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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL
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WILDCATS COMPLETE THIRD WEEK OF DRILL
PROSPECTS
Team in Years; Face Tough Schedule GOOD HEAVY
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YEARLINGS WILL
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Jack Phipps, Ashland; Woody

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Ralph
Manual;
Louisville
man,
"Babe" Wright, Sturgis, one of the
biggest men ever seen on Stoll field;
Leslie McGaugh, Henryetta, Okla.;
Robert K. Kipling, Carrollton; Kenneth Kistner, Evansville, Ind.; George
Yates, Elizabethtown; E. II. Evans,
Louisville Male; Tom Feber, Nichol-asvillcentral Kentucky's only contribution; Eugene Tate,, Greenville;
Jnlin S. Kellev. Snrincfieltl: "Pat"
Kirwan, Louisville Male, brother of
the famous "Ab"nuff said; "Bo"
Meyers, Louisville Manual; Ross Morhigh luminary;
gan, Hopkinsville
"Ole" Abbey, Leverette Thompson,
Watertown, S. D.; Cecil Urbanick,
Don West. Deck Hawkins, all of Fair- mount, W. Va.; and Oscar Edwards,
"Ock," of Louisa.
Tlii Ik tho line.un from which Prib
blc and his assistants have their
clfoice.
It is little wonder they are
smiling. This is one of the best fresh
man aggregations ever to be ussem
bled on Stoll Field.
Thr. fnur.crame schedule follows:
Oct. 12 Georgetown at Lexington.
Nov. 10 Vanderbilt at Nasnvwe.
Nov. 17 Centre at Danville.
Nov. 24 Tennessee at Lexington.

VARSITY
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

WINS 12 GAMES

1928

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University Summer School Diamond Ball Artists Display
Classy Brand of Playing to
Defeat All Opponents.

GAMES
Hayes Owens)
There nre smiles on the face of the
University's old war horse, Birkett
Lee Pribblc, fresliman coach; and,
there's a reason, In fact there are
many reasons from Kentucky, West
Virginia, South Dakota, Oklahoma
and a number or other states.
Then Coach- Pribble and his assistants, Frank Phipps and James Pence,
former Wildcat stars, sounded the
first call Monday they were greeted
by some of the best freshman material ever to sat foot on Stoll Field, and
that is saying a whole lot.
The men who will cavort with tho
yearlings this year did not come to
by nccideat. They
the University
were told of this school, its many
good points, its athletic teams and
they were invited to cast their lot
at the Univerwith the eds and co-esity of Kentucky. The nice thing
about it all is that so many of the
invitations were accepted.
Confronted with a four game schedule this year, all of which promises
many hard contests, much is to be
.done before the yearlings take the
field for the first time. One big advantage lies in the fact that the first
game is not scheduled until October
12 giving the men ample time to get
ready for the contest.
Will Play Georgetown
The first battle, by the way, happens to be with Georgetown, always a
Jonah for the University of Kentucky
Kittens. It is a surprising fact that
Georgetown always gets the best; of
the Kentuekv first year men when the
.varsity teams of the rival schools are
never considered by sports writers as
being in the same class with the Wildcats. This year, however, Kitten supporters and the freshmen who will endeavor to get a berth on the team are
.and reverse the order of
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things.
Vanderbilt always has a strong
freshman eleven and the Kittens will
oppose the Tennessee lads in the second game of the season, November 10.
Centre will be met November 17 and,
if the Danville frosh think of last
year, it will probably give them an
inferiority complex which will be a
big factor in helping the University
eleven. Tennessee at Lexington, November 24, will conclude the program,
according to the present schedule.
It is, of course, too early to make
any predictions as to the outcome of
the four contests, but to say the Kittens will win at least 50 per cent of
their games should be no exaggeration.
Plenty Material
As for the men who will compose
this squad, the amount of space limits
to any great extent a survey of their
work but this is not necessary. Most
of the following named persons are
mighty well known. A number of
dark horses are still in the background and may step into the lime-lifebefore the season is over. The
best bet', however, is to pick the frosh
eleven from the following named

MEN'S

PETE

DRURY

tackle from
Senior Hi, is one of the largest men
on the team and is almost a cinch for
one of the tackle positions. Having
played regular last season he is experienced in all of the' line tactics and
should be one of the best linemen,
His
both on defense and offense.
size makes him a terror to the opposing backs and it does not take them
long to find out that his position is
not one of the weak ones. Pete was
also employed by the Consolidated
Coach Corporation this summer where
he worked along side of Len Miller.
He is as hard as nails and uses his
size and strength to a good advantage.

