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The Jayhawkers! is a 1959 American Technicolor VistaVision western film directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jeff Chandler as Luke Darcy and Fess Parker as Cam Bleeker. The film is set in pre-Civil War Kansas. Darcy leads a gang which seeks to take advantage of Bleeding Kansas (loosely based on abolitionist John Brown); Bleeker joins the gang
Jayhawkers, Red Legs, and Bushwhackers are everyday terms in Kansas and Western Missouri. A Jayhawker is a Unionist who professes to rob, burn out and murder only rebels in arms against the government. A Red Leg is a Jayhawker originally distinguished by the uniform of red leggings.
The following is a list of Kansas Jayhawks football seasons including the coaches in each season and competition scores and rankings from 1890 to present day. [1] The sports teams at the University of Kansas (KU), in Lawrence, Kansas, are known as the Jayhawks.
The term Jayhawker was made famous in Clint Eastwood’s movie The Outlaw Josey Wales. An older Kansas couple comes into a general store in Texas. The checker says, “The wheat is from Kansas and the molasses comes from Missouri.” Grandma says, “Well sir we'll do without the molasses, anything from Missouri has a taint about it.”
Jennison as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War An illustration of Jennison following the end of the Civil War in 1865. Charles Rainsford Jennison also known as "Doc" Jennison (June 6, 1834 – June 21, 1884) was a member of the anti-slavery faction during Bleeding Kansas, a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s.
Did you know the term Jayhawk loosely originated in Galesburg? Galesburg native and KU alum George Burgland shares the history.
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Members of the 1944 Iowa State men's basketball team (left to right): Roy Wehde, Price Brookfield, Gene Oulman, Bob Sauer, Ray Wehde. That season was the last time the Cyclones reached the Final Four.