UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XV.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 1917.
NUMBER 44.
Cornhuskers AreOn Way ToOread To Avenge Last Season's Defeat
But The Jayhawk, Backed By Hundreds Of Students And Loyal Alumni Here For Game, Is Prepared To Turn Back Foe
Merchants Dress Up Streets And Stores For Gala Day
Special Trains, Interurban And Motor Cars Will Bring Crowds— W. O. Hamilton Expects Record-breaking Attendance At Annual Clash On McCook Tomorrow
The Huskers are coming.
From the north come reports that a Nebraska aggregation, five hundred strong will sweep into Lawrence tomorrow, determined to avenge the stinging defeat administered to the Nebraska warriors last year by the Jay-Ice seven, and carry back to Lincoln the claim to another Valley championship.
In Lawrence there is a determination that the northerners must be beaten again and sent back to Huskerland convinced that in the land of the Jayhawker there is a foe worthy of their mettle.
and the line of Green Hall comes the cry, "Woes it wows" she worm, when we husk Nodhlin corn," and the line of enthusiastic students pick up the strain and carry it on to the Ad Building, to the Gym, to Harvin Hall, the home of the engineers.
10 AM, 10 ML.
On the Hill, downtown all is astir with preparation for the big game. This morning scores of old grads are revisiting favorite haunts on Oread, and the houses of all clubs and fraternities are thrown open in welcome to out of town visitors who are here for the big event.
Downtown the merchants are dressing up the streets and store windows with the Crimson and Blue and the Red and White. The hotels and restaurants are preparing to accommodate the largest crowd that has ever visited Lawrence for a football game SPECIALS, PUT ON.
Special trains will be run to accommodate the increasing crowds, and each hour the interurban will load a fleet of enthusiastic rooters from Kannapolis to Lawrence and sides this hundreds of motor cars will make the trip to Lawrence as the roads are in the best of condition. Tickets have been sold to parties who are in the central part of the state making up over two hundred miles by motor.
Ticket sales are running high and with prospects of fair weather for tomorrow Manager W. O. Hamilton is expecting one of the largest crowds that has ever been on McCook Field. Already more than seven thousand dollars worth of tickets have been sold in advance, and the ticket sales on the day of the game usually far surpass the advance sales.
PREPARE FOR BIG CROWD
The tickets sent to Lincoln, Topeka and Kansas City are not counted with the advance sales. About three thousand dollars worth of tickets were sent to these three places. The rush for tickets will come tomorrow morning when the crowds begin to go down. Tickets will be on sale tomorrow at the Uribe Pacific offices, at the Eldridge Hotel Carroll's, at McCook Field and at Manager Hamilton's office in Robinson Gymnasium.
PLEASE FOR BIG CROWN
More than two thousand additional box seats have been added at McCook Field to accommodate the crowds.
One hundred rows in addition to the Freshman players, and the boys of the Lawrence High School team be used to seat the roots and spectators. Seventeen passageways have been provided by the management for entering the field in order that the crowd may be seated in time for the game.
There will be no room for cars in the field but the golf links and private parking grounds will be used by those who mentor to Lawrence to see the game.
Douglas County Organized
Students from Douglas county met
thursday night and organized their
courts to vote in the election. They
elected were: president John M.
gomery; vice-president, Jessie Wyatt;
secretary-treasurer, Agnes Sutton.
The president is delegate to the
County Club Union. Officers of the
club say they are going to push the
government Income Amendment among the voters of
Douglas county through a publicity program.
Stubbs Gives $5.000
The committee in charge of the Y. M. C. A. Friendship Fund, for Kan- laish has received a check for $5,000 from the W. R. Stubbs, who is in Texas.
Verein to Meet
The Deutsche Verein will meet Tuesday at 3 o'clock in Room 313 Fraser. Prof. H. O. Krusie will give an illustrated lecture.
Men's Student Council To Provide Luncheon For Y.M.C.A. Workers
Power of Organization Goes Into Campaign For Friendship War Fund
K. U. Wants Records Of Alumni In Army
Harry White To Be Speaker
A committee on war records has been appointed to establish a system of keeping a record of each student, alumnus, and member of the faculty who is engaged in active war service. The members of the committee are A. T. Walker, chairman, Olin Tempin L. J., N. Flint, and W. W. Dayas.
Faculty War Council Names Major Sub-Committees For Big Task
The committee will need the cooperation of the entire student body. Their plan is to circulate blanks about the campus and buildings. Each person who knows of some student or former student or member of the faculty who is in active war service is faked to fill in a blank.
