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James L. Gilbert's avatar

The basketball connection between the University of Kansas and the University of North Carolina is well known. Less well known is the football connection between the two schools. Kennedy's first coach at Kansas was Hector Cowan who came down to Chapel Hill in February 1889 to train the UNC football players. The '89 games were delayed and he was back north, playing indoors, when the team finally took the field.

Carolina has Kansas beat by 10-years with its last unbeaten, untied team.

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Sports Dispatch's avatar

Man I love to hear stories like this about these very deserving but forgotten people from football s past. Great job on sharing his story and the John Outland connection really took his story over the top! What a shame the Conference rules ended his Jayhawk career, but the Haskell part is intriguing too. Nicely done Mr Brown.

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