From the Lawrence Daily World for Oct. 4, 1910:

“Wanted, a training table at K.U.! Kennedy’s entire squad is suffering from an epidemic of boils, indigestion, skin eruptions and other ills consequent to food poorly cooked and the eating of things always denied men in training for a gridiron machine. ‘The Missouri Valley Conference ruling prohibiting training tables remedies no evil but accomplishes a world of harm,’ said one of the coaches in discussing the poor condition of the Jayhawkers generally. After the practices, it is common to see several of the squad enter a restaurant, sit down to a meal of rolls, fried potatoes and greasy meats, and then fill up on pie. They have ravenous appetites after an afternoon of hard drilling down on McCook field, and lack sufficient determination to deny themselves a ‘square meal.’ If they were under the care of a trainer, they would not be allowed to indulge in pastries, but would be given eggs and milk and such foods easily digested and assimilated…. Shelby Stafford, a brick mason of Topeka, robbed Nekifer Fhouchuk, a cook at Haskell Institute, of $18 when the pair were coming down by train from Kansas City last night. The Indian was occupying the same seat with Stafford who was badly intoxicated. Dropping asleep, the Indian awakened near Lawrence to find his companion gone and his pocket book missing. He began a search of the train, and when he found Stafford in another car pounced upon him with a demand for the return of his money. The bills were later found secreted in Stafford’s sock. He was taken to the county jail and will be arraigned in a day or two. Stafford appears to be in the last stages of delirium tremens and had to be dosed with Jamaica ginger before he could be quieted.”