UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIV.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20, 1916.
NUMBER 51.
K. U. 7; NEBRASKA 3
WHOOPED IT UP AS NEVER BEFORE
Wild Scenes in Lawrence Following Defeat of "Invincible" Huskers
BIGGEST BONFIRE EVER
Demonstration in South Park Outtrivaled Previous Celebrations
"Hello say, I won't be out tonight.
Let's have that date tomorrow night.
Why?—Rally and bonfire. Come or out and watch."
That was only a bit of conversation heard over the phone Saturday after the returns of the game had been received, and the ordinarily sleepy town ofonce was wide awake on the news of a Jayhawk victory over Nebraska.
A RUM "SHOW"
No news was ever received in any town that caused more excitement than the good news from the north caused here. The flashes that brought the score over three special leased homes in early March were a mob of nearly two thousand rooters who found no bounds for their enthusiasm until long after midnight.
The first bonfire of the evening was started on the Eldridge House corner, where with the aid of a number of the Lawrence police force, one of the worst "shows" staged in Lawrence in years was seen.
Hand shaking, singing, yelling slaps on the back, gleaming eyes, husky voices, torn clothes, not to speak of the big snake dance and the bonfires, showed that the Kansas spirit, so long accused of lying dormant, was abounding in true Jay hawker form.
A small crowd of students were carrying a box from the alley to the fire on the corner, when a policeman ordered the boys to take the box over enthusiastic, cried "Will we take over enthusiastic, cried 'Will we take the box back?'"
WENT TO SOUTH PARK
A revolver flashed in the air, and a big voice, bigger because of the firearm, spoke out: "Won't you take the box back?"
The crowd was small, and the boys with the box turned and started back to the alley. Meanwhile a number of others from the main crowd around the fire came up and persuaded the officer to let the boys carry the box down to south park where the mayor had authorized a bonfire.
MOR NOT ORGANIZED
The second fire, built in south park was the largest bonfire ever seen in Lawrence. Boxes were piled on a thirty foot square over twenty feet high, and the flames shot into the air for almost a hundred feet. The flames were visible for miles around in the surrounding country. The size of the fire may be judged from the fact that telephone poles twenty feet away from the blaze caught fire from the heat of the blaze.
The picture shows were raided, but on account of the impromptu nature of the rally, no definite program was attempted, and on account of lack of organization, the crowd broke up into smaller groups shortly after the man determined to be out early the next morning to meet the train.
About a thousand men and women were down at the Union Pacific depot when the special train pulled in at 8:15. Cries for Lindsey showed that the Kansas captain had made a hasty retreat as soon as they arrived at the crowd. The rest of the team were carried from the train and placed in a big tally-ho and pulled up town by the students who met the train. The band led the big parade from the depot to the Eagle where they would get to the members of the team to talk proved to be harder than "nullin" teeth."
A SAD INCIDENT
Eutusiasm which was running high in the ranks of the crowd that went down to meet the train, was greatly dampened by the fact that just a few minutes before the arrival of the special on old man was carried from the regular Union Pacific train, dying of heart failure.
Sharpe Funeral Saturday
Funeral services of Burness Sharpe, who died of typhoid at the University Hospital Thursday, were held at the family home in Axtell, Kas., Saturday.
K. U. GRADS TO TALK
IN FRASER TOMORROW
Miss Nora Radford, a graduate of K. U., and Mrs. Mary McClure, of New York, who have been teaching in India for several years, will give talks in Fraser Hall tomorrow night from until eight o'clock.
"The Need of Teachers and Teachers on the Foreign Field" will be the theme for this month.
COMING CONCERT A MUSICAL TREAT
Miss Radford and Mrs. McClure are visiting in Lawrence on the way from Baldwin where they led many of the meetings of the Kansas State Student Conference, Nov. 17, 18, and 19.
Lawrence Choral Union Working Hard on Program—Rehearsal Tomorrow
With the abandonment of the University Dramatic Club's plan to present a play before Christmas, and the postponement of the presentation of the "Chimes of Normandy," the Glee Club opera, attention of music and dramatic lovers of Lawrence and the University has centered on the movie The Lassoed Choral Union, to be given in Fraser Hall on December 5.
Rehearsals for the concert are being held regularly, and the program promises to be the most popular yet given by the organization. Every sort of music from the ridiculous to the sublime will have a place on the program, and a large attendance at the concert will be the natural result of the universality of the program's appeal.
