UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
NUMBER 45
CORNHUSKERS DREAM OF PIGSKIN VICTORIES
Steihm's Pets Forget They must First Defeat K.U. Before Title is Assured
"We are unable to fathom the logic of the Chicago conference in laying claim to the Western championship," said a member of the board of athletics at Nebraska today. "How can the Big Nine be so successful in best in Western football?" Taking records and comparative scores—and there can be no other basis—the Nebraska Cornhuskers, both last year and this season, are not outranked by any other college team, either East or West. Last year's Nebraska eleven were two of the strongest members of the Chicago conference, and enjoyed an all-victorious season.
Is Nebraska Champion?
"This year's Nebraska eleven is, if anything, more formidable than the Cornhuskers of 1913. The 1914 record shows that Michigan university barely bored out the Michigan Aggies to 0; a week later, Michigan lost to Syracuse, which had been defeated by Princeton, in the Wolverines, Michigan and Harvard in which the Wolverines played an almost even game with the Cambridge aggregation, losing by the close score of 7 to 0. Princeton then invaded Cambridge and was defeated 20 to 0, while Michigan came back with a 34 to 3 triumph over Pennsylvania University. So much for the comparison of Michigan and Princeton, the Wolverines certainly do not suffer. Meanwhile the Michigan Aggies, who actually out played the Wolverines, subsequently lost to the Cornhuskers by the decisive score of 24 to 0, a comparison which justifies Nebraska adherents in the belief that the Huskers have championship caliber. On what basis, therefore, can the Cornhuskers be jeopardized or the Big Ten challenge the Western championship for one of its own teams and the right to meet the East for the national title?"
Kansas is Still Alive
Should Wait 'Till Saturday
It is all well and good for Nebraska to dispute the Big Nine's right to represent the West in the proposed post-season game but the member of the Nebraska athletic board is counting his touchdowns before they are made. Nebraska has no right to represent the West when Kansas and the game Saturday may put a stop to Nebraska's lamentations.
NEW CAR ROUTING PAYS
BUT IS ONLY ON TRIAL
Nebraska expects a victory over Kansas Saturday but their expectations must be realized before they raise a howl at the Big Nine's propensity to attack it. It is easy to make predictions but the Wheaton eleven has yet to be defeated. Kansas has a good chance to defeat Nebraska and the member of the Nebraska board who has overlooked the Kansas-Nebraska joint口袋 that wailing until Saturday night. It may be different then.
It has not yet been decided whether the system of running the cars on the Hill every twelve minutes will be continued. The present method is merely a trial ordered by the City Council and is to last three weeks.
The Railway company does not yet know whether the new system will be made permanent or not but it seems likely that it may be. The complaints made about the routing and the receipts have shown a decided increase.
KANSAS MAY NOT ENTER
WESTERN CONFERENCE MEET
The cross- country team's entry in the Western Conference at LaFayette is still up in the air. Coach Hamilton telegraphed for permission to enter yesterday but as yet has received no answer.
Because Kansas received no entry blanks this matter was overlooked and it is feared that entrance at this date will be refused as the meet is next Saturday. On the team made last Saturday at Ames, Coach Hamilton is very anxious that it be entered in meet Saturday.
Like Taffy?
All University students are invited to a taffy pull at Westminster Hallat 8 o'clock tonight.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
ELDERKIN,S LAST TALK
FILLED FRASER CHAPEL
Timely Sermon Awoke Largest Audience of Week to Tense Interest
The largest audience of the week, leaving only the front seats vacant, listened to the last of the five talks by Rev. N. S. Elderkin this morning. The students straggled into the chapel, flipped down into the first seats they reached, dreamed through the Doxology, waked up a bit during the responsive reading, then sat up with a start when Rev. Mr. Elderkin fired his talk at them.
"Every age has crucified and buried the Christ, and He has risen again," he said. "I have taken his seat." "They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid Him." and showed that in every crisis of the world's history, when the clouds of darkness seemed to overpower mankind, the people cried these words of Mary, but the Christ appeared to them again as He did to Mary of old.
LINDSAY WILL READ FROM OWN WORKS AT LECTURE
Noted Poet and Lecturer to Speak at Unitarian Church Sunday Afternoon
An opportunity to hear an American poet and author will be given University students Sunday, when Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, of New York, speaks at the Unitarian Church at 4:30 o'clock.
Definite assurance that Lindsay would come to Lawrence "From Tepaika, where he addresses the State Teachers' Association today, was received last night by Prof. William Wattles of the English department. The lecture Sunday is the first of a series of five, the proceeds of which will go partly to the Belgium relief fund and partly to the Oread Magazine, and will deal with some phase of "Western Poetry and Democracy." Special music will be furnished by Philip Stevens.