The following telegrams were received this afternoon from Richardsonelliott, state executive of the Students' Friendship War Fun by Prof. G.C. Shaad, acting dean of the School of Engineering;
BULLETIN
Manhattan raises ten thousand in chapel; still going; success yours.
A. R. Elliott, State Executive.
Pfro. G. C. Snake  Nov. 16.
Good wishes K. U. students in
Friendship C am p i g n Fund.
University, mark Indiana
University, over $10,000
goal by two hundred.
Purple
$18,800, pledged. University of
Illinois teams collected $12,000 in
canvas toward $20,000 goal. Ann
Anbr reports conditions favorable
for $30,000 goal, to be
launched tomorrow. Great spirit everywhere.
Chicago. Ill.
Many of the schools of the University are planning to obtain service flags with a star for every member of the school or department last year who is in active service now. The Associated Journalists have ordered a flag which will be displayed at the Kansan office. It will have fifty stars.
Proving once and for all its right to be considered a body thoroughly alive to the best interests of the University of Kansas, the men's Student Council last night fired the first big student who raised from the students and faculty $11,000 for the Students Friendship War Fund, when it voted unanimously to assume the entire expense of the luncheon for the promotion force Monday noon in the gymnasium. A talk by Harry White will be a talk by Harry White. Y. M. C. A. worker, who is spending the day on the campus.
WORK UNDER WAY
FACULTY COMMITTEES NAMED
At the meeting of the committee in Marvin Hall yesterday afternoon, Prof. U. G. Mitchell was named chairman of the committee that is to head the promotion force. Associated with him will be Katherine Redd, president of the W. S. G. A., and Walter Havekovsky, presiding over the Men's Student Council. Then to take up the work of carrying home the campaign to the various organizations on the Hill, another committee was named, headed by Prof. C. A. Dykstra.
Already the work entrusted to these two committees is under way and the campaign is now well past the preliminary stages and down to main features of the drive. What the Men's Student Council has done, other organising, is moving to do in some effective way, more effectively, ever by direct contribution or by throwing their weight into the fight.
The committee that is to have charge of the big luncheon is working hard, and promises to make the affair one that will be remembered. The committee that the opportunity of hearing the White will alone be a feature that cannot be overestimated. Mr. White will also speak at the big convoitation in the afternoon.
The Weather
Somewhat unsettled today. Saturday fair and cooler.
Blackfriars Will Give
Two Modern French Plays
Seniors Will Welcome Scores of Old Grads At Big Mixer Tonight
The Blackfriars Club will start its year's work by presenting "Riders to the Sea," and "A Pot of Broth," December 2, in the Green Hall theater. "Riders to the Sea" play by John Synge, will be presented by a cast consisting of Jessie Lea Messick, Gertrude Lacos, Susan McDonald, and Howard Morgan. William B. Yates' play "A Pot of Broth" will be given by Helen Clark, Eva Brown. The admission to these plays will be through complimentary tickets.
The committees in charge of these plays are: publicity, Mignon Schell and Hester Jackson; ticket, Jane Waters, Bonnie Lingerfelt; costume, Elise Patterson, Esther Roop, and Lucile Nowlin.
Will Smoke Up At 7 o'Clock A Chamber of Commerce Rooms
The club consists of students majoring in English who are interested in dramatic work. A series of courses is offered by different members of the club.
Alumni to Talk of Old Days
Boxing Match, Faculty Quartet Cider, Cob Pipes, Cigarettes and Talks
War Tax Demanded On All Admissions To Nebraska Game
The welcome celebration for the army of old grads, who have been arriving on every train today, will break forth tonight at 7 o'clock with the third annual homecoming smoker given by the senior class. The big crowd will arrive at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, over the Peoples State Bank at Ninth and Massachusetts streets. "We want every grad to have the best time possible while he is here," said Warren Wattles, persistent of senior class this morning, "the senior of interest in tonight at the smoker. All alumni members are given a special invitation to be present. Nearly all of the two hundred and fifty tickets have been sold and a large crowd will be present. The smoker is open to graduating grads attending here from other colleges and faculty members. There will be no admission charge for the alumni."
Tim Shreve, chairman of the smoker committee, has arranged a program full of pep and ginger. The "topliner" on the program will be a quarrel of university professors in the School of Chemistry at the Shaad, Slus, Hood and Moore compose the quartet. The nature of their number will be a surprise.
