THE STORY OF THE STACHUM LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN c !6i cop. 3 I.H.S. ot nilnoii al Urb.nHlimp.ip. i This book has been digitized through the generosity of Robert O. Blissard Class of 1957 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign THE STOKY OF THE STADIUM 'We have a heritage from the Illini Indian the Great Heart, the fighting spirit" AN INDIAN TBJBE BEGAN IT A LONG TIME AGO E>TEN to the historian, and learn what manner of man lived where today is Burrill avenue, Green street, and the Boneyard .... The Illini Indian, he was called, and he was a hunter, and a fighter, and more generous in war and in peace than his neighbors, the Shawnees, the Iroquois, the Sioux, the Chippewas, and the Kickapoos. He was an individualist, and his children, whom he loved, were given freedom to grow as they w r illed, only they had to be brave and self-denying, and each had to find his god his Manitou to protect and inspire him; for this w r as the law of the tribe. Never were people better made than the Illini, said a traveler who ob- served them. "They are neither large nor small .... They have tapering legs which carry their bodies well, with a very haughty step, and as graceful as the best dancer. The visage is fairer than white milk so far as savages of this country can have such. The teeth are the best arranged and the whitest in the world. They are vivacious . . . ." Although they had religious ceremonies, they were "too well off to be really pious," and to none of their deities did the Illini attribute moral good or evil. No temples have these ancient Indians left us, and no books. we have a heritage from them, direct through the pioneers who fought them and learned to know them. It is the 'Great Heart, the fighting spirit, the spirit of individualism, of teaching our children to be free but brave and to have a God for these are the laws of our tribe. See us today living vitally in our heritage. Watch us play football; see us on the cinder track, on the base- ball diamond .... We are different, somehow, we of the middle west not particularly better, but different. We are uniquely ourselves. But 'He individualist UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY But how can we express this self of ours this character which we have inherited from the Illini Indian and from our pioneer forefathers? How can we leave a mark of it which will never be forgotten a mark with beauty, with distinction, with truth? Beauty is old, and truth is old. Greece knew it, and so did Rome, thousands of years ago. And for great expression of great things the world has always gone back to the spirits which built the Dionysian Temple, the Parthenon, and the Colosseum. And so do we go back into the dim ages that tomorrow a white magnifi- cence a vStadium may tell the world that we of Illinois have fought and died for our country and fought and lived for our fellow men. There will be a court of honor for every hero who died in the war and a great recreation field to bring greater vigor and life to our young men and women. And there will be a vast enclosure where seventy-five thousand may see twenty-two men in the heat of sportsmanlike conflict or, as the May sun sets, many maids in harmonious and rhythmic welcome to the springtime. EDWARD F. J. LINDBERG, '09 ' ' '/'/;. Stadium is a wonderful memorial in honor of the great record of Illinois students during the war. / feel that all the varsity athletes of the past and present are in- terested in the project." LEO KLEIN, '18 "The Stadium! What could more fittingly be- speak the spirit and tra- ditions of Illinois since its inception? No grander monument to those who gave their lives in the great conflict c->uld be built." FORREST VAN HOOK. '09 "/( is only fair thiU a University that produces great teams should have a great and beautiful place to accommodate spectators of its athletic contests. Thf Stadium will supply such a place." RALPH FLETCHER. '21 " A It live alumni have a just pride about their alma mater. The Stadium will back such a pride more substantially than any other single thing in the history of the Uni- versity." GEORGE HALAS. '18 "/ think the Stadium drive is the greatest undertaking in the history of the Uni- versity and that Us success or failure will determine whether Illinois will be greater than ever or wilt 'all bark." DAVID H. CARNAHAN. '96 "Teaching the classics has brought me closer to a higher view of athletics rather than drawn me away. I beliere in the greatness of thr idea of the Stadium." W. R. (Bill) VOSBURGH, '13 "The proposed Stadiurn will be a wonderful addi- tion, and I heartily ap- prove of it. It should be a great help to the ever- increasing student body and something for the ulumni to be proud of." POMEROY (Pom) SINNOCK, '09 "It seems to me that every Illini. no matter where he may be. will be entitled to feel prouder of his Uni- versity and of himfelf after that Stadium is built. I Ih ink it is a great a nd noble conception." DEWEY ALBERTS, '21 "We students feel more keenly than anyone the need for a powerfut alumni mon.l support, both in our studies and in our activi- ties. The Stadium should consolidate such an alumni support." FRED fLouie) LOWENTHAL. '01 "What good member o_. the tribe can see in the Stadium anything but a visible sign of and a sacred shrine to an invisible thing the spirit of the Illini?" MANY MEN LIVED AND LEARNED HEKE WHILE you are sitting back in your chair, reading these pages, your alma mater will be making the last move to accommodate a regis- tration of 4,000 freshmen. It's a far cry from 4,000 freshmen and 11,000 students to 200 freshmen and some 500 students. It's a far cry from the days when healthy young spirits expressed themselves by wrecking the corridors of Uni Hall, by throwing "eye- water," and by kidnapping, abetted by eggs and chemicals, young swains from the freshman dance downtown from those days to these days when every tennis court is alive with flanneled youngsters, when every block of the south campus is the scene of a football or baseball game, when the gymnasium is swarming with vigorous figures, and the swim- ming tank and the outdoor track are pictures of strenuous, shouting activity. And yet this miracle has occurred in only twenty-five years. To most of you twenty-five years ago is a long time ago, but to some of you it seems only