The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-02

play. But he played. and the accident
| occurred.
Zone of the most brutal games
ever participated in, and the one in
which I got lot of savage criticism
from the Kansas City papers, was the
game between Kansas and the Uni
versity Medics of Kansas City. We
beat them in the first game by a score
of to o.. Then Nebraska beat US,
and Later the NEEDLES beat Nebraska "a
to o. Then they came down to Law
renee with the expectation of simply
wiping US off the earth. Mosse was
captain of our team, and Hammill was
one of the big men. The Medic team
was composed of a lot OF old stars
Pendleton, Heller, Morley. and a
bunch of old Baldwin players, rein
hired to help. I was against big
husky man, and we certainly mixed it
very rough. Avery, who played our
other tackle, was even worse with his
thing started that was going to give
him the same kind of dirty game
that his team had given US before
Everybody was playing with the de-
termination to git somebody and git
him good. Mosse and I gave Harry
Heller some awfully rough treatment,
and he said, What are you fellers try
ing to do to me, anyway l said, we
are just playing the game the way
you taught it to u.s. Well, we made
by smashing through their line. We
were going right down after another
when a fellow named Lewis who
played on the Medics, disputed one of
walked up to him and struck him.
The umpire turned around and
walked off, but I stepped up and
kicked Lewis in the rear so hard that
it lifted him clear off his feet. Levin
shouted to the umpire, Look here, are
you going to stand for that?' and the
umpire, who hadn't seen me kick him,
turned around and said, Stand for
your hitting me? No, I'll put you on
the sidelines if you touch me again
demanded that 1 be put out of the
game, and the umpire wouldn't do it.
They left the field, and my, how the
Kansas City papers roasted me.
Another very rough game was the
one we played with the Haskell In
dams. They had a terrific team that
year, which had been recruited from
old Carlisle players, and was coached
by Wylie Woodruff and pointed to the
K. U. game. I played against Bull
Dubois, who was half Indian and half
negro. He was one of the biggest
men in the business, and very ex-
perienced player as well. 1t was
battle to kill between US. Finally
caught him just right as he charged
at me. OF course I don't know just
how it happened, but someway Du-
bois' neck got twisted, and he laid
out there as nice and cold as though
he had been on ice. OF course his
injury was only temporary, but it put
him out of the game.
"But those good old times are past.
I don't want to play the game any
more. It has been fixed up now so
that sufferers from tuberculosis and
other serious maladies can play it in
perfect safety
All this talk of Smiths about his
football experiences would make it
appear that he is a bloodthirsty saw
age, living on human flesh. But he is
really q very tender hearted man, and
he only is savage when he lines up
face to face with a big. brawny man
who is well able to defend himself.
"I went out with Ewing Herbert
the other day." he said, con a 9O-mile
automobile ride. 1t was too exciting
for me. We caused three runaways,
and nearly ran over half a dozen wo-
men and children. was in cold
sweat all the time for fear we would
hurt somebody. If we had run over
woman or a child, would never have