|
 This
Week In KU History
November 3, 1905: KU formally dedicates the
original Green Hall, home of the School of Law.
Read
the full story.
November 6, 1909: Quarterback Tommy Johnson
runs his way into Jayhawk immortality with a 70-yard
punt return for the only score in a KU gridiron victory
over Nebraska.
Read
the full story.
November 7, 1891: Death of the US Cavalry horse
Comanche, once considered the sole American survivor
of the Battle of Little Big Horn, whose preserved remains
are now on display at the KU Museum of Natural History
in Dyche Hall.
Read
the full story.
November 8, 1956: KU Chancellor Franklin Murphy,
a Republican Party activist, sends a peace feeler to
newly elected Kansas Governor George Docking, a Democrat,
but the attempt fails to achieve its intended effect
and the Chancellor and Governor begin a three-year feud
that culminates in Murphy's resignation.
November 11, 1922: The University celebrates
Armistice Day by formally dedicating Memorial Stadium,
built to honor the 130 KU students and alumni who gave
their lives in World War I.
Read
the full story.
 November
14, 1896: With less than a minute to go in a football
game at McCook Field between Nebraska's Doane College
and the University of Kansas, Bert Serf, a member of
the visiting team, suffers a fatal injury while making
a touchdown-saving tackle.
Read
the full story.
November 18, 1968: "Pepper" Rodgers,
KU's head football coach, announces via telephone to
a crowd of 1,000 students gathered in front of Strong
Hall that the Jayhawks are bound for their second Orange
Bowl appearance.
Read
the full story.
November 20, 1967: KU unveils preliminary architectural
plans for its new humanities building, later named Wescoe
Hall, a 25-story skyscraper that would have been the
tallest building in Kansas.
Read
the full story.
November 21, 1918: KU History Professor Frank
H. Hodder tells the University Women's Forum that former
US President Theodore Roosevelt is "a typical Prussian
and militarist in every sense of the word," prompting
the Lawrence post of the Grand Army of the Republic
to brand the historian "unfitted to teach the youth
of Kansas in our State University."
November 22, 1939: The University Daily Kansan
records the passing of Hobo Day, an often rowdy "annual
festival of rags" in which KU students dressed
in hobo costumes to show school spirit and cause "a
great deal of unnecessary trouble."
Read
the full story.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
Department of History
University of Kansas
This Week In KU History is a project of
the KU Memorial Unions.
Learn
more.
Copyright 2003
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation
|
