1944
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20.1944
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Homecoming Traditions Have Survived Two Wars; Founder Is Here This Year
Continuing through its secona World War, Homecoming still holds excitement and glamour for students at the University.
Since it was first inaugurated here in 1913 by Alfred "Scoop" Hill, just two years after the first homecoming in the country at the University of Illinois, the idea of football, returning alumni, parties, parades, decorations, and rallying all rolled up into one gigantic weekend has had lasting appeal for the Jayhawker. Mr. Hill is returning to the campus this weekend to speak at the Editors' conference.
Homecoming, 1913, was a success. The fact that the weekend was not repeated until 1919, casts no shadows of mediocturno upon the pioneer celebration. World War I had subdued school traditions and in doing so had postponed the development of homecoming for six years—when, under the direction of Prof. H. B. Hungerford, the weekend was revived in all of its splendor.
Homecomings Have Varied
Through the years Jayhawkers have celebrated their Homecoming in different ways. Always parades with floats, elaborately decorated houses, (both temporarily suspended now), queens, rallies, and varsities (still surviving with an overwhelming popularity) have characterized Homecoming on the Kaw. But in addition to these traditional things, every Homecoming has, had its individual punch. Some new features have been retained and added to tradition. Others remain unique of the year in which they originated.
New in 1921 was Old Timer's Night, a smoker and chat for men grad's.
1922 was important because that year for the first time the game was broadcast over WDAF. Hobo Day was also inaugurated. Undergraduates dressed in their oldest clothes, and organized houses entered 85 floats in the parade. Prizes Stared in 1924.
Fraternities, sororites, and other organized houses started to compete for prizes given to the best decorated houses in 1924. Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Chi Omega were winners. This year the varsity dance was the biggest ever for students, while alums were entertained with a 3-ring circus of boxing, wrestling, and acrobatics in Robinson gymnasium.
In 1927, the game was broadcast over the University's own radio station, KFKU.
High spirits for Homecoming in 1928 were dampened slightly by the death of "Chalkie," the mascot of
H. B. Hungerford
the University. The bird was stuffed and reigned in taxidermic splendor over the festivities.
Special fire-works and a torchlight parade were features of 1933 and 1934. Thanksgiving turkeys were the prizes of the bicycle race, a keynote in the festivities in 1939.
Flying Bombers Last Year
Flying Bombers Last Year
With the "Battle of the bands" a pep rally in Hoch, and the customary homecoming queens, the University celebrated its first wartime pep rally in 1942.
The flying formation of 12 bombers was an entirely new note introduced at the game of 1943.
And this same time next year—the "clean sweep" program of KuKu's and Jay Janes to get students out for the Friday night rally, the skits given in the stadium—and a Kansas victory, will be listed among the events which made Homecoming 1944 memorable.
Grosvenor Gets DS Award From Geography Society
Bloomington, Ind. (INS)—Dr. S. S. Visher, professor of geography at Indiana University has announced the presentation of the distinguished service of the National Council of Geography Teachers to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society and editor of National Geographic.
In a citation accompanying the award the council's committee lauded Dr. Grosvenor's 45 years of leadership in educational geography as editor of the magazine and his 25 years as head of the society.
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Homecoming Crowd To Number 6,000?
A crowd of more than 5,000 people is expected to attend tomorrow's Homecoming game between KU and the University of Nebraska in Memorial Stadium, E. L. Falkenstein, financial secretary of the Athletic Association, said today.
M. J. Getto, Mgr.
If the day is clear, Falkenstein said he believed stadium ticket sales would swell the Homecoming crowd to between 6,000 and 7,000 people.
Estimate of the crowd was made on the basis of tickets sold and reserved.
However, latest weather reports said the day would be cloudy with little change in temperature. There is a possibility of showers during the day.
During the past few years, Homecoming crowds have numbered from 5,000 to 7,000 people.
Pi Lambda Theta Holds Open Houses
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As the only Pi Lambda Theta chapter in Kansas, the University's Gamma chapter of the honorary women's educational organization will hold open house at the teachers' meetings in Topeka and Wichita, Nov. 3. Alumnae and students of the University chapter will act as hostesses in especially provided teachers' lounges in a hotel in each city.
W. L. Hutson, Pres.
We Wish You---and
Alumnae members will be hostesses in a room on the mezzanine at the Allis hotel in Wichita. It is hoped, said Mary Margaret Cater, publicity chairman, that several University students will be able to be hostesses at the open house at the Jayhawk hotel in Topeka. The rooms, which are to be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., will be used as informal meeting places and lounges for the teachers, she said.
For the thirsty spectators, cokes are on the menu, about 4,000 of them if the weather's warm.
Sponsored by the YMCA for the first time in 1938, the concession stands' proceeds have done a great deal for the University Student Housing Association as most of the money goes for the financing of new Co-op houses. It does not go for their maintenance.
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The YMCA and the Co-ops do the work in the stands. This Saturday there will be about 25 workers in the stands and stadium.
Concession Stands Get Ready for Mob
It looks like a straggly conge line at times, and then it works up into a plain old mob. No, it's not Sinatra that's the drawing card, but the concession stands at the stadium. They really get a workout during the football season, and they hit the jackpot of activity during the Homecoming game.
For once there is little quibbling about mustard and the trimmings for that American dish, the hot dog. Only sissies worry about such things when there's a pigskin being booted around.
How'd you like to cook about 250 pounds of hotdogs or slice 3,000 buns? Yeh, I bet you can hardly waft! That's on the schedule right now though for the five stands for the Homecoming crowds. An estimate is made from the ticket sales and then the food is ordered accordingly.
Saturday's the big day on the football field and inside the stadium.
If you have never heard of a football game without chrysthemums, alias mums, you almost did this year.
Flower Shortage
The chant "buy-your program and identify each player," comes from the sellers from the athletic department.
Welcome Grads
Henry, Elmer and the Squad Are Going to Make Your Trip Worthwhile!
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We Wish You Jayhawkers Homecoming Success
BEAT NEBRASKA!
Florists downtown report that because of the early date, the mums aren't as large or as plentiful as they will be later in the season.
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Business for the mums has been good though, and many organized houses have sent in group orders to the florists.
In those B.W. days (before war) that are assuming such a golden halo as we look back, the mums with the crimson and blue "K.U" on them were sold outside the stadium. This year you can chalk their absence there to the limited supply of flowers and also to the lack of salesmen.
Then there's the help-your-neighbor plan that goes into effect every game. You know, the "Please pass this dollar down 20 people, I want a hot dog." No one ever has the right change. When the lone "dog" makes the trip back, everyone talks himself into being hungry.
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