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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1950
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By RAY SOLDAN
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The Jayhawkers' No. 1 weapon—ball control—was used against them Saturday by Nebraska. The Huskers ran 71 offensive plays to 58 for Kansas. However in average yards a play, Nebraska barely bettered Kansas, 7.3 yards to 7.1 yards.
Nebraska entered the game last in the Big Seven in passing. The Huskers had completed only 17 of 51 passes for 201 yards—a completion average of 33 per cent. Against the Jayhawkers, Nebraska hit with six of seven passes for 133 yards—a completion average of 86 per cent.
Fran Nagle, Nebraska quarterback, had tossed three touchdown passes in the Huskers' previous four games. He hit two against Kansas with Jawhawk defenders "hanging all over" the receivers.
Bobby Reynolds, who had only thrown three passes before Saturday, tossed two and completed both for a 35 yard total. Of Reynolds' three previous attempts this year, one went incomplete, one was intercepted, and the other one was completed for seven yards.
Nick Adduci, hard-running fullback, was another Husker who played his best game of the season Saturday. Adduci was hampered by a bad leg during the early season which limited him to defensive duties. He didn't see ball-carrying action until the Penn State game Oct. 21.
Against Penn State, he showed his ability as a quick starter and a hard runner by gaining 93 yards in 15 carries. Saturday, Adduci slashed for 133 yards against Kansas. He was not too big of a surprise to the Jayhawkers though, because he had given them a lot of trouble at Lincoln last year as a sophomore.
KU
Following the game, the K.U. team received the following telegrams
"Congratulations on a game fight. You can't win 'em all. Better time — Kansas Board of Regents."
luck next time.—Kansas boasts of regents.
"Now let's get Oklahoma and Missouri."—Alf M. Landon."
Sw let's get Oklahoma and Mission. — I think I'm ready.
You are a swell football team. Better luck next time.—Topeka
Jayhawkers."
-KU-
Following Saturday's game, the happy-Husker fans ripped down the south goal posts in Memorial stadium. It was the first time that the goal posts had fallen since 1941, when jubilant Kansas Staters tore up the posts and most of Lawrence following a 27 to 6 Wildcat victory.
That 1941 game not only ended with a goal-post?ripping demonstration, but a general brawl. Here's the story as told by Dale Heckendorn who was a Kansan reporter at the time:
"As the students mixed it up on the field, arms flew around in such a furious manner, that all the windmills in Holland could never hope to duplicate the feat. One minor skirmish took place at the north goal post before the game ended. The officials had to call time out to clear the field much to the disappointment of the blood thirsty crowd that had lost all interest in the game and was hopefully waiting for a real battle to break out among the supporters of both schools.
"At the final gun both sides stood glaring at each other for 15 minutes before they finally clashed. Suddenly there was a flailing of arms and a mass of squirming twisting bodies as fans wildly threw haymakers, left and right hooks, and long looping punches to faces that left a score of black eyes, bruises, and bloody noses. A large crowd of spectators closed in on the fighting students at the north end.
"While the battle at the north end of the field was at its height only a few University supporters were left to guard the south goal against any advance of the 'Country Cousins' from the Manhattan brush who were determined to take home a souvenir after a visit to the big city. At this point, several Aggie men made an attack on the south goal, but they were soon laid out end to end or were driven off after another demonstration of the worst kind of boxing technique but the best kind of slugging entertainment for the excited onlookers who milled around the fighters. They shifted over the field in a course that might have been taken by a falling fighter who had come into contact with driving fists with all the trimmings. Little thought was given to clothing as the frenzied fans and alumni tackled, blocked and rolled over the playing field and the cinder track.
"The Jayhawker supporters staved off every threat on the goal posts during the after-game battle. The spectators who remained in the stadium cheered more during the defense of the goal posts than they did during the entire game.
"During the night after the game the Wildcats returned to carry off pieces of the unguarded goal posts. They were out to seek revenge. Last year (1940) at Manhattan, the Kansas freshman football team carried one of the Aggie's goals away before the game history was a minute old.
"In the brawl there were incidents when Jayhawker bashed Jayhawker and Wildcat smacked Wildcat not knowing that they were fighting for the same cause."
Bitner Wins All-School Pentathlon
Les M. Bitner, engineering junior, is the winner of the all-school pentathlon, the final scoring summary compiled by assistant track coach Jim McConnell showed today.
Bitner, specializing in the weights, finished with 4125 points. The points were scored according to a set table similar to a decathlon scoring chart.
Second was Bob Cannon, College freshman, with 3886 point. Art Schaaf, journalism senior, compiled 3588 points for third place, and Eugene Rinker was fourth with 3249 points.
The first three finishers will each receive a handsome medal. Bitter's name will be engraved on a traveling trophy which will remain on display in the track office. Coach McConnell plans to make the pentathlon competition an annual event, with the champion's name engraved
Sixteen men participated in the four-week-long run-off. Nine separate events were offered, but only five were counted on the participants final score. One running, one jumping, and one throwing event was required of each contestant.
on the trophy each year. Lettermen in either track or cross-country are not eligible for the contest.
The top three men were winners of two of the individual events. Bittner, a transfer from Kansas City, Kan., Junior college, won the javelin throw with a toss of 165' 6" and the discus with 111' 9". He will be a valuable addition to Coach Bill Easton's team训 when he becomes eligible this spring. In addition Bittern placed second in the shot and third in both the high jump and the 220-yard dash.
Cannon, who bettered 6'4" in the high jump while at Haskell High school, placed first in his specialty
SMUTops UP Football Poll
New York, Oct. 31—(U.P.)—T h e United Press football ratings (first place votes in parenthesis):
with a leap of 5'11". He also won the 120-yard high hurdles in 18.0, placed second in the discus, and third in the broad jump and 860-yard run.
Schaaf won the 880-yard run in 2.065 and the 220-yard dash in 24.4. He was second in the broad jump, third in the discus, and fourth in the high jump. Schaaf is expected to run the 440 and 880-yard runs for the Varsity this season.
Points
Team
BEAT UTAH
Winners of other individual events are: shot put, won by James Stout, College senior, 46'8 1/4"; broad jump, Bob Carpenter, 19'1 1/2"; and pole vault, a tie between Jim Hyatt, College sophomore, and Jim Van Antwerp, College junior, 9'8".
"Oh," came the quarterback's replay, "we took a vote in the huddle and you were voted down."
9. Princeton ... 51
10. Washington ... 472
Coach Doesn't Get A Vote
To his surprise, the next play was a run—which made a first down. After the game, he asked the players what happened.
Philadelphia, Oct. 31—(U.P.) It was third down and Coach Bill Leconey sent in word for his Lehigh football team to punt.
Second 10: Tennessee, 37; Michigan State, 26; Miami, 21; Pennsylvania, 19; Maryland, 18; U.C.L.A., 13; Wyoming (1) 12; Clemson, 9; Georgia, 6; Wisconsin, 5.
Others: Cornell and Nebraska, 3 each; Stanford, 2; Northwestern, 1.
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