PLAN NEW STADIUM TO COST $40,000
ATHLETIC FIELD OF FUTURE ON SOUTH CAMPUS.
Natural Amphitheater Overlooks Field on Which University Sports May Take Place.
Plans for a new athletic field at the University of Kansas have just been completed by Doctor James Naismith, director of physical education. The proposition of a new field has been under consideration by him for the past two or three years, but the resolution passed by the Board-of Regents of the University last year, following the football agitation, providing that all inter-collegiate games should be played on college grounds, made the problem a serious one.
The coming of the Kansas-Missouri game to Lawrence either next year or the year following, raises the question of handling the crowd. The growing importance of the game assures a greater interest and a larger crowd each year. It is thought by Dr. Naismith that McCook field will be inadequate and that to enlarge it
low the gymnasium, and will be used for football and baseball games. The baseball diamond will be directly behind the geology and mining building, and in the northeast corner of the football field. A clearance space of fifty feet has been left on all sides of the field for box seats and automobile space. The grandstand and permanent bleachers will be on the sloping sides of the hill. The top of the bleachers will be on the level with the campus back of them. The permanent seats will accommodate about ten thousand persons. The bleachers on the south being only temporary, can be moved during the baseball season.
The practice fields will probably be ten feet below the level of the large contest field and will be used for general work, especially serub football and baseball. Tennis courts and spring practice fields will be located in various parts of the large field wherever space perMITs. Handball courts will be located near the gymnasium and probably on the same level with the large contest field. Every available space will be utilized for some form of athletics.
The track field is on the last level, 25 feet below the level of the larger and upper field. It has a quarter-mile cinder track with a
The entire athletic field will include a football and baseball ground, three practice fields, track and a group of tennis and handball courts.
Plan of the Proposed Athletic Field.
so as to add all the required improvements would be practically impossible, on account of interfering with the well established plans for the development of that part of the campus, which is to be carried out within a few years.
The large contest field, 300 by 400 feet, is on a level 65 feet be-
Aside from the need of a new field for the Thanksgiving game, the physical director feels that there is an urgent demand for more room for outdoor exercises. Further, an athletic field should be as close as possible to the gymnasium.
The plans of Dr. Naismith provide for a new field on the slope of the campus hill, south and west of the Robinson Gymnasium, as shown in the accompanying illustration.
The plans as outlined by Doctor Naismith, for the new field are: The site of the proposed field extends from the brow of the hill southward about 300 yards, to the line of the University property and west from the gymnasium 430 yards. The brow of the hill forms a natural amphitheater for bleachers, with the ground sloping to the south and west. Much grading work would be required to put the field into shape but an excellent drainage system could be worked out at the same time.
"My main object," Dr. Naismith says, "is to accommodate the greater number of students with the exercise they want. It is necessary to have practice fields as well as contest fields and above all they should be near the gymnasium. The spectators also have to be provided for in the best possible way."
220-yard straightaway, finishing in a pocket of the bleachers. The circuit of the track will be 100 feet across, permitting high jumping, pole vaulting and other field events in the enclosure while the races are in progress. Ample space will be provided for temporary and permanent bleachers along the sides for the larger contests.
The cost of the field as planned would cost approximately $40,000 including all grading and the erection of bleachers.
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The proposed field is ideally located with respect to the gymnasium and is easily accessible from the rest of the campus and from the street car line. The plan, if carried out, would give the University of Kansas a field for athletic sports, comparable for all practical purposes to the famous stadiums of Harvard and Syracuse, though at a much smaller cost.
The present plans are an enlargement and improvement upon the plans drawn up last year by several engineering seniors. Herbert Stockwell and M.K. Thomenjuniors in the School of Engineering, have been assisting Dr. Naismith in the work this year and should a field be constructed it would be largely after their plans.
Inter-School Meet Postponed.
The inter-school track meet which was to have been held in the gymnasium this week has been postponed till the week of January 9, 1911.
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