The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 202, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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ball is by no means academic. He
wants various school teams to play
good football—and for a reason. It
is his view that mediocre football
kills off the interest of would-be cus-
tomers. In other words, if John Q.
Phan pays 34-40 for a seat at a col-
lege game and then sees an inferior
brand of football, he loses interest in
the game, whether it be pro or si-
mon-pure.
Ulterior Motives?
| Marshall charges that a great
many college football rules wore
placed on the books for selfish res-
sons. Coaches who wanted to capi-
talize on their own strength or their
opponents* weaknesses inaugurated
a now rule. Ho charged specifically
i that goal posts wore moved back of
the goal post lines not to protect
the players but to handicap the foes
of rule committee coaehes whose
' squads were scheduled to meet clubs
with better kickers. He named, tee,
; the college ban against throwing a
ton. On March 2, 1853. .the Terri-
tory of Washington was organized,
including the present state and
that portion of Idaho and Mon-
tana lying north of parallel 48 and
west of the Rockies When the
present state of Oregon was es-
tablished with its present limits
4n 1850 the remainder of Oregon
ritory was added to Washing-
Territory.
flien Idaho Territory was or-
ganized in 1883 Washington Ter-
ritory was reduced to its present
limits. Agitation for statehood be-
gan in 1878. Bat it was not until
February 2, 1889, that the ena-
bling act was passed bycongress
and ou NovemI
Harrison signed
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"* 1 November, 1889, was an event-
, ful month for Uncle Sam. No-
vember 2 witnessed the birth of
his first "twins,” North and
South Dakota. Six days later he •
had another daughter, Montana,
and three days later still another
whom he namM for his first Pres- j
ident—Washington.
In many respects the history of ,
Montana resembles that of her
neighbors to the east—North and
South Dakota. Verendrye, the
Frenchman, was the first white
man to visit this "Land of the
Shining Mountains." That was
in 1742. In 1804 Lewis and Clark,
crossed Montana from the north-
east to the extreme southwest and
recrossed it again the next year.
In 1840 Father De Smet, the
buy furs. It is known more defi-
nitely that by 1700 his traders
were operating on the Big Sioux
river at Flandreau and Sioux Falls.
Thirty-eight years later the first
white men came to North Dakota
—a French fur-trading expedition
led by Pierre Verendrye, who
came down from Canada to the
present site of Minot and then
pushed on southward to the Mis-
souri river.
For the next 80 years the Da-
kota country was a part of the
French territory of Louisiana,
except for a brief interlude when
it belonged to Spain. Then in
1803 the lilies of France were
lowered when Thomas Jefferson
made his famous Louisiana Pur-
chase from Napoleon and from
that time on the Stars and Stripes
floated over its upland plains.
Dakota was a part of Louisiana
Territory, organized in 1804.
which was changed to Missouri
Territory in 1812. In 1849 that
portion of North Dakota east of
the Missouri river was made part
of Minnesota Territory and that ,
portion west of the "Big Muddy”
was part of Nebraska Territory.
South Dakota had an even more
varied career in this respect. The
part east of the Missouri was suc-
cessively included in Michigan
Territory tn 1834, Wisconsin Ter-
ritory in 1838, Iowa Territory in
1838 and Minnesota Territory in
1849. The part west of the Mis-
souri was made a part of Nebras-
ka Territory in 1884.
Dakota Territory Founded.
In 1881 Dakota Territory
emerged as an entity which in-
cluded the later "twin states”
and large parts of Montana and
Wyoming. However, in 1863,
when the territory of Idaho was
organized, the Dakotas were re-
duced to substantially their pres-
ent limits.
In 1862 the territorial capital
was located at Yankton but 20
years later it was removed to Bis-
marck. The next year, 1883, a
convention was held at Sioux—
Falls, a constitution was drawn
UP and a petition for statehood
was presented to congress. It
met with no success but the agi-
tation for statehood continued.
Finally in 1889 an enabling act
was passed, providing for the di-
vision of the territory "on the line
of the seventh standard parallel”
and on November 2 of that year
Uncle Sam presented his "twins'*
to the sisterhood of states.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Hatoaaad by Waiters Niwipapar Union J
y~^IFTY years ago (at 3:40 o’clock in the afternoon of
M November 2, 1889, to be exact) Uncle Sam became the
«*• father of a pair of twins. This was the first time such
an event had taken place in the career of that venerable
gentletnan, who was then one hundred years old, and you
may be sure that he was mighty proud.
