Page 4 University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 24, 1952 神 Tigers Edge KU, 20-19 THIS ISN'T THE END—Bob Brandeberry, Kansas right halfback, is being tackled and spun around by Missouri's Bob Schoonmaker as he drives to set up the second Kansas touchdown during the third quarter Saturday in Columbia. Brandeberry gained 52 yards in 13 rushing attempts during the contest, and caught four passes for 32 yards more. He also scored a touchdown when he took a lateral from Gil Reich on the MU 4-yard stripe and scored from there. He had gone into the end zone two plays earlier, but the play was called back because of a penalty—Kansas photo by Dave Arthurs. | | KU | MU | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | First Downs | 16 | 14 | | Net Yards Rushing | 182 | 260 | | Net Yards Passing | 168 | 79 | | Net total offense | 350 | 339 | | Passes attempted | 24 | 11 | | Passes intercepted by | 1 | 2 | | Passes completed | 11 | 6 | | Number of punts | 6 | 5 | | Punting average | 38 | 40 | | Fumbles lost | 3 | 2 | | Yards penalized | 79 | 50 | Lucky Tiger score by . . . 6 0 13 0-19 Kansas 6 0 14 0-19 Missouri 0 14 0-19 Kansas LE: Taylor, D. Unruh, Bogue. LT: Lundy, Bixler, Mrkonic LG: Knowles, Hantla, Vignatelli C : Woody, Gish, Roberts, Anderson RG: Armstrong, Rossman, Helmstader RT: Spencer, Poppe RE: Leoni, Bracelin QE: Roberts, Cleavinger, A. Unruh LH: Hoag, Reich, Cindrich, Hess RH: Brandeberry, Patterson, Simons FB: Fiss, Fink Scoring Kansas: Touchdowns — Taylor Robertson, and Brandeberry. Placement—Reich Misouri: Touchedowns — Rowekamp Carras, Scardino. Placements INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Kansas Rushing TC Net Av Fiss 15 75 5.0 Brandeberry 13 52 4.0 Robertson 12 30 3.0 Reicht 6 22 3.7 Hess 1 4 4.0 Hoag 1 3 3.0 Missouri Rushing TC Net Av Rowekamp 14 149 10.6 Hook 14 20 8.5 Carras 9 25 2.8 Scardine 13 6 0.6 Kansas Passing Missouri Passing PA PC PI TD Yd Robertson ...23 10 2 2 148 Reich ...1 1 0 0 20 PA PC PI TD Yd Scardino 9 5 1 0 67 Hook 2 1 0 0 12 Kansas Receiving No.C TD Yds Taylor 3 1 82 Brandeberry 4 1 32 Leoni 3 0 31 Fiss 1 0 21 Reich 2 0 15 Missouri Receiving No.C TD Yds Jennings 3 0 39 Hook 2 0 28 Rowekamp 1 0 12 Mrkonic ... 6 229 38.2 MISSISSA PARK Fessier ... 5 202 40.4 Missouri Punting By BOB NELSON Kansan Sports Writer Couldn't we have just one little field goal a season? College football teams have specialists for everything nowadays. Why doesn't Kansas have a kicker? We have passing specialists, punting specialists, specialists who can throw long passes from center for punters, every kind of a specialist but that most basic of specialists—the kicker. Yes, we're mad because kicks cost us the game against the Tigers. We don't want to blame Gil Reich though, because he did even more than should have been expected of him—he tried while he was badly hurt to save the game for the Jayhawks. But Reich is not a kicker. He's a backfield man. Just because he is versatile enough to be played at quarterback, halfback and fullback is no reason to suppose he will be a natural kicker. It just ain't necessarily so. Kansas did have a pretty good kicker until John Konek was knocked out of the season by reason of a knee injury. While he was playing, Kansas made 16 out of 21 conversions. None of the points made any great amount of difference in the outcome of the games, however, since they were all won (or lost) by a considerable margin. As soon as Konek was injured, along with Hoag, those points meant something. Kansas lost its offensive power, and games were decided by close margins. In the last three games Kansas made two out of seven conversions. Yes, kicks are important. With a kicker we would have finished in undisputed possession of second place in the Big Seven. With a good kicker we would have been able to tie Nebraska and beat Missouri. We would have had a 4-1-1 conference record instead of an unimpressive 3-3 record. Field goals would have been very helpful in several instances too. Remember the beauty that Jack Daly of the Santa Clara Broncos kicked? It was 31 yards, and a lovely thing to watch. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was piled on during Saturday's game with the Tigers. One of the two missed conversions would have tied the game. Both of them or the missed field goal would have won it. But Kansas does not have a trained kicker. Gil Reich does well as long as he has plenty of time, but he is unstable when he is rushed. He is a good backfield man but only a mediocre kicker. An extra point or two in the Oklahoma A&M game would have been very helpful, too. We won by the uncomfortable margin of five points. A single touchdown would have beaten us. Sure, other things wrecked us on Saturday besides faulty kicking. A couple of pass interceptions, a fumble, a few penalties—but these can be expected in any game. What is unbearable is missing more than 50 per cent of the attempted placements. Maybe we'd be better off if Kansas