From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 16, 1910:

“How many football enthusiasts realize that out of fourteen ‘K’ men last year only four have returned? That out of fourteen of the most promising candidates for last year’s freshman squad, only six are back, and these the lightest of the lot? That the Jayhawker squad faces the season with an aggregate of only five years football experience? The callow freshman when he invades Lawrence with his baggy trousers, high school pennant, and exuberant enthusiasm expects to find a victorious squad of gridiron warriors ready made for him to cheer. It has been part of his early teaching concerning K.U. Kennedy always has, and they have come to believe, he always will, develop a victorious team. This spirit has been one of the strongest assets of K.U. It were the veriest treason to consider the possibility of Kansas losing. This year however, it is different. There is a pathetic dearth of material. No coach can mould an invincible machine without suitable players, and of suitable players there is a lamentable deficiency.”