The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
KANSAS THE FAVORITE.
Expected to Win the Game at Kansas
City Thursday.

the honors in the Thanksgiving day
football game with Missouri Tigers.
said Coach Kennedy in a dispatch
from Lawrence today, "but I believe
it viii be an extremely close contest.
Undoubtedly the Tigers have a much
stronger team this year than last. but
I still believe that Kansas will win.
Man for man our team this year is
much the inferior of last years team.
but thus far team work has more than
made up for the lack of brilliant in
dividual players.
"OvercOn6dence is our greatest dan
ger and if we can only successfully
guard against that, I believe the game
is Won.'
In Pooler. Donald and Drummer, the
veterans of the Kansas squad, the
Jayhawlers base their hopes for VIC
tory.
Thus far Colorado has been the only
team that has successfully stopped
Donald's superb line handling and
Brunner's fierce line plunges, while
Pooler has yet to meet his equal in
the kicking department.
Kansas has made an enviable record
so far this season and the men are all
anxious to put a fitting close to the
! season by administering defeat to Mis-
souri,.
Kansas has had the larger end of
the score in every contest this year
except the one game with Colorado,
WAACAA L4AC 4IOul4LalnEEI5 uEIEdlGQ the
JayhaWkerS by score Of Is to 0.
/ Washburn has been the only other
college to score on Kansas this season.
The game Thursday belongs to Kan
sas on dope but this is from games
IN which Kansas was at It's best con-
d1tlOn and Missouri its worst. There is
only one direct comparison between
the work of the two teams and that is
by Kansas and Missouri respectively
WIN washington university. Kansas
| played the st. Louis team Just after its
! defeat at the hands of Colorado. The
JayhaWkers played their hardest
game in order to redeem themselves
! for their defeat at Denver. Yet it will
! be remembered that Kansas scored
but one touchdown in the first half
! of the game.
Missouri, on the other hand, played
| Washington just after its bruising
contest with Purdue and st. Louis uni
versity. In order to save the men for
l the Kansas game little effort was made
/ to win at st. Louis, and there was lit
/ tie practice in the Tiger camp the
/ week before the contest as many of
] the men were being given emergency
! treatment in the university hospital at
/ Columbia. Missouri lost this game
/ according to the dispatches, through
/ trick plays used by the st. Louis boys,
/ when it was too dark for their oppO-
/ nents to see who had the ball. The
/ st. Louis papers said after the game
| that the only real football was played
]
/ the Washington line like water
| through a sieve as long as they could
/ hold on to the ball.
Tigers Hard Taclzlers.
Manager R. B. Caldwell, recently, de-
| clared that the Tigers were the hardest
! tacklers he had ever seen. "Au year
| long" he said, Mclean has been drill
/ ing the men on tackling. He has had
I two tackling dummies and they have
/ been used much oftener than ever be
MI 4rcrr,
/ this practice, explaining to them the
! perfect tackle. Whenever a man would
| tackle too high, and that means above
the calf, he would make him try it over
/ until it was done right. The men leave
/ their feet in making a TICKLE, and they
/ have been taught to hit the man low
| with the shoulder and to hold him
4 Whenever a man in Scrimmage would
not tackle the runner in this way, he
was sent to the dummy in charge of
an assistant coach, where he went
through a half hours practice. This
has made the men hard and sure tack
lers, and it was this desperate work
| that held Purdue. Last years game
showed that Donald could be stopped if
| tackled properly. Salisbury, weighing
around the 140-pound mark, tackled him
for a loss several times. Every Kansas
! man with the ball Will run against fast,
hard tacklers, who hit their man at the
shoestrings."
x. q. Line Heavier.
The Kansas line will be much heavier
than Missouri, but the latter will have
more veterans. Jesse, Hoff, Anderson
and ChilderS have all had three or four
years of experience on Missouri teams.
Jesse, HOff and Childers did not play
football at Missouri last year, but all
distinguished themselves the year De-
{ fore. Two of them played on the 1900
team, which defeated Kansas, and the
1902 team that held Nebraska to 12
points after Minnesota Had been doWned
/ by the COrnhuskers. These men are
playing harder this year than ever be
fore. and may prove troublesome for
their heavier opponents.
Missouri claims to be strongest in its
back field. The Missouri roOter gets
! enthusiastic when telling of Brokmeyer.
Frazier and Tillman. They are of al
most the same weight. two of them tip
ping the beam at 165 pounds, and the
1 other at 1853. Brokmeyer has distinguish
ed himself in every game that the Tig-
ers have played. He is said to do phe-
nomenal defensive work Frazier is
said to be better OF the Offense than the
St. Louis boy and almost as good on
the defense. Tillman is a spectacular
player. He is strong at hurdling and
in running in a broken field. This is his
5 third year on the team, but this season he
was compelled to play on the side lines
5 until Maupin was forced from the game
for breaking training rules
Kennedy's team is the favOrite in tbs
betting Few wagers have been made
on the result and these range from ever
money to 2 to 1 on the 5ayhawkers +
{ the reports are true that Columbia vii
send more money to the game than any
time since 1901 the odds may be reduc-
ed to about to or less on the morn
] ing Of the game.
t Previous Missouri Kansas Scores.
{ 1s91-Kansas, o; Missouri, g.
Z IS92-Kansas, l.; Missouri. T.
1S93-Nissouri, z; Kansas, f.
1894-Kansas, IS; Missouri T.
1S95-Missouri, 10; Kansas, s.
1S96-Kansas, 90; Missouri. O.
1897-Kansas, 16; Missouri, 0.
| 1QQQ-Eanaae 70. Missouri n