KFKU Broadcast - for Thursday, Nov. 26 Pee os : Last Saturday eo beat pAssouri 7 6 one of the biggest upsets of the current football season occurred. Ilissouri was picked by most critics to be at least three touchdowns better than Kansas. From the opening kick-off when Wayne Hird, K, U. 17-year-old freshman | 23¢ p center, stopped Missouri's Don "Bull" ioe a vicious tackle, the kansas Jayhawkers outfought, outgained and outscrapped their heavier and more Nera ce Se, oe waver asy experienced opponents. It was a case of acre and "the will to win" on the part of the Jayhawkers, as they fought savagely against a heavier and supposedly stronger teame _The entire Kansas team played inspired football last Saturday. Freshman Bob George, who played quarterback, halfback, fullback, and did the passing and kicking as well as scoring the Kansas touchdown, was probably the ‘most versatile player on the field. George Dick, Warren Riegle and Gordon Stucker played fine games at end. The entire Kansas line turned in a fine performance and the goal line stand in the last three minutes of play be durcribad somthe tt anprlelinre o ee desemmgs : tee! Boys who played in the Kansas line were Don Overman, Ed Miller and John Agee at tackles, Frank Gruden, Charles keller, — Dick Dreher, Don Faulkner at guards, and Wayne Hird and Dan bat wedi, ' In the backfield for Kansas, - George, Moffett, Robison, Borschel, Dickey, Mowery and Walton all played good hard football. Zs From the first Missouri fumble it was evident that the fans were going to see a great ball game. As soon as the Jayhawkers got the ball, the Jayhawkers went into a spread formation. On the first play they hit center for four yards. On the next play alo g pass was thrown from George PS tvidintly wad. Lasg who was open in the end zone but muffed the ball. -For almost the entire cir my aan... Quarter Kansas kept Missouri in @m Wissourigend of the field. In the second quarter Missouri dominated the play and scored eo ee to eee was good for 35 yards and a touchdown. The first attempt at the goal was good but a holding penalty on Missouri set them back 15 yards. This penalty cost Qe Missouri severely since on the next play the attempted kick was wide. In the third period George scored for Kansas on a beautiful run off tackle which went 11 yards. Bill Chestnut who. had been practicing drop kicking all year, sent the ball between the uprights for the winning aalat. The last half of the game was a thrilling battle in which Kansas repeatedly staved | off. Missouri's efforts goalward. The climax came in the last two minutes when Kansas held Missouri for 4 downs on the Kansas 5 yard line. A crowd of 9,000 Homecoming fans watched the spectacle. It was a great day! A great game! And a thrilling chapter in K.U. * football history! HOMECOMING ‘The K U Homecoming celebration for 1943 is dead. Long live Homecoming } This year's annue 1 event turned out to be one of those rare occasions which seems destined to linger and shine in the memories of those who had parts in ite The glorious climax afforded by, a Seer team that wouldn't be beaten doubtless colors and conditions Je iene of the whole weekend. Everything looks good to a winner, you know. But e review of events. leading up to thet mighty contest on Kansas field will reveal some interesting angles, you must admit. On Friday evening, as the first of the preliminary Homecoming exercises, we staged a basketball game between the Kansas Varsity and a team from the . . Army Specialized Training Students. It was unlike any previous opening game. A crowd that fer overflowed the seating facilities provided in Hoch Auditorium surged in to see the donkest. It wes ; he aia tongs, thrill-filled battled from the toss up to the final whistle. ‘Theat those gd boys were too fast and clever and exper ienced for the green Kansas squad | we us by @ silly wives not dampen the fine spirit of the occasion. Pellowing the basketball game the crowd formed behind the Kansas band in front of the auditorium and marched along the main University drive and down Mississippi aheeet. On one side of the werching throng stood . pee of bt cies trainees and on the other eae row of seilors all holding lighted torches to mark the way. It was a truly inspiring sight there in the pleasant fall evening on the campus. The revivel of Doc Yak and his Famous Pep Producing pills at the bonfire rally on the baseball field seemed portentious. It brought a crowd of civilian students, Army and Navy trainees, alumni, townspeople and other friends, that extended as far back es one