UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS @ LAWRENCE, KANSAS

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W. A. DILL, Director og HORACE MASON, Sports Editor

 

Sports News

That saddest of all football experiences, making a long
run for a touchdown and then having it nullified by the officials, was
the experience of L.D. Silver, University of Kansas fullback, in the
traditional Kansas-Missouri game in 1898.

The Jayhawks handed the Tigers a 12-0 defeat that day, but
only a technicality kept the score from being 18-0. Silver raced 80 yards
on a crisscross for a touchdown, only to eee the play called back.

‘wm The student paper, the University Weekly, for November 24,
1898 had the followingto say about Silver, "Words of too high praise
iKtmmmiinmm cannot be spoken for Silver who made a very brilliant run
of 80 yards without interference amid deafening cheers from University
friends, but was called back because the referee had not blown his
whistle to put the ball in play."

Besides making this spectacular play, Silver also played
an important part in the two touchdowns which counted.

The Jayhawk team lost only one game that year, Nebraska

having a jinx on the Kansans even then.
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(fhe Kansas records show Silver lettering in football

only that one year-1898)