yesterday. Yesterday, when the first class rush broke out spontaneously in old Uni Hall, when clothes were ripped from backs. ,v .... "Yesterday, when we had the color rush, as exciting as an Indian fight, and almost as dangerous" Yesterday, when we had the color rush, as exciting as an Indian fight, and almost as dangerous. Yesterday, when Dr. Peabody, speaking in chapel, proudly announced the dedication of the new Military Hall, at a cost of $15,000, "the fittest building for its purpose in the northwest, and, so far as I have seen, in this country," and added, when the Natural History Building was finished, "if we can have only one more building, it's as much as the University can ever hope to attain!" Yesterday, when you got so excited to find the College of Engineer- ing leaping in growth adding 250 students to the enrollment! Yesterday, when the main social feature at the University was the annual declamation contest between Adelphic and Philomathean, and when the only real student dance of the year was the Senior Ball, held at the old Walker Opera House, when they put a false floor over the dress circle seats and everybody danced on a level with the stage. Yesterday, when Dr. Burrill took a deep breath and asked the state legislature for $551,000 to build a library, an engineering hall, and a museum, and was delighted when he got $295,700, for it was twice as much as the University had received ever before. Yesterday, when Dr. Burrill complained that there were too few women at the University; w 7 hen he demanded an auditorium, an agricul- tural building, a law building, an observatory; when Dr. Draper be- came our first president and the registration began to leap into the thousands, and the co-ed became an institution. Yesterday, when the names of David Kinley, T. A. Clark, H. J. Barton, A. H. Daniels, L. P. Breckenridge, E. B. Greene, J. M. White, and D. K. Dodge were new names .... GEORGE R. L. (Kink) H. H. McCURDY ALFRED SMART. '17 ELMO P. HOHMAN. FREDERIC KSON'. '94 SANDERS, '14 "Building the Stadium "The greatest incentive '16 "The Memorial Stadium "The Stadium is Illinois' is the greatest thing we for upholding past honors "We're all very ready to and Recreation Field at only method of giving her can do to immortalize in and creating new ones will admit that Illinois has Illinois is a wonderful students their just physical the minds of the students, be the erection of that the best teams in the Con- undertaking. The Sta- education, to retain her the alumni, and the people which will become a by- ference, if not in the coun- dium must be built and athletic supremacy and to of the .State, the memory of word in collegiate athletics, try. Why not give these should be the largest commemorate her heroes in the men who made the the Illinois Memorial Sta- best teams the best .Sta- and best in the world." the Great War." supreme sacrifice." dtum." ilium'" AND TODAY IT SWARMS WITH VIGOROUS YOUTH SEE them going to their eight-o'clocks. From a radius of more than a mile around the campus the streets swarm with them. The campus walks are crowded. There is haste; there is laughter; there is life. It is autumn, and the streets are thick with golden maple leaves. (Do you remember the maple leaves in the fall?) The last bell has rung, and the tardy ones are making a last running spurt and now the campus is almost deserted. Pause under an open window in Uni Hall. Glance in; some of them may see you and giggle, but most of them are absorbed. They are hearing that Robert Louis Stevenson had a brave and beautiful soul; this is known as the study of literature. Stroll over to the Engineering building. Pause outside an open door. How absorbed they are, these youths from farm and suburb and slum! With pencil and paper they are learning to build bridges and homes and skyscrapers, that life may be smoother and better for the rest of us. And in the Natural History building, in Lincoln Hall, in the Ag building and the Commerce building, boys and girls yesterday's children and tomorrow's men and women are studying the past that they may be the makers of the future. Eleven thousand of them .... filling 51 buildings .... covering 1229 acres of ground .... "Yesterday's children and tomorrow's men and women" "The la.rt bell has rung .... and rcorc the campus is almost deserted" Go out to the football field in the afternoon and feel again breath- less suspense as you watch varsity practice, feel again hopes and fears. Drop into the new plant of the Illini on Green Street and watch the big presses turn out the greatest college newspaper in America; see the Associated Press reports come in; see the scores of young reporters intent on making good. Tomorrow these children will sway governments. See Homecoming again; you make it the biggest day of the year for them, and they make it the biggest day of the year for you. The mass meeting. Hobo band. The big game. And the winter, with examinations, basketball, the Prom, the Ag Dance, the Military Ball, and the rest of it. And spring, with the haze of morning sunshine over the campus. Tennis from dawn to sunset; quiet strolls in the evening, often with girls; baseball and peanuts and victory for Illinois; military drill, a magnificent sight with thousands of cadets; the band concert in the gloaming. Can't you see it all over again? Interscholastic, and the Circus. Has ever any student not laughed at the Circus? And the May fete, with the red sun sinking over the old west bleachers and the long shadows of hundreds of girls, costumed in many colors, shifting gracefully about the beribboned May-poles, and, while the band plays as evening approaches, dancing a welcome to May and to summer. And then, Commencement .... And, after that, memories memories clustered mainly around old Illinois Field . 5MB55 5K WAY WOODY, '96 H. D. (I>avc) BROWN. "The Stadium dedicates '21 Illinois to the proposition "I carried the .Stadium that its sons will have slogan on a touring versily. RALPH WOODS. '17' "/ never met an alumnus of a University that has built a Stadium who wasn't glad that he had a part in the movement. I shall be gt,id to do all I tan for thr Illinois Stadium." SVKN DUNER. '15 "A Stadium that will enable the athletif ojft- cfrs to carry out 'G' Huff's intra-mural sys- tem is certainly a worthy Projeft. to say nothinK of the benefit to varsity athletics." JUST A M. LINDGRF.N, '02 "Our subscription to the Stadium fund is an ex- pression of gratitude to the brave men who died for us and to our alma mater who has done so much for us." i?