The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-23
Cunningham, Famous Tackle of Wash.
burn Team, Who Has Been
Shifted to F'uIIback.

All the new equipment for the Wash
burn team has arrived 1t comprises
% best quality union suits. three dozen
leather padded Jerseys, two dozen 9In-
padded jerseys, headgears, Safeguards,
and stockings. The shoes were pur-
chased in Topeka. The cost of the en-
tire equipment is over 800. Some of
the suits were made to order in es-
pecial1y large sizes for men who run in
the 200 pound class. 1t is by far the
finest layout of equipment ever owned
by the college. Together with old
equipment. the college now has COM
plete equipment for so football players.
The construction of the 7-foot wire
fence all around the grioiron is nearly
completed, and will be done before the
game Saturday. When the fence is
completed, no one will be allowed on
the gridiron except players and assist
ants, even during The regular af sernoon
practice.
At an enthusiastic meeting in the
Washburn chapel Thursday morning,
$500 worth of season tickets were sold.
Season tickets this year cost SO each,
and provide admission to game and
grandStand for all the Topeka games.
There are six games on the home
grounds.
Joe Louthan, the 20O-pound man from
GlascO, who was guard on the K. U.
football team of 1901, arrived in Topeka
Thursday afternoon, and registered this
morning in the WahSburn law school.
He will play right guard for Washburn
in the game Saturday afternoon with
the Kansas City Medics.
This fills up the Washburn line in
good shape. The job of right guard has
been shy on weight up to this time
Two other new football players ar
rived this morning, entirely unexpected.
They are Roberts and Miller, of May
field, Kan. Both are heavy men. and
have had experience in football. Roberts
is brother of the great" Roberts who
,l-,.r-- e
the year K. u. was twice defeated by
the scores of "a to and q to 0.
Another important change for Satur-
day is the shifting of Chick" Cunning
Cunningham weighs 1856, and shows up
with enough speed to keep the pace set
by Millice and Rice, the halfbacks.
Sharp and Williams will be available
for Cuninnghan1's old position at tackle.
Both have had experience in this resi-
ton, and play it well.
When Loutnan saw Sharp out on the
field yesterday afternoon, he remarked,
II know that man. I've played { eainst
MIN, and he's savage when he gets into
a game
Williams is a 'tow-headed boy"
weighing 1872. He seems to have
says: when those tow-heads are bad
at all, they are certainly poison"
Hence both Sharp and Williams have
their recommendations ready made
lnSIu
The Washburn team will probably go
into the game Saturday with the TO-
flowing line up:
Right end, Stewart.
Right tackle, Sharp.
hight guard. Louthan.
Center, Dadisman.
Left guard. Brown.
Left tackle, HILL
Left end, Lakin.
Quarter. White.
Right half Millice-
Left half, Rice
Fullback, Cunningham
This is about the heaviest team
Washburn can put in the field. The
average weight is about IFS pounds.
Try Out Twenty-Five Men.
1t is the purpose of Coach Outland,
however, to use a complete new set of
players before the end of the game,
giving a try OUT to at least twenty
two men. Simply to show what
wealth of good material thereeis at the
college. Coach Outland lined up a sec
ond squad last night composed of diff
ferent men throughout from the first
team, and these men are likely to play
some time dur5ng-the Saturday game.