The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-13
COngregatiOnalists and CathO-
lies Win Clash Next Saturday.
Game on Washburn Field Should
Be a Hummer.
OUIGLEY'S MEN FAST.
Coach Weede's Warriors Are in
the Best Of Shape.
First Contest Between Two
Teams in Years.


The Washburn football team was Civ
en- well earned rest last night In
consideration Of the valiant game which
they played against Kansas university
last Saturday, Coach Garfield Weede
called off the practice. The men viii
commence this evening for their prac-
tice for the ST.. Mary's game in Topeka
next Saturday. This game is expected
Co be. the hardest game. remaining on
the schedule.
AIS the men are in good shape after
the terrific contest which they put up
Saturday. No injuries were. received BY
any man on the team, nothing but a
few bruises being left to remind them
OF the great battle which they fought.
Prospects in the blue camp look much
brighter than Ihey did a week ago. The
F'atfrnount defeat; although the game
was lost on a questionable decision leIt
q little sting among the blue warriors,
For a while it was feared that It would
take all the spirit out Of the practice
for K u but later developments proved
otherwise. Now that they have played
Kansas university to a standstiI, the
team stands a tie with K U. for the
championship Of the state. This mas
fnstilled a great deal of energy in the
Washburn team
The game next Saturday bids fair TO
be one Of the most brilliant games from
q spectacular standpoint ever seen IN
Kansas. The Catholics will be bested
by the blue a great deal in weight.
However. the Catholics are supposed TO
be the fastest team in the state and
have an innumerable number OF plays
which do not require weight. They are
reputed to be the only team in the
west which has the forward pass down
TO any degree Of perfection. St. Mary's
makes a speciality OF this play and re-
sorts to it for most Of their ground
gaining.
Coach Quigley. Of the St Nfary's team.
claims to be able to defeat WashhurI-
He has a great advantage over the 9TH
er teams that play the Topeka college
IN that he has seen the team in nearly
every game they have played. He has
been engaged by the Washburn man
agemeut as referee for all the local
games and has Cfficiated in nearly every
one Of them He ought to have a good
knowledge of every play which Wash
burn uses and should almost be Ia
miliar with the signals.
The battle of Saturday viii be the
first time the teams have met on the
football field for ten years. Away back
81 the early football days Of Washburn
when Paul Coldren was coaching the
blue the two teams used to meet and
were very formidable rivals. In 1897
game was scheduled between the twa
schools at st. Marys- The Washburn
team went to the Catholic town to play
the game but the game was never
played At that time one of the crack
players on the team was Farrar, col
ored halfback whose work compared
favorably with that of Caldwell. the
star player OF later years. ST. Mary's
refused to play because of F'arrar's col
or and as he was one of the best men
on the team Washburn refused to play
without him The result was that the
Washburn team paid their own way
back to Topeka and the game was cali
ed or
In 1904 an effort to get the two teams
together resulted in a failure Frank
Leach was the manager Of the Wash
burn team at that sine. He scheduled
q game with The ST. Marys team Ia be
played at st. Marys thai year. Aeenrsl-
Ing to the st Marys version of the story
there was an agI cement De ,wsen Leach
and the st. Marys team that Caldwell
who was then star on the Jcam sho1id
not be allowed 10 play bee lsise Of his
color. The report that Leach made such
an agreement Fas never been confirmed
but If re did IL was probably secret be
tween himself and the s.. MarYs man
ayers. SoneD a7y in st Marys however
let the cat cut Of the bag before the