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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1948
Jayhawks Trim Mizzou In Last Game Of Season
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG Kansas' spirited freshmen, showing improvement over their first game, chalked up a well-deserved 13 to 12 victory over the Missouri freshmen Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
The small crowd received its share of thrills in a game filled with long, spectacular runs. The young Jayhawk line outcharged the Tigers much of the time as they opened big holes and allowed the fleet K.U. backs to romp to 17 first downs and 298 yards rushing. Missouri collected only six first downs and 166 yards along the ground.
Superior Missouri punting and punt returning helped the losers hold down the KU. margin of victory. Coach Wayne Replogle's team averaged only 23 yards on punts with one blocked. The Tigers chalked up an excellent 47.6 average.
Both teams lost their first game. Kansas was edged 25 to 19 by the Kansas State freshmen and the Tigers were surprised, 13 to 7 by St. Louis. Saturday's contest completed the schedule for both clubs.
Kansas outgained Missouri in the opening period but poor kicking kept the Jayhawkers backed in their own territory. The first K.U. punt was blocked on the K.U. 46. A minute later, halfback Bob Henley of the Tigers intercepted Chet Strehlow's pass and returned it 43 yards to the Kansas 17. A pass, Henley to Harold Carter, moved it to the K.U. 7-yard line but the 'Hawkers staged a stand and took over on their own two.
Kansas halted another drive on the 16 late in the quarter, but the Tigers grabbed the lead with two and a half minutes gone in the second quarter when halfback Harry Drager broke loose over his own right tackle and raced 76 yards to score Jenson's placekick was wide.
With Pat Murphy and Dean Wells racing for long gains, and Strehlow pegging passes to ends Bill Schaake and Aubrey Linville, the Jayhawkers came back strong. An interception stopped the drive, but KU, got another chance when guard Ron Mercer recovered a fumble on the M.U. 32-yard line. After a five-yard penalty, fullback Henry Laughlin blasted for 10 and 16-yard gains. Dave Bowersock sliced over in two plays behind good blocking. Jay Drake's perfect placeck sent KU ahead to stay, with three minutes to go in the half.
After stopping a long Kansas march at the start of the third quarter, Missouri charged back with Drager going 33 yards and Henley passing to Dean Werner for 23 more. A holding penalty slowed the drive and Kansas took over on their own 7-vard line.
On the first play, Jack Phillips took a pitchout in his own end zone, cut back over right tackle, and speed down the east sideline with a bevy of blockers. On about the 15, he reversed his field, shook off Carter's desperate tackle, and completed the stunning 93-ward play.
The Tigers recovered in time to score early in the last quarter. Henley returned a punt 15 yards to the Kansas 31. Drager lateraled to Mike Kickham, who ran to the 5-yard line. Three plays later Henley took a lateral and slipped over the goal, but Jenson's placekick was again wide.
K.U. M.U.
First Downs 17 6
By rushing 13 3
By passing 3 3
By penalties 1 0
Net yards rushing 298 166
Net yards passing 49 52
Net yards total off. 347 218
Passes attempted 12 11
Passes completed 5 4
Intercepted by 2 2
Yds. ret. of inter. 28 43
Number of punts 7 5
Punting average 23 48
Yds. return of punts 40 57
Yds return of kickoff 59 48
Ball lost on fumbles 0 1
Yards penalized 25 55
Score by quarters:
Kansas 0 7 6 0—13
Missouri 0 6 0 6—12
21 Perfect Records Stand
New York, Nov. 8- (UF)—It was getting almost as hard to find perfect record football teams as Mexican war veterans today as the list of hardy survivors was reduced to 21 after a very rough weekend
Gone were the North Carolina Tarheels and the Georgia Tech Yellow-Jackets who used to brighten up the Dixie section every Monday morning. Gone also was Pennsylvania, overpowered by the Mountaineers from Penn State.
And where was that Nevada Wolfpack that was supposed to be sweeting up its victory string for a Jan. 1 appearance in the Sugar bowl? Beaten by the little old Santa Clara Broncos, that's where they were.
Those were the big shot teams that tumbled from the perfect record ranks, leaving only Michigan and Notre Dame from the Midwest, California from the Pacific coast, Army from the cast, and Clemson from the South, not necessarily in that order.
Valley Crown To Aggies
St. Louis, Nov. 8—(UP)—Oklahoma A. and M. today held the clouded Missouri Valley football championship after its Saturday route of Tulsa, 19 to 0.