^:^"JGf^7t^^ ILLINOIS FIELD IS A BATTERED VET- ERAN, GRACE FULLY RESIGNING IT IS hard to say when the first game of baseball was played on the old fair grounds between First, Fourth and John Streets and Armory Avenue, but it must have been a long, long time ago. We do know, how- ever, that in the old days, up to 1888, Illinois teams played baseball there and that track meets were held there and that the first football game ever played by the University and the first game ever played in the Tw r in Cities was played there. And then in 1888, when baseball and oratory were the only fields of contest among colleges, a baseball game was played on what is now Illinois field. The diamond was located in the northeast corner of what is now the football gridiron. There were no fences and there were no tickets of ad- mission. You wore a tag and they let you in. Proudly the students trooped to the games in those days, several hundred strong, feeling that with the overwhelming might of their numbers they would inspire their team to victory. Still more proudly did they march in the spring of 1891 into the first athletic field, a tiny field compared with Illinois Field of today, a field whose south boundary was just south of the big tree on the present field and whose north boundary was 150 feet south of University Avenue, a field on which still stood the ruins of the first building of our University. They used the stones from this ruin as a basis for the new baseball diamond by spreading six inches of earth over them. What a great project it was in those days to build that first athletic field! How important the wooden palings seemed, at $8 a thousand feet! The lumber was bought; and merchants, students and faculty united enthusiastically to raise the money. The grandstand, seating 300 people, was the pride of the undergraduate body. And then William B. McKinley donated some money and a track was built! Mr. McKinley owned the waterworks and allowed the committee, of which G. Huff was a member, to take cinders, and from these cinders was made the track which made history in the annals of American athletics. How surprised everyone was when this field with its fine grandstand and its track proved inadequate. How anxious everyone was about enlarg- "The grandstand, seating joo people, teas the pride of the undergraduate body" ing it, and how pleased they were when the north fence was extended to University Avenue. And yet it was not large enough. Finally, in 1905, the field was extended to Springfield Avenue, the bleachers were consecrated for baseball games, a new gridiron was installed, and the first football bleachers were built. In 1914, our football bleachers could seat 4,000 people. But even that was not enough, and twice they have been enlarged. Since then, standing-room platforms have been built at the south end of the field. The present capacity of Illinois Field is 17,000. Standing room at the south end adds 3,000, which makes a total of 20,000; and that number of people attended the Ohio State game a game which more than 50,000 people wanted to see, and would have seen if there had been room for them. It is a long time since a handful of students watched Scott Williams' first football game, when he played wearing a derby hat (at first), until . . . "A tiny field compared with Illinois Field of today" today when there are thousands of students, alumni and friends of the University who are turned away from every big game. Illinois Field, beginning modestly and, like Topsy, just "growing," has served its purposes nobly. Lithe youngsters have raced about on its cinders, have leaped across its turf and have hurled weights over its green. Skillful and speedy youngsters have batted balls and run bases and learned discipline of team work on its diamond. Sturdy youngsters have hurled their bodies, have zig-zagged with machine-like accuracy through the sinister opposing line, hugging a leather ball to their bosoms across its gridiron. Many thrilling moments has Illinois Field seen, many acts of heroism. It has taught thousands upon thousands of the youth of America self- denial, courage, freedom it has developed the Great Heart, the fighting spirit. It has seen years like 1915, where we w r on at once football, baseball, track and basketball championships years like 1914, where we won baseball, track and football championships years like those between 1900 and 1921 where about two-thirds of the baseball championships were won by Illini. Few fields in the history of the United States can parallel the record of the victories of Illinois Field. And now Illinois Field, a battered veteran, is ready to resign. Greater multitudes than it ever dreamed of are wanting to see our teams in action. The rumbling demand of these multitudes is rising; it cannot be ignored. It is not being ignored. They shall have what they want, for it is a good thing that they want. Reluctantly shall we leave Illinois Field, and with tender memories. Proudly will we march to the new 7 Stadium with a greater, finer outlook for the future. And the human tie, the personality, which will keep in us the glow of the past and lift us bravely into the future is "G" Huff. - JOHN FELMLEY. '18 JOHN N. WEISS. '2\ JOHN C. DKPLER. '21 FRANK PFEFFER 'W> < LARENCE BUTZER "Illinois must have a "If Illinois maintains her "The Stadium will aw.iken "Nothing is too Rowl for '10 Stadium. The student body standing in athletics, she the Kast with a jolt." fighting Illini. 