The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-16
BOLD HAIRY BOYS.
Brawny Lads From Sterling
and Lawrence
Meet on the Foot Ball Field at
Topeka Today.
FINE FELLOWS ALL.
Genuine Interest in the Game
by Topeka People.
Gossip About the Players and
the Game.

The Cooper memorial cOiAe9e eIeVen
of fifteen men arrived at o'clock this
morning over the Santa sFe from Ster-
ling. They left home at last night
and travelled all the time except wait
of two hours in Newton. They took 9
o'clock breakfast this morning and spent
the forenoon strolling about the town.
They were all feeling pretty tired after
their poor rest.
If size and hair count for anything
these men should be stars. 1t was
windy day today and their six-inch locks
stood out on the morning breeze.
Ross, captain and quarter back. IS a
man of IT'S pounds himself 1--WE feel
just az sure of winning as we could be,
said he. He is enthusiastic, and point
ed out at least every man on the team,
saying he was a star, and wanting the
reporter 10 watch him especially.
A good natured giant. with Samsonlan
hair. is Right Tackle Pinyerd. He weighs
something like 1928 pounds, without any
weights in his pockets.
81 think this is our game" said Phil
lips, whose hair measures five and an
eighth inches in length and whose form
presses the scales to 2J0. He plays CEN
ter.
Coach McCracken, who plays left half,
is another ''slugger." He gained what
knowledge he has of the game in the
of Pennsylvania next year
"I'm afraid they'll have an advantage
over us in training" said one of the men.
eve pick up what we know through see-
ing games, and McCracken never played
much in the east. He is great player,
though
The team is composed mostly of new
material, though there are four or five
old men in the canvas suits.
The manager of the Cooper team is F.
L. Weede, very pleasant young man
who appears to know something besides
foot ball. "Our team is composed al
most entirely of boys who live in or
around Sterling" said he. "Some of them
are country boys who came to town to
attend college. Very few ever saw
scientific game of foot ball and the JOUR
NAL was right when it said We would
have weight against skill. We have
been organized three seasons and last
year won the championship Of the south
west at foot ball. This is the first time.
however, that we ever got so far east"
The whole team is made up of formid-
able appearing men, and the other teams
in the state do not seem anxious to meet
them on the field. a game had been ar
ranged at Salina, but the Salina team
called the game eff on the pretext that
the faculty forbid the game. A game
arranged with Emporia for next Wed
nesday was declared off by Emporia and
no reason was given. These teams we're
probably frightened when they heard of
the giant like players to be sent up from
the far west.
There were eighteen people who came
from Sterling, and among them is DR..
e
who is foot ball enthusiast He will be
seen near the line this afternoon, en-
couraging his team and squirting them
on to victory.
The yell of Cooper college, which the
Sterling folks brought with them, is
characteristic. and there is nothing else
in the world like it 1t is: Hip, hip,
hip, rip, rip, rip, whooperah, Cooperah,
'rah, 'rah, 'rah."
The state university team is composed
of goodnatured men who are much
lighter than the Cooper people, but they
have that self-confident look which they
acquired by playing against the first
eleven at the university.
Their heaviest man is Van Pelt, guard,
who weighs $50 pounds. Quarter Back
Crebo weighs but 142, but he is built to
move. The average weight of the team
is placed at 165, but it may exceed that.
The team has done no outside playing
this year, but they have furnished the
timber for the first eleven to practice
with.
The <. U. eleven arrived at 1890 and
will return tonight. The Cooper eleven
will stay over tomorrow. The game this
afternoon was called at o'clock and
both teams rode around the city in an
open car before the game.
The Cooper team may return to Tope-
ka on Thanksgiving to play the Topeka