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Vol.114 Issue No.28
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Football revelers hoisted one of the goalposts into Potter Lake. Saturday marked the first time since Oct. 23, 1999, that the goalposts were torn down. That year, Kansas beat Missouri 21-0.
Fans party'post'-game
Joyful Jayhawk supporters drag posts to Potter Lake after victory against Missouri
By Kevin Kampwirth
kkampwirth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Mixing the colors crimson, blue, black and yellow results in a dirty shade of green similar to that of swampy water.
It was only fitting, then, that Saturday's Kansas-Missouri football game culminated on the banks of Potter Lake, where the goalpost from the south side of the stadium was sacrificed to its murky depths after the Jayhawks' 35-14 victory.
Saturday's Border War game marked the 112th time that Kansas and Missouri met on a football field. The rivalry is the second-oldest in Division 1-A football, trailing only the Minnesota-Wisconsin rivalry.
"It's about more than just football," said Frank Kennedy, a 1979 Missouri
graduate and Missouri resident. "It's a cultural difference, really."
The game annually attracts Kansas and Missouri fans from all over the country and of all ages.
Sixty-one-year-old Tom Mulinazzi, Lawrence resident, knows the importance of the rivalry.
"It's just fantastic every time these two teams meet," Mulinazzi said. "The environment and the excitement between the two schools is electric."
Fans began packing the parking lots as
early as 8 a.m. in anticipation of the game. Tents and tailgate parties represented by Jayhawk and Tiger fans alike dotted Campanile Hill and the surrounding areas.
But, as the 11:40 a.m. kickoff approached, and liquor started to flow more heavily, feelings between fans of the two schools quickly went from cordial to cutthroat.
Chris Zerbe, Wichita senior, is no stranger to the KU-MU rivalry, having played basketball for the Jayhawks from
2000 to 2002.
"Win or lose, I still hate MU," Zerbe said before the game. "That's what it's really all about."
Morgan Hill, Columbia junior, agreed
"I the rivalry aspect seems to be more important than the actual game," Hill said.
Saturday's game drew 50,71 fans, the thirteenth-largest crowd in the history of Memorial Stadium. As the game pro-
Music sale fundraiser benefits blind service
SEE RIVALS ON PAGE 8A
By Alex Hoffman
ahoffman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
With jazz singer Tony Bennett singing in the background, music lovers eagerly flipped through old vinyl records at the Douglas County Fairgrounds this weekend.
A sale of new and barely used music was the first major fundraiser for Audio-Reader, a reading service at the University of Kansas that helps the blind with readings of newspapers, manuals and other print media.
Sean Graves, Sterling junior, had just begun an interest in bluegrass music. He stood at a table with boxes filled with bluegrass recordings that sold for 50 cents or a dollar each.
"Seriously, you might as well take a shot at a record you've never heard of," Graves said.
Bond theme. The rest of the event took place Saturday and yesterday. A steady flow of customers thinned out the inventory of CDs, cassettes, records and tape recorders all three days.
The low-priced music sale began with a sneak preview Friday night called "For Your Ears Only," which had a James
"We're approaching $10,000, so we're just blown away," said Janet Campbell, director of Audio-Reader. "We're just thrilled."
or how well it's gone. The bulk of the donations came from Kansas Public Radio when it moved to its new location in Lawrence. Besides the bluegrass music, it donated jazz, classical and Celtic recordings.
Combined with donations from the
thrilled. Rob Tabor is on Audio-Reader's development committee. He is blind and has used its services since 1978, when he started law school.
"The staff may be surprised, but frankly I'm not," he said. "I'm not surprised at how popular this sale has been or how well it's gone."
SEE FUNDRAISER ON PAGE 8A
The men of Battenfeld Scholarship Hall displayed the crossbar they hauled from Potter Lake a few hours after this weekend's football game. Replacing goalposts will cost the Athletics Department about $3,500 to $4,000 each.
Hall's men complete mission
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Battenfeld Scholarship Hall has a new resident: It weighs 200 pounds, wears gaudy colors and smells like a lake.
The resident, a crossbar from one of the goalposts torn down after Kansas' victory over Missouri has made its home in the hallway of Battenfeld Scholarship Hall.
"It's part of hall legend now," resident Michael Hillix said.
Hillix, Camden Point, Mo., freshman, recruited a group of fellow Battenfeld residents to go back to the lake and fish out a part of the goalpost. What started as an improptu plan turned into a journey that incorporated shadowy figures, the police and even a Fox 4 news team.
police and even a lawyer. Hours after KU fans followed tradition by pulling down both goalposts and carrying them from the stadium to Potter Lake, Hillix jumped into the lake while his friends watched.
"The water was up over my head," Hillix said. "I was pretty lucky to find anything."
What he found was the crossbar and base of the post. Hillix pulled the bars out of the water while friends waded in to help. The group then carried the post up the hill toward Jayhawk Boulevard. But they didn't get far.
First, a man from the Athletics Department stopped them and offered a
secretive deal. The man would not identify himself, but told the Battenfeld residents that they could keep the crossbar if they carried the base back to the stadium. They weren't convinced, however.
They weren't convinced.
"We wanted something for getting it
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Breakthrough Jayhawks win in front of 50,071 PAGE1B