100 years ago: KU selects new football coach

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 29, 1911:

  • “Ralph Sherwin, left tackle on the Dartmouth eleven for four years, was recommended to the regents by the Athletic Board this afternoon for the new K. U. coach. The regents will formally elect him this evening.”
  • “Apparently the feminine population of Lawrence is striving to deserve equal suffrage. In the scores of phone calls received at this office last night regarding hte result of the Morris-Schreck prize fight, there was a surprisingly large number of feminine voices.”
  • “A machine costing sixteen hundred dollars was received at the Fowler shops last week by Supt. Frank E. Ward. The machine is to be used for boring, drilling, and milling. It weights seventy-two hundred pounds. This is the first special addition to the Fowler shops in the last twenty-two years. In 1898, when the old shop burned, the state replaced the tools that were destroyed, but no new equipment has been added by any special funds.”