STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
NUMBER 61.
STOP IRRESPONSIBLE PETITIONS, ASKS TEAM
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
Men Who Don't Know Facts Should Keep Still, Says Football Squad
ADOPTS PROTEST MEASURES
Resolutions Would Require That Fifteen Men Should Submit Petitions to Council
That students who are largely unacquainted with conditions which they seek to reform, should not be allowed to circulate promiscuous petitions among the members of the student body, is the unanimous opinion of the members of the 1913 football squad. A resolution to this effect was signed by every member of the team who attended the meeting for the purpose of ejecting a captain last night. This action is taken as a direct ship at the Kennedy petitions which have been circulated on the hill during the past week.
The resolutions follows;
the 'mu' insult.
The student's resolution is addressed to the Men's Student Council and asks that body to require that at least 15 students of at least sophomore standing submit petitions to that body for its approval before they can be passed among the students for signers.
The resolutions follows!
To the Honorable Body of the Men's
Choir.
Sideband. It is the unanimous opinion of the members of the '13 football squad that the best interests of athletes in the University of Kansas will be furthered by a more careful sidelicate use of the team to petition the several executive and administrative bodies of the University of Kansas.
FORECAST: FAIR
Believing therefore, that the primary object of petitions signed and submitted by members of the student body to such executive and administrative bodies of the University of Kansas in the expression of intent to request several petitioners submitters of such petitions deeply feel to be for the betterment of the conditions directly referred to in such petitions, we, the members of the University of Kansas football team—after due time and forthcoming—respectfully submit the petition to your honorable boy, towik;
That you issue a ruling to the effect that any petition, or expression of opinion bearing either directly or indirectly in any manner or form on the matter of athletics or the administration of athletic activities in the University of Kansas must, before being circulated among the members of the student body and administrative body of the University of Kansas, be presented to the Mer's Student council for its approval with the signatures of at least 15 members of the student body of at least sophomore standing, affixed to such petition.
We, the undersigned members of the '13 football team, respectfully submit this petition to your honorable body believing that such a ruling will eliminate many promiscuous petitions circulated among the members of the body of students who do not give such petitions thoughtful consideration before lending their support thereto.
ing created: John Hammond, Thomas N. Mulloy, William D. Weidlein, Willard A. Burton, John A. Reber, H. W. Kane, Harlan A. Russell, Lloyd C. Bishop, R. C. Keeling, Webb D. Martin, C. R. Greenless, Edward W. Stuewe, J. E. Detwiler, George B. Strothers, Harold O. Tader, Herbert Sommers, Harold W. Wilson, and Tony James.
BROTHER'S SUDDEN DEATH
CALLS PROF. DAVIS HOME
Prof. W, W. Davis of the department of history was called to his home in Oak Grove, Alabama, by theoss of the sudden death of his brother, Lane Davis, who was killed in a railroad accident near his home. He was to have been married during the holidays.
Professor Davis will not return until after the holidays. His classes will not meet.
PROFESSOR THORPE WILL
ADDRESS KANAS EDITORS
Prof. Merle Thorpe of the department of journalism will address the Southwest Kansas Editorial Association at Wichita, Saturday, December 13, on the subject of student involvement, Which? Fri.-morning Professor Thorpe will make a talk to the high school students at their regular assembly.
"DUTCH" DETWILER JAYHAWK CAPTAIN
Fast Half-back Elected Unanimously to Weidline's
Place
John E. (Dutch) Detwiler, of Smith Center, was elected captain of the 1944 Jayhawker football team in a meeting of the players last night.
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of Yale And all the clouds that lowered o'er our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."
Deteller has played two years on the Varsity eleven at right halfback and earned a letter each year. The new captain played a consistent game last year and in the 1912 Missouri game, gained a berth on the third Al-Missouri Valley eleven by his all-around playing.
In the game with Drake this fall, Detwiler injured his left leg and was compelled to stay on the sidelines the rest of the season. The injury is shortly improving, and the injury soon expects to be in condition.
GRADUATE CLUB TAKES
NO ACTION ON ANNUAL
Although plans for the annual was laid before the Graduate Club it did nothing definite at its meeting held in Fraser hall Monday night.
A social committee and a membership committee were appointed. Herbert Foote, chairman, John Calbeck, Christine Wenig, and Irene Howat compose the membership committee, while Leland Jenks, chairman, Henry O'Brien, Lelia Swarts, Annabelle Garvey, and Ingeborg Sundstrom make up the social committee.
Major M. L. Walker of the United States Army Engineers of Fort Leavenworth will address the Civil Engineering Society, Thursday evening at 8 p.m. in Marvin hall. Major Walker will speak on *Miscellaneous* requirements of Air Force or Military Schools. How These Maps Are Provided, Including Rapid Methods of Topography With a Minimum of Apparatus."
