1941
PETER MORRIS
Daily Kansan
PAUL HARDMAN
RAY NIBLO
39TH YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1941
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NUMBER 31 BOB HAGEN
TOMMY HALYD
JAY KERN
KU Cops First Big Six Victory
Niblo Crashes Over
Photo bu HAL BRANINE
The Texan. "45" goes over tackle for four yards and a touchdown. His wraithlike anties puzzled Cyclone defenses throughout. Niblo has begun to fulfill pre-season predictions made by critics.
Will Hoppe Will Cue Tomorrow
The world's greatest billiard player performs tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Memorial Union game room.
He is Willie Hoppe of New York, current three-cushion champion and the greatest all-around billiards player of all time.
Hoppe comes to the Union as a billiard missionary, his purpose being to show that billiards is an easy game to learn and play, and that with a reasonable attention to fundamentals and application anyone can become a fair player.
Wilbur To Speak At Convocation
Dr. Wilbur is a Phi Beta Kappa, a member of Sigma Xi, honorary and since 1923 has been a trustee in the Rockefeller Foundation.
Night Shirters Rebel At Pepmen's Paddles
Dr. Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, will address University students at a special convocation at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
Dr. Wilbur, who has been president of Stanford since 1916, was on leave of absence from the university from 1929 to 1933. During that time he served as secretary of the interior in Herbert Hoover's cabinet.
There the lines broke into small groups of angry, gesticulating students, which spread up and down Massachusetts. Efforts to make the paraders continue their march by the increased use of paddles precipitated several fights in the two-block strike area. Bad cuts and bruises, bloody notes and black eyes,
The traditional Nightshirt parade almost ended as a protest against hazing and the use of paddles before the line of marchers reached South Park yesterday evening.
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One student was hurt badly enough to require hospital treatment, and several others were bruised and cut when tormented Nightshirters turned on their paddle-wielding marshals to begin
a street brawl that nearly ended in total disruption of the pregame rally and bonfire.
The striking paraders had formed a single line for the annual Indianweave down Massachusetts street to South Park, but objection to the use of paddles by Ku Ku's and K-men, who were acting as marshals, caused a sit-down strike at Eighth street and Massachusetts.
Football Scores
Missouri 6, Nebraska 0.
Oklahoma 16, Santa Clara 6.
Minnesota 7, Michigan 0.
Duke 27, Pittsburg 7.
Northwestern 14, Ohio State 7.
Fordham 28, Texas Christian 14.
Navy 0, Harvard 0.
Cornell 21, Colgate 2.
Army 13, Columbia 0.
Texas Ray Niblo Runs Wild In 13-0 Win
By CLINT KANAGA
Kansan Sports Editor
Running like a human dynamo, sophomore Ray Niblo tore a fine Iowa State line to shreds in sparking the Kansas Jayhawkers to a 13-0 Big Six victory over Ray Donels' Cyclones in Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon. With Ralph Miller out most of the game, Gwinn Henry's lads resorted to a running attack which clicked consistently for a ground gaining total of 191 yards and two touchdowns.
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The first score came in the final minute of the opening quarter with Niblo blasting four yards through center for six points. The
Reed recently accompanied a division of troops to Louisiana on maneuvers. While on the trip he took into consideration three things,
Reed Advocates 18-Year-Old Draft Trainees
"The morale of the soldiers in the army is better than the morale of the rest of the citizens of the United States," stated R. W. Reed, military commentator for the Kansas City Star, at the final general session of the High School Journalism conference in Fraser theater yesterday morning.
second Jayhawk touchdown found Niblo bucking another four yards to pay dirt, mid-way in the fourth quarter.
With Niblo and Ray Evans alternating at ball carrying, the
MARVIN VANDAVEER
sans started a drive from their own 32-yard line in the first period which terminated with the first K. U. tally.
Niblo bounded through a hole opened by tackle Gene Long for 10 yards to signalize
the attack. Evans, Ettinger, and Niblo took turns, toting the pigskin to the Iowa State 38-yard line. Circling his own left end, Niblo threaded his way 21
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The Boys Got a Bit Rough
Photo by HERB KAUFFMAN
The Nightshirt boys got kinda rough. K-mee and Ku Ku's had the situation under control as the picture shows. Footballers Ed Linquist and Paul Landman are pictured warming up for the Iowa State game.