THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year. by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell, K U 25.
Roy Roberts, Editor.
Kroy Roberts, Editor.
Wallace F. Hovey, Managing Editor.
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Entered as second class mail matter September 30,1904, at the Lawrence Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress. March 3, 1879.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1907
OUR LAST TRIBUTE
In this the Yule-tide edition, the Kansan pays its last tribute to the men who fought so faithfully and so courageously under such heavy handicaps during the past season to uphold the honor of old K. U. on the gridiron. It was a team of which the University might well be proud and will go down in the football annals as the pluckiest eleven that ever wore the Crimson and the Blue of Kansas. From the standpoint of games won and lost, its record may not have been up to the standard set in some previous years. Our enemies and rivals, Washburn and Nebraska, triumphed over us, while the expected and fore-ordained defeat was handed out at St. Louis. But there was nothing to be ashamed of and much to be proud of in each and every defeat. Sadly crippled in every crucial contest, the team gave everything that was in it to bear off the victory
and went down to defeat with an unconquered fighting spirit that never failed to win the admiration and respect of its opponents. It was this spirit that took away all the stings of the downfall before Washburn and Nebraska and will class the season as a successful one.
But it was the final chapter of the gridiron season that vindicated the team. Confident of victory and with the strongest eleven that had ever represented the Tigers in the great college game, Missouri came to St. Joseph full of confidence of victory and never dreaming of defeat. Then came that great and glorious battle fought up and down the gridiron, Forter's educated toe giving Kansas a well earned victory.
But enough of the tale of prowess of the mighty gridiron warriors of 1907. The Kansan wants to pay a tribute to the men themselves. Every man on the team was there because he was entitled to be there. Every man had earned his place by his football work and by passing the scrutiny of a strict eligibility committee.As mighty warriors, as good sportsmen, and as true gentlemen, the Kansan wishes to thank the football eleven of 1907 for their splendid work for the University in the season just closed.
The Kansan takes pleasure in presenting to its readers its annual Christmas number dedicated to the glories of the football season of 1907. The edition has been gotten up with every possible care and an effort made to have it representative of every phase of college activity. We have no apologies to make. We hope you will like it and that you take it home with you to show just what is going on at the University of Kansas, throughout the school year. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy, happy New Year.
With the spirit of Christmas and the giving of gifts abroad in the land, the time is peculiarly ripe for active work for the proposed Y. M. C. A. building on Mt. Oread. Every student who goes home Christmas should constitute a committee of one to prepare the way in his neighborhood for the active campaign for funds, which is to be waged next summer.
The Y. M. C. A. is one of the worthiest of the many University organizations. It does a work that the churches cannot do and fills a large place in University life. Every year the work of the Association is becoming more and more important. The membership will soon include fifty per cent of the men of the University.
The building of a fine new home, much needed as it is, for the Y. M. C. A. will give a great impetus to the Association work. It will make a home for the students where they can meet on a common ground. Such a place has long been needed at the University and the time is here for active steps to be taken for securing it.
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