1 am for "I hope I shall never has already done more must build this Stadium " the Stadium to the finish." grow so old that a project than its share; surely the like the Stadium will not alumni will do theirs." quicken the blood in me." FRANK B. (Shorty) LONG. '87 "Alt Universities re- quire some big thing, tin- doing of which will unite students, alumni, faculty and friends something tfiey can feel is their own ivork. For Illinois, the Memorial Stadium is the thing." BERT W. (Happy) ADSIT, '01 ' 'Illinois should have n Stadium in keeping with her athletic eminence. It is important that facilities for athletic training be given, not only to those who may represent the Uni- versity on her athletic teams, but to the student body at large. I most heartily approve of your plan for general athletics." M. G. DADANT. '08 "We, lllini alumni, should certainly be a unit in get- ting behind the Stadium Project not only in com- memoration for our 'Fight- ing lllini' but that ILLI- NOIS may stand at the fore in furthering >r State's and our Natic n's development, physically as well as m" ent, physic entally." OTTO VOC.EL. '23 "// is a great inspiration to a varsity team to play in a splendid Stadium. It consolidates learn spirit and makes the playing more intense and tri- umphant. For that and many other reasons, I am strong for the Stadium idea." J. T. (Swede) HANLEY. '10 "The Memorial Stadium is the biggest and grandest thing ever suggested by the alumni of our University, and no red-blooded lllini will be content to be doing anything short of his ut- most for its successful realization." A. R. (Artie) HALL. '01 ''Years in Illinois athlet- ics show me our great Stadium . not only as a fitting memorial to our warrior dead, but as a living opportunity to re- pay, in part, our debt to Illinois by contributing towards the well-being of student thousands yet to come." BART MACOMBER. '17 "The Stadium will beau- tify the campus and glad- den all Illinois hearts. The massive structure can- not help but signify the great appreciation of all of us for our Alma Ma- ter." HARRY CLAY COFFEEN. '98 "Financing this Stadium should be the first step on a program of One Million Pollars to Illinois, every two years, from her sons and daughters as part pay- ment for their free educa- tion. We Hare not fail." JAMES Q. PETTIGREW. 'W "Of late vears Illinois has taken her place in the front rank in athletic achievements, and it is a fitting tribute to her athletic supremacy to build a magnificent Stadium within which to hold I he various contests." EDWIN B. STYLES. '12 "There is nothing too good for the athletic teams of 'Illinois that uphold her prestige in fields that her graduates enter and seek to conquer. The teams do the publicity that puts the alumni on the map with- mil nn introduction." E.A. (Prep) WHITE, '08 "For a greater Illinois.' In its beauty, size and utility, the Stadium will typify the service which the entire institution is rendering to the State and Nation. It is entirety fitting that this edifice be erected by the men and women who do nou 1 or who hope to call Illinois '.-\lm nc ^ an d a t one time Illinois swimmers held every Conference record. Men like Vosberg, one of the best crawl stroke swimmers in the country, and Lichter, who holds the world's record for the sixty-yard plunge, are products of Manley's, and men like Mac- Gillivray and Raithel took instructions from him. Manley sees to it that every student in the University knows how to swim and, in addition to these duties, he is director of all Intra-Mural and Inter-Class games. He has developed these contests until last year more than 3,000 students, representing 204 different teams, took part in them. This includes football, soccer, basketball, baseball, swimming, boxing, wrestling, track, tennis and golf. And all this activity has con- tinued in spite of the awkwardness in carrying it out an awkwardness due to the limited recreation facilities. Arthur J. Schuettner, who directs the men's gymnasium and is coach of gymnastics, deals with the student who needs the parallel bars, the pulleys, the Indian clubs, the horizontal bar and the trapeze. He was supervisor of physical training and athletics in the public schools of Buffalo, New York, and has won many competitions, including the all- around gymnastic and athletic championship of the United States at St. Louis in 1914. He has developed an astonishingly wide and con- sistently increasing interest on the part of students in exercise on gym- nasium apparatus. Paul H. Prehn, who has made a remarkable record as a wrestler him- self, is developing an unprecedented interest in wrestling among students. In the Inter-Allied Games overseas, he won in the middle-weight division, and he has defeated some of the best men in the United States in this division since, having been defeated only by Johnny Meyers, world's champion middleweight. He is a skillful and powerful wrestler, and a remarkable teacher. He has produced not only consistently vigorous wrestling teams for the University, but has brought wrestling and boxing from the obscurity of specialized activities into the realm of increasingly popular sports. Men of this kind are symbols of a new life at Illinois, of a higher, more courageous, fuller life; and already their mark is indelibly upon the student body. It is through them that we hear the call of living thousands, and it is this call, as well as the silent voice of the heroic dead, which will be answered in the great one-hundred-acre Recreation Field which will be included in the Stadium. 'AS A MONUMENT TO PAST AND AN INSPI- RATION TO PRESENT AND FUTURE TEAMS? AVERY BRUNDAGE SUBSCRIBES $1OOO Avery Brundage, 'op, three times amateur all around track champion of the United States and a star at the Olympics STRENGTH, speed, agility, stam- ina, and endurance are not the only qualities acquired on the athletic field. The value of the resourcefulness, loyalty, ability to think quickly, gameness, good sportsmanship, will power and poise learned under the direction of competent coaches cannot be over-emphasized in the development of men. "The dictionary says that culture is 'the training, development, or strengthening of the powers, mental or physical.' Two thousand years ago when ancient Greece was the center of civilization, a man to be considered educated had to have a trained body as well as a trained mind. Greek culture was mental and physical and there resulted that glorious and en- lightened age of Hellenic supremacy in literature, athletics, civics and art that has never been surpassed. "Some day physical training in its broadest sense will be as much and as important a part of our educational program as mental training. We have the best athletic department in the United States today at the University of Illinois we must have the best athletic plant. As a monument to past and an inspiration to present and future teams, I am glad to con- tribute to the building of the most imposing Stadium in the country." 