Pete Drury,

STUDENTS FILL
MANY QUEER JOBS
University of Wisconsin Em
ployment Bureau Says No Job
Is Too Difficult for Students
to Try.
Maybelle was a student in high
school, and her assignment1 in geometry was spoiling her evening. In fact,
it was spoiling the evening, nerves,
and patience of the whole family.
Her dad wrestled with triangles and
striving to get them
parallels,
straightened out through the appli
cation of rather hazy axioms and
theorems; but perplexity and teams
were the net products.
The telephone in the office of Miss
Alice King, superintendent of the student employment bureau of the UniMiss
versity of Wisconsin, rang.
King answered.
you've got a student who knows
"If
anything about geometry, send him to
us," a disgusUd and tired masculine
voice said. "I want him to help my
daughter get her geometry assignment."
Although unusual, the job was fill
ed by a university student earning
part of his way. Miss King is becoming accustomed to being asked fw
aid of odd and peculiar kinds.
"One afternoon," she reluteu, "an
almost frantic mother called up, and
asked me to send to her home immediately a young man who could
repair her child's wagon. The little
one was crying lustily and would not
be quieted until its vehicle was 'fixed.'
I sent her a student who restored
peace, order, and the- wagon to

status."

The Men's Dormitory diamond ball
team had the most successful season
in the history if its existence during
the past summer session when it won
twelve games nnd lost none.
During the summer the dormitory
team played twelve games with different city teams who were members of the Twilight League and won
all of the games, most of them by
large scores and over some of the
strongest teams in the league. Due
to the fact that the baseball season
began before the summer session
opened and closed several weeks after
school was out is was impossible for
the dormitory team to become a member of the league and to play on the
regular schedule. All of the contests
in which the dormitory aggregation
participated were in the nature of
practice sessions for league teams,
but the relative showings made by
these teams placed the dormitory machine in a class by itself.
The dormitory team was made up
of picked players from the men students who resided at the dormitory.
Some of them were players of considerable experince, others were high
school coaches during the regular
school year.
A brief summary of all games played and the results are as follows:
Dormitory 4; Experiment Station 1.
Dormitory 6; Experiment Station 2.
Dormitory 12; Experiment Station 3.
Dormitory 15; Experiment Station 6.
Dormitory 14; Crowley Specials 4.
Dormitory 14; City Y. M. C. A. 12'.
Dormitory 24; First Baptist 8.
Dormitory 13; First Baptist 11.
Dormitory 16; First Baptist-9- .
Dormitory 18; Southern R. R. 4.
Dormitory 6; Southern R. R. 3.
Dormitory 6: L. & N. 0.
Following are the names of the
pjayers on me aormuory Kim
their positions: Gilbert, right short;
Sturgill, left field; Pennel, left short;
Hilliard, right field; Loudenslager,
catcher; Hook, pitcher; Denny, second base; Prewitt, first base; Burk-holde- r,
center field, and Roberts, third
base. Substitutes, Cobb and Barkhau.
STUDENT
FROM ABROAD

FORMER STATE
RETURNS

Miss Helen Backer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George E. Backer, of west
Third street, recently returned home
from abroad, where she spent the
Italy,
traveling,
through
summer
France, Belgium, Germany, England
and Scotland, this being her second
summer abroad.
Miss Backer is a graduate of Ham
ilton Junior College and School of Ex
pression, and of the Univeni.'fy. She
is a member of Chi Omega und Chi
Delta Phi sororities.

