The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-20
PLAY At SALIVA.
The Agricultural College Football
Game Saturday.

Manhattan, kan. Oct. 2O.-Footban
practice at the college is progressing
daily with marked Improvement in
the team. Their next game is with
the Salina Wesleyan team at Salina
Saturday afternoon. The rooters'
club is working up an excursion and
250 students are expected to go with
the team. Coach Ahearn of the col
lege is a graduate of Amherst where
he worked in football for four years
under Conner of Harvard. Weeks of
Pennsylvania, Jennings of Dartmouth
and Murphy OF Brown, playing one
year at end and three at quarter. His
work at the college is with new men
who in many cases are without any
football experience Whatever. The
showing they made in the game with
Washburn is credit enough for the
coach.
The center and guards had never
played before this fail; EdeIblute and
Blake at end were playing their sec
Ond game as was Cave at right half.
Mr.. Ahearn is working almost without
compensation and in addition to his
work as an instructor in the college.
His method is that Of working the
men hard and fast from the time they
enter the field until they leave. The
I team has shown a lack of endurance
in previous years but the manner in
which they came back at Washburn
in the second half Of the game shows
what It is made of and that it no
longer deserves the name gutter. -
I Mr. Ahearn keeps his men in a good
humor but is quick to choose in
| preference the man that shows the
| proper football spirit He now has
about fifty men on the field and is
| being ably assisted by Melick of Ne
/ braska. state university.
| Manager CasseIl of the Manhattan
| team says of the Washburn game and
/ later developments: Startling are
| the remarks made by W. ". StahL
manager of the Washburn football
team in Wednesdays Journal. His
/ remark that we were laying back to
/ beat Washburn was childish in the
I extreme We were laying back to
I beat them as We were laying back
/ to beat Ottawa and we viii be found
/ at our old stand the remainder of the
I season. Why should we be coached
up for this particular game2 Would
/ 1t not be better to be coached for the
1 K. Z. game which would give US
more honor if won than a dozen
/ Washburn games.
"Stahl further said that we did not
/ play legitimate formations, that our
I backs struck the line together. How
| long would a back play that did not get
into every down. that did not help mis-
I mate al0ng2 If they are not for that
purpose why are there three in the back
held2 Also in speaking Of the officials
/ the manager seems to think them par
tial to us. I will leave that to the
reader who when he learns that they
were both West Point gradJJftes. ~
7 one conceded quarter in the ALI Aneri-
/ can team Of SO Will decide differently.
! Manager Stahl denies tfB statement
I that we had the ball and wa sin Wash
burn territory three-fouFths Of the time,
4 but says that we had the ball only
three times in. the game. We had the
ball at least half of the first half and,
4 with the exception Of d returned punt
] in which Washburn lost on tumble,
/ all the second half Also Brown. Wash
burns left guard was out only the last
Hten minutes Of play and most of our
gains hapoened to be made through
I Ware, ri~ht tackle"
The official reporter of the game who
was on the field in every play as Stahl
was not says this x S A. c. by hard
clean playing advanced he ball two
hundred and seven yards during the
game Washburn gained only eighty
three X. s. 4. c. carried the ball
across the field. by straight football
three times while Washburn did this
but once The above figures do not in
clude gains made on fumbles, in re-
turning 1unts or kiek-offs, or on pen
n alties"'