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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 23, 1957
Marshall's Passes Give KU 13-13 Tie With TCU
BOB MARSHALL...His illegal entry saved the game.
Kansas end Jim Letecavits raced through a driving rain into the end zone in Fort Worth Saturday night and scored a touchdown after time had run out to give Kansas a 13-13 tie with Texas Christian.
Letcavits caught a pass from Jayhawker quarterback Bob Marshall on the 10-yard line after Marshall had faded to the left on an option play on the 28-yard line. Marshall met stiff opposition there and was forced to throw.
The play got under way with only a few seconds showing on the clock and time had run out by the time Marshall found Leteavits. Two TCU defenders who met him at the goal line could not stop the determined end.
Brilliant Comeback
For Kansas it was a brilliant second half comeback. The Jay-hawkers, dog-tired and muddy, (almost every starting man played the entire game while TCU substituted freely) recovered from a poor first half to score the two touchdowns, both on passes by Marshall, the quarterback who wasn't rated a good passer.
KU Coach Chuck Mather grabbed the opportunity for the game-ticing play by making an illegal substitution with less than 10 seconds left to play. The clock was stopped so that a penalty could be assessed against KU, giving the Jayhawkers time to organize their last play.
KU began its last touchdown drive on their own 24- yard line, taking possession on a TCU punt. Marshall ran three consecutive plays for 28 yards, putting the ball on the TCU 48.
McCue Scores First KU TD
After a long loss on an attempted pass, Wally Strauch passed to Don Feller to put the ball on the TCU 32. Halfbacks Homer Floyd and Larry Carrier moved the ball to the 12 on three plays. Two short losses on attempted passes and the penalty preceded the final scrimmage play of the game. Ray Barne's extra point attempt was a little left of the post after the second KU touchdown.
The first KU touchdown came midway in the third quarter when Charlie McCue caught a Marshall pass on the TCU 25-yard line and ran for the touchdown.
Kansas played a poor first half and had amassed only four yards rushing when the half ended. The Horned Frogs had rushed 207 yards on the ground in the first half.
It took the Horned Frogs three plays before they could travel the two yards, however. On the third play sophomore halfback Jack Spikes scored, then kicked the extra point.
The first TCU touchdown came after John Mitchell recovered the football on Kansas' 2-yard line when a pass from center sailed over punter Letcavits' head on an intended play.
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point underdog before the game, said "the best thing about this tie is the fact that the boys were rewarded for all the hard work they have put in this spring."
Even after the fine second half effort by the Jayhawkers in Fort Worth Saturday night, Mather showed little optimism toward Saturday's Oregon State contest, the first of the season in Memorial Stadium.
Oregon State, last year's Rose Bowl finalists, defeated Southern California, 20-0. Oregon State football officials feel they are $30\%$ better team than last year which should give Mather cause to worry.
Giants Shut Out Detroit
The New York Giants, world champion pro football team, came up with their first shutout of the season Sunday by defeating Detroit, 17-0.
KU Outplays TCU In Second Half
Saturday night may have ushered in a new era as far as Kansas football goes. For the first time in four years the Jayhawkers outplayed their opponents in the clutch. KU, with Bob Marshall at the helm, tightened up defensively in the second half and refused to bog down after Marshall's 69 yard touchdown run was called back.
Marshall ran, passed and handle the team superbly Saturday night. He played 50 minutes in a driving rain.
Wade Stinson ranked fifth in the NCAA in yards gained rushing for the 1950 season.
Braves, Cards Both Win,'Magic' Number Now 2
The Milwaukee Braves edged closer to the National league pennant Sunday by slipping past the Chicago Cubs, 9-7 while St. Louis was defeating the Redlegs, 7-5. Although both teams won, the Braves gained precious time and now the "magic" number for Milwaukee is two.
One Milwaukee victory over the Cardinals during the 3 game series between the two clubs which starts in Milwaukee tonight is all the Braves need to clinch their first major league pennant.
Meanwhile the New York Yankees clinched at least a tie for the American League title by defeting the Boston Red Sox. 5-1 Sunday.
The Yankees remain idle tonight while the White Sox meet Kansas City's A's, who won two from Detroit Sunday. If the A's defeat Chicago then its all over for the spunky, undermanned White Sox who gave the Yankees their best battle since 1955. The White Sox would have to win all their remaining games and the Yankees lose their remaining five before Chicago could even tie for the crown.
The White Sox refused to die Sunday as Billy Pierce won his 20th game, 9-5 against Cleaveland. He became the first AL pitcher to win 20.
1947 Football TeamToMeet
A reunion of the 1947 football team, which tied for the conference title and played in the Orange Bowl, will be held Nov. 8-9, the weekend of the Kansas State game.
"The response to our invitation has been excellent, and there will be close to 100 per cent attendance of the Orange Bowl team." Dick Wintermore, field secretary of the KU Alumni Assn., said.
The reunion will begin with an informal party Friday evening Nov. 8.
The 1947 team is the last Big Eight team not to have been defeated by Oklahoma. That year KU and OU played a 13-13 tie and shared the conference title. Eleven all-conference players were on the 1947 team. The team was undefeated, but lost to Georgia Tech 20-14 in the post-season Orange Bowl game.
Saturday at 11:30 a.m. a buffet luncheon will be held in the Ballroom of the Student Union. During the game the former squad members will sit on the sidelines After the game there will be dinner and dancing
Seixas Wins Third Title
Vic Seixas of Philadelphia defeated Gilbert Shea of Los Angeles 9-7, 6-3, 6-3, Sunday for his third Pacific Southwest tennis tournament men's singles crown.
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Sugar Ray vs. Basilio Tonight
The long-awaited battle of champions gets under way in Yankee Stadium tonight as middleweight kingpin Sugar Ray Robinson meets welterweight champion Carmen Basilio for the former's title.
Robinson, the 37, year-old "last of the prize fighters" may be fighting his last fight. The wiry middleweight champion has won 140 fights in 17 years. He has lost only five. Ninety-one of his victories have been knock-outs. This will be his first defense of the 160-pound crown since he won it for the fourth time by knocking out Gene Fullmer in the fifth round in Chicago May 1.
Basilio, a 7-5 favorite tonight,
could become the fifth welterweight
champion to win the middleweight
crown and the second to do so while
still holding the lighter title. Rob-
inson was the first reigning welter-
weight to do so when he defeated
Jake LaMotta. The fight will be
televised via closed circuit television
to 174 theaters across the nation.
KU lost seventeen consecutive football games, beginning with the fifth game of 1953 and ending with the second game of 1955.
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