Kansas at Temple
Friday, September 26, 1941 Share
Temple beat Kansas 31–9. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 80°F, low 62°F
In the newspapers

Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, September 27, 1941, page 10
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Handy Andy Leads Temple 10 Victory PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 27- CINS) Handy Andy TomaSic, triple threat back, jumped ahead of the field in the All-American sweepstakes today after scoring three touchdownS in Temples 31–9 victory over the University OF Kansas last night.

Evening star, District of Columbia, September 29, 1941, page 17 (results column)
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Minnesota, Stanford Again in Fair Way To Win Crowns Navy, Duke, Notre Dame, Tulane, Texas Show Eorly Strength NEW YORK, Sept 29.-Put down Minnesota and Stanford in your football book once more as potential champions and, even at this early date, figure on keeping close watch on Tulane, Duke. Texas, Navy, Georgetown and Notre Dame And don’t waste any tears on Harmon less Michigan. Defeat for some of these may be but the finger points to them on the basis of their exploits on the first big program Of the new season. Dozens of other major teams will make their 194l bows this week and a radical revision of the list probably will be in order Faced with the sternest test Of all are Wallace Wade’s Duke Blue Devils Victorious over Wake For est, 43–14, the Blue Devils now must face Tennessee at Durham in the game that may decide whether or not Duke is to finish with a perfect slate. Minnesota, rated No. team in the country last year, started off new campaign last week by whip ping Washington’s HuskieS, Pacific Coast power, 1916, as Bruce Smith scored both Gopher touchdowns and generally comported himself like the all-America he is touted to be. Minnesota will be idle this week, but Stanford, which just got past tough Oregon. 1915. thanks mainly to All-America Quarterback frankie Albert, will play U. c. L. AS Bruins. q. G. L. A, a tough luck team year ago, beat Washington State, T-6, in its opener. Tulane Is Tremendous. Tulane was tremendous in an easy 2l-7 conquest of Boston Col lege, Sugar Bowl champion and an unbeaten, united array in 1910. Next opponent for Tulane is All burn. Notre Dame. uncovering a fine passer in Angelo Bertelli during last weeks 38–7 rout Of Arizona, tackles sitter opposition in Indiana this week, even though the Hoosiers dropped last-minute 14–7 decision to Detroit. Michigans Wolverines, with Sophomore Tom Kuzma taking up where his Gary, Ind., fellow townsman, Tommy Harmon, left off, tackles Iowa after handing Michigan State a neat 1877 trouncing. Iowa warmed up with Drake, 25–8. Dana Bibles Texas Longhorns, who brushed aside Colorado. 34–6, may find Louisiana States Tigers harder to digest, although the Tigers were beaten by Johnny Grigas and Holy Cross, 1918. Georgetown, conqueror Of highly touted Mississippi, 1876, should have no worries with Virginia Tech, trounced by Kentucky, 37–14. Navy, which lived up to its advance notices in a $40 rout of William and Mary, faces West Virginia, an Eastern dark horse, in its next venture. Intersectional games are stressed heavily this week with the South and Western Conference furnishing most of the invaders. Paul Browns Ohio State Buckeyes, who outplaved Missouri, 1877, make the long trek to Los Angeles to tangle with South ern California, 1877 victor over Organ State. Purdue, tripped by Vanderbilt, 80, on Jack jenkins first-period field goal, moves East ward to play Pitt. Fordham, virtual “ certain to be a championship factor in the East, makes its first start against Southern Methodist. South Against North. Virginia Military, George Wash ington and Citadel of the Southern Conference all play Northern rivals. Y. M. l., badly beaten by Clemson faces Temple, easy 31–9 victor over Kansas; George Washington plays Manhattan and Citadel furnishes Arny’s opening opposition. Virginia, former Southern Conference mem ber, which trounced Lafayette last week, $50, will seek to make it two in row over Yale. Duquesne and Tulsa, Missouri and Colorado, Viii lanova and Centre and Denver and Baylor complete the intersectional pairings. High lights of the weeks program otherwise: East-Penn and Harvard collide at Philadelphia in the opening Ivy League game, while Cornell plays Syracuse and Columbia meets Brown. Princeton and Dartmouth play members of the Little Three” the Tigers battling Williams, while Dartmouth engages Amherst, Col gate, with fine team in the making, plays Penn State at Buffalo. est-NorthWeStern makes its debut against Kansas State, held to a scoreless tie by Fort Hays Teach ers. Wisconsin opens against Mar quette and Illinois against Miami of Ohio. Big Six competition starts at Ames, where iowa State must face Nebraska’s champion Huskers. Kansas plays Washington University of st. Louis. Open Southwest Conference Play. SouthWest-ArKansaS and Texas Christian meet in the first confer ence game as Rice and Texas A. and M. face warm-up opponents in Sam Houston and Texas A. and l., respectively. South-Alabama’s first Southeast ern Conference foe is Mississippi State. which barely got past Florida, 60, last week. Kentucky and Georgia meet rivals from the South ern Conference. Georgia has a tough foe to beat in South Carolina, which upset North Carolina, 1877. Kentucky has no worries with Washington and Lee. Three Southern Conference games are booked. Clemson plays North Carolina State, held to a 6–6 draw by Davidson. North Carolina meets Davidson and Furman plays Wake Forest. Far West California which
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Temple 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kansas–Temple gameTemple leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Kansas
- Next gamevs. Washington St. LouisOct. 4, 1941
- SeasonKansas in 1941
- ProgramKansas history and records
Temple
- Next gamevs. VMIOct. 4, 1941
- SeasonTemple in 1941
- ProgramTemple history and records

