Today is the second of three days to pick up basketball tickets for the four games taking place during winter break. Ticket pickup runs through Wednesday at the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office and online at kuathletics.com. There is a fee for online pickup.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
A look back at K-State series
Jayhawks defeat Aggies in new Kansas Stadium
BY DREW DAVISON
Editor's note: This week, The University Daily Kansan looks back at four classic games between Kansas and Kansas State.
Oct. 29,1921 Kansas 21, Kansas State 7 1921 Kansan headline — "Jayhawkers Swamp Aggies in Great Game"
The Jayhawks could not have asked for a better debut at Memorial Stadium than when they beat the Kansas State Agricultural College Aggies by two touchdowns. 21-7.
It was the first game at Memorial Stadium, which officially opened as "Kansas Stadium."
At the time, according to The Kansan, the stadium's north side was not finished and makeshift bleachers were brought in for the 9,000 fans in attendance: the largest crowd at an Aggie/jayhawk game to that point. There is some discrepancy, though. The Kansas Athletics Department reports 5,160 fans attended.
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FOOTBALL
Jayhawks return to work after rest
Week off prepares team for K-State showdown
There's nothing like a well-timed vacation.
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
At least that's what football coach Mark Mangino is thinking heading into this week's Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State.
Who's the best?
"I think the timing of the break was perfect," Mangino said during Monday's Big 12 Football Coaches Teleconference.
"Wed gone 10 weeks in a row. I think the rest did us good, the fundamental work did us good. I think it was right on time, to tell you the truth."
The Jayhawks' week off was also a chance for some injured players to rest. Freshman quarterback Kerry Meier was still recovering from a right-shoulder injury during last week's victory against Iowa State. Senior running back Jon Cornish also battled through minor injuries for most of the season.
"No healthier than they've been recently," Mangino said with a laugh.
And just how healthy are these injured players?
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Kansas and Kansas State will battle for football superiority on Saturday, but die-hard fans can appreciate that football is just one way of measuring which school is better. The Kansan compared the two institutions and found they really didn't have that much in common at all.
ARTICLE BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
The towns
When The New York Times sent a travel writer to Kansas in 2005, there probably wasn't much discussion on which college town to visit. Lawrence is regarded as a speck of blue in a sea of red, referring to its tendency to vote for Democrats. Massachusetts Street is where you'll find bars, restaurants and shops of every variety. In Manhattan, you'll head to Aggieville, home of beer, fast food and a gas station. While the gas station gets points for its clever signs, I just can't bring myself to vote for a place where the largest bar is named "Rusty's." Advantage: Jayhawks
Athletic directors
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Kansas Athletics Director Lew Perkins arrived in the middle of a compliance nightmare, which landed the Jayhawks on probation for two years. Since then he has cleared house and begun one of the most successful fundraising operations in the Big 12. Kansas State Athletics Director Tim Weiser hired Bob Huggins, and basketball season tickets sold out for the first time since 1982. Don't let the smiles fool you; both are exceedingly capable of cutting the number of student tickets. Advantage: Tie
DRAWINGS BY GRANT SNIDER
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was a finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year award in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. Kansas State coach Bob Huggins was named Coach of the Year by Playboy in 1993 while at Cincinnati. He resigned from Cincinnati after being charged with drunken driving in 2005. University of Cincinnati attorney Monica Rimal charged that just 27 of Huggins' 95 players had graduated, while 21 of them had "significant encounters with law enforcement, most of those consisting of arrests, with many ending in convictions" according to a letter published in The Cincinnati Enquirer. Advantage: Jayhawks
Basketball coaches
Team colors
Football legends
Harvard crimson and Yale blue, a nod to two Ivy League schools, are found in the Kansas logo. "Jayhawk" is a term that referred to those who fought to abolish slavery in Kansas during the time of the Civil War. Meanwhile, Kansas State is represented by the color purple. The mascot is Willie the Wildcat, but former football coach Bill Snyder instead asked an art professor to create a more "aggressive" logo to represent the program, and the Powercat was born. Willie's costume consists only of a head, presumably because it was half-price at the mascot store. Advantage: Jayhawks
Kansas running back Gale Sayers was ranked 21st on the Sporting News list of the 100 greatest football players ever. Kansas State kicker Martin Gramatica celebrated every field goal he made until his brother, Bill, tore his ACL celebrating an unimportant kick with the Arizona Cardinals. Kansas State is helped by NFL backup Michael Bishop. Subtract points for the Terry Allen years at Kansas and it's just about even. Luckily, Sayers' greatness makes up for both those things. Advantage: Jayhawks
Famous alumni
Kansas alumnus Vernon L. Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work on the economics of conflict and cooperation. Kansas State alumnus Herbert Diamond invented the "snooze" button. While Mr. Smith's work no doubt has had a positive impact on world politics for the last five years,Mr. Dimond's work had a positive impact on my morning. Advantage:Wildcats
Kansan sports editor Michael Phillips can be reached at mphillips@kansan.com.
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- Edited by Aly Barland
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