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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Present Day College Football Discovers Historic Antecedents in Ancient Hellenistic Games
The football fan of today probably never stops to wonder where football came from, but truly it may be said that the game is a sport of great utility. Football, the most prominent thrillous thousands of enthusiastic spectators every year. Hearts thump and eyes are eager as two great football runs out on a field surrounded by an audience in action by the referee's whistle. The shouting of the gray crowd is wild and furious, and the players push forward as they rush into the ancient Greeks played a form of football which they called harpaston The Romans played a similar game Julius Polux, a Roman writer of the 1st century AD, as follows: "The players divide themselves into two bands. The bail is placed upon a line between their hands, and the players line up upon which the players are stationed, are two other lines beyond which these two bands strive to carry the ball." This description bring the fundamental basis of the game
Varieties of the game have been found in other parts of the world. Even the Eskimo played, using a half made of leather filled with moss.
The style of the game played by American colleges is an outgrowth of English rugby; the two games still popular among American football fans, the whole, however, American football has developed so far from Rugby that an Englishman would probably be unable to recognize the American game as an outgrowth of their popular sport.
Football was originally introduced to American colleges by Harvard, whose team visited Canada and the United States, and were styled after those of English rugby. Even before, however, in 1840, to be exact, football in a Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Only the freshman and sophomore classes engaged in the game which consisted of nine games, collegiate contest in America (this
game autotated the first in England) was held between Princeton and Rutgers, Nov. 6, 1869. In 1875, Harvard played them then ancient rival, Yale. In these first contests, the player hold that anything no longer exists was perfectly legitimate. This situation led to a rapid multiplication of the rules.
Because of the roughness of early football in America, state legislatures were asked at various times to forbid the game.
In 1906, the rules committee introduced a change which did away with the old mass plays. This change allowed players to it had a decided effect on the game.
Football has come to be very popular; the game eagles all other sports during its season. For this reason, football is a great money-maker. It also helps to support the school athletic branches of the school throughout the year.
In 1913, American intercollegiate football was played by 400 colleges and 5000 schools.
In 1926, football history reached an hitherto unattained climax when 110,000 spectators paid approximately $1,000,000 for the game between the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy; the great Army and Navy teams battled to a final score of compromising if not a fitting result.
Only three teams in the entire country finished the 19th season. The team that was most successful were LaFaestey in the East, Alabama in the South, and Stanford on the West.
The 1927 season is opening with brilliant prospects and hopes in a great many camps. In addition to thousands of students, thousands of red-blooded American citizens join the game to don the helmets to the game only to yell themselves house in support of their favorite team. Traditional rivalry between certain teams is responsible for some of the popularity of football, but the game is not as popular among Americans; the sport is significant of American enthusiasm.
Sport Notes
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Seven different freshman teams participated in the short skirmish held Friday evening during regular school hours. With some flashy work, although with only three days of running signals, the team yet learned the various formations.
The group was fighting hard, however, to show their best wares and were especially anxious to get into the varsity scrimmage schedule for yesterday afternoon. A number were excited about Coach Bunn was not sure whether some of the hardest fighting players would be ready or not.
Those doing the best work Friday night were Morrison of Nebraska as center, Foy of Hutchinson and Layne of Cincinnati. He was on Haskell as an interferer in the backfield; Paydon, El Dorado, Trailer of McKeen and Weller of Arkansas in the backfield. McCall, Lawngrass, Gump of Ableone starred as guards.
Substitutions were made frequently and the members were not permitted to play long. With another week's preparation, we would mage or two, Coach Bunn will be able
to pick a good number of graders of much ability, which will no doubt show the varsity eleven competition any time it desires.
The Missouri Tigers and their freshman squad were also scheduled to clash Saturday. The team will present the accomplishments of the year. After the scrimmages, both here and at Missouri, dopeers would be able to play in the game as to the strength of the two rivals.
The story can't always be told at the first of the season. The Missouri freshmen may be stronger than the other. But the Missouri men may be in the same condition.
The Kansas Aggies met the Hays Teachers at Manhattan yesterday, while the Grimell Pioneers played
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the Penn College team at Grinnell.
The eight other Missouri Valley teams engaged the fechman elevenes yesterday. Kansas will meet Grinnell next Saturday. Other important games will be those between Oklahoma and Chicago, Missouri and Iowa, and Nebraska and Iowa State.
Sport writers will get a lot of fun trying to dope out the outcome of the Missouri-Kansas battle but not the Kansas finished will the fans be satisfied.
Physical examinations were being given again yesterday for the men, in Robinson gymnasium. Quite a challenge for examination during the day,
With intra-mural athletics sched-
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suality of being outside men who are not in the major sports
Just enough football games, most of them prep school contests, were played yesterday in the Chicago territory to stir the pulses of thousands of fans for the gala opening next week. So the team, known as Runtime Rooke put his varisity team into action against the freshman squad.
With three major inter-sectiona games and five, possibly six Valley conference games on her schedule, she will be playing the ball schedules in the history of the school. Players will be made to four teams. In play, Missouri will have nine games to play, which is one more than any other team in the valley.
The schedule
This schedule
Oct. 1 — Kansas State at Columbia.
Oct. 8 — Nebraska at Columbia.
Oct. 17 — Washington at St. Louis (tena)
Out. 22 - N.M. H. at Dallas, Tex.
Out. 23 - N.M. H. at Dallas, Tex.
Out. 24 - West Virginia at Columbia,
N.C.
Out. 25 - West Virginia at Columbia,
N.C.
Out. 26 - Kansas at Lawrence,
N.C.
Out. 27 - Oklahoma at Columbia (Home)
Work on the new unit of the Student Union building at the Emporia State Teachers College has begun and the foundation work is expected to be finished by the end of this week. The new unit will cost approximately $0,000 and will be used for non-academic purposes.
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About seventy-five women attended a meeting held in the gymnasium, Friday afternoon, for all those interested in playing hockey. In addition to former players there were many new women who wished to learn the game.
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The women were divided into classes and a manager elected for each class. The senior manager is Thelmia Stevens; the juniors elected Elizabeth Short; the sophomores Elizabeth Long; the freshmen Virginia Allen.
Juniors—3:30 Monday and Wednesday.
Eve. 10-50
Practices were arranged as follows:
Seniors-4:30 Monday and 3:30
Thursday.
Monday - Tuesday
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Sophomores—4:30 Tuesday and Thursday.
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Any women who were not out for the meeting may still attend the practices.
Freshmen-4:30 Wednesday and 3:30 Tuesday.
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