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Kansas linemen who played a brilliant game were Worren Riegle and
Charles Daigneault, ends; Charles Keller and. Dick Dreher, guards; Gene Long and
Wallace Rouse, tackles; and Wayne Hird, center. In the backfield, big Don
Barrington, fullback, and Charles Moffett, tailback, were outstanding, with
Leroy Robison, Don Faulkner and Dwight Sutherland turning in fine jobs of block-
ing and running when the occasion demanded.

Bight of the Kansas team played their last game for K.U. since they
were being transferred by the Navy to other stations. Warren Riegle, Charles
Doigneault and John Schimenz, ends; Don Barrington, Ted Short, 0. J. Endacott,
Ben Welch, backs; and Dick Dreher, guard, are boys from the first twenty-two men_
who played their last game this. season for Kansas. Replacing these men was a
tremendous job for the Kansas coaches in the four games ahead with the Olathe |
Clippers, Kansas State, Oklehoma and Jlissouri. ae ;

I know all of you loyal Jayhawkers in whatever theatre of operations
you may be will be overjoyed to know that at last Kansans can talk of football
without recalling how many years it has been since we have beaten Nebraska and
wondering whether a kansas team ever will. From now on the Jayhawkers are deter-
mined to put the jinx on the other, team. ;

After the Nebraska victory, Kansas fans wondered what would be the
fate of the Kansas team after losing the eight Navy boys through transfer, four
of whom had been regulars on the first team. They were agreeably surprised when
the K.U. team trounced the Olathe Clippers 33 to 14. Leroy Robison, converted
to a fullback from his blocking back position, did an especially good job at
. lugging the ball. Sam Hunter, freshman tackle, was moved to right end, arid Lee

: Gregory and Gordon Reynolds started at left tackle. This gave Kansas a pair of
green ends, but they showed promise in this game of developing as the season
progressed, The blocking and ball carrying was especially good in the Olathe
- game.

Then came the upset. Kansas State beat us 18 to 14 in a game for the
books. Kansas started off by scoring a touchdown after about 12 plays in the
first quarter. The touchdown was scored on.a screen pass from Charlie Moffett
to Leroy Robison. Bill Chestnut, our fine dropkicker, kicked the extra point.

In the second quarter Kansas State, with a fine mixture of passes and
running plays, scored, to leave the. score at the half remaining 7 to 6. In the
third quarter Kansas State took the ball away from Leroy Robison after he made a
line plunge on the Kansfés 30-yard line. From there they scored on a lateral pass
after driving inside of the Kansas one-yard- line. Just before the quarter ended,
Kansas started a march which ended on the first play of the fourth quarter with
Charlie Moffett going across for. a touchdown from the Kansas spread formation.
Chestnut again kicked the goal and. the score was 14 to 12,

eel tam The game see-sawed back. and forth with Kansas .outplaying the Aggies
until.about four minutes remained in the fourth quarter. A forward pass from
Charlie Moffett to Gordon Reynolds was intercepted by little Dana Atkins on the
Aggies 20-yard line, and he raced down to the Kansas 8-yard, where he was finally |
- tackled by Leroy Robison and Don Faulkner. The Aggies scored from here on © pass,
and led Kansas 18.to.14. With 15 seconds.remaining in. the ball game, Charlie
Moffett took the ball on his own 20-yard line in the spread formation and.ran 80
yards through the entire Aggie team for a touchdown, only to have.the score —
nullified when on official called a clipping penalty on the Kansas State 15-yard
line. And that was the ball game. : :