TOMMY JOHNSON PASSES BEYOND
HE WON ELEVEN ATHLETIC
K's.
Was Captain of Football and Basketball Teams—Took Leading Part in Dramatics.
Thomas Warwick Johnson, ex-student and athlete of the University of Kansas, died early Friday morning at the University of Kansas hospital in Rosedale. Tommy, as he was best known to everybody, had been in poor health for more than a year but had only been confined to the hospital for the last two months. The cause of his death was tuberculosis, with which he has been afflicted since childhood, and it was only on account of his athletic training that he has been able to fight the disease this long.
Tommy, while a student in the University of Kansas, was the dominating spirit in all athletics. When he was forced to leave
school last year on account of ill health, he carried with him a list of honors which few if any will ever be able to attain. In his athletic career he won eleven Ks. His wonderful amount of nerve and energy won for him the respect and admiration of all, both friends and opponents; the deep interest which he showed in everything that he took part in made him a "near perfect" in each of his undertakings, and his love of square manly play made him a favorite with everyone.
The football honors which Tommy earned while in school are as follows: Football team '08, '09, '10; winner of K trophy cup for best kicker '09; captain of football team '10.
In basketball he was: Member of team '06, '08; captain '09 '10; captain K. U. class championship basketball team '06 '07; captain of K. U. basketball team '09. '10.
He was a member of the track team '06, '08, '10; and held the Kansas State high hurdle record in '09 and broke the record for the indoor pole vault in Convention Hall in the Kansas-Missouri meet at ten feet ten inches.
In '09 and '10 he was chosen for quarter back and captain of the All-Missouri football team. He was guard on the All-Missouri Valley basketball team in '08, and forward in '09 and '10.
He was a member of the Athletic Board in '09, '10, '11; captain of the class baseball team in '07; member of the social committee of the sophomore '07; president of the Y. M. C. A.' '10 and president of the Thespian Dramatic Club '10-'11.
In '09 he took the leading part in "Father and the Frat," a comedy by the Thespians, was a member of the Sachems, a senior organization '10-11, and was credited to be the best all around athlete in the West.
Thomas Johnson was born in East Aitchison, Mo., October 18, 1887. His father died when he was one year old and in 1901 his family moved to Lawrence. It was while he was in ward school that he first started playing football. In high school he broadened in his athletics, participating in track work and basketball
When he entered the University in 1905 he was not in very good health and after his first year he withdrew. He was prevailed upon, however, to enter school again in 1908 and it was at this time that his wonderful career as an athlete started. He did not confine himself though to athletes alone. He took a leading part in the fraternity, literary and dramatic life of the school.
Doctors who have examined his case say that, contrary to the general idea, athletics lengthened Tommy's life from ten to fifteen years. As a child he was a weakling, but his early athletic training together with his marvelous grit and energy successfully combated, for the time being, the malady which so strongly gripped him.
He spent the greater part of the last summer in Execsion Springs, Mo., trying to better his health, which was fast failing. The effort was useless, however and about two months ago he was taken to the University o Kansas hospital in Rosedale During the first two weeks spent in the hospital he seemed to improve, some of his old time spirit came back and he increased in weight. This last week, how ever, he sank rapidly and Wednesday and Thursday was in a stupor the greater part of the time.
The body was brought to Lawrence last night by his mother Mrs. Frances A. Lupher on the 7 o'clock Union Pacific. It was met at the station by members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, of which Tommy was a member. The funeral will be Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Congregational church.
Rev. Brown of the Baptist church will offer a prayer to be followed by a sermon by Rev. Elderkin. Music will be furnished by the Congregational church choir and the University Male Quartet.
The body will be taken to the home of his mother Mrs. Frances E. Lupher at 1 o'clock and will be removed to the Congregational church at 2:30 o'clock.
The active pall bearers will be Frank Fonecnon, Edmund Rhodes, C. T. Squires, Jay Bond, J. R. Greenless and Charles Woodbury. Usher will be chosen from the members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
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TIE----3-3.
Mills kicked on the first down to Woodbury who was downed on the Missouri 37 yard line. Heil tried the right end but failed to gain. On a fake forward pass Kansas lost 10 yards and then Heil punted 30 yards to Knobel who was thrown back for a 2 yard loss.
kick but it went out of bounds It was the Tigers' ball on their own 15 yard line. On the next play one Tiger got anxious and Missouri was penalized 10 yards for holding. This placed the oval within 5 yards of the Missouri goal.
The Tiger half was then sent through tackel and he made 7 yards before he was stopped. Mills then punted to Heil on the Kansas 45 yard line.
Heil then kicked out of bound and with the ball on the Tiger 40 yards line Knobel made 3 around the end. Wilder hit the line for 2 more and then Kansas was penalized 5 yards for offside play.
At this juncture the Tigers commenced to operate their famous scissor play and with Wilder and Knobel manipulating it they made 26 yards. This put the ball on the Kansas 40 yard line. Here Mills stepped back and with the thousands of rooters holding their breath attempted a drop kick. If it went over he would have made his niche of fame like ex-captain Haeckyn But Weidlein blocked the kick and the Kansas rooters breathed easier. The Kansas right guard not only blocked the kick but recovered the ball and on the next play Ammons smashed through the line between left end
and tackle for 35 vards. He was stopped by little Blees who was seriously hurt but refused to leave the game. The ball was on the Missouri 40 yard line.
Here the Jayhawkers suffered two successive penalties for holding which cost them 25 yards. The ball see-sawed in the center of the field, the plays consisting chiefly of an exchange of punts between Heil and Mills.