Fee Is Twenty Cents For Bleachers and Twenty-five For Boxes
PROGRAM FULL OF PEP
Special Coupon To Be Sold
Music by a quartet of barber shop artists accompanied by a uke orchestra begins promptly at 7 o'clock and the speaking will begin at 8 lull in the evening. The cellar Froh Strong, Uncle Jimmy Green, Dr. W. L. Burdick, Prof. H. T. Hill, Allie Carroll, Coach W. O. Hamilton, and Thomas Sweeney, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. The football outlook for
Students Asked To Buy Coupons Before Going To McCook Field
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Field
Notice was received this morning by Manager W. O. Hamilton from W. L. Pepperell, collector of internal revenue for Kansas, stating that full tax must be paid on each admission to the Nebraska game tomorrow. This includes free admissions as well as paid admissions.
All ticket holders are asked by the management to buy their coupons at these offices and not wait until they come to McCook Field Saturday afternoon. The tax will be twenty-five cents or forty-five cents for the box seats twenty-five cents for the box seats.
Nearly half the tickets for the game had been sold, making it necessary to print and sell special war tax coupons for every admission to the game. A sale at one at Carroll's, the Union Pacific offices, McCook Field and the business office at the Gymnasium. In addition a special ticket office was opened at the entrance of the campground, doubling coupons to the students this afternoon.
The telegram bearing the notice also stated that a war tax was due on all admissions to games since November 1. The athletic management had thought that football games would be free from taxation and no war revenue has been collected, known, no tax has been collected on games played in other parts of the country.
No definite action has been taken on the proposed trip of the Men's Glee Club to Camp Funston, and Poff. J. A. Farrell decline to make any statement regarding it when seen today. Likewise, nothing is known as to whether the club will visit any of the other army camps.
Jayhawk Calmly Awaits Coming Of Ancient Enemy From North
Team Playing In Best Form Since Beginning of Season
Stage All Set For Big Battle On McCook Field That Is To Determine 1917 Championship Of Missouri Valley Conference
Coach Bond Has Kansas Men Well Groomed And Confident Of Withstanding Attacks Of Powerful Husker Eleven In Great Contest Saturday
Kansas Weight Position Weight Nebraska
Settles 170 L T 195 Kriemelmeyer
Laslett 160 L E 169 Rhodes
Jones 190 L G 185 Wilder
Hull 185 C 160 Day
Dennis 190 R G 178 Kellogg
Frost 180 R T 178 Shaw (Cap.)
Lonborg 170 R E 180 Riddell
Foster 150 R E 170 Cook
Pringle 180 L H 163 Schellenberg
Mandeville 175 R H 165 McMahon
Nielsen (Capt.) 160 F B 174 Otoupalik
Average 173.6 Average 174.2
Line 177.9 Line 177.9
Backfield 166. Backfield 168.
Plain Tales From The Hill
Chicago University students have exceeded their goal thirty-three per cent.
Can You Beat This?
For the Students' Friendship War Fund:
Getting It Right
Ames started with the same goal as K. U., $11,000. They have already subscribed $22,800 and are out for $25,000.
One feature of Cornell's giving is the abolishment for the year of all banquets, the money going to the war fund.
A Wisconsin student gave a Civil War medal which when melted yielded $75.
Will you be able to say next Monday night, "I have cared for one man at the front this winter?" ($10 will do it.)
The girls at Northwestern University have given $8,000 to date
The contributions at Ames were started by two gifts of $300 each. There were many pledges of from $50 to $100 each.
The College of Emporia raised $1738 in thirty minutes, passing their goal by $738.
Some people love to sleep. One freshman, named Frye, slept all through a written lesson in economics yesterday. He didn't even know the professor until one until the professor informed him of the fact just as the whistle blew.
Fairmount College was asked to give $1,400 and gave $2,000.
Bethel College (A German School with 170 students) was asked to give $1,600 but gave $1,600 or practically $10 a student.
When the furnace man entered the Alemania basement yesterday he was greeted by a woman's voice which cried in impassioned tones, "Ah, did I ever really live this man?" He wanted to run, fearing that some sister had suddenly become insane, but nerving himself to investigate, he followed the voice to the room, and found that it was only Marek's daughter, prefect part in a Russian play for public speaking, far from the maddening crowd above stairs who always made fun of her efforts.
At the University of South Dakota 90 students pledged $750.
