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Six Hundred University Women Participate In Intramural Sports
By JACQUELINE JONES
A women's intramural sports program in which more than 600 women participate annually is now in full swing.
This program, directed by Miss Ruth Hoover, associate professor of physical education, attracts more women than any other single activity on the campus.
Each year teams from all sororities, organized houses and independent groups take part in various athletic events from September through May.
The great popularity of the women's athletic program is due for the most part to Miss Hoover, one of the best known women instructors at the University.
She has become almost a legend among women in intramurals and physical education. Her great devotion to sports has been endless since she joined the faculty in 1921.
Under her guidance the intramural program has grown until it now includes tennis singles and doubles, badminton singles and doubles, volleyball table tennis.
MISS RUTH HOOVER
basketball, swimming, golf and softball.
This fall over 325 women participated in a five-week volleyball tournament. The championship was won by the Kappa Alpha Theta team, but only after hard fought
victories over many good opponents.
The two other fall sports are badminton singles and tennis singles. Ernestine Dehlinger, education senior, took the badminton championship with brilliant victories over all opponents. Ruth Heilbrunn won the tennis singles, proving again that she is the best of the many tennis players in the intramural program.
Last year was a season of many upsets, but a very good Kappa Alpha Theta team walked off with the championship. The varsity basketball team includes: Ernestine Dehlinger, Sue Neff, Joyce Herschall, Shirley Mickelson, Arlene Hill and Barbara Quinn.
Probably the most popular single sport with the women is basketball. The gals really hit their stride on the hardwood, and competition is terrific.
This fall the field-hockey team journeyed to Ottawa and defeated that school 6 to 0. The players participating in the tournament were: Betty van der Smissen, Betty Clinger, Chole Warner, Flavia Robertson, Vinita Bradshaw, Ernestine Dhelinger, Sydney Ashton, Elva Sutton, Shirley Thompson, Sue Neff, Sue Forney, Mary Ann Mahoney, Jean Michael's, Shirley Wilkie, and Coralynn Wahlberg.
As each major sport in the intramural program ends, the team managers, game officials, and Miss Hoover select an A and B squad for a tournament. These teams play in a tournament for the class championship.
From the class squads the top players are selected for the honorary varsity. Varsity teams in fieldhockey, volleyball, swimming and softball play in four annual tournaments with Ottawa, Baker and Washburn universities.
The highest honors which a woman may attain in intramural sports are awarded at the fall hockey-feed competition. Women's Athletic association, nlcic.
The highest honor is a WAA plaque, awarded to outstanding seniors who have attained at least 2,000 points and who show exceptional sportsmanship and service to the organization.
Old Day Cheerleaders Chinned Themselves On Stiff Collars
By JEANNE FITZGERALD
University of Kansas cheerleaders have certainly come a long way in the casual appearance of their uniforms since 1918.
They really wore some dillies in those days! With few exceptions, all the cheerleaders were men until the late 1930's.
"Formal" attire for a KU chee-leader in 1918 included a stiff cellu-loid collar, a white shirt, a necktie, white pull-over sweater, red coat sweater, tight-legged white pants, stocking caps, and white tennis shoes. Heaven help him, if he accidentally bent his head down and hit his chin on that unsympathetic collar!
In 1922, the white shirt and tie were still in evidence. The uniform was all white that year. No doubt KU women thought the young fellows looked pretty sharp in their bulky, roll-collared sweaters.
The style calmed down a bit in 1924. The sweaters were much like those the KuKu club members wear today. The men wore the jayhawk on the front and the Kansas sign on the back.
The 1930 male cheerleader looked like a Yale man out walking with his girl on Sunday afternoon. He wore a white flannel single breasted jacket, white pants, red and blue sweater under the jacket, white shirt and bow tie. The only thing that gave him away as a Kansas cheerleader was the small size jayhawk emblem on the left breast of his jacket.
The bow ties came off in 1935. The cheerleaders were still all men. They wore white pants and white sweaters with a jayhawk on the front and a Kansas sign on the back. In the Jayhawker picture that year, they looked a little less appoetic without the ties.
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The red sweaters came into style about 1937. Male cheerleaders still sported the jayhawk emblem on the front.
If the gals slouched down enough, their skirts actually reached to the middle of their knees. Incidentally, the skirts were white and the sweaters were red.
KU men came back into the running as cheerleaders in 1947 and have been in full swing ever since. Both men and women wore red sweaters, as they still do. The men wore white trousers and the women wore white skirts which gradually got longer, and longer, and longer.
Women cheerleaders became more and more popular as World War II developed and the men went off to war in ever increasing numbers. A "shortage" of materials became noticeable in the shortness of the skirts the women cheerleaders wore.
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'Uncle Jimmy' Statue Cost Rivals That Of Green Hall
Costing nearly as much as Green hall itself is the "Uncle Jimmy" Green memorial statue which stands in front of the building.
By CYNTHIA McKEE
The statue, which was complete in 1924 by Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln memorial statue in Washington, cost approximately $40,000. Only $50,000 was granted by the state legislature in 1903 for the building itself.
He was the first dean of the first professional department of the University.
Perhaps it was because Dean Green was called the "Patron Saint of Kansas University Football" that the K-State fans always choose Uncle Jimmy as the target of their pre-game paint spells. He was once president of the Athletic association and encouraged sportsmanship.
Dean Green, at his death, left $5,000 to the University to be known as the May Stephens Green Loan fund for students in the School of
The statue is of James Woods Green, dean of the School of Law for 40 years. The booted man upon whose shoulder Uncle Jimmy rests his hand is Alfred C. Alford, the first University student killed in war. He was killed Feb. 7, 1899 in the Spanish-American war.
Green began in 1878 to instruct 13 young men in the school. The state at that time provided no pay for its law department. He continued his private law practice until 1885.
Law and the College.
The law building itself was finished in 1905, at which time there were 150 students in the school.
The night the announcement was made that the legislature had appropriated $50,000 for the building, the engineers hauled a small frame
California Features
Lightweight Wools
By DIANNE STONEBRAKER
The California influence will fashion styles in all parts of the country next spring, with emphasis on lightweight wool.
In a salute to the importance of the California fashion market 12 of the nation's leading woolen mills have created a sparkling array of new woolen and worsted colors for use by West Coast manufacturers.
For those clothes-conscious KU women, here is a preview of some outstanding wool fashions that will highlight campus fashions in spring, 1952.
A bright clear shade of orange called "desert poppy" is featured in a two-piece skirt and blouse ensemble by Campus Casuals of California. The blouse has richly tailored yoke and short Dolman sleeves. Fine pleating is used on the bodice and the skirt is pleated all around.
An exciting pyramid fleece coat arrives on the fashion scene from L.C. Mae of Hollywood in "Laguna dawn," a clear peach color that is sure of fashion-fame for 1952.
Precisely fashioned is Orry-Kelly's "sweater suit"—a definitely-1952 fashion that combines California's beloved sweater-look with the high elegance of important-occasion wear.
Perfect for cool evenings is a lovely and lightweight sleeveless dress with matching jacket in cinnamon toned "adobe brown." The trim-lined dress is topped with a rib-length jacket featuring a low cut shawl collar that falls with double capelet effect at back of dress.
The possibility of a combined gymnasium and law building was considered at that time. The first plan was for a gymnasium in the basement, an auditorium on the main floor and the law school on the second floor.
building up Mount Oread and placed it in front of Fraser hall. It bore the inscriptions, "Green Hall," "The New New Law Building" and "Gymnasium in the Basement."
The students in the University had wanted a gymnasium very badly. A request had been made to the legislature for one but only the new law building had been granted.
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