRONG TALKS AT WORLD'S FAIR
Professionalism in College Athletics Scored by Educators.—University President Says School Sports are in Era of "Systematic Prevarication."
The below was copied from a St. Louis paper sometime since and at the time Chancellor Strong received much notoriety and his picture was used by many great daibus
College athletics was the target of speakers before the Department of Higher Education of National Educational Association yesterday afternoon, and three university presidents-one from the East and two from the West-scored certain features that have become part of the great intercollegiate contests.
Even preparatory schools offer money to boys from the grammar schools that they might secure material that may be disposed of when duly trained to buyers in the college world. College faculties should see the facts and refuse to live in a fool's paradise of ignorance.
President William H. P. Faunce of Brown University declared that college athletics in the East have reached the stage of "systematic prevarication."
Chancellor Frank Strong of the University of Kansas denounced professionalism, and though he prefaced his remarks by stating that he thought the general influence of athletics in colleges is good, he also said: "It would be better to go back to the formless stage of college sports than to keep on in the present tendency. We can never aspire to the condition where all our students take part in rational athletic exercises so long as the whole system works toward cutting out all but the few who are especially strong or skillful or who are professionally trained."
"There is not a college base ball team in the East," he declared, "which believes in the real eligibility of any other team."
PROFESSIONALISM DENOUNCED.
"It seems to me," he continued "that the main indictment to be brought against athletics, as at present administered, is that it lowers the ideals of college life and introduces the unwelcome element of professionalism into the college atmosphere and affects every department of the college. This element is introductory of bad temper, the lack of self control, of an uneasy, intemperate life, and a lack of con-
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SECRET PRACTICE BEGINS.
Coach Kennedy Keeps Outsiders Off Field.-Some New Men-. Saturday's Line-up.- Changes to be Tried.
The work of the men on McCook field is showing a marked improvement over that of Saturday and it is expected that by the end of the week the men will be in a better condition.
Tuesday evening Coach Kennedy instituted secret practice and only a few outsiders were admitted to the field. This will continue until after the Haskell game. The material is still good and none of the old men feels that his position is "cunched."
Among the new men who have come out in the past few days are Smith of Girard, who has had two years experience at tackle on the High School team of that place. He weighs 165 pounds. Haas of Guthrie, O. T. is out for full back and promises to put up a strong fight for the position. He weighs 150 pounds. Hudkins of Cawker City is again on the field and puts up a strong game at tackle. Captain Hickis is suffering very little from the cut on his forehead and hopes to enter the game next Saturday without a bruise. Green's injury sustained some time ago in a collision with Royer is entirely well and he will be able to enter the game. The terrific heat of last Saturday was rather hard on the men and some of them feel the effects of it yet, but fast aggressive work is expected against the Normalites.
Line up; Michaelson, center; Brunner, right guard; Davies, right tackle; Captain Hicks, right end; Ackerman, left guard; Donald, left tackle, Fleishman, left end; Pooler, Livingston, Green, quarter; McCoy, Chappell Meyers. Ise, halves; Russell and McCarty full back.
MAY BAR FRESHMEN.
High School Graduates Lack
German.
Some trouble has been caused in a number of the German classes on a point of the fact that a number of high school graduates, the majority of them from Lawrence, have entered the University with only two years of German and practically no Latin.
The catalogue states that either three years of German or three years of Latin are required for entrance into the School of Arts. Few high schools give three years of German and many students without the required Latin, but with two years of German, enter with a condition in German. A clause is now discovered in the catalogue stating that there shall be no freshman conditions in German.
The German department is considering the matter of keeping the questioned students from continuing their studies.