Mr. Lindsay is the writer-wanderer who tramped across Kansas two years ago, his articles appearing later in the Forum. An extended article on his work appeared in Kansas City, Star. He has already published three books, two of which have been put on the market just recently.
"I LOVE MY UNIVERSITY"
Score of Alumni so Testify at Topeks Church Meeting
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 13. 1911
"Do you love your University?" In an old fashioned testimonial meeting conducted last evening in the Topeka First Baptist Church by Chancellor Strong, twenty friends and alumni out of a crowd of 277 one by one answered that they did. Enthusiasm ran so high in this to the meeting of those who love the University that no one could help starting a team and at the close touch of all united in a "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, K. U." It is said that the pews fairly clapped their hands for joy.
The service was held at 6:00 o'clock at the close of yesterday's session of the State Teachers' Association. The Board of Administration attended the roundtable meeting with the session with the Alumni Visitors to discuss matters connected with the appropriation bill which goes to the next legislature.
The cross-country team will not go to the Western Conference meet at Lafayette tomorrow, because of delay in entering the team in the cross-country event. Through some mistake Kansas did not get an invitation to enter and the matter was neglected until too late.
CROSS COUNTRY WILL NOT ENTER WESTERN CONTEST
Because of the good showing the team made at Ames last Saturday, Coach W. O. Hamilton was anxious that the team be entered in the meet at Lafayette and telegraphed for permission to enter.
Pledges to the White Cross fund have reached $2286. The committee has transmitted money to the committee at Kansas City and will make the third bill be sent as soon as a sufficient amount is collected.
$2286 PLEDGED TO WHITE
CROSS FUND FOR BELGIANS
Petitions from Green Hall and a part of Fraser Hall are out yet.
Dean L. E. Sayre returned last night from Topeka.
Watch K. U. Husk N. U. Corn On Dummy Field in Fraser
The Western Union Telegraph Company installed a wire in Fraser Hall this morning which will directly connect Lincoln Field with the chapel platform. This wire will carry the news of the K.U.-Nebraska game tomorrow for the Daily Kansan bulletins and dummy field.
The Daily Kansan will give the game play by play on the boards on the chapel platform. Cal Lambert, sport editor, with assistants, will be in the press box on Lincoln Field. With the kick-off of the game he will begin sending bulletins of the plays to the men at the Kansas end of the wire. At least four men of the news department will be at work in Fraser; one with the operator, one to answer telephone inquiries, and one at each the bulletin board and dummy field. By the time the Jayhawker and Cornhusker men have lined up after a play the news of that play will have been read from the bulletin board by the Kansas students in chapel.
Any student who cannot come to chapel may get information on the game by calling K. U. 15. A man will be at this phone all the time, with no other work than to serve callers.
The chapel doors will open at noon and the students may come, go, and cheer as they will.
The Daily Kansan hopes and expects much cheering.
PAST SCORES REDICT JAYHAWKER VICTORY
Results of Former Games Give Tau Beta Pi, Asked to Insta Kansas 153 Chances to Chapter at University Nebraska's 143 of Kansas
MARVINITES PETITION HONORARY FRATERNITY
1892—Kansas 12 Nebraska 0
1893—Kansas 18 Nebraska 0
1894—Kansas 6 Nebraska 12
1895—Kansas 8 Nebraska 4
1896—Kansas 18 Nebraska 4
1897—Kansas 5 Nebraska 6
1898—Kansas 0 Nebraska 18
1898—Kansas 36 Nebraska 20
1900—No game played
1901—Kansas 5 Nebraska 29
1902—Kansas 0 Nebraska 16
1903—Kansas 0 Nebraska 6
1904—No game played.
1905 No game played.
1907—Kansas 8 Nebraska 6
1907—Kansas 6 Nebraska 17
1908—Kansas 20 Nebraska 5
1908—Kansas 6 Nebraska 0
1910—Kansas 0 Nebraska 6
1911—Kansas 0 Nebraska 29
1912—Kansas 3 Nebraska 14
1913—Kansas 0 Nebraska 9
In the nineteen football games Kansas has played Nebraska since 1891 the Crimson and Blue has been the winner eight times and the Cornuskers eleven. It is a matter of record that no game in this time has ever resulted in a tie and only one was won by a margin of one point. It is in the record of the last four years that Kansas finds albums dealing victory in tomorrow's game. Not since 1909, when "Tommy" Johnson made his memorable run for the only touchdown of the game, has a Crimson and Blue player been able to cross the Cornusker goal line.
