Kansas Protests Ross
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Kansas Protests Ross
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1913
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Daily Nebraskan article by H.V. Harlan
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Kansas Protests Ross
Manager Hamilton Officially Notifies Guy Reed That Jayhawkers Object
Coach Says Ross Will Play
Southerners Become Personal in Accusing Stiehm of Fear to Meet Kansas - Past Scores Tell the Tale.
The efforts of the Kansas athletic board to have its protest against the playing of Clinton Ross, the burly Cornhusker guard, sustained became officially evident yesterday. Guy Reed, the Nebraska manager, received a letter from Manager Hamilton of the Jayhawks stating his grievances and asking for immediate consideration. He stated that there was a "gentleman's agreement" that negroes would not be played in the conference games, despite any claim to the contrary. Enclosed in this letter were copies of letters fro the faculty representatives of the universities in the conference, purporting to prove that such an unwritten agreement actually was arrived at.
This is the culmination of a newspaper war of words which the Kansas manager has been waging against Nebraska for several weeks. The Kansans claim that owing to the so-called "agreement" Nebraska is showing a lack of professional honor in presenting Ross in the lineup. The question was first raised before the Washburn game, but the Kansas authorities quickly hushed the rumor that such a protest had come from their headquarters. It was thot that after a satisfactory explanation was made to Washburn, the matter was dropped. But recently the southerners have come out openly in demanding that Ross be retired.
At the last meeting of the Missouri Valley Conference Missouri and Washington universities were strenuously active in bringing up the question of the color line in athletics. Dr. Clapp, the Nebraska representative, objected and no official action was taken. The Kansans claim, however, that an agreement was arrived at, and that Nebraska is now evading the spirit of the agreement.
"The whole matter is an underhanded attempt on the part of the Kansas management to humiliate Nebraska to such an extent that she will withdraw Ross," said Manager Reed yesterday. "There was absolutely no agreement, and Ross will be played against Kansas on the 15th. Coach Stiehm has been publicly humiliated in a statement authorized by the Kansas athletic board, when Hamilton stated that "Stiehm is getting a little bit afraid to risk his reputation in meeting Kansas and is looking for some loophole to avoid the calamity which is sure to follow."
Coach Stiehm smiled grimly when asked for a statement and gave the following message to the Nebraskan: "Nebraska will play Kansas any time and asks no quarter, but does not propose to allow herself to be tactics of the Kansans."
Said Dr. Clapp, who was present at the conference: "The matter of, the color line was discussed, and several of the representatives were in favor of it, but no agreement of any kind was arrived at."
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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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