Thought the rally all a joke,
As he sat up in his room,
Drawing, sketching pretty girls,
Drawing spades and hearts and such
With some other foolish frosh.
Came from underneath,
"Oy, oy."
And the sound of many feet.
Doors opens wide;
Rallyers rush within,
Bearing paddles, pans, and pep,
Bearing down on foolish frosh.
Was the rally quite a joke?
Foolish Frosh
With damaged heads—
Foolish Frosh
With bruised heads, answer,
"No! "
Professor Mitchell of the department of mathematics waxed interested in a pin worn by one of his students. Said he, "Crossed cannon for the artillery, I see. Well, well, I guess these little army pins are being worn with the same significance as a frat pin, aren't they?"
The women students at Wisconsin have already pledged $2,000,
almost equalling the goal set for the entire University.
"Well," admitted the rather em-
embassing "young lady." "Generally
speaking, the young lady."
"Oh," said Professor Mitchell, "it isn't it leantenly speaking?" "No," said she. "It is really only privately speaking."
To what Sigma Nu chapter could Marguerite Clark's lover possibly belong? He had never even taken a puff at a cigar.
War Time French
It was getting dusky outside but still the lights were not yet turned on—perhaps that accounts for it. Well nowhow, three co-eds were in a room with a fire and one eats." One of them absorbed in the gossip of the moment, but still vaguely wondering how it happened that mints were served, picked up a chocolate mint and attempted to take a bite. To her horror she discovered a mint at all but only the wooden disc and gave the figures of the bill!
To which the frush replied: "Oh,
them positions ain't so bad for who-
ever likes 'em, but as for me I'd
rather be a plain hors de combat."
Said the soph: "Ah, if only I were a brigadier or a colonel or a captain or a lieutenant or something; anything but a dinky corporal."
"Tis rumored thus of a certain sophomore who was holding converse with a freshman concerning military drill.
The stage is all set for the big battle the tomorrow afterpon on McCook Field. Both the Jayhawkers and the Cornhuskers are confident of victory, and both teams are going to fight to the last ditch to win. The winner will be hailed as the champion of the Missouri Valley Conference.
The Cornhusker and the Jayhawk- lines will be matched pound for pound, both lines averaging 177.9 pounds to the man. The Northern backfield, however, will average two pounds heavier than the Kansas backfield, averaging 168 pounds to the man.
Football fans here believe that the Jayhawk fighting spirit and the determination to win will more than balance the superior weight of the Northerners. The special plays which Coach Joy Bond will unwork Saturday against working wonderfully against the street skating eleven TEAM BETTER THAN YEAR
On the whole the Crimson and the Blue eleven is in better condition than at any time this season. All of the players have gained more speed the work has been of weeks, and the signal work has been of weeks. Bond has also been developing several substitutes to take the place of the regulars in case of necessity. One of the best of these is Mirl Ruble, 180-pound right halfback. He won a reward last year, but did not come out for it, this season until late because of the afternoon work required in the school of medicine. He joined the squad after the establishment of compulsory training, and did good work in the short minutes of play against the Kansas Soakers and also against the Soakers.
Although Coach Bond has not disclosed the style of play he will use against the Cornhuskers, it is believed he will depend a great deal upon the nerial attack to win. Kansas is the team's air pair, and stands in the valley, and the recent practice indicate they will get into action in the game tomorrow.
A BRILLIANT BACKFIELD
Foster, quarterback, will do the扑unting for Kansas, while Pringle, Captain Nielsen, and Mandelewille will扑 hunting. Pringle has featured in every game against the line, ability to rip through the line for long gains. He seldom makes less than two or three yards after being tackled. Captain Nielsen is a consistent line plunger, while Mandelewille earned an excellent open field runner.
Nettels, left tackle, is a star in his position. He is one of the fastest men on the team and also one of the surest tacklers. The two Kansas ends are his nearest rivals at the tackling game. Laslett is probably the surer of the two ends, although it is difficult to make a distinction.
Something good can be said about every other player on the team. The most commendable feature, however, is the clock-like work of the team. It is the most evenly balanced machine developed here in years, and is one of the best that has fought for Kansas since 1908. Captain Swede Nugel believes the team will be going its best in the clash tomorrow.
Officials
Referee: John E. Griffith, Drake.
Umpire: Dr. Isadore Anderson, M. U.
Head Linesman: Ed Cochrane, sport editor K. C. Journal.
Field Judge: W. C. Gordon, Harvard.
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