THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL.I. NO.16.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, NOVEMBER 10, 1904.
5 Cents per copy
TEAM LEAVES TODAY.
If Kansas puts up the game it did last Saturday there can be no doubt of the result.
Arrive at St. Louis and Play Washington Eleven Saturday in World's Fair Stadium.—Kansas Should Win Ly Good Margin.
The Kansas football warriors will leave tonight at 8:55 for St. Louis, where they meet the Washington University team in the Stadium in the World's Fair grounds next Saturday. This will be the longest trip taken by the Kansas squad this year.
Judging from the achievements of the two teams so far this year Kansas should be victorious Saturday; but football news is usually deceitful and Washington will probably make Kansas play hard, fast, football to win. Coach Boynton of Washington has been working his men hard lately and says he hopes to spring a surprise on the Jayhawkers.
The game will furnish Jayhawker supporters a basis for an estimate of the comparative strength of the Kansas and Missouri teams, as last Saturday Washington beat Missouri by a score of 11 to 0.
MINNESOTA AFTER POLICE.
Students and Police are at outs There—A Similar Case to Kansas Trouble 600 Freshmen Ducked in Lake at Wisconsin.
In the annual lower class rush at Wisconsin over 600 Freshmen were ducked in Lake Mendota. The rush lasted for over three hours and was the most strenuous in the history of the University.
The Minnesota Daily rises to the defense of the reputation of college students by entering a vigorous protest against the frequent statements in daily papers that students are lawless. Their disturbances, it says, are generally made by "local product" hoodlums. "When University enthusiasm has been carried to excess, we are ready to take the blame," it continues. "but we protest against being held responsible for the rowdies or the denizens of the slums."
President Eliot and the Corporation of Harvard have determined that admission to athletic contests will be free to Harvard students as soon as the Stadium is paid for, which, it is expected, will be within three years. By buying a special ticket, a student, at present, can limit the cost of witnessing all baseball and football games and track meets to ten dollars.
The University of California is
planning to play important football games on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
Cornell has tried an experiment this year in the way of providing a training table for the Freshmen football squad. The plan, up to this time, has proved a decided success.
The new $400,000 gymnasium at Pennsylvania is nearly completed.
The attendance at Cornell this year is 3,432 as against 3,453 last year. The decrease is in the colleges of arts and medicine and is largely among the women
It has been announced that an agreement has been made whereby Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be united. Under this arrangement neither institute would sacrifice independence. Separate faculties and administrations would prevail. The practical difference would be that all industrial sciences would fall to Technology, while liberal arts and pure sciences would still be at Harvard.
The faculty at Washburn college refused to allow cider to be used in Republican mass meeting in the chapel.
The University of Northwestern shortly before a big game bought 5,000 one-dollar pen-
MISSOURI GAME MAY BE HERE.
Sigma Chi has established a chapter at Syracuse.
On Account of Big Expense and continual Wrangling of Kansas City Park Authorities the Great Missouri-Kansas Game May Be Played Alternately In Lawrence and Columbia.
Mrs. Marshall, of Lincoln, Kan., is visiting her son B. B. Marshall, at the Sigma Nu house.
nants, and by buying so great a number was enabled to sell them at 50 cents apiece. At the game the bleachers were a sea of purple.
There is considerable talk of changing the annual Thanksgiving game from Kansas City to Lawrence and Columbia, each University having the contest in its home town alternately. This idea has been agitated in the last two years and it now books as if the great drawing card of Kansas City may be a remarkable drawing card for some other town and our home town and home grounds as well. It is the custom to play the game in Kansas City and has been the custom. It was established when there was but little interest in the national college sport as compared with what exists now. Kansas City helped very materially in making up any deficit that might occur in the athletic associations of Kansas and Missouri. Now it is different. The expense of grounds, hotels, advertising and
Students are especially urged to look over our advertisements and patronize only KANSAN advertisers; because it is through them that a semi-weekly is running and they will make a daily possible.
At California 150 men have signed up for fall work in preparation for the track team.
Columbia has nine student publications, 1 daily, 2 weeklies, 1 semi-monthly, 1 published every three weeks, 1 in six months, and two annuals.
Pennsylvania has eight class crews from her various colleges practicing on the river now for the annual class races.
A college will probably be opened at Johnson City, Tennessee, next December for the benefit of those who were not able to get a college education when young. About 200 graybearded veterans from Chicago are said to have already matriculated as freshmen at the new institution.
all pertaining to the Thanksgiving game amounts to over 2500 dollars. In addition to this there is an unending trouble existing between the park managers at Kansas City and the athletic authorities of Kansas and Missouri. After having a five years contract a serious altercation has come up and it is probable that the game will not be played in Sportsman park. There is much unnecessary trouble and the athletic board and Manager Plank have determined to either have a definite understanding with the Kansas City managers or leave the Western Metropolis to Central and Manual high schools.
The only probable prevention of the game in Lawrence, as matters now stand. is the inadequate arrangements for both accommodations and seating the crowd after it gets to the field. At Missouri the Tigers are a little better fixed than Kansas is. This could all be remedied and while it is probable that such a large crowd as gathers at Kansas City would come here or go to Columbia, still the games
would be played on home grounds and between 7000 and 9000 people would be expected. This would be more money to the two teams than they now receive. The true lovers of the game would come here and with a rate of 75 cents from Kansas City it is estimated that between 2,000 and 3,500 people would come to Lawrence, so the theory is advanced.
There was some talk of a Kansas City athletic field to be owned by Kansas and Missouri universities but this did not materialize
Dean Green and Prof. Van der Vries will go to Kansas City Saturday and endeavor to make some peacable agreement with the park managers. It is probable, according to a leading authority in the University today, that the game will be played in Lawrence next season.
GIRLS LACK INTEREST IN BASKET BALL.
May Not Have a Team.
Interest in girls' basket ball team is falling off noticeably. At the first of the year, with much promising material, and the certainty of getting a good schedule the basket ball leaders were hopeful of having a winning team, but now it is doubtful whetner or not a team can be gotten together at all.
Tuesday of last week nine girls turned out making it impossible for any team work to be had. Last Thursday only seven appeared. Manager Plank said ast week that if ten girls turned out he would referee, but from present appearances his place as referee seems to be a sinecure.
SIXTEEN SINGERS TO GO.
These are the sixteen men who will make the Glee club trip during the Christmas holidays: First tenor: F. A. Hartman, H. E. Popham, W. Russell, S. Moore. Second tenor; H. W. Davis, J. W. Lapham, E. L. Bailey, A. D. Bernhardt. First bass; E. Copley, H. L. Simpson, H. H. Asher, R. W. Hoover. Second bass; S. Copley, L. S. Weatherby, L. W. Scherer, P. C. Cook.
They will give a concert next Friday in Kansas City, Kansas.
UNIVERSITY BOYS IN COURT MONDAY.
The trials of the University students who were arrested while an innocent celebration was in progress on Mass. street will be tried in the district court Monday. Prof. Higgins and Dean Green have been working hard on the case and expect to clear the prison debutantes.
Monday night Sigma Chi entertained very pleasantly at a Hallowe'en masque party in Pythian hall. The decorations of Jack-o-lanterns, the appropriate refreshments and the various costumes helped to make it a very unique affair.