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FOOTBALL:13-3
KU eludes MU
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Junior running back Jon Cornish dives past Missouri's Jason Simpson and into the endzone for Kansas' second touchdown, in the fourth quarter. Cornish had 10 rushes for 54 yards Saturday against the Tigers. The Jayhawks had 208 yards of total rushing offense.
Ground attack powers third Border War victory
BY RYAN COLIAIANN
rcolaianni@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Going into Saturday's game, pundits expected the Missouri rushing attack to be the most important unit on the field.
Instead, it was the Kansas rushing attack that decided the game's outcome.
The Jayhawks carried the ball 49 times for 208 yards, with senior running back Clark Green's 125 yards leading the way.
Kansas defeated its Border Showdown rival 13-3.
Green seems to have a knack for breaking out against Missouri.
Last season, Green rushed for 118 yards, which helped Kansas win 31-14 in Columbia, Mo.
Green said he's motivated by the history of the rivalry.
Each year, before Kansas plays Missouri, former coach Don Fambrough speaks to the players. He relays the history of the long-running feud between the state of Kansas and the state of Missouri, dating all the way back to Quantrill's raid in Lawrence.
"I am here listening to the stories and all and you don't want
Fambrough was KU football coach for eight seasons between 1971 and 1982, including a hiatus in the late 1970s.
Missouri to beat you," Green said. "We just go out and play our heart out every game, but especially against Missouri."
Kansas football coach Mark Mangino was not sure why Green has been so consistently successful against Missouri.
"Clark is our workhorse," sophomore offensive lineman Cesar Rodriguez said. "He works hard everyday. He gets blocks, he gets hurt, he pass blocks, he does everything that a running back should."
"I think maybe after being here for a couple years as a young player, he caught on to the intensity of this rivalry and what it means to the University of Kansas, to the people of Lawrence to the people in the state of Kansas," Mangino said.
Green, helped by the offensive line's strong showing, helped the Jayhawks have a successful game offensively.
Senior quarterback Jason
SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 5B
- For a photo gallery of Saturday's victory against Missouri, go to kansan.com/galleries.
Fans disperse posts throughout campus
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
mphills@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The KU grounds crew at Memorial Stadium can take down the goalposts in about 22 seconds. For the workers underneath the posts Saturday, there was an extra incentive to move quickly.
After defeating Missouri for the third consecutive year, fans stormed the field, tore down the goalpost in the north endzone, and carried it, along with the already-deconstructed post from the south endzone, off the field.
Pieces from the south endzone post made their way down Jayhawk Boulevard and into the Chi Omega Fountain, where three police officers kept watch over the pieces. Stadium officials took away the pieces that remained in the stadium after the crowd had cleared, KU workers said.
The north endzone post, still intact, was dumped into Potter Lake near Memorial Stadium.
Fans did not swarm around the field before the game final minutes, which limited the number of people who got onto the field for the celebration unlike the previous two years when fans stormed the field after victories against Missouri and Kansas State.
A crowd-control team patrolled the student section, but was told not to fight the oncoming rush,rather to unbolt the posts and walk away, Kansas event staff said.
Fans ignored a taped pregame
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message from Kansas football coach Mark Mangino, urging them to stay off the field. They also ignored repeated pleas from the public address announcer to "celebrate safely."
The goalposts must be replaced because they cannot be reconstructed. The company that manufactures the goalposts was notified of the potential need for replacements before the game, so the new posts will be ready for next Saturday's game against Nebraska.
Jamie Huston and Josh Lawrence, Lawrence sophomores, give a visual representation of butchering the Tigers in the student section of Memorial Stadium. Kansas beat Missouri 13-3 Saturday afternoon for its first Big 12 Conference victory.
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VIEW FROM PRESS ROW
Kansas fans should show some class
KELLIS ROBINETT
KROBINETT@KANSAN.COM
We saw who the true Kansas fans were on Saturday.
Those were the ones who sang the "Rock Chalk Chant" from their seats and left Memorial Stadium high-fiving one another showing dignity and class.
The thousand or so who ran on to the field to celebrate the 13-3 Kansas victory, however, dishonored themselves and the jayhawks' accomplishment.
This wasn't a monumental victory that deserved to bring the goalposts down, as we've seen the past two years. When the Jayhawks crushed a ranked Tiger team 55-14 two years ago, rushing the field was appropriate. It was the first Kansas victory against a ranked team in five years, and it all but assured the Jayhawks a trip to a bowl game.
Last year, a wild celebration was justified after Kansas defeated Kansas State, because it ended an 11-year losing streak to the Wildcats.
In those situations, Kansas did something it wasn't expected to do.
But there was nothing special about Saturday's game. Missouri
wasn't ranked. The Jayhawks have defeated the Tigers handily the past two years, and there was no dramatic finish.
Athletics Department officials said the celebration was a poor decision.
It might have been different if Kansas won the game on a last-second hall marry, but everyone knew Kansas was going to win with five minutes remaining in the game.
"We need to stop rushing the field when we've beaten a team three times in a row," Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchionny said. "We need to act we've been there before, because we have."
Kansas football coach Mark
Mangino agreed.
"That is dangerous. We don't need to do that," he said. "I just don't like it anywhere, whether it is on our field or on*a field somewhere else."
The fans who chose to run on to the field Saturday, told the Kansas football team, loud and clear, that they expected little out of it.
Beyond being dangerous — Marchiony said he saw one man come inches from death, narrowly avoiding a goalpost landing on his head — the celebration sent the wrong message to the Kansas football team.
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Junior defender Holly Gault, middle, celebrates with sophomore midfielder Emily Strinden and freshman midfielder Missy Geha after scoring the gamewinning goal against Missouri during double overtime Friday at Jayhawk Soccer Complex. The Jayhawks finished in a four-way tie for second place in the Big 12 and will play the Nebraska Cornhuskins on Wednesday in the first round of the Big 12 tournament in San Antonio.
Gault's golden goal defeats Tigers
BY ALISSA BAUER
abauer@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The Kansas 3-2 victory against Missouri on Friday ended Senior Day in dramatic fashion. Junior defender Holly Gault sprinted out of nowhere and received a textbook pass from senior forward Caroline Smith. It was a golden goal in double overtime.
"I love to attack and there was no one in front of me." Gault said.
"I was yelling as loud as I could to Caroline to pass me the ball."
The victory earned the Jayhawks a four-way tie for second place and the No. 5 seed in the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday in San Antonio. Kansas will play No. 4 seed Nebraska.
Texas A&M won the conference outright after a victory Friday night.
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