Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
by DefeatinE IOws, iOOm'
Tn Big for the ThsaksEtvinE
Game-washBurR May
ne problem.

rarsity boys will have a two weeks vaca-
ion before they meet the Wsshburn team,
hey should take them into camp with
title trouble. Heretofore this game has
been played in Topeka, and too
1t has happened that the tribe OF
Kennedy has returned with a humiliatins
year it was to the tune of
2 to 5.
The game that Is giving the most worry
1ere. is the game with the Cornhuskers.
from the waterboy to the chancellor, the
University would like to take King Coles
men into camp more than any team on the
schedule. not excepting the traditional
turkey day battle with Missouri. Dopists
ire figuring every conceivable way to give
he Kanssns a fighting chance" but since
he report OF the Minnesota game reached
here they have only figured that I'VE may
n we are lucky
Missouri Hard Proposition.
The drubbing the Missourians gave Iowa
made the most optimistic sit UP and ak
notice. They realize the LANCER of losing
% the Missourians the Thanksgiving day
yame, which for years has gone to the
cam from the sunflower state. The over
optimistic say the Missouri victory over
Iowa means that the Jayhawkers will take
both the Iowa and Missouri games, but
he conservative say, can we beat Mis-
ever II the Iowa game. which
comes only five days earlier. must be
Continuous rain during the past week has
prevented Kennedy from putting the men
the practice they so badly need.
However the squad IL getting a chance to
rest. and It is the opinion Of many of the
really Wise ones that a little rest will do the
-eam no harm. for the pace they have been
iriven since the first day OF practice has
been most Srllllng.
While the Jayhawkers have been doing
good work of late there is room in every
corner for improvement.
The II to 0 victory over the oklohoma
cam, which trounced the Kansas Aggies
% a 80 to 4 tune, last Wednesday would
show that Kansas is playing a game OF
some class.
However that may seem 1t is an un-
fact hat the soorers actually
outplayed the Jayhawkers in the first half
and it was only by wearing his opponents
put, running down punts. and then sending
N six fresh men that Kennedy was able
10 make his team score the eleven points
in the second half that gave Kansas the
apparently easy victory
Forward Pass Works Well.
Captain Crowelrs men tried some
Of the new formations on the forward
pass that Kennedy has been teaching them.
In the Oklahoma game and the success
these plays met showed hat the team has
good plays TO depend upon. The
Kansans in every Instance this year have
been able to break up the forward pass
plays that any OF their opponents have
attempted. This was one of Kansas weak
points last year. The credit for the inn
OF the defense in this play
must go to Mosse, whose strong point IL
analysing the plays OF opposing teams
thing in favor OF the J~ayhawkers
Is the way they a come TO handle the
ball, and almost eliminated the fumblinE
habit, which so often brings defeat to the
strongest teams.
On handing puntS the J~ayhawkers are
weak. Tommy johnson leads his team
mates at this, but he has not been play
ing q full game at a time, and when he
leaves the field no one is left that can be
depended on. Kennedy has been working
hard all season 20 train the men on this
play, but thus for his efforts have not met
with much success. As he has no strong
kicker this year. his team is up against
it when the kicking game starts. and in al
most every game ethis year his opponents
have forced his men back on every ex-
change OF kicks.
The coaches and rooters are disappointed
over the showing OF the kicking depart
ment. Plenty Of men are working on this.
none are showing much development.
steele is a good outside kicker. johnson
leads the squad In punting. Bond is good
the drop. Stephenson is the placement
man and Dshlens hasn't missed but one
goal this year. All five of these men can
not be in the game at the same time, as
several Of them are playing the same posi-
tlon. and Mosse has been working hard
TO get some of them to do some all around
kicking, but none OF them seem TO have
the stuff.
The team continues stronger on offensive
than defensive work. On defense the line
is like a sieve at stages and the back field
wait tn a play is well under way be-
fore they start after the man with the
ball.
Bond. Fisk. and Dahlens are especially
weak on defensive work. IL can hardly be
said OF Steele that his back-field work on
defensive is weak, as he is quick and
tackles fiercely.
II begins 20 look like Kennedy has
finally found a hslfback that can really
play the position. His find" II It proves
TO be one, is Stanley Myers. He worked
in the Oklahoma game, and time and again
raised the bleaehers with his end runs
Not only Is he fast, but helps the man
with the ball. He is a X man OF 'Os
being kept out OF the game last year By
the faculty. He has a bad knee, but Is
having A. iron frame made for It, and this
may protect him sufficient to let him stay
In the game.
Condition OF the Players.
Wsring. who is also a TX" man OF
", ana who by his work promised much
at the opening OF the season, has not beer
showing up % well OF late. Bond, too
has been making some spectacular enc
runs, not because he rs either a good run
ner or open-fieldman. but because he stay,
behind his interference, Captain Crowell
who had 10 leaVe the Oklahoma game with
a cash over his eve. has sufficiently re
covered 10 set back IN the game. Tub