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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 20, 1953
47 Win Over Mizzou Called All-Time Thrill
By SAM TEAFORD
It was played six years ago, but few who saw it ever will forget the Homecoming football game of 1947.
That was the year that KU, paced by all-American Ray Evans, went through the regular season undefeated to play in the Orange Bowl, where it lost to Georgia Tech 14-20.
But it was the game against Missouri at Homecoming which practically assured KU of an undefeated season and clinched the Orange Bowl bid, and 40,043 persons, considered the largest crowd ever to watch a football game in Memorial Stadium, were there to watch KU on 20-14.
Oklahoma, who had tied Kansas 12-13 earlier in the year, also won at day to tie KU for the Big Six Colorado hadn't entered the conference yet) title, but it marked the second straight year the Jayhawks had shared in the conference championship.
Such last-minute proceedings were nothing new for the Jayhawkers of 1647. Two weeks earlier there were only 42 seconds left to play when KU scored to defeat Nebraska 13-7. Leading in the game by 14-13, Missouri roared to a first down on the KU 14, and it looked as if the Tigers might ice the game with another touchdown. But Griffith spilled the Tigers' Nick Carrasas on a fourth down play, and it was KU's ball on the sixth with time running out.
Missouri almost ruined the 1947 Homecoming, however. The Tigers grabbed a 14-13 lead in the first half, and there were only 65 seconds left in the game when Forrest Griffith scored for KU to win the game, the Bowl bid, and a share of the championship.
Evans, playing his last game in Memorial stadium, drove for two yards. Griffith ran for 13, Dick Berrazzi got three, and Evans added two more. A pass by Red Hogan was complete. Then Evans picked up nine yards. Griffith drove for six, and Evans moved the ball seven more yards to the MU 34.
Evans passed to Bud French, and the Jayhawkers had a first down, goal to go, on the MU eight. Then Griffith, who picked up a total of 14 yards that day, carried the ball on all four downs, driving over to score on the last one. Don Fam- tomb, now freshman grid coach, kicked the point to make the final score 29-14.
Early in the game the Jayhawkers drove to the MU two, but were stopped there. Missouri tried to punt out, but the ball hit a Missouri man on the nine, giving KU the ball there. Evans passed to French on the first play for a touchdown, giving the Jayhawkes a 6-0 lead.
Passing by Bus Entsinger and Dick Braznell brought the Tigers' first score. The kick was good, and Missouri led 7-6.
Early in the second quarter KU pushed to a first down on the MU four. Griffith made two yards, and Evans went the rest of the way. The try for point was good, making the score 13-7.
A few minutes later the Tigers had a first down at midfield after holding was called against KU. A pass by Entsinger was the big gainer, giving the Tigers a first down on the five. Carras scored from the three. Bob Dawson kicked the point, and it was 14-13. Missouri leading.
KU almost won the game in the first half, when, with two seconds left, Evans dropped back to midfield and passed complete to Hogan on the MU two, but he was stopped a yard short.
There was no scoring in the third quarter, and none in the fourth quarter until the Jayhawkers moved 94 yards in 17 plays in the final minutes to win.
That was the '47 Homecoming game. After the victory, KU was ranked 13th in the nation. A week later the Jayhawkers defeated Arizona 53-28 to finish their first undefeated season since 1923.
Four champions will be in the running Monday when the NCAA cross country run gets under way. KU's Wes Sante is big Seven kingpin: John Kelley of Boston university, the IC-A4 titlist: Rich Ferguson of Iowa, the Big Ten winner, and Kikuo Maryia of Wheaton, the Central Collegiate conference 1953 winner.
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Three sophomores figure prominently in the Varsity's plans tonight also. The three, all of them all-staters in high school, are Dallas Dobbs, 5-11 speedster from Bartlesville, Okla.; Len Martin, a 6-2 scoring shark from Ottawa who led all Kansas Class AA scorers in his senior year in high
school, and Bill Brainard, Newton's fourth contribution to the KU basketball squad.
Others presently working out with the team who probably will see action tonight are Marv Deckert, a 6-2 Larned product who specializes in two-hand back-the-head set shots, and another摩hores Chris Divich, the K-State transfer who won't be eligible for regular competition until the second semester; Dick Diers, a 6-4 Oklahoma City prospect who has
sparkled in early drills; Gary Padgett, a 6-2 product of Greenleaf who has come along fast, and Jim Toft, Grand Island, Nebraska's contribution to KU basketball.
Other squad members include Bob Anderle, Tom Brisler, Wes Johnson, Dirk Maguire, Tom Matthews, Harold McElroy, Tony Pagedas, Jo Wagoner, Wes Whitney, and Jack Wolfe.
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