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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 10. 196
KU Gets Holiday - 40 Years Ago
By Lynn Cheatum
Forty years ago the entire student body and faculty took an unprecedented holiday from classwork to tear down the old wooden bleachers where Memorial Stadium now stands.
This non-legal yet official holiday was Stadium Day, May 10, 1921.
The 4,000 workers saved the University nearly $5,000 in wrecking costs in tearing down the rickety old bleachers which had held athletic crowds for twenty years. The yearly expense of repair was more than $2,000.
CORONET PLAYERS from the KU band sounded revivele at 7 a.m. In alphabetical order the male students gathered at various sections of the bleachers, removing the decaying planks from the dangerous old structure. Section "L" of the bleachers was torn down by volunteer faculty members.
While the hammer-and-crowbar crew removed the planks, another crew came along to carry off the wood and stack it. The UDK reported that engineering professors were in charge of the operation "to keep the men from working too hard." There were about 2,200 men working. They finished in about an hour and a quarter.
TONITE IS
BUMPER STRIP NITE!
If You Have Our Bumper Strip on Your Car the Driver Will be Admitted Free to See
"BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI"
And "COMPULSION"
JOSEPH E. LEVINE presents
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IN DYALISCOPE
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COLOR COST OF MILLIONS!
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UNIVERSITY WOMEN helped by making more than 19,000 sandwiches. The food the women served at the 15 chow lines included barbecued beef, sandwiches, baked beans, boiled eggs, pickles and ice cream. Gallons of coffee were made in galvanized stock tanks.
CINEMASCOPE COLOR BY DE LUXE
Afternoon activities included a snake dance and games, plus speeches by Chancellor E. H. Lindley, Lawrence Mayor George L. Kreek, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and two Kansas City alumni.
CHANCELLOR LINDLEY, clad in overalls, guided a plow which was pulled by 40 enthusiastic students, thus breaking the ground for the new stadium. Fred Ellsworth, now executive secretary of the Alumni Assn., was one of the plow-pullers. Pathe. News. of Konsaue. what
Helping Eyes
AUSTIN, Tex. — (UPI)— Six University of Texas students do some of their best studying when a record player is turned on or when someone talks to them.
They are blind students being helped in their course work by 100 volunteer student readers. The Co-Operative Blind Students' Service Association also gives the students subscriptions for special recordings for the blind.
1,000 feet of motion picture film of the work and the festivities while the holiday crowd in dirty work clothes occasionally broke into a lusty rendition of "Rock Chalk."
"HONEY" WILSON, the aged Negro caretaker of McCook Field, said:
"When we gits this here new stadium we will beat them Missury boys the wusstest they ever was beat."
"Honey" was right—KU won every game from MU at the new stadium until 1929.
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