THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SPECIAL ATHLETIC NUMBER
VOLUME III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 20, 1906.
NUMBER 27
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OUR TRIBUTE
APPRECIATION OF THE JAYHAWKER GRIDIRON HEROES.
Their Record Has Been Highly Satisfactory to the University. Personal Mention of the Team
Only one more thing remains to be done before the word "finis" can be added to the football history of 1906 and another chapter will be added to the annals of the gridiron game at K. U.-the awarding of the Ks to the veterans who fought so loyally to uphold the honor of the Crimson and the Blue on the gridiron.
It has been a successful season in spite of the apparent blots on the won and lost column. The overwhelming defeat at St. Louis, however a bitter pill it might be to take, was really coming to the Jayhawkers, but in the Manhattan game when the Kansas squad had to drink the dregs of defeat and in the two games they were forced to divide the honors, they were victims of circumstances entirely beyond their control. With a shorter schedule and an opportunity to train for the Washburn and Manhattan contests every loyal Jayhawker believes and believes firmly that they would have been safely lodged in the list of victories won while "the Lord was with Missouri" in the annual Thanksgiving game. But be that as it may the season of 1906 would still be a success, a great success, if only for the glorious victory over our friend the enemy, Nebraska. There for the one time of the season, Coach Kennedy's pupils were able to put their full strength in the field and demonstrate their real calibre. There for the only time during the season was the student body back of the team like it ought to be. It was easily as great a moral victory as it was a physical one.
The Kansan in this number pays a last tribute to the men who have brought glory to their alma mater through their prowess on the gridiron.
C. Prentiss Donald, the Jay-
hawkers' peerless leader and the idol of the students, closed a football career with the Thanksgiving game that has never been equalled at this institution. For four long years he has played the position of left tackle on the Kansas team and has been the mainstay of the line and the terror of his opponents. The acknowledged star of the Missouri Valley, his name has always stood for the highest type of football, and in the choosing of the Missouri Valley elevens, every football mentor without a single exception has awarded him the captaincy, for his prowess as a tackle and ability as a leader. In all he has fought 39 battles for the glory of old K. U. and not once has he ever had to call time or miss a single game. His name will stand at the very head of the list of Jayhawker gridiron heroes. Donald is 24 years old, weighs 215 pounds and lives at La Harpe.
Emile Brunner, the other veteran of four years of Jayhawker football battles, has
NOT BEFORE FALL.
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Robinson Gymnasium Work Behind Time, Says Dr. Naismith.
"The new gymnasium," said Dr. James Naismith, physical director, "will not be completed before late next fall. However, the auditorium will be completed sufficiently to hold next spring's commencement exercises in and a track will be laid out on the basement floor for the midwinter training of the trackmen."
The Robinson gymnasium makes the third building erected by Wm. Nadelhoffer, the present contractor. Mr. Nadelhoffer prides himself in the fact that neither of the other buildings has shown the least sign of
DR. NAISMITH
cracking. The slow progress in the building is due in a large measure to the prosperity of the workmen. Scarcely a northern wind blows but what work is at a standstill.
Walter Holmes of Kansas City and a student at the University of Missouri is visiting at the Sig Alph house.
Miss Anna Lauter, Arts '06 is visiting at the Pi Phi house.
CAPTAIN DONALD,'06
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ARE ORGANIZED
ENGINEERS TO CANVASS LEGISLATURE THOROUGHLY.
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Rousing Mass Meeting Yesterday —Kansas Has Smallest Income in Missouri Valley.
An enthusiastic mass meeting attended by five hundred students of the engineering school, was held in chapel Tuesday morning, at which plans were made for concerted efforts in securing an appropriation for an engineering building. Speeches were made by Chancellor Strong, Dean Marvin, Senator Martin, of the Law school, R. L. Douglas, of the College, and Professor Raymond and Sam Forter of the Engineering school, emphasizing the necessity of securing the building.
Stress was laid by all the speakers upon the fact that the largest school of the University has hardly a single room which it can call its own and but few instructors who devote their time to subjects in this all important branch of the University.
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CAPTAIN ROUSE,'07
"It is a question of life and death with the Engineering school" said the Chancellor. "If the school is to maintain the high standing which it has acquired through difficulties, it must have better equipment and more rooms. In the last four years Missouri has added six new buildings, Nebraska seven, Iowa five, and Minnesota eight, while Kansas has built two buildings. Missouri now has thirty buildings, Nebraska twenty-four, Iowa twenty-three, and Minnesota thirty, and Kansas stands at the foot with thirteen buildings. The income of the University of Kansas is much smaller than other Universities of its class. Iowa received last year $440,406, Missouri $540,000, Nebraska $472- 477, and California $905,755,
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