--ive. The players, substitutes, coaches, trainers and rooters all deserve great credit and may well be proud of their work. And while these were the chief factors in the success of the season just closed, I feel sure that the work of the past two seasons under the new rules was almost as important as this year's work on the field.
THE RHODES SCHOLARS' MAGAZINE.
--ive. The players, substitutes, coaches, trainers and rooters all deserve great credit and may well be proud of their work. And while these were the chief factors in the success of the season just closed, I feel sure that the work of the past two seasons under the new rules was almost as important as this year's work on the field.
Professor E. W. Murray, of the University faculty is the secretary of the Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars and edits a quarterly magazine devoted to the interests of the Rhodes Scholars who have returned to the United States.
As soon as the first consignment of Rhodes scholars sent from the United States had completed their three years' course in Oxford and returned to the United States, they organized an alumni association, of which Professor Murray was elected secretary. An association of whatever kind has to have its organ in these days, so the Rhodes Magazine was started.
Each number of the Magazine contains a letter from Oxford, detailing the latest doings there in scholastic and athletic lines, a personal column telling what the students who have returned are doing for a living, with a good quantity of "joshes" interspersed and an editorial department in which the more important matters of interest to the Magazine readers are discussed. Occasionally an alumnus unburdens his mind in a communication on politics, philosophy, or the science of making both ends meet, and on two occasions the editor (Professor Murray)has burst into song in page-long poems—excellent poetry, by the way, which we would be glad to print in The Kansan, if it were not protected by copyright.
PAN-HELLENIC COUNCILS.
The fact that Professor Murray is editor of the Magazine makes the university of Kansas, the center from which radiates all the activity of the Rhodes Scholars' organization in the United States.
Fraternities and Sororities Have a Regulating Board.
The two pan-helenic councils composed of fraternity people control the fraternity affairs here.
The girls' council consists of an active and an alumnae member from each sorority. It governs the rushing and social activities of the members. The Chi Omegas have the president this year.
The representatives of each sorority in the council are: Kappas: active, Nola Ayers; alumnae, Mrs W. E. Higgins. Thetas: active; Hazel Allison; alumnae, Mrs. Hodder. Pi Phi: active, Bertha Lucan; alumnae; Dora Wren. Chi Omega: active, Gertrude Eson; alumnae, Eva Butler.
The men's council is made up of two active members from each of the eight fraternities.
A Political Platform.
"Let reverence for law be taught in schools and colleges, be written in spelling books and primers, be published from pulpits, and proclaimed in legislative houses, and enforced in the Courts of Justice; in short, let it become the political religion of the nation."
(Written by Abraham Lincoln.)
THE JAYHAWKER COACHES
Kennedy, Mosse and Rouse Trained Football Players.
Bert Kennedy, Arthur St. Leger Mosse and Carl Rouse, all former students of the University and former captains of Jayhawker football teams were the football coaches this year.
Kennedy, the head coach, was a quarterback and captain in the late nineties. He played one year on the Pennsylvania team and afterward coached Washburn college Since coming to the University Kennedy has been very successful.
MOSSE.
Assistant Coach Mosse was a star guard in the old days when the "guards back" formation was the sensation of the football world. He was assistant coach in 1906 and solved the Nebraska formations and enabled Kansas to win the game. This year he did good service in arranging the Kansas defense to meet all opponents.
Carl Rouse, star end and captain in 1907, coached the Freshmen squad. He had excellent material to work with and he turned out a team that held the 'Varsity in many a scrimmage. Rouse was a great end in his day and the Freshmen ends, through his training, were wonders.
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Clean Football is Winning Football (By Coach "Bert" Kennedy.)
Competent authorities on football as played today agree that clean football is winning football. No coach of recognized standing in the college world at this time would teach his men to foul or deliberately violate the rules. It is this tendency in the modern game that pleases me most. So far as the new rules governing the playing of the game are concerned, I am not so sure that they are better than the old ones. But that the playing rules are better enforced by officials, that coaches and players are striving harder to live up to the spirit as well as to the letter of these rules, and that our faculty authorities have worked real reforms in the scholarship standing of the players there can be no doubt. These factors have put football on a higher plane than ever before, and that without robbing the game of a single point that was of real value. True, the college teams as a whole for the past three years have not been as strong as elevens of earlier times. But this fact we can well forego in gaining the points first mentioned and in putting all teams on a more equal footing.
Those who have been closely identified with the administration of athletics at the University and, in fact, all our students have recognized that in matters of reform Kansas has been among the leaders. That reforms were needed everyone is agreed, and, with such men as Chancellor Strong and Dr. Naismith insisting that athletics here be put on the same moral plane as other forms of undergraduate endeavor, it is easy to understand why Kansas occupies her high position in the intercollegiate world.
We are all proud of our "ever victorious" team of 1908 and justly so, for they are true representatives of a splendid student body, and the victories they won were clean and decisive. The players, substitutes, coaches, trainers and rooters all deserve great credit and may well be proud of their work. And while these were the chief factors in the success of the season just closed, I feel sure that the work of the past two seasons under the new rules was almost as important as this year's work on the field.
The conclusion of the whole matter is that here in Kansas we are on a sound basis because our athletics are clean. While this does not mean that our teams will always be victorious it does mean that win or lose we will get the best results out of athletics.
I am proud to have had a part in coaching the K. U. football team for the past five years and especially proud of the results of this season. But most of all it pleases me that our athletics are so clean.
Let us all be on the alert to see that we maintain this high standard. It is the work of each and every true Kansan.
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