The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-15
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Manager Leach Makes Haskell
Game a Bargain Day.
Preparations Completed for Big
Football Contest.
OFFICIALS CHOSEN.
st. Louis and LeaVenwOrth Men
In Charge.
Little Interest i'm WaShburn.
Missouri Game.

Officials have been selected for the
Haskell Washburn football game next
Saturday. They are as follows: CO.
nett, of st. Louis, referee; Connors, of
FIT. Leavenworth, umpire; Cosad, Fit.
Riley, head linesman.
Manager Frank Leach announced
before starting for Columbia, Mo-.
yesterday, that the admission for the
Haskell Washburn game will be so
cents, instead of the regular price, 10
cents, which is charged for the big
games on the schedule. The K. L.
Washburn game was a rs cent game,
and it did not draw as big a crowd as
was expected. Manager Leach decid-
ed to offer the Haskell game at so
cents, and it ought to bring out an I'M
usually large attendance.
Haskell always is the best football
card of the season; people like to see
the Indians play. This year, there is
an unusual amount of interest in Has
kell, for it is acknowledged that the
team is the equal of anything in the
west. Haskell has beaten Nebraska by
such a decisive score that it ranks with
Minnesota and Michigan, the acknowl-
edged champions of the west.
But Haskell is now out after still
bigger football game. Supt. PEARS, of
Haskell, announces that a game has
been arranged between Haskell and
Carlisle to be played in the ST. Louis
stadium the week following Thanks
giving. 1t will be the only meeting
between representative teams of the
east and west this season, and will be
one of the biggest drawing cards of
the whole year.
Wash burns showing against Has
kell will give a line on the compare
tive strength of the Topeka team and
the big eastern elevens. 1t will also
show how Washburn compares in
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game is to be played next fall.
Next Saturday the State Agricultural
college has game scheduled with
K U. Coach Kennedy announces that
he will send his second team to play
the farmers, and will bring the first
team to Topeka to see the Haskell
Washburn game.
Play Missouri Today.
There is not very much excitement
out at Washburn about the game
which is being played this afternoon
at Columbia, Mo-, between the Wash
burn second team and the Missouri
tigers. There is not a feeling of as
surance that Washburn will win, |
though it is believed that such thing
may be possible if the Missouri team
is in as crippled a condition as has
been represented.
The great trouble with the work of
the second team at Columbia will be
the fact that the backfeld has played
together but very little. 1t will not be
aGie 10 play strong OFFENSIVE game
The plan of the battle will probably
be to batter away at the Missouri line.
which is not very strong, in the hopes
of wearing out the Tigers and getting
a few touchdowns. There will not be
much effort made to run the ends, as
the interference will not be effective
Rice and Griggs are a. powerful pair
of backfeld men, but they have not
played together this year. Griggs has
been out for practice but half a
dozen times, though he has usually
been on the field watching the play.
Rice has worked hard during the
whole season, and is captain of the
second team. He can be counted on
to do some effective work in line buck
ing.
It is rather a funny condition of af-
fairs. Washburn has very small hope
of winning, and Missouri expresses
itself as being perfectly confident of
being defeated. The following dis
patch was sent out last night from Co
1umbia about the condition of the
Tigers:
1.-THE Tigers go into the game with
no hopes of winning it, but with the
few points. Tillman came out of
Saturdays game with bum arm and
Hall with a bad shoulder and several
other men sustained severe bruises
from which they have not recovered. |
Nichols, who was out of the game Sat |
urday, has recovered and may be put
in at half. Hall may not be able to
by Heimbucher or McGinnis. Caruth- |
ers' sprained ankle has healed and he
is expected to be a tower of strength |
on offensive football.
Dope gives WaShburn an easy VIC
tory and Missouri rooters express no |