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Special News Edition of THE GRADUATE MAGAZINE
Entered as second-class matter, September 22, 1904, at the postoffice o Lawrence, Kansas under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879
VOL. XX.
STADIUM WORK BEING PUSHED;
10,000 SEATS READY OCT. 29
Contract Signed July 9. Decision Follows Lengthy Discussion and Consideration of Many Plans. Plans of Professor Williams Adopted.
UNIVERSITY OF KAN. AUGUST—SEPTEMBER
WILL BUILD HALF OF STADIUM NOW
Contract Let to Unit Construction Company for $212,000
Builds Section on Each Side of New
Football Field
At the meeting of the executive committee of the Memorial Corporation May 10, Chancellor Lindley was authorized to review a reviewing board of engineers to go over the plans presented by Mr. Williams. The Chancellor appointed a committee composed of J. L. Harrington, A. R. Mann, R. J. Delano, all R. U. graduate students on site May 18, with site on May 18th, with Mr. Mann, Mr. Harrington presented a communication recommending that a further investigation of other Stadium plans be made before a contract
The grading and drainage includes 35,000 cubic yards of earth to be moved, two, and one half-acre of sodding. 7,000 linear feet of 4 inch sub surface soil. 1,400 foot of sanitary sewer, 3,000 foot of tile surface drains, 20 manholes, and 3 catch basins. This work provides the grade for the Stadium, a quarter mile running track, a 280-meter course, and a football and baseball field.
Construction of the K. U. Memorial Stadium is well under way. The formal contract for the building of the side sections of the Stadium was signed July 9. Less than a week later, men and equipment were on the ground. Excavation and grading work was started first. At the present time other phases of the work are being pushed with the result that there is every indication that the contracting concern, the Unit Construction company will make good its promise to have 10,000 seats available for the K. U.-Aggie game on October 29, and 15,000 seats for the Missouri-Kansas game Thanksgiving, November 24.
The stands included in the context here are with 12 feet of the footstep running forward and across each field and meadows. Each field is 100 feet wide and 291 feet long, with 40 rows of seats. The north end of these stands is to be the north property line of Meadows. Front "faces" are 265 feet apart.
The contract with the Unit Construction company will call for the expenditure of approximately $321,000. This will provide for 15,000 of the 32,000 seat which eventually will be in the completed stadium. The present contract for the Stadium covers grading and drainage for the complete structure and approximately one-third of the structure itself.
The Stadium plans are those of C. C. Williams, professor of civil engineering in the School of Engineering, which were made following extensive personal investigation of practically every stadium throughout the country. La Force Bailey, of the department of architectural engineering was the architect. The stands are to be of reinforced concrete.
The decision to push construction of the Stadium and the decision on final plans were made following lengthy deliberations. The team reviewed by competent engineers. The conference and discussion leading up to the final adoption of the plans were fruitful in bringing out the strengths of importance to be considered.
The space under the stands will be utilized for winter training for track athletics, fundamental winter baseball and football practice, and for storage and other shelter purposes. The end towers contain dressing quarters, showers, locker rooms, toilet facilities and field offices.
The location was selected after a study of all available sites, and it is believed to combine the essential features of accessibility, economy and climate. It is also considered greater degree than any of the others investigated. This site is also considered to best harmonize with the plans for the future development of the campus and has a remarkable reach toward Mount Orcad to the south.
was let. The executive committee decided upon a building committee to work out the problem. Pending further investigation, this committee, composed of Irving Hill, Thornton Cook, R. J. Delano, T. J. Tweemyer, C. Williams, and J. V. Tesch, advertised for kids to be received June 28.
Early in June Mr. Harrington met informally with members of the Executive committee and presented a plan for an embankment type of Stadium structure. He pointed out that this type would mean a saving of approximately $200,000 on the cost of the original plan.
The matter of final decision on the plans came at a meeting of a reviewing board of engineering conferences held in Chancellor Lindley's office of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Indiana. Thorton Cooke, R.K., D. Delano, A. R. Mann, James A. Kimball, state business manager, Frank Cortelley, a member of the staff in Mr. Harrington's office and C. K. Williams.
