The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-22
WON'T BE EASY.
Washburn viii Have Hard Game
on Saturday.
Denver University Team Famous
for Its Brutality.
FIELD rs A BAD ONE.
Prevents Fast Work by Any Of
the Players.
After Comments on the Game
at Boulder.
FIELD is A BAD ONE.

1t looks very much as though Wash
burn was going I'd against mess of
bad medicine next Saturday when it
plays Denver university at Denver. Ac-
cording to reports, the Denver universe
ty bunch is composed of a lot of prize
fighters. who rely on their fists to win
games. assisted by the Indulgence of
friendly officials.
Last Saturday the Denver university
played the Colorado Agricultural col
lege. and the Denver papers mince no
words in saving that Denver won the
game by persistent smuggling and gen
era1 rough-neck work. The score was
II to s. and while the Agricultural col
lege seems to have played the best games
the superior weight and superior slug
ging Of Denver was too much for it.
Denver is very heavy; even heavier,
G. is said, than Colorado university. In
such a game Washburn has to depend
on its speed. and, according to reports,
the field upon which the game viii be
played at Denver is nothing but a sand
heap. 1t is ankle deep with sand in
some parts, and it was at such parts
of the field that the Agricultural col
1ege,, in its game last Saturday, was
always held for downs. Had it not been
Tor the sand. the indications are that the
sAggies" would have won.
about the game between Denver and
the Agricultural college:
AT times the game took on the as
pect of a free-fOr-au rough house lp
the open. The players kicked, slugged,
eouEed and did everything else but bite.
in q majority Of cases, it is said TO their
discredit, the d. u. players were the
aggressors. And that some Of them
were not ordered from the field was due
entirely to the leniency of Referee John
Andrews, who managed to see but one
viOlatOr of the smuggling rule-and that
one happened to be an Aggie who had
provOcatiOn enough to have justified
him in using something more substan-
tfal than his fists had another weapon
been at hand. SDurred on by
this gain, D. %. began series Of saw
age attacks intermingIed with biff-
baff of fists and feet, threatening to
convert the game into an eleVen-ring
reproduction of the NelsOn-Britt fight
pictures. Just why Referee Andrews
did not burnish UP his lamps enough to
see this slugging deponent knoweth
not. 1t was at this stage of the
play that the smuggling began with re
ueWed vigor. Thomas. the big right
tackle Of the Aggie, had been the mark
for several vicious swings from various
Denver university players and finally,
losing his temper entirely, he sent a
right home into the Denver university
ranks. using his feet as well as his fists.
Referee Andrews here awOke to the
smuggling for the first time and put
Thomas out of the game, a bit Of rank
Injustice in view of the fact that the
rough play had been general since the
beginning OF the game
ssThe new park is well laid out. but il
viii take much preparation Of the
grounds before they are in fit condition
for playing. The sand yesterday was
ankle deep in places and so heavy all
over the field as to make rapid progress
In foOtwork almost out of the question
With the treatment it will receive in
the coming year, however, it viii be
converted into one of the best football
fields in the country. On the cars home