Kansas game plagued by uncertainty, doubt
Football holds colorful memories for KU fans
By Dan Perkins
Kansan sportswriter
No one knows for sure how the 100th year of Kansas football is going to end, but then again, no one is sure how the first season ended.
Football began at Kansas in the 1890s as a regular student activity, after it already had become a recognized activity at many eastern colleges.
Although a team was formed and unified forms were bought in 1894, no record of any competition exists until 1890.
That year, Kansas began with two road losses before the first recorded game played in Lawrence.
That game, Kansas vs. Baker, was played Dec. 8, 1890, in a vacant lot on Massachusetts Street where South Park is today.
With time running out in the game, Baker, leading 12-10, fumbled the ball. A Kansas player, Will Coleman, picked up the ball and ran the length of the field for a Kansas touchdown.
Although Kansas contends that it won the game 14-12, Baker contends that it won 12-10 because time had been called before Coleman picked up the ball.
One feature of the game that has lasted as long as the uncertainty of the outcome has been the Rock Chalk Chant. The chant originated in 1886 and was used on the battlefields of the Spanish-American War in
Despite the appearance of a new stadium, it would be 26 more years before Kansas would appear in a bowl game.
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Robben was moved from starting fullback to linebacker in the spring, when he was injured two days after he began practicing in that position.
This fall, he has had two weeks’ practice at linebacker and Hillels said that his prospects look good.
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adjust with no problems, he discovered there was room for improvement.
“I did have some problems at first,” he said. “I have to concentrate more on getting the ball up.
“We’ve been working real hard on our kicking game this season.”
During practices, the two kickers, Fleman and Alex Chaffetz, have had problems getting under the ball and kicking it high enough to make it over the linemen.
“I’ve had some kicks blocked, and that is the biggest problem without the trees,” Fleman said.
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