Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Your University And Ours
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A day like any other autumn day in Kansas . . . sunshine beaming lightly down upon the grass no longer green . . . half barren trees whose plumage has been shed upon the ground . . . a gentle breeze that flaps the flags on Fraser hall and tousles the boyish bobs of co-eds strolling down the campus. This is the setting that awaits the visit of "old timers" when they return to their alma mater today and tomorrow to see a mingling of the familiar and strange, of the traditional and the modern . . . to see the faces of those who have replaced them as K.U. students.
Years may alter the clothes they wear and the slang they speak but every Homecoming day finds the same enthusiastic crowd of students. They are the breath which gives life to the massive group of buildings set atop Mt. Oread. They are the soul of the immortal Jayhawk. They are the voices which will forever sing, "Far Above the Golden Valley . . . .."
This strand in the University's pattern of traditions was created in 1913, just two years after the first homecoming in the country at the University of Illinois. It was Alfred "Scoop" Hill who inaugurated the celebration at K.U. . . a celebration which has been molded loosely with new phases added and old ones discarded until the program has become the school's biggest event of the year. Football, returning alumni, parties, decorations, and rallying—all are rolled up into one gigantic weekend. Parades, old timers' nights, hobo days, turkey runs and other features of past Homecoming days have been abandoned but not forgotten by those men and women who took part in them one, two, or three decades ago.
Tales of former students' breaking off car doors and poking out window lights in their enthusiastic celebrations after football victories make today's Jayhawkers seem tame. But we hope the old timers will still enjoy the festivities we've planned for a gala week-end . . . from the pep rally Friday night followed by the Jayhawk Follies to the battle with the Cornhuskers Saturday afternoon and finally the dance in the Union building culminating the two-day affair.
Since a school lives and grows by the loyalty, the affection, and the support of her sons and daughters—we, the undergraduates, take pride in welcoming back Homecoming visitors, for this is your university and ours.
Floridan Draws Kansas Cartoon
Dave Graue of Sarasota, Fla., drew the Homecoming cartoon although he has never seen the University of Kansas.
"I sure hope those Jaybirds at K.U. romp all over the corn-pone boys. If they don't, this cartoon is going to look mighty funny," Graue wrote.
A K.U. friend obtained the Floridan's work. He is assistant cartoonist for V.T.Hamlin who draws the Alley Oop comic strip.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
18th Year No. 31
Friday, Oct. 27, 1950
hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
Nine Trophies To Be Awarded For Decoration
Fifty organized houses will compete for nine trophies to be awarded in the Homecoming decoration contest which will be judged between 7 and 10 p.m. today.
Announcement of the winners will be made at the intermission of the Kansas-Nebraska football game by E. R. Elbel, professor of physical education. The trophies are displayed at L. G. Balfour company, 411 West 14th street.
The exhibits will be judged upon the basis of originality, appropriateness, artistic design, and good taste. A limit of $50 is placed on costs for decorating.
First and second place trophies will be awarded in each division of fraternities, sororites, independent men, and independent women. A third place trophy will presented in the fraternity division since that division has the most entries.
Other members of the committee are Mrs. Forrest C. Allen, Mrs. Frank R. Gray, and Mrs. William R. Scott, who are the judges.
Homecoming Calendar
FRIDAY.OCT.27
5:30 p.m. Reunion Dinner, football team of 1920. Union Building
4:00 p.m. Registration opens Union building.
6:30 p.m. Bonfire Pep Rally,Varsity Baseball Diamond. Snake dance to Hoch auditorium.
7:15 p.m. Basketball game,
Freshman vs. Varsity. Hoch auditorium. Admission 50 cents
8:30 p.m. Jayhawk Follies, Student Variety Show. Hoch Auditorium, No charge
9:30 a.m. Registration opens again. Union Building.
SATURDAY. OCT. 28
10:00 to noon Coffee Hour, Open House, Main Lounge, Union Building. Faculty members will act as hosts.
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Budget Buffet Luncheon, Hawk's Nest, Union Building.
10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Cafeteria service, Cafeteria Floor, Union Building
2:00 p.m. University of Kansas vs. Nebraska Football Game. Crowning of Homecoming Queen between halves
10:30 and 11:00 a.m. Showing of Movie, "Your University," Pine Room. Union Building.
After Game Open House for Alumni, parents of students, and friends. Union Building. Coffee and Doughnuts for all.
8:30 to midnight Dance. Union Building, Gene Hall's Band, admission 50 cents.
