The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
BLUE is BEATEN
Mashburn Defeated by 81.
Mary's at Football.
Catholics Made One Touchdown
Following a tumble.
COVERED WITH MUD.
Field q Mire and Rain Fell In
cessantly.
Referee Shiras Gives TOpekans
Worst of Decisions.
COVERED WITH MUD.

The crepe is hanging around Wash
burn college today as a result of the
Union Pacific hard luck special to
ST. Marys Wednesday. when the peer
less football athletes from Camp
Weede were given the minus end of a
to score. The game was a hard
fought one and nearly all the time
during the hour of actual play the
clouds were emptying their contents
upon the grassy sward of ST. Mary's
college, where the Washburn defeat
was administered.
The Catholics scored the lone
touchdown near the end of the first
half, and then only on rank tumble.
Washburn had failed to handle punt
from st. Mary's in clean manner
and the ball was downed on the Wash
burn fifteen yard line. Smiley drop
ped back, .essaying to punt the ball out
of danger. Whitney playing center
temporarily made a poor pass,
Smut couldn't get the ball and
Fox the Irish guard broke over the
line and carried the ball to the goal
posts. When Whitney started the pass
the ball stuck to the ground, which in
terfered with his passing. Dockery
kicked an easy goal.
There was little of the spectacular
or hair raising during the game.
Nothing occurred to make the specta-
tors enthuse or tear the rims off their
hats. 1t was too muddy for that The
st. Mary's gridiron was evidently
originally a soGded field. But the sod
was worn of and the rain which fell
IN a good steady fashion throughout
the entire game rendered the field
spongy and soft to depth OF about
six inches. Hence fast sprinting, fly
ing tackles and the like had to be
eliminated.
st. Mary's won the game by out
playing Washburn. The Catholics
gained the most ground, and their
punts averaged away ahead OF the To-
cal collegians' But still had il not
been for the little piece of luck which
came their way as the time of the
first half was about to pass into his
tory, the game would have been a
scoreless one, as Quigley's disciples
did not outclass the Blue enough to
score on real football.
on the other hand bad luck. the
kind that might be portrayed in big
red letters, was with the Blue. The
lineup of the team resembled q ham
burger steak Three new men were
enough to put crimp into any
team. In addition to this the line was
rearranged. Whitney had to be pull
ed back to fullback and Codding went
to center. And to compensate for this
change other changes swere necessi-
tated.
The back field was a brand new
creation clear through. Jimmy Stew
art started the game at quarterback,
the pivotal position. Jimmy had been
out only two nights for practice and
handled the team exceptionally well.
He played a hard game throughout
this half, but his strength was gone
and Hope had to go in during the
next half. McVey's absence shattered
the work of the backfield. The ex-
pected protest got in its deadly work.
But what undoubtedly injured Wash
burns chances of scoring more than
the patched UP team was the poor
work of DIR. Shiras, the former OF
tawa university man, who acted as
referee. What DR.. Shiras doesn't
know about the rules regarding the
forward pass would fill one of An
drew Carnegie's biggest donations.
-Four times during the second half the
Blue made substantial gains by the use
of this play. Once the ball was push
ed to the three yard line, where Smi-
ley was downed. But Shiras ruled
that the play had been Illegal and
called the ball back at the same time
giving Washburn a fifteen yard penal
ty, putting the ball on their own forty
yard line. Both Umpire Samuels and
Field Judge Brummage stated after
the game that each of the four passes
had been legal and Washburn should
have been given the gain. Two of the
quartette of passes put the ball within
easy striking distance of the Catholic
goal.
shiras helped ST. Mary's in more