Rehearsals were announced yesterday for Tuesday, November 21, and Tuesday, November 28, at the high school auditorium, at 7:30 o'clock each evening; and for Monday, December 4—the right before the concert—in the theatre hour. Prof. Arthur Neuf, at the Choral Union, will be in charge.
"I want to ure a large attendance at these rehearsals," said Professor Nevin this morning. "We have more than a hundred members of the Union, three-fourths of whom are University people. The big major of them should come to the rehearsal tomorrow night at the high school auditorium. We are working now on the music of the three weeks, and it is important that every singer be present at every rehearsal."
REHEARSE TOMORROW NIGHT
UNION SUCCESSFUL LAST YEAR
The Lawrence Choral Union was originated last year by members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts. Its names are University faculty people and students, and town people who are interested in choral singing. Three concerts were given last year, all of which were highly successful. The Easter concert, given on the Hill on Palm Sunday, drew one of the largest audiences ever assembled in Robinson Gymnasium. Special Easter music was given, soloists from other schools and the affair was a triumph from the opening number to the final selection.
UNION SUCCESSFUL LAST YEAR
Three concerts will be given by the Union this year—one in Fraser on December 5, a second in February or third a third in April at Easter time.
Pocket Size Edition Replaces Former Books
DIRECTORIES OUT
Student directories probably will be issued some time this week or the first of next week, thinks Registrar Linda Carrillo that the directory were corrected and returned to the state printer more than a week ago, and Mr. Foster says he expects the work on the directory to be finished through the state printing office.
The directories, upon their receipt will be distributed to students and faculty members at the office of the registrar.
"The directory this year will be in more convenient form than those of former years," the registrar said. "It will be a convenient size to slip into and will contain the same amount of information as those issued previously."
Send the Daily Kansan home.
HIS COUNTRY IS MISUNDERSTOOD
Senor de la Garza Says That Our People Do Not Know Real Music
Mexico
SHOULD NOT INTERVENE
They Suspect That Uncle Sam Wants to.Destroy Their Independence and Get Land
Speaking from the experience of a lifetime spent in Mexican public life, Senor de la Garza answered the question, "What is the matter with Mexico?" in his lecture in Fraser Hall Friday afternoon. Senor de la Garza was for twelve years a member of the Mexican National Assembly.
He is lecturing in the United States to try to bring about a better understanding between the two peoples with Mexican problem in view.
"The people of the United States do not know the real Mexican people" said Senor de la Garza, "They have heard only of Herta, Villa, Zapato and Madero. These are only leaders with comparatively small followings and do not represent the people. I represent no party or leader but the people and will tell you of their condition and opinions."
TALKS FOR THE PEOPLE
"The main trouble with Mexico is economical. Fifteen million essentially agrarian Indians own no land. Out of a population of more than fifty thousand land lords, Restoration of the land will have to be accomplished before the Mexican problem can be solved but confiscation is not the right way. The landlords should be forced under the government by means of taxation.
NEED EDUCATION AND MONEY
"Another great need of Mexico is immigration. If the people of the United States would send bibles, teachers and food down to Mexico instead of rifles and ammunition they be helping Mexico to a better life."
"Mexico also is greatly in need of money. Mexico is the richest country in the world. It is the richest mining country. Six years ago it got a loan from a bank and debt is over three billion dollars. There is no more credit. The people of Mexico are suspicious of any intervention on your part because they have seen you annex one territory after another and they are afraid that they will lose it if you persevere. In case of intervention you could conquer the ports and cities of Mexico in five days but you could not stop gorilla warfare in twenty-five years. The best thing the United States would with regard to Mexico is to let it alone.
Unsettled weather tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight and in east portion Tuesday.
The Weather
They are ignorant and incapable. At this time the people will never be able to support a democracy because they cannot provide for it in education or experience.
Only a small crowd heard the try- out Friday afternoon, and few of these expressed a preference for any one machine. One of the audience said this morning, "They all sounded good to me."
Seven Phonographs Competed Friday in Fraser
WILL SELECT MACHINE
The selection of a phonograph for use in college classes will be announced tomorrow afternoon by Professor Charles S. Skilton, as the result of a tryout of five machines in Fraser Chapel Friday afternoon. Two more machines will be tried out by Professor Skilton tomorrow morning, and his selection will be from these seven.
