The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-29
Missouri Proves a Great Sur
prise to Kansas.
Eleven From Columbia Won by
Score of Is to IL.
JAYHAWKERS TOO SLOW
SunfioWer Team Should Have
Done More Kicking.
Vast Crowd Out and Comfort
able Gate Receipts.

Kansas City, Nov. 2s-Seven thousand
people saw the yellow and black of the
Missouri Tigers go up in victory at
Exposition park Thursday afternoon,
while the red and blue ribbons of the
Jayhawkers were trailed under a score
of Is to II.
The north bleacher was claimed
largely by those who wore the Missouri
colors. From distance this section of
the crowd looked like a solid bank of
faces and forms that had been splat-
tered with yellow spots. There were
long streamers of yellow and black,
huge chrysanthemums of yellow, tri-
angular flags borne on umbrellas and
canes and bows of ribbon of every size.
The strong-voiced boy with the mega
phone sent a Tiger challenge roaring
across the field, and it was answered
viciously from. the south bleacher, where
khe Kansas '.rOoters'' were banked high
and feverishly anxious for the victory
they confidently expected. The favorite
yell of Missouri this year was not the
old, snappy Tiger, Tiger, NJ S. u"
but the slow spelling of the word
Missouri with a most dolefuI falling
infection on the last letter
The individual who thought the game
was called football because the feet
that a kick started the fun. Breathless
the 1000 people sat while a Kansas boy
gave short run and sent the oblonS
bag high in the air toward posts
wrapped with colors of the two uni
verSitieS. Then breath1esSneSS gave
way to noise, for the game was on in
earnest a Tiger caught the ball and
was bounced upon though he had
been trying to steal it, and the Kan
sas players were officers determined to
capture him. The feet of the scram-
bling players made a dull clatter 'on
the ground which had been marked
with chalk for the purpose of measur-
ing the progress of the teams as they
surged back and forth. Short runs and
heaps of heads and heels and putting
bodies piled indiScriminately followed
thick and fast.
Finally a young gentleman named
Vincent pleased his Kansas friends inn
mensely by carrying the ball over the
line nearest the south goal. The red
and blue INDUCED in a first-class fit.
Kansas loved Vincent, dirty and unat-
tractive though he was. His play meant
six points for Kansas provided Mr..
Jenkinson kicked the ball over the bar
that connected the decorated posts. He
did this with ease. Missouri felt that
the same old story was being told
again. But it was a Kansas City boy
who pushed the clouds away and let
the yellow shine through. After an
other lineup and a deal of hot playing
and running and reckless tunbline
Forester carried the ball past the Kan
sas goal line and McCaslin. few mo-
ments later. kicked the ball between
the posts and tied the score.
At the end of 80 minutes the players
rested for awhile. Then they were
called out again and the battle was re-
newed- Forester of Kansas City made
another lunge over the Kansas line, and
after the ball had been kicked over the
goal the score was II to 6.
The joy of the Tigers supporters was
more intense a short time later when
pushed over the Kansas line for his
third touchdown. A goal was kicked
and Missouri felt that the day was hers,
for the score was Is to 6. When Kan
saS bucked her way into the Tigers
territory short time later and made
SIX points by sending Vincent over the
line the wearers of the yellow were not
frightened, for they knew that the time
keeper would soon raise his hand and
stop the play. And that is what hap-
pened- While the teams were at the
center of the field, struggling for all
they were worth. The shadows of even
ing were falling when the signal came
Friends of the victorious Tigers scram-
bled into the field to congratulate them
but the players were hustled off to their
carriages.
Playter, Missouri player whose col
lar bone had been broken as the result
of being beneath pile of heavyweights,
had been taken to his hotel The tired
and injured boys limped and hobbled as
they left the field. From some noses
scratches and a Kansas player suffered
cut that caused his eyebrow to hang
far over his eye. Every hero, defeated
or victorious. was black with the dust
That had risen in clouds whenever a play
was made.
The lobby of the Midland was packed
until the hour for the theater Coach
Murphy and as many members of the
team as could be captured were car
ried on shoulders, dumped upon the
counter where the register is and COM
PEELED to speak Every speech was
cheered and the yells of fraternities
rang through the corridors in answer
to the varsity cry of triumph
AT the Coates House, the Kansas
headquarters, the yell of the Jayhawk-
er was not silenced. but there were no
wild demonstrations.
Last night the members of the oppos-
ing teams and a large number of other
college, boys We're guests of DR.. c. w.
Hetherington of the Missouri univer-
sity, at the Grand The players on the
stage We're not alone in the pleasure of
furnishing entertainment Both teams
spent the night in Kansas City at their
respective hotels
The line up was as follows:
Missouri Position. Kansas
Coe..... Center Hess
Ellis: fright guard 49,. .Louthan
Frazier ..-...LeTt guard Dodds
WASHER fright tackle. .Brummage
McCasl1n- 49,. Right end Ellis
L Anderson. Left end. Hix
Burney- Quarter ...-....... Elder
Hail. Right Jenkinson
Playter-- half. McKenna
Forester Full ....-.-. Vincent
Ofncials-James Ware of Yale referee:
David Francis of Yale. umpire; H H.
Whiffen of Kansas City, timekeeper;
Frank Parent, X u. and George Eng
lish of Kansas City, linemen.
Porter GODDARD. the receiver of the
gate money, put the receipts in the Ma
tiona1 Bank of Commerce after the |
game. Eighty per cent of the receipts