could see from the lights of the platform. It x . i welded the student aebvisk men, many of whom are absolutely ave on the campus, and the old timers together into one cheering Singing throng. Caumectilg The committee drafted 2 ub the part of Doc Yak and Ey-nie Pontius to be Master of Cebbeenten. I must confess that the crowd assembled really had little need of our pills which were guaranteed to make you Bark Like e« Prairie Dog, Fly Like a Jayhawker, Have as Much Kick as a Zombie, x and Knock He fy out of any Missouri Tiger. Dies was thrilled with the opportunity to meet the coach and each member of the football team between halves of the basketball game, as Henry Shenk, modest, able, personable head eoach introduced them. I think all took delight in meeting the Homecoming Queen senkiantes under management of our own Lieut. Randy Neil, commander of the Nevel air cadet training program at K Ue. I couldn't help noting with pleasure the next day , = between halves of the football — Governor Andy Schoeppel presented the “ueen and her attendants with ne here was the state's first Governor from western Kansas in & ceremony with all three girls from the central and western part of. the State. Heloise Hillgbrand, -the queen, is from Wichita, and the attendants were Margaret Gurley from Beloit and Nancy Jane Petersen of Dodge City. It seems significant to me also that the Cen of our state should go to the dressing room of the Kansas team just before bok eae and go into a huddle with the boys just before they went onto the field. We don't know what he said to them but we do know thet the boys liked it. Governor Schoeppel wes escorted to the dressing room before the game by an alumni alimnwe a oséetTal’ After the game he tore ca the field leading Lester McCoy, : — of Garden City, chairman of the Board of Regents ,by a good margin to get v - in with the boys once again to let them know how he felt ebout their rere hr lees 7 victory. Russell Wiley and his fine K U band, aided by the blue-jackeBted Nevy ae emery student trainees, the marching of the WACs and all the colorful pageantry helped give Homecoming its appeal. The dance Saturday night, the Sunday vesper concert and the other events each hed its part. True, the alumni did not come back’ in throngs as in days of coats and unlimited gasoline. True, the Homecoming program was definitely planned to incorporate the servicemen on our campus. It did that in a big way and it made this year's Kansas-Missouri game a splendid occasion, the kind for which our country is famous. It was another of those things abou¥ which we can say, "This is Worth Fighting For." This year's Homecoming celebration is simplified and streamlined to conform with the spirit of the times. It is arranged to be of interest to the soldier and sailor student trainees on the campus, as much as for the civilian students ¢ asia the returning alumni who will be here. Tomorrow, Friday, evening at 7:30 o'clock in Hoch Auditorium the referee will toss up the ball in the tip-off for the fierce and fiery basketball game between the Army Specialized *vakeias Unit and the Kansas varsity. The army boys are said to be really good, with talent aplenty, ----tall ones, short ones, expert shots and fast breaking po on the plains of Indiana, Minnesota, and other basketball strongholds. They are not permitted to play intercollegiate ball, but they can do this intramural sport. This is their one big chance of the year. They are filled with ambition to do things to the varsity----and they may do theme It will be a battle. | Between halves of the basketball game Friday evening come the introduction of Homecoming Queen candidates, and then the announcement of the Queen herself wits her attendants. Ernie Pontius, that suave, debonair master of ceremonies, will introduce the coaches and the members of the football team who are to represent Kansas in the fateful football game on Kansas field the next daye After the game the crowd will be regaled with as colorful a celebration as one could imagine. Led by Russell Wiley and his brilliantly uniformed K U band, the entire crowd marches from the auditorium to the south oe aktie field, south east of Memorial Stadium. Rows of soldiers and sailors will line the way, holding torches aloft to light the line of marche mn the practice field Reed Whetstone and his Ku Ku's will have a huge bonfire. There beside the bonfire on a platform will be resurrected the famous old Doc Yak and his Medicine Show, dormant these past ten or a dozen years. Doe Yak and his pep producing pillse They are