The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29
WHO is CHAMPION
Interesting Question Concern
ing Football Situation.
Three Teams Have Some Claim
to the Title.
MIGHT PLAY TT OUT.
Washburn and Aggies Are on
Even Terms.
Surprise That FairmOunt Gave
the Big Teams.
MIGHT PLAY 1T OUT

II the claims of Paramount cOllege 70
the football championship are estimated
at their true value, and eliminated from
consideration, it is not such very diff
1cult matter to determine which team
Of Kansas is entitled to claim the cham
pionship Of the state for the year 1906,
in spite Of the apparently mixed condi-
ton of affairs.
Kansas university, Which usually
reads its title clear to tie champion
ship. Will have to content itself with
third place.
The State Agricultural college, by de-
featiHg Kansas, established itself in a
position which would entitle it to cham
pionship horors had it not lost its game
to Washburn on October 81.
Washburn. through its tie game with
Kansas and its defeat of the state Ag-
ricultural college, is the team which
really mas the clearesu title to the claim
to the championship of Kansas.
All this Is figured merely from the
scores of the. games. The only way
the championship could really be settled
would be by another game between
Washburn and the State Agricultural
college And in such game, the
chances are that the score would be Q
to O. The two teams are so closely
matched, that under the new rules
neither one would be likely to score
except on a "f1uke.''
teams, rather than on the scores made,
there is nothing to choose between
Washburn, Kansas and the State Ag.t-
cultural college The three teams stand
on par, so far as it is possible to de-
ternaLe. With each team playing at its
full strength, the probability is that
either one would have an equal chance
of beating the other. If the odds should
incline either way, they would be
against Kansas university. The chances
are that either Washburn or the Agri-
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best show, If either one was to meet
Kansas again..
This is all the more remarkable when
it Is considered that the three teams
each rely on an entirely different style
of play to win
Kansas has placed its dependence al
most entirely upon Donald, Drummer and
its heavy line 1T has been weak in
the backfeId, and had it not been for
Donald and Drummer, its offensive play
would have been far below par. Donald
and Drummer have saved the day for /
Kansas this season.
The Agricultural college has had 4
Well-balaneed. team, but has depended /
upon a heavy, Hne-smashing back field. I
heavy backf1eld men in the state, and I
it has ripped open the line of every |
team which it has met.
Washburn's strength has been in fast. |
aggressive play, backed up with an un
usually swift and heady backfield. It's
line has been very light, but has been
composed of gritty and active men who
have held their own with everything +
that has come along. The Washburii
center Brown; the ends I1aughey and +
Robb and the backfield as a whole, are
as fast as any that ever played un-
der the blue banner. Washburn has
had good team work.
F'aiT1ROunt's Championship Claims.
While the big schools in the northern
part of the state were pointing all their
to accomplish each others de-
feat a little school down at Wichita
sent out a raiding expedition which
caused a lot of wreck and destruction
and escaped before the police could be
notified.
This flying column came from Far
mount college of Wichita. Paramount |
defeated Washburn one Saturday by 4
score of to 6. The following Monday
it defeated the State Agricultural col
iege u to g.
Figured strictly on these two scores
Paramount is a serious candidate Tor
the championship of the state.
A closer examination of the situation,
however, elbows that a peculiar combin-
alton OF circumstances is responsible for
Paramount played Washburn
week after its terrific to
game with the State Agricul-
turaI college. Five of the best men on
the Washburn team were out OF tn
game. Even under those conditions,
victory was secured on d
decision Of the referee, which was SO
oalDabiy erroneous that the victory was
considerably dinmed The decision con-
sisted in the presentation to Fairmounl
IF 2 points on an alleged safety" when
the ball was punted over the WashburE
goal line.
From Topeka Paramount went to
Manhattan. and played the Agricul-
-uraI college on Monday The next day
was election, and Nystrom. Mallon.
scholtz and other men who constitute
he handspring of the Manhattan team.
had gone home to vote, or were laid UP
With injuries. Paramount caught the
"A eeies,, in an ambush. lust as they