The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 4,1909
NUMBER 22
BOTH TEAMS CONFIDENT OF WINNING SATURDAY
THE COACHES HAVE POINTED THEIR MEN FOR THE BIG CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT LINCOLN.
ENTHUSIASM MEETING IN CHAPEL TOMORROW
With Many Speakers and the Band, the Students Will Give the Team a Big "Send Oiff"'—The Kansans Will Play an Open Field Game—Lovett Will Do the Punting—With Johnson the Drop Kicking.
As They Will Appear When the Whistle Blows.
NEBRASKA
F. B. Elliot
R. H. Beltzer
L.H.
Sturtznegger
Q.B.
Bentley
R.E. R.T. R.G. C. L.G. L.T. L.E.
Magor Temple Ewing Shonka Wenstrand Johnson
Ammons Caldwell V.Smith Carison Lovett Randall Ford
L.E. L.T. L.G. C. R.G. R.T. R.E.
C.
Johnson
Q.B.
Pleasant L.H.
Magill R.H.
Dahlene F.B. KANSAS
These two teams will battle in the first big championship game of the year at Lincoln, next Saturday. The Nebraska coaches are confident that the Cornhuskers will be able to break the open field work of the Kansas team, while Kennedy and Mosse are just as certain that the Jayhawkers will win by a comfortably large margin.
The students of the University are going to make the largest demonstration of the year after chapel tomorrow morning. Those who are unable to go to Lincoln are again cordially invited to be present in the chapel Saturday afternoon to see The Kansan's reports as they are flashed on the screen. The reports will begin at 2 o'clock.
Tomorrow evening Coach Kennedy and his football warriors will leave for Lincoln, more confident than at any time during the season that the chances of the Jayhawkers against the Cornhuskers are at least equal. Never before this fall has Kennedy been as optimistic over the outcome of the Nebraska game as he is tonight. All of the men on the team are in good condition and have received the hardest and most effective training of the year. The training table diet has done much to get the men in good physical condition and the training which has been given them during the past two weeks has put them in better football form than they have been before during this season.
Although the practice work for the past several weeks has been behind closed gates, still Kennedy has announced in a general way the plan of training which has been followed. On account of the excellent defensive game played by Nebraska and on account of the strong line of the opponents the coaches have chosen to depend more upon drop kicking and punting than upon mass plays. As a result, special attention has been given to the working out of a half dozen players in that line of play. Johnson has been doing some star punting during the entire season, and Lovett, with his long, high spirals, is a close second at booting the pig-
skin. Consequently Kennedy plans to depend upon Lovett almost entirely during the coming contest for the punting. Johnson, on the other hand, will handle the drop kicks, and from present indications if Kansas gets within 35 yards of the goal at any time during the game Saturday he will be able to boot the ball over the Nebraskans' goal posts. Bond, Dahlene, Stephenson and Pleasant are four as good kickers as can the found in the Missouri Valley and are being depended upon for much good work during the big game.
to win." He further requests that every student remain on the hill tomorrow for the mass meeting.
A BIG ENTHUSIASM MEETING TOMORROW
The "Beat Nebraska" mass meeting tomorrow morning after chapel will be the biggest ever held at the university. At this meeting the pent-up enthusiasm of the past few weeks will break break forth in a way which will shake Fraser hall to its foundations. Many students were wearing the red and blue this afternoon, and tomorrow every person who appears on the hill should be supplied with an arm-band, ribbons or a pennant.
The cheer leader says: "The wearing of the colors will be proof to the football boys that the student body is really behind them and they will go into the game Saturday all the more determined
President Thompson of Ohio university and Professor Ross of Michigan university will be the regular chapel speakers. Then will come the enthusiasm meeting. The band will play the "Crimson and the Blue" and "Boolo Boola," as well as the new songs. The vocal chords of every person present will be given a severe working out in the yell practice. Among the speakers who will tell how and why we must beat Nebraska will be Chancellor Strong, Coaches Mosse and Kennedy, Doctor Naismith, Bishop Griswold and Geo. O. Foster.
THE CORNHUSKERS ARE ROUNDING INTO FORM
"We must beat Nebraska" will be the only slogan heard on the hill tomorrow. Every member of the team is determined "to do or die." Uncle Jimmy says "we must beat Nebraska. Every layol student will help us do it."
Lincoln, Nebraska, Nov. 4.—Six coaches have been assisting in getting the Cornhuskers into form this week. In addition to Coach Cole and Assistant Coach Harvey, "Bill" Chaloupka, of last year's strong line has been on the field,as was also Ex-Captain John Westover, 1902; Ex-Captain Glen Mason, 1906; Captain Heinzelman, ex-end of West Point, now a special student in the university, and others.