Chancellor Lindley stated the purpose of the meeting to be to review the two plans of the Stadium as an engineering soundness and economic action. Mr. Cortelyou presented the various features of the plan of the Stadium as proposed by Mr. Harrington. He had a sketch showing the stadium. He stated that Mr. Harrington estimated the cost at about $250,000.
Professor Williams presented the merits of the Stadium as it had been designed under his supervision. He
HEAT DOES NOT STOP MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN
SPECIAL NUMBER
dutchinson Goes Over Top i
Mid-Summer Campaign.
Goal was $15,000
(Continued on page 2)
Instead of entire inactivity during the hot weather days following the successful Topeka Memorial campaign, an additional local effort in the interest of the K. U. Million Dollar fund occurred at Hutchinson beginning July 11.
Chancellor Lindley addressed the largest gathering in the history of Hutchinson on the evening of July 11. Thornton Cooke, 93, director of the successful Kansan City campaign, spoke to K.U. people and Hutchin-
business men on July 13. Around these two gatherings, the organized campaign was successfully carried on by the direction of D C. Martin. 10, with the able assistance of the head coach. Y. Morgan and Chuck Cleary.
Counting the entire student body, the average contribution was $175. In Kansas City the average was $163, counting numerous outside contributions, the former student girls being above this mark. In Topeka and Hutchinson, the same high standard of contribution has been maintained. In Topeka, where addresses of less than 300 former students were known, $42,000 was pledged by 415 contributors. The per capita gifts of former students was much higher than $100. The 415 included scores of contributors who have never attended K. U. but who were glad to express their interest in the University and the Memorial.
is needless to say that Hutchin was successful in pleasing its audience. The Memorial re-
*e* of every campaign being a stu
*sill holds good.*
The fact that the K. U, campaign is the one generally recognized appeal for a state Memorial, is causing a response in gifts from "outside contributors" far above expectations.
The Unit Construction company, the contracting concern, and their workingmen have caught the spirit of the enterprise even as the "old grads" and friends of K. U. All have their important playing part in making good the Stadium and the completion of the Memorial fund of $1,000,000 for Stadium, Kansas Union building and Green Memorial. To date, contributions have come only from University students and faculty and former students and friends in Lawrence, Kansas City, Topek, and Hutchinson. Their response has been the pledging of $615,000, payments being made over a four year period.
Alumni and former students of the University will receive a sok in September which will tell the story of the Memorial object. This book will be hand-drawn by the artist and will contain new illustrations of the best type.
The next phase of the Memorial will come in the autumn months with numerous local campaigns being organized in Kansas towns and in large cities outside the state. Atchison will start its campaign September 12.
THE GREA TEST GAME
Every detail of construction is carefully supervised. As an example, before the concrete was poured for the first foundation "footings" E. B. Black, e $ ^{12} $ , of the firm of Black and Veatch made a careful survey all excavation with L. H. Dodd, e $ ^{14} $ , resident engineer.
They are playing the great game in the history of McCook field, a contest in wi at the Memorial Stadium figures as the objective - a Sta in a sufficiently completed to seat 10,000 persons for the football game with Kansas Agues October 29 and 15,000 in Missouri-Kansas game Thanksgiving, November 24.
Four Views of Stadium progress on the old site of McCook and Hamilton fields, with one contrast, the Ne braska game at the same place last November.
GEORGE "POTSY" CLARK
George "Potsy" Clark, Assistant Coach in 1916 Returns to University This Fall
COMING OF "POTSY"
BRINGS HIGH HOPES
'WILL PUT KANSAS ON MAP'
"Phog" Allen Says Clark Can Do At Kansas What Zuppke Did at Illinois
The coming of George "Potay" Clark to the University as head coach of varsity football and baseball marks the beginning of a new era in athletics at K. U., according to Dr. "Thong" Allen, director of athletics.
