MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1949
UNIVERSITY, DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Soccer, Football's Grandad Began On Old Battle Field
What's the national sport? In the United States the answers to such a poll would put baseball and basketball at the top.
Not so in the British Isles, Italy, Uruguay, and about 50 other countries from artic Spitbergen to Australia, says the National Geographic society, Washington, D. C. High on the list, if not at the top,
would be soccer. Some foreign teams toured the U.S. this summer, demonstrating their brand of play.
So popular is soccer in many parts of the world that it often stirs spectators to a state of near-hysteria. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, referees sometimes are hustled from the stadium under guard lest they be manhandled. Enthusiasm in Italy rivals the best the World Series can offer.
Soccer, the granddaddy of all forms of football known today, got its start by strange happenance in 11th century Britain. English workers, digging at an old battle site after the Danes vacated the country in 1042, found a skull presumably belonging to one of their former enemy.
Still bitter with memories of the Danish occupation, the men began kicking the skull back and forth among themselves. The idea caught on among a group of boys watching the workmen. The lads substituted an inflated cow bladder for a skull, and the game was born.
one of its earliest forms soccer was played between adjacent English communities. Teams often numbering several hundred players each, would meet midway between two towns and attempt to kick the bladder to the rival's community.
Soccer was known merely as "football" in England until the latter part of the 19th century. An "unsporsmanlike" run with the ball in 1823 by a Rugby college student accidentally produced a new form of the sport. Running with the ball soon won recognition and demanded distinction from the original game.
New York, Sept. 19—U(P).The coast guard abandoned its search today for two missing Italian fliers who attempted to fly non-stop from the Azores to New York in a tiny single-engined plane.
Coast Guard Ends Search For Missing Benefit Flyers
The coast guard office here cancelled all air-sea search parties after two days of futile searching in the Atlantic south of Newfoundland for traces of soldier-of-fortune John Brondello and Capt. Camillo Barioglio.
The fliers who were staging their transatlantic hop to raise funds for an Italian boys town last reported their position 940 miles northeast of New York Friday night.
Date For Campanile Bids Postponed
The date for opening of contractors bids for construction of the University World War II Memorial campanile has been postponed until Tuesday, Sept. 27, Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, said today.
The decision to change the date was made at a conference of Memorial association officials, and Chas. Marshall, Kansas state architect, in Topeka. The additional time will be used for further investigation of the production of local stone for the bell tower.
The tower is expected to cost $100,000 or more. The remainder of the $325,000 in the memorial fund will provide the carillon and memorial driveway.
Utah's Great Salt lake, Utah lake, and Sevier lake are tiny remnants of an ancient ice-age inland sea which geologists call Lake Bonneville. It covered what is now western Utah, eastern Nevada, and southern Idaho.
FCC Could Curb Lottery Broadcasts
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 19—(U.P.)
—An article in the current issue of the Yale law journal said today that the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to prohibit giveaway radio programs.
The article, unsigned, said that lottery broadcasts were outlawed under criminal statute. Although the FCC had no specific power to enforce this statute, it said, it had "implied authority to effect the prohibition of such broadcasts either by formal rules or by the indirect techniques of considering violations in license proceedings."
Should the courts uphold the FCC authority, said the article, "many broadcasters would prefer that it be exercised through formal rules rather than the commission's oblique technique of regulation 'by the raised eyebrow' or by licensing power."
According to the journal, prizes awarded by major networks and independent stations range in value from $3,500,000 to $22,000,000 a year.
Larned Man Drowns
Great Bend, Sept. 19—(U.P.) The body of Berly Dick, 24, of Larned, has been recovered from a flooded sand pit here where he drowned Sunday while swimming with two companions.
A farm worker said he suddenly slipped from sight while swimming. His body was recovered about two hours after the drowning.
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