Woodbury failed to gain at right end and then the Jayhawkers were penalized 15 yards for holding. Woodbury tried an on-side kick which rolled to Knobel on the Missouri 35 yard line.
With the ball on the Missouri 35 yard line Kansas was held for downs. Wilder bucked center for a yard and then Mills kicked to the Kansas 40 yard line. Heil lost 5 yards on the exchange. A series of punts again put the ball on the Kansas 30 yard line. Ammons made 2 through tackle and then Heil kicked 35 yards.
Up to this time the Jayhawkers seem to have the better of the argument. The playing has been for the most part in Tiger territory and the Missourians have been fighting bitterly to keep their goal uncrossed. At criticism times the line of Brewer held and when a touchdown seemed imminent threw back the charging men from Kansas and held them scoreless.
Between the halves the Kansas and the Missouri bands paraded the field followed by the rooters who did a snake dance. The second half started at 3.55. There was no change in the line-up.
The Tigers again called into use their scissor play and made 8 yards before the Jayhawker were able to solve it. Mill punted and Heil returned 10 The half ended with the ball in Kansas possession on their own 35 yard line. No score.
Knobel kicked off to Heil who returned 5 yards. It was Kansas ball on their own 25 yard line. Ammons made 2 through center and then Heil punted to Blees who returned 10 yards to the Missouri 30 yard line. Wilder bucked center for 5 yards but Hastings recovered it. Mills kicked and then Heil punted 33 yards to Blees who returned 20 yards. Knobel failed to gain through the center of the line and Le Mire lost in an attempt to skirt the left end. Mills then booted 25 yards to Woodbury who returned 5 yards.
Ammons was sent through the line for 8 and Coolidge tried guard but failed to gain. Here Heil signaled for a forward pass and flipped the ball to Coolidge for a 15 yard gain. Ammons made 6 through center and the captain added 6 more. Davidson was called back of the line but failed to gain through center. He was hurt in the play but remained in the game.
Second Half.
At this stage of the game Conch Sherwin sent in Delaney for Price and the Kansas rooters began begging for a drop kick. Mills kicked to Heil on the Kansas 8 yard line. Ammons lost 2 yards. Dexter replaced Le Mire, and Sehwab went in for Davidson. Pixlee replaced Wilder.
Ammons made 9 yards in two downs and Delaney kicked to Knobel who was downed on the Missouri 40 yard line. The Jayhawkers were penalized 15 yards for holding and a moment later the Tigers suffered a loss of 10 yards for holding.
Heil went through center for 4 yards and then Coolidge tried an on-side kick which was captured by Knobel on the Missouri 15 yard line. Mills punted 40 yards to Ammons who in the next two plays made 5 through the line on a fake kick, Ammons added 3 more through center.
The ball was then on the Tiger 45 yard line. Here it was that Delaney was called back of the line. Every one knew and expected that the crucial moment in the game had come and that if his foot was true in all probability the game would end a victory for Kansas. The Kansas line was tense. Poised and ready for the play they charged the Tigers the instant Ahrens snapped the ball and a second later the oval was sent spinning down the field as true as an arrow. It passed directly over the posts and the Kansas rooters ran riot. Delaney had come back and his toe had added 3 points for Kansas.
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After the drop kick a series of punts between Delaney and Mills put the ball in the center of the field in Kansas possession Score Kansas 3, Missouri 0.
The playing in this quarter was mostly in the Missouri territory with the punts of Delaney averaging about 10 yards more than those of Mills. The terriic line plunging of Ammons characterized the work of the Kansas offense. After the third quarter the Kansas band drowned the vells of the Tigers with "We Won't Be Home Until Morning."
Third Quarter.
Knobel punted 25 yards to Ammons who on the next play made 3 through center. Woodbury added 1 more through right and then Delaney punted out of bounds on the Tiger 40 yard line
On a fake forward pass Dexter lost 10 yards and then Hall punted 40 yards to Heil who returned 10. Wilson, the Tiger center, was hurt in the last play but remained in the game. Coolidge slipped around left end for 2 but on the next play, a fake forward pass, he lost 10 yards. Heil punted to Pixielee on the Missouri 35 yard line. An onside kick (Heil to Woodbury) netted 15 but a forward pass (Heil to Delaney) failed and it was Missouri's ball.
Woodbury failed through the line. Delaney punted 30 yards to Dexter who was down in his tracks. Kansas was penalized 5 yards for offside and a moment later suffered a similar penalty.
Hall flung a pass to Dexter that netted 35 yards but on the next down Hall punted 20 yards to Woodbury who returned to the Kansas 25 yard line.
For twelve minutes the lines of red and blue charged the lines of the yellow and the black with the ball remainind near the center of the field. With the ball on the Kansas 35 yard line Blees flipped a pass to Hall that netted 15 yards and on the next play Hall added ten more through center.
The ball was then on the Kan
sas 10 yard line. Bles consulted with Captain Shuck. The ball was directly in front of the goal. Shuck was called back to attempt a drop kick that would tie the game. Wilson passed the ball and the oval sailed true from the foot of the little Tiger end and with it went three points that equaled the three points made by Delaney in the quarter before. With this kick every one knew that the game was over and that Kansas and Missouri were tied in their annual struggle.
Final score: Kansas 3, Missouri 3.
Substitutes:
Price started for Delaney.
Delaney replaced Price in third quarter.
Schwab in for Davidson.
Dexter in for Le Mire.
Pixlee in for Wilder.
Hall in for Mills.
Officials were— Referee—James Masker, of Kansas City. Umpire—Joseph Curtis, of Michigan. Field Judge—W. C. Gordon of Michigan. Head Linesman—Dr. J. Airly, Goodlow.
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