The machine selected will be used in any department in which it is desired, but probably Professor Skilton's class in musical appreciation, and the various classes of the language department will require it most often. In the request of Professor Skilton that the purchase was authorized.
The phomograph will be kept in Fraser Chapel.
The annual reception of the University Club will be given November 24 in the club rooms.
"SWEDE" NIELSEN
SCORED KANSAS TOUCHDOWN
VERN BRAMWELL TYPHOID VICTIM
Succumbed to Disease Friday at Home In Pretty Prairie
Prairie
Typhoid claimed the third student Friday, when Vern Bramwell died at his home in Pretty Prairie, Kansas. After contracting the disease at his rooming house in Lawrence some time ago, he was removed to the University Hospital. Here Bramwell improved and later was sent home. But he moved to his home town to late and death overlooked the young man.
Bramwell was a roommate of Paul Huxman, c'20, who died at Wichita, October 22 as the result of the same disease. The other student to succumb to the fatal disease was Burness Sharpe, of Axtell, Kansas, who passed away at the University Hospital last week.
DR. STRONG BUSY IN EAST
Expects to Return to Lawrence
Tomorrow
During the time Chancellor Franz Strong has been in the east time he not dragged for him. During the first two days last week he attended a meeting of the National Association of Chancellors and was followed the close of that meeting the chancellor went to New York where as a member of a committee from the association, he attended a meeting of the directors of the Carnegie Mellon University they the chancellor lunched with the directors of the foundation.
As a representative of the National Association of State Universities, Dr. Strong attended a meeting of the National Research Board, Saturday, at which the bill now pending in Congress for the establishment of engineering experiment stations in the United States was discussed.
A letter received this morning from Dr. Strong by Miss Moody, his secretary, says the chancellor will return to Lawrence tomorrow.
DID YOU MISS YOURS?
Then Take It Tonight. Water Is Promised
Is Promised
The City Engineer at the water pumping station hopes to have the boilers repaired in time for the people on Oread Avenue to be able to get
It seems that the Lawrence Water Company, knowing that they were going to turn the plant over to the city in a short time, neglected doing the necessary repairing. The result was that the boilers were so weak that the engineer has been unable to keep up enough pressure to supply water for the people on the hill. Students who have not been able to take a bath for a week will have an opportunity this evening.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily
Kansas.
Sixteen K. U. Men Share Honor of Humbling Haughty Nebraskans Who Have Not Met Defeat In Four Years. Every Man A Hero In The Eyes of Kansas University
JAYHAWK HUSKS NEBRASKA'S CORN FOR FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARS
NIELSEN CARRIED BALL OVER FOR WINNING SCORE;
HUSKERS OUTPLAYED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT
Nebraska Made More Yards From Line of Scrimmage, But Kansas Held at Every Critical Point. Third Quarter Show of Speed and Headwork Wins the Game
It was a bully meal!
The Jayhawk simply gored himself on Nebraska corn last Saturday in Lincoln—and the glories of victory are enough to wipe away the memories of that long string of defeats from 1909 until the present year.
"We beat Nebraska! . . . We beat Nebraska!"
Those are the incredible words which have been on every lip since Saturday—the words which bring to an end the Cornhusker supremacy in the Valley—which mean downfall to the proud and haughty Nebraskans who have gone undefeated by any team since 1912, and undefended by Kansas since 1909.
IDEAL DAY FOR GAME
IDEAL DAY FOR GAME
The game was played on a fast field under a clear sky and baly atmosphere. Kansas kicked off to the Cornhuskers, who began a steady march down the field to score their famous shriek of it. It took Kansas twelve hours to solve that shift—before she did, the Huskers had come within striking distance of the goal. Captain Tim Corey, the scrappin'-est man on the Nebraska team, booted a place kick over the goal. That was the last Cornhusker score of the day.
It was a glorious victory, rightly earned—and now that we have it, revenue is sweet.
Playing under the direction of the coaches, Kansas purposefully remained on the defensive during the first half. Nevertheless, the second quarter had no more than beginned with a succession of line plays and run runs by the Hawkeyers within a few yards of the Nebraska goal. Just when the crowd of 200 Kansas rooters were screaming wildly for their team to "push it over," some Jayhawker warrior fumbled, and Nebraska got the ball. She kicked out of danger, of course, and a second Kansas offensive began. They ran down, and the Cornhuskers started a second march down the field. At the thirty yard line Kansas held and kicked. Those were the Jayhawker tactics throughout — calm, heady, deliberate playing. The defensive game as played during that first half was model; each time the team played well, the team would hold, Kansas would secure the ball, and Captain Lindsey would punt out of danger.