The official “birth an- ♦
nouncement” was a tele-
graphic dispatch sent from
the White House in Washing-
ton by the secretary of state
in President Benjamin Har-
rigon’s cabinet. It read:
Is Governor Miller sad Gov-
ernor Mellette of North and Sooth
Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota:
The last act in the admission
of the two Dakotas as states into
the Union was completed this
afternoon at the executive man-
sion at 8 o’clock and 46 minutes
by tho President signing at that
moment, the proclamations re-
quired by law for tho admission
of the two states. Tho article on
prohibition submitted separately
in each state was adopted in both.
The article providing for minor-
ity representation la South Da-
kota was rejected by the people.
This is tho first instance In the
history of tho national govern-
ment of twin states. North and
South Dakota entered tho Union
at the same moment
JAMES G. BLAINE.
Thus it was that two more
•tars were added to the 38
which, at that time, adorned
the field of blue in the Amer-
ican flag and these two stars
represented Uncle Sam’s
“twins”—North Dakota and
South Dakota.
You will notice in the illustra-
tion above that North Dakota ia
credited with being the thirty-
ninth state and South Dakota the
fortieth. That’s probably be-
cause it appeared ia a North Da-
kota paper, the Bismarck Trib-
une, which, in a recent golden
jubilee edition makes the state
ment that "Most available rec-
ords in Washington pertaining to
the division of Dakota Territory
and admission of the two states
refer to North Dakota first, and
tend to confirm the belief of all
loyal North Dakotans that North
Dakota actually entered the
Union first."
To which equally loyal South
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Dakotans are quite likely to re-
ply, in the argot of the day, "Oh,
yeah?” Also they might point
to those words in Secretary
Blaine’s dispatch: "North and
South Dakota entered the Union
at the same momer/.’*
With no desire to become in-
volved in any sisterly dispute, the
present chronicler would like to
remind both North and South Da-
kotans of a tradition—how well
authenticated I do not know-
connected with signing the proc-
lamations which created these
two new states. It to probable
that one state had a few seconds
priority over the other, in so far
as President Harrison couldn’t
very well have signed the two
proclamations simultaneously.
That to. he couldn’t have, unless
be were ambidextrous and there
to no evidence to indicate that he
was.
First? No One Knows!
But. according to this tradition,
when the two proclamations were
laid upon his desk for his signa-
ture, someone, foreseeing the pos-
sibility of a dispute over which
state had the honor of entering
the Union first, covered the proc-
lamations with a sheet of paper,
then shuffled them around a bit,
and exposed only the space at the
bottom of the proclamations
where the President was to affix
his signature After he had signed
both, they were again shuffled
around before the covering sheet
of paper was removed. As a re-
sult no one who was present
knew which proclamation was
signed first. Therefore, Secre-
tary Blaine could truthfully say
"North and South Dakota entered
the Union at the same moment."
Just as the two new states have
had eventful careers separste
commonwealths durftig the last
half century, so did they have an
interesting history together for
nearly two centuries. The first
white men to visit both wen ■
Frenchmen. It is probable that
tho French explorer and trader,
Le Sueur, visited the present site
of Sioux Falls, S. D., in 1881 to
JOHNNY MIZE was the s«
u first baseman to lead tho
tiopal league in batting in a doo
Bill Terry did it in 1936 and 31 .. .
Lefty Grove keeps the final ball
thrown in each of his winning
games. His major league, collec-
tion to up to 286 . . . Ty Cobb, ac-
cording to Connie
Mack, was the only
man who ever
played baseball who
could teach another
man to hit. .. Okla-
h o m a university’s
entire 1916 team was
in military service
during the World war
and returned intact
in 1919. to win eight
games ahd tie one in
a nine-game sched-
ule . . . Biff Jones,
Nebraska's football mentor, has an
all-time record of .731 as a coach
. . . The average weight of North-
western’s football squad to 184
pounds, the average height, 8 feet
11 inches, and the average age
to 20 years ... The Haskell Indians,
who used to play one of the heaviest
college football schedules in the na-
tion, now meet prep school oppo-
nents . , . Columbia, the world’s
largest university, has one of tho
smallest football squads in the East.
Heap Big Chief
Arturo godoy of chile, a
** rough, rugged mountain Indian,
will face Heavyweight Champion
Joe Louis February 9 in that dusky
gentleman’s ninth title defense.
It would be an exaggeration to
say that more than 5 per cent of the
nation’s citizens have ever heard of
Senor Godoy. However, Promoter
Mike Jseobs emphasizes that the
Chilean twiee beat Tony "Roil Out
the Barrel" Galenic during the In-
dian’s U. 8. campaign in 1937.
