Old home town – 100 years ago today

From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 3, 1905: “The athletic managers of the universities of Kansas and Missouri got together and counted the receipts for the recent Thanksgiving Day football game in Kansas City, won 24-0 by Kansas. The receipts of the game were $9,750. Park management got about 12.5 percent and that left $8,433.75 to be split by the two teams. Both teams made money on the season, Missouri clearing about $1,500 and Kansas about $2,000. Total Kansas receipts for 1905, before expenses, were $8,836. : More than 60 members of the Kansas Academy of Science attended the annual meeting of the group held in Lawrence over the weekend. “