"Bob Zuppke made Illinois so far as athletics are concerned, and I think Clark can do the same for Kansas." said Dr. Allen. "What Illinois is in the Big Ten conference, Kansas, because of her location, should be and will be in the Missouri Valley conference."
Clark secured his undergraduate training under Zuppke and Huff at Illinois, and played on six championship football and baseball teams there. Zuppke likes to call Clark "my good luck piece."
Schooled under men of the type of Zuppke and Huff," said "Phoe." "Clark continues to carry out their ideas of sportmanship as well as our ability to improve the sure of the highest and cleanest type of athletics with Clark in charge."
"Potys" was assistant coach at K. U in 1916 under Olcott, and stepped into the limelight when he took the Jayhawkers to Nebraska and came back with a 7 t, 3 victory. Ad Lindsay who was captain of the Jayhawkers that year will be an assistant to Clark next year.
KANSAS UNION BEING PLANNED
Since the war Clark has been associated with John L. Griffith formerly of Drake University in conducting a coaching school at the University of Illinois. The two have published several coaching manuals and have supervised the manufacturable equipment of their own design.
Later Clark and Lindsay together with "Scrubby" Laslett played together on the 89th division team both at Funston and in France when the 89th won the championship of the A. E. F.
A vision of the future's possibilities at K. U. largely to be brought about the new stadium was the thing that held him, said Dr. Allen.
Clark will arrive in Lawrence September 1. The last uncertainty about his coming was removed when he turned down an offer of $1,000 more than he is to get at K. U from one of the universities in the United States.
Clark will have a free hand in the
Accommodations to be Included
In Building Under Consideration By Committee
TO PROVIDE FOR WOMEN
Their Needs Are Being Given Special Study in Designing Building
A comprehensive idea of the progress being made on the plans for the Kansas Union building is found in the following article sent out by the public service of the Alumni office to all Kansas newspapers:
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With work on the Kansas Stadium well under way, officers of the University of Kansas Memorial project are going ahead making definite recommendations other important part of the University's memorial, the Kansas Union building.
This structure to cost $500,000, will be a great community house for the University and its visitors. It will serve the same purpose in a permanent way for the University that the houses served in camps during the war.
At the Union building, visitors will find accommodations both for sleeping and dining. The Union will serve as a great meeting place for friends of the University, students, and faculty, according to those developing the plans. Students will find the union of constant value since it will be the center of important student activities. According to Chancellor E. H. Lindley, it will guarantee a fine school spirit and democracy at K. U.
ceiving special consideration in designing the structure. A special committee of college, faculty women and present students has made recourse to an unequivocal proposal for women when building buildings lack. In fact, the Kansas Union will be unique in this respect. Some other schools have separate designs for men and for women, but none have a building designed for the use of both.
Several small tea rooms or kitchenettes where girls may prepare light lunches is one of the recommendations for the Kansas Union made by the women's committee. A sewing machine with sewing machines and pressing machines, and a rest room with cots are other suggestions for women's accommodations.
A barber shop, play rooms, lounging rooms, and so forth are planned by the general committee for the use of men.
The larger part of the building will be open to men and women alike. Dining rooms for groups of various sizes are part of the room is part of the plans. A large social hall with a stage, and rooms for various campus meetings are planned. Offices for the more interesting organizations will be located in the Union.
The most popular part of the building for alumni and visitors to the University is expected to be the sleeping rooms on the upper floors, which will be especially valuable dur-
ing celebrations, commemorative con-
ventions, for which there is no general meeting place at present.
The recommendations of the committee are not final, and suggestions as to the most desirable features are still being sought as a preliminary to the employing of an architect to draw up final plans.
matter of equipment, and some original plans are being worked out.
Two complete sets of uniforms, one set with blue jerseys and socks and the other with crimson jerseys and socks, instead of the striped jerseys and socks of the past, is one immo-then which will be introduced. When playing a team wearing red jerseys, Kansas will wear blues, and vice versa.
"We believe that the smartness and neatness of the uniform has a lot to do with how well a team plays, and no pains will be spared in making the Jahawkers appearance as credible as possible," said Dr. Allen.