THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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wrong deeds of others, and do all in his power to assist in hunting down the miscreants who steal books from the library. who take clippings from the periodicals' who willfully mar the furtiture and walls, or who in any way do anything to lessen the usefulness or beauty of the library building.
Owing to the large amount of extra work made necessary by the fact that our issue of next week is to be a special Thanksgiving number, it will be impossible for us to publish it at the usual time. It will be out, however, early in Thanksgiving week, in time for those who go home to take it with them.
ATHLETICS.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY VS. ANN ARBOR.
A second time Kansas and Michigan have contended for honors on the gridiron, and a second time the yellow and blue of the Wolverines waves in triumph over the crimson of the gallant Jayhawkers. It is seldom that a defeat possesses the salient elements of a victory, but such is the case with the game played last Saturday at Kansas City. Michigan, besides having one of the heaviest teams in the country, has traded a long time at the foot-ball stand and may properly be classed among the great teams of the east. The fact that Michigan has played Cornell and Cornell has played Harvard affords an opportunity to judge of the respective merits of eastern and western foot-ball methods. While Kansas is not yet in the same class with Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania, her snappy play and abundant endurance puts her in advance of western amateurs and assures her of an eastern standard, in time. This is due in a large measure to Prof. Hector Cowan, whose coaching was very much in evidence in Satday's game. All through the last half, when the Michiganders began to fag and grow perceptibly weary under the terrific onslaughts of Piatt and Pope, the Kansas boys seemed to take a new life, and their snap and vim earned them their second touchdown and would have earned them a third, but for the expiration of time. As it was, the whistle sounded for the close of the second half with the ball on Michigan's ten yard line.
What serves most for the encouragement
of lovers of the crimson, however, is the size of the score with theVarsity team in such a deplorable condition. All of the substitutes did their work well, far better than the most ardent well-wisher could have expected. But the Kansas center needed the strengthening assurance which accompanies the invincible "Chappie" Stone. The fleetfooted Steinberger could more nearly have balanced the end which Armour so gallantly held down-or carried with him. And the whole team needed the coolhead and the sure tackles of Captain "Billie" Williamson.
The line up of the teams and their weights are as follows:
KANSAS. POSITION MICHIGAN
Armour, 160. r.e...Price, 150
Piatt, 160. r.t...Reynolds, 161
Griffiths, 158. r.g...Henninger, 168
Walker, 165. e...Smith, 220
Moody, 170. l g...Carr, 196
Pope, 186. l t.. Vila, 190
Kirk, 156. l e...Senter, 175
Hill, 155. q.b...Ferbert, 145
Wilson, 155. l h...Dygert, 163
Shellenbarger, 150. r.h..Bloomington, 160
Hester, 155. f.b...Dyer, 165
R. W. Cowan; umpire. R. R.
Lineman. R. W. Cowan: umpire. R. Ramsdell: referee, Tom Mastin.
In the first part of the game the beefy Wolverines had it all their own way. Dyer and Bloomington advanced through the line or galloped around end, or by way of novelty, worked the crisscross, and every time for long gains, until the atmosphere became decidedly hazy for the Kansas rooters, and the crimson faded from view like the sun on a cloudy day. In fifteen minutes two touchdowns had been made and two goals kicked. In the next seven minutes another touchdown was added, making the score, Michigan 16, Kansas 0.
A roar of joy and a taunting yell from the wearers of the blue aud yellow greeted the Kansans as they walked back to the center of the field, but it had a contrary effect from that intended, for the Kansas lads gritted their teeth, prepared to do or die. They first tried bucking the line, but the heavy men from Michigan were too much for them and Kansas was forced to resort to a punt. Hester kicked low, right into the hands of Dyer, but the latter fumbled and gave Armour a long wished for opportunity.
The pigskin was rolling away from the rattled Dyer, when like a flash, Armour bounded through the Michigan line, caught up the ball and was off with it across the
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