The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-26
Missouri at Last Wins From the
Jayhawkers.
Only Scores Are Made in the
First Half.
EACH GOT TOUCHDOWN
MissOuri's Victory Due to Two
Drop Kicks.
Final Score of Contest Was
10 to 6.
EACH GOT TOUCHDOWN
BY Coach VIM. w. Roper of Missouri.

By Coach VIM. w. Roper of Missouri.
Missouri deserved to win, as she
outplayed Kansas at every point OF
the game. The heavy Jayhawker line
failed to hold, as 1 had expected, and
when the Tiger backs began to gain
through the line there was no use for
the open game, that 1 had thought
would be necessary to win. Missouri
had only one man to fear On the Kan
sas team, and that was Johnson, the
Jayhawker quarter. He was the only
member of the Kansas offense that
could gain continuously. Every man
on the Missouri team played his best,
and it was not necessary for me to
jerk a single man from the lineup
while he was still on his feet. Missouri
played her best game of the season.
BY Coach A. r. Kennedy of Kansas.
Our defeat is due to two things
Roper had a bigger squad of first
class men to draw from and we lack
q drop kicker. In the second half
when our men began to play out I
did not have substitutes to put into
the game whom could depend upon.
Roper had replaced nearly every man
that started and the second men he
put in were really as good as the men
who started. If we had had good
kicker we could have scored two field
goals the same as did Missouri. In
the first fifteen minutes of the last
half we had a number of chances to
try for field goals, but we had no one
to kick them. Also in the first half
we had several chances to try for field
goals the same as Missouri, but We
were minus a good kicker
BY Referee Masker.
had expected a close game and
the result did not surprise me. The
two teams were evenly matched and
it was Hackney's toe that won the
game for Missouri.
Kansas City, Nov. 26.-The biggest
crowd that ever witnessed a football
game in Kansas City passed through
the gates yesterday at Association park
and saw Missouri win by a score of II
to 6. Long before the park opened at
1890, long lines of rooters were head
ed for the different entrances and by
1 o'clock the 200 ushers were more than
busy. Many persons who were unable
to get seats took advantage of the
buildings in the vicinity and trees,
ed. The yelling was probably the best
that was even given by the rival uni
versities.
Even when the Jayhawkers realized
that they were beaten, their spirit was
rot broken. With the cheer leaders
who were placed in the center of the
field, LOCO students echoed their famous
war cry when they knew it was of no
avail.
By O'Clock, a half hour before the
game started the seats were all taken.
1t was one mass of color. On the south
eide the crimson and blue of Kansas
Haunted caucily in the light breeze,
while the somber yellow and black of
Missouri fioated in the north bleach
ers. Across the high board fence in
4P he Missouri Saotinn the
Tiger enthusiasts had stretched a long
canvas on which was painted Missouri
Tigers"
Attendance-15,00C.
Total receipts-$32.000
Park management share-$5,420
Each university's share-$12,6S7.5
Kansas Strong in Rushes.
From beginning to end, with the
exception of a short period when Mis-
souri, plunged through the Kansas
line and ran the ends for touch
down, the only one they made, Kan
sas outrushed Missouri. But, para
doxical as it may seem, Kansas was on
the defensive most of the time, ever
battling to defend her goal from
touchdown or a field goal, the toe of
Hackney being so dangerous that
Kansas tried hard to keep the ball
away from her own forty-yard line,
the goal being in danger at any time
1t was nearer. Outside of the one
great rush of Missouri for a touch
down, Kansas was a giant on defense
when in her own territory. Time af
ter time the Tiger line was torn into
shreds by the plunging, lunging, tear
ing Kansas backs. But as the ball
neared the Missouri goal, with the ex-
ceptiOn of the one touchdown for
Kansas, that stalwart line Roper had
built up strengthened, stiffened and
threw back it's invaders, Missouri was
q haU fhraa times
combat. On one occasion Kansas
waded right through for a touchdown,
and on the other two the Missouri
line held while the back field did some
brilliant tackling in the shadow of
the Tiger goal and after receiving the
ball again punted out of danger. The
Jayhawks went within ten yards of
the Missouri goal on three occasions
besides the times the touchdown was
made, and each time failed to gain,
mainly through the use of the onside
kick. which Missouri broke up almost
every time it was attempted When
the crucial test came the Kansas elev-
en- wavered and Missouri had outgen-
eraled the Jayhawkers. 1t was plain
" evident when this took place for
win, unless some fluke run would give
Kansas another touchdown.
Tigers Strong at Crises.
Against the line of Tigers the Kan
sas backs were hurled back like win
ter's foam-tossed pillows against a
rocky coast when the Missouri goal
was in danger In midf1eld or in
Kansas territory Missouri's line was
far from adamant. Then the backs
of the Kansas team pierced 1t time
and again. From tackle to tackle it
was shattered and shivered. But new
err when danger was Imminent. It was
this ability to avert a threatening
blow, to arise to crisis, that won q
great victory for Missouri-perhaps
the most glorious in the annals of her
gridiron history.
Kansas playing was great deal
the same as that of the opponent. In
midfield and at one or two times the
Kansas line was shattered. literally
torn to shreds. Bluck. Hackney, Alex
ander, Saunders. Hall, Curtis, Ristine
and Klein went through the line at
will when in midfeld, but when the