THE KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1905
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Friday, December 8:
President Pihblad of Bethany College speaks in chapel.
Professor Walter Dennison of the University of Michigan lectures on Roman Portraiture.
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Saturday, December 9.
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On last Thursday Captain Bert Pooler played his last game of football for the University of Kansas. Pooler was probably dearer in the affections of the students than any athletic idol they have ever known. His was the kind of playing that made you hug the girl in front of you or beat 'stoves' into the stiff hat of her partner. It was not the steady unfailing march of Donald or Bruner, but a snap, a dash, a dodge, a hurdle, and then from a thousand throats would come the exultant cry that "Pooler was loose again."
Captain Bert never got hurt; he might be tackled at full speed, or himself make a flying tackle of a 200 pounder but the whistle never blew for time out on Pooler's account. His punts were the delight of the multitude. They went high, far and curved in such treacherous fashion. Three years ago at Kansas City, in gathering darkness, a tie game was turned into a glorious victory for Kansas by Pooler's long place kick from the forty yard line.
Off the football field Pooler was as modest of his accomplishments as a school girl. He never spoke of them and rather shunned than liked publicity. The little quarter-back cared little for society and seldom appeared at social functions, but there was never a jayhawker that was more of a "good fellow" than he.
Pooler has finished four years of faithful service on the gridiron for Old K. U. It will probably be many a day before Kansas will have an athletic hero of whom she will sing with as much enthusiasm as she has sung for four years "O Mr. Pooler, the greatest man the country ever knew."
It was a glorious victory, by a great team, on a great day.
Kansas City saw more enthusiasm on the part of the Kansans last Thursday night than for several years past. The hotels and theaters were apprised of the Jayhawkers' victory in no uncertain tones.
Carried away by the magnificent playing of our team on last Thursday, we should not however forget the man on the sideline who made it all possible. Coach Kennedy came out of the season more than a conqueror. He did not have the best of material to begin with and sometimes before a big game he lost his best men but out of it all only 26 points are marked down against the Jayhawkers. Great is the Kansas team but greater is Kennedy.
If at any time it has been thought that the only way to have a winning team in football was to disregard and evade the restrictions with which the University authorities seek to secure the amateur and class standing of her athletes, that idea has been pretty well exploded by the events of this year. Not only has a team been maintained which, while conforming to the strictest rules, has lost but one game, but the culminating victory of the season was won against a team whose school discredits the freshman rule as being too far in advance of present football conditions. K. U. stands today the foremost champion of the "square deal" in college athletics, and this season's football men have done much to earn the place for her.
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KILLED 18.
Casuality List of Football Large. Only Three College Men Hurt.
During the past few weeks, the United States has been agitated about the increasing "brutal" character of football. Several noted men, among them President Roosevelt and General Miles, have come out against football as it is played now and the whole country seems to be interested as it never was before. Columbia University has placed a ban upon the game and New York University seems likely to do the same.
It will be interesting to note the cause of all this commotion. According to the Chicago Record-Herald 18 deaths have resulted from the game this season, with only three college men among the number. The remainder were high school boys. It is a noticeable fact that among the larger colleges only one or two serious accidents have occurred. Captain Hurley of Harvard and Vanderboom of Wisconsin received injuries which compelled them to give up the game for the season, but outside of those mentioned the larger institutions have had little cause for agitation against the game. Kansas has had no serious accidents for several years.
Those who do not wish to abolish the game entirely believe that there should be more open play—more end runs and no close formations, thus enabling the officials to see every foul perpetrated. This scheme would no doubt be effectual in stopping intentional rough work, but as everyone acquainted with the game knows, more accidents are caused by end runs than by mass plays. The man carrying the ball generally disables the tackler, and usually suffers some injury himself as he is thrown to the ground. On the other hand, mass plays can not be so dangerous, as the momentum of the runner is not so great.
Eighteen men killed seems a large casuality list for a sport's sake, but if the same number of boys had gone swimming, hunting or indulged in any other vigorous out-door sport, there would probably be little difference in the mortality. One thing this year's record proves, is that high school boys without training have little right to play the game. Fifteen of the eighteen killed came from among the high schools or academies or town teams that had no training.
Miss Gertrude Kenny visited her brother, Will Kenny, '08 during the Thanksgiving vacation.
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