The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01
KICKERS' PLANS.
Washburn Arranges Next Sea-
son Football Schedule.
Manager Clovis f. Dale Gives
an Inkling to Public.
OPENS IN SEPTEMBER.
First Game to Be Played With
Fort Riley.
Great Things Are Expected of
Coach Kennedy.
OPENS IN SEPTEMBER.

burn college football team today an
nounced hisschedule of games for the
| coming season which opens with the
| Fort Riley-Washburn game in Topeka
on September &c. The schedule is a very
attractive one for Topeka people as al
most all the better games are to be
played upon the Washburn gridiron.
Coach Bert Kennedy will be in Topeka
during the coming week to meet such
Of the prospective players as may be
here and to pass judgment upon the
preparations for the season. His home
is in Lawrence and his visits to Topeka
win be numerous between now and the
opening of the season. during which he
will spend most of his time at WASH
burn college.
There will be games at Topeka on the
following dates: September &c, October
10, October "a. October 81, November IA,
! November 20 and December 5. 1t is the
intention to arrange a number of small
! Ter games to fill up the seemingly long
/ intervals between some of the games on
the home schedule. The Washburn sec
Ond team viii have some very interest
ing games with high schools and acad-
eInies on the home field. The usual foot
| ball season lasts from the opening Of
school until Thanksgiving day but, in
| the event of favorable weather, post
season games are likely to be played
upon the Washburn field.
Washburn's schedule, as it now
stands, follows:
September 26, Fort Riley at Topeka.
| October 3, State Normal a. Emporia.
October 10. Emporia college at To-
pelza-
october p, MissouH State Normal at
| Warrensburg, Mo.
October III, Kansas WESLEYAN college
at Salina
October "a. Kansas City Medical col
| lege at Topeka.
| November 81 Kansas University at
Topeka.
November 7, State Agricultural college
at Manhattan.
November "A, Bethany College, Linds-
| borg at Topeka.
November IS, Missouri University at
Columbia. Mo.
November 20. American School of
Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo.
November 26, Ottawa University at
| Topeka.
December 5. Haskell Institute at To-
peka-
OF the above named games the partic-
| ularly interesting ones are expected to
he those with Warrensburg, the Kan
sas City Medics, Kansas university,
Bethany college, Missouri university
kirksville, Ottawa and Haskell. Some
/ of these may be disappointing while
on the other hand some of the smaller
| Kansas colleges may produce WhirlWind
| teams that will surprise their antag-
onists. Lindsborg college is one which
has come to the front rapidly in the
| last two years. Last season it played a
very hard game although the team re-
| lied upon its unusually heavy line
rather than upon skillful generalship.
The team is expected to play even bet
ter football this season.
While in some respects Washburn ap-
pears to have taken on her hands a
rather more modest schedule than
usual it is one with which she can ac-
cumulate considerable glory with a sue
cessful team. Manager Dale is negoti-
ating for a Colorado game or two and
will probably succeed in getting one,
or in lieu of it. a game with some well
! known school in Missouri. Nebraska or
Iowa. to be played on the home field. 1t
viii be Washburn's policy this season
/ to undertake nothing which she is not
financially able to handle. A propensi-
ty to indulge too extensively In athletics
has in the past rendered the Washburn
Athletic association insolvent, so that
/ last spring the faculty took a hand in
/ its affairs with the result that no very
/ extensive trips will be undertaken this
/ fall Football excursions into Iowa,
/ Nebraska and Colorado have in the
past been usually found not to be re-
munerative.
Washburn has been for three years
working up material for magnificent
I football team. The merger of the Kan
I sas Medical college educational and
athletic interests the establishment of
/ a law department and the incoming or
/ a considerable number OF graduates
| from Kansas high schools with footbaH
! experieuce gives additional promise for
this falls team. A year ago Washburn
! tried out a lot of raw material so that
despite a good many falls by the way
side the team was playing well at the
close of the season. with very rev eA-
ceptions these players Will return 10
school and will try for places upon the
team Among those from the collegiate
department of Washburn. VINO pIayeu
last year and are expected for prac-
tice this fall will be omar MeLl, ehis
/ fast half back; Dadisman, Chck
cunningham Gill, Pierre and George
/ Anderson. Bobby Maxwell, Hampton
Steel and Read
Last years attempt to merge the
Medical college team with the WASH
-, eleven in the middle of the season
land to carry out the schedules prepareu
for both teams proved rather olsilal
failure which resulted in DISSATISFACTION
14non both Sides This time both teams
$50 cone in rpou an equal basis with
one athletic association and the same
mana cement The effort to preserVe
4 the personality of either team lrOHi
the other will not be ATTEMPTED 1He
/ Medical college will contribute some OF
the best material for the new team
among the prospective players being
/ caldwell the colored boy, Otto k1ene;
/ Hill Rob Stewart, sam l1akln anu
claire Stahl What material the new
law department may develop can not
he told although the management mas
homes of bringing in James Stewart.
who formerly played with Washburn
and helped the team out as coach at
one time of financial panic. Stewart Is
now reading law, and may take up the
law course in the department that is
to open this fall
There will be no "importations' for
| the 1908 team. Like almost every COLI
llege Washburn has frequently in tho
past had players who were induced
| to come to school during the football
season and dropped out again when
their period of usefulness reached an
end. The faculty of the school regard
ed this practice with a disappearing