Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-26
LEADERS OF VALLEY
Missouri Defeats Kansas in Hard
Fought Game, IL to 6.
GREATEST BATTLE OF THE WEST
Coach Roper's Tactics Successful and
Jayhavykers Lose in spite of
H. Fierce work-RecOrd
Crowd.

KANSAS CITY. Mo, Nov. 20.-(Special
Telegram. For the first time in eight
years Missouri defeated Kansas university
foot ball eleven in their nineteenth annual
battle at Association park, this afternoon,
and administered to the Jayhawkers their
first setback for two seasons. The Mis-
souri, Tigers, coached by that wizard from
Princeton-Roper-by winning this final
game, established an undisputed claim to
the championship of the Missouri valley
and finished the season with a clean rec
ord-s feat which no Missouri team has
done since 1895.
Kansas was beaten ~cleanly, and to Roper
goes the credit. Missouri's supremacy was
shown in the first half. and even more
forcibly demonstrated in the second period,
when most of the play was in Jayhawker
territory. The Tigers surprised their most
ardent admirers, and the heavy Kansans,
whose six~teen-pound average heavier
weight was expected to demolish the Mis-
souri, line, were thrown back time and
again. Roper's charges did not waste
strength in the first part Of the game, but
rushed the ball to the J~ayhawkers' thiryt-
five-yard line three times within the first
ten minut OF play, and Hackney's left
foot shot the oval true for a field goal in
two out Of three trials.
Jayhawkers Like Demons.
These six points, which came so early in
the game and which were apparently so
easy to secure, aroused the Kansans, and
their rodoubled efforts, coupled with foot
ball luck, gave them their only score.
After several futile attempts to make dis
lance through the Tiger line, johnson, the
Kansas phenominsl quarterback, dropped
back for a punt from midfield. The oval
bounded out Of bounds and was reached
by Dahlene, on Missouri's twenty-yard
line, from where two fake line bucks by
Pleasant carried the ball over for a touch
down. Pleasant caught the punt out and
kicked an easy goal, which made the score
read: Missouri, 6; Kansas, 6.
Almost as quickly Missouri came back
and marched straight TO the Kansas goal
line for the last and winning touchdown.
Dahlene returned the kickoff to the Kan
sas thirty-yard line, Missouri got the ball
on a tumble, line plunged through center
and a tackle by Bluck and Alexander
gained two first down, and the last ten
yards necessary were made by Alexander's
plunges in two trials. Hackney kicked
goal and the score was: Missouri, II; Kan
sas, 6.
This ended the scoring of the half and
the game and It was plain that Missouri
was constantly growing stronger by the
addition of new men. In the second half
the Tigers replaced nine men, and while
Kansas replaced six regulars. the Missouri
substitutes seemed of much higher class
than those of Kennedy.
Once the Tigers worked the pigskin to
the thlrty-yard line by line bucks and end
and there worked a pretty forward
pass for twenty yards more on a fake kick
formation. In three attempts nine of the
required ten yards to a touchdown were
made by Alexander and Bluck, and Kan
sas punted out Of danger. Twice did Kan
sas recover onside kicks behind it's goal
in this half and in both Instances was
lucky to get off without being scored
upon. When the game ended Missouri had
the ball on the Kansas thirty-yard line and
the consistent tackle buck gains of Bluck
we're giving Missouri hope Of another
touchdown.
A crowd Of 16, 200 witnessed the game and
many were turned away from the gates.
The receipts are estimated at over $50, 900,
and the crowd was considered the largest
to see a foot ball game west of Chicago
this season. Thousands of Missouri stu
dents are tonight wildly parading Kansas
City. Lineup: