The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-17
LEACH TELLS ABOUT 1T.
Says Topeka High School Can Defeat
Missouri Tigers.

Manager Frank Leach of the Wash
burn football team said today in
speaking of the Missouri trip:
1T was about noon when Missouri
first gave notice of its protest against
Rice and Griggs. They told US that
they were preparing to file a protest
against Hicks and Pooler of the K. u.
team on account of the Lamar Mo-,
deal, and that as Rice and Griggs We're
both in the K. y. bunch that went to
Lamar they could not consistently al
low them to play, as it would weaken
their case against K. U. We explained
to them that it would be an almost
hopeless struggle for US to go in with
out Rice and Griggs, but we finally
had to give in or lose our guarantee
money.
seWhen we told the boys what had
happened, there was a great roar. A
number of them declared they wouldn't
play 1t was the maddest bunch OF
football players you ever saw that we
took out onto the field that afternoon.
Coach Outland gave up all hope of
winning the game, and for my part, [
would have been glad to give Missouri
80 points to quit We charged around
our line up to fill in the places of Rice
and Griggs, putting some men into
positions which they had absolutely
never played before in their lives. Our
boys ran a few signals, won the toss,
and told Missouri to kick off.
II never saw a team go into a game
with such a vicious determination to
win as that Washburn second team
did. 1t was a sight. Every man was
fighting mad at Missouri's action. and
seemed to have made up his mind to
die game. We simply ripped Missouri
wide open at every play. Every time
WaShburn man got the ball, there
were three or four other men there to
help him along. Once when we had
the ball yards from Missouri's goal,
it was passed to Nash, and really
don't believe his feet touched the
ground from the time he got the ball
until he was pushed over the goal.
Four or five of our boys had hold of
him and simply used him as a batter
ing ram to go through the Missouri
line.
This talk about Missouri using her
second team is all rot Missouri used
nineteen men in the course of the
game; used every man she had on the
field, first, seconds and everything else.
There were only two of her first team
men who did not play. This is what
Coach Mclean told US after the game
Missouri is pitifully weak and it will
have not chance at all against Kansas
beat Missouri. 1 believe the Topeka
High school could beat the team
which we had in the field against Mis-
souri,. Our first team would have
beaten Missouri by as big a score as
we beat Manhattan.
1.-The work of some of the Wash
burn boys was phenomenal. Those
Tice brothers were almost the stars
of the game at the two ends. They
tackled like fiends, and the way they
would swing in behind the tackle |
bucks was a sight. They both weigh
less than 1875 pounds. Once when
Washburn Dunted, Tice and Thrailkill |
tackled the Missouri fullback from op
posite sides. and almost tore him in
two. He dropped the ball, and the
other Tice picked it up on the first
bounce and carried it across the goal
for a touchdown. Thrailkill did some
great work; he played like young |
tornado through the whole game. |
Pearson, our crippled tackle, played
against Forster. the biggest guard in
the west, and he just about put Mr.. |
Forster out of business.
eff our team goes into. the Haskell
Indians the way the second team went
into Missouri, we will make those fell |
lows sick of their job
''Washburn came out of the game |
in good shape. Not a man was hurt. |
After the first half. and we had sized |
up our men, we knew they could not |
beat us. We made two more touch |
downs in the second half. There is |
one thing 1 will say for the Missouri
students: they are true
sportSmen. There was a crowd of /
about 1900 people out for the game, /
and they cheered our work repeatedly. |
They cheered us when we came on the /
field, and cheered US when we went I
off. We got a square deal after the
Rice Griggs trouble, and hope to play
Missouri every year"