Everything is ready for the work of analyzing Kansas natural gas, according to Prof. H. C. Allen; but nothing will be done until Prof. E. E. Lyder returns to his work who at present is quite ill at his home in Parsons. The object of the investigation will be to determine the quantity and quality of the gas from the 3000 wells over the state. The department can get sufficient data by examining 1000.
And only once since 1909 has the Crimson and Blue ever been able to score and that was two years ago when a field goal put Kansas in the lead until the last ten minutes of play when the Cornhuskers speeded up and pushed two touchdowns across.
The awe in which the mighty Cornhushker eleven is being regarded this year by timid Jawhawk rooters and the stupendous odds reported as being offered by the Cornhushker followers on tomorrow's game, are only two-thirds of 10 in 2018. With odds of 2-1 against them the ever-victorious team of that year entered the game and emerged with a 20-5 victory.
Analyze Naturdal Gas
Total
Contributions for the Red Cross fund continues to come in.
Previously acknowledged $672.50
C. M. Watson 2.00
W. C. 5.00
$679.50
A petition has been sent to the national engineering scholarship society, Tau Beta Pi, for the installation of a chapter in the School of Engineering at the University. The petitioning body consists of a group of eighteen of the senior engineering students and four of thepromising engineers and one member of the membership. The Tau Beta Pi Association occupies a position in the engineering field similar to that occupied by Phi Beta Kappa in the field of liberal arts. The membership is limited to male students in engineering courses, members of engineering groups, and engineers. Scholarship, as indicated by the general average grade of the student during the first two and one-half or three years of his course, forms the primary basis for the election of members. Other considerations than scholarship, however, remain. The committee and camaraderie are given some weight in the selection of members.
The association was founded in 1885 at Lehigh University, and now has twenty-seven chapters, situated at most of the important engineering schools in the United States. In 1904 the group of Beta Pi exist the organization has a salutary effect on the standards of scholarship.
CLASSIFY BIBLE STUDENTS
The color map, showing the religious condition of the University is complete. Con Hoffman, with the assistance of the Y. M. C. A. men, has been working on it for some time. The map which covers the north wall of the office in Myers district with each student represented by a pin, the color of which indicates whether or not he is a member of any of the classes in the different churches or the Y. M. C. A.
The map shows that 467 men students are enrolled in the church classes and Hoffman estimates that another hundred are being reached by the Campus Group classes. There are about 1,500 groups of students holding meeting in the roaming houses during the week nights.
Y. M. C. A. Makes Complete List of Church-Going Students
MERCHANTS TO ENROLL IN 'EXTENSION DIVISION
BERWICK WANTS THOUSAND TO GIVE TEAM SEND OFF
An effort will be made to get Lawrence merchants to register for extension courses. With this end in view, F. H. Hamilton, head of the extension division will address the Lawrence Commercial Club Tuesday morning as a course on businessmanship and business management A short course for men engaged in mercantile enterprises only will be explained by Professor Hamilton
Cheerleader's Cohorts to Meet at Student Union for Rally at 8 o'clock
Oh me. Oh mv
Oh me, On my
Won't we black Nebraska's eye
Won't she weep, won't she mourn
When we husk Nebraska's corn!
Did this battle cry of Jo Berwick and four hundred of his cohorts wake you up last night? The rally last night began at 10 o'clock and it was after 12 o'clock when the last enthusiastic rooter went home.
Tonight Berwick wants at least one thousand strong-lunged Kansas men to meet at the Student Union a. 8 o'clock. The band will be there, Coach W. O. Hamilton will be there and possibly Coach Wheaton. The band will play, the coaches will tell how we are going up to Nebraska tomorrow to fight in Hawaii. The musicianship and there will be one thousand men to show how Kansas is going to support this team.
After the speeches there will be a parade through town led by the band. The men will then go to the Union Pacific depot and give the team a rousing snd off. The special leaves at 10 o'clock. -
DEBATING QUESTIONS
STILL UP IN THE AIR
Triangular Arguers Cannot Agree on What They Shall Talk on
Negotiations for a reconsideration of the question for debate with the University of Oklahoma are still under way, but no definite results have been reached. Some time ago Oklahoma submitted the Single Tax question to the local debaters, but Kansas, not liking the wording of it, asked that the department submit the changes were made, but did not prove satisfactory; consequently the question has not yet be definitely settled.
The debate with Oklahoma is one part of the triangular debate, in which Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado have a part, each school sending a team to the other two. All three universities have a vote in determining the question, and Kansas hopes to have the support of Colorado in persuading the Sooners to present a suitable question.
Prof. H. T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, thinks that this year will be a banner one in K. U, debating circles. A large number of men have signified their intention of coming out and with five former inter-collegiate debaters back in school, University teams should make a good showing against their opponents.
