SMU at Kansas

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 71

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  Southern Methodist Defeats Stubborn Kansas, IA 10 s LAWRENCE, Kans., Oct. “a A tumble and a 13-yard drive after the half intermiSsion gave the Southern Methodist Mus tangs a 14-to-6 victory over Kansas surprisingly stubborn Jayhawks today. Southern Methodist, the South west Conference favorite, scored the first touchdown early in the second quarter when Tackle Jack Gunlock grabbed a Kansas tumble in midair and ran 80 yards untouched. Sam Stolen Werck’S conversion was good. The points proved the margin of victory. although both teams had a touchdown apiece coming up later in the second period. Kansas marched 80 yards for its lone score of the game. Don Hess hit right guard from the 4 for the touchdown. John Handley’s attempted place-kick was wide. Southern Methodist scored in the first minute of the fourth period with Don McIllhenny 60 ing six yards after a clutch pass interception Stollenwerck converted again to end the scoring SMU -------------- 0 Z 0 ia Kansas ---.----- 6 0 O. 6 SMU scoring: Touchdowns – Gun lock-, Mc1llhenny Conversions-Stollenwerck (2l. Kansas scoring: TouchdoRn=Hess.

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  The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 26, 1953, page 1 (results column)

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  ‘Handkerchiefs IOf Footballers Get Workout NEW YORK R-Monday’s foot ball wash, with 4 heavy quota OF damp handkerchiefs: Who said the modern college football player had become a hardened, caIloused cookie no long er susceptible to the ‘‘die-for-dearold Rutgers” spirit7 Notre Dame players “cried like babies” after Coach Frank Leahy was stricken at halftime intermission of the Georgia Tech game. {. then they went out and won one for Leahy, 27–⁠14. At Lafayette, Ind, fullback Dan Poboiewsh. who scored the Purdue TOUCHDOWN which broke Michigan States 8-game winning streak 60, said: Il felt SO good / just lay there and bawled.” Shades Of knute Rockne. Ironically, Pobojewsh spent two years at Michigan State but nobody looked at him. So he packed up and moved to Purdue. Purdue qualities at the sports No. l spoiler. Il was the Boiler makers who wrecked Notre Danes four-year, 3S-game dynasty in 1850 :. Quarterback Ed Gramigna of Audubon, NJ, had never tried a | field goal in his life until he kicked the 35-yarder which gave Penn a s-6 victory over Navy with Sc Sec onds to play. The referees whistle nullified two of the days most dramatic runs. Harvard’s Dick CLASSIFY hauled kickoff back los yards only to have a clipping penalty called. Leroy Belden of Michigan State returned the kick off following Purdue’s score 81 yards for a touchdown but it was killed by q similar penalty. Two long ones that counted, though, were Ray Martins 100 yard run with an intercepted pass in Tennessee’s 596 verdict over Louisville and Harold Lotions s. yard sprint for Mississippi in the $50 rout of Arkansas. But for sheer packaging, you couldn’t beat the, stunts at Princeton, NJ, and Newark, Del. At Princeton, Cornell’s Dick jackson handled the ball only four times, yet had scoring runs of go and 62 yards in the 26–⁠19 win over the Tigers. The game produced four runs of more than so yards in six minutes. i. AT Newark, Delaware’s Frank Ser |pico must have set some sort of record in scoring 13 points in ten seconds of actual playing time. /. He caught a touchdown pass, missed the extra point, kicked off, raced to end zone to recover the ball touched by Connecticut, then successfully converted. Final score: Delaware 80, Connecticut Z. The normally forgotten men the linemen-came in for re. markedly big share of the head lines. It was a Notre Dame tackle, Art Hunter, who recovered Techs wild pass in the Georgians’ end zone for the third Irish touch down which Tech Coach Bobby Dodd said won the game. Tackle Jack Gunlock grabbed a Kansas tumble in the air and ran 80 yards for the touchdown which gave Southern Methodist a 14–⁠6 triumph. At Providence, RI, a reserve tackle, Bill Klaess, ran SO yards with a tumble for Browns go upset of favored Holy Cross. John Hopkins, Navy end, went IS yards with a wild pass for the Middies’ only score against Penn Ken Buck, College of the Pacific flankman, rushed Mar quette’s Dick Shockey, batted the ball in the air. caught it and lum-

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SMU leads 4–⁠2 in six meetings, counting the four since this game.