The Aggies, who played only two of the four other members of the conference, won both games, beating Wichita, 27 to 14, on Oct. 17. No more loop games remain on the schedule of Valley members so the Aggies' undefeated record is secure.
Runner-up for the title was Wichita, with Drake, Tulsa and St. Louis finishing in that order.
Saturday's games produced only one upset in Denver's 30 to 27 verdict over Detroit. In other games, Iowa State, heavily favored over Drake, was lucky to eke out a narrow 2 to 0 win over the vastly improved Bulldogs, Bradley crushed St. Ambrose 33 to 7, and the underdog St. Louis University Billikens played their best game of the season as they bowed, 21 to 14, to Wichita.
The new champions are idle next weekend but there is trouble in sight for the other Missouri Valley members. South Carolina, with only two victories to show for the season, still looks too tough for last year's champion, Tulsa. And the Hurricane, still huffing and puffing in quest of its first victory, probably won't find it next Saturday.
With only one loss in eight starts, New Mexico appeared to be a slight favorite over the Bradley Braves, who have one of their better teams. Miami of Ohio, another one-time loser, rated an edge of about two touchdowns over Wichita and St. Louis, entertaining Detroit, was expecting a gloomy Sunday.
The Standings:
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National Football League Chicago Bears 21, Los Angeles
W L T
Oklahoma A and M. 2 0 0
Wichita 2 1 1
Drake 1 1 0
Tulsa 0 1 1
St. Louis 0 2 0
Rams 6
Chicago Cards 56, Detroit 20,
Miami Ducks 38, Green Bay 7.
Philadelphia 35, N.Y. Giants 14.
Washington 23, Boston 7.
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N. Y. Yankees 38, Los Angeles Dons 6.
Karnes Paces Win Over MU
Turning in the best time of the Big Sven two-mile season, 9 minutes, 28.8 seconds, Bob Karnes, Kansas star distance runner, nosed out Missouri's Bill McGuele to lead the Jayhawker two-mile team to a 13 to 26 victory over the Tigers Nov. 5. McGuele's time was 9 minutes, 34.2 seconds.
This was the defending champion Jayhawker's fourth victory of the season. It was the Missouri twomiler's first dual-meet defeat since the fall of 1945. The Kansas team had previously defeated Kansas State, Nebraska, and Colorado. They will be the favorites in the Big Seven meet Saturday morning in Manhattan.
Hal Hinchee, Kansas, finished third in 9 minutes, 35 seconds, followed by Kansans Dave Breidenalt, Cliff Abel, and Bill White. Bill Chronister was the next Missouri runner to finish after McGuire. He came in seventh in 10 minutes, 11.9 seconds.
The race was run on the Rollins field track in Columbia in 50 degree weather with a 20-mile wind
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Conn To Hit Comeback Trail Will Take Cue Out Of Rack'
New York, Nov. 5—(UP) —Billy Conn, a bitter young man who has brooded more than two years over a disgrace of his own making, was enroute back to the ring wars in a comeback which could lead nowhere—or to the heavyweight championship of the world.
The dragging days since the night of June 19, 1946 have been dark ones for the handsome Pittsburgh Irishman. That was a moment for which he long had waited and he failed miserably and ingloriously as Joe Louis battered him to the canvas.
It wasn't the losing which turned Conn from a hero into a bum, a fugitive from his own friends. It was the manner in which he lost. Stark fear was written on his face as for eight rounds he ran like a thief from those menacing fists.
"I'm putting the cue back in the rack," he told the pitying crowd in his dressing room that night through a heartsick smile of shame. "The kid hasn't got it anymore. I'm through for good."
Now the scorn which the sports world aims at a quitter has changed his mind and on Dec. 10 Conn will climb back through the ropes for a six round Chicago exhibition with the man who clouted him into ignorinious limbo. It could be a new beginning, or the end, for Conn.
If he can face those destructive fists fearlessly, Billy will regain that old brass confidence. If not, the brand will only burn deeper.
Certainly, at 31 and in a day when heavyweights are at a new low, Conn isn't too old to dream of a successful comeback. Jersey Joe Walcott was 32 when he went back into the ring and fought his way to two cracks at boxing's most cherished bable.
Like Walcott, Conn in the ring must put the emphasis on speed. Both are fortunate in that idleness did not fatten their thighs with a hampering weight as it did in reuse more
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