carried a man on the team who did nothing but kick, and we mean nothing but kick. Other teams have kickers who don't even try to learn the regular plays, but who go in for one thing—to swing their legs. KU The fact that our kickers were also used on offensive and defensive plays and took some pretty wicked beatings is hardly excusable. By DON NIELSEN Last Ditch Effort Fails to Turn Tide Kansan Sports Editor A last minute rally by the Jayhawks failed as the Missouri Tigers edged past the KU eleven 20-19 Saturday in Columbia, Mo., to take second place in the Big Seven. The win shoved the Jayhawk down to a tie with Colorado for fourth place in the final standings Missouri wound up with a 5-5 season record, while the Jayhawks had a 7-3 overall record. In conference play, however, the Tigers had a 5-1 record to a 3-3 record for Kansas. Kansas threatened to make it a difficult story during the last minute of play. With the Tigers leading by their final margin of one point, Jerry Robertson passed the Jayhawks to the MU 15-yard line where the drive stalled. With 34 seconds remaining, Robertson passed to Jerry Bogue who was standing in the end zone. Bogue caught the ball and snuggled it to his chest, but he was hit hard by Missouri's Bill Fessler and dropped the ball. Fessler was carried off the field. On the fourth down, with 14 seconds left in the game, Gil Reich attempted a field goal. He kicked from the 22-yard line with the wind directly at his back, but was handicapped by the angle. His boot was short and to the left. Reich came in to kick although he had been taken out of the game late in the second quarter with a broken finger. The game's first tally came in the second quarter. Missouri had driven to the Kansas 2 in the first quarter only to lose the ball on a fumble. Kansas scored from the MU 10-yard line on a pass play and some quick thinking. Robertson passed to Reich who took it on the 4 and was hit immediately. He lateraled to Bob Brandeberry who went over for the score. Reich's conversion attempt was blocked. Missouri came back only 45 seconds later and scored the touchdown that set them up for the lead. Bill Rowcamp, Tiger fullback, took the kickoff and worked to the Missouri 18. On the next play, he took a handoff, went over tackle, through the Kansas secondary unmolested, and ran 82 yards for the score. Paul Fuch's kick was good, and the Tigers led 7-6. Missouri scored again in the second quarter with a little more than a minute remaining. The Tigers made their second touchdown on a sustained drive that culminated in a 2-yard plunge by halfback Nick Carras for the score. Fuch's kick was good, and at halftime the Tigers led 14-6. In the third quarter, the Jayhawks rebounded and drove from the Kansas 26 to score. The offensive was sparked by a series of brilliant running and passing plays by Robertson. The greatest amount of damage was done on a series of bootleg option plays. Robertson flipped one to backfull Galen Fiss who was hit on the Missouri 42 where he laterraed to end Paul Leoni who got five more yards before the play was stopped. Robertson sneaked over from the 1-yard line for the touchdown. Reich made the conversion to put the Jayhawks within a point of the Titers. With a minute remaining in the third quarter, the Jayhawks took the lead again. Starting from the Kansas 47, Robertson threw a pass to Taylor, who took the ball on the 17 and ran down the sideline for the score. Kansas led 19-14, after Reich's kick was deflected. Missouri came back and scored with eight minutes remaining in the last quarter, when end John Hurley of the Tigers intercepted one of Robertson's passes on the KU 17-yard line and ran it to the 13. From there, the Tigers worked the ball to the Kansas 3. Here the Jayhawk defense held for two downs, but on third down, MU quarterback Tony Scardino faked into the center of the line and then kept and went around right end for the score. Fuch missed the conversion attempt. Kansas succeeded in driving to the Missouri 15-yard line where the drive petered out with the dropped pass in the end zone and Reich's attempted field goal. On the one left after Reich's kick, Scardino took the ball from center and fell on it to avoid fumbling. The game ended with MU on top 20-19. Pick Wisconsin For Rose Bowl Wisconsin and Purdue were deadlocked for the Big 10 crown with records of four wins, one loss and one tie. Chicago — (U.P.) The Western conference athletic directors today selected Wisconsin to go to the Rose Bowl. Wisconsin, however, had the best season record, losing only two games, tying one and winning six. Ohio State won six games, also, but lost three. Purdue lost three, tied two and won four. Big Ten athletic directors, replacing faculty representatives as the selectors for the first time since the Rose Bowl pact with the Pacific Coast conference six years ago, cast their ballots yesterday. It was the first time they had an actual choice of the team to represent the Big Ten.