The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-08
Washburn on Edge for the Man
haitian Game.
Expect a Hard Contest ON the
Farmers GridirOn.
BIG CROWD is GOING.
Special Train Will Leave Topeka
at Noon.
DIR. Masker lis Selected to
Referee the Contest.

If a week of good hard practice is any
indication, the game at Manhattan next
Saturday afternoon between the strons
Aggies and the champion aspiring
Washburn team ought to be about the
best game of the season. If there Is
any one game on their schedule which
the Aggies really desire to win more
than any other 1t is the game from
Washburn. During the past two sea-
sons the Aggies have given Washburn
an awful run for her money ana al
though the Blue was successful in both
instances It was a pretty lucky day Cor
the Sons of Ichabod. washburn has
never been defeated by the AggteS and
the disciples of Coach Weede would
like to get through this season with
their slate untarnished.
Two years ago the two teams clashed
on the Manhattan gridiron. With but
a fraction of a minute TO play at the
end of the second half ana the score
standing to in favor Of Washburn,
the Manhattan college lads lined up on
the % yard line for goal from place.
ment. 1t was an easy chance. How
ever Washburn broke through the Ag-
gle line and the ball was fumbled ana
booted around the field promiscuously
until Elmer Hill, at that time WASH
burns captain, grabbed the ball and
after an IS yard run scored toucn-
down and Wister Williams kicked goal
washburn won by score of IL to 8
but It was pretty much good luck. Last
year the two teams battled In a strong
wind and Washburn finally came out
victorious by a score of to after
the Aggies had played st1h game AL
afternoon and almost played Wasnpurn
off her feet.
with the Aggies coach and team these
facts are still remembered and the team
as a result of getting nosed out of two
victories is quite bitter against Wash
lives against the Blue tomorrow after
noon. After having lost to Kansas
week ago last Saturday three or four
of the older members Of the Aggie team
were heard to remark that they didn't
care so much about losing to Kansas
but they did want to win from Wash
burn.
Reports from the rival training camps
of the two teams show that the two
teams will be in good condition for the
game. There are few crippled men on
both teams but their condition is not so
serious that they will have to be car
ried to the field in ambulances nor have
to go into the game against their doc
tors advices. Nor is there any player on
either team who will have to get out
of a sick bed to save the game for his
Alma Mater.
Coach Ahern, of Manhattan, has a
large squad at work He has the cream
of 1900 students who pitch hay in the
summer time and help In harvesting
during the day, then after their days
work is over practice drop kicking the
pigskin over the straw stacks in the
moonlight. Despite any rumors to the
contrary the team will be strong one
when it faces Washburn- For a week
they have been putting up good prac-
tice game behind closed gates. So secret
has their practice been that not even
a newspaper man was allowed to watch
the practice and then requested to write
bear stories.
Some of the men on the Aggie team
are enough to terrorize the heroes of
Chicago or Michigan. Montgomery, the
big tackle of last season is captain this
year and plays his position with a VIC
iousness and fierceness which can be
appreciated only by those who have
seen two bulldogs pitted against each
other. Seng, the big discus thrower
who showed up SO well in the intercol-
legiate track meet in Topeka last season
plays one of the guards. Ostland and
Heinrich, both terrors in the line, who
were not allowed to play against OF
tawa Monday on account of protests,
will both be in the game against WASH
burn. The star of the team, however,