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Kansas And Aggies Draw Color Line

Clinton Ross is Protested by Two Schools on Schedule

Athletic Board Will Take Action Thursday Morning in Matter

The athletic authorities of both the University of Kansas and the Kansas Agricultural school at Manhattan, have lodged protests with the Nebraska Athletic board asking that Clinton Ross the gigantic colored guard be barred from the games between Nebraska and there institutions. Thursday morning the Nebraska board will meet and decide whether or not these protests will be honored.

Coach Stiehm of the Cornhusker school is very much surprised by the action of the Aggies, who have only lately been admitted to the Missouri Valley conference and who have played two years against Nebraska while Ross was in the line up. It appears rather in consistent upon the part of Coach Guy S. Lowman, the Manhattan coach to draw the color line during the third year.

Kansas Up To Old Tricks.

In regard to request from Lawrence that Ross be barred from the game at Lawrence, Stiehm says that he is not at all astonished. Since the long mentor has been connected with the Nebraska athletics, he says that the Jayhawkers have always had something to kick about, both before and after every contest. "Why should they all of the time be complaining of out athletes," remarked Stiehm hotly, Wednesday morning, "I don't care who they play down there. Moss can enlist the services of eleven professional ball players for all of me and we will play them." After a moment though the Cornhusker coach added "And we will beat them, too."

Stiehm will go to the athletic board meeting, Thursday morning, with a set of resolutions asking the board to declare Ross eligible for every contest. If the Aggies push their claims much farther, Stiehm is very much in favor of cutting them off of Nebraska's schedule for all time and should Kansas try to make any more trouble for the Scarlet and Cream school the Nebraska authorities, who have become disgusted with the Jayhawker tactics, would not need a great deal of persuasion to sever relations with the Lawrence school.

Clapp Thinks Ross Should Play

In commenting upon the Ross situation Dr. Clapp, a prominent figure in university athletics, declared himself in favor of allowing Ross to compete. He thinks that as a general proposition, in harmony with the southern members of the conference that the color line might be drawn but where ea man has competed for two years without protest Dr. Clapp believes that it is an injustice to him and his school to ask him to keep out of games.

The Aggie protest has been filed officially with Coach Stiehm. The communication received Monday was from Coach Lowman who asks that the same courtesy be shown his team as was shown Missouri last year and will be shown Kansas this season. He insinuates that the friendly relations between the Agricultural school and Nebraska may be discontinued if his demands are not met.

In regard to the Missouri matter the Nebraska authorities feel that it is entirely foreign to the present affair. Missouri was taken on to Nebraska's schedule with the understanding that the color line should be drawn and the game was played under those conditions. The color line never has, and according to Stiehm, will never be drawn for either Kansas or the Aggies.

No Conference Rule.

The Missouri Valley conference has taken no action which would tend to draw the color line and there is not a word in the rule which renders a man ineligible to represent his school because of race distinction. The attitude of Missouri upon this matter was one of the principal reasons why the Tiger were dropped from the Nebraska schedule and now Stiehm and Reed feel that the Aggies, babies in the valley organization, are getting off with the wrong foot when they began to lodge protests against opposing players.

The Kansas protest has not yet been officially made, but Assistant Coach Bond of the Jayhawk School in a talk with Reed, asked the Nebraska board to consider the matter, as his school would certainly make the request for a color line. In the opinion of Reed, the Kansas school is becoming alarmed over the probable outcome of the game with the Cornhuskers and is taking this method to weaken the Stiehm Roller.

Ross a Great Player

Clinton Ross is undoubtedly the greatest football player since the days of Flippin the fullback. "Bill" Johnson was a flashy and fleet end, but he came at a time when the woods were filled with fast men, who could hold flank positions. Ross is playing on a team that is decidedly weak in bulk and his loss would weaken the eleven more than Johnson's would at the time "Bill" played.

The big guard is fast, for a man weighing close to 220 pounds, and is a terrific battler when in action. He is never hurt and was never known to take out time while playing football either upon the university or the local high school team. He has been shifted from guard to tackle during the past week and has been showing that he can carry the ball as well as open up gaps in the line while playing against the freshmen. He is probably one of Nebraska's strongest players and this rather than his color, is more than likely the real reason for the protests.