THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
In the Good Old Football Days White Ducks Featured Games Professor Hunter Reminisces
White duck togs, homedeed and unpadded, a prodigious innocence of football tactics, and an unquenchable desire to learn the game, were the chief characteristics of the first footballsniners at the University of Kansas.
In the fall of 1800 the game had its beginning at the University. A mass meeting had been called to form an organization for athletics, which, prior to this time had been cared for through small separate clubs.
At the meeting the talk was all of baseball, until Prof. A. M. Hopkins of the Greek department rose. The boys called him "Zeus" then.
"Fall is not the time for baseball," he said. "We should have a football eleven."
The meeting resulted in the decision to organize an athletic association with subdivisions for different sports. The men interested in football adjourned immediately to the room north of Fraser chapel.
Of the thirty in this group, only two, Prof. S. J. Hunter of the department of ontology and E. C. Case, now professor of geology at the University of Michigan, had ever seen a football scrimmage. A committee of two, with Professor Hunter as chairman and W. D. Ross as the other memorial speaker, told us a little. A little later, when games were started and there were gate receipts to care for, Prof. W. H. Carruth was made business manager.
The first practice was held at o'clock on the afternoon of the day of the meeting. The University athletic field was then on the vacant lots east of Massachusetts street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth.
And in that first amateurish scrimmage, the necessity for suitcases been obvious, for the citizens clothes in which the young fellows entered the fray at 4 o'clock either in all sheer and披篷 entirely out of existence by s six o'clock.
They bought white duck—purchased individually, for there was no athletic fund to provide the wherewalth-ann either sent them home for mother to make or wheeled the landy into doing the job. Short, tight jackets,
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they were, knickerbockers, but the served through many a battle royal. "The big thing in those days was to beat Baker," said Professor Hunter
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reminisher old days yesterday, "We did not worry about the Cornhuskers, or the Sooners and the Tigers, but we did want to get Baker. They had been playing down that, seven years ago, they took it on a team, which it took in a year or two to equal."
There was no money to hire a coach, so Prof. E. M. Hopkins, of the department of English, who had come from Princeton a short time before, volunteered to serve in that capacity. Most of the games that first year were inter-class, with one Baker game. The that year was a real one, according to Professor Hunter. Its personnel as proclaimed by the "Quivera," 1884 annual, was tackle, Champlain; left Cook; was tackle, Champlain; left Frederick; center, Coleman; right tackle, Huddleson; hif backs; to Supt. H. B. Pears of Haskell; right tackle, Huddleson; hif backs; Sherman and Kinzie; quarterback, Williamson; fb. Dyer; subs. Baldridge, Kutz, Case and Hudson.
"And they attended the bonfires as well," he continued. "We always had those before a game, usually in the park, and sometimes down by the river." The hunter was a apophora in the University at the time.
It was not only the students who
had it the football pop and "jingamar"
in those days, for, according to Pro-
gressive magazine, they were the
faculty went to the games.
It was a small beginning, but many big things start thus. Tomorrow when the big helmeted Kansas men trot out between the crowded bleachers there will not be much resemblance to the husky fellows in white duck knickerbockers who scrimmaged on a vacant let down on Massachusetts street. But the contrast is not so clear: the notice whose slops are "beet Baker" were Kansas men even as our team is, subject to the same tradition, inspired by the same school lobe, and inspired on by the same Kansas fighting spirit.
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