The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
CAME OF GAMES
Fur and Feathers to Fly at
Columbia Thursday.
Tigers and JayhawkerS Primed
for Big Battle.


| important football game of the year
to citizens of Missouri and Kansas
will be played here next Thursday
Thanksgiving day-when the Univer-
Missouri, rivals of the gridiron for
twenty-five years, meet on Rollins
field.
1t matters little to the people of
Missouri and of Kansas whether the
Tigers or the Jayhawkers have won
or lost their principal previous con-
tests. 1t likewise is of little moment
that the Missouri eleven has only two
victories for its season record or that
the Kansas players fell before the
charging eleven from Nebraska last
Saturday For Missouri and Kansas
are rivals, strictly speaking, and the
rivalry, while it is friendly, extends to
the universities of the two states and
through these institutions to the grid
iron For the last two weeks Kansas
and Missouri have been talking foot
ball. There isn't a small town in
either state that does not feel interest
ed, to some extent, in the outcome of
Thursdays battle.
Big Crowd Expected.
To take care of the great crowds
coming from all over the two states,
Rollins field has been surrounded
with newly built bleachers- 1t is ex-
pected not less than twenty thousand
persons will be in the stands when the
into TIE fray. Since last month it has
been impossible to secure hotel ac-
Communications in Columbia hotels for
Thanksgiving day, while scores of
homes have hung out welcome"
sign in preparation for taking care of
the visitors.
battle festivities will be-
gin Tuesday night when the glee clubs
of the two universities will give a con-
cert in the University auditorium.
L.
pected to reach Columbia in time for
the concert. After the initial enter
tainment the social wheel will begin
to turn and from Tuesday until Sat
urday night dances, parties and fra
ter1ity gatherings will mark the ac-
tivities of Missouri and Kansas stu
dents and their friends.
Big Rally Wednesday.
On Wednesday night, on the eve of
the big game, the final football rally
will be held in Academic hall. 1t will
be a Missouri rally. There will be
the university, c. L. Brewer, athletic
director. and other officials. The
football eleven of 1915 will be intro
duced and Coach Schultz, the former
Michigan star. who has whipped the
Tigers into great condition for the
battle, will say few words.
Then will come the tales of other
years--of victories and of triumphs
scored by the football men of former
teams. Hackney, the man who start
ed Missouri on her winning streak in
1909. Bill Dunckel. Toby Graves and
Chuck Wilson, as well as other
Missouri veterans, will be back to tell
of the past and inspire the players be-
fore the conflict. After the mass
meeting the faculty will hold re-
ception at the Columbia club for WIS.,
iting alumni.
After the game. Rothwe1 gym
nasium will be turned over to the
former football players of Missouri for
a buffet supper. This years team will
occupy places as guests of the former
warriors.
X. o. Has Advantage.
On previous records for the season,
over the Tigers, but the difference be-
tween the elevens is not as great as
figures show. Missouri made bad
showing in early season games, losing !
ping a "a to game to Oklahoma. As !
the year wore on, however, the Tigers |
showed Improvement. While the |
MiSsourianS were held to an 0 to 0 tie /
by the Kansas Aggies. the men from
Columbia, one week later, scored on |
and two weeks after |
wards-on last Saturday-rolled up a |
Al to 8 victory over Drake.
Coach Schultz has been pointing the |
Tigers all season for Thursdays game. /
While he had much promising mat
terial in the beginning of the year, it /
was weeks before the Missouri mentor
could get the Tiger machine rolling. |
Now he believes it is perfectly oiled |
and ready to crown the season with a
win over the Jayhawkers.
Kansas started the season with 20 |
to o win over William Jewell. trimmed /
Kansas Normal school a week later, /
took Drake into camp 80 to the fol-
lowing Saturday and downed the Kan
sas Aggies a week later. Then the |
Jayhawkers ran into a squall and /
took the short end of % to IA score
in the game with Oklahoma Last
weeks disaster at the hands of Ne
braska still is fresh in the minds of !
football followers. Coach Olcott, work
ing his first year at K u, has had a
severe disadvantage in his schedule.