The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-28


| This column met 1. L. Henry, a
graduate of Kansas university, and
treasurer of the Topeka club of Kan
Sas university alumni, who shot that
question our way. Mr.. Henry has fol-
! lowed football in the Missouri valley
/ for a number of years, and his con-
clusions are to the effect that some
| thing is wroRg at the camp of the
/ Crimson and the Blue.
! I'VE are hearing a lot of talk around
| the country and in the newspapers as
to what IS the matter with Yale and
whether the teams rather poor rec
ord this year can he blamed on Coach
Jones, but think it is time we were
asking the question and getting an an
swer as to what is the matter with
Kansas" Mr.. Henry said.
| Last year when Missouri had a
stronger team than Kansas, plus
/ Chuck Lewis Kansas quite easily won
from the Missourians. This year Mis-
souri, had an inferior team over the
last year eleven, minus Chuck Lewis,
and Kansas had about the same lineup
as the year before, plus year of ex-
Iperience and training. Yet Kansas
goes over to Missouri and gets
trimmed by a team which should have
been defeated easily.
What games did we win, this year
anyway? We lost to Drake, let Ne
braslza win easily. lost to Missouri, and
tied with the Kansas Aggies. We
really were defeated by the Aggies.
The Manhattanites consider that tie a
Z
About the only game we won was from
Oklahoma, as far as the valley is con-
cerned."
1--WE old graduates wonder why it
is that Kansas cannot make a better
showing than was the ease this year"
Mr.. Henry said. Can it be lack of
material2 Surely we have a larger
is it that Kansas does not turn out
the same kind OF football teams that
formerly was the case2 We graduates
feel like Kansas should be reminded
that the former students are watching
the athletics at Kansas, and we want
a winning team"
Despite the fact that Pittsburg
Manual Training Normal will lose at
the first of the second semester, its
best man in basketball. the prospects
for a winning team there are looming
up, it has been reported. Babe"
Alyea, who is rated as one of the best
cagers in the Kansas conference,
leaves for the University of Chicago
at the second half of the year.
But there still are three men at
Pittsburg, known as the FIT Scott
Triumvirate'' because of their playing
at that high school, who promise to
show other Kansas conference basket |
hall tossers some things before the
1928 season comes to close The
members of the triumvirate are:
Emmerson, Steele and Vaile.
Freeing universities and colleges
of the sixth district of the National |
Collegiate Athletic association, COM !
prising the states of Iowa, North and |
South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri and |
Kansas from any taint of commercial |
ism in athletics is the biggest problem
confronting those schools today.
That was the statement of Pres.
D. w Moorehouse, of Drake univer- !
sity. of Des Moines, before the annual |
meeting of the association in New
York today.
The high salaries of coaches. the |
tremendous cost of equipment and the I
travelling expenses of teams make the
athletic program one of the most diff |
ficult for the college administrator, |
President Moorehouse declared. He |
urged a. safe, sane and sensible att1- |
tude concerning athletic expenses
He believes a coach should be as /
stable a part of the instructional force |
of a college as a dean or any other |
college head, and should feel the same |
loyal interest in the institution. If the |
tendency to commercialize the time of
the athletic coach continues, our col /
lege athletics are doomed to the same 4
level as professional athletics, in the 1
opinion Of President MOorehouse.
Seaman Boys Win; Girls Lose.
Seaman high split the first basket
BAH bill of the season, at Meriden |