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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 21, 1999
Missouri-Kansas rivalry dates back to late 1800s
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alumni to "come home" to watch the two budding rivals play, and the first ever Homecoming Game was born. Staying true to the series' neck-and-neck history, the two teams battled to a 3-3 tie. Lawrence played host to its first homecoming in 1912, and The University Daily Kansan implored readers not to tear down the welcome signs made for the Tigers because, it said, "we want to treat the visitors like gentlemen and then defeat them."
The border war comes of age
Mission accomplished: Kansas 12,
Missouri 3.
The border war comes of age
The beginning of the 1930s marked a period of Kansas domination in the series as, in 1930, Kansas scored its largest victory against the Tigers, beating them 32-0. Also, Kansas rolled up its longest winning streak of the series to date, five games, all shutouts, from 1930 to 1934.
In 1960, Kansas scored one of its biggest upsets in school history when the Jayhawks knocked off the top-ranked Tigers 23-7 in Columbia. Despite the fact the win was later forfeited because of Kansas' use of an ineligible player, the loss forced the Tigers out of the national championship picture and into a No. 4 ranking at the season's end.
"Missouri is our most dreaded enemy," said John Hadl, who played halfback on the 1960 team. "It definitely was great to go down and get them knocked off in
In the late 1970s, the rivalry started to wane, which led to some special motivational techniques. Often Fambrough would speak of Quantrill's raid and then try to convince his team that Quantrill graduated from Missouri.
He started talking about Missouri, and that vein popped out in his neck," said former Kansas offensive lineman David Lawrence. "Don looked at us and said, 'I don't know when I started hating those bastards. I think it was when Quantrill came over and burned down Lawrence. You know he was an MU alumnus.' A lot of
guys believed him."
Tuxedo Tony and Jack Daniels A successful season and a possible bowl bid what was the Jayhawks were looking for in 1991, but key injuries and a run of bad luck had the Jayhawks standing at 5-6 entering the season finale against the Tigers on Senior Day at Memorial Stadium. One of the Jayhawk seniors honored that day was Tony Sands running back who earned the nickname "Tuxedo Tony," because he would wear a tuxedo to the stadium for every Kansas game.
Sands set an NCAA record for most carries in a game, 58, and total yards, 396, and was carried off the field by his teammates.
"It was special to see Tony break the record, but it was even more special to beat Missouri," said athletics director Bob Frederick. It would take eight years for a Tiger running back to return the favor. Last season, Missouri entered the game against the Jayhawks ranked No. 25 in the nation and armed with a dangerous option attack led by quarterback Corby Jones and running back Devin West. While Kansas was intent to contain the two, Jones and West both torched the Jayhawks. Jones finished with 139 total yards, while West set a record for most yards given up to a single back by the Jayhawks by rushing for 319 yards.
The game was scarred by an ugly
The game was scarred by an ugly incident during halftime of the
game when Missouri fans pelted the Kansas band with rocks, bottles of Jack Daniels and various other projectiles. Despite the rough atmosphere, Kansas nearly escaped Columbia with a victory, leading 23-20 late in the third quarter. The Jayhawks would fall victim to a pass-interference penalty early in the fourth quarter, and Kansas eventually faltered 41-23.
Upon the blowing of the final whistle, the Missouri faithful rushed the field to tear down the goal posts, an act considered odd by many Kansas fans, since the Jayhawks were picked by most preseason publications in 1998 to finish fifth in the Big 12 Conference's Northern division.
"Rivalry games are what college football is all about," Coach Terry Allen said. "It's a great thing for everybody involved. It makes college football the special game that it is.
"It's always an interesting situation, obviously, still going through that learning curve, if you will, as far as who is Kansas' biggest rival. Is it Missouri or is it Kansas State? I think that you might draw a line, an age line. The older people perceive it as Missouri, maybe the younger people perceive it as Kansas State. But I know one thing, the University of Kansas is Missouri's biggest rival." Quantrill couldn't have said it any
Edited by Kelly Clasen
cnuril couldn't have said it any better himself
Missouri students tear down the goal posts after last season's 41-23 defeat of the Jayhawks in Columbia. The behavior of the Missouri fans came under harsh scrutiny in the weeks following last season's game. Contributed photo
Traditional football prize to march to a new drum
By Michael Rigg sports@kanson.com
Kansas sportwriter
The old "Indian War Drum" has been replaced by this Kansas and Missouri Student Alumni Association drum. Protesters said the old drum was disrespectful to Native Americans led to the switch. The new drum will be given to the winner of Saturday's football game. University Archives
While the 109-year-old Kansas-Missouri football rivalry will continue on Saturday, this week's game also marks the end of a long-standing tradition between the schools.
After 62 years, the "Indian War Drum," annually given to the winner of the Missouri-Kansas football game, officially will be retired by the alumni associations of both the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri.
"The old drum was very stereotypical," Knittel said. "It portrayed Native Americans simply as warriors, while the Native Americans are so much more than just warriors."
Native-American groups have pushed to remove the drum from both universities' traditions. Members of both schools' alumni associations changed the tradition as a response to complaints about the drum's offensive nature to indigenous peoples.
Janna Knittel, a graduate assistant in the department of English, agrees with the change. Last month, Knittel wrote a letter to Chancellor Robert Hemenway protesting the Indian War Drum.
"The drum was a religious instrument, not a trophy," said Kirk Cerny, senior vice president for membership services for the University of Kansas Alumni Association. "We felt that using it as a trophy for a football game was inappropriate."
As an alternative, Saturday's winner will be presented with a traditional band drum with logos from both schools painted on the drum heads.
"In order to be a little more politically correct and to respond to complaints, we decided it was in the best interest of the tradition to carry it on in a different format," said Jennifer Mueller, director of student programs for the Alumni Association. "In my opinion, we've made it look a little classier."
However, not all students were in agreement with the change. David Leigh, Fort Scott sophomore, was sad to see the 62-year-old tradition come to an
and tradition come to an end.
"It's too bad to see a tradition like that stop, but we also need to respect other people's cultures." Leigh said.
The new drum is a traditional bass drum as seen in Kansas' marching band. The new drum will have the logos of both schools on the drum heads and will be painted using both school's traditional co.'
Association
Members of the Missouri Alumni Association agreed with the change.
"We wanted to keep the exchange between the two schools alive, but there were some issues with the Indian War Drum," said Dale Wright, coordinator of student programming for the Missouri Alumni
Wright said the Indian War Drum, won by Missouri by virtue of last season's 41-23 victory against Kansas, would remain on Missouri's campus until the alumni association decided what to do with it. Currently, the
The new drum will be given to the winner of Saturday's game. Photo by Kate Levenson
drum is in the basement of the school's student programming building.
"We don't know what we're going to do with it next, but we're going to keep it," Wright said.
alumni George "Dumpy" Bowles
The drum tradition started in 1937 when Kansas
— the composer of the Jayhawks' fight song — and Lysle Kendig purchased an Osage tribe drum from a pawn shop on Main Street in Kansas City, Mo. The original drum, which was traced back to 1890, replaced the previous trophy for the game, a football painted gold.
— Edited by Chris Hutchison
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