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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1947
BY JAMES RAGLIN
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
For the second straight year the Kansas-Texas Christian football game ended in a scoreless tie. More than two inches of rain prevented fans from seeing what should have been one of the best offensive games ever played in the Midwest.
We predicted that the game would not end in a scoreless tie and the weatherman said that it would be a clear night. No hits, no scores, and two errors.
Kansas showed great promise despite the mud and rain. Jayhawker backs, Scott, Baker, and Pattee averaged 41-yards a punt. Even under perfect conditions this would rate as a newsworthy performance, but considering the condition of the playing field, the driving rain, and the wet ball, the punting average is nothing short of sensational.
Both Teams Battle Hard
Both teams displayed hard, sometimes vicious, tackling. The Kansans were hitting the Frog ball carriers low, hard, and frequently. The downfield blocking that Kansas displayed was excellent. Dick Monroe played his first game at center with the skill of a veteran ball-snapper.
Scouts representing future Kansas and Texas Christian opponents swarmed the press box. Oklahoma was well represented with four Sooner scouts, Miami, Oklahoma A.-M. and Denver each had two men scanning the teams, Nebraska, Baylor, and Arkansas sent one each. The information that they gathered was as hard to locate as a bottle of beer. A Texas Christian rival-to-be sent movie equipment with hopes of getting pictures of the play.
Broadcast To Texas
Texas Christian fans heard the game back in the Lone Stare state. A staff of the Texas State network was on hand calling the play-by-play for radio listeners in Texas. The T.C. U. swing band and several hundred hardy Frog fans were in the stands for the game.
Newspaper reporters and radio broadcasters had difficulty recording who did what during the game. The mud made it almost impossible to tell one player from another and the press and radio sections at the stadium were built for baseball games not football. Only when the team played, allowing the inflicted the scribes get a good view of the game.
Fans Line Up Early
The only thing not dampened was the spirit of the Kansas team and the Kansas fans. Three University students, all excellent swimmers, stood in line from 4:30, until the bleacher gates opened at 6:45 p. m. to get seats along the 50-yard line. When the gate did open there were several hundred students waiting to get the best seats the bleachers afforded. Many of the bleacherites migrated into the reserved sections, somewhat protected from the rain, after the kick-off.
Kansas fumbled seven times and recovered six times. The Frogs fumbled twice, once after the whistle had blown down the play and once on an end run. They recovered both times. A "dry" ball was used after every play, but in the short interval it took to call signals the ball absorbed enough water to make it difficult to handle.
Eighty freshmen have checked out football uniforms at the University. The fresh squad includes men from Florida, South Dakota, Iowa, Colorado, and Illinois. One candidate, Bob Briden, lives in Ontario, Canada.
New Goal For Charles Atlas In 4 Pound Telephone Book
New York — (UP) — Telephone workers have started distribution of 1,200,000 new Manhattan telephone cards, each weighing four pounds.
The new directory has 1,413 pages,
59 more than the last, and has 565.-
000 listings, an increase of 3,000.
Although it is big, it does not exceed
the Chicago directory, which has
1,736 pages.
Over-all errors, according to Lee J. Jordan, have been shaved down to 0.15 per cent—not one in each 10,000 listings.
Big 6 Elevens Lose Only One In Four Starts
With four Big Six schools in grid action Saturday, it was two wins, one loss, and one tie. The loss, Kansas State to the fast-coming Oklahoma Aggies by a 12 to 0 count, was certainly nothing to be ashamed of. The tie, Kansas and T.C.U., may be blamed entirely on a three-inch rainfall. So it was a good beginning for what promises to b a smash-bang season.
Findings of fact following the midlands' football debut Saturday:
1. Missouri will be in there fighting all season.
2. Abe Stuber and Sam Francis are going well with their new chores at Iowa State and Kansas State.
3. Kansas needs the cooperation of the weatherman.
Britton and Noten Week
After next weekend, football fans should have a better idea of just how the Big Six schools will stack up. Oklahoma, last year's co-champion, plays Detroit Friday night in the auto city, and Nebraska meets Indiana at Lincoln Saturday afternoon.
In other Friday night games, it's
be Kansas against Denver at Denver,
and Kansas State against Texas
Mines at El Paso. Saturday afternoon
Missouri opposes Ohio State and
Colorado meets Iowa State.
There was hustle and spark in the Tigers' manner as Missouri poured it on St. Louis Saturday 19 to 0. The Tigers rolled toward the goal in a picture from the manner, a far different picture from this of last year. Iowa State Wins
Iowa State outran and outpassed the Tough Iowa State Teachers, 31 teachers. The Teachers wanted very much up ahead of the issue was never much in doubt.
Sam Francis turned loose a Kansas team which bore out his prediction that "every one we play will know they had a ball game." The Oklahoma Aggies knew it, although they took a bad bite from the Kansas State yielded plenty of yardage, but was able to hold at pay dirt to keep the score tight.
The Kansas-T.C.U. game can be counted only as another casualty of the Gulf hurricane. Some 20,000 fans watched the "splash and pray" exhibition.
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