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KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
TURKEYS VS. BETAS.
Turkeys Score Comedown Against Betas. Fine Work by Beta Tackles and Turkey Guards.
[ SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION. ]
After suffering defeat at the hands of the Beta team for many years, the Turkey team, under the able coaching of Farmer Reece, won Tuesday night's game, with a comedown in the last minutes play.
The game was played on the home grounds of the Turkeys. It was an ideal night and the pens adjoining the grounds were packed with an enthusiastic crowd of rooters.
When the Beta team appeared on the Reece field they found the Turkeys assembled in defense of their goal, and the game began at once. The Betas kicked off, sending Beta No.1, ten yards into the Turkey territory. In the first scrimmage the Turkeys presented a stone wall front, in which their opponents failed to find a hole. Soon however, the Beta field general grasped the key to the situation, opened a hole in the Turkey line and the full Beta went through and tackled the Turkey quarter. This was declared a foul tackle and the Turkeys given five yards.
With splendid team work which would have done credit to a darktown minstrel troup, the Betas crept nearer and nearer to the Turkey goal. In vain the famous gobble! gobble! yell of the Turkeys was echoed by their supporters in pens and on roosts; visions of pulling turkeys and turkey pullings floated before the eyes of the ever hungry Betas and they pressed steadily onward. At this point, however, the game was delayed; the mother Turkey was laying out.
In the first scrimmage after play was resumed the full Beta used the fraternity grip, and as a result two Turkeys refused to play. No substitutes were available and despite the protests of the Betas, Coach Reece immediately entered the game.
From the moment of his entrance the aspect of affairs changed, and the Turkeys plucked up courage. Coach Reece's familiarity with the Beta's style of play proved a tremendous advantage His interference was perfect, in fact it was double-barreled, and it was soon evident that a comedown was in store for the Betas. Despairing of victory they threw up the game and hastened from the field, leaving their captain to talk over the matter with Coach Reece. The argument soon became so warm that the Beta captain showed his decided preference of coolers, by jumping into the Waukarusa.
In the mean time the Beta team had returned in search of their captain and were forced into the game again by Coach Reece, who had secured the proper officials in order that any further dispute might be avoided.
A couple of double-barrel plays by Coach Reece and it was all over with the Betas, the Turkeys scoring, which will no doubt put an end to the annual Beta and Turkey game. W.B.H.
STATE Y. M. C. A, CONVENTION.
An Enthusiastic Meeting at Wichita-K. U. Well Represented.
The convention at Wichita, Nov. 22-25, was one of unusual strength. The attendance of 260 delegates was swelled by hundreds of residents and as many as a thousand people were present at some of the sessions.
The K. U. delegation was decidedly prominent, though not so large as some of those coming from near Wichita. We had more men than any other association in this section of the state. Tangeman was presiding officer during the first day; was chairman of resolutions committee, read a paper at one of the sessions and spoke Sunday in the First Congregational Church. Hanson had charge of the college end of the convention; our quartette, the Jay