'PHANTOM TACKLE? OF 199
TELLS OF (DISAPPEARANCE!

CHARLESTON? W. VA. =~ (AP)=- The 'phantom tackle' of Kansas University
who helped defend the Midwest title against Missouri in 1899 told today
why he "disappeared" after the game instead of going back to the Lawrence
campus to the hero's welcome that awaited hime

George R. Krebs, 60 now, and a mining engineer, sat behind his draw-
ing board and chuckled.

"You see," he said, "I wasn't the green farm boy from Colorado that
I was supposed to be.

"They said I didn't know anything about football until that season
in Kansase Well, maybe not, but I had played for five years at West
Virginia University and on a professional team in Latrobe, Pa.

: Krebs was a sensation in that Kansas-Missouri game and his dis-
appearance caused a furor that has built about him a tradition of mystery.

Reams have been written about the “Colorado farm boy" who made foot-
ball history that day as Yost's eleven beat Missouri 34 to 6, for the Mid-
West title. :

"At Kensas I matriculated as a farm boy from somewhere in Colorado--
I don't remember exactly where, butssome hick place. I had to be from
somewhere, didn't I?

"Well it was October and the season was already well under way, so
at first I just ambled around over the campus, stumbling over my own
feet, and it was easy to pass for a farm boy. I looked like one.

"Then I went out for the team and Yost put me on the scrubs. I
just stumbled around and when the ball came to me, I'd be awkward, let
it hit my chest end bounce off."

"But I caught on pretty quick," he continued, the grim breaden-
ing e

Quickly there followed the Nebraska and Washburn games, which
Kansas won by big margins. Then the big game--Missouri, for the
title. Kansas won, 34 to 66

"Two-of those Missouri men who played against me were carried off
on stretchers," Krebs said, "But the third one was pretty good. He
finished the game.

"Ten I just caught a train and came home."