100 years ago: Ticket sales booming for annual Kansas-Missouri football game

From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 15, 1910:

  • “An enormous crowd will witness the annual clash between the Jayhawkers and Tigers at Kansas City [on] Thanksgiving. Yesterday was the first day of the seat sale in Kansas City and nearly 5,000 choice seats were disposed of as fast as the seller could hand out the pasteboards. Missouri has already purchased 3,000 and enough have been sold in Kansas to bring the number up to 10,000. There are 18,872 seats on the field, and it is believed that every single one of these will be taken when the gates open for the Thanksgiving rush.”
  • “Henry Ironshell, of Rosebud, S. D., and Fred Wright, of Lawrence, will leave Sunday for 101 Ranch at Bliss, Okla., to secure seven of the worst outlaw horses in the United States, and from there will go to New York to take a steamer for South America, to give Wild West exhibitions. Mr. Ironshell is a Sioux Indian, belonging to the Rosebud agency, and has a reputation as a cowboy that cannot be excelled. He can ride anything that can be saddled and this will make his eighth trip to South America. At present he is staying at 312 Indiana street.”