The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-15
Captain John Robb of the Washburn
Football Team.

With the great success of last sea-
sons team still fresh in the mind of
the football public, Coach Weede will
have no easy task this season. The
flower of last seasons team has faded
away. With Millice, Johnston. White,
Platt. Boles, Williams, Haughey and
Brown out of the lineup, practically
an entire new team will have to be
built up.
But the followers of the Blue are
not disheartened with the outlook.
Weede has coached Wasburn for two
seasons and both years has he given
a good account of himself. With but
meagre material on hand he has de-
veloped winners and during this time
the Blue has lost but one game. There
are many good men in Washburn this
season who lack experience but have
the goods nevertheless. The second
team last season was almost as good
as the first team and only the expert
! ence of the first. team men gave them
| their positions. Weede had the larg-
| est football squad last season in the
| history of the institution and the
! younger men at last seasons squad VIII
not come amiss when the lineup Is
made for this season.
There is abundance of good ma
terial for the line this season. At first
the linemen will not have the ag-
gressivenesS of Platt and Johnston OF
last years team but after the first few
games the line will prove a veritable
stone wall. For center there are sew
eral good candidates. Whitney and
Codding who played center last sea-
son on the second team are both fast
and aggressive players. Coddlng is
probably the better of the two as he
is much larger and is a good kicker.
Brethour and Munford the guards of
last seasons team will all be back.
Templeton is a we'll built man and
with a little more aggressiveness will
make a good guard, in which event
Brethour or Munford can be shifted
to tackle. Then there is Realm, whom
sickness only prevented from getting
into many games last season. Realm
would make good either at guard or
tackle. For ends the strongest candi-
dates on paper seem to be Captain
John Robb. Larimer and McVey. Both
Robb and Larimer played last season.
Robb is captain of this seasons team
and will hold down one end. Larimer
was a valuable man last season and
was an adept at handling the forward
pass. McVey who comes from Cooper
| college entered school last spring and
will be eligible for this seasons team.
| He played quarter and is a fast man.
He would make good at end, quarter
| or half. just wherever he is needed
most. Then there are other good line
men, who have yet to make names for
| themselves. I1OdEllll WHO play eu SUP Ill
| the line two years ago will be back,
| Weatherby, Weisgerber and Miller are
good men who have been lined up
with the scrubs for year or two.
Hope will undoubtedly have the
call at quarter. Smiley is the only
| backfield man who will return to
school this fall. He will have the
| first call for half or fullback. Then
| there is Karnes who is one of the
star backheld men of the second
team. Bradfield, Burkhart and
| Schmidt can be counted on for good
work. Schmidt is the well known
athlete from the Topeka High school.
He entered Washburn last spring and
| will be eligible.
| Last season the second team made
| a great record and this has helped
| more than can be estimated in get
/ ting available men for this season S
| team. A second team will be or
| ganized again this season and a
| strong schedule arranged. There will
| be some surprises when the second
! team is lined up too, for there will be
a couple of stars on this team, as
! good as any man on the varsity team.
! but who are ineligible on account of
| not having been in school before.
! McCarrell is one of the men. and he
/ was on the varsity squad at the
University of Pennsylvania last sea-
son. He is a Kansas boy and has
| chosen Washburn in preference to
| U. of P. for a football record. Adams,
the other star, played on the Phila-
delphia Central High school team last
| season, and was chosen as a guard
on the Pennsylvania all-inter-
| scholastic team last fall. A year
| hence this pair will make a strong
front on the varsity team
| Coach Weede cannot have any too
many men on his squad for this sea-
! son as he will doubtless need every
/ one. The schedule is the heaviest
ever arranged for a Washburn team.
| After the high school game which
will open the season, September 26,
the Washburn team will not have a
| single easy game. Following the
| high school game comes the Kansas
i State Normal. This game coming
| early in the season viii prove a hard
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