Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
Kansas Aggies Here Turkey
Day; Jayhawkers and Tigers
on Tentative Schedule.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TOO
/Mefford and Mckinney Hope
to Have Good Team for'
Program Next Year.
fpv CHARLES j. BRILL)

Rows. you've gotta hand II 10 i'a'
Mefford! -, .o,age
Coming TO Henry Kendall coliege
as athletic director with the pep tnel
n,ometer standing at 80 degrees , ue
low zero, he attacked the sttua'Ioi
courageously and In spite oi 'i,1 NJ ~,
victorious season thrust upon MN ny
tho weightiness of the football scneu,
,,io and the lightness of the materiai
from. which TO build team, ne is
Manning for the Presbyterians next
faIl the greatest football scneouie
ever attempted by any team IN the
state of Oklahoma.
Here Is a list of the games ne eN-
nects the 1918 Kendall combinauoh
to go up against:
University of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Aggies.
University of Kansas.
Kansas Aggies.
University of Missouri
Washington univerAy.
st Louis university.
University of Arkansas
Haskell Indians.
Can YOU beat it? or course not.
II takes a big man to go thru what
Mefford did last season and come u
smiling. 1t takes man WIN pi
ideas and confidence to propose sue
a schedule as he proposes Tor mex,
fan and 1t takes man with a plg
gift of CAB to 20 into a Missouri val
lev conference session as an outsider
and get the promise of football games
with half the members of the asso-
citation. vet that is what Hal Mefford
has done.
Faculties Must Indorsc.
II took considerable arguing, but
tackled . collectively and also indi-
x;dually they gave Mefford promise or
eames with Kansas, Missouri, Kansas
Aggies and Washington at the MIS-
souri, valley conference meeting last
Friday night. Before he will an
nounce his schedule officially, how
ever. Mefford will wait for the various
faculty committees to pass upon the
promises made by their representa-
tives at the Kansas City meeting. he
does not believe any Of them Will ran:
The Kansas Aggie game is one OF
which Mefford is absolutely sure and
he is arranging to stage IT as the
THANKSGIVING attraction. The Man.
haitian school has been hooked to a
two-year contract and while the game
of 1919 will be played at Manhattan
IL will not be on Thanksgiving day
for the Kendall coach proposes al
WAYS to play in Tulsa on Thanksgiving
Gay.
A two-year- contract also has been
tentatively agreed upon with the Mis-
sourians. The 1918 game will be
played at Columbia and then in 1918
the Tigers come to Tulsa. The same
is true also of Kansas, next years
game to be played at Lawrence with
the game the following year coming
bara Roth Waehin gt0u and ST Louis
are expected to be brought to Tulsa
as we'll as the Oklahoma Aggies.
For the home games, then, In 1918
the lineup would<be:
Oklahoma Aggies.
University of Arkansas.
Washington university.
st. Louis university.
Haskell Indians.
Kansas Aggies.
The foreign games are expected to
be:
University Of Oklahoma.
University Of Kansas.
University Of Missouri.
Possibly Drury.
Expects Good Team.
Next year Mefford>hopes to have @
team that will be able to handle this
kind of q schedule. He had some
good material by the close Of las
season and with the possible exception
of one or two men the entire squad
will be back next fall. In addition tc
these he expects a number Of new
men who will need little hammerint
to make them fit into the powerful
machine he expects to build with tht
cooperation OF Sam Mckinney.
Nothing attracts football materia