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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1948
The Editorial Page
Sports Jim Crowism Fades
Proponents of a continued policy of discrimination against Negroes in intercollegiate athletics have long pointed to the South and lamented that Negroes should participate, but that Jim Crowism just makes any change impossible.
"State nearly stole the game on the last play, a colossal forward pass into the end zone. . . two State players and three S. M. U. struggled for the ball. Dennie Hoggard, one of two Negroes in the State lineup. . got his hands on the ball but couldn't hold it. Then he shook hands with the nearest S. M. U. player, who happened to be from Eldorado, Texas. The gun ended the game, first interracial event of the Texas athletic program, on the same sort of pleasant note which prompted its arrangement."
For instance, a New York Herald-Tribune correspondent, writing about the Cotton Bowl game between Penn State and Southern Methodist University, wired:
Several recent events may indicate that the time is rapidly approaching when the sports fans, not the college officials, will demand fair athletic treatment of the Negro, even in the South.
From Bartlesville, Okla., comes a press association dispatch about the defeat of the Bartlesville Phillips A. A. U. basketball team by the Oakland Bitters. The big gun of the Bitters was Don Barksdale, a Negro who once starred for U. C. L. A.
The dispatch says, "Don Barksdale, a Negro playing for Oakland, was cheered lustily by the Oklahoma crowd from start to finish."
And even more recently comes the news that the student senate at the University of Oklahoma has asked that Negro athletes of other schools be permitted to meet Sooner players in Oklahoma.
These are only three scattered incidents, but they may mean a trend on the part of students and sports fans of the general public to press for Negro intercollegiate athletic participation. It will be a sad commentary on university officials in this region if they allow students and a supposedly unenlightened sports public to carry the full load in intercollegiate athletic reform.
We like to watch Coach "Phog" Allen at basketball games. Win or lose, he's always the victor in the post-game handshaking.
Dear Editor
Orange Allergy
Dean Lutner.
We feel that the slight of Time magazine upon our game at the Orange Bowl should be brought to the attention of the students. In the sports section of the Jan. 12, 1948 issue they devoted an entire column to bowl games. However, conspicuous by its absence was any mention of the Orange Bowl game.
We have sent a letter of protest to the editor of Time and we feel that you as the voice of the University of Kansas should do likewise.
Dear Editor,
Joseph B. Manello and four other College students.
We feel that this slight is an insult not only to the University of Kansas and to Georgia Tech, but also to the Orange Bowl committee which put on such a fine pageant.
Joseph B. Manello
Editor's note: The Daily Kansan has sent the following night letter to Time's sports editor: "Allergic to Oranges?"
signed) University Daily Kansan
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kans.
Class Gift
Dear Editor,
As a member of the class of '48, I am interested in the gift which my class will give to the University. Of all the gifts thus far suggested, the field house strikes me as being the most practical and lasting. However, realizing that $3,000 or $4,000 is a pitifully small sum to apply toward such a building and that the state legislature will have to provide by far the major part of the funds, I should like to submit a proposal of my own.
Of all the important things which belong in such a building, one is a portrait of the man who invented the game of basketball, and who later
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came to the University of Kansas, where he remained until his death, Dr. James Nesmith. Why couldn't our class gift be a life-size oil painting of this great man to hang in the field house entrance way?
Not all of the money would be needed for this project, and any remaining funds could be laid aside for whatever purpose needed. I feel that in this way the class of '48 could contribute an essential part of a great building.
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