The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-25
DAILY NEWS OF SPORT.
Kansas and Missouri Will Clash
Today.
K. S. e. Should Win But Mis-
souri, May Surprise Them.
Many Tickets Sold for the Game
Tie Programme the Handsomest
Ever Issusd Tor a Football
Game.

Kansas City, Nov. 25.-The outlook for
a big crowd at the foot ball game is ex-
cellent. The Missourians have rallied
around the Tiger, while the Kansans are
less confident than they were two weeks
ago. Special trains will bring many peo-
pie to the city today. The game will be-
sin at 2:S0 o'clock; gates will be open at
1890. The referee Of today's game viii
be Fred Cornell and the umpire viii be
George DeVol
Coach Charles Young, the captain and
hero OF '95. with his den of Tigers and
accompanied by some one hundred ribbon
covered Missouri ''rooters'' from Column
bia, arrived over the Wabash last night
and went at once to their lair at the Mid
land hotel.
After the Tiger cubs had been slowed
away at the supper table, Coach Young
chatted about the game and the team.
1.-The men, he said, are in much bet
ter condition than was expected a few
weeks since Their form is superior to
what the coaches had any idea it would
be a month ago. The physical condition
of the team could not be better. One
thing is certain, the men are keen and on
edge for the contest and you can rest
assured that they will put up hard
fight.
we could not on the past record of the
team; but this I will say, the men have
never been IN form in any of the early
games, and 1 thoroughly believe them to
be in form now. L understand, on good
authority, that the Kansans have gone
back. 1t is just the opposite with our
team; it has gone rapidly forward, es>
pecially in the past week when they have
had the benefit of ALL or nearly all the
o11 MI, of ed n
Another thing, the team is chuck fun
of energy and enthusiasm. The men
have been looking up to this game as the
one big game of the year, the one to
win, would be worth all the others COM
bined.
ION the other hand. the Kansans have
been saying right along, oh, Wen have
a snap with Aissouri-that game doesn't
amount to anything-it's a cinch.' They
have until lately been looking for bigger
game and giving US no thought. They
are in the position of a team that one
day thought it was a world beater, and
the next wake up to the realization that
guards left didn't constitute the entire
game of foot ball
In weight and playing experience, then.
the Kansans may have an advantage, but
who knows but what enthusiasm, fresh>
ness vitality and determination may not
win the day?''
Coach Woodruff is non-committal in re-
gard to the condition of his team He
authorized this statement from Lawrence
last night. My men still appear to be
under the spell that has Slapped the en-
ergy out of them for the past few weeks.
I cannot tell whether or not they will
regain their form tomorrow. That the
team can defeat the AIissourians, and
badly I am confident. That it will de-
feat them 1 am not at all positive. That
is about all there is to say. If the team
plays ball it will win. The physical con-
dition of the men is apparently all that
could be asked for with regards to sprains
and bruises"
The programmes for the game today
are the handsomest ever issued for a
Thanksgiving contest. and will be in great
demand as souvenirs. They are shaped
like a real foot ball, with cover of gen
uine leather. They contain handsome
half-tone pictures of the Kansas. Missouri,
Iowa. Nebraska and Medic teams; the
lineup and positions on the gridiron;
rules of the game; record Of western in
tercollegiate games and much other inter-
estiney matter. The title page is particu-
larly striking, showing turkey running
with foot ball under it's wing The pro-
eramme inside is printed in four colors,
and is throughout real work OF art