The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-21
Washburn Defeated by the
Braves from Haskell.
Most Brilliant Football Game
of the Season.
SCORE WAS IA TO @.
Sons of Ichabod Had All the
Bad Luck.
Prevented from Scoring Only
by an Accident.
SCORE WAS IA TO o.

was defeated by the Has
kell Indians Saturday afternoon by a
score of IA to o. This is just about as
good a showing as was made by Ne
braska university against the invincible
redskins, and Washburn regards it as a
victory.
Hard luck was all that kept Wash
burn from scoring two t~ouchdowns. In
the first half. Thrailkin gathered in a
quarterback kick and carried il from
Washburn's 10 yard line the full length
of the field through the Haskell team,
had a thrilling footrace with the fleet
footed A~rchiQuette, and placed the ball
5quarely the Haskell goal
posts. He was called back to the Wash
burn % yard line on the ground that
he had at that point stepped over the
outside line.
Again in the second half. washburn
by brilliant playing the ball
to Haskells 5 yard line, where a pen
atty Of 5 yards was inflicted. The PEN
atty ruined Washburn, for while Wash
burn another 5 yards, il then
lost the ball. should have
tried a field goal from this point, and
its failure to do so probably cost it four
points.
While Washburn can truly attribute
its failure to score to hard luck. it new
er had the slightest show to win the
game. magnificent team
work was too much for the p~aleface
warriors. Washbu could stop the
line bucks of the Indians with consid-
erable regularity, but the Haskell in
reference for end runs was so formula
BILE that again and again it could not
be broken and the man with the ball
was stopped only after long gains.
A~rchiquette and Pete Hauser played
the star game for Haskell
1t was a brilliant day for football,
n the game was as brilliant as the
day. By a large majority it was the
best game of the season; the most in
tense in interest, and merited an audi
ence of 5000 people instead of the II or
Is hundred who were there. The K. u
Washburn game was stubborn and
brilliant examples of football attack
and defense which characterized
throughout the Haskell-Washburn
game. College students who had been
taught to reel off their yells in a rah-
rah chorus forgot the combination, and
stood up on the seats and screamed
with excitement. And there were plen-
fy of cheers of encouragement for the
dashing Irresistible sweep of the In
dian Interference as it came Whirling
around the Washburn line like a charge
of Sitting Bulls warriors at the Little
Big Horn.
Billy Rice did not play right half for
Washburn after all. He was on the
field in his suit, but it was decided to
use Thrailkill for the position, and
avoid all danger of raising a question
as to Rice's eligibility for five years on
the Washburn team. 1t was thought
that by participating in the one game
Saturday, he might thereby forfeit a
whole season, as the number of years
for which he is eligible to play is linn
tied to six, and he used one of the six
at k U. Had Rice been in the game,
it is practically certain that
would have scored, but not likely that
81 could have won, though it might have
held the score down to 9 instead of IA.
Haskell played a good deal harder
game in the second half than in the
first. One of the Washburn linemen
said:
oAS soon as the sacond half oDaDed I'll
knew We were up against a worse game
than in the first. The Indians came
harder and were harder to stop
The effect of this swift play was that
Haskell scored it's first touchdown just
BIZ minute after the second half op-
ened, and followed it with a second
touchdown IL minutes later. The sec
ond touchdown was due directly to an
unfortunate tumble of a long punt by
ThrailkilI on hbur 20 yard line,
after had been keeping the
ball in Haskell territory for nearly s
minutes.
Everybody seemed to be satisfied
with the outcome. and there never was
a more good natured game played on
Washburn field, despite the ferocity
of the struggle. There were no penal
ties for foul play, and the players
were laughing and joking with each
other during the whole game Coach
Outland said after the game:
"Washburn did we'll; we held the
score down better than I thought we
would
Captain Guyon of Haskell "Wash-
burn gave us a harder game han Ne
braska did"
Coach Herrnstein of Haskell: 'It
came out just about as I thought it
would. 1t was a hard game. Wash
burn would have defeated K. U. if the
team had played as they did against
us"
Referee w. C. Connect of St. Louis,
formerly a University of Virginia
player: "a very hard. clean game, in
which the score fairly indicates the
relative merits of the teams"
Umpire A. f. Casad of Fort Riley,
formerly a West Point player: zone
of the best games played in the west
this season. Haskell had the best OF
It on team work"
When the comparative work of the
teams in carrying the ball is figured
up, it shows how vastly superior the
Haskell offensive play was to that of
WaShburn. Haskell carried the ball
a total of 526 yards during the game.
while Washburn carried it only 1O2
yards. Washburn was unable to gain
except on line bucks and this is al
ways slow business. The Indians in
reference on end run was the fea-
ture of the game. The tackles boxed
in the line and the halves boxed out
the opposing end and half. and the
runner went down the field through a
hole big enough to let through a flock
of barns. Again and again this "sys-
tenn" was played. 1t was only on rare
OCCaSlOIlS that the HAL Will IL Ddll
followed his interference around the
outside. He watched for the hole
right through the midst of h Wash
burn team, and he usually found it.
Caldwell had the best of it in punt
ings, after Pete Hauser was knocked
out of the game. Caldwell punted
five times for 1S4 yards, an average of
81 yards. Haskell punted five times
for 1874 yards, an average of 81 yards.
Haskell lost the ball on fumblesI
four times. and three.
Haskell was much superior in running