Monday, Sept. 21, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Page 5
By Jim Trotter
Although the football season has been underway only a week Coach Jack Mitchell's Jayhawkers have gained considerable stature in the conference despite losing their opener, 14-7.
Last year Texas Christian belted Kansas 42-0 here at Lawrence and the Horned Frogs lost only one player who started in that game via the graduation route.
Saturday night the eyes of Texas almost got a good cry before the frogs pulled a win over the Jayhawkers out of the fire in the final quarter.
Kansas played a tremendous defensive game before bowing to the powerful TCU team in Fort Worth. The Horned Frogs scored first during the first quarter and the game was on its way as was expected.
When the second quarter got underway, TCU was well on its way to another touchdown but the Kansans held firm. Sophomore halfback John Hadl intercepted a TCU pass on the Kansas two-yard line and ran all the way for the score. His 98-yard run broke the previous long scoring run by a Kansas player by eight yards. The previous record of 90-yards was set in 1938 by Ralph Miller.
In the fourth period fullback Jack Spikes broke loose for 64 yards before being stopped by Curtis McClinton on the Kansas eight yard line.
Spikes fumbled the ball into the end zone when he was hit and it was recovered by the Jayhawkers. But after Kansas had recovered, the Jayhawkers found that the ball had been blown dead at the 8-ward stripe.
TCU scored the winning touchdown and added the extra point four plays later. The Jayhawkers took over possession of the ball twice later in the game but were unable to move out of their own territory.
The opener was the first half of one of the toughest jump-offs Kansas has ever tackled. Texas Christian is the defending Southwest Conference champion and is favored again this season. The Horned Frogs also played host in the Cotton Bowl classic last December.
The Jays will take on Syracuse, the 1959 Orange Bowl team, Saturday in that New York city, and will have their sights set for a victory over the highly regarded eastern team.
Syracuse will probably take their cue from Texas Christian and be on their toes when the Kansas crew moves into town. The Jays have earned the right to be respected not only in their own conference but in Texas and the rest of the nation as well.
Bethany College Swedes Pace Kansas Conference
A band of battling Swedes from Bethany College at Lindsborg, is setting a mighty fast pace in the Kansas Conference football race.
By United Press International
Bethany, in two non-conference contests, has won them both. In addition, the tiny Kansas school is the highest scoring club in the loop and has held the opposition scoreless.
Bethany whipped Sterling, 18-0 last week and tuned up for its conference opener Saturday at Kansas
Wesleyan. The latter was a 12-0 victim of Nebraska Wesleyan in its first game.
Chamberlain On All-Star Squad
With two weeks gone in the 1959 campaign, only two teams are unbeaten and untied in the KCAC. College of Emporia joined Bethany on the unbeaten list with a 42-7 drubbing of Friends last week. The loss was the 18th in the last 20 games for the Quakers.
Former Kansas cage great Wilt Chamberlain has been named to play with the College All-Stars against the New York Knickerbockers in the annual Milk Fund basketball game Oct. 17 in New York.
The All America center, who passed up his senior year at Kansas to tour last season with the Harlem Globetrotters, will join a group of last year's outstanding seniors for the game. Chamberlain is now a member of the Philadelphia Warriors.
In other games involving conference teams, Ottawa bowed to William Jewell. 14-6; Northwestern Oklahoma defeated Bethel, 46-0; Baker dropped a 7-6 decision to Southwestern; and Panhandle A&M whipped McPherson, 14-0.
I-StateIsOnlyWinner
Iowa State was the only Big Eight conference team to start its '59 campaign on a winning note Saturday as the Cyclones took a surprise 41-0 victory over Missouri Valley conference member Drake.
Drake never threatened as I-State added a strong passing attack to its powerful single-wing offense. Full-back Tom Watkins gained much of the Cyclone yardage and added two touchdowns. I-State also completed 10 of 15 passes with most of the throwing being done by tailback Dwight Nichols
An even bigger surprise to the conference was Wichita's smashing 19-0 victory over heavily favored Kansas State. The Wildcats didn't mount their attack until late in the game and even then offered little resistance to the Wheatshockers.
Penn State vaulted past Missouri 19-8 behind the passing of senior quarterback Richie Lucas despite Missouri's much publicized mutiple offense.
The Tigers played most of the game in the straight and wing-T formations using the "lonesome end" formation made famous last year
Big Eight Results
Texas Christian 14, Kansas 7
Iowa State 41, Drake 0
Wichita 19, Kansas State 0
Penn State 19, Missouri 8
Texas 20, Nebraska 0
Cincinnati 22, Oklahoma State 9
Washington 21, Colorado 12
by Army on a few occasions. Missouri's only score came with four minutes remaining in the game on a pass from halfback Donnie Smith from nine yards out to end Russ Sloan in the end zone.
Another Southwest conference power, Texas, took command early in the game and dumped the Nebraska Cornhuskers 20-0 at Lincoln. The Longhorns took advantage of Husker fumbles in the first half and turned two of them into touchdowns.
Oklaham State was trounced 22-9 by Cincinnati in another non-conference battle as the Bearcats struck for one touchdown in the first quarter and added two more in the final period. The Cowpokes scored
their points on a safety and a four yard touchdown pass play.
Dodgers Advance in N.L. Pennant Race
The only other conference team to see action, Colorado, also met defeat as the Buffaloes were downed by Washington, 21-12. Washington's last touchdown came in the third quarter as a Colorado receiver watched an onside kick roll into the end zone and walked away. An alert Huskie guard pounced on the ball in the end zone for the score.
By United Press International
Johnny Podres and Duke Snider, the heroes of Brooklyn's only world championship, have given the Dodgers a mighty push toward their first pennant in Los Angeles.
Climaxing a dramatic three-game sweep with their 8-2 rout of the Giants Sunday, the Dodgers seized a half-game lead in the frenetic three-cornered National League scramble with only a week left to play. No seventh-place team ever has won a pennant the following year.
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