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FACING

Lexington
October 13
Lexington
Washington ft Lec
October 20
Chicago
Northwestern
October 27
Lexington
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Centre
November 3
Nashville, Tenn.
Vanderbilt
November 10
Montgomery, Ala.
Alabama
November 17
.. Lexington
V. M. I.
November 29
Knoxvllle, Tenn.
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New Line Coitch
Is Secured From
'Big Ten9 School
The latest addition to the coaching
staff of the University is Don Graham, famed passer and punter of the
University of' Iowa, who was graduated from that institution in 1925.
Graham played three years of varsity football at Iowa, beginning his
career in 1923. While a member of
the Iowa team, he was proclaimed by
all the sport writers as the best punter in the Big Ten conference. It was
his excellent kicking that kept the
Iowa team among the leaders of the
conference during those three years.
Since coming to Kentucky Graham
has been associated with Head Coach
Harry Gamage and is doing excellent
work in bringing out the punting possibilities of three men. Each day he
spends an hour or more with Covington, Brown and McElroy, teaching
them the correct method of sending
long high spirals down the field. The
men are improving each day under his
tutoring and by the time of the opening game on October 6 they should
be able to get off a few kicks that
will be a credit totheJnstructor.
After 1925, Mr. Graham worked on
his law degree and he is now a lawyer
by profession. The past summer he
studied aviation for a pastime and in
another year will have become a proficient airman.
He is the youngest
coach on the staff being only 23.
Graham fell right in line to the
method and system in which Gamage
is instructing his men, namely the
This is a big help
Illinois system.
to the head coach as he does not need
to worry about efficient cooperation.
While at Iowa, Graham played under
Bert Ingwerson, who was formerly
freshman coach at Illinois and instructed that system at Iowa. Thus
when Graham came to Kentucky he
was familiar with the Illinois system and the one that Gamage is
teaching. Without any hesitation he
was able to assume his duties the
first day with the knowledge of what
he was supposed to do.

Gridiron Program This Fall Includes Five Conference Games
nnd Tilts With Northwestern
and Centre.
Witllf probably the hardest schedule
ever undertaken by a Wildcat team
facing them, 35 panting and sweating
footbnll men arc going through their
paces daily. Coach Gamage and the
athletic board have arranged such a
list of formidable foes that even the
most optimistic supporters are growing wary.
Although fewer games will be played this year than last, the schedule-i- s
more imposing than any of its predecessors. This is due not only to the
greatness of some of our opponents
but also to the fact that there is not
a single "set up" In the array. Several teams, including Florida, Kentucky Wesleyan and Maryville, have
been dropped, while others, such as
Carson-Newma- n
have been substituted.
W. and L. Powerful
The Southern Conference looms up
large in the eyes of Kentucky supporters because the Wildcats will engage five "S. C." teams this fall. The
first of these will be at home against
Washington and Lee, and the "Fighting Generals" are sending out a
Beginning with
strong aggregation.
Vanderbilt on November 4, the 'Cats
will play four conference gamed in
respectively,
including
succession,
Vanderbilt, Alabama, V. M. I. and
Tennessee. Of the four teams three
at least are favored to finish near the
top of the conference heap. Vandy,
who has been' showing a lot of early
season form; Alabama looked on as
one of the South's best bets, and Tennessee, who should have one of the
greatest teams in the country if their
freshman victories of the last year
mean anything, .'are .those three teams.
The games that will be looked forward to most of all however, are the
and Centre battles.
Northwestern
Chicago will be hosts to the 'Cats on
October 20, and many are planning to
visit the "Windy City" on this occasion. A victory over Northwestern will mean much to Kentucky and
the boys have their hearts set on
this northern Invasion. Of course the
Centre game will draw quite a few
football enthusiasts because of Homecoming Day which falls on this date.
The traditional game ended disasColonels
trously for the golden-cla- d
last year, and they are headed for
Lexington seeking a mighty vengence.
The squad knows full well that
"many will be called but few will be
chosen." There are 25 men fighting
for eleven places, and you can imagine that competition runs high on
Stoll field these sweltering days.

