The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-07
READY FOR Them.
Washburn Football Players Are
Arriving.
y
Manager Stahl and Captain Hill
Are Here.
TO OPEN ON SEPT. %.
First Game With the Topeka
High School.
The Thanksgiving Date With
Colorado College.

IN tomorrow. The first preliminary
practice will be held Friday afternoon.
Manager Stahl said today in speaking
of the football outlook: Il believe that
Washburn will have stronger team
this year than last. Several good men
have left us, and it will be hard to fill
their places, but there is this consola-
ton. K. u. and other schools which
play under the new anti-freshman rule
will be up against the same difficulty
Sn filing the positions that we are
The Washburn season opens on Sep
TENDER % with a game with the Topeka
high school. The high school team
promises to be strong this year. 1t will
be coached by DR.. Outland: the Wash
burn coach.
Washburn's first college game will be
with the College of Emporia at Topeka
on September 80.
Members of the last years first team
who will be in school this year are
Sharp, Williams, Brown, Hill, Haughey,
Millice and White. Billy" Rice, on
whom Washburn was counting for one
of its backfeld this year, will
not be in school. He and Arthur Griggs
will Join Fanny Mehl at the Western
University of Pennsylvania. This school
does not play under any collegiate rules
and it seems to be able to offer induce
ments to football players which western
schools do not afford.
Frank Griggs will also be absent He
will go to the University of Pennsyl-
vania to take an engineering course.
Washburn had hoped to land both Rice
and Frank Griggs for this year team,
and their presence in the line UP would
probably be sufficient to assure Wash
burn the state championship.
Millice will probably play quarter
back for this years WaShburn team.
White. johnson and Williams, all first
team men last year, are good for the
backfield positions. Lee, last year
sub, Is eligible for halfback- Stevenson,
another sub will try for quarter.
In the line. Washburn will need a
couple of big men, and it is hard to
tell where they can be found. Joe
Louthan is not expected to return, and
his 200 pounds will be missed at guard.
If Louthan does not come back, Platt,
a last years sub, and Brown, who play
ed guard last year, will probably take
these positions. Hil1 and Sharp, tackles
of last years team, will be in their old
positions. Haughey will be back at
end, and Tice is the most promising
candidate for the other end. The Fice
against Missouri university last year.
and distinguished themselves.
% This leaves WaShburn shy a Sood
man at center, and with no big men for
substitutes in the line. The center posi-
ton is not hard to fill, and the subSu-
tute material must be developed.
New Rules Make Trouble.
The new rule adopted both by the
Chicago conference and the Kansas
conference which prohibits the use OF
players who have not been IN regular
attendance at the schoo! for at least
one full year is playing hob with the
football teams throughout the state.
1t is understood that Emporia, the
Normal, Agricultural, Paramount and
st Marys will all refuse to abide by
from the conference altogether unless
it is rescinded Kansas university VIII
play under the rule in all its Chicago
conference games, and Washburn Will
do the same. The K. U.-Washburn
game will undoubtedly be played un-
der this rule.
The object of the rule is to prevent
running in" football players from out
side who merely stay through the
football season and then drop out. 1t
is a mighty good rule, and ought to be
strictly enforced. 1t will do more for
purity of athletics than all the other
rules so far adopted, for it hits right
at the weak spot in college athletics.
The result of the new rule in Kan
sas will probably be that all games ex-
cept between teams playing under Chi
cago conference rules will be played
without regard to the new rule.
Lindsborg Is Out of 1t.
Washburn has received a letter from
the president of Lindsborg college stat
ing that that institution Will have no
q football team this year. This is due,
it is said, to a rule adopted by the
church conference prohibiting match
games of football.
The withdrawal of Lindsborg from
the football arena takes one of the
strongest teams in the state out of
business. Lindsborg has had a Won
derful team under the leadership of
Bonnie Owen.
Oklahoma this year, and it is likely
that he will steer most of his old
Lindsborg players down there. Okla
homa is not bothered by any confer
ence rules, and the indications are that
1t will have about the strongest bunch
of football veterans in the west. Owen
always has good team, but his meth
OBS for getting it are not above criti-
cism.
Washburn's THANKSGIVING day game
this year may be played at Colorado
Springs with Colorado college. Wheth-
er the game is played in Colorado
Springs or in Topeka depends some
what on what games are scheduled for
Denver on Thanksgiving day. If Den
yer has a big game, the Colorado col
lege bunch may be brought to Topeka.
FINANCIAL considerations have to be the
dominant factor in this game owing to
the large expense of the trip.
Washburn has a very heavy schedule
TINS year. Its big games are with K
u. Oklahoma Haskell and Colorado
college. The following is the schedule:
AT Topeka.
September 2s-Topeka High school.
September 30-ColIe2e of Emporia.
October 7-State Normal.
October 21-Ottawa.
october 28-Oklahoma university.
November 4-Fairmount college
November 11-Kansas university.
Out of Town.
october 14-Agricultural college al
Manhattan.
November 1s-University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder.
November 25-University of Denve,
at Denver.
November 30-Thanksgiving, Colo.
Eado college at Colorado Springs OF