ARMY ENGINEER WILL
TELL HOW TO MAKE MAPS
Mr. and Mrs. David Passon have announced the engagement of their daughter Rebecca to Mr. Leonard McGraw. The wedding will take place in June.
Miss Passon is a Lawrence girl, and a graduate of the University. She is now teaching in the Topeka high school.
COACH FRANK ENGAGED
TO A K. U. GRADUATE
Law School to Dance The School of Law will give a dance in Ecke's hall Saturday night. Ray Hall will play. This is the first dance of a series the laws will pull off this winter.
Law School to Dance
Schooch Strachan Eats 'Em In Half the Time
Edwin F. Ables wagered night before last with "Schooch" Strachan that he (Strachan) could not eat a quart of raw oysters and five cents worth of crackers at one sitting. The stakes were the oysters on one side and sixty cents on the other side.
Ables has been going over the campus today muttering "sixty cents, sixty cents, sixty cents."
Strachan put the lolly-wabbles away in just two minutes and a half last night before three witnesses, one of which was Ables himself.
STUDENT BOOSTERS DO GREATEST WORK
The following representatives were present at yesterday's meeting;
So Says Chancellor Strong Before Meeting of County Club Leaders
"Get busy and organize your counties at once," was the request made by Russell Gear, president of the Central Organization of County Clubs, at a meeting held yesterday. "Another meeting will be held next week; organize your county by that time and bring a report to the meeting."
Chancellor Frank Strong addressed the organization and declared he wished all counties might be organized because students can talk to the high school pupils better than any one else, and information of this kind is of great importance. He told us that high schools offered out that offered the best way to correct absurd notions that get out about the University.
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"但 they can't do as much as you can," declared Professor Flint. "I would like to work with you; when you come back from your vacation drop me at 123 and I will pick it over; I'll send any formation to Toppea."
"One of the great troubles that I have found in going over the state is the wrong information concerning the University," said Prof. D. C. Croissant of the highest good you can be to tell the truth about it."
To Work For Mill Tax
Professor Croissant gave several examples of how the University was helping citizens over the state by means of the extension department.
Prof. L. N. Flint said he was anxious that the undergraduates work with the alumni on the mill tax question. A permanent committee of alumnae has been organized with headquarters at Topeka.
V. H. Turkington, Crawford; A. K
Many Present at Session
CHRISTMAS COMES TO K. U. THURSDAY
Faculty Ladies to Give Yule tide Tea for Freshmen and Juniors
Christmas decorations and favors will be the features of the first annual Christmas reception for the freshman and junior classes of the University to be given tomorrow from 3 to 5:30 by the ladies of the University. Haworth hall men and women will gather, sap tea, and milk of yuletide.
or youtheet.
In the receiving line will be Mrs. D. C. Croissant, Mrs. F. E. Kester, and Miss Helen Jones.
This is the first of these entertainments for both men and women students. The seniors and sophomores look forward to theirs in a few weeks.
ALUMNI BOARD VISITS
Will Spend Five Days With Alma
Mater Diane University
Problems
The first meeting of the board of alumni visitors was held in Fraser hall this morning and the new board was organized. John Crowrow and Friday and will discuss general conditions at the University.
The alumni board of visitors was established at the meeting of the alumni association last commencement time. The board is required to spend five days each year, investigating conditions under which questions and recommendations at the annual meeting of the alumni association.
The following members of the board attended the meeting this morning; James V. Humphrey, Junction City; Lizzie Williams Smith, Chicago; John O'Reilly, Chicago; Lawrence; Lock Davidson, Wichita and C. F. Scott, Iola.
BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION MEETS ALUMNI VISIORS
"The Board of Administration is in session at the University today for the sole purpose of meeting with the Board of Alumni visitors to discuss the future of the institution," said President Ed. T. Hackney at noon today. He said he would take up the Kansas City game question this session but will not be able to do so on account of lack of time."
In reply to a question about the Kennedy petitions which were to be submitted to the Board, Mr. Hackney said that he had heard of them and that the coaching question would not be discussed at the present sitting of the body.
"We just heard a great speech by the Chancellor," declared Former governor Hoch immediately after chapel.
KEEP MOSSE AS COACH, CHANCELLOR STRONG ASKS
Makes Plea for Fair Play in Treatment of Football Tutor and Students Respond Enthusiastically
NOMAN CAN WIN ALL GAMES
Unfair and Childish to Expect an Annual "Ever-Victorious"—Holiday to Celebrate "Fair Play Day"
A Moral Question
he discussed a broader side of the question than has usually been considered, stating that if the University refuses to give its coaches a square deal it will wait. A third person coaches at all, the been said that. Cach Moss has not been given a square deal at the University and for that reason the institution could not afford to let him go. "Keep Moss, let him choose his team," he told the host him responsible for the team was the Chancellor's advice.
The following is the Chancellor's address in full;
Because Mosse has not yet been given a free hand as coach, the Chancellor does not think he should be held responsible for past records, and the speaker said the students must realize that they cannot demand or expect Kansas to win every football game.
Chancellor Strong said that he has received a letter from Dr. Kennedy showing that Kennedy does not expect to be considered for the coaching position so long as Mosse desired to stay. He expressed the opinion that Dr. Kennedy's name has been used in the matter by his enthusiastic friends in many ways which would not meet with his apis against the old method of conducting athletics. Therefore this strikes at the root of permanency in athletics determined by the Missouri Valley Conference of Governing Boards in this part of the country.
"I have been longing for an old fashioned chapel for some time and I knew that if I vacated classes at ten o'clock I would be sure to get it. We are here this morning for the consideration of what I regard an extremely important University question. I should say I have had to have it at the football smoker tonight if it were not for the fact that long before I knew the time of the smoker I made another engagement which I must keep.
In a spirited chapel speech this morning, in which he disclosed a number of "inside" football facts, Chancellor Strong took hold of the coaching situation at the University and came out decidedly for the retention of Mosse as head coach.
"I have seldom been so profoundly stirred since I have been at the University as I have been in the last few days. This coaching question is entirely out of proportion to the persons concerned, and it is out of proportion to what I am accustomed to see what I regard as fundamental moral questions in the life of this University, and on that account, and that account alone, I am going to speak to the student body about it. If this movement should have succeeded, it would have struck the greatest blow to Kansas Spirit in this University that has ever been struck since the University began.
When the Chancellor put the matter of "fair-play" squarely before the students, he was greeted with a storm of applause. He then told the students that he had never known the student body to turn a deaf ear to a proposition where the University's honor was concerned, and to celebrate fittingly the birth of "K.U. Fair-play Day," announced an afternoon holiday.
K. U. Stands For Square Deal "This University up to this time has stood for the school deal, and what we are standing for today. This agitation not only concerns the moral life of the University, but athletics also."
"If this movement should succeed, in the course of no very great length of time it would be impossible to get anyone in this University to coach our teams as they should be coached, because nobody would be safe in the University and no coach of any calibre would think of coming here. Indeed, I happen to know of overunless made to a great coach, and not a very long time," he said. "Not on my life!" for the reason that I am telling you this morning. Therefore it goes to the very root of our athletic life.
Affects Permanency of Athletics
Affects Permanency of Athletes "It affects the permanency of our athletics. The old idea of athletics is gone and will never return. All of the pressure of events in the development of athletes in this country
"Now I want to recite to you some football history. I have been twelve years in the University. The first year I was here Weeks was coach. He wasn't satisfactory to a good many people and we had somewhat the same agitation in regard to him. He was got rid of. He was got Curtis, who wasn't satisfactory to a good many people. We got rid of him.
**Knocking Ever Present**
"Then we got Dr. Kennedy." He was then told, "when there began to come up this very same sort of thing we are having today, knocking the coach." Difficulties and divisions in the team, and very sharp differences too, which I, together with others, have had to settle year after year.
"And then it went on that at the end of the fifth year that Dr. Kennedy was coach these clamors had become very great and word he said he was great and like him because he was a back number and did not know football. You
"If I refer to the matter at all in my talk at the mixer tonight, will have some reason to say long enough line which will be even stronger than the statements of Chancellor Strong."
have heard all of these from time to time regarding every coach we have had at the University. Therefore he must be got rid of.
Alumni Raise Clamor
"My Sentiments Too"一Uncle Jimmie.
"I agree absolutely with everything the Chancellor said this morning about the coaching question," said Uncle Jimmy Green, the "patron saint" of football at the University.
"Word came from the alumni to get rid of him; that new blood was what we wanted—a change. Dr. Kennedy came to me in the office and said, 'I have coached five years. I think I have done well, and I want to help.' That is what he did for me. You have done well at the University so far as I know, and I am for you. You shall have a square deal. You shall be coach another two years if I can bring it about." "Now when the athletic board met me last week, they said that he would be let out, but I said to the Board, 'He has done well. If he wants to stay two years, let him stay.' And he stayed.
Mosse Helned Kennedy
"That brought it up to 1910. During five of these years, four of them permanently, a man by the name of Mosee helped Kennedy coach these teams. In the last year he was brought back to help Kennedy. Four games had already been lost. And that man, Mosee, never turned his back on any man, win or lose, and he came back and he helped win this last game, which was the Missouri game.
"Now we are to 1910. In 1910 you will probably remember there
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