Godoy, whom you’ll recognize as
being timid and reticent, shyly re-
marked:
"I’ll knock him out. He can’t
take it. But I can. I’ll prove to
the world that Louis is not the in-
vincible man everybody tries to
make him out.”
Though be didn’t understate Ms
ability to absorb punishment, Godoy
to really one of the toughest fighters
of modern times, ranking along with
Tommy Farr of Wales. He has nev-
er been knocked out, or floored,
though ho was stopped once be-
cause of cuts tn a novice fight.
Thirty years old, Godoy punched
his way into the limelight in 1936 v -
by knocking out ancient, decrepit
Angel Firpo in the tenth round. Fir-
po, if you remember, was the brawl-
er who knocked Jack Dempsey out
j of the ring in ’23.
Jacobs forgot to mention that the
I contender was outpointed here by
Roscoe Toles and Nathan Mann.
"Uncle Mike" picked Godoy as
the heavyweight challenger after
falling to come to terms with young
Lou Nova of Loo Angelos. After tak-
ing a bloody beatlag from Galeate,
the Californian wanted too meoh
money to take another from Louis.
Which shows that Nova still to in
possession of his mental faculties.
Fifty Years Ago Uncle Sam Proudly I
Announced Addition of a Pair of
_____Twins to the Sisterhood of States |
An Illustration on the front page of tho Bismarck (N. D.) Tribune for November 1,1886, depleting the admis-
sion of North Dakota and South Dakota into the Union.
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Ralph Stevenson ......
player every
year he sees action. As a freshman
Stevenson spent a great share of his
time in the showers, chased there
nearly every afternoon for fighting.
Since then he has learned to disci-
pline his temper.
His football career got under way
at the Ponca City (Okla.) high
school, where he impressed eeaehoc
with his ruggedness, durability and,
yes. hto aggressiveness. Five foot ll
inches taO, Stevenson weighs IM
poonds.» A senior, Stevenson was
named on every ail-Blg Six ooefer-
eneo selected last year.
The strength of Oklahoma'* line
was thoroughly tested thtoCyear
against Northwestern univtoBity.
end its caliber eras demonstrated
when the Soonero ended up on tta(«
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Pro Gridster
Backs College
Rule Changes
By ROBERT McSHANE
\17HETHER or not college foot-
’’ ball could be made a better,
basically sounder game through rev-
olutionary rule changes to a ques-
: tion upon which coaches and fans
alike disagree.
Many coaches, and it must be ad-
mitted that most of them are of pro-
fessional elubs, would like to have
institutional teams adopt regulations
governing tho play-for-pay boys.
Most college mentors are content
with the existing set-up. Of course
many of them have their own ax
to grind—they would like to see a
few minor changes, but on the whole
are satisfied with things as they are.
Heading the former group to
George P. Marshall, outspoken own-
er of the Washington Redskins, who
has called upon the eollege rule
makers to save their game from go-
ing tho way of the dodo bird by
adopting pro rales.
An outstanding advocate of rales
as they are to Amos Alonso Stagg,
the No. 1 Grand Old Man of Ameri-
can football, who entered hto fiftieth
year of coaching this season. Stagg
to rounding oat hto earner in the
comparative obscurity of a small
eampus at the College of the Pacific
at Stockton, Calif.
It to Marshall’s claim that colleges
are charging "fancy prices" but they
are not giving the public tho kind of
a show it deserves. Hto interest in
furthering the cause of college foot*
Ralph Stevenson, University of
Oklahoma guard, can claim a good
share of credit for hto team’s cham-
pionship showing in the Big Six con-
ference last year.
According to dopesters, Ms inter-
ference made Oklahoma's running
attack function last year. Ho starts
tremendously fast and runs well
laterally. A fast charger en offense
or defense, ho knows how to apply
tho various blocks.
Aggressiveness with Ralph to al-
most a fault. It took two years
of intercolle-
jMh giate competi-
tion to show
him the futili-
R ty of losing hto
< " temper. Dur-
1. f ing those two
years he cost
V- E hto team quite
W MR dearly in pen-
alties. But
Coach Tom
Stidham de-
ciares him a
better behoved
player
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Jesuit, began missionary work
among the Flatbead Indians and
the next year a mission was
established in the Bitter Root val-
ley. Withgthis beginning perma-
nent white occupation of the ter-
ritory became a certainty. When
gold was discovered in the early
sixties there followed a veritable
flood of immigration. Within a
year the little town of Virginia
City near Alder Creek was a
flourishing city of 4,000 inhabit-
ants. In 1863 the territory of
Idaho, which included the present
Montana, was set off from Wash-
ington and Dakota and on May 22,
1864, the territory of Montana was
erected from land taken from
Idaho.
