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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1965
Hawk Talks
Defeat Also Has Value
By Mike Griffith (Sports Editor)
KU lost a football game Saturday.
But after the wind died down, the players had returned to Lawrence, and the aftermath of a bitter defeat was replaced by a feeling of anticipation for the coming Arizona game, there is time to consider the value of the game to all Jayhawkers.
THERE WAS COMPETITION. Side-by-side and face-to-face skilled KU football players worked for a common goal—victory. These same players may someday work on a different team—industry or medical research.
There was determination and hard practice. One learned that the same zeal and energy required to brave poor weather conditions and attack the Texas Tech defense might someday be useful by a Jay-hawker to produce an automobile or lead in the search for a harmful micro-organism in a research laboratory.
A young KU athlete also experiences a lot of maturing and suffering in the hard times of defeat that the Texas Tech game provided. These same hardships and pains often lead to life-long friendships—as in life. Failing to learn these things is failing to learn life.
Learning to lose graciously, yet thankful that all that is lost is a football game, is a reasonable price for the taste of defeat as compared to the consequences of losing in one of life's other areas, such as marriage, business, or war.
IT IS FROM the setbacks of a hard-fought game that a player or spectator can reap one of the greatest rewards of college athletics—the discovery that while one is striving for victory, he is really learning defeat.
For after the carefully kept records of who made the best football performance have been erased and cast away, the imprint of the actions that led to these records will live on as memories of those who watched and took part.
ONE CAN understand then one of the greatest values of KU athletics—learning to accept defeat.
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Tornado Helps Texas Tech Trim Jayhawks in Opener
KU was foiled in Lubbock, Tex. Saturday, first by Texas Tech's Red Raiders to the tune of 26-7, and second by the whims of Nature.
Texas Tech scored in the first quarter on a telescopic 46 yard field goal by Kenneth Gill.
KU's Bill Fenton brought Jayhawker fans to their feet late in the first quarter by fading deep into KU's end zone and tossing a pass to Willie Ray Smith who raced 87 yards for Kansas' only score of the night.
Trailing 7-3, the Raiders scored two quick touchdowns in the last four minutes of the first half.
THE 97 YARD run was the longest pass-run in Big Eight history.
Wilson to Tech's sensational halfback, Donny Anderson.
The Raiders' first touchdown was a recovery of a KU fumble in the Jayhawk end zone. Texas Tech squeezed in another tally with 40 seconds left in the first half on a five-yard pass from
A TECH TOUCHDOWN and field goal closed out scoring in the third quarter, then nature took the upper hand.
Torrential rains, heavy lightning, and a tornado moving west of Lubbock caused officials to call the game.
With only 56 seconds gone in the fourth quarter, Kansas Coach Jack Mitchell sent his players to the dressing room and rushed to tell the referee to call the game.
Bill Fenton, KU's 150 pound quarterback, completed seven of 12 passes for 189 yards to lead the Jayhawks in the air.
HEAVY RAINS did more to stifle KU's passing attack than the Red Raiders' defenses.
Coach Jack Mitchell said he was displeased with KU's kicking game, except for two first quarter quick-kicks.
"WE FELL APART on our kicking game." Mitchell said. "Except for two those early quick kicks, our kicking was poor," he said.
Although the weather oversnaacowed action on the playing field, Mitchell said, "Kansas, it is only fair to say, was no doubt handicapped by the absence of its number one quarterback, Bob Skahan."
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