The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-23
And he marched them down again.

And when they're up they're up,
And when they're down, they're down,
And when they're only half way up
They're neither up nor down..
Some of the songs Kansas will sing
gun like this:
Were going, were going,
To help K. u. to win,
And spend most all our tin.
We're going, we're going,
To see Missouri fall and bite the dust"
Another snappy yell is:
RED and the blue,
Red and the blue,
What's the matter with old K. u. :?
Nothing at all,
Nothing al all,
They are the boys that play football"
To get the trueSt comparison of the
two teams they should be compared
when at their best, for such will be
their play on Thanksgiving day. Both
teams will be in perfect form, and both
will be keyed up to play the best game
of the season. Kansas will have the
disadvantage of overconfidence and
Missouri the advantage of feeling that
she must play with desperation in order
to win. But leaving out the question
of cverconfidence, which will neverthe-
less be a factor in the game, how will
the teams appear from a comparison
of their best games? Kansas was at
her best in, the Washburn, Colorado
and Notre Dame games. Missouri did
best in the Purdue and Kentucky
games.
Kansas from n6F games undoubtedly
appears strong, yet Kansas from any
sort of comparison cannot be figured
stronger than Purdue. On the other
hand all comparison is to the advan-
tage of the latter. Kansas was given
great praise for defeating .Notre Dame
by score of "a to 5, yet in Indiana
Notre Dame is not considered in Pur-
dues class at all. Missouri was able
to hold Purdue to twelve points, one of
the touchdowns being made ON a very
lucky fuke 1t is from the showing
that Missouri made in this game that
the coaches and students still have
faith in the Tigers.
The Lawrence team this season is
made up of more seasoned material
than the team of last year, and this is
probably one reason why the KanSanS
have been making such a superior
showing over their Missouri brothers.
Kansas was more diligently searched
for good football material last summer
than it has been since the days of
Shorty Hamil and when Yost trained
the ever victorious eleven for the Uni
versity of Kansas. AS a result the men
who appeared on McCook field August
81 did not, as a rule, try to catch the
pigskin in their hands and did not try
to dictate to the coach. Despite this
fact the work for the first few weeks
was much slower than was expected,
and Coach Kennedy had many trials
and dissatiSfactionS to contend with
and settle.
By october Coach Kennedy had his
men largely picked, though no one
knew what the permanent lineup would
be. BY this time there were frequent
ly as many as forty men out to prac-
tice and it looked as if Kansas would
have a winning aggregation. In the
first game of the season the varsity
only scored II points on Emporia COL
lege a team that was defeated by the
university a year previous by a score
of "a to 0. Stock in the squad took a
s11rnD after this game until a week fol-
lowing, when the KansanS made play
of the State Normal aggregation and
rolled up a score of "a points to the
visitors 0. There was a noticeable fear