The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-01
SPORTING NEWS.
The Crimson of Kansas is Again
Triumphant
And the Missouri Tiger Retires
to His Lair
'TWAS A GREAT GAME.
Jayhawkers Strong, Aggressive
and Confident.
While the Orange and Black
Seemed DaZed.
Thanksgiving Day COntest-k.
s. q. 34-M. q. 6.
'TWAS A GREAT GAME.

Kansas "a, Missouri 6; that is the
story of the game Thanksgiving after
noon at Kansas City.
The Tiger from Columbia has anOth-
er twist in his tail, the Jayhawkers an
other scalp. The gridirOn was hot, en-
tireIy too hot for that ferOciOus beast
and with his yellow stripes ruffied and
muddy he was borne from the field
overwhelmingly defeated after one of
the best exhibitions Of football ever
seen in the west.
It was almost a shutOut. By a splen-
did exhibition of football Missouri slow
" and steadily forced the ball down the
field and over the line for their only
touchdown. After Kansas had piled up
a goOdly score the contest was between
a shut out and a score for Missouri and
a shut out was barely missed.
Not since the annual game between
the Kansas and Missouri universities
was started in 1891 has there been such
interest manifested in the Thanksgiving
contest. BY nine o'clock IN the morn
ing Hobbies of the hotels where the
teams were quartered were filled with
football rOOters. The Missouri team
was quartered at the Midland and the
Kansas team at the Coates house.
In the center of the Midland lobby
was the emblem of the NJ L. team,
stuffed tiger. There he stood defiant
The followers of the orange and black
gathered round him and did a war
dance. They saluted and SLAMMED be-
field. Poor Missouri. Their idol must
have oversight His power was gone
for time at least.
At the Coates house the lobby was
decorated with crimson and blue, the
jayhaWker cOlOrs. The team was not
TO arrive from Lawrence until II o'clock
Anxious hackers were waiting for any
news. They were confident of winning.
So were the AIissOurians at least they
said so. Both sides had money to bet.
Both sides had a grain of doubt Very
little money was Wagered but the odds
were Z to on Kansas Some even
wanted to bet Kansas would not score
and many of the most sanguine x L.
men were afraid. 1t would have been
a rash bet.
Both universities have bands and
both We're on hand. In the Midland
lobby the NJ u. band pounded and
blazed away and started a rag time
tune. The crowd commenced to yell.
In the midst of it all a party of strong
Kansans started the yell that won fame
with the Twentieth Kansas in the Phil
ippines. that long, drawn out Rock
Chalk-Jay hawk-K.-U." Then they took
1t UP in a fast and furious singsong
fashion. 1t was heard clear and loud
above the music and shouting
The MissOurians rallied. The band
burst into the stirring strains of Dixie
and that old time king. PandemOnium,
reigned. The three cheers that followed
drowned out the music and pierced ev-
cry nook and corner of the hotel. Then
Tiger, Tiger, NJ. S u The little party
of Kansans was Outyeled.
over at the Coates house the Kansas
band played ''um-tah" music and now
and then tune was recognized. When
the band played cake walk a follower
of the tiger, bedecked with orange and
yellow ribbons, linked arms with a
Jayhawker as well covered with GRIM
son and blue and away they went in
a cake walk. The dense crowd made
way and up and down the corridor they
went.
In the crowd could be seen some of
the old time players of K L. Big "SaP'
Walker, the famous center; Wiley
Woodruff, the coach; Upton and others
who had fought in the big games in
years past. Charley Young and Tom
ShaWan, the famous halfbacks of the
Missouri Invincibles of 1895 that com
pleted the season without a defeat and
took 10 points in the Thanksgiving
game to K US 6. The two veterans
from the enemy's camp were received
with hurrahS. Stories and "reminiscences
were demanded but no time for that.
At II O'Clock the team arrived. They
bucked their way through the crowd in
the lobby and went direct to their
quarters They were guarded like so
many precious diamonds No one was
eral members of the team wandered
down to the lobby. They were discov-
cred and quickly hustled back to their
quarters.
Then one by one the big tallyhos
TOoters piled on top. Away they went
one after the other. The rooters fran