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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 7, 1955.
By SAM JONES
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
After all the rallies, the game Saturday proved to be one of the most humiliating in KU's history. It was the worst beating in the 53-game series since KU defeated K-State 55-0 in 1947.
Though KU lost, the Jayhawkers still have the edge on all time wins, leading with 33 against K-State's 17. There have been three tie games.
Bev Buller, KU's senior quarterback, came out in the first quarter with 9:59 left in the quarter, a completely disheartened man. Buller had had the ball knocked out of his hand by one of the hard-charging K-State lineemen, and by the time the ball was recovered K-State had it on the KU 10. The Wildcats consequently scored their second touchdown.
Sarge, KU's most famous present day dog, almost ended his illustrious career before the start of the game. Just as two KuKu members were lighting the charge to the second aerial firecracker, Sarge sauntered up to it with all intents and purposes of picking it up and walking away. However, old Sarge escaped destruction when the charge went off a foot from his nose. Maybe Sarge has learned his lesson.
Referee Ron Gibbs, always one to be in on the play, was smothered by both teams when a K-State fumble bounced in front of him and seven players went after the ball. Fortunately, he was close enough to see Bill Bell at the bottom of the pile, so KU took over.
As the gun sounded ending the game, a band of teen agers from high school, students, and K-Club members headed for the south goal posts. Their defense of the posts was magnificent; however, they were outflanked and the top two stanchions of the north goal posts came down.
After Chuck Mather's talk to the team, he and Chancellor Murphy had a five-minute get-together in the clothes washing room in the KU dressing room.
After that Mather came out, smiling, to talk to reporters. Mather's first comment—"Bad day." He followed quickly with "K-State gave us a good liking."
"I'm not disappointed in our boys," Mather said. "They didn't look particularly good. They tried to play normally against a team with one thought—to win."
Mather continued. "I feel our early breaks opened the door. If we could've gotten a normal start, it would have been a better game
"They just over-powered our men," Mather added, "Their line out-charged us, offensively and defensively. Their speed, they can just run faster than we can."
Mather felt that the team missed the services of Jim Letcavits Jerry Baker and Dick Reich, who played for only a few downs, but he added, "We still wouldn't have won."
"The game," said Mather, "was won in the line. We just couldn't stop 'em."
Cross-Country Squad Wins Triangular Meet Easily
The addition of Arkansas to a dual meet between KU and Oklahoma made little difference to Coach Bill Easton's harriers as they sped to their fourth straight triumph of the waning campaign. Kansas had low score of 13 points, while Oklahoma tallied 29 and Arkansas 40.
Jayhawk captain, Al Frame, paced the winged-footmen with a time of 15:08 for the three-mile course. Jerry McNeal and Hal Long of Kansas placed second and third with times of 15:14 and 15:31 respectively.
The first Arkansas's runner across the finish-line was Don Martin, followed closely by Ron Wade and John Dahl of Oklahoma. KU's Bernie Gay was seventh and Bob Nicholson ninth.
This Saturday, Kansas will travel to Ames, Iowa to defend its Big Seven title.
The Kansas junior varsity smothered the Pittsburgh State Teachers College varsity last Friday by a score of 16-46. Jan Howell of KU won the meet with a time of 15:50.1. Teammates Verlyn Schmidt. Lowell Janzen, and Paul Baker took the next three positions to lead the rout.
Twenty-six fighters named Martinez were professionals. Fourteen were born in the United States, seven in Mexico, four in Cuba, and one in Panama.
Athletics Set Spring Sked
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(U.P.)-The Kansas City Athletics will play half of their 1956 spring exhibition games against the Pittsburgh Pirates and wind up with a two-game home game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
The A's released a 32-game schedule today. It opens March 10 against the Pirates at West Palm Beach, Fla., spring home of the Athletics, and closes April 15 against the Redbirds, two days before the 1956 season opens.
Sixteen games are booked against Pittsburgh, most of them on the road after the two clubs break camp.
Other spring rivals will include: Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Redlegs, Detroit Tigers, and the New York Yankees.
A SKINT WILDCAT—An unidentified Kansas State fan made a bold but futile attempt to tear down the KU goal posts after last Saturday's football game between the two schools. Moments after this picture was taken eager hands snatched the K-Stater off of the goal posts. The posts were saved.
