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Kansas University Weekly.
THE ONLY OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED WEEKLY PUBLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. XII.
GHURSDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1903.
PRICE 10 CENGS.
NO.13.
A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year
Photos by Squires.
THE BOYS OF '03.
HISTORY OF THE
TEAM.
Emporia College 0; K. U. 32
K. S. A. C. 0; K. U. 34
State Normal 0; K. U. 12
Colorado 11; K. U. 12
Haskell 12; K. U. 6
Washburn 5; K. U. 0
Oklahoma 5; K. U. 17
Nebraska 6; K. U. 0
Missouri 0; K. U. 5
The foot ball season for 1903 is now history and we look forward to the season of 1904 with more hope and better prospects than foot ball has ever had before here. The foot ball squad will be nearly the same as this season and with experience
and more knowledge of Coach Weeks' system, we should be able to beat anything in this part of the country. The team this season was made up largely of green men, that is, to university foot ball, and if their work this year is any indication of what it will be next year, the university will have no cause for complaint.
K. U. has had a trying time, purifying athletics and several times has lost good men on that account, but has been trying all along to live up to the spirit and letter of the rules under which they play. A permanent student body and genuine college spirit are necessary to make a team successful under the circumstances and results this season speak well for the system. To start the season, Weeks had
To start the season, Weeks had
five men who might be called veterans, Brumage, Allen, Pooler, Hicks, and Cook, and Ackerman and Bruner, who had played as substitutes last year. These men were a nucleus around which to build a team and were used to hold this team together. The team that played the first games of the season was weak in that one great element of foot ball—team work—and did not much resemble that smoothly working foot ball machine that crushed Oklahoma and tore up the Nebraskan's "stone wall" defense.
Coach Weeks deserves most of the credit for the good record the 'varsity has made this year. He took new material and whipped it into shape in a few weeks and was able to so instruct the team that
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they gave the spectators of the Kansas-Nebraska game the best exhibition of foot ball ever seen on McCook field. The Athletic Board has shown their appreciation for Mr. Weeks efforts and their confidence in his coaching abilities by passing a resolution, thanking him and wishing him good luck for the season of 1904.
Probably one fault with the foot ball training at K. U. has been the change of systems. In '00 the coach tried to teach the Cornell system. In '01 Dr. Outland taught Pennsylvania tactics. In '02 Curtis, Wisconsin, and this year Yost's Michigan system was taught. To be a veteran meant very little, so far as knowing how to play the positions went and the old men started at the beginning again. Next year things
will be different. Mr. Weeks will know the men, just what they can do and where they belong, and then think of the foot ball material he will have to work with.
Of the team, we can only assure them again of the support of the student body and of the appreciation, by the student body, of their work the past season
To be a member of a college team is one of the highest honors in the college courses nowadays and each and every athletic representative of the University receives this honor in some degree. A college athlete gets little remuneration beyond this, but one, with the right athletic spirit and the right college spirit asks for no more
The University is proud of the team and promise their support under any conditions.
Rock Chalk!