FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Five of First Kansas Grid Team To Return
Former Jayhawk Stars Here For Homecoming
Five of the original eleven men who played on the first football team ever to represent the University of Kansas will be back for Homecoming, Nov. 8 and 9, and for the fiftieth anniversary reunion of football which comes this year.
Though eight are still alive, only five are going to join the rest of Homecoming crowd expected next week.
Kansas' First Team
The men who first put Kansas University football on the map are as follows:
C. W. Frederick, now a lens expert for the Eastman Kodak company. He lives in Rochester, N.Y.
J. W. Dyer, a merchandise broker in Wichita.
Thornton Cooke, president of the Columbia National Bank, Kansas City, Mo.
C. W. Baldridge, Chicago, an engineer for the Santa Fe railway.
R. D. Brown, a cotton farmer and lawyer in Idabel, Okla.
Some Cannot Be Present
E. M. Hopkins, retired professor of English on the Hill, was the faculty sponsor.
Of those who cannot be present, Ezra Palmer, who was a substitute on the team, is now clerk of the Mother church of the Christian Science church in Boston. E. C. Case is now professor of paleontology and director of museums at the University of Michigan. Wilbur Kinzie is a resident of Elmira, N.Y.
The 1890 team played three games that first year—two against Baker and one against the YMCA of Kansas City, Mo. The second game with Baker resulted in trouble for W. H.
Carruth, University professor of English in that period, who was co-sponsor of the team with Professor Hopkins, and who was also referee of the game.
Permitted To Follow Play
Carruth permitted the Kansas captain, Howard Peairs, to follow along the play after he had been injured and was out of the line-up. Peairs tapped Carruth on the arm and told him time should be called out. The referee heeded his admonition and blew the whistle.
Billy Coleman, Kansas center, grabbed the ball and ran for a touchdown. The game ended in a near riot with the Kansas players claiming the touchdown was legal because there was no reason to call time out. Carruth, however, awarded the game to Baker. Years afterward, in an account of the game, Carruth said that the incident cost him the friendship of many in the Kansas sports chowd for years to come.
The remnants of this team will meet Friday morning Nov. 8, in the Union building to register. The welcoming committee will be composed of Professor Hopkins and Prof. E.M. Baumgartner.
It's A Church Orchestra
Glenn Huff, gr, who was reported in yesterday's Kansan to be forming an orchestra for University students, says that the organization will be a church orchestra, sponsored by the Baptist church. However, the orchestra will be open to University students. Rehearsals will be held at 9:15 o'clock Sunday morning at the church.
Men drivers outnumber women drivers by about three to one.
Above are members of the K.U. football team of 1890:
deceased; Prof. E. M. Hopkins;
Thornton Cooke.
Top row, left to right—C. W.
Federick; Prof. W. H. Carruth,
    ...
Second row—C. W. Baldridge;
W. J. Coleman, deceased; Adrian
F. Sherman, deceased; Archie Horg, deceased; J. W. Dver.
Third row-Ezra Palmer; W. H. Kutz, deceased; E. C. Case; Ora K. Williamson, deceased.
Jayhawker Theatre's K.U. Football Contest
How well do you know your K.U. Varsity Football squad? Starting Saturday, November 2, the Jayhawker Theater will inaugurate a series of contests to test your knowledge of each player's name, number, home town, position, age, weight, and years at K.U.
Each Tuesday and Saturday for four weeks, 5 or 6 photographs of members of the K.U. Varsity Football squad will be projected on the screen of the Jayhawker Theater until the entire squad has been exhibited. As the pictures are shown, contestants will fill in the required information on contest blanks furnished by the Jayhawker Theater. All blanks must be filled in before leaving the theater each contest night.
The person submitting the greatest number of correct answers for the eight contest nights will receive as first prize, $25.00 in cash. Second prize will be $50.00 in theater tickets (a six months pass to all Lawrence Theaters.
Members of the Varsity Football squad, K.U. Athletic Dept., and coaching staff are not eligible to participate in this contest.
The contest closes at 11 p.m. after last show on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Winners will be announced from the Jayhawker stage at 9 p.m. Tuesday, December 3. In case of ties a drawing will be conducted to select the winners.
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