University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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OCTOBER 1936 FDR AUTUMN touchdown. Paronto, whose returns of Washburn punts were a feature of the game, took a Washbum kick on the dead run and raced it back 10 yards to the Washburn 34-yard line. Paul Masoner picked up 18 yards in three slashes at the center of the line, with five of the yards going to make up for ground lost on an offside penalty. Vith a first down on the 21 -yard line. Shirk went through center for 6 yards. Two more plays produced a first down on the 10-yard line and from that spot Paronto sliced off right tackle for a touchdown. Weinecke converted the extra point. Kansas then kicked off to the Ichabods and when Washburn found it necessary to punt, the Jayhawkers began their second drive to green pastures. Paronto returned the punt 12 yards to the YVashburn 43-yard line. An offside penalty on Washburn and plunges by Masoner brought a first down on the 31 -yard stripe. The squad limbers up as the first quarter ended. A new backfield composed of George Hapgood, Joe Giannangelo, Max Replogle and Clarence Douglass entered the game at this point. (Continued on Page 73) The coaches give their instructions ivhilf Prof. Difl pronounces benediction

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THE JAYHAWKER COLLEGE SCENE Both the tang of autumn and the spirit of football are in the air and the gridiron becomes the focal point of University sports interest By H. M. MASON, JR. ONCE again King Football holds sway. As the tang of autumn pervades the air, the sport which every week-end lures thousands, even millions of spec- tators into stadiums, takes the center of the stage. And on Mount Oread the situation is typical of that on college campuses throughout the land. Sweating, straining gridders scrimmage every afternoon as they prepare rigorously for the football wars which lie ahead of them. No championships are being pinned on the Jay- hawker team in advance. There is little doubt tha t Kansas will have a good team but the calibre of the opposition causes the experts to shake their heads doubtfully as they consider the Jayhawkers ' chances. Nevertheless hopes are high at Lawrence-on-the-Kaw. Last year when the experts could see no hope for Kansas, the men of Coach Ad Lindsey humbled Kansas State and Oklahoma and gave the king-pin ( ] ] li iJ UNIVEHSITY 1936 FOO KXfNSAS BALL 1936 SAVE ' 39.5 STADIUM OCT. 3 WASHBURN OCT. 17 OKLAHOMA OCT. 31 ARIZONA NOV. 7 (civic DAY) ADM. I (PAHENTS DAY) (CHEAT PIAINS BAY)- 2 9 i HOMECOMING) 2 J P (YOUTHS DAY) Nebraska Cornhuskers a hectic afternoon before bowing to the might of the Scarlet juggernaut. At the end of the season the team rested in third place in the conference standings, topping the defending cham- pion, Kansas State. And the general opinion is that the 1936 team will be better than that scrappy aggregation of last year. The spring practice was the most successful in years. The men on the squad have ability and an intense desire to play the game. The line will be nearly 15 pounds to the man heavier than last year ' s. A banner crop of sophomores moved up to the Varsity squad this fall and as a result the old bogey which has pursued Kansas for the past several years, a lack of reserve strength, is not nearly such a problem. The Jayhawkers opened their season October 3 against a hard fighting Washburn team and emerged on the long end of a 19-6 score as (lie result oT two touchdowns by Clarence Douglass and one by Francis Paronto. Although the game was not spectacular, the offenses of both teams showed to better advan- tage than their respective defenses. Washburn shot the works in a futile effort to upset Coach Lindsey ' s eleven and by use of a wide assort- ment of trick plays pushed over a touchdown in the third quarter. Kansas, on the other hand, was con- tent to use straight football in scoring its three touchdowns. The visitors kicked off to Kansas but the Jayhawkers were soon forced to punt. After five or six minutes of sparring, the Jayhawkers began a drive which was culminated by their first

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JAYHAWKER , ALL-STUDENT SERVANT By BILL DOWNS Professor L. N. Flint WHEN children are small they select as their life s ambitions such picturesque vocations as policeman, fireman or the street car motorman on their particular trolley line. Never has one been heard to say Pop, I want to be a newspaper man. Perhaps this is a typical example of the naive wis- dom of youth. For the fourth estate, as the profession is called, seldom has anything like an estate connected with it. It is generally recognized as one of the poorest paid of the professions. Still the University of Kansas has even a larger enrollment in its journalism depart- ment than ever before. Perhaps this is again exemplary of the naive wisdom or innocence of youth. The University Daily Kansan, official student news- paper of the University, is one of the few completely all-student projects on the campus. Ranking with the student government organizations, it stands as a pro- ject of student achievement and student endeavor towards an ultimate goal of serving the Mt. Oread com- monwealth. There is no need to discuss the compensations in journalism over and above the pecuniary shortcomings the thrill of seeing your stuff in print, the race to meet the dead-line, the coverage and interpretation of facts and vital information that affects a world of people all this is merely part of the game and is accepted as such. Truly the smell of the office paste-pot and printer ' s ink combined with the noise of the typewriters and the roar of the press, makes for spell-binding romance and gives opportunity for expression seldom equaled in any other profession. This is the true essence and appeal of newspaper work. The official student paper of the University of Kansas is the billing carried under the name plate of the Daily Kansan. But by official the Kansan does not stand as an organization connected with or acting under the direction of the administrative councils of the University itself. It has no faculty censorship, but depends upon the good taste and direction of its student editors. It receives no dic- tatorship, but serves the student body because its directors are chosen from that group. The University Daily Kansan truly is a free press. It is a cooperative, non-profit, self-supporting student project. The Daily Kansan ' s internal organization is one so set up as to protect itself against any one person or body from dominating or misusing its influence for any selfish or detrimental ends. Its supreme authority is vested in the Kansan Board, a group of twelve undergraduates interested and enrolled in jour- nalism and selected on their merit, their interest in the paper, and their achievements. This year the Kansan Board is composed of John