SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
A Game Which Built a Stadium A Tie With the Huskers
For those Jayhawk football fans who were inclined to be pessimistic about football chances this Homecoming against Nebraska, perhaps a trip back to another Homecoming Day game in 1920 when the Jayhawks were once again facing a favored cornusker eleven would have served as a reviver of hopes.
On that day a giant Nebraska team, coached by Henry "Inan" Schulte, had run roughshod over the smaller Jayhawk
had for the first two pitches and led 20 to 0 at halftime. Weighing only 162 pounds per can, the Kansas team had and the Nebraska squad, averaging almost 180 pounds, too powerful. In the stands was Governor Henry Allen, who like the rest of the crowd as astounded by the brute strength of the Cornhusker juggernaut. Kansas plays had been repeatedly neared for huge losses during the first half, while the Nebraska backs faced through the Kansas line all at will.
Say, sonny, you had better lay a fresh supply of chalk," shouted Husker star to the scorekeeper as he two teams trudged to their dressing rooms at halftime. "You are apt run out during the second half." Lonhong Weens
In the dressing room the Kansasayers were disconvolate, with the yahawks' great star, Dutch Lonborg, throwing himself on the floor ed openly weeping and cursing. Dr. orrest C. Allen, then football coach and now basketball mentor, and nown as one of the greatest half-time inspirers in the game, went from can to man talking to them encouragingly.
Suddenly an old Jayhawk star enred the dressing room and began using the team for its poor play during the first half.
"Shut up!" barked coach Allen at his sufferer. "I am running this team and I am darned proud of these boys, even at this stage of the game." Allen turned to his squad: "Boys, I am not afraid of you or of this game. Governor Henry Allen, Chancellor Hudley, and ten thousand loyal Kansas roots are out there praying for you to come through!
"Did you hear those cocky Corn-suckers as they strode off the field after the first half, saying that the joy on the scoreboard would run out of chalk." Allen continued. "Theyink that they have you down and out."
"Last Half of Brain"
"We have just begun to fight, and mean it. If you are licked fifty to nothing on this program, we will will be proud of you for giving the best you had. But you are not going to get licked! You are going to win! It's going to be a last half of brain against brawn!"
Allen threw open the dressing room door: "Andy McDonald! Ed Sandefur! Warren Woody! George Hale! Captain George Nettles! Tad Reid! Dutch borg! Harley Little! Frank mandeville! Johnnie Bunn! Kenny Welch! Severt Higgins! and Carl Mcdams! You are the men I am counting on. Out and after those red-hirted devils, who would run us out chalk at the second half!
"Captain Nettles, lead your men to victory! I know that you can do it! Out and at 'em!"
Coach Allen had previously instructed his quarterbacks to concentrate on two pass plays during the second half, and it was a re-recited Kansas squad which took field.
the kickoff Captain George
Nettles tackled the Husker receiver so viciously that the man fumbled and it was the Jayhawk's ball deep in Nebraska territory. Three plays later one of Allen's pass plays clicked for a touchdown as end Frank Mandeville scampered across the goal. The goal was kicked, and now the score was Nebraska 20, Kansas 7, ith the Huskers showing signs of confusion.
A few minutes later Dutch Lonborg dropped back again and this time using the other pass play according to instructions he shot an aerial to. Mandeville, and the end scampered across the goalline for the second Kansas touchdown. Again the extra point was converted.
In the final period, little Kenny Welch, a 135-pound fullback, began tearing savagely into the center of the massive Nebraska line, and advanced the ball deep into Husker territory. On smashed the Kansas squad to the Husker 32-yard line.
Bunn Calls Signals
But the Kansas team—game as they come—was now a bit over- anxious with the long-awaited victory over Nebraska in their grasp. The try for extra point went wide;
Then Allen substituted quarterback John Bunn at the signal calling post for the Crimson and Blue with instruction to call one of the magic pass plays, and call it he did. The result was another touchdown for the Jayhawks, with the sensational Mandeville once again being on the receiving end.
Graduate Record Total of Doctors
However, it was a tremendous moral victory for the Kansas squad—one of the greatest football upsets of that or any other football season. Nebraska rooters by the hundreds who had come to Lawrence to watch their mighty machine roll on now
The American Medical association estimates that approved medical schools, operating under war-time accelerated programs, will graduate a record total of 21,029 students during the next three years.
The number is "5.082 more than would have been graduated without the adoption of the accelerated programs" the A.M.A.council on medical education and hospitals reported.
chusered the doughty band in Crinson and Blue. The ovation for the Kansas team was terrific as the game came to an end.
The Needed Stimulus
During the autumn of 1920, a World War Memorial Stadium drive had been smoldering, awaiting only a needed stimulus to set the drive in motion. Now the stimulus had been found in the courageous showing of the Kansas squad, and on the following Monday at a great mass meeting students pledged $160,000 toward this great stadium to be dedicated to the 129 Kansas men and women who died in the first world war.
A few weeks later at the end of the football season, a school holiday was granted for the purpose of razing the old athletic plant on McCook Field. Men of the University did all the work, while the women, in equal numbers (some two thousand) served sandwiches and hot coffee to the laborers.
Thus today we owe impressive Memorial Stadium, one of the most beautiful athletic plants of its kind in the Middle West, to a football team which would not be beat, and to the student body which backed it so whole-heartedly.
Northwestern Coach
The members of the 1920 football squad are scattered far and wide now. Lonsborg is the Northwestern University basketball coach. Bunn is the Stanford Dean of Men. Some are Kansas farmers, one a Chicago insurance man, and still others are in the oil industry. However, perhaps some members of that team were in the Homecoming crowd' Saturday which was watching another undermanned Jayhawk squad try desperately for victory against a favored Nebraska eleven.
The famous Broadway stage hit at the Jayhawker
Two good girls and six sea wolves are more than enough for one at the most hilarious congo routines ever filmed. Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair are the girls involved; the sea wolves are exactly that. It's a scene from the hilarious Broadway hit "My Sister Eileen" with Brian Aherne which starts a 5-day engagement at the Jayhawker today.
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Jade Just Pretty
No War Value
Dr. Austin F. Rogers, form a proprofess of mineralogy, Stanford University, informed Chemistry Club members in the Bailey lecture room Friday afternoon that "jade is harder than most metals, including steel, but unfortunately it cannot be employedas steel" in the war effort. Rogers' lecture was sponsored by the department of geology.
The speaker said that large deposits of the mineral, that varies in value from 25 cents to $25,000 a pound, have been discovered by amateur mineralogists while roaming the mountainous portions of California.
"Imperial jade is the most expensive form, often selling for $25,000 a pound." Doctor Rogers told his listeners.
"Although Burma is the home of high-quality jade," the speaker said, "the Chinese are probably the more skillful in carving intricate figures."
Doctor Rogers is a graduate of the University with the class of 1899. While serving on the Stanford faculty he was at one time president of the Mineralogical Society of America and vice-president of the Geological Society of America. He is retired now.
The speaker was introduced to the members of the club by Lowell R. Laudon, professor of geology.
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First performance of the annual series of organ vespers will be given at 4 p. m. today in Hoch auditorium. Laurel Everette Anderson, University professor and organist in the School of Fine Arts, will present the program. Professor Anderson will play selection of Buxehude, Gulhmant, Laparra and MacDowell, and "Carillon" of "Ringing of the Bells" (Vierne).
Professor Anderson inaugurated the vesper programs several years ago, after the University acquired its organ. During the season G. Criss Simpson, assistant professor of organ and theory, and visiting organisms will appear.
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