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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1948
Aggies Toss One Too Many To Give KU 13-7 Victory
A quarterback who was not satisfied with a one-point lead with less than 10 minutes to play gave the Kansas Jayhawkers the break they were looking for to pull out a 13 to 7 victory over the dangerous Oklahoma Aggies Saturday in Memorial stadium.
Jack Hartman, Cowpoke quarterback, with 10 minutes to go, elected to toss a pass with the count third and 5 on the Aggie 40-yard line and the score 7 to 6 in the Aggies' favor $ \textcircled{*} $
Jack Hartman, Cowpoke quarter. to toss a pass with the count third a the score 7 to 6 in the Aggies' favor. Charles Moffett, Kansas left half who on the preceding play had let Kenny Roof, Aggie left half, get behind him only to have Hartman overthrow his man, seemed to anticipate the next pass play. He cut in front of the intended receiver, took the pass on the run, and outraced the remaining Aggies down the west sideline for 45 yards and the winning Kansas touchdown.
If the Aggies had played it safe and stuck to their potent ground attack, they could have walked off the field with the 7 to 6 lead they had nursed since the closing minutes of the first half. This seems likely because the Aggies, although outrushed and outclassed by the lighter Jayhawkers the greater part of the first half, held the Kansans to minus 7 yards net rushing during the second half.
The ever-present threat of Gilman's touchdown aerials evidently prompted the Aggies to go all out for a second score to put the game on ice. Ironically, it was an Aggie pass, not one from Gilman, that spelled their doom.
For the first time this year Gilman was shut out in the touchdown pass department although he scored the first Kansas touchdown on an end run. The Kansas quarterback connected for only two long passes, both in the third quarter. After Bryan Sperry had recovered Bob Meinert's fumble on the Kansas 25-yard line, Gilman passed for a 47-yard gain to Dick Bertuzzi who made a fine over-the-shoulder catch.
Two plays later, he hit Griffith for 27 yards. However, in the meantime, his pass-off to Bud French went over the latter's head for a 20-yard loss to nullify the major portion of the previous pass gain. On the last play of this series, Griffith lacked one-half yard of making a first and ten on the Agie 16-yard line.
The Aggie pass defense proved one of the tightest the Jayhawkers have faced. Only one interference ruling was made, on a 10-yard toss from Gilman to Sperry in the second quarter. Another 25-yard aerial by the same combination went for naught when the Aggie defender jumped on Sperry's back so soon
after he received the ball that the Kansas end fumbled and the Aggies recovered. Many fans thought Sperry was down and the play over before the fumble occurred, but the referee ruled otherwise.
The 124 yards gained through the air by Kansas combined with the 145 yards net rushing, gave them a total of 18 yards more than the Aggies, although the Oklahomans held a 15 to 10 edge in first downs.
Throughout the game the Kansas ground attack was directed around the Aggie ends or outside their tackles. The Kansas coaches, probably wisely, did not want to tire their light forwards by attempting to drive a wedge through the huge Aggie linemen.
The Cowboy strategy was just the opposite of the Kansas'. They did not follow the lead of many of Kansas' opponents this season in trying to get around the small Kansas ends. After they had effectively sidelined former teammate Dick Monroe, Kansas' best linebacker and defensive signal caller, they hammered at the center of the Kansas line unmercifully, grinding out consistent gains.
Coach Lookabaugh's two team system began to tell on the weary Kansans as the game progressed. Twice the stubborn "defensive" Aggie line stopped the Kansans within the A. and M. 20-yard line, and twice Aggie backs intercepted Gilman passes near their 10-yard line.
With the exception of their touchdown drive, the only Aggie penetration within the Kansas 20-yard line came when their fourth quarter steamroller drive bogged down on the Kansas 19. Moffett, Tomlinson, Ken Sperry, Darell Norris, Ellis, and Gilman were the key men who combined to stop this seemingly unstoppable Cowboy drive.
Both eleven had the reputation of being "second half" teams before Saturday's game. The Cowboys lived up to their billing, but the Jayhawkers came out from the opening gun with the most potent ground attack displayed this season to march 77 yards in 10 running plays for their first touchdown.
It took 4 minutes, 25 seconds, for the Jayhawners, paced by a 32-yard run around right end by Mofifet, followed by a 30-yard jaunt around the same end by Bertuzzi, to score. Gilman took the ball over from the Aggie $3 \frac{1}{2}$-yard line on a bootleg play around his left end. Ken Sperry's placement kick was wide to the right.
At that time it did not look as if the missed point would have any bearing on the outcome. The Kansas team took the ball on their own 47 after forcing the Cowboys to punt following the second kickoff, and in eight plays they were on the Aggie $9\frac{1}{2}$-yard line.
Griffith contributed 20 of these yards, 14 of them on a run around his right end in which Darrel Meisenheimer. Aggie guard, had him by the foot behind the line of scrimmage only to have Griffith twist away. The Jayhawker backfull dropped one long Gilman pass on the Aggie 10 after outmaneuvering the Cowpoke secondary.
Bertuzzi aided the Kansas cause with 13 yards in two trips around the right side of the Kansas line. Aggie Coach Lookabaugh substituted desperately at the left end spot in an attempt to slow the Jayhawker flanking tactics. His efforts were not necessary, however, as quarterback Gilman, with third down and 4 yards to go on the 10-yard line, took to the air for two incomplete passes, one of which sailed 10 yards outside the end zone.
Had Kansas been able to capitalize on this second scoring opportunity, the fans might have missed a lot of thrills and Coach J. V. Sikes might have a few less gray hairs.
The first Aggie offensive spark came late in the second quarter when Bill Grimes, Cowpoke right half, put on the finest exhibition of broken field running of the day as he sidestepped one Jayhawk after another in returning Dolph Simon's 52-yard kick 43 yards to the Kansas 23. The Aggies took six plays to score, and then they had to take to the air, Hartman connecting with Alex Loyd in the end zone.
After the first quarter, Aggie backs, Grimes, Ken Roof, and Jim Spavital were seldom stopped for no gain. Jayhawker linemen frequently had clear shots at the hard running Aggies but slid off. The constant passing threat of Hartman forced the Jayhawkers to keep their defense fairly loose,
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