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THE KANSAN.
VOLUME II.
GREAT FINISH
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 6, 1905.
NUMBER 25
KANSAS HAS WON 11 OUT OF 15 ANNUAL CONTESTS.
Vaunted Defense Crumbled Before Donald and Brunner---- Pooler Runs Ends.
Captain Pooler's men closed the season with a magnificent finish at Kansas City, Thursday, by defeating the Missourians 24 to 0. When the lean, hungry looking boys from Columbia lined up for the kickoff against the heavy Jayhawkers, no one had any doubt about the ultimate outcome. This opinion was firmly established when Brockmeyer was dropped in his tracks by Waring on the first down on an attempted end run, and Kansas grew confident when Missouri was forced to punt after two trials at advancing the ball.
Only a few of the features of the game need be told as every loyal rooter can tell the approximate number of downs it took Kansas to advance the ball to the first touchdown, or how Donald, Brunner and Pooler torc through the Tigers' line. Only for a short time did the Columbia boys show good form. They started down the field about the middle of the first half with surprising vigor. Tillman, Frazier and Brockmeyer were clipping off five yards at a time through the right side of the Kansas line, but their pace was too strenuous and they lost the ball on downs on the Kansas 12-yard line.
The individual work of Brunner, Donald and Pooler was simply superb. Waring played a great game at right half. He was always in the game and helped the man with the ball in a fashion that was good to see. Reed was a real mountain when Brockmeyer or Frazier tried the left side. The Kansas City boy was placed against Captain Anderson, the star of the Missouri team, and so fierce was Reed's playing that the Tigers' captain had to leave the game, completely worn out.
The season just closed has been a successful one. Although in some respects the team had more green material to start with than last year, Kennedy certainly developed a great team.
The remainder of, the season was played without any scores being made on the team.
Manager Lansdon is to be congratulated on his successful management of the team and Coach Kennedy's untiring zeal deserves merited praise.
Washburn and Colorado were the only teams to score on our boys. Washburn had a great offense, but both her touchdowns were made on Kansas fumbles.
ALL MISSOURI VALLEY TEAM.
"The Kansan" Figures out the Personnel. Kansas Gets Three Players, Nebraska, Four.
A Kansan reporter "got busy" during vacation and made out an 'All Missouri Valley Eleven.' Nebraska, without doubt, is champion of this district, Colorado second and Kansas third. It is doubtful whether Colorado has a better aggregation than Kansas University, as the game between the two universities was played in Denver in a high altitude and after a long, wearing trip by the Jayhawkers.
The eleven:
R. E.-Johnson, Nebraska
L. E.-Benedict, Nebraska
R. T.-Brunner, Kansas
L. T.-Donald, Kansas
R. G.-Cotton, Nebraska
L. G.-Brown, Washburn
C.-Borg, Nebraska
Q.-Pooler, Kansas.
R. H.-Brockmeyer, Missouri
L. H.-Caley, Colorado
F. B.-Roberts, Colorado
For ends on such an aggregation, Johnson and Benedict of Nebraska are superior to any others in this territory.
Kansas deserves the two tackles. Donald and Brunner are names that are known all over the West. For short ground gainers, Nebraska or Colorado has no equals.
Cotton of Nebraska is by all means the best guard in the Missonri Valley and a team mate is hard to find. Brown, of Washburn, comes the nearest to filling the bill.
Borg, another Cornhusker is the leading center and has no competitor since Michaelson left Kansas.
Pooler is by far the quarterback of the Missouri Valley. He calls the signals with the best of them and in place kicking has no superior.
The half-backs are Caley, of Colorado, and Brockmeyer, of Missouri. Caley is a good ground gainer and a fine punter and while Brockmeyer is only playing his first year he is a wonder.
Benedict or Pooler would be a good captain for such a team for both have had four years of experience. Caley, Benedict or Pooler could do the punting with about the same skill.
Roberts, the big Colorado fullback, has everyone outclassed for this position.