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Picking and digging of dandelions
is an occupation which helps send
some men through the university.
Home owners want students to clear
their lawns of the flowering weed.
One student was hired by u sick
man to read some detective stories to
him. A girl student who knew somo
thing about manipulating a sewing
machine helped a mother make a
Dutch costume for her little daughter
who was to appear in a school play.
telephone call reA mysterious
quested that a student be sent to a
certain address to act as a detective.
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Miss King filled the request with u
K.
worked as a detecstudent who had
tive for tho police department in
Cleveland, Ohio.
"We often have demands for enterRobert Rhoads, 21 years old, University athlete and son of Prof. Mc- - tainers to take part in programs at
Henry Rhoads, former state superln country schools," said Miss King.
tendent of public instruction, died in "Recently, we suplied a dramatic
July in u hospital at Clinton, Ind., reader and a clogdancer for such an
us a result of injuries sustained while entertainment."
swimming near Paris, 111., where he
One of the strangest "freak" jobs
lie wanthad been playing with a baseball team came from an undertaker.
this summer. He dove into a pool of ed u student to sleep in the undershallow water, striking his head on a taking parlor, to act as a watchman
rock and fracturing two vertebra In over tho corpses. The student was
his neck. He was paralyzed from the to receive his room and bed free. Sevneck down. His neck was placed in eral candidates reported for the job.
a cast, but he died a few days later.
Tho farm cottage of Robert Burns
His father, his twin brother, Ray-monwhom Gaataue way depend on (o carry the Blue and White team
and an elder brother, Crawford, has been presented to tho British na- Above are ulctured some of the Wildcats
They are: Ford, upper left; Salcer, upper center; McElroy, upper right; and
to victory this sesaon.
the latter of Louisville, were at his tion, as a memorial to the Scotch
T1m gMtlMUR fetow McElroy U Coach Harry (jamage.
Triebcr and Ds, Mt to right, Mow.
poet.
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Unlucky Lendy

