University Daily Kansan
Page 4
Monday, Nov. 16, 1953
A&M 41, KU 14
Saturday a Great Day But Not for Football
By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas university played a football game Saturday. But you would have had a hard time convincing anyone among the 17,000 fans in Memorial stadium that it was one.
Instead it was a great day for the cross country team, another great day for the KU marching band, and a great day for a pestiferous white dog. These three, coupled with the fine autumn weather, took all the glory away from the dull and uninteresting football contest.
Oklahoma A&M won the game, 41-14, the first time the Aggies have beaten Kansas since 1931. The Cowboys not only beat the Jets but also spat them all over the turf that adorned the near-empty stadium.
After the first nine minutes and 58 seconds it wasn't a game—it was a rout. The illusion that KU might win its third game of the season quickly vanished after the Aggies settled down to the business at hand.
The Aggies saw the light early and never stopped. Only when the second string entered the contest, was it halfway even.
The Jayhawkers could offer only one man as an answer to the running of Aggie backs Bob Green, Bill Bredede, and Earl Lansford. That man was John Anderson, burly 205-pound fullback, the only Jayhawk able to pick up more than 10 yards in rushing. He picked up 72 yards, 18 yards short of the entire Kansas total, on 12 carries, but his solo efforts weren't enough to produce any kind of a Kansas offense.
Green was top ground gainer for the Aggies with 82 yards, but it was the slashing drives of Breedie and Tolman ripped the KU defense, to shreds.
Lunsford got the first A&M touchdown with 7:56 gone in the first period when he smashed over from the one. The drive covered 67 yards, most of it being picked up by Bredde and Lunsford.
But KU came right back to drive 63 yards and score when Anderson exploded 17 yards through center and scored, carrying three men on his back into the end zone. John Handley converted and Kansas led 7-6.
After that and until 7.50 was left in the game, the Aggies never were slowed.
It all started when the Aggies' Ken McCullough punted out on the KU 6-yard line early in the second quarter. A 5-yard penalty set the Jayhawkers back to the end zone and one KU quarterback fumbled trying to hand off and Don Hess recovered in the end zone for a safety.
Six plays, a minute and 59 seconds later, the Aggies upped the margin to 15-7 when Green slashed over one and then booted Steve.
Four minutes and 20 second after that the score was 21-7 when Luns-ford drove over from the one and 22-7 when Green kicked the point.
Dorsey Gibson got the Aggie two more tallies in the third, both coming on 19. The Giants bade to 3-2 and fans, began filing out of the stadium.
It soon was up to 41-7 when Clyde Jones capped a 63-yard drive by ripping over from the five with only a minute and 10 seconds gone in the fourth quarter.
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KU's consolation, if there could be such a thing, came six minutes later when McFarland hit Larry Carrier with an 18-yard scoring toss. Bob Allison booted the extra point.
A&M, running most of the first half from an 8-man offensive line, seemed to hold a spell over the be-wildered Jayhawkers. Penalties and the little white dog did as much to slow the Aggies as did the Kansas defenders.
The Aggie offense rolled up 283 yards on the ground and 120 in the air to Kansas' 90 yards overland and 88 in the air. The Cowboys' defense kept the Jayhawker offense well in check throughout the game. Only twice did Kansas cross the 50 under its own power.
At times the Kansas passing attack looked promising but four costly interceptions kept it from being an offensive weapon.
A&M KU
A&M KU
First downs 15 11
Rushing yardage 283 90
Passing yardage 120 88
Passes attempted 12 20
Passes completed 8 6
Passes intercepted by 4 0
Punts 6 6
Punting average 27 32
Fumbles lost 1 1
Penalties 12 2
Yards penalized 147 20
Score by Periods
Score by Periods
KU 0 7 14
A&M 6 16 13 6-41
Browns Rush On For NFL Repeat
New York —(U.P.) The Cleveland Browns, who boast football's best place kicker in Lou Groza and one of its finest competitors in Otto Graham, virtually have clinched their eight straight pro division title and the Detroit Lions have a half-game lead in their bid for two in a row.
Cleveland stretched the National league's only perfect record to eight games and kept its 2 1/2 game lead over the runner-up Philadelphia Eagles in the Eastern conference yesterday by defeating the San Francisco Pirates 39-21. If Cleveland should lose three of its last four games, Philadelphia still would have to win its last four to win the division crown.
Detroit, defending league and Western division champion, broke a 3-way first-place tie with the Los Angeles Rams and Forty-Niners by beating the Green Bay Packers, 14-7, while the heavily-favored Rams were held to a 24-24 deadlock by the Chicago Cardinals.
Detroit (6-2) leads Los Angeles (5-2-1) by a half-game with San Francisco (5-3) a full game behind.
In the other games, Jim Finkes threw a 33-yard scoring pass to end Jack Butler with 41 seconds remaining to give the Pittsburgh
Massachusetts (5-3) a full game behind Philadelphia (5-2-1) was goaded into a 45-14 triumph over the Colts when Baltimore halfback Buddy Young returned the opening kick-off 104 vards for a touchdown.
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