Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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KU-Missouri Series Record Indicates Close Battle
The annual battle between Kansas and Missouri has a tradition of being a close game as the Jayhawkers have taken 30 victories and the Tigers 29 in a long 66-game series. Seven games have ended in ties.
With this close record, fans can look forward to a Saturday battle where statistics from the past games of the season are thrown aside in the interstate rivalry.
Only last year the Jayhawkers surprised Homecoming fans by defeating MU 9-7 on a last-minute field goal by Ray Barnes. The victory enabled KU to finish in second place in the Big Eight Conference and pushed Missouri into a third-place tie with Colorado.
The second-place finish was the highest for a KU team since the first place team of 1947. The Jayhawkers need this victory Saturday to tie for second place with MU and CU.
1951 the Jayhawkers won a high-scoring game 41-28 to finish the season with an 8-2 record. It was the first time under Coach J. V. Sikes the Jayhawkers defeated Missouri. Missouri landed in the conference cellar for its lowest finish since 1935.
The 1949 Jayhawkers were not so lucky. They finished fast in the second half, but went down to defeat 34-28.
Kansas won one of its greatest victories over Missouri in 1947, 20-14, to climax an undefeated season and a tie for the Big Six
championship for the second consecutive year.
The Jayhawkers went on to the Orange Bowl that year. All America Ray Evans had a great day for the Jayhawkers by scoring one touchdown and passing for another. He gained a total of 194 yards.
The 1946 conference crown came a little harder. KU needed a 20-19 victory over the Tigers Thanksgiving Day to tie for first place. Ray Evans led the Jayhawkers to victory.
The Jayhawkers had a great time of it from 1929 to 1934 against the Tigers. KU won five consecutive games from Missouri teams, holding them scoreless. KU scored 100 points in those five games.
The oddest game was a 3-3 tie in 1923. Kansas held the distinction that year of not having a touchdown scored against it, but two opponents scored on field goals. That 1923 team was the only major college team in the nation to be uncured upon.
Missouri will have to win the Saturday game to remain in undisputed possession of second place in the Big Eight.
The Tigers will probably be given a slight edge over the Jayhawkers because of superior depth and one of the most sparkling backfields in the conference.
This backfield features such talented performers as quarterback Phil Snowden, a great threat despite a number of injuries this season.
It'll Be a Thanksgiving Delight for Some Men
Men students will receive a chance to win both recognition and a turkey Wednesday afternoon in the Turkey Day Race scheduled for 4 p.m. on a course south of Allen Field House.
The 4-man teams will be competing for a turkey, a goose, a duck, a chicken, and an egg, in that order.
The race will be run in two divisions with prizes for both organized (independent and fraternity) and unorganized (individual) men.
Only three men on each team will figure in the scoring. The fourth man will act as a pacer.
The winner will be given one point, second will earn two and third will score three. The team scoring the lowest number of points will get the prizes.
Mel West and Henry Kuhlmann lead the Missouri rushing corps, averaging better than 4.5 yards a carry.
Up front the Tigers have two nominees for All-Big Eight honors in guard Charley Rash and end Danny LaRose. Rash is rugged defensively and doubles as an extra-point specialist.
Both team sgot off to disappointing starts this year, came on strong by mid-season and were pushing short winning streaks up until Saturday.
The Tigers lost three of their first four games. They lost to Vanderbilt 8-12, Texas A&M 0-12, and SMU 19-32 while showing only a 14-10 win over Idaho.
The Missourians followed with successive wins over Kansas State 32-8, Iowa State 14-6, Nebraska 31-0 and Colorado 32-9, but the streak was snapped Saturday by an Oklahoma victory 39-0.
Rain Causes Big Eight Teams To Move Drills Indoors
KU has a strikingly similar record, losing 3 of the first 4 games, winning the next 3 and losing last week.
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The lights the Big 8 football teams practiced under yesterday were all in field houses. Heavy rains throughout the lower Midwest forced the teams inside.
Missouri dummied defenses for its big rivalry game against Kansas on Saturday. Coach Dan Devine found that he had two doubtful starters. Fullback Jim Miles had a severe thigh bruise and was on crutches and halfback Norris Stevenson had a sprained knee and a sprained ankle.
Working inside did not limit Jack Mitchell at Kansas. He ran the team through stiff drills on both offense and defense for the big one coming up and announced there would be no changes in the first two lineups
Coach Dal Ward at Colorado was heartened by hopes that his number one quarterback, Boyd Dowler, would be back for action against Colorado State. Halfback Howard Cook, who saw limited action against Utah last week, was expected to be running at full strength also, but quarterback Ellinw Indorf was definitely on the bench list.
Intramural Bowling
BLUE W L
Pickups 28 8
Strikeouts 27 9
Taps 24 12
TKE 10 26
ATO #3 10 26
Triangle 9 27
ROCK W L
Bullies 33 3
Stevenson 19 17
Peyton Place 14 22
AKL # 2 14 22
Rollers 13 23
ATO # 4 10 26
In 1950, Nebraska halfback Bill Reynolds led the Big Seven conference in scoring with 104 points.