(Kansan, Photo)
Kansas State Mauls KU 46-0 Before 26,000 Fans
Kansas may have had Touchdown IV, but the K-Staters had the football game from beginning to end last Saturday as they trounced the Javhawkers. 46-0. $ \textcircled{9} $
A crowd of 26,000 fans saw the Wildcats from Manhattan dominate the 53rd game of the series in every department. They had 298 yards rushing as against 63 for KU, and they completed three of their six passes while KU didn't complete a pass out of 11 attempts.
Four of KU's 11 passes were intercepted by K-State. All five of KU's fumbles were lost to K-State.
Nothing Works
Nothing worked for the Jayhawk-ers. They had only two sustained drives, one in the first quarter which only went to the K-State 44 yard line, and the other in the fourth quarter which went to the K-State 6. The second drive was halted on a fumble by John Francisco on the K-State 10 yard线
Other than the two drives, KU couldn't even put up a show of strength.
Bus Mertes' squad was fired up all during the game. They outcharged and outplayed the entire Kansas squad. The hard-charging
K-State line was generally credited with the defeat of the Jayhawkers. From end to end, the Wildcat line never let up during the entire game.
Flood Gates Open
The flood-gates opened on the second play of the game when KU fullback Joe Held fumbled on the KU 13 yard line. In three plays, K-State fullback Dough Roether went through right end for the first Wildcat score.
From then on, K-State rolled over the hapless Jayhawkers. At the end of the first half, KU had only gained four yards net rushing. They had only gotten one first down and had two passes intercepted. K-State had rolled up 26 points before the first quarter ended.
K-State right halfback Jerry Hayes led both teams in individual rushing with 60 yards on nine carries. Tony Addeo, right halfback, was second with 52 yards on 8 carries.
Frosh Lose To MU 14-6 At Columbia
A stubborn Kansas freshmen team was denied victory as the University of Missouri freshmen scored twice by passing to win 14 to 6 before about 1,500 spectators at Columbia Friday.
Kansas had taken an early lead from the Tigers when Homer Floyd on a pitchout raced around right end for 33 yards and a touchdown.
Missouri scored again on a 52-yard pass play in the fourth quarter. Boucher got behind the Jayhawker defense and took St. Pierre's long heave on the KU 32, and raced for the score. Rash again converted.
Missouri stormed back in the second quarter when quarterback St. Pierre handed off to James, who passed to Boucher in the right flat. The end grabbed the ball and ran for the touchdown. Rash booted the conversion to put the Tigers ahead 7-6.
Kansas just couldn't get the breaks at the right time. The Jayhawk frosh were on the Missouri half a foot line as the game ended, and fumbled inside Missouri's 5-yard line in the third quarter.
Homer Floyd was the leading rusher for both teams with 84 yards in sixteen carries. James led Missouri with 51 yards in eleven trips.
Haskell Star Sets Record
Records in both classes were broken as Maize and Wichita East won their fourth team championships last Saturday in the eighth annual KU High School cross-country meet.
Billy Mills, ace runner for the Haskell Indian team, broke his own class A record when he came in first with a 9:28.2 time. He tore seven seconds off his former record, established last year.
Buck Rennick lead the Maize team to the B title when he was clocked at a record breaking time of 9:59.8 over the two mile course. His time was seven-tenths off the former mark set by Bob Nicholson, a member of the KU cross-country team. Nicholson also attended high school at Maize.
John Francisco, KU left halfback, was the leading ball carrier for the Jayhawkers with 40 yards in nine carries. Dick Blowey, right half, picked up 24 yards on six carriestake second place in individual rushing for KU.
K-Staters Shine
Ron Nery, Jim Furey, Chuck Zickefoose and Jim Rusher were given most of the credit for the fine K-State line play. All four boys are seniors, so they will leave a big hole in the K-State line play after this year.
Doug Roether, Kenny Nesmith,
Bill Carrington, Dick Allen, Keith
Wilson, and Ralph Pfeifer all
scored for the Wildcats.
K-State rolled up more yardage against KU Saturday than the Oklahoma Sooners earlier in the season. They racked up 341 yards, rushing and passing. The win for K-State was the third successive victory, the first time they have accomplished this feat in the history of the series.
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