The first tryout, about December 1 will select a squad of twenty men December 16, four men will be eliminated from the squad, and the remainder compete for places on the teams. Two each team will be selected to represent K. U. on the teams. Two men are to debate against Missouri, and three each compose the Oklahoma and Colorado teams.
Wants Mandolin Pickers
S. W. Mickey, manager of the Mandolin Club, reports that the turnouts at the meetings of the club have been small up to this time. However three-fourth per cent of the student enterprise fund has been allotted to that club and more attention will be given to it from now on. The next meeting will be held tomorrow evening at which time Mickey expects a larger number. The club meets each Tuesday evening.
SOONER STATES STUDES
MIX, SING AND READ
With the time divided between a social hour, business, readings, singing, and refreshments, the Oklahoma Hall its first mixer, held in Myers Hall its first mixer.
The evening's entertainment started with the grand march, led by Bunker Hill and Ruth Plowman, the most striking feature of which was the repeated formation of the large O of Oklahoma Club fame.
Following the grand march came the social hour in which each person the social hour in which each person spent three minutes with each of the ten persons on his program. Then came a short business session, and after this a program of songs and readings. Refreshments were served for them, for next week were proposed and approved by the club. The exact time and place for this party have not yet been decided but will be announced soon.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
JAYHAWK WILL CLASH WITH N. U. TOMORROW
Wheaton's and Steihm's Men Meet on Lincoln Field at 2:30 o'Clock
Uncle Jimmy's Prophecy
"It will be a hard game but we will win. The spirit of determination is in the air and you can't beat that. Sure we will win because everybody is pulling together."
With both teams in excellent condition, Kansas will meet Nebraska at Lincoln tomorrow afternoon to decide the championship of the Missouri Valley Conference. The Jayhawk will fly into the Huskers with a determination to wipe out four straight defeats while Nebraska needs the victory to complete her ever-victorious record.
Kansas has been waiting for this game for the past two weeks and Coach Wheaton has conducted every practice with tomorrow's game in view. The gates of McCook Field were closed Monday and all work had been completed. Tactics and tactics were given the Varsity players and the plan for defence against the Cornhushn advance was perfected.
The Kansas team never was in better condition than it is today. Detwiler, Stryker, and Gray have completely recovered from injuries while James has reinforced the strong Kansas line. If Nebraska wins Kansas line. If Nebraska wins Iowa. If Nebraska wins Colorado are at their best and if the Cornhuskers beat them tomorrow it will be because they have a better team.
While the spirit of confidence prevails at Lincoln, Coach Steihm has realized the power of the K. U. team. The Huskers started secret practice Monday and Steihm has emphasized signal practice rather than risk injuries in scrimmage. Potter, the Nebraska quarterback, reported for practice Wednesday and will pilot the Steihm engine tomorrow.
Sport writers are predicting a victory for Nebraska tomorrow by comparing the records of the two teams. Kansas has won every game except against Oklahoma, where players have played lighter and weaker teams than Nebraska. Steithim has inflicted punishment on the Michigan Aggies, Ames, Washburn, Morningside, Kansas Aggies while kansas' victims were the light William Jewell College of Emporia eleven, Washburn, Kansas Aggies, and Drake.
It is not easy to predict a Kansas victory tomorrow but few who have seen the Kansas team in action, would bet against them. A close game can be expected and unless under estimated, Kansas will hold them to a close score and stands a good chance to win.
The line-up against the Cornhuskens will be: Keeling, center, James and Strothers, guards, Burton and Groft tackles, Reber and Coolidge, ends, Wood, quarter, Detwiler and Grew,ove and Staple, Alhaskan. C A. Randolph, will have tickets on the train for the Nebraska game. These tickets will place the buyers on the 50-yard line, and will sell for $2.00.
ICHOLS V. LINDSAY
WILL OPEN LECTURES
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay will be at the University Saturday to open the series of lectures given by Prof. Willard A. Wattles on modern American writers. The first of the lectures will be given on Lindsay. Professor Wattles has written and taught several times, but could not get in touch with him. Lindsay will talk at the State Teachers' meeting in Topeka Saturday and will be at the University next day to open the lectures.
JOUNNALS FROM GERMANY
ARRIVE IN AMERICA LATE
War in Europe is holding up many of the European journals and periodicals that would otherwise be coming to Spooner Library. The library received no journals from Germany until two weeks ago, first of August, until two weeks are ago.
During the past two weeks a comparatively small number of foreign periodicals have been received. The French journals have not been delayed so much as the ones from Germany. With one or two exceptions the English publications have been coming regularly.