MARRIED W L
Bomars 24 12
Odd Balls 22½ 13½
Ha-Ha's 20 16
I & F 20 16
G & B 15 21
F & L 6½ 29½
| MIXED | W | L |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Goof Offs | 25 | 11 |
| Dan's Team | 22 | 14 |
| Rocks | 21 | 15 |
| Mixed Taps | 18 | 18 |
| Spastics | 13 | 23 |
| Bob Kats | 9 | 27 |
Soccer Team Ties Kansas City, 3-3
The KU soccer team closed out its season by tying the Kansas City All-Stars 3-3 Sunday.
Pat Harrington, Pietro Balestra and Gontrand Plaza scored goals for KU. Mario Vargas played his usual fine game.
Iowa-N.D. to be on TV
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Saturday's Iowa-Notre Dame football game will be televised nationally by the National Broadcasting Company. The game will be played at Iowa City. Air time is 1:15 p.m. Lawrence time.
Thailand Junior Badminton King
Most KU students may think of badminton as a minor sport, but to one it is a national pastime.
He is Suvich Chaipravat, Prae,
Thailand junior, who won the singles championship in intramural badminton this semester.
Badminton is considered the national sport in Thailand, Chaipravat said. It originated in India and is popular throughout Southeastern Asia.
"Practically everyone plays bad- menton there," he said.
He played in the singles tournaments here twice, winning both times. He also won the doubles championship in the fall of 1956 with Richard Laptad, assistant instructor of physical education, as his partner.
Chaipravat said badminton is certainly not stressed here as it is in Thailand, but he has competed with several good players here.
Chaipravat learned to play badminton only three years before coming to KU, but as he put it, "I played almost every day at home. "I don't get to practice as much as
"I don't get to practice as much as I would like now," he added.
In total first downs last year, the Cornhuskers made 113 while their opponents made 205.
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Lawrence Wins High School Title
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Lawrence won the leadership in Class Double-A again yesterday in the Topeka Daily Capital high school football ratings.
Lawrence romped over Highland Park of Topeka, 34-0, last Friday for its 29th straight victory and its 16th Northeast Kansas League crown in 17 years.
**Class B** — Peabody 9-0; Rossville 8-0; Plains 8-1; Onaga 8-0; Clyde 8-0; Lucas 9-0; Moran 8-0; Luray 8-1; Louisburg 9-0; Little River 8-0-1.
Neodesha fell to third place in
Class A — Goodland 9-0; Larned 7-1; Neodesha 8-0-1; Hoisington 9-0; Wakeeeney 8-0; Anthony 9-0; Yates Center 8-1; Colby 81; Seaman of Topeka 7-2; Phillipsburg 8-1.
Class A as a result of a 14-14 tie with Fredonia. The new leader among the smaller schools was Goodland.
Here are the final ratings, with won-lost records;
Peabody held its number one position of several weeks by whiping Herington, 20-7, and closing out its season undefeated.
Class AA — Lawrence 9-0; Independence 8-0; Atchison 7-1; Bishop Meig 9-0; Winfield 7-1-1; Wichita East 7-2; Wichita West 7-2; Hutchinson 6-2; Manhattan 6-2-1.
All that's needed, said Col. George Simler, Academy Athletic Director, is a formal bid and the approval of Air Force officials in Washington.
Air Force Set for Bowl Bid
COLORADO SPRINGS — (UPI)— The Air Force Academy says it is willing and ready to go to a postseason football bowl game.
"We have already agreed that we will consider any and all bowl bids that are proffered." Simler said.
The Falcons, undefeated and tied only by Iowa, 13-13, face New Mexico Saturday and Colorado University Nov. 29.
"But we won't make any kind of decision until the season is over," the Athletic Director explained. "We have two tough games ahead of us yet."
The Cadets have been mentioned as candidates for bids to the Sugar, Cotton, Orange and Gator bowls.
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LEONARD'S STANDARD
Clay Stapleton at Iowa State said he expected to field a full 28-man squad against San Jose Friday night. The Cyclones held only brief limbering up drills yesterday.
Nebraska tackle Leroy Zentic was the only serious injury listed after the Huskers' 14 to 6 upset over powerful Pittsburg Saturday. Coach Bill Jennings expected to send his same sophomore-studded lineup against Oklahoma.
Kansas State was the only team that bucked the chilling rain yesterday. Coach Bus Mertes kept the boys outside where they ran an hour of offense in dummy scrimmage, getting ready for Michigan State.
Dale Evans, sophomore halfback, ran with the first unit replacing Ben Grosse, who was sidelined by a leg injury against Iowa State Saturday. Billy Rich, another sophomore, stepped up to right half on the second unit when Tony Tiro twisted an ankle in the mud.
Bud Wilkinson sent his boys through the usual Monday exercises in preparation for Nebraska.
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