THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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tackled, he bunted and he grunted, and once when the ball was Nebraska's on three downs, he removed his comical pagoda like cap and let out his pent up emotions in a wild halloo of satisfied delight."
The team work and interference of both elevens was very poor and K. U's superiority in that respect will tell when she meets them on the gridiron.
FOOT-BALL NOTES.
Cornell won from the University of Michigan last Saturday, scoring twenty-two points to Michigan's nothing. Cornell is putting up great ball this year and will run the University of Pennsylvania a neck and neck race for fourth place among the great football teams of the east. Nine of Cornell's eleven are under 19 years of age, but Captain Warner, the pride of the team, is 24 and pulls down the scales at 205 pounds.
The Lawrence High School met the Kansas City, Kansas, Migh School on McCook field last Saturday, defeating them by a score of 34 to 0. The Lawrence boys gave an exhibition of brilliant ball playing that could hardly be expected from a high school team. The interference and tackling was good, and doubtless when Captain Rodgers attends K.U. next year he will give the 'Varsity eleven some valuable pointers in goal kicking. Several of the best Kansas City players will also attend K.U. next year among them O'Brien, weighing 176 pounds stripped and a good all-around player. We are glad to see high school foot-ball receiving the encouragement it deserves. Material for future 'Varsity elevens could not be more happily supplied.
The following are the scores in the more important games played last Saturday: Yale, 12; Brown, 0; Wisconsin, 46; Beloit, 0; Dartmouth, 10; Williams, 0; Illinois, 6; Pastimes, 2; Washburn, 16; College of Emporia, 4.
Abilene defeated the Manhattan Agricultural College by a score of 24 to 0. The dispatches say that Captain Matteson, of Abilene, for two years the pride of the State University, was the most potent factor in the game.
A jay paper of western Kansas informs its readers that foot-ball is not near so dangerous, now that the Marquis of Queensbury rules have been abolished.
As both games of the league were won by goal kicking, it would seem to emphasize the importance of this accomplishment. More practice is needed by the 'Varsity eleven in this line of foot-ball playing. A sure goal kicker encourages the team immensely.
On Tuesday morning the German Club and the Category Gulch boys met on the gridiron for a friendly game of foot-ball. Only one touch-down was made in the first half. The final score was 14 to 0 in favor of Category. The features of the game were the plays of Hassig and Morrison for Category, of Steele and Ludlum for the Germans, and the original signals of both sides.
Gen. Toomey is advertised as the drawing card at a dime entertainment given by the Congregational church in Ottawa next Tuesday. He will sing. Verily the ways of a foot-ball man are past finding out. Baldwin Ledger.
STUDY WINDOW
The Editor still tarried in the country. The general impression was that he was away for his health. In fact he told his mother, when he said goodbye, that he felt the need of a change from his present work; a little undisturbed rest in the country would soon enable him to regain his usual vigor. The good woman was immediately alarmed; she "knew" he had been going beyond his strength, and, as she told those to whom she explained his absence, he had really been quite overworking himself; his was such an ardent nature that he threw his whole soul into whatever he undertook, and his health wouldn't stand it. Thus the report was spread abroad that the Editor had over-taxed his strength in his great undertaking, and everybody professed to be not at all surprised, although no one had noticed his looking ill.
It was a great comfort to the Editor to think that whatever society might say of him, his mother would stand by him; though the world might call him a fool, in her eyes he would always be a paragon of learning. The Editor saw no harm in her adoration of him. Of course he knew that he was not very wise; but it pleased her to think so, and what was the use of protesting against it? He had not yet realized that in yielding to her worship, merely to give her pleasure, as it seemed to him then, he was fostering in