UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
Vol. XXVII
No. 61
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1920
TWO HUNDRED ATTEND K. U.'S FIRST GRID GAME ON HOME FIELD
football Has Seen a Good Many Changes Since 1890 in Rules, Players, and Uniforms
Two hundred spectators attended K.U.'s first intercollegiate football game on the home field with Baker and Stuart. The team was located where the Lawnmore Memorial high school now stands. On one side of the gridiron, temporary bleachers were erected for those who needed admission to necessary admission fee of fifty cents.
In those days the playing field was 110 yards long and 50 yards wide. It was marked off in five yard section teams. The boards, placed at each end of the field as at present, the teams were alternating; necessary five yards for a first down. One ball lasted practically the entire season, while the football shoes were worn to the point of bending. The home made uniforms consisted of tight-fitting jackets and canvas pants. Shoulder pads, kidney pads and antiguns were practically unknown.
The scoring system then allowed two points for a safety, four for a tackle, two for a touchdown, and three for a field goal. The open style of play was not developed at this time, line play, ball control, and team communications being all-popular. The quarterback was prohibited from carrying the ball in indirect pass was all that was used.
Nov. 22, 1890, and resulted in Baker's defeat 22 to 9. Five days later the Jayhawkers went to Kansas City for a visit to CAA, and were successful, 10 to 18. The Baker game at Lawrence was Kansas' third intercollegiate football game. Professor Carruth of the University of Kansas coach this first team with the assistance of Prof. E. M. Hopkins of the department of English, who had seen the game played at Princeton University. "He said he knew little of the finer details."
Football had been advocated as a University sport several times before 1850, but interest always died out before the end of the season. The first game was played in 1853 and was in 1882 when some students formed a makeshift team. They had little idea of the rules or organization of the game. They erected goals to make it more challenging where a number of contests were a number of contests were played between University groups. A football association was organized by students in 1884 when a movement began to organize such games; it did not last throughout the year.
The next year the facilities for football were improved with training from the players of Snow hall. The players were given a good, substantial diet and were well hydrated.
The first intercollegiate game in which KU, participated was also with Baker, shortly before the initial home appearance. This contest was played
A high degree of teamwork and cooperation was necessary, because of the weight cross bucks and mass plays in the cross buckets and the game was divided into 45-minute halves. Once a game could not be reused, and no "time outs" were allowed it was unbalanced necessary on account of injuries.
Very few substitutes were ever carried on trips because the attitude of the players was such that when a man made the variety he would very sediment be taken from the game, for instance, if a body of bodily contact where men measured the strength of one against the other. It was dangerous even to the biggest and hardiest since they used closed formation almost to the exertion of the open and passing so dear to them endangered American grid fan.
Between 1902 and 1904 a subscription list was circulated among the students and faculty of the University of New York to charge a field, Colonel McCook, of New York interested himself in the securing of the field and gave $1,500
routalege game in of doubling what the subscription list Charles Robinson gave half the land, it painted was also with should raise up to the sum of $10,000. which the association decided to buy before the initial home Governor Charles Robinson gave half and, after putting it into shape, it a contest was played of the sum of $10,000. Governor was named McCook field.
Football has changed in almost thousands see every Kansas game, every aspect since its introduction on sitting in giant concrete structures the Hill, but interest has grown with which are built practically for no almost every change until today other purpose.
SPORTSMANSHIP IN FOOTBALL IMPROVED, SAYS CHARLES ISE
Alumni President Still Gets Big "Kick" Out of Game; Lauds Hargiss, Allen and Staff
Stressing the sportsmanship shown by the teams and the supporters of college athletic events, Charles D. Ike, president of the Alumni Association writes the following in the homecoming issue of the Graduate Magazin.
"I saw the Kansas-Aggie game and enjoyed it. During its progress I ran
Harrier Squad Looks Good
Runners Hope to Win Big Six Meet on Thanksgiving
The cross country team have kept its state clean during the dual meet weekend. In Missouri we are working hard in preparation for the Big Six Conference meet.
The team has shown improvement in each meet and are expecting to make a strong bid to retain the Big Ten captain. Captain Eddie Fortune, the only veteran on the Kansas team, is one of the greatest distance runners in the conference. Coach Hamilton remarked that the team's three dual meets was due in no small measure to the way in which the little Jayhawk captain handled his injury.
Lowell Hinshaw, captain of the track team, is running his first year in the cross country team. The experience gained on the track team has been an aid to Hinshaw and accorded him with honors among the leaders in the Big Six race.
In Bowers, Lawine, Stover, and Roberts, Coach Hamilton has four promising sophomores who have shown improvement in each dual meet this season. The team opposing runners plenty to worry about on Thanksgiving day.
Coach Hamilton said that his men, were in better condition than they have been this year and although the Kannas Agues and Oklahoma are among the best of all the men ran true to form, Kansas had a fighting chance.
the full gaudytet of human emotions. When we received the ball and went down the field for four straight first downs, I could tell he would better I could not have stood it, but when in the first quarter they scored two goals worse I would worse I gave would have died.
"The kick" which one gets out of a victory was not for me to enjoy, but I did enjoy the high standard of education and seminarians of such schools, which after all is the true goal of all college athletic events. No more admirable trait can be instilled into she who is an athlete than to be good losers and magnanimous victors. We had a plorious opportunity to show how well we could defeat, and I trust accepted the good grace and credit to ourselves.
"The standard of sportsmanship shown by the teams and supporters of college athletic events has improved so much the time I cared to watch them. The enemy that there is little comparison. We are living in a different and most certainly better age of sportsmanship, I have always said and still contend that we should be judged by adhering strictly to the conference rule of sportsmanship and scholarship. A player who is not so qualified will not have the pride in and the honor in playing the game at the critical times.
"Hill Bargis and Forrest Allen, with the support of the other authorities of the University, have been working out a system that will soon allow students to play on the University a team, every member of which is a credit to his school in every sense of the word and which is winning its share of the games. No one in the football outplay of the standard of football on boys have been playing this year."
Polo is a new sport to be indulged in at Michigan State College. Only junior and senior cadet officers in the school are eligible to try out for the team.
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