Special Sports Section
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Go'Hawks Beat K-State
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 29
Section 3 Friday, October 8,1971
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Fulfillk Steve Conley (37), senior running back plumges through the line in the Jahawks first game with Washington State. A versatile athlete who has worked at nearly every backfield position both offensively and
defensively during his varied career, Coney is regarded as the least skilled of the runners. He played running game with the 6-32 two-pounder-ranked Jared McCain.
year while operating in the shadow of league-leading John Riggins. This season Cohen has been the workhorse up front.
KU-K-State Rivalry Born in 1902; Farmers, Snobs at It Ever Since
By SCOTT SPREIER
Kenyon Sports Writer
"I saw a farmer football team step out
upon parade;
They faced the guns of Kansas where the whole dorm played;
They fell like wheat, they came not back; at night a dirge was played.
For there were no agriculturists attached to our bride."
That verse, part of an editorial in a 1902 edition of the University of Kansas Weekly, was KU's version of the first gridiron clash between the Jayhawks and
Kansas State University, played on Oct. 7,
1902. in Lawrence.
Since that first game, which KU won, 16, the two teams have met 68 times, (1910 was the only year they failed to play), and in 1973 they defeated State's 18. The teams have tied four times.
According to the newspaper account of the first game, "From the very first it was evident that the Farmers were outcled against them." Boring on defense to the neglect of offense."
A LATER STORY in the Kansas City Star said KU Coach Arthur Curtis had expected a better game from his team and hold secret drills the following week.
In 1904, KU played in Manhattan for the first time and won its third straight game, 41-4. The Jayhawks were saving up for Missouri which they were to play the following week, and used mostly substitutes against the Farmers.
UK lost for the first time to K-State in 1906, in a game in which both teams used a new play—the forward pass. K-State had, lad" solved its infircations, and won 6-4.
There may have been some farmers playing for the Jayhawks in 1902. The KUUs Daily, Journal reported to use one of KUUs reports to report killed or look after his cross" and couldn't play.
THE NEXT YEAR the Jayhawks won za-10, and according to the campus paper, Mr. Jenkins was the winning team.
just bow a forward pass was made, and
them persistently were penalized
immediately.
KU won the next seven games between the two rivals, but its streak was stopped in 1916 with a scoreless tie. In 1913, the "Hawks attracted their victory to the Cowboys," and that victory maneuver. The next season they switched to the "Yale Shift" and won again.
John Detwiller, captain of the 1914 KU team, remembers the clashes between the two teams. According to him, there was no such thing as roughing the kicker, and no such thing as running to run interference. Everyone played the entire game—there was no platooning.
"There was just as much rivalry as there is now," said Detwiler, who, at 79, continues to watch the clashes with interest.
AN EDITORIAL in a 1913 Kansan bears this out:
"It would be right fine, if when the annual football contest rolls around each year, one school would visit the other in a body, building up in a day, friendship and good feeling between the two institutions of long distance task could establish."
The 1921 meeting between the two schools was the first game ever played in Memorial Stadium. The Jayhawks "christened the virgin gridron" with a "wholesome, satisfying, red-blooded victory," winning 21-7.
According to arrive K-State officials,
"Their appearance—sleeked and fattened
to thrill thousands of farm observers at the
game." Royal was ruined. KU lost the
game. 6-0.
THE WILDCATS got the next three matches and then were beaten 7-9 in 1927. KU's touchdown that game came on a pass with only two minutes left in the game.
The Wildcats managed to tie Kansas 7-7 in 1922 and again 1923, 0-4. K-State recorded its second victory against KU in a recent season, but the Wildcats was outplayed in almost every department.
Thanks got out of hand that same year when five KU students were held by the sheerff in Manhattan after two of K-State's football team found with KU' shaved on their sides.
The rivalry between the two schools came to a head in 1929. Raids between the schools began more than a week before the game. Eighteen KU students caught in Manhattan were given haircuts and forced to maintain KSate students at a pep rally.
