From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 26, 1915:

• “To Miles W. Vaughn, the University student who represented the Journal-World at the football game at Columbia yesterday, belongs the credit for keeping the outside world supplied with news of the game after all the wires leading from Rollins field to the Western Union office at Columbia had been disabled. The Journal-World had a wire from the field for its exclusive service yesterday, and it was the last wire to ‘go out’ in the storm. Finally it, too, failed and then Vaughn splashed his way from the field to a house telephone at some distance at frequent intervals to send his bulletins to the Western Union office down town. In Lawrence there was no realization of the difficulties he was having, as the bulletins kept coming right along except for a short wait when the telegraph first failed, and all the main points of the game were covered. For some time after the other wires had failed all the newspapers receiving reports yesterday were taking the report sent by Vaughn to the Journal-World…. The report was one of the best ever received in town and it was made possible by Mr. Vaughn’s refusal to quit under discouraging conditions.”
• “‘Yes, we won, all right, but gee how it rained.’ The above theme, with variations, was the first message brought back from Columbia today by the Lawrence rooters who saw the game there yesterday. Many described the rain as the hardest they had ever seen, certainly the loudest they had ever sat and taken in the name of sport. The rain began just before the game did, and it was still going in full swing after the beautiful new true-love knot had been tied in the Tiger’s tail. Of course everybody was watersoaked, so much so that it was impossible to get any wetter, and that may have been why the Kansas crowd swarmed down after the game to the lake, where once had been a gridiron, and splashed water all over one another while doing the snake-dance.”
• “There was an atmosphere of gloom in Columbia last night, the Kansas rooters said, that was so great that a Kansan could hardly get a pleasant word…. Apparently there was entire confidence that Missouri couldn’t loose and when the Kansans won every Missourian took it as a personal bereavement and refused to be comforted.”
• “Are you going to stay away? The churches of Lawrence invite you to worship on Sunday. You will find a great many of your friends there — good friends, too. Why not go with them? They tell you that it is a duty and a privilege, and they really mean it…. Already the ‘Institutional Church’ is passing into the ‘Socialized Church,’ and the church is doing the finest work that can be done for humanity — doing it better because of faith…. Maybe you used to have the good habit. You don’t like the preacher, or the choir, or something else. But the modern church doesn’t worship either choir or preacher. It meets to worship God, the duty resting on all Christian men and women. The churches are not doing all they should — there is yet lots of room for improvement. That is because you are not doing your share.”