100 years ago: KU-Nebraska game to be relayed to Lawrence, played out in front of J-W office

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 12, 1914:

“What will happen to Nebraska day after tomorrow? Nebraska has beaten K. U. 12 times and Kansas has beaten her 8 times. For the last four years the long end of the score has gone to the Cornhuskers. Will it go this time? Not if Coach Wheaton’s day and night practice counts for anything. If ever a team was primed in strategy for a hard game against a heavy eleven, the 1914 Kansas team will be. Every night the men are going through light scrimmage against Nebraska formations from 4 o’clock until dark. Then they come back on the hill and work out two hours more in the gym on signal practice…. Four hundred tickets for the Nebraska game came to Manager Hamilton yesterday and will be on sale until the day of the game. Two hundred of them are in front of the 50-yard line and the remainder on the 20-yard line. The round trip fare is $7.50 and the train will leave late Friday night and return Sunday noon…. More will stay in Lawrence probably than will go to Nebraska, but they, too, can see the game if they wish, without paying a cent. The Journal-World will reproduce the game in miniature in front of the office at 722 Massachusetts street Saturday afternoon. A special reporter on the field will send in each play as it occurs on the Nebraska field and the ball will move back and forth across the gridiron in front of the Journal-World office just as it does at Nebraska.”

“The farmers of Kansas are asked to contribute one-half of one per cent of their wheat and corn crops for this year for the relief of Belgium, in a proclamation issued yesterday by Gov. George H. Hodges. Contributions are to be handled by the county clerks, who in turn, will notify J. R. Mulvane, treasurer of the Red Cross society of Kansas, of all contributions.”

“In an effort to check the rapid spread of tuberculosis in Lawrence, Mrs. J. A. Hamlin has been appointed a tuberculosis nurse by the Social Service League. An experienced nurse will be brought down from Topeka to direct her in the work for a week or two.”

“Mr. Brock, of Linwood, Kansas, was in the city yesterday to see his daughter, who was operated upon last Thursday for appendicitis. He found his daughter sitting up, which was a great surprise to him, as it had been less than a week since the operation was performed.”

“The small son of W. B. Griffith living at 736 Maine was run over by a Ford car late last evening while he was playing in the street. The car did not stop and those who witnessed the accident were unable to read the number of the car. One of the wheels passed over the boy’s leg, but outside of painful bruises no serious injury was sustained.”

“In former years it seems to have been the custom for some of the cab drivers, restaurants, shining parlors and other small business places to double their rates on the day of the Missouri-Kansas football game. This practices does not meet with the approval of the people for they say that it makes the town look cheap to take advantage of the people who come here and have to use the service at their disposal. The general plea is to give every one a square deal and it will not be necessary to raise the rates on the big days. Several complaints have been made concerning raising the rates by people who want to give the visitors the right impression of Lawrence when they are here.”