Ten years later the seat of gov-
ernment was moved from Vir-
ginia City to Helena and with the
completion of the Northern Pa-
cific railroad in 1883 b?gan an era
of prosperity, added to by the de-
velopment of silver and copper
mining. By ndw the lusty young
territory was beginning to think
of statehood and in January and
February, 1884, a convention
framed a constitution which was
ratified by the people in November
and an application for admission
to the Union was presented tc
congress.
Five years dragged by, how-
ever, before congress took action.
Then in February, 1889, it passed
an enabling act and on November
8 Montana became the 41st state
in the Union.
A Greek Explorer.
Spanish, French, English, Dutch,
Americans—all have been the
"first white men” to see or set
foot upon the soil of 47 of our
states. But to the state of Wash-
ington belongs the distinction of
having associated with its earliest
history a Greek!
In 1592 a Greek explorer named
Juan de Fuca visited the region
‘of the present state of Washing-
ton but it remained for a Spanish
explorer named Hecta to first set
foot upon the soil of the northwest
coast. That was on July 14, 1775, I
and the place was near the mouth
of the Hoh river. Other explorers,
English and Americans, followed
in his wake, but more important
to the future history of this com-
monwealth was the fact that on
May 11, 1792, a certain Capt. Rob-
ert Gray, an American, ’’dtocov-
ered” a river to which he gave
the name of his ship, the Colum-
bia.
For the title of the United
States to what to now Oregon and
Washington rests upon the voy-
ages of Captain Gray to the ex-
ploration of Lewis and Clark, who
established winter quarters at
Fort Clatsop on the Columbia dur-
ing the winter of 1805, and to the
occupancy of this region by the
Astor Fur company, an American
firm. In 1811-12.
This was the only territory in
the United States that was never
at any time legally under any
other flag except the Stars and
Stripes. True, during the War of
1812 the British government, in
conjunction with the Northwest |
Fur company, compelled Astor to
sell out his holding; to the Brit-
ish firm and after the war the
country was occupied jointly by
the Northwest company and by
eariy American rettlera. But the
United States never once relin-
quished her claims upon this
region.
"54-46 or Fight!”
The boundary line between the
territories claimed by the two
countries soon became . subject i "‘I”
tor bitter dispute which for a time remembers the 15-men teem,
threatened to result in war. De-
spite the American yells of ’’Fifty-
four, Forty or Fight!" a settle-
ment wss reached in 1846 by
which the Webster-Ashburton
treaty fixed the boundary from tho !
Rocky mountains to the Pacific
along the 49th parallel of latitude.
On August 14, 1848, the Terri*
tory of Oregon was organized. Ito
boundaries were the 42nd and tho
49th parallels, the Rocky moun-
tains and the Pacific, thus includ-
ing the present state of Washing-
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! at least five yards behind the line
ef scrimmage. That rale, he de-
clared, was put In through the pres-
sure of coaehes who knew their
own passers were outclassed.
On tho other hand, Stagg feels
that the rules of the college game
are settled to their permanent form.
There will be no further rapid and
radical changes. During hto 50 years
as a coach he has watched the game
i develop from the kicking to the cer-
! rying to the razzle-dazzle game. He
remembers when the playing field
wea first called a gridiron. Ho was
on the Yale team when slugging was
abolished. Stagg coached through
the period when indoor football was
popular.
Veteran Observer
Stagg has been a member of the
football rales committee since 1964
—a lifo member since 1933. Ho has
been an integral part of tho game’s
development
He speaks with suthorlty wfapn tee
■ays the gamo to now as well ar-
ranged as possible, both from the
; spectators’ and players* standpoints.
1 That’s why lie thinks no revolution-
ary changes will be made.
A review of hto past 49 seasons
convinces Stagg that there to still a
good chance that one or two more
major systems may bo developed,
and that there to plenty of room for
development of now individual playa.
Because of this, Stagg knows that
rule alterations may be necessary.
Both sides sound logical. Stagg’s
the more so because the advocates
of rule, changes have, tor the large
part, a selfish interest. They look
upon colleges as farms for the pro-
fessional gridiron, and therefore are
anxious to have the collegians mold-
ed to their style as soon ns possible.
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