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Monday, Nov. 21, 1960 University Daily Kansan
KU Claims First Crown Since 1930
The champion has been dehored.
Oklahoma, ruler of the Big Eight Conference since 1943, relinquished the championship to the Kansas Jayhawkers when KU thrilled Missouri's hopes of an undefeated season Saturday, 23-7.
The Sooners won the conference title the past 12 years, and shared it with KU the two seasons before.
Finishing with a 6-0-1 mark in conference play, KU posted its best league record since 1908 when it won the Missouri Valley title. The overall season mark of 7-2-1 is the best for Kansas since the 1952 team won eight while losing two.
The championship is the first undisputed title to come to Mt. Oread since the 1900 season and the highest Kansas finish since the ties with Oklahoma.
As assistant coach Bobby Goad said, "We knew at halftime we had a very good chance. We had been able to stop their attack, and needed only to eliminate our mistakes (fumbles and penalties) to score. We had been moving well in spite of our errors."
The Jayhawks spoiled the Tigers' homecoming in a very convincing fashion.
By beating Missouri, the Jayhawkers also broke the existing tie in the series between the teams. It now stands 31-30-8 in favor of the Hawks. It was also the first time a Kansas team had won in Columbia since 1946 when KU won 20-19.
KU contained the Tiger offensive well. It took Missouri until midway in the third period to get their initial first down. Missouri got only one other first down until KU played its third team in the final minutes.
KU allowed the Tigers only 61 yards on the ground.
Because of Kansas more versatile offensive attack, it was able to open the game up quickly in the second half.
Roger Hill opened the scoring with a perfect 47-yard field goal with 3:30 gone in the third period. Two minutes later, KJ telli了
Two minutes later, KU talliee
again on an 18-yard John Hadl-
to-Bert Coan pass.
A two-yard run by Coan all but gave the Hawkers the game with nine minutes left to play.
Missouri, trying anything, retaliated with a touchdown cutting the Kansas lead to 10 points.
The record breaking homecoming crowd of 41,500 was then treated to another score by the new champions as Roger McFarlane flipped a two-yard jump pass to Sam Simpson for the final touchdown.
John Suder added two etxra points to the total for Jack Mitchell's Kansas Jayhawkers.
Genuine smiles were rare in the Missouri locker room following Saturday's game.
Stunned Tigers in Tomb-Like Silence
After the gun signaled the end of the contest a dejected group of Tiger players pushed their way through spectators who had already started to leave the stadium.
The shouts of "nice game guys" were not acknowledged as they ascended the stone steps to the locker room. They seemed relieved to get into the room to be by themselves. Their spirit was gone. They wanted to forget.
But, in less than a minute they were clacking back down the steps to the field for a final play which was caused by a Jayhawk personal foul.
KU fans had dismantled one of
Jayhawks Rejoice, Relax Following Saturday's Upset
"Welcome to the Big Eight Champs," bellowed Kansas student manager Clyde Kensinger, as reporters streamed into the Jayhawk locker room.
Tackle Larry Louseh was running around with a puzzled look. He finally cornered someone who he thought could help him, and asked, "Where are the programs?" Finding he could get no help in trying to get a souvenir of the game, the rugged junior stopped his search and continued dressing.
The room was a scene of back slapping and hand shaking, resulting in screams of joy and conversations in the corners of the room.
While guard Duke Collins was dressing, Doyle Schick was standing on a bench munching an apple and Curtis McClinton struggled with his shirt, peeling an orange at the same time.
Fred Hageman, partly dressed, stopped end Sam Simpson coming out of the shower. Grabbing blim by the arm, he jokingly said, "What happened to you out there today, Sam? You were terrific." A wide smile came from Simpson, who had more than adequately con-
the goalposts and hundreds of fans had run on the field but, because of the rules, the game could not be ended with a penalty and another play had to be executed.
America Candidate Danny Lakose. Just behind Hageman was assistant coach Bobby Goad. Talking to a friend, he said, "That Simpson was tremendous, he should be all-conference."
Soon the play was completed the MU players, once again, trudged toward the locker room.
As the players filed out, exhausted from their effort on the gridiron and the outburst of jubilance in the locker room, they passed a black-board on which Coach Jack Mitchell had written "Champs, Hell Yes," and Bill Burnison had added, "Who said Number One?"
Near the door Bert Coan was standing in his usual casual manner, hands in his pockets, tie loose around his neck, shirt open at the collar. In slow, quiet phrases Coan explained to the reporters that Missouri's Ed Mehrer had come within inches of intercepting the pass he had caught for the first Kansas touchdown. Back in one corner Roger Hill, senior defensive specialist who had kicked the first field goal of his career to open the scoring, was calmly tying his tie.
After a brief post-game conference with his players, MU coach Dan Devine, called for the waiting newsmen.
The room's high bare walls seemed to echo the tomb-like silence which prevailed. Even more than the spectators outside, the coaches, players and close friends were stunned at the outcome.
trolled the efforts of Missouri's All America, candidate Danny LaRosa.
The handsome, slender Missouri coach leaned against an equipment cabinet in one corner of the room as the newsmen approached. He forced a smile as each one was introduced.
For a moment no one spoke. Devine, shuffling his feet as he put his hands in his pockets, started softly, almost in a whisper, speaking in a low voice, thinking on each word.
We received an invitation to the Orange Powi just a few minutes ago," he said. "The players voted to accept."
Then the questions came rapidly. Devine hesitated when asked to explain the reason his team lost.
"I can give several reasons we lost but they would sound like sour grapes. I don't want to detract from the fine play of Kansas. They were great. Their backfield of Hadl, Coan, McClinton and Schick is one of the finest backfields in the country. They deserved to win."
He said that the pressure of the game and of their national ranking hurt.
"I guess I didn't do a good job of relieving that pressure this week," he said.
By this time the room was crowded with the families and friends of players, alumni and prospective players. Despite the crowd, however, the room was strangely quiet.
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"Their new formations didn't hurt us," he said.
"It was their personnel. Those corner Uebackers, McClintion and Schick, were really tough. They kept us from starting a drive."
Two players pushed through the crowd of newsmen toward Devine. "We're sorry coach," they said. "We'll get 'em Jan. 2."
And so it went. The room was nearly silent. Conversations were in low tones, almost whispers. Few were happy. One by one the players finished die sing, picked up their personal belongings and a souvenir program of the game and went on their way.
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