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About Kansas Jayhawks Football
Stadium Name: Memorial Stadium
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Key Rival: Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Colorado
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The University of Kansas colors, crimson and blue, used
since the early 1890s, are not the colors originally adopted by the university
Board of Regents in the 1860s. The regents had decided to adopt the Michigan
colors, maize and sky blue.
Maize and blue were used at early oratorical meets, and
they may have been used when Kansas competed in rowing in the middle 1880s.
However, when football came upon the scene in 1890, the student backers
wanted to use Harvard crimson as the athletic color in honor of Col. John
J. McCook, a Harvard man, who had given money for an athletic field at
KU. That field ran east and west in the proximity of where the north bowl
of Memorial Stadium stands on the Kansas campus today.
Until that time, Kansas football games were played at
Central Park on Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence. Some Yale men
were on the faculty, and they demanded that Yale blue be included. The
rooters rallied forth to follow crimson and blue on their team. No one
fought to retain the original colors, and the vivid deeper tone crimson
and blue became generally used. Finally, in May 1896, the KU Athletic
Board adopted crimson and blue as the official team colors for the university.
The History of the Jayhawk
Each spring, as the University of Kansas graduates a
new class of Jayhawks, the origin of its name comes into question. It's
known that the term, "Jayhawk", was used as early as 1849. In
that year, a party of pioneers crossing what is today Nebraska, called
themselves "The Jayhawkers of '49." They are believed to have
taken the name from a combination of two birds which are familiar in the
West -- the hawk and the blue jay. Whether these pioneers were the first
to call themselves Jayhawkers is not known. (later they did discover Death
Valley in California.)
One member of the party, John B. Colton, later remembered
first hearing the word in Platte River in 1849, long before the Kansas
Territory was established. Colton said when the Argonauts returned to
the East, the word continued to be used.
The word "Jayhawk" first was used in present
day Kansas about 1858. It was associated with robbing, looting and general
lawlessness. During the Civil War, however, it took a new meaning.
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