University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 26, 1990
Features
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Nancy Schwarting, director of WILDCARE, hand feeds a high-protein solution to an iguana at the KU Animal Care Unit. The iguana has a broken right front leg because of a calcium deficiency
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Glory days: All-Americans and bowl
by David Garfield
Gale Sayers takes the football and sweeps right. He suddenly changes direction and hesitates, eluding two defenders. Sayers then rushes up-field, breaks two tackles and runs 70 yards for a touchdown.
Many Kansas football fans who either saw Sayers for play in KU in the early 1960s or heard about him are well aware of his football prowess. Sayers is arguably the greatest running back of all time. The fact that he was one of the long and rich history of KU. Football
As Kansas battles Kansas State on Homecoming Day tomorrow, the players will be following in the footsteps of such former KU greats as Ray Evans, John Hail and Saylers
KU football is in its 101st year of competition this season, and Kansas has played more games than all but 11 Division I teams. If Kansas opens the next century as well it began in 1890, the future of football on Mount Oread looks bright.
- all players who helped establish the tradition of Kansas football.
The winning tradition of Kansas football continued throughout the next 70 years. In 1986, Kansas won all three games and won three conference championships. Kansas has had 11 All-Americans, three college football hall-of-fame members and two former players in the professional league.
KU was 57-18-2 from 1890 to 1899 — the most successful decade ever, and cumulative record for a U.S. leader.
Such KU legends as Hadi, Sayers, John Riggins and Mike McCormack have not only made a significant impact in Kansas small annals, but also in the professional ranks.
Hadi, who is now KU's executive director for the Williams Educational Fund that benefits student athletes, said Kansas football had a special meaning to him.
The 47 team featured KU's first All-Americans — halfback Ray Evans and end Otto Schnellbacher. These players also had outstanding college basketball careers at Kansas. Evans led the nation in passing in 1942, and is a member of both the college and professional teams. Schnellbacher later became an all-pro basketball player for the New York Giants.
Kansas emerged as a national power in the mid-1940s, winning Big Six championships in 1946 and 1947. KU finished the 47 season ranked No. 12 in the country by the Associated Press and made its first bowl game to Georgia Tech 20-14 in the Orange Bowl.
"It's a source of pride," he said. "I was born in Lawrence and I kept in close contact with the KU people when I played in the NFL. It's very important to me for school pride and state pride."
Some of KU's finest players and teams were showcased during the modern era of the 1960s. Led by Hint, Kansas first two players included Jake Bentley and the country's elite teams in 1960 and 1961.
History makers
The 1960 squad could lay claim as the greatest Kansas team of all time. KU's only two losses that year came against No. 1 teams Syracuse and Iowa.
In the last game of the season, KU played another No. 1 team, Missouri, for the Big Eight championship and a berta in the Orange Bowl. A record crowd of 43,000 at Missouri saw Kansas upset the Tigers 23-7. However, Big Eight officials later ruled that
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pared for release into the wild.
Wounded animals are condi-
strength, and juvenile animals
munt for live toad
k is done by the program's staffunteers who help feed and care
teers, we could not exist,".But it takes time to train them, able and they must be willing to gram for a while. It often is not
d a volunteer shortage often he summer when students left
the time when volunteers are
The summer is a blur of baby s and squealing infant animals. must be fed every 20 minutes for jbright said. "That's 48 times a of work."
e program received emergency
money to hire four part-time studen-
tusely, funding for part-time
available for next summer.
to keep animals for you keep them for can get imprinted then they have ing by themselves.
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