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Pasre Ten THE TAR HEEL Thursday, November 24, 1927 GRID GAME OF PECULIAR TYPE HELD HERE IN 75 Judge Winston Recalls Contest of Half Century Ago Tells of Thanksgiving. Judge Robert' W. Winston of the class of 1879, who reentered college in 1922 and '23, was asked for infor mation yesterday about the Thanks giving sports in 1875, the reopening year of the University after the Civil War. Judge Winston was very much amused. He recalled instantly that the foundation for football was laid in this year. The students had imported a- foot ball from a northern University and there developed" a game called "shandy" or "bandy." The game was . played on a larger field than present day football. Twelve or fifteen men lined up on each side and with instru ments resembling hockey or polo sticks, endeavored to keep the. ball inside goal lines. The library, Smith, the Infirmary and' fraternity houses now stand on the field where this game was first played. The sticks which the players used were some times made to serve as weapons, and soon kicking the ball became the ac cepted method, and rules were gradu ally made. The game was worked out up north, but colleges all over the United States had played games re sembling this before any rules and principles were accepted, universally. Thanksgiving Day in 1875 was an extraordinary event. Just after the Civil War Thanksgiving day and the fourth, of July were holidays frowned upon by all good Southerners. They originated in the north, and were con sidered "Yankee holidays." Christ mas was the only holiday southerners considered it good form to celebrate. But there happened to be a few northerners in Chapel Hill at that time, and a good many Republicans. So a band was brought from Raleigh and ceremonies were to be held in Gerrard Hall, but the affair fell al most flat. The whole thing was looked upon with disfavor, almost hostility, by most of the people, and Judge Winston doubted if more than five turkeys were cooked in the whole village. . But this, one must remember, was during the start of the reconstruction period. Judge Winston told of rab bits under .the university buildings and squirrels in the attics. Every thing was in disrepair and disorder; weeds had overgrown the campus, and none of the buildings were sufficiently equipped with window lights. At that time there were only seventy stu dents and six faculty members. What is now New East and New West, South building and Gerrard Hall were the only buildings. - So in 1875 football had its begin ning at this University. Now it has grown till it is the major university soort. and a $300,000 stadium is needed. When the crowds gather and the band starts playing at the Thanksgiving game, only a few alumni are living to recall the primi tive sport played on a field where imposing buildings now stand, but those who do will "mention it as some thing significant, something stirring and historic. . EMINENT SERVICE MARKS RECORD OF KENAN FAMILY Continued from page one) Kanan, is the donor "of the Graham Kenan Fellowship in Philosophy; an other, Mrs. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham, gave the Kenan Endowment Fund of a million and a half dollars an award for the excellence of the teaching faculty and the largest fac tor in holding together the abler fac ulty members during the recent years of readjustments; and now, his great-great-grandson, William Rand Kenan, Jr., is the donor of Kenan Memorial Stadium. His mother was a native of Chapel Hill. 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During his university days he was prominent in . campus activ ities,; and an" outstanding athlete. He played varsity baseball four years and varsity football two years. While a student here he spent his summers in hemical research work, being engaged with' Dr. F. P. Venable, then profes sor of industrial chemistry, in impor tant investigations that led 'to the de termination of & formula for carbide, and the discovery that acetyline gas could be evolved from it. - - - - . Following graduation he taught a year in St. Albans school, Radford, Va., and then returned to Chapel Hill to become a member of the Univer sity faculty", with the rank of instruc tor in chemistry. He assisted in the installation and operation of the first electric power plant at the Univer sity and upon its completion, was made superintendent. Meanwhile he was taking post-graduate courses; ; He resigned from the University faculty in 1896 ,to enter the active practice of his profession and since that time he has been the directing genius of a large number of impor tant chemical and engineering con struction projects for public and pri vate enterprises in this country and abroad. Commercial Leader His present executive positions in clude the presidency of the Florida Bast Coast Railroad company, the West Palm Beach Water company, the Florida" East Coast Hotel com party the Florida East Coast Car Fer ry company, the Model Land. Com pany of Florida, and the ' Carolina Apartment company of Wilmington. He is director of the Niagara County National bank of, Lockport, N Y., his country residence, and vice-pres ident of the Western Block company of that city. His scientific affiliations include membership in the American Electric : Chemical , society and the American Institute of Electrical En gineering. He is a member of the University Club and the Banker's Club of New York city, the Tusca rora Club and the town and Country Club of Lockport, N. Y., the Niagara Falls Country club and' the Sigma Alpha .Epsilon fraternity. He was married -to Miss Alice Pomroy of Lockport, N. Y., in April, 1904. it: s . 8 Congratulations, Carolina . , On the completion of the new Kenan Memorial Stadium Dime Fire Insurance Company 8 :: 8 8 u Capital Stock $500,000.00 Harry R. Bush, President Organized 1906 Clyde A. Holt, Secretary 8 8 Look at the REGAL REPRODUCTIONS of Exclusive English and American Custom Bootmakers1 Models . All Styles All Leathers All One Price SHOES OnDisplay at " .Carolina Dry Cleaners Rep. B. F. Tench Fri. and Sat. Dec. 9, 10 J XJy A LA Capffivaffiim LfigM pera HaF9 writes o o . ....'-.'.r'lyJ'y.y m. :::::: :W:$::S :::-::::' It was a welcome discovery for me I had hoped to find a cigarette as delightful as Lucky Strike yet as utterly harmless to the throat. 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