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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1957
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COMING OUT—Stepping from the front of his small foreign car is Jim Nero, second-year law student from Kansas City, Mo. Parking is no problem with the vehicle but traffic violations and flat tires pose just as big a problem as they do with a standard-sized car. The compact three-wheeler is probably the smallest automobile on the campus.
automobile on the campus.
... Campus Briefs .
Sports Car Club Meets Tonight
The Jayhawk Sports Car Club will hold its first meeting of the semester at 7:30 p.m. in 102 Strong Hall.
Roger Moffet, Norton freshman and president, said that all sports car owners and others interested may attend the meeting.
The club will plan coming events and show movies of the Pike's Peak Hill Climb. This is the third year of the club. Some members come from Topeka and Kansas City to participate in events.
Murphy To Speak At Banquet
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak to the members of the National Machine Accountants Assn. at a banquet meeting in Kansas City tonight.
Graduate Club To Square Dance
The Graduate Club will hold a square dance and election of officers at its first meeting of the year at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Student Union.
Shirley Hughes, instructor of physical education, will call the square dance. All graduate students are invited. Refreshments will be served.
Psychologists To Elect
Officers of the Undergraduate Psychology Club will be elected at an organizational meeting next Tuesday in 306 Student Union. Refreshments will be served.
K.U. Gets 41 New Pianos
Forty-one new pianos costing approximately $500 apiece have been bought for the music department, according to Thomas G. Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
1420 Crescent Rd.
wash your sweaters
the Bernhard Altmann way!
Debators Named
Debate Tryouts Will Continue On Thursday
Fourteen members of the KU Debate Squad have been named. Additional tryouts will be held at 7:15 p.m. Thursday in 134 Strong.
Dr. Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech and director of debate encourages more students to try out, especially girls.
Dr. Giffen said, "The varsity squad members returning have done excellent work in the past and the new ones show real potential."
For the tryouts a five minute speech is given for or against the question. "Resolved: That the requirements of membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment should be illegal."
Book Sale At Watson
A sale of duplicate books of Watson Library will be held Sept. 30 and Oct.1 in front of the library building.
"We have received permission from the state to sell the books and they will be available to students at very moderate prices," said Robert L Quinsey, reader service chief.
News—Bugs Bunny Cartoon Open 6:45—Curtain 7:00 Feature at 7-9 p.m.
NOW
Adults 90c - Children 35c
Richard ATTENBOROUGH
Lisa GASTONI
John MILLS
in the rollicking nautical comedy!
BATTLESHIP
EASTMAN COLOR in SEASCOPE
News—Color Cartoon
Plus: Joe McDoakes
"ON THE RIVIERA"
Open 7:00—Curtain 7:15
Feature 8:00 p.m.
One Show Each Evening
LAST 2 DAYS!
Talent To Be Selected
JAYHAWKER
Auditions for KU talent for the Big Eight Talent show will be selected Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 305 of the Student Union.
The show, sponsored by student unions in the Big Eight, will travel to all Big Eight schools and will appear on the KU campus in late January or early February, according to Leonard Parkinson, Scott City junior and chairman of the Student Union Activities sportsman committee.
The Big Eight Talent Show is an outgrowth of a talent show at Kansas State College in Manhattan last year. It included acts from KU, K-State and the University of Nebraska.
FOOTBALL THROUGH THE AGES
The football frenzy is upon us. But let us in the midst of this pandemonium call time. Let us pause for a moment of tranquil reflection. What is this great American game called football? What is its history? Its origins?
Let us reuse for a moment of Transull Reflection
First of all, to call football an American game is somewhat misleading. True, the game is now played almost exclusively in America, but it comes to us from a land far away and a civilization long dead.
Football was first played in ancient Rome. Introduced by Julius Caesar, it became one of the most popular Roman sports by the time of Nero's reign. The eminent historian, Sigafoos, reports a crowd of MMCLDDXVIII people at the Colosseum one Saturday afternoon to see the Christians play the Lions.
The end of football in Europe came with the notorious "Black Sox Scandal" of 1587, in which Ed Machiavelli, one of the Pisa mob, paid off the University of Heidelberg Sabres to throw the championship game to the Chartres A. and M. Gophers. It was a mortal blow to football on the continent.
With the decline of the Roman empire, football fell into disuse. The barbaric Huns and Visigoths preferred canasta. Not until the fifteenth century A. D. did football emerge from its twilight and rise to its rightful place in the firmament of European sports.
And why, you ask, is this date—September 29, 1442—so dear to the hearts of all football fans? Because young Columbus was so heartbroken at not making the team that he ran away to sea. And if that hadn't happened, he never would have discovered America. And if Columbus hadn’t discovered America, the world would never have discovered tobacco. And if the world hadn't discovered tobacco, football fans never would have discovered Marlboro—which, as every fan knows, is the perfect companion to football. And why shouldn't it be? Look what Marlboro's got . . . Filter . . . Flavor . . . Flip-top Box . . . You can't buy a better smoke. You can't smoke a better buy.
But the game took hold in the American colonies and thrived as it had never thrived before. Which brings us to another date that remains evergreen in the hearts of football lovers: December 16, 1773.
On that date a British packet loaded with tea sailed into Boston harbor. The colonies had long been smarting under the English king's tax on tea. "Taxation without representation," they called it, and feelings ran high.
Which brings us to September 29, 1442, a date dear to the hearts of all football fans. It was on this date, according to the eminent historian Sigafoos, that a sixteen-year-old lad named Christopher Columbus tried out for the football team at Genoa Tech. He failed to make the team because he was too light. (He weighed at the time only twelve pounds.)
When on December 16, 1773, the British ship docked at Boston, a semi-pro football team called the Nonpareil Tigers, coached by Samuel (Swifty) Adams, was scrimmaging near the harbor. "Come, lads," cried Swifty, seeing the ship. "Let's dump the tea in the ocean!"
With many a laugh and cheer the Nonpareil Tigers followed Swifty aboard and proceeded to dump the cargo overboard in a wild, disorganized and abandoned manner. "Here now!" called Swifty sharply. "That's no way to dump tea overboard. Let's get into some kind of formation."
Bore — Kine
Pci — Gri
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Pci — F41Ci — Para — The Lpi — The ldn 14 — Been in cree eiy —
And that, fans, is how the tea formation was born. © May Shullman, 1947
Double your pleasure at next Saturday's game by taking along plenty of Martboros, whose makers bring you this column throughout the school year.