2ifi0f3]?3in!2ffiJMM!Qriiirifl^Qz^ THE SPURTING TURF THE HURTLING JAVELIN.THE SPINNING DISCUS -ANDHARKYGILL I "T doesn't matter very much whether we seem to have phenomenal track men or not, so long as we have with us Harry Gill. Out of gasping novices he seems to make consistent winners of first place, out of strain- ing youngsters he seems to make leaping wonders, out of big, bulky slow-moving young giants he seems to make the source from which a heavy discus spins and swirls across great distances or from which the long, slender javelin seems to vibrate amazingly through the air. Avery Brundage, three times the all-around cham- pion of America; Billy May, who still holds many dash records; Jack Case of the 1912 Olympics, and Fred Henderson, who holds our 880-yard record, are some of his outstanding achievements. But teams are his specialty rather than individuals, and victories rather than startling single records. So, Harry L. cm m s pite of the fact that Illinois has its share of individual record-breakers, we have won, since Harry Gill came here in 1906, 67 dual meets out of 73. We have won the Big Ten Outdoor Conference meet 5 times in 14 years and the Indoor Intercollegiate 4 out of 10 times. "Mike" Mason, ' 16 who beat Joie Ray in the milt Fred (Alabam ) Henderson, '14* our SSo-yard record-holder Bob Emery, '20 holds Illinois record for the 440 Billy May, 'OQ, one of our greatest dash men THE SECRET OFOUK SUPERIORITY IN BASEBALL E &*9*\ VERYBODY knew that some day there would be too many things for G. Huff to do. Everybody wondered where this greatest of all baseball coaches could find a successor. 220 won out of 299 games played is a precedent great enough to dishearten almost anyone. But Carl L. Lundgren, '02, who pitched for the Chicago Cubs, who was assistant coach at Princeton and who was head coach at Michigan for seven c ar i L. Lund S r f n, -02 years, stepped in and won a championship in his first year 1921 so beautifully that it was hard to believe "G" wasn't there. "Lundy" began with an inexperienced squad of players and devel- oped three excellent pitchers. He taught his team how to bat, how to field, how to run, and, best of all, how to think. Out of 12 Conference games we lost only one, and always in a crisis our team showed power and coolness and the fighting Illini spirit. With the school which has the tradition of men like "Jake" Stahl, Billy Fulton, "Red" Gunkel, Grant Beadle, "Shorty" Righter, John Busick and Frank Pfeffer as baseball stars, any new coach is facing an apparently insur- mountable wall to establish a tSi S/) u ^ reputation for himself; yet today ' ., f*- we have already figures like Otto Vogel and Harry McCurdy, and tomorrow is a glowing promise. Good old "Jake" Stahl, who has never forgotten that he is an Illini William J. (Billy) Fulton, 'Q, a great ball player, is a T.N. E.andPhiBeta Kappa "GREEK GLORY ON THE PRAIRIE."SAYS PRESIDENT KINLEY ""P)ERHAPS my greatest interest in the Stadium is its cultural effect. -JL "Our Stadium will bring a touch of Greek glory to the prairie. "Young men and women spending four years of their lives in the vicinity of such an edifice cannot help absorbing some of its lofty inspiration. "A still more practical cultural development will come from the Greek theater, seating 10,000 persons, which will stand in the honor court. It will be a setting for outdoor plays, pageants, May fetes and music festi- vals enriching the imagination of the participants and the beholders. ' 'The setting, that of an old Ital- ian garden, with the proscenium arch at one end, with the colonnades, M M\\ . * archways and shining towers of the entrance, will bring an appreciation of old-world beauties, of fine and eternal traditions, which, blended with the ruggedness and shrewd intelligence of our people, will help us to realize the greatness which is The Greek theater will be a setting for outdoor .. 1-1 plays, pageants, May fetes and music festivals" OUT birthright. "1 LOVE THE PAST BECAUSE I SEE THE FUTURE; SAYS PRESIDENT- EM ERI- TUS JAMES THERE is a room on the third floor of the Administration building which is reserved for Dr. Edmund Janes James, President-Emeritus. After having been in various parts of the United States in order to recover the health which he lost in service to his University and his coun- try, he came back for a while to Urbana. It was in this office, at his old desk with long shelves full of books books of literature, statistical books, books of history and books dealing in many ways with the adventures of mankind; all books very dear to the heart of Dr. James he leaned back in his old swivel chair and talked about the subject which is nearest to his heart, the proposed memorial Stadium and recreation field. As he sat there, straight and proud, it was very easy to picture him again in his military uniform, on horseback, cantering through the streets of Urbana and Champaign, saluting the many students and faculty men who loved him. It was easy to see him again in that big office of the President, genial and yet rigorous, crisp but sympathetic, understanding always the little things and never losing his grip on the big things, both of today and tomorrow. "I have been the president of an adolescent university which is grow- ing rapidly into maturity," he said. "I have also been and am a father. I know of no greater miracle in all human experience than the miracle of growth. I have watched with never-ceasing amazement the develop- ment of my children and with similar amazement the development of may I call it mine own? university. There is a stage in all higher growth where youth takes the reins and shapes its own future. A wise father encourages and applauds. I feel great joy and the satis- faction of doing the wise thing in offering my heartiest support and ap- proval of the Stadium project. "I cannot separate the growth in athletics at our alma mater from growth in service to state and country. When we were small, our athletics were small. Today we are great and growing greater, and our athletics are moving at an equal tempo. "It is a good thing in a society to admire sportsmanship, courage, speed, skill, and self-denial. Athletics teach these things. I firmly believe that a great soul can live better in a strong body than in a weak one. Any project which will give greater health and vigor to all of our students, which will set a higher standard of achievement for our athletics, which will bring a reverent and lofty memory of the heoric dead