The Allemania club gave its annual Thanksgiving banquet Tuesday night, November 28, at the house, 1308 Massachusetts street. The toast master of the occasion was John Bender, and the toasts responded to were: "Gott sei dank," Prof. W. H. Carruth; "Hobbies," Mabel Davis; "Allemania," Harry Rhodes; "Reveries," Eva Baker; "It Was the Dutch," Paul Cory; "Danksagungstag," Kate Lesley; "Dimples," Louis Bohn, and "Original Research," Florence Shields.
Dutch Club Banquet.
NETTED $3760
KANSAS AHEAD FINANCIALLY ON SEASON.
Manager Lansdon Has Given Satisfaction in His Conduct of Business Matters.
On Thanksgiving day the gross receipts amounted to $9,750. After deducting $2,230 for expenses, $7,520 remained. Kansas shared equally with Missouri,and had $3,760 as her share. While the figures have not been definitely ascertained, the athletic association has come out several hundred dollars ahead for the season.
MANAGER LANSDON
The football season just closed under the management of W. R. Lansdon has been one of the most successful in many years.
Last spring when a new manager of athletics was to be chosen, the greatest qualification, as voiced by students and faculty, was tact. Manager Landsdon possessed this and still more, he has run football as a business proposition. He treated the boys as gentlemen and the result is that the best of feeling exists between the manager and the players. At McCook fewer men have been on the side lines this year than ever before. He has first of all had in mind the accommodation of the spectators. He has made the price of admission more reasonable than heretofore and has been rewarded with great crowds at all the games.
TRAINS MEN FOR .VARSITY.
The Freshmen Team Has Developed Some Speedy and Sure Football Men.
The creditable work done by the Freshman football squad gives the coach of the 'Varsity a line on new men to take the place of the veterans who graduate next spring. The enviable record made by the first year men testifies to the good training received from 'Shorty' Hamil. Next year they will not don suits as inexperienced men. Crowell made a remarkable showing at tackle and his speed has developed to such an extent that he promises to make this year's backs "hurry up" if
they want their old position
hey want their old position. Captain Veach while out of a number of games, is fast and has weight enough to hold a back field position before he closes up his four year course. Coulter has weight and speed and showed good head work at Quarter. 'Varsity men see in him the probable successor to Pooler. Matlock and Dahlene are promising men back of the line while Pleasant and Cohn will be "from Missouri" when the vacant places in the line are to be filled.
CLEAN HANDS.
Chancellor Satisfied with Athletic Conditions=-Thanks Football Men.
The football season just closed is in many respects the most noteworthy and successful in years. Kansas has won the respect of this section of the football world by the consistency and fairness of the football team, and the athletic management.
Chanceillor Strong in thank ing the members of the football team for their efforts strongly emphasized his satisfaction when he said in chapel Tuesday: "I am perfectly satisfied with the condition of our athletics. Our hands are clean. The boys have played a clean, hard, gentlemanly game this year, and I want to thank them personally, and on behalf of the University for their work. We have nothing to fear in the way of an attack on athletic conditions. We have a clean coach and a clean team, and I feel that I can go before any body of men and champion them."
ANOTHER DEBATE.
The Council Will Arrange Three This Year.
The University Debating Council has definitely decided to arrange for a University debate in addition to those already scheduled with Missouri and Iowa. If possible the third debate will be with a state university, and either Nebraska, Oklahoma or Texas would be acceptable to the council.
In case an inter-state debate cannot be arranged, a Baker debate is practically assured. Baker has been asked to submit a draft of the agreement she desires, and they will be discussed at the next meeting of the council.
The committee of the council has several questions from which to select the question for the debate with Missouri which will be held here this year. The committee is: Professor Boynton and Frazier and B.A. Earhart, Wilbern Parker and Alfred Tritt. Iowa has not yet chosen the question for the Iowa-Kansas debate which will be held at Ames, Iowa.