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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 12. 1951
KU Stadium Begun 30 Years Ago
Twelve sections of Memorial stadium are 30 years old this year.
Those twelve sections, six on each side of the field, comprised the entire stadium as it stood on Thanksgiving day of 1921. On that day the first game to be played in the then-new stadium saw K.U. defeat the University of Missouri 15 to 9.
The drive for building funds began in November of 1920, and pre-construction activities started in the same year when students were dismissed from classes for a day to tear down the old bleachers at McCook field. Contractors began work immediately after that and the twelve original sections were completed in the fall of 1921.
The stadium, patterned after the stadium at Princeton university, was conceived as part of a memorial to 129 University students killed in World War I. Other projects included in the memorial were the statue of "Uncle Jimmy" Green and the Memorial Union building.
One of the first problems construction men faced was the water that drained off the north side of Mt. Orread after it rained. They solved that one by laying a large drain under the field to carry the excess water away.
Campanile Area Is Landscaped
Plans for terracing walks and drives in the immediate environs of the Memorial campanile have been announced by Alton Thomas, landscape architect for the University.
He said that it is hoped that a good part of the landscape work will be finished in time for the dedication services to be held Sunday, May 27.
Planting plans and some drawings for seats and lighting of the campanile are ready. Flowering trees and evergreens will be planted around the tower base, Thomas said.
Paths will swing into a terrace to be built. Four benches will be constructed on points of the star shaped terrace.
Two paths, one on each side of the campanile, will lead down to the stadium. Stairs will be constructed leading down from the east side of the campanile. They will be used for commencement exercises in June and will be visible from the stadium.
"Plans for the terrace around the base are still tentative, because the fills may settle, making it impossible to do the construction work." Thomas said. The three factors governing the speed of completion are time, money and weather, he added.
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The field itself was then underlaid with criss-crossed drain pipes packed in cinders and covered with turf. This helped to prevent the field from becoming soggy in bad weather-er.
The stadium was formally dedicated at the 1922 homecoming game. One member of that 1922 K.U. football team is still pretty well known at the University. Number 24 is better known now as Dr. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men.
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Baccalaureate and commencement exercises were held for the first time in the stadium in the spring of 1924.
Later the end sections containing dressing rooms and showers were built. By 1931 the north end had been added and the stadium was pretty much as it is today.
The 1951 homecoming program estimated the stadium had cost a total of $640,000. Since then miscellaneous
expenses and additions probably have swollen that figure to nearer $740,000.
Under the east side of the stadium there is an indoor track, a laundry for athletic equipment, housing units for approximately 64 students, and storage rooms. The west side contains storage rooms and, of all things, a wind tunnel. The tunnel was built for the aeronautical engineering department when airplanes were still new and rather frightening machines.
Isotopes Used For Study
Yes, the stadium is a lot bigger than it was in 1921. The 20,000 persons who witnessed that first game would have plenty of elbow room in the present stadium with its seating capacity of 35,000.
Moscow, Ida. (U.P.)—The University of Idaho will be the first in America and possibly the world to use radioactive isotopes in the study of tree diseases. Scientists will treat certain chemicals with radioactive substances to trace their absorption by trees.
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