This most encouraging feature of this week's practice of the Cornhuskers has been the development of the ends. Although the line seems lacking in firmness, the ends are playing better ball than at any time earlier in the season. The placing of Chauner at end indicates that Cole may put the new man in the Kansas game. Chauner was in the Minnesota game for the larger part of the second half and played an excellent game. His chief faults arise from his inexperience.
Another change which Cole is trying out is in putting Frank at quarterback. Frank has been working out at half most of the time, but his work in the Iowa game, when he replaced Hascall at quarter was fast and brainy. By moving Frank in to quarter Cole makes room for Magor at half.
The Nebraska coaches fully realize that they must perfect their backfield if the Cornhuskers are to make a presentable showing against the Kansas athletes. To this end they are making the shifts this week. They are determined to get a good backfield if possible. From the practice this week, it would seem that they would either succeed in getting an unusually excellent combination, or else the work of the backs will be ruined through the changes.
Nebraska is developing a spirit for the game which has not existed for years. Students all over the campus are determined that
their representatives shall win. The announcement that the Kansas team will arrive in Lincoln tomorrow afternoon has started an attempt to arrange a formal welcome for them at the train with a parade uptown. Whether or not this plan will be carried out is yet uncertain.
A RECORD BREAKER.
Many Old K. U. People Will Meet in Topeka.
MIDWEEK GAME.
Second Team Will Play K. S. A.
C. Scrubs.
The annual K. U. banquet and reunion, which is held after each of the State Teachers' Association meeting will be held in the Baptist church at Topeka, tomorrow evening. The reception will be from 4:30 to 5:30 and the banquet will begin at 5:30 in order to make it possible for Lawrence people to return home that evening.
The attendance this year promises to be a record breaker. Plates will be laid for 250. Letters were sent to 225 high school teachers and from this number 120 will attend the banquet. Fifty members of the faculty have signified their intention of attending. Chancellor Strong will be toastmaster at the banquet.
An innovation in football was made today when it was announced by Coach Kennedy that a mid-week game has been schedules to be played on McCook field. The contest will be between the K. U. second team and the second eleven of K. S. A. C. The date which has been set is next Wednesday, November 10th. Manager Lansdon and Coach Kennedy expect this game to take the place to some extent of the lack of a game on the 13th and at the same time to give the 'Varsity players a chance to keep the flame of enthusiasm brightly aglow.
EDWIN PETERS DEAD.
A Victim of Typhoid Fever—Fu-
neral Tomorrow.
Edwin Peters, a sophomore in the College, died at his home in Emporia yesterday afternoon, from typhoid fever. He had been confined to his home for three weeks with the fever and was reported as past the danger stage when he was overcome by a relapse. The funeral will be held from the Episcopal church in Emporia tomorrow afternoon at
W. I. Matthews, who was a student in the School of Law several years ago, visited friends at the University yesterday. Mr. Matthews is now superintendent of the city schools at Fredonia.
Last year Peters played short stop on the freshman baseball team and was captain of the team. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
WILL MAKE A NEW CONTRACT
REGENTS TO CONFER WITH
STREET R. R. OFFICIALS.
Contract Sent From Dayton, O., Was Not Such as Could Be Accepted by the University.
Regents Scott Hopkins and J. W. Gleed of the University will make a special trip to Lawrence tonight to take up again the matter of the street car company's right-of-way across the campus, which it was thought had been settled several days ago.
The Board of Regents met with Mr. Immanual of the street car company and together drew up a contract covering the rights of both the University and the street railway company. The contract was sent to Dayton, O., to be signed by the officers of the railway company. Yesterday it was received by the University authorities, with signatures duly affixed, but several important clauses had been changed.
The special meeting of the Regents' committee this evening is for the purpose of straightening out the tangle.
E. E. Brown, purchasing agent of the University, said that he thought the Regents and representatives of the street railway company would have little difficulty in getting together on a new contract satisfactory to both parties.
The contractor was at work as usual this morning constructing the grade across the campus
FREER LIFE FOR WOMEN
Home Is Not Her Sphere as Formerly, Says Prof. Boodin.
"Woman's life is as infinite as man's life is felt to be infinite," said Prof. J. E. Boodin, in his talk on "Woman's Place," at the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. yesterday.
Professor Boodin said that the phrase of woman's place being in her home is too simple and conventional now. That was all right when she was a slave, but not now when she is free. He emphasized the idea that there are no limitations to woman's sphere and capabilities and that she must work out her destiny very much as man does.
Injured Man Is Better.
The colored man, Carl Bowers, of 547 Florida street, who had his foot run over by a drum of lead pipe for the conduit near Fowler shops last Tuesday, is feeling much better. The drum passed over the foot just back of the toes and broke the three middle toes, but just bruised the outside ones. When Dr. F. D. G. Harvey dressed the injured foot this morning, he said there was no need of amputation.
Get your buttered and salted popeorn at Soxman & Co.'s.