The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-05
Little Interest in the Thanks
giving Football Game.
Tigers Lamentably Weak, Kan
sas Exceptionally Strong.
iowa Defeats Nebraska 10 to o, Ne
braska Beats Missouri Al to o,
and Kansas Whips Iowa Sc to
O-OrioIes-AIl- Am ericaas
Reach Salt Lake.

ball enthusiasts are looking forward
with little interest to the scheduled
game between Missouri and Kansas
at Exposition park next Thanksgiving.
The wonderful strength and careful
training of the Kansans have combined
to place them in a class practically by
themselves in this section OF the coun-
try.
On the other hand the Tigers are Ia
mentally weak.
The record of the two teams best il
illustrates the wide gaps between them,
as follows:
K S. u, 40: Haskell Institute, 0.
K s. y, p; 2: M. e, 8.
K. s u, 40; Midland, 0.
K. s. U, %; Warrensburg normal, O..
K. S. u, %; Glasco, 0.
K. S L., Sc; Iowa, 0.
K S. U, 20; ST. Marys, 0.
K. S. U. total, 224; other teams to-
MISSOURI.
NJ. S. U, 10; Warrensburg A, o.
NJ s. U, 0; U. NJ. c., 4.
NJ. S. U, 0; Warrensburg normal, TO-
NJ. s. U, 6; Iowa Wesleyan, 4.
NJ. s. u, 0; Nebraska. Al.
NJ. S. u, 0; TarkiO, "a
NJ. S. U. total, 16; other teams to-
tai SO.
The U. NJ c. team of this city is the
only eleven that has scored against
Kansas this season, when two touch
downs were made in the second half of
the game played here on October 6, but
by a score of p to 8. Three days later
the Medics met and defeated Missouri
by a score of 4 to 0. In the game be-
tween the MedicS and Kansas, the Jay
hawkers held their heavier antagonists,
broke up their interference and plunged
through their line for repeated gains.
The AGedics chopped holes into the Mis-
souri, line and even though the score
was small, showed themselves to be far
superior to the boys from Columbia.
Next the MissOurianS were trOunced 10
to by the Warrensburg nOrmalS kan
sas six days later met and defeated the
WarrenSburg normal team % to 0. TAX
ing the teams as they stand, if Kansas
could defeat the Medics % to 8, and
the AIedics could beat Missouri 4 to o.
if Warrensburg could chastise NIissOu-
ri 10 to 0,and Kansas could defeat War
rensburg % to 0, what chance has Mis-
souri, to score against Kansas on
Thanksgiving?
In regard to the claim that Kansas
Is the strongest team in the central
west:
The strong Northwestern eleven be
gan the season by defeating Beloit 6
to O.; Iowa university met and defeated
Northwestern at Evanston, Ill, by a
score of u to 6; Nebraska defeated To-
wa Wesleyan, IL to 0, and Missouri
beat Iowa Wesleyan, to 4, a failure on
the part of Wesleyan to kick goal,
averting a tied score. Iowa university
met Nebraska on the latter's grounds
and won by a score of 10 to o. Missouri
went to Lincoln and was engulfed by
a score of Al to 0 by the Nebraskans.
When the Iowa university team went
to Lawrence it took along an unbrOlxen
chain of victories, and yet Kansas ex-
perienced no difficulty in mopping up
the earth with Iowa.
Here the proposition arises: If Iowa
could whip Nebraska 10 to 0, and Ne
braska. could defeat Missouri Al to O.,
and Kansas could beat Iowa Sc to O.,
where under the sun will the score rest
when Kansas gets through with Mis-
souri, on Thanksgiving?
The nearest western rival to Kansas
IS Wisconsin, which recently defeated
Minnesota SO to O.