Homecoming brings back to the University more of its alumni than any other single event. On behalf of all those persons who make up the University of Kansas, I extend our most hearty greetings. Although your time here may be brief, we hope you will be able to renew acquaintances with other Jayhawkers, with the faculty, and with the campus that was once your home. We can't vouch for the weather or the results of the football game, but we can assure you we are glad to have you back.
Homecoming Greetings
Deane W. Malott Chancellor
Jayhawkers Rally For Homecoming
By MARVIN ARTH and ELLSWORTH ZAHM
The 1950 Homecoming Began this morning with a pep rally in Fowler grove. Highlighting the always colorful Homecoming weekend will be the all important Nebraska-Kansas football game.
Thirty-five thousand tickets have already been sold for the game, E. L. Falkenstien, athletic business manager, said Thursday evening. Bleacher tickets went on sale this morning. There are 2,000 bleacher seats available.
Jayhawkers Bill Mace and Dean Wells gave short talks at the 9:45 rally. More than 1,000 students attended the rally, where Dr. Yak, traditional pepster, handed out "pep pills."
The Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, Frank L. Hageman, will attend the game Saturday. Gov. Frank Carlson will be unable to come because of campaign commitments.
Six members of the Board of Regents, Dr. L. B. Spake, Kansas City; Mrs. Leo Haughey, Concordia; Willis N. Kelley, Hutchinson; Drew McLaughlin, Paola; Oscar Stauffer, Topeka; and Walter S. Fees. Iola will attend.
The queen candidates and their escorts will be seated in the section reserved for them in the center of the cadet corps, just south of the K.U. band, Jay James, and the KuKu's.
Ada Hatfield, Comnie Maus, and Alice Ruth Walls, the homecoming queen candidates will be escorted by David Sailer, Jerry Waugh, and Charles Hall.
At the half-time, the three queen candidates and their escorts will be driven counter clock-wise around the track in three convertibles. The Kansas and Nebraska bands will mass at opposite ends of the field and will salute both the K.U. and N.U. stands. The cadet corps will form an "L" shaped corridor from the southwest corner of the field to a point back of the goal posts, then down through the goal posts to the 10-yard line.
Leaving the cars at the southwest corner of the field, the candidates will be escorted through the corridor and out to the 20-yard line by their escorts.
The candidates will be met on the field by Chancellor Malott, Colonel Kumpe, Colonel Moore, Captain Terrell, commander of the military units on the campus, and Lt. Gov. Frank Hageman. The two bands will form a crown and the queen's name will be announced for the first time.
Chancellor Malott will present the queen with a large bouquet of roses and then the attendants will be handed bouquets of chrysanthemums. The queen and her party will then return to the stadium.
The queen candidates appeared on WDAF-TV Thursday evening. The candidates were accompanied to Kansas City by Don Powell, Homecoming chairman, Elmer F. Beth and Donald G. Wilson, co-chairmen of the queen's committee.
A Bonfire Rally Will Be Held at the varsity baseball diamond southeast of Memorial stadium at 6:30 tonight. The KuKu's, men's pep club will be in charge of the bonfire, which is to be one of the largest in the University's history. The Lawrence Quarterback club voted Wednesday night to give the KuKu's all material available for the bonfire.
The Sanitation department, the chemical plant under construction in South Lawrence, and the old City hall now being torn down, will all be sources of old lumber and boxes for the fire. Two local firms and the University's buildings and grounds committee have each donated a truck for gathering the bonfire material.
After the rally, the students will snakedance to Hoch auditorium where the freshman-Varsity basketball game will be held at 7:15. Tickets for the game can be obtained at the gate for 50 cents.
Following the game, The 1950 Jayhawk Follies will begin. The Follies is a student variety show which will include skits, pantomimes, and specialty numbers. Approximately 160 students will participate in the show.
Phog Allen's 1920 "Dream Team" will have dinner at the Union at 5:30 tonight. The "dream team" is the team that beat Iowa State by using a play that Coach Allen had dreamed of the night before. The team went on to tie a favored Nebraska team after trailing 20 to 0 at half-time. It was this game which started the drive that built Memorial stadium.
Nineteen members, two coaches, and a cheerleader of the team have notified Fred Ellsworth, Alumni secretary, that they will be here for Homecoming.
Saturday morning events will include a coffee hour and open house in the Union lounge from 10 until noon. The faculty members will act as hosts. The movie "Your University" will be shown in the Pine room of the Union at 10:30 and again at 11.
A budget buffet luncheon will be served in the Hawk's nest of the Union from 11:30 to 1 p.m. After the game, there will be an open house for alumni, parents of students, and friends in the Union lounge.
The KuKu's will pass out 5,000 pamphlets containing all the K.U. songs and cheers at the game. They were donated by seven Lawrence firms.