IN 1930, and several years after, a pact was signed between the two schools that agreed to provide a common curriculum.
Jayhawks won 14-0 that year, but were beaten in the following match, 13-0.
The 1932 meeting between the two schools was billed as a grudge game, and Kansas embarrassed K-State's Homecoming crowd with a 19-0 victory.
In the 1937 clash, the Wildcats smashed KU's title heme, beating the Jayshaws 74-6. The Wildcats, with a 5-0 record, were undefeated.
Kansas failed to score in the next two meetings, losing 6-0 and 13-0. The Jayhawks won, 9-2 in 1935, and then lost the contest, 26-6.
gained only 50 yards, while K-State ripped
220 yards and 9 first downs.
Kansas upset the Wildcats the following year with a 27-7 victory. After the game, Jayhawk fans managed to rip the goalposts from one end of the field, but a try for the other pair turned into a "fist-swinging mellee."
KU LOST the 1939 and 1940 games but won, 20-16 in 1941, after coming from behind twice. Halfback Denzel Gibbons was the hero of the game, running one
"THE UNIVERSITY seismograph," the paper reported, "will have work to do when Hell-Roaring Bill" and "Terrible Mike' clash on the football field." The Lych was a member of the athletic board who was in favor of keeping the game.
The Kansas City Star said KU would be "wiped off the athletic map" unless football were retained. A cartoon which also appeared in the Star, showed the villian, Kansas, throwing the fair maiden, football into a bottomless pit.
Another article which appeared in the Kansan reported that "Regent Gleed says that it is not in the province of the University to develop prizefighters."
Football Nearly Abolished In 1910 By Regents' Motion
See RIVALRY. Page 3
The meeting set off a furor at the University. The campus newspaper defended football with numerous editorsials. It is reported that White said he was 'the original football insurgent—the game for reform for the game at the University.'
FOOTBALL COACH Bert Kennedy started spring practice and began
By SCOTT SPREIER Kansan Sports Writer
Once, long ago in the early years of the University of Knasaa, football was almost abolished after two members of the Board voted to remove it. Allen Whiten decided it was too dangerous.
The motion failed, but a resolution was passed that the members of the Missouri Valley Conference meet and either change current rules or adopt the game of rugby.
In a meeting of the Regents Jan. 18, 2010, Regents White and J. Willis Gleed proposed that the game be abolished because it "it is dangerous, takes too much of a student's time, develops brute force and leads to false ideas among students."
"If rugby were adopted here," he said, "the athletics would go to smack for want of fun."
teaching the fundamentals of rugby, although he was against it. He said it would have the same effects "in after fun" for the players, as does prize fubbing.
Chancellor Frank Strong also was in favor of keeping the game. In a letter to the editor, he said he hoped changes would be made and a permanent solution found.
Even a local minister got into the act. The Rev. H.E. Wolfe called the game a "very manly sport," and said he believed University students should play the game.
THERE WERE several mass meetings of the student body to protect. On April 8, 1,000 students, almost half of the total student body, will form committees to study the problem.
On April 14, a story in the Kansan reported that Governor W.R. Stubbs had announced he was against the game. He said the team had rebels just with him and were told otherwise.
The Board of Regents then announced that Kansas wouldn't abolish the game unless a majority of the Missouri Valley schools wanted too.
"The old American game is good enough for me," he said, adding that he liked all of them.
ON APRIL 19, officials from the schools met in Kansas City and defeated the resolution to ban the game. On the night before, a meeting of the Regents in the chancellor's office had ended in a 3-3 deadlock.
With its "Welcome to Big Blue Country"
theme, this year's Homecoming
Committee is attempting to put the "Ra-
ra" back in homecoming.
Homecoming Slate Turning Back Pages
By RANDALL BECKER
Kansan Sports Writer
That spring, the game was revised,
many new rules were added, and the resolution to ban football at the University of Kansas was forgotten.
