The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-11
SPORTING NEWS.
Denver Football Team Won't
Visit Kansas.
The Game Scheduled With
Washburn Is Cancelled.
GUARANTEE TOOLARGE
Managers Found the People In
different to Game.
Effort Will Be Made to Improve
GUARANTEE TOOLARGE
Effort Will Be Made to Improve
the Team.

The game between the vashburn-
Medics and the Denver Athletic club
football team scheduled for next Satur-
day has been cancelled. The D. A. c.
game with Lindsborg has also been de-
sc42red off and the Denver players will
not come to Kansas.
Manager Minis, of the Washburn team,
decided that under the present fcondi-
tions it would be financial ruin for the
college athletic association 10 guarantee
the d. a. c. team the necessary $500.
yThe Eaks were asked to. kindly make
the guarantee but the offer was
graciously declined. There mas not been
a crowd, or any two crowds on the
games this season. that would bring in
The necessary $500 to be given the visit
ing team from Denver. Besides this
there would be other, expenses TO- be
met.
There was considerable interest mani
fest in the Denver Washburn game
early in the season until the weak and
dilapidated condition Of the Topeka
team was shown. If Washburn had a
strong eleven Van Stones. men from the
mountains would be a drawing caro-,
but as things are it would be expected
that the visitors would walk over the
home team. Such thoughts do not
cause a rush for tickets at the box
office.
The material gathered together fersthe
Washburn- Medic team is good. The
fault has probably been in the coaching.
The players have not been handled as
they should. There has been no train
ing table and the players have been
under no discipline whatever. Tney have
used stimulants and tobacco al WILL
kept late hours and done just what they
should not have done. The poor train
ing of the players was shown in every
game that the WaShburn- Medics were
in. The tackling was positively bad,
there was a lack of team work and
eypr, oh inf
and the runners would not stay with
it. The material at hand was strong
enough to develop a, team with proper
coaching and training that should put
up a. good contest with any team in the
west.
Gill is looked upon as one of the best
football players that has been in
Kansas team but that does not make
man a good coach. Another thing work.
ing to Gills disadvantage was that he
was coaching many of the same men he
played with. They did not look upon
him as a seer in football wisdom who
knew more than they. His word was
not law as the majority of his players
were his comrades the year before. In
the east the graduate coaching. system
has been found a. failure. ?. rois
Hughes, who began the season as
coach for the Medics before the two
teams merged, failed to bring his men
up to the mark that was expected. The
material was good, better than that
Washburn had, but the playing was
ragged.
There have been other reasons for
failure such as constant wrangling be-
tween factions at the colleges. lack of
harmony between the players and the
faculty. The team lost courage before
the games and as in the contest with
the Indians, made no effort to play fast
football
1t seems that the football trousbIes at
Washburn in the past few seasof1s~have
cooks have dipped their fingers into the
broth. Washburn should have a board
of a few members who shall govern the
football team and not allow it to be
partially looked after by the student
body" and a hundred outsiders.
The Washburn team, when that team
has been worthy, has received good sup
port from people who enjoy a good ex-
hibition of football. The crowds at the
games this season have been small The
reason has been that the Washburn play
ers have INDUCED in the prize fighters
system of playing the game with their
lungs before the dag Of the contest and
spending a large part ofstffe time ch the
field in wrangling~= &as~
The price that Washburn expects TO
pay for a coach will bring some one to
the chair of football from some eastern
college who will have new ideas and per-
haps be able to do what no other coach
has been able to do, and that is secure
harmony among the players and between
Washburn- Medics will have material next
season for strong team. All that is need
ed is a competent coach.
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