The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
Popular Coach Is Re-engage,
by Washburn.'
Turned Out Two Winning Foot
ball Teams in Three Years.
PROSPECTS ARE GOOD
Plenty of New Material on Hand
to Form Strong Team.
Finances Are in Better Shape
Than Ever Before.

Dr. Garfield w. Weede. who has been
coaching the Washburn college foot
ball team for three seasons past, will
again be at the head of the Blue squad,
his services having been re-engaged for
next season. This news will be received
with approval by all the football fans
of Topeka who have placed more than
ordinary dependence on the ability OF
DR.. Weede to turn out winning teams.
Nv securing weede the Washburn
authorities have fortified themselves in
the football line, for there are few if
anv football mentors in the state who
have done more than DR.. Weede- He
came TO Washburn in 1906, new to the
material and the strength OF kansas
teams. That year but for nuke oe-
feat his team would have had per-
feet record, and that huke was over
looked when the final reckoning for the
Kansas championship took place. Dur- -
ing that season Weede's proteges met
three state universities. which at that
time numbered among the heaVlest
teams in the west. All three-Colorado,
Kansas and Oklahoma were held TO W
scores. -, to4+or and
4,rned ont a team that went through
the entire season undefeated' ooW ~ 8
the naughty Jayhawkers ana an olIo
teams of the state in an easy NJ
1,1ted honors in the state, but We're
recognized by the authorities as stai stain;
ING tied with Nebraska for mlssoui4
valley honors. 49,. wash
H,,,,.T1 team was not so good. The Blue
80 several times humbled. But II
wasn't Weede's fault-it was due 70
scarcity of material with which TO Iornh
q winning football machine. IherS Mei re
a few good men on hand, but parely
enough TO keep good men in the game
ali the time All of the varsity men
with but a single exception were ILL., Ia.,
the weather and out OF condltloh hefhi
1r ALL season Washburn also hau
5aoIrv schedule and owing to the con-
dition of the team, the players We're
forced to take things easy ana saw
themselves for future games. ne -
was of course q little knockhS. Pu DIV
inst 10 show what the team couid 40
and TO demonstrate the amount or tram
ing received, in the THANKSGIVING satIie
against Oklahoma, Weede lnstructeu hIs
men to save themselves from hotnIns
and the result fully Justlneu those wiz
had stood by Washburn. ,,e
This wear the conditions Will be OH
farent Coach Weede will find larger
amount of material on hand. But rev
of the stars of last seasons team arr
rome. and there are men almost as gooc
- tsl<e their places. There will be {
sufficient number OF good candidate!
on hand to fill the vacant places ant
Insure a goodly number LETT on IN
SQUAD to fill the vacancies when VII
Inevitably come from time to time.
The football outlook at Washburn 10
the coming season is bright. There ar
a lot of new men who were lnehglpi
last fall who will make good men TO
ahe team this season. There wer
onIy three of last seasons team wh
have graduated or who will be lnellgl
bile this fall.
Then there is the athletic debt unde
which the school has been laboring 70
over four years. 1t was originally II,
600 Int has been cut down to the neigh
borhood of $400. With proper manage
nssnt This debt should be wiped out thi
season with money left.