to future generations and which will imbue it all with the beauty of beautiful archi- tecture, is a great project and one which every alumnus should support." jaM^iyMMMgaJKOS^gSg^ -t^^. ^j^ ' rSf BURT A. INGWER- SON, '19 "/ think that the Illinois Stadium -will rejuvenate W. W. (Red) GUNKEL, '16 "Our hearts are with Illi- nois, and the Stadium will H. J. POPPERFUSS, '10 "The undergraduates have shown an amazing spirit by contributing $700.000. alumni interest as nothing not only make us proud I know the alumni will at has ever done bef nothing re; and as well as loyal, but will least equrt this great per- il is a good thing for every give us seats that will en- formance." alumnus to stay interested able us to enjoy the games." in his alma mater." KENNETH (Tug) WILSON, '20 "/ think the finest move- ment in A merica is the Stadium movement and it makes me proud to think that Illinois will have the greatest Stadium of all." JOHNNY MERRIMAN, '16 "It is only natural that Illinois should take the lead in building a Stadium, Hundreds of Springfield people would go to the games if they could be sure of good seals." R. WALTER MILLS. '99 "When I recall the little, square, poorly banked, weedy track on which we used to run in the 90' s, my sentiments are all in favor of better things for the boys who are Irving to clip off the fifths today." H. A. WHITSON, '18 "The greatest thrill in an ordinary life is attending the first Homecoming foot- ball game. Many renew the thrill annually. The new Stadium will solve the problem of accommodating the 'Old Timers'." GEORGE BUCHEIT.'20 "I envy the Illinois under- graduate of three years from today the splendid facilities he will enjoy for health and recreation, but I am glad that I am an alumnus and may boost the Stadium for the benefit of future generations." W. E. BURROUGHS. '00 "Nothing has come along in a long time that has pleased me so much as the idea of a Memorial Sta- dium. It will add to the dignity and prestige of the University and of its alumni." J. F. (Heavy) TWIST, 'II "// Illinois doesn't get a Stadium soon, she will fall back in the Conference, for teams like Ohio and Chicago would rather play to big crowds than to limited crowds." 75,000 people? More than 100,000 will drive down two years from now when the Illinois good roads program is effected. Study this map. It shows how, when the roads are finished, a population of 5,000,000 will be within five hours drive of the Illinois stadium. jsajiasiajtasia^Bsasiaji^ g ; k a I v I RAY WOODS. '17 "7"A Stadium will be a point of pride to all Illi- nois men and women and will enable us to answer the criticism that alumni of state universities have little pride in their insti- tutions." HARVEY D. McCOLLUM. "01 "// you ever felt the fight- ing Illinois thrill on the bleachers, or responded to it on the field, boost for this long felt want, ap- propriate and necessary the Stadium." CLARENCE APPLEGRAM. '17 "The Stadium will be a splendid memorial to the Illini heroes who died in the war because it will be vital, and a beautiful memorial '" A. H. (Mike) MASON. '16 "/ think a Stadium will inspire many students to Participate more actively in athletics and that is a very important thing." TOMMY JASPER. '94 "Long live the Stadium.' We have and wilt need it to give us the proper place in the sun in competition with other large universi- ties." C. B. OLIVER, '12 "The Stadium idea is a great one. but not too great for the University of Illinois," "REN" KRAFT. '18 "As an expression of Illinois spirit and loyalty, no better medium can be ound than the Stadium." F. W. VON OVEN. '98 "/ am heart and soul in favor of a Memorial Sta- dium and Recreation Field. Every alumnus should feel proud of his alma mater and should show his loyalty now if ever." J. F. (Jimmy) BRETON. '14 "/ feel safe in predicting that ten years from today even this great Stadium will not be large enough to handle the crowd that will attend athletic contests at Illinois." E. A. WILLIFORD. '15 "The Stadium will be a point of pride to all Illi- nois men and women and will enable us to answer the criticism that alumni of state universities have little pride in their insti- tutions." EUGENE SCHOBINGER. '15 "The Stadium will prove to the world that the or- ganization and coopera- tion on the campus, which has made the University great, exists also among the alumni." CARL STEIN WEDELL. '03 "Whenever George Huff is back of anything, the proposition needs no in- vestigation. Let's put this Stadium over big for him!" J. R. CASE. '13 . . . "Outside of the idealistic value of the Stadium. I think every alumnus will be glad to make an invest- ment which will give him an option on good sects for all fames." CHARLES P. VAN GUNDY. '88 "/ think the Stadium is an excellent idea from every standpoint and I will help to the extent of my ability to insure its success." LYLE HERRICK. '03 "/ am proud of the splen- did showing made by the undergraduates when they pledged $700.000 and I know that our alumni will go them one better," VIRGIL T. JESSEN. '21 "/ firmly believe that the Stadium will be a success, because a Stadium for Fighting Illini will mean a Stadium for all Illini." A. W. MERRIFIELD. '92 "// is the best project ever undertaken by good old Illinois." C. H. WATTS. '13 "/ think the Stadium will be the crowning achieve- ment of the University of Illinois." ' , f^3T T. E. LYONS. '11 "The leading educational institution of the Middle West is deserving of an athletic plant in keeping with its position. The Stadium should receive the undivided support of every one of us." PAUL J. HAZELWOOD. '12 ".4 glorious memorial to the dead of the University and the State is something which must touch the depths in every patriotic American. Such a memo- rial will be the Stadium." C. J. ROTHGEB, '04 "The proposed Memorial Stadium and Recreation Field has aroused my interest in Illinois to an even more intense degree than it was when I was an undergraduate and that ii going some.'" E. B. (Shorty) RIGHTER, '10 "/ believe that the grandest thing the alumni can do to further the success of the great Memorial Stadium is to open their hearts and their pocketbooks ." WILLIAM F. SLATER. '94 "The Stadium, a memorial to the boys who made the 'Great Sacrifice. ' deserves loyalty." uppo, and A. P. MCDONALD. '16 "At last we have some- thing big enough to meas- ure up to the calibre of George