The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-17
NO MATCH FOR TOPEKA.
Kansas City Manual Training Football
Team Smothered.

On Saturday afternoon. the Kansas
City, Mo, Manual Training High
school football team came to Topeka
and got a beating from the Topeka
High school, the score being "a to
0, three well earned touchdowns being
the record for each half.
The funny part of it was that Kan
sas City really expected to win this
game. and the Topeka boys themselves
were rather inclined to believe thay
were up against the rocks. 1t took
only about four minutes of playing to
rectify the erroneous impressions On
both sides, however. Topeka simply
had Kansas City pulverized to an i'm
palpable powder at all stages of the
game.
One of the Kansas City players said
the est interference I ever saw.
1t seemed as though the whole -
team was coming around the end ev-
cry time" This remark probably ex-
pressed the sentiment of about ten
other Kansas City players. -
Hope, the Topeka quarterback, said;
Things looked bad for US before this
game. The High school faculty had
we were all shot to pieces. Our work
in practice was ragged, but when we
got into the game today, the boys
braced up, and we played better than
thought we would"
If anything, Kansas City had the best
Of it in weight There probably was
not much difference in this department,
however. The Kansas City line was
heavier than the Topeka line, while the
Topeka backfield seemed to carry the
most weight. In the first half, Hinck-
ley and Dolman, the two Topeka half
backs, did the bulk of the offensive
work, and both played a terrific game.
Their hurdling of the line was spectac-
ular, and whether on end runs or line
bucks, they seldom failed to tear off
a good gain. The hard work told on
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Topeka was obliged to rely on its ends,
tackles and fulIback for it's gains. They
all did their part well. There was one
thing which seemed to be quite beyond
Kansas City'S power of comprehension,
and that was the shift plays of the To-
peka team. This style of play was used
almost constantly in the second half,
and several times the lone half was
able to get around the end for big gains.
The work of Hope at quarter was one
of the strong features of Topeka'S play.
He is sure and fast, and handled the
team we'll 1t is the first time Hope
ever played quarter. His reglar place
has been tackle.
Kansas City's work was slow all
around. Its line was slow in charging,
its backfield played so far back that
the runners were repeatedly downed be-
fore they reached the scrimmage line,
and its work was not marked by any
evidence of good coaching. Baine, an
old University of Missouri player, has
OSCH COdCi1lllS lllS lSdAlls II Is SAUL he
only thing he has taught his Hnemen
has been to play low. and they played
so very low that the Topeka backs
made it their regular plan to hurdle the
line. There is a little tow-headed boy
named Pauly on the Kansas City team
who plays quarter. and his work shone
out with considerable brilliancy. He
was always getting himself tangled up
with Topeka's plays and doing some
damage, and he seemed to be one of the
rev members of the K. c. team who did
not go into a trance after the first few
minutes of play.
There were about 400 people at the
game, and the contest was friendly and
clean The line up was as follows: