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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929
Hill Student First Broadcast Games by Wireless in 1911 KFKU Installed in 1924: First Play-by-Play Report of Game in 1925
in 1925
The precedent for the widespread radio broadcast football was established here on old McCoy field in Kane County, where the Kansas-Oklahoma game was broadcast by Harry Sgriffred over his wireless broadcasting and receiving set.
Prior to that time accounts of football games were made by the registrar. More micrographs of the scores were usually confined to the score. On the most important games a short description was given.
Harry Sagfried, a sophomore in the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas, was interested in electrical work, even though he preferred which was comparatively new at that time. In his room on the top floor of a Lawrence rooming house he had commercial reception and sending outfit.
**Reports Heard at Two Points**
As the K. U., O.-U. game drew near it was suggested that the game be telephoned wireless set. He agreed to act as operator and send out reports. Arrangements were made for the story of the game to be telephoned from Ottawa, but it did not turn sent the story out in ballast form over his wireless set. Messages were picked, as far as we knew, only at Ottawa and Kanaski City, Mo. (Snowbird Telephone) planned and the event was beraked as a real forward step in demonstration that wireless telegraphy could be
In 1919 a five-hour course in wireless telegraphy was offered by the department of physics in the University of Chicago, with special instructions on the theory of wireless telegraphy, and Carl Ross, a student, had charge of the code practice. Messages were copied from stations operated by the United States, Alaska, and the Philippine Islands.
First Radio Night in 1922
Then came the use of the radio in the University of Kansas in 1930. Later, faculty gave talks over the Kansas City Star station, WDAF. The first annual Railroad Day, which was broadcast over WDAF in 1922.
In December, 1924, the University installed a broadcasting station of its own, which was assigned the call letters ZDC and MDG for Radio Night. Monday, Dec. 18, 1924, was the first use of the new broadcasting station. With the installation of the radio station, the university had a bigger and better Radio Night. The program included music by the University band, Merrill's Orchestra, the choir, the orchestra, and a talk by Chancellor Lindley dedicating the radio plant to the service of the University and of the College.
Use Different Places
The numbers of great volume, as the hand, glee clubs and yells, were broadcast from the gymnasium. Numbers of less volume, such as the stories from the studio in the electrical engineering laboratories. Programs were under the direction of Harold G. Ingham, director of the University Extension Division, George Washington University, a technical engineer had charge of the apparatus.
Following is part of a letter from Lillian Mayer Smith, 23, of Ann Arbor, Mich., to Fred Ewells, secretary of the Alumni Association, after she had listened to the Freshman and ceremonies of this year over a radio;
"Can you imagine our delight last night when we tuned in on KFKU as the freshman initiation was being announced to be true for we have never been able to reach B. U. before and few have even heard of it, the fact that it was a stormy night here with a great amount of static prevailing, we heard everything quite
Fan Likes Broadcast
The first athletic event broadcast by radio, in the University was a basketball game in 1925 between K. U. and K. S. A. C.
Each player was introduced and a brief sketch was given of his record in a basketball play. Olm K. Fearson was named and broadcaster the basketball play.
All home athletic events have been
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About a year and a half ago, Mr. Palmer states, 23 bend of bison were killed in the past week by the National Bison Range, Montana. Nine were released near the town of McCary, and four held at the reincarnation site of the first animal came through their first winter in good shape, in spite of the snowy conditions of the natural habitat, chiefly the wild vetch.
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