The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-30
SPORTING NEWS.
Washburn Closes Season in a
Blaze Of Glory.
Defeats Ottawa Football Eleven
Most Decisively.
THE SCORE WAS 16 TO O
Topeka Blues Strong and
Aggressive Throughout
Moore, a Star Player,Has Leg
Broken.
THE SCORE WAS 16 TO O
Bright Weather Took 1000
People to the Game.

In one of the best games ever played
between Kansas elevens the mighty
Washburn team defeated the Ottawa
eleven by the decisive score of 16 to o.
The Ottawa team was strong and
played. in the first half, on the defensive
and offensive nearly as well as Wash
burn The Washburn team had a little
advantage in weight but the point
where Washburn greatly excelled was
endurance. At the close of the game
the Washburn men trotted off the field
while the Ottawa players were worn
and fatigued. Those who have followed
the fortunes of ottawa, and Washburn
did not expect such a one sided score
Ottawa has been playing great bail ana
held the Haskell Indians, WashburnS
bitter rival for the championship, down
to a to 81 game. The Ottawa team
played guards and ends back While
Washburn's guards back was too
much for the yellow line.
The largest crowd of theseason Watch-
ed the game. People were there
IN carriages and on foot, in traps and
on horseback and hundreds went by the
cars The crowd must have numbered
nearly 1000. In more ways than one
Washburn closed the season in a most
suspicious manner. Besides winning the
last game. from a strong team 1t was
done in the presence of enough people
to put the WashbuTn team out of debt.
The last game of the season was the
first game this year that a WashburI.
substitute has gotten in on account
of injuries to some player. The game
had not been in progress more than 10
minutes before Wade Moore, the bril-
liant right half of the Washburn team
went out with broken leg The teams
lined up for a scrimmage in Ottawa ter
TltOry and when the players diSent3ngled
their arms and legs Moore could not
stand. He was carried to the side line
and Read went in at half and played
a winning game. Repeatedly he ad
vanced the ball through and around the
Ottawa line for good gains For Wash
burn as usual Hughes, Roberts and Gill
hung together in that splendid interior
ence which has won so much ground
for the blue. There has not been a
game this season where 1t could be said
there was any especially star playing by
the WaShburn team. Every man plays
his position with determination and
skill. Roberts, in yesterdays game, re-
peatedly advanced the ball for good
gains and even after he had been tackled
and it looked as if he must stop he
would dive and squirn out a yard or
two or three more. Gill, who has been
a terror to every team that has lined up
against Washburn this season, was at
his best in the last game and did his
share OF advancing. Hughes, captain of
the team and one of the veteran players
at Washburn, was not behind his two
heutenants and again proved himself
to be a wonderful tackle. Mehl and
Read did their snare OF interfering.
For Ottawa, Nichol. the nervy right
end. was easily the star, if not the star
OF the entire game Nearly a dozen
times a Washburn man with the ball
would break through the line, with per-
haps a man or two for interference, and
make for the goal line, stringing the
yellow striped players out behind him,
and with no one to oppose him but the
fullback- II would be easy work for the
interference to take care of the full
back and allow the Washburn player to
score. Each time it was Nichols who
sprang out of the melee and overlook
the Washburn runner and hauled him
to earth. Not a man escaped him. He
could offspring the other twenty one
men on the field, and he saved his team
from defeat with a score around 80
or more. Nichols was in the thick of
the fight to the end of the game.
1t was nearly half past when Ottawa
spread out on the south end of the field
and Moore kicked Off for Washburn
Evans returned the ball, but after two
downs Ottawa was forced to punt. The
ball went 10 Washburn's 40-yard line
Moore had been laid out in the second
lineup.
Then ottawa got the ball and Wash