Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27
KANSAS CHAMPS OF VALE
Gains a Clear Title by the Defeat Of
Missouri University.
CoLoRs NOT LOWERED THIS YEAR
M~issourians, However, Give Them .
SuH Argument aud Their
Honors Are Earned by
Hard Play.

KANSAS CITY. Nov. 2~6-(special Tee
gram.)-By defeating the University OF
Missouri team at Association park this
afternoon by a score OF 10 TO 4 before q
crowd Of 1900 persons, the University Of
Kansas eleven cinched its claim to the
title of foot bail champions of the Missouri
valley.
This morning only one obstscls-Missourl
stood between the Jayhawkers and =
clean record of victories for the season.
Today the Kansas 1908 team is in the Kan
sas university temple OF ever victorious
stevens. in which the Yost machine of 1899
has led such a lonesome life.
And the Missourians once more they
cam to Kansas City hoping, proaying for
victory. They NETT heir greatest rival for
the eighteenth time, and for the thirteenth
time they came off the field a defeated
team. But there has never been anything
inglorious about a Tiger defeat. There was
nothing ingloTious about today's defeat.
When a man gives for ten weeks his body
and mind into the hands OF his coaches 20
be nodded as they see best; when a man
trained for ten weeks for an hour of play.
puts into that hour OF play all he has.
never whimperng, never quitting. never
lodging any hard knocks, but boring in
and fightig like a man; fighting as his
forefathers fought, a square battle with a
never-say-dle spirit. doing his best in spite
OF ever~yth1ng-when such a man loses. he
loses honorably and to him is due as much
credit as the man who fought the same
kind OF a battle on the winning side. It's
easy to be a good winner. but the real test
o IA man is whether or not he 10 . good
loser.
Two touchdowns gave Kansas the game.
A place kick gave Missouri it's score, tn,
first the Tigers have made against Kan
sas since 1902.
The Tigers started out with a rush ana
for the first fifteen minutes outplayed
the Jayhawkers at every turn. After Car
rying the ball from their own ten-yaTd line
to the Kansas twenty-five yard line, the
Tigers were held and BIuck missed a
thirty five-yard place kick. After John
sons kick out, the Tigers again stormed
the Kansas goal line. Kansas held this
time on its ten-yard line. Bluck went back
for another kick and sent the pigskin sail
ing between the posts, eighteen yards
away, making the score, Missouri, 4; Kan
sas, O.
cit was the first time the Missouri un-
d~ergraduates had ever seen their team
score on Kansas and for five minutes the
! Missouri section was a pandemonium OF
shrieking, whooping ~rooters, whone lungs
were the outlet OF enthusiasm pent up
for years. Their bodies tingied with JOY
and they cheered again and again and
threw up their hats and Rugged each
other, for 1t seemed that Missouri was
destined to defat that as yet indicated
Kansas eleven.
But from that time on the tide Of the
battle turned. The heretofore overconfi-
dent Ja%yhawkers buckled down to work,
and a touchdown soon Followed. Kansas
second touchdown came in the last half.
Rice caught Deatheridge's quarterback
kAk, circled around and lodged through
az least half a dozen Missouri players and
planted the ball between the goal postsl
The lineup: Il