Is Kansas Sincere In Protesting Clint Ross?
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Is Kansas Sincere In Protesting Clint Ross?
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1913
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Daily Nebraskan article by H.V. Harlan
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Is Kansas Sincere In Protesting Clint Ross?
How Can Kansas Justify Her Contentions?
1. Was there a gentlemen's agreement among conference representatives? The evidence does not prove it.
2. Was there any official action? Each representative says there was not.
3. If there had been such an agreement, has the Missouri Valley Conference ever made a rule retroactive? Never.
4. Is Coach Stiehm afraid to play Kansas? Let the past and the following statement from the coach tell the story:
"Nebraska will play Kansas any time and asks no quarter, but she does not propose to allow herself to be crippled thru the petty and mean tactics of the Kansans."
The latest mine in the internal warfare of the Missouri Valley Conference has been exploded by the Kansas management. From somewhere out of the dust and confusion of the representatives of the conference the Kansas athletic board has collected a jumble of words and ideas on the color question and woven together a wonderfully vague statement of a "gentlemen's agreement." This flimsy affair is claimed to set forth a united stand by the conference to the effect that a color line will be unofficially maintained in all conference teams. As a matter of fact, the very sources from which these ideas were culled do not seem to be able to recollect a "gentlemen's" agreement. And on this very unstable platform the Jayhawker athletic board authorizes its manager to make the statement that Nebraska is afraid to play Kansas - that Stiehm is afraid to risk his reputation in the game of the 15th. And all because Nebraska refuses to recognize a color line in her athletics, believing that "a man's a man, for a' that."
The following statement from Chancellor Avery expresses the way the university would view the question:
Chancellor Avery has received a communication from Kansas University in regard to our playing Clinton Ross on the football team. He announces that after having gone over the matter very carefully and not having expressed any opinions as to whether or not there was evidence of a gentlemen's agreement, commencing at the conference at Columbia, Missouri, that negroes should not play in Conference games, he will request the Board of Regents at their next meeting to pass a rule that the right of students of the University of Nebraska to participate in any athletic contest, intercollegiate or otherwise, shall not be abridged on account of race or color. And, furthermore, that Nebraska will not remain in any athletic association or conference where such right is abridged.
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Author: H. V. Harlan
Title: "Kansas Protests Ross"
Periodical: The Daily Nebraskan
pages: Front Page and page 4
October 31, 1913
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