Huff a Stadium.'" BASIL BENNETT. '18 "The Stadium would be a great influence in at- tracting men into athlet- ics. It would develop more competition and give everyone a chance. Every- one should push the drive and give his mite." SEVEN THOUSAND YOUNG EYES ARE UPON YOU, MR, I LLIN 1 ! Merle J. Trees, '07, ivas Phi Delta Theta, Phoenix, Civil Engineering Club, University Band, and on the class football team in his undergraduate days. When he graduated, he became a foreman with the Foundry Griffin Wheel Company. Soon after, he went with the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works and rose until today he is V ice-President. He is a member of the Western Society of Engineers, the Chicago Engineers Club, the University Club of Chicago, the Chicago Illini Club, the New York Engineers Club, the A. S. C. E., and is President of the National Railroad Appliances Association. To All Illini Everywhere: You read "The Story of the Stadium" with many and mixed emotions. Among them surely is a poignant feeling of regret that the student body of which you were a part did not have the opportunity for such an achievement. But your opportunity is at hand. Yours is the high privilege today of carrying to a successful conclusion the Stadium campaign so well begun by the students last Spring. Seven thousand young eyes are upon you, Mr. Illini; seven thousand young hearts and minds eagerly await your cooperation and support. Their spirit has electrified the public mind with confident expectations as to what you will do. In every state in the Union, and in foreign countries, college men know about this great Stadium project. They are looking forward to the day when it becomes a reality. You will make that day. You have the Illini heart, the Illini spirit. To that heart and spirit, as President of the Alumni Association, I now appeal. Let's get together and ''''Build That Stadium for Fighting Illini!" Loyally yours, President, University of Illinois Alumni Association. " I AM BUYING $1O 000 WORTH OF HAP- PINESS-KOBEKT E CAKK Robert F. Carr, '93, was president of his freshman class, a Major in the U. S. Army during the war, Trustee of the University 1915-21, and president of the Dearborn Drug y Chemical Works of Chicago since 1906 'T HAVE found that I share most things with other people, that the things JL I do not share are not as enjoyable as the others. "Pleasure in life to me does not consist of a one-seat automobile, a one-person house or a one-meal table. If I have a beautiful home, I want others to appreciate and enjoy its beauty. If I have a car, I want others to share its convenience and comfort. If there is good food at my table, I want the pleasure of good company with it. "When I pledge $10,000 to the Stadium, I am doing it, in a way, selfishly. It is a most profitable investment in happiness. "I am sharing a great thing with a vast number of people. I shall be able to point to that beautiful structure with a certain sense of proprietor- ship. I shall be able to feel that I was substantially a factor in making the Stadium an actuality. I should rather have my modest share in that great memorial than have a large share in a lesser thing. "I have talked to other men about things of this kind. I have asked them what their feelings are about making financial contributions. Those among them who have given with any degree of generosity have told me invariably that they have never done anything which they regretted less. All of them enthusiastically insisted that every year brings a new sense of gladness that they helped, and a new sense of satisfaction that they are a part of a larger and greater movement than any one man can contain within himself. "I believe I can say quite sincerely that when I pledge $10,000 to the Stadium I am buying $10,000 worth of happiness." "WHEN I PLEDGED $1OOO 1 WAS THINKJNC OF HOMECOMING, -ALBERT MOHf\ Albert Mohr has three sons in the University Joseph, '21, who has been track manager and football manager; Albert,' 22, All-Western football guard; and Louis, '23, baseball pitcher 'T AM not an alumnus of the University of Illinois. My only claim to a J. connection is that I live in the State and that my three sons attended the University. But I feel very close to the heart of the alma mater of my sons as close, I am sure, as any alumnus. "I have attended the Homecomings regularly for years, and I have never failed to find a renewing of my youth and a brighter outlook on life. "When I heard about the Stadium, I pledged $1,000. I made this pledge for various reasons, but one of them, perhaps the foremost, was the picture in my mind of the Homecoming football game in 1924, the first year when the Stadium will have been built. "I could see myself standing, a tiny figure against the massive towers of the Stadium, with my sons and friends. I could see myself looking up, up, up at the great graceful white bulk of the greatest college stadium in America, and at a moment like that it is very good for one to know that he has a vital part in the whole affair. "I could see myself going through the honor court, examining, on the Doric columns, the inscriptions to the dead war heroes. I could see myself entering the great gates and mounting across vast tiers of seats to my special, reserved place always with my sons and with their friends and my friends. "It was such a vision mainly which made me so eager to pledge $1,000 and which makes me now very glad, indeed, that I made that pledge." "OURILLINI MUSTWORKTOGETHERAS THEY HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE" says SENATOR WILLIAM B.McKINLEY IN THE great Memorial Stadium and Recreation Field projected for our campus I see the beginning of greater glory and finer loyalty for old Illinois. "If we are to have a Stadium worthy of our class sportsmanship and our athletic prowess; if we are to have a Memorial symbolic of the courage and loyalty and devotion of our men and women, our Illini must stand together and work together as they have never done before. The project demands our loyal, united support. "This movement heralds the dawn of a new day, when every alumnus shall feel his deep obligation to his alma mater and realize his own indi- vidual responsibility for her continued progress and greater usefulness. The movement expresses the conviction of our people that we must pro- vide for the development of sound