AND WHEN KANSAS SCORED—!
CORNHUSKERS WERE WORRIED
We beat Nebraska!
The triumph of the Jayhawkers was the first time the mantle of victory has fallen on Kansas shoulders since that memorable day of 1909 when Tommy Johnson raced sixty yards to a touchdown in the last three minutes of the combat.
That's how it happened that nobody in the Kansas stands felt particularly blue when the scoreboard showed a three-to-nothing score in favor of Nebraska at the end of the first half. The Cornhuskers did a large amount of crowing, themselves, and their bands got out and paraded around the field in true Cornhuskier style. It was plainly evident, however, that the rooters were unpleasantly surprised to wonder if, after all, Nebraska really was the only Can in the Football Alley.
AND WHEN KANASS SOCORED—!
They wondered considerably more during that third quarter, when Kanas and a series of brilliant passes carried the ball to the line again—and lost it to Nebraska when a touchdown seemed inevitable. And they wondered some more a few minutes later when the Hawjawkers worked down the field again, using the spread formation on every play, and pushed Nielsen over the heads of Kansas players down—the first touchdown Kansas had made on the Cornhuskers since 1909.
It was a strenuous effort, that play! With only a yard or so to go, the Kansas aimed straight at the center of the Nebraska line, snapped the ball back to Nielsen, and then hit the Huskers in a good center rush. And Neilson, coming up from on a dead run, put all he had into a flying leap—and went right over the whole crowd for the down and the score.
And immediately afterward the Kansas rooters attempted to tear down the grand stand!
Nebraska rallied in the last quarter; but her best eforts were no more than a match for the Jayhawkers. Once it seemed that Nebraska would slip by for a touchdown when, after completing several forward passes and gaining considerable ground by his team's 15 points within twenty-five yards of the Kansas goal. The Jayhawkers tightened up, however, Kansas got the ball, and Captain Lindsey booted a beautiful punt down the field and out of danger. A second Nebraska offensive had begun toward the end of the last quarter, and the Cornhuskusers were plunging down the field at a great rate, earning an emphatic forward pass and ran twelve yards with it. He was downed near the fifty yard line. Just as he rolled off the ball, the final whistle blew—
And Kansas had won, 7 to 3!
Headwork, harmony, skill, speed—those are the things which spelled the magic word, "VICTORY" for Kansas. It took careful planning to see that the defensive game was best for K. U. during the first half—that it was easier to kick and let the Nebraskans tire themselves on a strenuous march in the field than to hold them and begin an offensive early in the contest.
It was harmony that kept the backs and the line working with such clock-like precision—that made long forward passes and speedy broken field running possible. It was skill that allowed the ball to run farther 'ball' for countless yards in pinches; that enabled the backs to toss the forward passes; that enabled Shinn to catch 'em. Lastly, it was speed — in running, in tackling, in passing the ball, in catching it — it was speed, and the uncohesive precison born triumph long deferred that brought victory into the Kansas camp at best.
Nebraska (3) Kansas (7)
Corey (Capt.), L.E., Reid
Koizitzky, L.T., Barton
Moser, L.G., Marner
Moser, C., Miner
Wilder, R.G., Vernom
Shaw, R.T., Frost
Riddell, R.E., Shinn
Cook, Q., Foster
Doddinier, W.O., Wormer
Otoupalik, L.H., Lindsey (Capt.),
Rhodes — F.B., Nielsen
Substitutions: Nebraska—Caley for Cook, Dobson for Otupalik, Doyle for Dobson, Otuopalik for Doyle, Cook for Caley, Dale for Wilder. Kansas—Smith for Martin, Fast for Lindsey, Lindsey for Foster, Wilson for Shim, Kabler for Burton, Pringle for Wood-Man, Toulouse, Nilsson.
Touchdown—Nielsen.
Goal from placement—Corey.
Goal from touchdown—Lindsey.
The score by periods;
Nebraska ... 3 0 0 0-3
Kansas ...
3 0 0 0 -3
Kansas
Officials: Referee—Masker, Northwestern University, Umpire—Schommer, Chicago University.