Thursday, Nov. 11, 1954 University Daily Kansan
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Oct. 9, 1933—"The scoreless tie of Coach Adrian Lindsey's brilliant University of Kansas eleven with Notre Dame this weekend was the talk of the Big Six conference and the nation today," said the Kansas City Star.
Most of you won't remember the KU team of 1933 that held the Irish scoreless and outplayed the top-ranked South Benders from the opening gun to the end of one of the greatest grid classics in the history of the school.
The eastern sportswriters, who today are quite cool toward the Big Seven, treated the Jayhawks quite graciously. One dispatch by the Associated Press stated, "Notre Dame was lucky to get a tie with KU in its first start last week—the Jayhawks clearly outfought and outplayed the Irish from beginning to end."
Other football columnists and writers all over the country were lavish in their praise of the KU team and its fighting stand against the Irish. Coach Lindsey's team was called such things as "the most underrated team in the middle west." and "the strongest eleven Notre Dame will face this season until it plays Southern California."
This was the first time a Notre Dame team had been tied in the opening game of the season since 1901. Who knows, with a little luck the Jayhawkers might have trotted off with a victory for their gallant and surprising stand. As it turned out, the Jayhawks were the possessors of probably the greatest moral victory they ever carried away from a football field.
One New York columnist even went slightly overboard in praise for the Jayhawks when he stated, "A Kansas football cyclone roared out of the western plains to shatter and topple a prized Notre Dame gridiron tradition that has stood like Gibraltar for 32 years."
"Neither team scored," declared the Chicago Tribune in its story the game, "but it was Notre Dame which held Kansas to a tie, and the Irish at the end of the afternoon's vain effort, retired in confusion, demoralized as no Notre Dame eleven has been in many years."
Pertaining to eastern sportswriters today, the situation is quite the reverse. In most of the eastern papers a person could spend about 15 minutes looking for the results of Big Seven contests—and then if he was lucky enough to find them at all, they would most likely be down at the bottom of the last column on the last page of the sports section.
It seems almost unbelievable that eastern sportswriters could go so completely wild in their praise of any KU team—but tieing Notre Dame in those days was just as big a feat as it is today.
Notre Dame Ranked First By Minneapolis Oddsmakers
New York — (U.P.)— Notre Dame, the fifth ranking team in the nation, ranked first today with the Minneapolis oddsmaking house which quoted it the most one-sided football favorite on the board for the second week in a row.
Ignoring the word that North Carolina's Tarheels are supposed to be "up" and gunning for the Irish at South Bend, Ind., Saturday, the oddsmakers made Notre Dame a 26-point favorite in the game.
ette, Ind., is a seven-point favor- ite.
Second-ranked Ohio State, which can clinch at least a tie for the Big Ten conference title and the Rose Bowl bid that goes with it by beating 12th ranked Purdue at Lafay-
Undefeated Arkansas, to whom a victory Saturday will mean the Southwest conference title and a trip to the Cotton Bowl, is a sixpoint choice over Southern Methodist for their game at Fayetteville, Ark.
Four games were rated even. They were the tussles between Michigan State and Michigan, Indiana and Northwestern, Colgate and Syracuse, and Florida and Tennessee.
Brown was a one point favorite over Harvard; Louisiana State a one point pick over Mississippi State; Texas Christian one point
KU Grid Practice
Laughlin and Pfutzenreuter May Play in Aggie Game
By TOM LYONS
Kansan Sports Editor
Fullback Bud Laughlin and guard Don Pfutzenreuter, both starters for KU, were back in pads yesterday, but did not participate in heavy contact work. They previously had been reported as doubtful for action Saturday against Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater.
Another man was added to a casualty list, however. Norman Redd, No. 3 center, who started one game this season, probably will miss the upcoming contest because of a badly sprained ankle.
Ames, Iowa — (U.P.)—iowa states football team was bolstered today by the return of halfback Bruce Alexander, who missed two games because of a broken ankle.
Coach Vince De Francesca announced Alexander will be ready to go Saturday against Kansas State at Manhattan.
However, Alexander's replacement, Hank Philmon, is expected to be in the starting lineup with Alexander standing by.
Columbia, Mo. — (U.P.) Missouri football coach Don Faurot said today his charges will have to play their "best game of the year" when they face mighty Oklahoma Saturday at Norman.
The Jahyawks spent most of the two and one-half hour drill yesterday working on defensive maneuvers against the freshman and reserve units.
Faurot worked his Tigers yesterday on defense against Oklahoma plays.
plays.
He described the Sooners as "the best team on our schedule."
Still hoping to toughen the left side of the line, Faurot moved Gene Campbell into the No. 1 left tackle position and shifted Chuck Mehrer to the left guard position.
The Tigers will leave Columbia by plane Friday afternoon.
Big 7 Briefs
Manhattan — (U.P.)— Kansas State football Coach Bill Meek has a lot of respect for Iowa State's team. "I'm beginning to stay awake nights on this one," said Meek.
"We have seen pictures of the Cyclones in action and our scout saw them play Oklahoma last week. We rate them really tough."
Meek ran his squad through a two-hour session yesterday to sharpen it for the Saturday game with Iowa State. The Wildcats toped off the workout with kicking drills.
over Texas, and in the NCAA's national televised game, which is rated another close contest, Georgia Tech was a seven-point choice over Alabama.
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