The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-01

Review of Saturdays II. u
Washburn Game by Expert.
SlOWnesS Of Kansas Team Stood
Out Prominently.
BLUEFOUGHT GAMELY
Mistakes of HeadwOrk Resulted
in Scores.
Lines of Both Teams Were Pune
tured Readily.
BLUEFOUGHT GAMELY
LRv George White.l

Although the Washburn- kansas
score was about as predicted by the
more conservative, so low prediction
as one touchdown would not have
been disappointment. Two touch
downs came to the red and blue by
individual mistakes ON the Washburn
team and by players who throughout
the game did the very best of heady
work against great odds. The Wash
burn enthusiasts were very well sat
isfied with the outcome. In fact they
were often elated over the play of the
Blue and only wished them little
more experience, confident that with
such they could easily turn the tide
Of the battle
But it was as Coach Weede said af-
ter the game although he was smiling
as if his team had done better than
to be hoped. They profited by our
mistakes. That is football. The first
touchdown came by K. u. getting the
ball after an on-side kick which a
Washburn player should have fallen
on near the goal line instead of trying
to pick it up. The second one came
by another player fun milling after
holding K. L. on the ten yard line for
downs. The ball should have been
pUrted out of danger by all means
The first play referred to by the
coach was in the first ten minutes of
play when Johnson for X. L. made an
onside kick to the five yard line. Nc
AdITOil ana ISODD III ITNlnS 10 DICK II
up allowed Johnson to recover it to
send Dahlene over on the next play.
The second instance was after Wash
burn had held X. Z. for downs near
the goal line. Instead of kicking out
Df danger Smiley called for play by
Burkhart who fumbled the ball,
Dahlene getting it and carrying it ov-
er for a touchdown. Had the ball
been punted as has been coached since
the first day Weede got to Topeka
that score might have been spared.
*. U. Team Is Slow.
There was much disappointment for
the X. U. loyalists in the city for they
are the least versatile bunch seen this
season. Their line is heavy and their
backs are heavy. In fact it is a great
big slow team with two plays carried
along by the force of weight. Those
back plunge in which Lovett and
Dahlene alternated for steady gains
of from two to six yards. Tommy
Johnson is the rest of the team. Oc-
casionally he ran away for fair gains
though he could not skirt the ends
with anything like consistency. Two
weeks ago at Manhattan where the
big guard and fullback could not gain
because the opposing line was just
rs heavy. Johnson became the whole
team and he only could gain. That
the h. u. team is slow aggregation
of the old style players was no better
Illustrated than in the Aggie game
where everything they had was GER
tainly unbottled and still consisted of
guard. a fulIback, and Tom Johnson.
Not that the Kansas team romped
at will through the Washburn line for
they did not in spite of their superior
weight of thirteen pounds to the man.
Washburn held them for downs five
times during the game when K. U.
refrained from kicking underestimate
Ing the SfTPnOfh nf ha oil
Three times the Washburn line held
within ten yards of the goal line. A
touchback made by Washburn four
seconds from the end of the first half
might at first thought be considered
streak of luck but the fact is that it
was the K. L. line being thrown back
which caused the tumble McCarroll
recovered.
Washburn Backfeld Did Well.
McCarrol, Smiley and Burkhart in the
back field played good football when
their task is taken into consideration It
was when Smiley had to be taken out
chances to score went glimmering That
necessitated McCarrolls going to quarter
player. who Guild not fill the bill. Robb
and I.arimer at ends effectually stopped
of Johnson. And the line although
pierced off the tackle positions by the
fierce attacks. was never thrown back
more than few yards, under the excess
of weight. johnson at guard. put in at
the last minute before the game without
much warning. staid the whole game
through and Showed signs Of becoming
the line man to which his stature en-
titles him.
But neither was the x. U. line i'm
pregnable. Titus on his tackle swing
went through repeatedly for good gains
and once or twice Benton did as we'll
Whitconlb from fullback position almost
always found his way blocked before he
got to the line. On end runs Burkhar 1T
and McCarroll made long gains freauent-
~.
Washburn used the onside kick fire.
quently, but had the misfortune to see ii
roll out of bounds almost every time and
at no time did they recover it On the
other hand, those tried by Kansas were
recovered twice for good gains. Owing tc
the high wind. the forward pass, a strong
point of the Sons of Ichabod, could moi
be used safely. Only once was it used
That once NippS tagged the ball and Lar.
inner fell on it, but the play was illega
and the ball went to X. L.
In the punting department McCarrol
gets the honors over Johnson his punts
during the last stages of the game aver.
aging So yards.
The sentiment after the game was thai
Washburn had done well under the cir.
cumstances, while Kansas, although MOI
to be denied that she has a good team
was predicted a defeat either at Ne.