In response to last year's attempts at "relevance" on campus, the Homecoming Committee this year is turning back the college admissions program, both student and alumni enthusiasm.
With such plans, it is only fitting that the homecoming football game, the highlight of the weekend, should pit KU against rival Kansas State University on Saturday. The game has been sold out for almost a month.
A full state of activities is planned for this weekend in an attempt to regain the traditional gaiety and excitement produced by previous Homecomings.
After the rally, a party will be given which all students may attend. The location of the party will be given at the occasion the beer will be served for the occasion.
However, Homecoming involves more than just a football game. Major activities begin today and run through Saturday night.
THE BOARD of class Officers has planned a homecoming pep rally at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the 'O' zone parking lot, Coach Don Fambrough and the members of the KU football team will be present, along with the KU band.
Judging of the homecoming decoration contest among KU living groups, one event brought back this year in hopes of recapturing the homecoming flavor, will be held this evening. Results will be announced Saturday morning.
Last year only one fraternity continued the tradition of an elaborate homecoming dance, which involved several houses elected to donate money to needy causes or do service projects instead of building displays. No trophy was presented in 1970 for the best homecoming display.
The University Theatre also opens its season tonight with "Fiddler on the Roof," at 8 p.m. in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $1.40, $2.10, and $2.80.
SATURDAY ACTIVITIES begin with the registration of alumni at 9 a.m. in the Main Lounge, Kansas Union, Registration ends at 1 p.m.
Also in the Main Lounge of the Union will be a general homecoming reception for the graduating class.
The greater University Fund Board of Advisers and County Chairman will hold a meeting at 10 a.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
The organization will also have a luncheon at noon with the Kansas Legislature, the Kansas Board of Regents and the University Alumni Association Board of Directors as guests. It will be served in the Kansas Room in the Union.
THE ALUMNI Association Headquarters will have its open house from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. on the Main Floor North, Kansas Union
University guests may attend a homecoming buffet lubbock from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Jayhawk and Big Flight Rooms in the Union.
Before the 1:30 football game with K-State, the KM marching band will conduct a parade at 12:40 down Jayhawk Stadium. The Omega fountain to Memorial Stadium.
Halftime activities for the game will be given by the KU and K-State bands. However, there will be no speeches or a crowning of a homecoming queen.
The committee issued a notice to every campus living group explaining the reason for this decision.
AFTER THE game, a reception will be held to meet university in the Mall of America for the U.S. Dept.
"It seems inappropriate in a multi- cultural environment such as a university community, but it is also the represent that community. The committee deems it more appropriate to recognize those who embody the academic spirit for which community was established," the report says.
The class of 1961 will have its tenth anniversary reunion at the Eldridge House. A social hour will start at 5 p.m., to be followed by a buffet dinner at 5:45 p.m.
Official homecoming festivities will end with the Homecoming concert featuring the Bob Hope College Show at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Dick Foster New Coach Of Freshmen
Freshman football coach Dick Foster said in a recent interview he really enjoyed his new position here at KU even the he left winning team at Fort Scott Junior College.
Foster doesn't teach classes in addition to be coach as he did at the junior college, and he said that that is what he's always wanted to do.
The team works out from 3 to 5:30 p.m. daily six days a week. In addition to practice, the freshmen are required to practice from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
"Our philosophy about the freshmen team is different from what it was last year. We're trying to help them become better football players, but we're also trying to help them adjust to college life," he said.
"Being a great football player in high school, and then coming to college and playing against other kids who are just as good is quite an adjustment for some."
On the basis of a scrimgame earlier in the pre-game season, Foster said he thought the defense looked better overall than the offense.
Kansas Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Specked Jerome Nelloms, a 5-9 18-pound junior tailback, sits daylight through the Jayhawk line against Washington State in the Jayhawks' home opener. Nelloms, the clu-
No. 3. Shruffer in his rookie season last year, has battled sophomore Devin McCormick in fall. Against Washington State, Nelloms rolled up 117 yards, to lead Jayhawk runners.