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University Daily Kansan, September 20. 1982
'Hawkers recall '48 bowl spirit
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
Smiles, hugs and warm memories
prevailed as the 1947 KU Orange Bowl
football team gathered over the week-
end to watch football and reminiscent
The Jayhawkers, as the team was called in those days, lost the 1948 Orange Bowl game 20-14 to the Georgia State on a warm New Year's Day in Miami.
Time has erased the memories of the disappointing loss, leaving the players with warm memories of the football game and of their days as Jawhawkers
Looking back on the Orange Bowl trip, Lynne McNutt, Hawkeyws quarterback in the 1948 Orange Bowl game, said he thought the funniest incident at the game was when Red Hogan, another KU quarterback, picked up Jeanne Biegger, the Orange Bowl queen, during the pregame show and started carrying her around the field on his shoulders.
HOGAN RAN ARE the field with Bieger on his shoulders, with the rest of the players following, while her team is in pursuit to pull the players away. McNutt said.
Despite this, John G. Thompson,
Orange Bowl president, said in the Jan.
5, 1948. Daily Kansan that he thought would win a game generated a lot of good will at the game.
"It's a terrific team and it put on a wonderful show," Thompson said.
wondered how, "that person"
He said he believed that the score
should have been a tie or a Kansas
victory.
"There certainly wasn't one touchdown's difference between the two clubs," Thompson said in the Kansan story.
THE WEEKEND the players did not seem concerned about the loss, instead choosing to discuss the events surrounding the team's trn to Miami.
A Pan Am DC-4 airliner was chartered to take players, coaches, trainers and University officials — 52 people in all — to the game.
Elwood Leep, plot of the airliner, said the players were giving eight to five odds that the plane would not make it.
"I guess the country hadn't yet developed faith in commercial airlines," said Leep, who also attended the reunion.
The players were not the only Kansasans to go to the game, according to another Jan. 5, 1948, Kansan article. "Two drunken players three special"
"Two chartered planes, three special trains, one semi-trailer and a bevy of other vehicles."
hawker team, band and supporters to the tropical city in what was probably the most spectacular invasion of the United States carried through Georgia," the article said.
"MIAMI, the city of sunshine, palm trees and beautiful girls, threw open its gates to an estimated 2,000 University students last week, said the article, and fans last week," said the article.
Marvin Small, another player at the reunion, said the 1947 KU football team
"We were so hungry when we went down to the Orange Bowl that the coaches hung a ham bone between the goal posts to get us fired up." Small
"Nobody ever threw any bones at us." he said.
Instead, the Georgia Tech offense threw passes that KU had trouble defending, wrote Cooper Rollow, Kan. editor, in the Jan. 5, 1983, Kansas.
A LAST-MINUTE fumble by McNutt
cost Kansas its victory. Rollow said in the article.
Bollow said the bobbles that cost KU the game were due to the extreme tension under which the game was played. He said the article he commended the team.
SOME OF the players at the reunion said they thought speed was the hallmark of the team.
"In everything except the final score, they had the upper hand. They ran, they passed and they tackled brilliantly." Rolll said.
"If the other team ever fumbled the ball, we would have it like a goose on a banana."
The team's speed was due to college careers being interrupted by World War II.
"The players were back from two or three years in the service where they had played ball," McNutt said. "The guys drifted back to KU, looking like raggedy-ass cadets, but they turned into something successful."
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