The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-28
it'll BE A GAME.
Washburn Determined to Give
X. U. a Hard Battle.
Warriors Are Being Given Fin
ishing Touches.
CAN YELL AT LAST
Followers Of Blue Will Make
Themselves Heard.
Kennedy Fears Injuries as Re-
suit OF Contest.
CAN YELL AT LAST

| The day broke fair and the weather
man said, 1.-The weather will stay this
way and the teams as fine as split
frog hair-and the game but two
days away. That the Washburn team
is come up out of the rutss where they
were pushed last year is the essence
of the optimistic coaches of the Blue.
| Coach Weede said last night after
an exhausting practice with the
squad, It now believe we have the
team in the best condition to be OBJ
tanned. All are in the pink Of con-
! dition with few exceptions in the
way of minor bruises and charley
| horses" The coach also stated that
| Colvil1e, substitute right end, who
was dfSbarred from playing last Sat
| urday at st. Marys at. the last minute
| by the athletic director at the order
| of the Washburn faculty would be re-
| instated as he had made up his lab
| oratory work. The professor of the
subject has said that Colville could
| make it up very easily and not to in
| terfere with his playing last week but
the eagle-eyed faculty took no
/ chances.
| The coaches also stated that the
i grilling practices and Scrimmage work
! would be abandoned for the balance
1 of the week as nothing could be gain
/ ed by it and perhaps some player
4 would sustain such disaster as did
i Sears last week. Sears was the most
4 promising find of the new material
i The great ambition of player is to
get into the big games and do some
i thing worthy of mention. To lie in
i the hospital with broken leg while
the great big game is in progress will
!! prove the unkindest act of Providence
Il for the ambitious end.
Il Signals and Blackboard.
Meanwhile the practice is consist
i ing of long runs and rapid fire signal
i training, something of an innovation
Il will be instituted in the Washburn
squad, that is, blackboard coaching.
i This has been used at the Blue camp
II only on rainy days heretofore thus
II sadly ignoring one of the best meth
DDS of drilling the men. The chart
II class-for that is what is teaching
the very rudiments of the game-win
II meet regularly at evenings in a recita-
Il ton room. In chart class of this
4 kind the coach takes his chalk mark
i ing the lineup of his team and that
1 of every possible formation of the OPP
i ponents and by calling each play
1 draws arrows for the track proposed
for the play and which man of the
Il opponents each man Is expected to
Il get out of the way. This is especially
Il valuable when the coach has been in
formed of some of the formations
| used by particular team such as K.
! q. Saturday and can plan just how to
stop each play. On the field the play
er gets the actual practice, but there,
! where every one runs somewhere at
! the swapping of the ball, the new
player can not for the life of him see
| who it is he must get out of the way
whereas this can be shown in a sec
ond on the blackboard.
| WashbuFn Can Yell at Last.
One of the greatest features of this
season, due largely to the opening of
/ the new Thomas gymnasium and the
calling here of Director of Athletics
Judson c. Fisher, is the exceptional
efficiency of the Washburn cheering
and yel1s. For instance the wash
burn bleacherftes used to yell at
their players, wASHburn'-and If
was decidedly washed out cry; now
they well 'WashBURN''-and the
team hears that exciting infiammatory
ending and literally burn m up.
/ But still that is not the greatest
feature of the new system-thaf is the
new yell leader Wallace Pettijohn,
known affectionately as Petty or
Pettijohn Bear from the famous
breakfast food Petty is a prototype
of the eastern way as we hear of it.
He is not too bashful, by a great deal,
to wave his arms and shout and sing.
His action is not unlike the re-
nouned band leader Creatore and he
| sings just like my cousin Carus.' He
| also looks the part. Standing for a
moment between the gyrations OF his
difficult task. dressed in small tweeds
and close sweater. Petty conjures up
the conjectures of just what would
! washerwoman look like in tights. But
Petty in his slough-foot shoes is "col-
1ege'' indeed and the real thing in the
yell business-and Washburn never
NTH AT TIT RR "