PHANTOM TACKLE? OF 199
TELLS - OF | ‘DISAPPEARANCE

CHARLESTON? We VAs + (AP)== The "phantom tackle’ of Kanses University
who helped defend the Midwest title against Missouri in 1899 told today
why he "disappeared" after the game instead of going back te the Lawrence
gampus to the hero's welcome that awaited hime

George Re Krebs, 60 nOWs end a mining engineer, sat behind his drawe
ing boerd and chuckled. os

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

“hey said I didn't kon anything about football until that season
in Kansase Well, maybe not, but I had played for five years at West
Virginia University and on & professional team in Latrobe, Pas

Krebs was a sensation in that Kansas-Missouri geme and his dis-

appearence gaused 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 dey as Yost's eloven beat Missouri 34 to 6, for the Mid=

West title. ~ :

"At Kansas I matr ioula: pad
I don't remember exactly where
somewhere, didn't I?

“Well it was October and the season was already well under wey, 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 serubs. 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=
inge

Quickly there followed the Nebraske and Washburn games, whigh ©
Kansas won by big margins. Then the big game--Missouri, for the
title. Kansas won, 34 to Ge

"two of those Missouri men who played against me were carriod_ off
on stretchers," Krebs said, “But the third one was pretty goods
finished the game.

“then I just caught ao train and came home."

 

 

asa farm boy from somewhere in Golorado=-
but some hick place. I had to be from

 

 

  
 

 

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