The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
FOOTBALL NEWS.
Plans of the Kansas Players for
Coming Season.
At Manhattan andLaWrence Pre-
parations Are Under Way.
THE WASHBURN TEAM.
Several OF the Candidates Have
Already Commenced Work.
Outland Has Ordered Players to
Report Sept. 5.
THE WASHBURN TEAM.

All of the candidates for the Wash
burn football team have been ordered
to report at the college on September
5, when Coach John Outland will
practice. Manager Leach
says that at least 80 men will be on
the gridiron the first day He has
some splendid material on h string
but will not yet give out h names.
Some OF the candidates who live in
Topeka have already commenced prac-
tice. Among these are Jimmie Stew
art. quarterback in 1899 and 1901;
Bob Stewart. end in 1899. 1901 and
1902; Sam Lakin, end in 1902 and
1903; Glen Millice, left halfback in
1908; and Bob Maxwell, guard in 1901
and tackle in 1902 and 1908. They
have been practising every evening
this week for about an hour in passing
the ball and kicking and catching.
condition by the time Outland gets
here so hat they will at once be able
to begin scrimmage work.
Washburn will not have the famous
Mehl this fall. This crack little full
back is going east, either to Notre
Dame or Wisconsin This is learned
from gossip among his friends Under
the Chicago Conference rules he will
not be allowed to play at any of these
places until next year. And to con-
fine him strictly to the rules, he would
only have one year more of amateur
football anyway.
While Mehl's place will be hard to
duplicate in the Washburn lineup,
some very strong candidates will try
for it. He was the fastest and hardest
hitting full and half back who ever
played in this city, not excepting some
of the cracks who have been brought
here in days gone by the Kansas uni
versity teams Opposing teams always
used a double end on the little fellow,
n7IT THAR most nn-EsEfanE An1aa-r1..
failed to box him UP.
An entire new outfit of uniforms has
been purchased for the Washburn cam.
Union suit moleskins will be used, in
which the waists and trousers are all
one piece and lace tightly down the
front. This mode of dressing has been
found to be exceptionally advantageous
as it gives an opposing player few loose
ends for his hands in making a tackle.
Then too the uniforms are much more
comfortable and give a player greater
protection from bruises about the body.
Blue and white striped Jerseys and
stockings will be used. The head gear
VIII be of the strapped kind. because
the leather helmets have been preclud-
ed from use by the conference rules.
The latter were responsible for a great
many injuries. because a strong man
could throw his head into a line and it
was almost a battering ram.
The athletic board at Washburn has
decided to enclose the gridiron in an
eight-foOt wire screen fence on all
sides This practice Is followed at most
OF the big universities. 1t keeps the
field absolutely clear, something which
has never been done on field
since football was played. 1t is the
wisest step which the authorities could
have taken.
The baseball diamond will be plowed
up shortly, narrowed and rolled so as
to make it soft. The Topeka Missouri
Valley league team used it practically
all of the present baseball season ana
hard and solid 1t viii. however, b. put
into good shape before the season
opens.
At the State University.
The football squad at Kansas univer-
sity will eport on September 1. Coach
Kennedy does not believe in early
practices. Pennsylvania tried it when
he played there and the result was dis
astrous- K. us chances for a good
team only seem to be fair. Captain
Hicks, Allen and Pooler will play, de-
spite the controversy which came up
last fall after the season. when they
played with an amateur town team in
southern KANSAS. These three men
form a nucleus for a strong aggrega-
ton Hicks SAYS that Virgil Mccarthy,
and Ed Green of LaHarpe, will Join his
squad this fall. Both stated about Il
month ago that they would come to
Washburn- The fact of the matter is
that Kansas university needs them
worse than does the Topeka college,
out OF course tnat mas nothing to do
with which gets them. Kennedy has a
hard job on his hands at Kansas. He
will have to work long and late to de-
feat either Missouri or Washburn.
DR.. Thompson, professor of history at
the University of Chicago, and who is
the arbiter for questions of amateur
athletics for the Missouri valley terri
tory, is expected in Topeka about the
time of the opening of the football
season. His coming here will be mere
of a visit than in his official ~capacitv.
The Fort Riley football team.