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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 18, 1961
University Daily Kansan SPORTS TCU Has Edge In KU Series
Kansas played Texas Christian for the first time in 1942 and lost, 41-6. This Saturday night head coach Jack Mitchell takes his highly regarded team to Ft. Worth to play the nineteenth game in what has become a traditional and interesting series.
Although KU has taken only three games from the Horned Frogs, it has risen from a 42-0 loss three years ago to a 14-7 defeat and then a surprising 21-7 victory last year.
A YEAR AGO THE JAYHAWKERS went into the opener as an under-dog to a possibly very potent TCU squad and came out with a win which helped start them on their way to national prominence. This season the situation is somewhat reversed but the Frogs are not given a very strong chance by the experts to be the equal of the Jayhawkers.
It took KU nine games to finally interrupt the Texan's dominance in the series; the first win coming in 1951, 27-13.
KU FOLLOWED THIS WIN with its only other victory up until last September the next season downing TCU, 13-0.
This win in 1952 marked the first time TCU had been held scoreless in 43 consecutive games, the last being in a 0-0 deadlock with KU in 1947.
IN THE SERIES, WHICH HAS seen three ties, the Frogs have out-scored the Jayhawkers, 330-127. Three times the TCU club has hammered across the KU goal for more than 40 points, setting a series mark of 47 in 1955.
KU's best offensive showing on the scoreboard was in the initial win over TCU.
For Coach Mitchell, this will be the fourth game at the KU helm against the Frogs, coached by Abe Martin. A win Saturday would even Mitchell's record with the Southwest Conference team in his tenure on Mt. Oread.
Dotson, Hagan Rated
Kansas Miler Bill Dotson and Half-Miler Kirk Hagan are ranked fourth and eighth, respectively, by Track and Field News, on its latest 1661 U.S. ratings. Dotson clocked 4:02.9 during the past season; Hagan, 1:49.2.
Seventy-one may be the magic number for Kansas University football. This year the Jayhawkers, rated all the way from first to 14th in pre-season national grid polls, are faced with the possibility of fielding their greatest team in the school's history. If this is the year for Kansas' greatest team, it comes 71 years after the introduction of the pigskin at Mt. Oread.
Kansas Won First Grid Game
KANSAS' FIRST FOOTBALL team was composed of thirteen scraping students back in 1890. As coach there was Professor Carruth of the German department. In place of Memorial Stadium, there was a vacant lot along Massachusetts Street between 14th and 15th streets.
Kansas opened its initial season against Baker University on November 22. Professor Carruth's iron men started the ledger on the right side. Kansas won 22-9.
The Jayhawkers ended their first ten years with an all-victorious year. KU's record for the decade read 54 wins, 18 losses and two ties.
AFTER THE FIRST TEN YEARS KU's football picture was bleak. It looked so black that in the early forties Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, Kansas' great basketball coach, predicted that football would die out in the following ten years.
Dr. Allen's forecast obviously did not come true. Kansas rebounded in the late forties to vault into the national spotlight by winning the conference title and making a trip to the Orange Bowl.
After the late forties Kansas football fortunes retrogressed back to mediocry. This mediocracy pre-
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vanued until a man by the name of Jack Mitchell came to KU as football coach.
UNDER MITCHELL KANSAS football has risen rapidly. This year is Mitchell's fourth as head coach; this year is Kansas' 71st year of football.
Jack Mitchell will not teach German this year.
KANSAS FOOTBALL HAS come a long way since those lean early days. A rich gridiron heritage prevails atop Mt. Oread. Possibly Kansas will reach the crest of its football heritage this year, the 71st year of Kansas University football. Seventy-one may be the magic number for the Jayhawkers.
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