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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 3, 1967
Hawks aim at Purple Pride
Vince Gibson brings his "Purple Pride," the Kansas State Wildcats, to Lawrence Saturday for a do-or-die battle with the league-leading Kansas Jayhawks.
More than 46,000 fans are expected to jam KU's Memorial Stadium for the 55th homecoming encounter, and the fifth such pairing with Kansas State.
Due to inclement weather, the Jayhawks practiced in Allen Field House Thursday. Coach Pepper Rodgers said the drizzly weather might benefit the Wildcats.
"Rain always helps the underdogs," Rodgers said. "But I'm not sure who the underdogs are."
No rain expected
However, the weather bureau predicted an end to the rain with "very little chance" for showers this weekend. Cloudy conditions will linger and temperatures are expected to reach the upper 40's, the bureau reported.
KU mentor said the team looked "the same as always," but are "excited about the game and want to win."
Tarpaulin covered Memorial Stadium's playing surface Thursday, protecting it from a soaking. The uncovered edges of the field were spongy by afternoon.
The Jayhawks' overall homecoming record is 18 wins, 32 losses and four ties. But the Hawkers have never lost a homecoming contest to K-State.
The last three times the teams
have met in Lawrence (1961, 1963, and 1965), the Crimson and Blue has scored 34-0 triumphs.
In fact, the last time a Kansas State football team scored a touchdown against the Jayhawks was in 1950, when KU won 33-14.
KU, which enters the contest with a season record of 3-3, is averaging 19 and yielding 15.7 points a game against six opponents. K-State, 1-5 on the season, is averaging eight points a game.
Most of the Jayhawks wore the letters, "POPP," taped onto their blue helmets Thursday as they worked out.
The two head coaches of the
arch-rival teams aren't strangers. Rodgers was backfield coach at Florida when Gibson held the position of assistant coach at Florida State. The announcement of their Kansas positions was made within one-half hour of each other last December.
Homecoming festivities kick off today at 2:30 p.m. when the KU freshmen meet the Kansas State yearlings on the field west of Allen Field House. The Jayhawk frosh opened their season last Friday with a 17-7 victory over the Oklahoma State freshmen.
However, Rodgers said the controversial message would not be worn during the game Saturday. "It was their idea," Rodgers said. "But they won't wear them in the game. This is a first class outfit."
After an hour of calisthenics and play-assignment drills, the
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