THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SIX TEAMS ENTERED DR. FORREST C. ALLEN, MANAGER OF ATHLETIC FIRST TOURNAMENT
First Tourney Held in Connection With Invitation Track Meet
Sixty-Eight Quintets in 1917
Records Show Championship is Passed Around Among Different Teams
The first high school basketball tournament held at the University was in 1908, and washed in connection with the invitation track meet. There were only six teams entered and none of the entries were girls' teams.
In 1909 the basketball tournament was separated from the meet and became an event of interest and importance over the state. That year several girls' teams were entered and each team made a strong promise to prominent part in the tournaments.
The year 1917 stands as the banner year in the history of Kansas basket ball tournaments. There were sixteen teams, both boys and girls, on the court, with twenties and thirties. The number of awards last year was fifty three.
The records of past tournaments show that nine different boys' teams have won the cup out of the possible twelve chances. The championship for the girls was played at Château Chantecourt having taken the four times four and Rousselle twice.
Year Winner Winner Boys Girls
1908- Halstead, No entries.
1909- Halstead, Beloit.
1910- Clay County, Chanute.
1911- Lawrence, Chanute.
1912- Lawrence, Chanute.
1913- Roena County, Sterling.
1914- Arkansas, Arkansas City.
1915- Iola, Chanute.
1916- Newton, Rosalee.
1917- Newton, Elsmore.
1918- Newton, Chanute.
1919- Winfield, Rosalee.
Kansas Is Champion Locust Producer
Kansas produces more specimens of locusts than any other state in the Union, declared Dr. P. B. Lawson of the department of entomology. The family name for locust is cicadus and Kansas produces canegrass. Louisiana Douglas County alone has seven species. Mississippi follows with eighteen species.
Professor Lawson attributes the large number in Kansas to its central position. Observation has shown that the species from the east come and settle in the eastern part of the state while those from the west settle just within the western border of the state. Species from the northern and southern section also make their way within the borders of the state.
The well known seventeen year locust is of this family. It is so called because it takes seventeen years to complete its life cycle, considering it from the time the egg is laid on the tree until the adult stage when it leaves the ground to fly. The last stage of this species appears in 1913 according to Doctor Lawson, so it will be 1930 before this brood appears again.
The commoner locutus have a life cycle of two or three years. Each type of locutus has its own peculiar song and may often be classified by its song
Carl Weller, president of the freshman class at Texas University was kidnapped and held for several days. Sophia are accused of the deed.
Dr. F. C. Allen, manager of athletics of the University is finishing its first season here and his team won third place in the Missouri Valley conference.
Dr. Allen himself is an all-round athlete. He played right guard and managed the K. C. A. C. basketball team in 1905, when that team played the Buffalo, N. Y., German Y. M. C. A, and won the world's championship. Entering the University of Kansas in the fall of 1905, he played freshman football, made the Varsity basketball team, at that time of a freshman year, the Varsity, and was Captain ect of basketball for the 1906 season. He played second base in the varsity baseball team in the spring.
He started his career as coach in
1907, when he took charge of the Baker University athletics, during his year that he was at Baker he won for them the Missouri Valley championship in basketball, and for the Kentucky Kansas won the Valley championship.
Leaving for a time his coaching work, he studied and graduated from the School of Osteopathy, from 1909 to 1912. Dr. Alen studied this line of work with a view toward using it in his athletic work.
From the Otospathy graduation,
he went to the Missouri State Teacher
College, at Warrensburg in 1912,
where he coached an ever victorious
year of athletics, in football, basketball,
and baseball.
Coming to the University of Kansas in the fall of 1919 as manager of Athletics, Dr. C. Allen while he
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