guaranteed to vitalize, invigorate, and rejuvinatee The good Doc will have entertainment acts, including banjo artists formerly on big time vaudeville, and boys from the service unitse All will be directed toward development of an overpowering spirit to down the Missouri Tigers Saturday afternoon. Between halves of the football game, en after all is the chief dish of the Homecoming feast, we'll have the K U band in one of its thrilling demonstrations. It will be assisted by the Navy V-12 boyse The Homecoming Queen will be crowned by Governor Schoeppel. The WACs will give a demonstration of expert marching | ; end the aes Corps Band will feeb 4/2 ie , Tz Pou, oe Whpickerxdcktromack om xbomixsang FF os “ ath ae : oe eee sixheas 8 It wid | be a isan teen sceneée The Homecoming dance Saturday night at Hoch auditorium and the all University vesper concert Sunday efternoon at 4 o'clock are also parts of Homecoming. Visitors in the city will find the Vespers Concert featuring Dean Swarthout's University a cappella choir, the orchestra, the glee club, the organ, and the string-quartet, a high quality musical treat that fittingly ends the Homecoming season and links it with Thanksgiving. Jayhawk ~- Tiger Annual Battle - Sat. Nov. 20 Since the days of the Civil War when Quantrill and his Guerillas raided Lawrence, burned the town and massacred nearly every male citizen, the Jayhawkers of Kansas have been battling the Missourians. In those dark, bloody days of the Civil War, the battling was gous witu pistols, knives and muskets; Saturday eleven gridiron warriors representing the two great state universities of their respective states will attempt to settle’ their differences on the gridiron. It will be the 52nd (7?) meeting of Kansas and Missouri on the gridiron. During this period Kansas has i Missouri Ae) 3 and / games have resulted in ties. “Coach Chauncey Simpson of the Missouri Tigers will bring a. wontitent band of Missouri football players to Lawrence Saturday. Missourd has beaten every Big Six team played to date, with the exception of Oklahoma, to whom they lost last week 20 - 13. Missouri's attack is built around Don "Bull" Reece, great plunging fullback who is ee his fourth year for the Tigers... Eckern and Morton, fine Missouri ends, are also playing their fourth year for ifissouri. Dellastatius, a fine Missouri halfback was injured in the Oklahoma game end Coach Simpson reports that, while he will suit up, he will not be able to play. Kansas fans are wondering if Dellastatius may not - called on by the Missouri coaches if the game situation warrants it. Coaches Dean Nesmith, Blmer Schaake and Henry Shenk have been grooming the Jayhawkers all week with the idea of stopping the Missouri T and have been cooking up some scoring plays of their om. The Jayhawkers will be entering the game as definitely the under dogs. They will be without the services of John Bergin, fine halfback who is ill is ths student hospital, and Junius Penny, tackle who suffered a wrenched knee in the Nebraska game and has not been able to play since. In addition, Bob Carson, frosh fullback, was lost to the Kansas squad after the K-State’ game because he was called to military — duty with the U. S. Marine Corps, and Don Barrington, the other Jayhawker fullback, was declared ineligible by the naval authorities because of scholastic difficulties. This leaves the Kansas squad woefully short on fullbacks. Bill Mowery, sibettente fullback, who starred last week by running over two touchdowns in the last quarter to bring his team a victory over the Warrensburg Teachers 13 - 12, should be able’ to play in the fullback position despite a weak knee. Two other Kansas freshmen backs, Joe Dickey and LeRoy poneeese) should be ready to play although not in tip top condition due he. colds and sore throats. . Despite the fact that Kansas rates as the under dog in this game, sports fans can be sure that a fighting, clawing Jayhawk will be awaiting the tawny-striped Missouri Tiger Saturday. The K. U. coaches have been impressing upon their boys all week the fact that in this game previous . scores mean nothing. The series is replete with upsets and while an upset might not happen this Saturday, it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Oklahoma, who has only to beat bcipek. Houvenke es to vapture the Big Six crown, was given g terrific battle by a surprising Kansas team that scored two touchdowns via the air route and were knocking at the door for two more in the game played at Norman November 6, and which Oklahoma finally won 26 - 15.