University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-12-19
University Chat.

teams at the International Live Stock
Show at Chicago and beat 'em to a
frazzle," to quote Colonel Roosevelt:
The Missouri team, coached by Prof.
E. A. Trowbridge, who Judged live
stock at the Bunceton fair last year,
won victory that was so complete as
to practically put all competition out
of the running. In fact. about the
only reason these show-me-state lads
did not win any more honors was be-
cause there were no more to win.
Caesar like, they longed for more
worlds to-no, for more stock to judge.
So complete victory has never before
been recorded toy the credit of any
college.
Seven state institutions and two Ca
madam agricultural colleges were rep
resented in the contest, making nine
teams of five men each. or forty-five
men in all. The five Missouri boys
won the team trophy. handsome
and costly cup, and four scholarships
valued at $3.50 each. The team also
ranked highest in judging horses, cat
| tie and hogs. Each one of the five
Missouri boys was an honor man, Mis-
souri's representatives filling five of
the ten high places. The Missouri
men and their rank were, W. r. Heck
Ter, first; Walter S. Williams. second; !;
T. r. Douglass, third; S. 7. Simpson,
fourth, and George S. Templeton.
eighth.
Not only did the Missouri team win,
but it won by the widest margin in
the history of the Internationally
points. The universities, in the order
in which they finished, were: Mis-.
souri,. Nebraska. Iowa, Texas, Manito,
ba. Ohio, Ontario, Kansas and Ken
lucky.
/ Iowa, with many victories to her
credit, has heretofore suffered a few
defeats, but never before when the
team had been coached by Prof
Kennedy. To Prof. Trowbridge is due
the credit of being the first coach to
lower the Kennedy colors.
But there is more to this tale of
conquest" for let it not be forgotten
that in separate contest for judg-
ing saddle horses Missouri team,
also coached by Prof Trowbridge, won
highest honors. defeating Kentucky
and all other comers.
| The University of Missouri has
never Won a greater victory or one
that is more worth while" than that
at Chicago. AS the average Missouri
farmer sees it a stock Judging victory
means much more than the winning of
a football game. Both Roper, football
coach of the 1909 team, and Hollen-
back, who coached the eleven this
season, made good and were justly
praised by the student body. but
neither of these men did half as much
for our state as her E. A. Trowbridge
assistant professor of animal husban-
dry in the Missouri Agricultural Col,
lege. The greatest coach-greatest in
the Importance of his work. and Of the
results obtained-that the University
of Missouri has had in recent years
is not Roper nor Hollenback. but
Trowbridge.
| In football there was beat Kan
sas" campaign in which not only the
| University but the entire city of Co.
lumbia entered, and backed by a band
and spurred on by the shouts and
songs of a thousand students Roper's
men did beat Kansas" last year.
Then the press in general, and es-
pecially student publications of Mis-
souri, University. told of the great
coach and OF his wonderful fighting
machine"
In stock judging, there was no
beat Iowa" campaign at Columbia.
No great student body was, "by hop
ing and believing that its team would
win, helping to make such victory
possible" yet Coach Kennedy-the un.
defeated Coach w. J. Kennedy of
Iowa-saw his men go down before
| the ''Trowbridge machine
Coach Trowbridge may not get as
much mention as did Roper, his name
may not even be given in some of
the printed accounts of the teams vic
tory at Chicago, but this may be just
as he would like it. That this is the
case is indicated by the account of
the Missouri victory as published in
the Chicago Daily Drovers' Journal.
The opening paragraph of this article
was. With one fist fighting sleep
from his eyes, Professor Trowbridge
of the University of Missouri, this
morning modestly put himself in the
background and gave all the cedit of
| the student Judging victory to his