The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
X. U. ISN'T SATISFIED.
Movement Is Started to DispIace
Coach Kennedy.

| Lawrence. Kan, January 15.-Oscar
| Stauffer, writing for Kansas City
| paper, says:
| Some of the students at Lawrence
| are after Coach Kennedy's goat. A
general feeling seems to prevail,
| among the Greek letter men especial
| ly, that the success of the Jayhawkers
during the past few years has not been
due SO much to Kennedy's training as
to the splendid material which has
been available at all times. 1t is ar
gued that If Kansas had an eastern
coach, say from Yale, the Jayhawkers
could turn out team with the ma
terial that they have that would rank
Chicago, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
At the football banquet rendered the
1909 gridiron heroes during Deem
Der, Chancellor Strong commended the
team and Coach Kennedy for its ex-
ended. Then he likened Kansas to
Yale of the east and spoke of Mis-
souri, as the Princeton of the west
Perhaps from his speech or if not
from that speech of the chancellor,
a demand for an eastern coach-pre-
| make itself felt in university circles
Whether the sentiment is strong
enough to overthrow the Kennedy
rule remains to be seen. The athletic
board which regulates such affairs was
supposed to have hired a coach before
the Christmas holidays, but no action
was taken. AS the matter now stands
the board has never made public any
thing that has occurred at. its ses-
sions regarding the securing of a
coach for next fall. One thing is sure
Kennedy has not been rehired. His
contract expired with the closing of
the football season last fall.
In all probability Missouri will get
a Princeton coach again this year. If
Kansas was to get a Yale coach, a
man in touch with eastern football
and the new ideas of the gridiron
game, it would add greatly in inter
est to the Thanksgiving day struggle.
With the plans for new stadium in
Kansas City about to materialize,
what would it mean for Kansas and
Missouri to clash next Thanksgiving
afternoon. the one with its Princeton
tutor and the other with a Yale men
tor? Undoubtedly it would mean one
of the biggest, if not the biggest strug
gle in the west.
With the crowd that was able to be
accommodated last year at Associa-
ton park in Kansas City, the Jayhaw-
kers made sufficient money off of foot
ball so that they would have plenty
of money to hire a Yale coach.
Through the efficient management of
Mr.. Lansdon and other conditions be-
ing favorable more than $4,000 was
cleared off of footbaI. A first class
Yale man can be secured for $4,000
and some say 1t would be a business
proposition.
Those who argue that an eastern
coach should be secured have nothing
against Kennedy personally. He is
fine type of man. Right there they
say is where the trouble lies. Having
so many friends, beng a Lawrence
man, 1t is difficult. they argue, for
them to put friendship aside and rely
on coaching ability as the point to de-
termine If Kennedy is the man to
coach Kansas Some of the students
L.
Kennedy at the same salary he is now
getting, $1,000. and then hire Yale
head coach.
The athletic board is on the bend
and it remains to be seen whether it
will get a Yale coach or retire Ken
n ndT.