THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS I5
athlete State College ever had. In the local field day events the follow-
the spring he carried off the 100-ya1·d dash, made in 10% in his base
ball shoes and clothes. He also won the pole vault, the hammer throw
and the running broad jump. After leaving State College he pursued a
medical course at Columbia University, and became a member of her
crew-—a winning crew for the first time.
The first game of the season played with Kentucky University
was officially called a tie 0 to 0, but really resulted in a victory for
State College, 2 to 0. For Wallace of K. U. clearly made a safety and
it was only the ignorance of the official in regard to the rules of the
game that led him to call it a touch back and hence no score against the
side making it. In those days we had to rely for officials very largely
on persons who only knew the rules from having read them over in the
book, and hence decisions were apt to be pretty “raw."
The other games between State College and other Colleges that year
resulted as follows:
Nov. 6, at Richmond, Central University 8 , State College 6.
Nov. 12, State College 14 ; Louisville Athletic Club 10.
Nov. 26, at Lexington, Va., Va. Military Institute 34; S. C. 0.
Dec. 3, at Lexington, Central University 10 g State College 6.
The other games in the K. I. A. A. (for the Association was or-
ganized before the season was over) resulted as follows: .
Nov. 6, Central 12 ; University of Cincinnati 4.
Nov. 12, C. U. 8, K. U. 4.
Nov. 19, K. U. 6; Central University 4.
It was this latter game that K. U’s. cheer Hoo—Gah—Ha! Hoo—Gah
Ha! seems to have first been tried out. At least it was the first time
· the streets of Lexington had resounded with it. ¤
Before the season had advanced very far, it was evident State ·
College needed a sure enough coach and one "Jackie" Thompson of
Purdue was secured for that purpose, and I devoted myself to endeavor-
ing to provide the "sinews of war" in the management of the iinances. I
It was the duty of the manager in those days to dig up the money in '
some way for suits, and for other expenses, except shoes which the mem- I
bers of the teams supplied individually. If he couldn’t make it out p
of the gate receipts, it was one of the privileges of being manager to foot l ~
the deficit. T
Professor J. W. Newman, now Commissioner of Agriculture, was I 
. the representative of the College in the K. I. A. A. and looked after ‘
matters of eligibility that year. Already charges of "ringe1·s" were  
being made and it must be confessed that State College’s skirts were not `
entirely clear, for in the second C. U. game played in Lexington Thomp- V
son was run in on them over protest. There does not seem to have been
developed in that day the clearly established principle that a coach
should not play with his team. Indeed for a number of years Centre