(By Way man Thomasson)
What will our football team do
this year 7
How many games will
we win?
Going to the races, questions about
winners are easy. You have but to
spend a dollar and buy a "sure thing"
scaled up in an envelope and labelled
"Old Spec" or something else equally
as, absurd. But deciding the success
of a football team two weeks before
the opening game that is a "horsefly
from another stable."
Gamage Has Poor Material
Take a squint at this and then re-tito your corners for the count to
bogin. Coach Harry Gamage has 36
Wildcats out to make his football
team and some of them are more or
less scratched up. But, worse still,
about 27 of them are inexperienced
sophomores who really are not 'Cats
at all but just overgrown Kittens.
They practiced twice a day for two
weeks before school began and they
have been working out every day this
LEN MILLER
week. They are in good condition
Len Miller, 1G8 pounds, a Lexington and they are receiving as good coachman and one who "lady luck" has ing as they could get anywhere, but
failed to help, is handicapped with a there is a scarcity of good football
bad knee. Len is the most versatile material. The heaviest men out for
man on the squad, being able to play backfield positions are Brady Knight
any position on the team like a veter- and "Dutch" Treiber.
They weigh
an. He is now being groomed for the 175 pounds each in their undershirts,
center position and as usual is show- and the other backfield candidates:
ing remarkable ability in getting the Covington, Portwood, Gilb, Johnson,
ball back to the backfield men. He is Spicer, Ford and Owens are midgets,
one of the hardest workers of the out- more or less. None can run 100
fit and never tires of doing more than yards in less than 11 seconds, and nohis share of the work. When it comes body on the squad can punt a ball
to "putting out," Len is always in farther than you can throw a Ford
the thick of the fight in spite of his by the crank.
injured knee and he takes the knocks
Good Line Forthcoming
like a man. During the summer he
Well, dry your tears and tune in on
worked for the Consolidated Coach this GOOD news. The line will averCorporation where he doctored and age over 190 pounds and 13 big linenursed the large busses used by the men, Dees, Drury, Thompson, Gentile,
company. When he went after one Forquer, Allen, Rose, Squires, Brown,
of the large busses it really came Baughman,
and
Nawack
Colker,
apart, and once assembled it was Williams
are showing improve"raring to go."
ments every day.
Walters' name
should have been added to the
read "13,"
list so it wouldn't
but he doesn't weigh enough to
He makes up for
make it fourteen.
his weight by fighting hard.
What about the prospects? l
Wildcats beat V. M. I.
first place-th- e
Baldwin M. Woods, of Uni- 25 to 0, Centre 53 to 0, and they
Dean
versity of California, Places played a good game against TennesHappy Interpretation on Pos- see on Thanksgiving last year. So,
their season was a success, partly.
sibilities of Scientific Age.
It should be a success this year.
San Francisco. A world of Robots, Washington and Lee has a weaker
team V. M. I. is no better, Carson- ministered to by the super-efficieproduct's of science is one phase of a Newman is weaker than Kentucky
forecast by Dean Baldwin M. Woods, Wesleyan, a team we beat last year,
and Centre is greatly improved but
of the University of California.
For science, that tracks the sly still not good'enough to overcome the
molecule to its lair and makes elec fighting spirit Coach Carnage instills
tricity cut strangely domesticated di- in his men. So. put those teams on
does is changing the art of living, your win column and it will read about
Dean Wood says.
Whether that 500 per cent. There are only eigne
change proves damaging or not de- games so shake these other four
pends, on the individual, in his opin- names up in a hat and draw one out.
You may be right if you are not presion.
If scientific discoveries are well ident. But, don't lay your false teeth
used the world will benefit, he says; on any part of it.
Four Hard Games Scheduled
but if they are not he sketches a pic
The other four are Northwestern,
ture of helplessly bewildered humans
Vandy, Alabama and Tennessee. Dis
in the grip of mechanical routine.
Science has brought us three great cussing them in the order they are
things in the last century," Dean named and played, Northwestern, acWoods points out. "These are trans cording to Walter Eckersall, ought to
portation, communication, and organ be a dark horse in the race for West
ization.
ern Conference honors. So, Coach
"In the last organization lies the Dick Hanley will call Kentucky's a
ordanger for we are close to being
practice game and forget about it
ganized beyond our ability to man- while he prepares to play Illinois on
Maybe that will
age.
the next Saturday.
Conquering Disease
be the place where he made a big
"Science has also aided in freeing mistake. He doesn't know these KenAnyus from disease, so that in the last tucky boys are thoroughbreds.
half century 15 years have been add- how the Wildcats go down to Nash
ed to the span of human life.
ville November 3 to play a team they
"Every person is affected somehow have never whipped. Coach Dan
by science.
hung out his hoodoo sign about
Possibly we are faced
with domination of Things
until 15 years ago and all the Wildcats
been able to do since is to mako
becomes a mere Robot.
man
have
"Even now, perhaps, we are be faces at him.
Alabama Carrying It Too Far
wildered by the complexity of Things,
Another racket that is going to be
until we do not know what we want
to do whether to listen to the radio too much of a good thing is this one
or read; see a picture show or a play; that the 'Cats listen to down at Alaride in an automobile or an airplane; bama every year. It seems that Ala
go to a concert or to church; dine or bama invites us down there every
go to a dance.
year just to see us suffer. It's Bir"However, man can be more effi mingham one year, Montgomery the
cient through the uso of machinery if next, and then Tuscaloosa comes In
ho so desires.
What he accomplishes for her turn. They want all the peo
with a spado in 500 years, or with a ple to enjoy it. That's southern hosBut, the 'Cats might slip
team in four years, he can now do In pitality.
up on them this year like they did
30 hours through science."
Dean Woods also placed a happier in 1922 when Kentucky won 0 to 0.
interpretation on the possibilities of In 1927 Wallace Wade, the Alabama
the scientific age. He points out tho coach, made another southern invas
opportunities offered as the salvation ion and he was worse than bherman
of humanity from the threat ot me about taking things. He took all the
big freshmen he could find and now
chanical domination.
Growth of Science
that championship freshman team ot
"Possibly, and better still, man his is ready for the varsity. Alabama
may be inspired to put art into liv
'the bigger and better beef trust,
may become a thus spake Zarathustra.
ing. Tho
Gone Home With Drumstick
mason, and then an architect; the la
But, what about this Turkey Day
borer an artisan and then an artist.
"Or perhaps, finally, science may rival? Tennessee has sent us home
stir us to grow throughout our lives, with a drum stick for two years now
so that we may continue to develop. and we haven't got to smell that traTho greatest vocation is that in which ditional "beer keg" for bo long we are
beginning to believe in prohibition.
we reach the top latest in life.
Averaging the scale of human en Major Neyland, the coach and a West
deavor Dean Woods points out that Pointer, is putting some of those U.
while a prize fighter reaches his zen- S. army ideas in their heads. The
ith at about the age of 30, the bank- army has never lost a war and the
er reaches his at GO, tho statesman Volunteers didn't lose any football
at 70 and such men as Henri Faber, games in 1927. Barnhill, Butcher,
the great naturalist, develop until Elmore, and Dodson did a "last stand"
they are 90 years old.
last season, but there are plenty of
The art of living has not gained in good football players left down thre
proportion to the development of sci on the hill to blast a lot of championence, concludes Dean Woods. But he ship hopes out of Alabama.
Which team did you draw out of
feels that the human reactions nor
nially are good.
ftefcat? Well, forget it.

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