The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
Washburn Squad Starts on Long
Trip to Rockies Tonight.
Will Play the Denver UniVer-
sity Team Saturday.
EIGHTEEN PLAYERS
Large Squad Is Necessary Re-
cause OF High Altitude.
Game Will Be Featured by Open
Play on Both Sides.

Tonight eighteen athletes, represent
ing the cream of the Washburn football
squad, will leave Topeka over the
Union Pacific for Denver, where the
Blue will meet the Denver Ne .hodistf
Saturday afternoon, in the first Kan
sas- Colorado interstate bate in three
years.
When practice was over last night
Coach Weede and Manager Glenn Mil
lice announced the players who are 70
make the trip. They are Smiley Hardy,
Foster, McCarroll. Robb, Larimer
Titus, Whitcomb, DeFrantz, Realm,
Whitney. Mcknight, tombstone, Ben
ton, Sears. Colville. Bishop, Burkhart,
Manager Millice, and Coach Weede.
The following lineup will start Tie
game for Washburn: Larimer, left emo
Whitcomb, left tackle; Realm, left
guard; Whitney, center; DeFTantz'
right guard; Titus, right tackle; Robb'
right end; McCarro1l, quarterback;
Hardy. left half; Smiley, right naif;
and Foster, fullback.
The team took the final practice last
night. which consisted for the most
part in running down under puntS al q
in handling the ball on forward passes.
a light scrimmage was held, in which
a slight shift Of the team was made on
the defensive
Coach Weede is hopeful of winning
from the MountaineerS. He has been
spending a lot of time in perfecting the
teams defense. and the fact that the
team has emerged from three games
without having a first down made rom
a scrimnage, augurs well for this de-
partment of the game. The game VIII
be featured as an open one, forward
passes being INDUCED in freely by both
sides. John P. Koehler, coach of the
Denver team, is a pupil of Stage of
Chicago, who is one of the greatest eX-
Founders of the open game. Koehler
spent the summer at Chicago with
Coach Stage, and is naturally well
versed in the different formations
necessary to work this play. In Kansas
Washburn has always been pointed to
as the open work team of the state.
Ever since the old game has been
abandoned. the forward play has been
ers for the Blue, and Coach Weede will
not hesitate to use it in Saturdays
game.
The presence of Robb will strengthen
the team. RObb is one of the best ends
in the state, but his injuries have kept
him out of the game all season. Robb
will take his old end position, and ire
ends will be better protected than be
fore this season. On the defensive
Robb will play the fullback position,
while Smiley will play quarterback.
Smiley is the best man on the team TO
return punts. McCarroll will play a
lose half and Foster, who will start
the game at fullback on the offensive,
will play the other half on defense.
The team will arrive in Denver at
noon tomorrow, and will take a light
practice in the afternoon on the Broad
way park grounds where the game viii
be played. The team will thus become
a little better acclimated. The light at
mosphere will likely affect the players
to some extent, and on this account
Coach Weede is taking a big list of men
along. all of whom will likely get into
the game changes being made in the
lineup whenever a player gets tired.
For the officials of the game Coach
chosen as referee. Louis Bansback of
Denver will act as umpire, c. G. Steele
an old Colorado School of Mines player,
will serve as field judge, and w. J. Nc
Carly of the Denver Post, will act as
head 1inesman.