Tigers, Lane Bowl Over Jayhawkers
By Dick Russell
KU fans might say the Jay-bawks bit off a little more "Tiger Meat" than they could chew Saturday.
But then maybe the "Tiger Meat" was just too tough. Anyway, the Subar Bowl bound Tigers from across the way stomped and chomped on the Jayhawks, finally settling for a 44-20 feast.
NO. 1 TIGER Gary Lane marched his team 48 yards after Mike Johnson bobbled it away. Johnny Roland scored his first of three touchdowns to tie the score. A good punt return put the Tigers within range again. This time, Lane could not find anyone open but did find a hole up the middle. He scored from the 19 to set up a 20-13 halftime tally.
The undoubtedly savored the victory, since KU started off with the Tiger by the tail. A blocked kick and deflected pass set up a 13-7 Jayhawk edge, and the Tigers looked like tabbies. Not for long.
The Jayhawks failed to hold the Tigers in the second half. The Tigers gobbled up 24 more points even though the Hawks still clawed. Lane, Roland, Charlie Brown and company were too much.
"I'm so tired of seeing that ball sail over those guy's heads," moaned Coach Jack Mitchell after the game.
The Tigers ran all over the Jayhawk defensive backfield.
J. C. HIXON and Halley Kampschroeder, two of the better hands at pass defense, could not play in the backfield because of injuries. Kampschroeder showed his stuff at wide end, though, taking a 51-yard touchdown heave from half-back Wally Hinshaw.
The Jays were left with Ward Coleman, Charley Hess, Ward Peloquim and the Don Davis. But most of the time, the Tigers acted like they weren't even there. Check the figures. Nine for 17 complete, 163 yards. KU failed to stop the Tigers both ways. Check the figures. 305 yards rushing on 52 trips.
YES, MITCHELL intends to shore up the defense in spring drills.
"We've got to search pretty well all over," he said. "Style, personnel, everything.
"They threw the ball on us. That's what killed us," he said.
Three freshmen, Tom Ball, Bob Morgan and Rod Taylor, are looked to for defensive secondary help next fall.
Dan Miller, who racked up 112 yards on the ground for the Jayhawks and scored the first touchdown after Greg Roth pounced on a blocked kick on the two, didn't think the foe was too tough Saturday.
"They didn't hit rough at all. They impressed me as a team that could be beat, not as a team that should play in the Sugar Eowl, at least until we started to make mistakes and they capitalized on those mistakes," said the 165-pound junior.
THERE WERE mistakes and there were mistakes. And there was a band of Tigers that wound 6-1 in the Big Eight and secured a berth in the Sugar Bowl.
There was one consolation. Bob Skahan's touchdown in the fourth period gave the Hawks 20 points, the most scored on the Tigers this season
A tackle-eligible pass play to Mike Shinn, which KU had been working on in practice all week, set up the final touchdown.
Mitchell summed up the game.
Mitchel summed up the game:
"With this team, you've got to
have a lot of these plays and they
don't have that many in the book.
Why, when I read the book,
Rockne had only written seven of
them."
Daily Kansan Monday, November 22.1965
Coach Jack Mitchell ponders the question of the KU-MU contest with Kim Smith, Fort Worth, Tex., senior and middle guard for the Jayhawks.
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
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