SEES DANGER IN CLASS FOOTBALL
DR. NAISMITH SAYS MEN
DO NOT TRAIN.
Next Year Class Players Will Be Asked to Remain in Training the Entire Season.
"We shall insist that no man go into a game of football in the inter-class series next year who has not had sufficient training to enter the game without incurring the danger of serious hurts," said Dr. James Naismith this morning, when asked about the future of inter-class football.
"As conducted at present," he continued, "the games are not a good thing for the students for the reason that the men, in a number of cases, enter the games without the proper training. A great many of the men come from the farm where they have been working hard all summer and from September 15 till November 15 do no work whatever that would keep their muscles up to the standard set by them from farm work. As a consequence they allow themselves to become soft and relaxed. Then they go into a fight in which their honor will not allow them to quit when tired. After playing for some time, the muscles relax on account of extreme fatigue and the players are then in condition to be hurt by the first man who hits them. Their condition puts the strain of the impact upon the ligaments and bones instead of the muscles, where it belongs.
"The heart, which is also a large muscle, becomes tired also and then there is danger of acute dilation, which may result very seriously for the subject. There is a great chance to get hurt for life and in fact the post-mortem examination of the West Virginia man who met death this year on the gridiron, showed that his injury was due to acute dilation of the heart.
"These dangers do not apply to the men who have been training for the game in the gymnasium on the track, or on the basketball court, but it does apply to the men who come to the University and take no exercise whatever except the climb up the hill to their classes. All the men who wish to play in the inter-class series should go out early in the fall and begin their practising then, and incidentally aid the regular squad."
POLLY WANTS TOUCH-DOWN
Educated Lawrence Parrot Gives "Rock Chalk" Yell.
"Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk, K. U." The passer-by at 1346 New Jersey, turned with a half smile, expecting to see an exuberant rooter practising the battle cry of his alma mater or an old grad teaching the venerable slogan to his precocious offspring, but nothing of the kind was in sight. A large, green parrot, however, was swinging in a cage on the porch, now and then voicing a "Rock Chalk" worthy of the most leather-lunged rooter in the "fighting 500."
In the past there have served as mascots for K. U., dogs, rabbits, goats and even pigs, but a much more accomplished supporter of the red and blue is this yellow-headed Poll.
Mrs. C. L. Conger, is the owner of the bird and has raised him from infancy, the sole survivor of a brood of eight. Poll learned the University yell from some students who formerly lived near his home, and they did the job well; indeed, he couldn't have been better taught by Spotts himself.
"He used to give the yell much better than he does now," said Mrs. Conger, when asked about her pet. "But the boys of the neighborhood spoiled him by trying to make him repeat it twice slowly and then three times more quickly just as they do on the hill. This proved too much for even so gifted a bird as Poll, and he is still somewhat confused, and repeats the word 'Jayhawk' twice each time it occurs. The boys tried to teach him to sing, too, and he got so he could do the opening bars of 'Crimson and the Blue' in fine style. However, they impatiently started him on 'Boola' and this seemed to confuse his musical faculties, so that he now refuses to sing
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"No, he never has been to any football games," said Mrs. Conger, when questioned as to Poll's practical experience. "Although Coach Kennedy has told me several times that he would like to have Poll for a mascot, I have always been afraid he would be frightened at the noise and the crowd and as a result, escape or hurt himself, so I have never let him go."
Football at Harvard and at Yale
Yale's method has been to put in the hardest week's work of the entire season at the opening of the football campaign in September. The available material is divided into small squads and every man is tried thoroughly by some player or coach. The men are rated, not by what they can do, but what they may do; not by present performance, but by future promise. Thus, breadth of chest, reach of arms and exceptional strength around the loins with the ability to carry one's self in action with the quick co-ordination of the natural athlete would count tremendously in a man's favor at New Haven, reregardless of whether he had ever played football or gave any promise of playing it. At Harvard, on the other hand, the men have been given equal chances of demonstrating what they know, or can readily learn, of football per se, and the tendency is unconscious to favor the present performer or the one who shows ready aptitude
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to take instruction. He is the choice over the better set-up, but less previously instructed or mentally alert player. In other words, Harvard sees the present player; Yale sees the future player. To use a simile, Harvard prefers a well sharpened lead pencil; Yale chooses a pencil that has a good lead, and sharpens it herself.
President E. J. James of the University of Illinois denounced the condition of American education as a national reproach at a recent meeting of the Minnesota Teachers' association. The lack of skill and training among the teachers in rural districts was his chief complaint. To remedy the evil he advocated making education a national function with a secretary of education as a member of the cabinet and with vast federal appropriations of money.
Rural Teachers Lack Skill.
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Creating Wealth for the State of Kansas.
By building its lines through lands then worth less than $5 per acre, the Union Pacific Railroad has aided in increasing the value of those lands many-fold.
The assessed value of all property in Kansas has increased from $328,729,008 in 1900 to $2,511,260,285 in 1909.
There has been no more important factor than the Kansas railroads in creating this enormous wealth.
The resultant prosperity has increased the value of the railroad.
In 1900 the Union Pacific Railroad paid taxes in the State of Kansas amounting to $245,456.14. In 1909 it paid $376,913.82.
Progress for the Union Pacific Railroad means progress for the whole state. Every mile of additional track, every train or station, creates wealth, which is shared not only by the Union Pacific Railroad but by every citizen of Kansas.
We have a book on Kansas and its resources which will be mailed to some friend in the east for the asking. Please send us his address.
Every Union Pacific Ticket Office is a bureau of railroad information. Make your wants known there, or write to me.
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Passenger Traffic Manager
OMAHA, NEB.
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