The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-08
Heaviest Handicap Football
Team Has to Consider.
TWO ARE INELIGIBLE
First 1t Was McVey, Now It's
Bishep.
ONLY FuIlback in School Stepped
by Technically.

I
eral and the Washburn athletic inter-
ests in particular, are again up IN arms
against the Washburn faculty, and the
lone evistine breach between the, two
| interests which widens and narroWs at
in+erva1s has increased to an alarming
latitude.
The latest trouble arises over the
action of the Washburn faculty which
in session last night voted Young
Jack" Bishop ineligible for this year
football team. Bishop has all along
been considered the only avalaoIe
man for fullback, and tins latesC &c.
ton of the faculty has only served 70
fan the glowing empers u
! The contention of the FACULTY is tnat
Rishon hasn't been taking enough
work. Bishop was in schoo! al A9S'
season, and is not working TOT d ue-
gree, but is combining ms sLuu19 eishnn
clusively to biological course. blsn Ic;p
has been taking all the work IN tnls
department which the college oIers.
and has attained high standaro %
scholarship. One OF the TUES ;s
e1ieibilitv provides that no student Is
e1isible for intercollegiate athletle
competition until he has competed
work equivalent to one term OF Nv 49,
hours Bishop completed WORK iass
season equivalent to sixteen nous
work, which would make him strlcty
e,igih1e The only ground on which
the faculty stands is that Blsnop ololi
take it all in one term -. 4ha
This following the action OF the
facuity a few days ago. in declaring
that McVey would not be eligible
even before McVey had started praS,
tice-only makes the student pooF All
the more antagonist1c.
four years, in fact ever since the new
Kansas conference rules were aooPteu'
have felt that the faculty mas Deen too
strict, and that it has peen lnslstis
Uith bulldog determination on the let
fer instead Of the spirit of the law. AS
an example of contrast, the WashouLn ~
Students today point to the action OF
the faculty of the State AgricuLtuLaii
two Of her doubtful players as ehg1nies
for tomorrow's game with tie MI
souri, Tigers at Columbia -
The faculty's action seems TO De
Gripping the team more VIVA Inan footbaI hall
material is as scarce at Washburn as II
is this year. one mans absence from
the lineup, can make a materlal uAIeI
ents delighted in telling how the team
defeated the opposing team togetner
with the Washburn faculty.
AS the team now stands there is not
an available man for the. fulloack posi-
tion. In tomorrow's game with the
state Normal, Whitcomb, who has
never been behind the line, Will try
himself at fu1lback. Foster might be
developed as fullback but would %
slow one. Foster will likely not be In
tomorrow's game anyhow. He has
been at his home in western Kansas for
several days on account of the death or
his mother and would be In no cond1-
ton to play tomorrow. If Whitcomb
fails to deliver the team will be In
decidedly deplorable condition. The
back field is hard up for material and
the ban of the faculty imposed on two
of the most promising candidates, won't
alleviate conditions in the least.
Play Wentworth Monday.
A game Monday between the Wash
burn second team and the Wentworth
Military academy team. to be played at
Lexington. Mo, was announced this
morning by Manager Glenn Millice of
the Washburn football team. All the
players who have not earned the 'W's"
which enti1e the holder to rating as
first men, will be taken along. This
game should be of considerable inter-
est for the Wentworth team earlier in
the week defeated the Kansas univer-
sity second team by a decisive score.
Last season Wentworth won from a
similar Washburn team by kicking a
field goal