UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NOVEMBER 16,1917.
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"Our Boys Can Do It Is Annual Prophecy Of Uncle Jimmy Green
"Nebraska Has Been Beaten And Can Be Beaten Again"
Recalls Experience of 1906
After Losing to Washburn Team Comes Back and Beats Cornhuskers
"It's going to be a hard game. I do hope none of the boys will get hurt. They'll have to fight hard — just as they did against Nebraska. But Nebraska has been beaten before and she can be beaten again. Our boys can do the job."
—"Uncle Jimmy" Green.
The fact that Nebraska has been rolling up big scores against all her opponents this season doesn't bother "Uncle Jimmy" Green. He knows that Nebraska can be beaten, and that a certain bunch of young gentlemen have been getting better. Rascal for their Alma Mater are the fellows who are going to do the job. "And when they get through, I want them to get tasy and heat Missouri," said the Grand Old Man of K. U. football, this morning, for not beating Missouri last year, after what we did to Nebraska."
If "Uncle Jimmy's" forecast can be taken as an indication of the result, Kansas rooters should feel decidedly optimistic toward tomorrow's conflict. That "Uncle Jimmy" doesn't often go wrong with his prophecies may be true even over the time when he has predicted victory and Kansas has won it.
RECALLS INCIDENTS OF 1906
RECALLS INCIDENTS OF 1906
It was back in 1906 when "Uncle Jimmy" first began to be anything of a stand-by in the forecasting business. That year, the team had been a good success before a serious reason, the week before the Nebraska game, the boys went to Topeka and lost to Washburn. The iabods still chuckle with glee when they talk about "the time they beat K. U."
Naturally, losing to Washburn was rather dishearing. About three days before the Nebraska contest it became apparent that the team wasn't going to get much support from the roots. Hardly anyone planned to make the trip to Lincoln to see the game.
"Uncle Jimmy" was worried. In those days, the University had a morning prayer service which all students were required to attend; and in the fall they had a morning prayer. "Uncle Jimmy" asked for permission to speak to the students.
MAKES SPEECH IN CHAPEL
MAKES SPEECH IN CHAPEL
"It was the first speech I ever asked the privilege of making in my life," he said in recalling the occasion.
"I had made up my mind to get up there and give them a good bite to eat." The team. But after I'd thought it over, I decided that the boys had just lost faith, and that I'd do better if I tried to help them regain it. And so I told them what a good team we had, and what fine players the boys were, and how we could beat Nebraska if the rooters would stand back of the team.
"Meet me at the depot in the center, 'amwell, 'and we'll go to obkplena to win."
THE INVINCIBLE CONQUERED
THE INVINCIBLE CONQUERED
More than five hundred rootsers responded to the plea, and the special to Nebraska next day was loaded to the guards. "And I never heard such cheering!" says Uncle Jimmy. "It was great, because we had something to cheer about.
"We fooled those Nebraska fellows at the very start by making a run about their 'invinible' end—they had a colored boy playing for them, then, and before we knew it we were in kicking distance of the goal. We made one goal, and then, before very long, another. That made us eight points, because in those days field goals counted four points. That made one touchdown. That was by accident, because one of their players turned over after he had been downed; and his turning over put the ball across the line. Our boys should never have let him turn over that way."
Sorority Women Spend
Vacant Hours Knitting
Members of Organizations Give At Least One Hour Weekly To Work
The women of K. U., are entering industriously into Red Cross work. Every sorority woman is enrolled in one hour of Red Cross a week, and aside from this she knits during all her spare time. The modern college woman is never seen without that big variegated bag, and if you stop to talk to her she patriotically pulls out her knitting.
The national chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta has fitted one base hospital with nurses outfits, consisting of the street suit, coat, cap and grey dress, and uniform. This undertaking cost about $6,000.
The Pi Phis are going to make a knitted comfort for a hospital.
A new gymnasium class has been organized to meet daily at 5 o'clock, to fill the needs especially of students in the School of Medicine. Twenty men have already joined it, and only ten more may do so, as all gym classes are limited to thirty members. Instead of meeting for exercise Tuesdays, the class will attend a hygiene lecture.
Organize New Gym Class For Medical Students
"Gymnasium classes are better now than they were before military exercise was instituted," said R. V. Cook, instructor, this morning. There are five gym classes held each day. Enough lockers are vacant so that every member of the gym classes basketball teams, and track squads may have one, but they are not being given to those who take military drill.
giving
Football Men Will Report For Work After Thanks-
Despite the fact that the war left somewhat of a wreck in its wake as regards basketball at the University, Captain Dutch Uhrlaub is extremely optimistic over the outcome of the basketball season.
Basketball Prospects Promising Says Coach Despite Loss of Men
A scrappy bunch of new players have shown up for every position on the team and recruits from the foot-ball side. It has soon as the gridiron sport is over.
Coach Hamilton too is feeling good at the outlook. When the fact was cited that only two letter men returned this year to form the nucleus of the squad, he points to the fact that every other conference school, with one exception of Missouri, has been equally hard hit by the war.
The center position has been worrying the coaches most. Richey, center on last year's fresh squad was ex-commissioned last fall but will put come up next, semester.
Those showing up best on the team this early in the season are mostly sophomores and juniors, recruits from the freshman squad last year. Searing, a junior, is playing a good game at forward.
Haeklaim and Slonaker have been working hard at center but their work this early has not been satisfactory. Howard Miller, guard and forward, a product of the freshman last year is doing consistent work.
Stevenson, a guard who was out the first of last season is showing up better this year. Rafferty, guard and center, is showing good form. Fink is trying for the center position. Rice, high jumper is making a strong bid for one of the guard positions. Blaise, defensive coordinator, is good work at forward. Paul, guard, and Floyd, center, are both out for the team.
The strongest re-enforcement from the football team will come from Laslett, letter man at guard and a scraper, and Mandeville and Lonborg who will try for guard positions. Little headway can be made in the prosecution of those those out for forward are getting good experience which will be of value when the squad is completed by the addition of the football men.
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Chem Club and Society Now One Organization
Library Work, Lectures, and Special Papers Feature Work Of New Club
The Chemistry Club this year is the united Chemistry Club and Chemical Engineering Society of last season. The club meets every Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock in Room 305, Chemistry Building. Jack Waggoner presents of the club this year and he far has been mostly historical study.
Dr. F. B. Dains gave an illustrated lecture at the last meeting. The work started with a study of the ancient city and that the club is up to the period of 1800.
The first of the year, the club will take up library work so that the new students will know how to use the material in the library. The chemistry library here is good and the fault of the students is that they are unable to use it. Waggener thinks if this work is taken up in the club work students will become more interested, and since the material in the foreign journals is important they will profit by it.
The club has a membership of 150. Waggener thinks the membership can be increased to include all of the chemistry students and if that is possible the work of the club will progress with a better spirit.
The November meeting of the club will be held in the Chemistry Building, Room 305, November 24 at 3 o'clock. The club will meet with the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society. The following papers will be presented: "The Effect of Some Dinitrogen Oxide on Impregnation by a Reaction" by N. P. Suey, "Camp Sanitation" by E. H. S. Bailey, "The Chemical and Physical Properties of Mid-Continent Petrololium" by Charence Estes.
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