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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947
The Editorial Page
Doormat To Orange Bowl
It was our privilege last night to attend the annual football banquet in the Union ballroom. The proceedings took $4\frac{1}{2}$ hours. A lot of compliments were thrown at the team, coaches, and student body, but they were well deserved and as true as an Evans-to-Schnellbacher pass.
The attendance and program were a revelation of the solid backing that the University of Kansas athletic department is now getting from businessmen and alumni in Lawrence and Kansas City. We began to realize how many persons are necessary for continuing athletic success.
No school (with the possible exception of Notre Dame, the football player's Mecca) gets athletes without contacts and encouragement by influential alumni, and they were in evidence at the banquet last night.
However, it was three men who brought the University from a football doormat to an O r an g e Bowl team. It was they who led the way from apathy to enthustiasm among alumni, near and far.
First, there is gruff, brusque, E. C. Quigley, director of athletics. We've seen him brush off students with the same dispatch he used to use as an umpire sending a player to the showers. But we've also seen him become a Pied Piper in charming legislators and important alumni. He came to the University, started making the all-important outside contacts, and hired George Sauer as coach.
Coach Sauer proceeded to work miracles of coaching and personal appeal to land an unheard-of two co-champions in a row. One player said he would not have come back to Kansas this year if it had not been for George Sauer as a coach and gentleman.
But it was probably all-American Ray Evans who had the most to do with the University's football renaissance. He was the one who drew the crowds with his win-or-lose, amazing performances each Saturday. More important, it was he who brought to the University several key players of this and last year's
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Ernie, George, and Ray have made Kansas a respected football power in the Midwest. It appears that alumni are going to carry the ball even farther, and the future looks bright.
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On Friday, Nov. 22, Mr. Pearson spoke from the rear of the Friendship train as it stopped in Lawrence. He told some 3,000 persons that the two carloads of $8,488 worth of foodstuffs given by students and townpeople of Lawrence would reach Europe by Christmas. Some probably doubted him at that time.
It appears that another Drew Pearson prediction will come true.
(He also predicted a Kansas football victory over Missouri.)
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Sunday, the 10,000 ton freighter Friend Ship sailed from Philadelphia with 208 carloads of grain and flour, including Lawrence donations. Authorities said the ship is expected to arrive at Le Havre, France in two weeks, which would be about Dec. 15.
The contributions of you, and you,
and you may help keep someone in
Europe from being hungry on Christmas day.
Mr. Pearson's Friend Ship prediction should be noted and applauded by all who gave to the friendship project train which he originated.
The water supply of Lawrence is clear and pleasant tasting only by comparison with something worse. I know of no one who considers chlorine pleasant tasting.
Ugh! Dear Editor,
According to one University professor the first five years are the most difficult when getting used to Lawrence water. The Lawrence water department must have a most unusual filter if it removes all colloidal particles at 2300 gallons an hour.
Is calgen a secret ingredient which makes Lawrence water more digestible?
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