healthy bodies to nurture sound healthy minds." WILLIAM B. MCKINLEY, 76 'A FITTING TESTIMONIAL OF AFFECTION "says GOVERNOR LEN SMALL " r I ^HE great institution of learning _L maintained by the State of Illinois at Urbana is to be enriched and aug- mented by the erection of a magnificent Stadium and Recreation Field, the gift of the alumni of the University. "The University of Illinois ranks among the first in the United States, and it is contemplated that the pro- posed arena for athletics and sports shall also take first place among the stadia of the country. "The people of Illinois may take great pride in a memorial so mag- nificent, so dignified and yet so fraught with rich life and vigor for the youth of today and tomorrow. The promi- nent place which our University has won in the athletic world is, I believe, a true indication of the vitality which is characteristic of our State. This gift is a generous and fitting testi- monial of the affection in which the graduates hold their alma mater." LEN SMALL. 'ASTADIUMWILLBEA FINETHING^SENATOR MEDILLMcCORMICK. A GREAT Memorial Stadium and Recreation Field at our State Uni- versity will surely be a fine thing. "I am proud of our University, and I hope that everything essential to her work in developing and training our youth to its highest usefulness and efficiency may be provided. I firmly believe that carefully supervised ath- letic training is as essential as intel- lectual or manual training. "Everywhere in our land great stadiums are being built. They are a material expression of our national zest and joy in clean, healthful athletic competition. On the campus of the University of Illinois, the Stadium movement should attain its climactic development in a temple of incom- parable beauty and dignity, a monu- mental structure which will be a wonderful Stadium, a worthy memo- rial, and a significant symbol of Illini loyalty and courage all in one!" MEDILL McCoRMiCK. 'THE PROPOSALTO ERECT ASTADIUM SHOULD COMMEND ITSELF TO EVERY ILLINOISAN" says EX-GOVERN OR EDWARD F. DUNNE " r I ^HE proposal to erect a Memorial _L Stadium dedicated to the memory of the Illinois dead in the World War is one which should commend itself to every Illinoisan, and particularly to the students and alumni of our great Uni- versity. As outlined, the program will furnish to our University one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Stadium and athletic fields in the world. The students of the University have already shown a magnificent spirit in subscrib- ing seven hundred thousand dollars to the total of two million needed for the completion of this noble enterprise. I have not the slightest doubt but that the alumni and friends of the Univer- sity throughout the state and nation will do their part within the next few weeks in completing a subscription of two million. As designed, this Stadium will not only furnish badly needed "I SINCERELY HOPE THAT THIS NOBLE CONCEPTION SOON MAY BECOME AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT," says EX- GOVERNOR FRANK O. LOWDEN " r I ^HE great institution of learning _L maintained by the State of Illinois at Urbana is to be enriched and aug- mented by the erection of a magnifi- cent Stadium and Recreation Field, the gift of the alumni of the Uni- versity. The University of Illinois ranks among the first in the United States, and it is contemplated that the proposed arena for athletics and sports shall also take first place among the stadia of the country. This gift is a generous and fitting testimonial of the affection in which the graduates hold their alma mater." FRANK O. LOWDEN. facilities for athletics in the University, but will establish a monument to the patriotism of Illinois to which every Illinoisan can point with pride." EDWARD F. DUNNE. THE PAYMENT SCHEDULE IS SIMPLE AND CONVENIENT YOU don't pay a cent until January 1, 1922. Then, if you have sub- scribed the regular quota, which is $100, you have 2 1 A years in which to pay. The payments will be due every 6 months, on January 1 and July 1 of each year, ending on July 1, 1924. Each payment will be $20. If you have subscribed $200, which is the honor quota, you have 5 years in which to pay. The payments will be due likewise every 6 months. Each payment will be $20. The last payment will come on July 1, 1926. If you have subscribed more than $200, you pay one-tenth of your total subscription every 6 months for 5 years. Do not send the Athletic Association a check or money in any form. You will be called on by alumni who are voluntary solicitors and you will be given cards to sign. If you live far from an Illini organization, you will receive cards in the mail. When you sign these cards, you will get a receipt. That is all you have to do until January 1, 1922, when the first payment is due. With each $100 pledge you receive an option on one good seat in the Stadium for 10 years, or on 2 good seats for 5 years. As your sub- scription increases, the number of seat options increases in the same ratio. A $200 subscription entitles you to 2 seats for 10 years, or 4 seats for 5 years. And so on. Memorial columns may be subscribed for and dedicated to any Illini who died in the war. Such a subscription is fixed at $1,000. It entitles you to a bronze tablet on the column with your name inscribed upon it. It also entitles you to an option for 10 years on 20 seats, or for 5 years on 40 seats. None of the options will be maintained longer than 10 years. Please get out a pencil tonight. Reread this page carefully, and figure how much you can afford to subscribe to your alma mater for a memorial Stadium and recreation field. Do not, under the influence of your enthusiasm for your University, promise more than you are sure you can afford to give. Stadium sub- scriptions should be given with an untroubled mind. When you have gone over the figures carefully, make your decision, so that you will know exactly what to do when you are asked to build that Stadium for fighting Illini. i Paste receipt for first payment here (and for sixth) Paste receipt for second payment here (and for seventh) Paste receipt for third payment here (and for eighth) helped to Build that STADIUM for FIGHTING ILLINI Paste receipt for fourth payment here (and for ninth) Paste receipt for fifth payment 'here (and for tenth} UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 30112031878983