The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-02
Team in Bad Shape From Wash
burn Game.
LOYett, the Star Guard, Has a
Wrenched Knee.
CALDWELL is SPOILED
Former Tackle Has Proved
Failure at End.
Nebraska Situation Is COnSid-
cred a Grave One.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 2.-Immediate-
1y after the game in Topeka last Satur-
day. Mosse asked his men if any were
hurt. So far as the assistant coach
could learn none was injured to any
extent; but now since the smoke ana
din of the battle have cleared away. it
develops that John Lovett, the big right
guard, who did the effective work for
Kansas in the washburn game, has Il
wrenched knee. And though he was
the mightiest Jayhawker in Saturdays
game. to put him on the field now he
could not do as much as a high school
player.
Kennedy may be forced to use Loyett
in the Nebraska game. Even though
Iovett cannot be used to carry the ball.
he will be placed in the position of right
guard, simply to block that hole in the
line. Everywhere at Kansas now is the
preparation for the Nebraska game
But with Lovett in the condition that
he is. 1t has thrown more or less of
wet blanket over the team The line
is known to be the weak part of the
Jayf1aWker machine.
Bill Caldwell who played such
splendid game all of last year at tackle,
IS not himself this season Caldwell
knows this and more. he knows why.
1t is because Kennedy thought that he
could make an end out of Caldwell. In
the first five games of this year the
Kansas coaches tried Caldwell at end.
but the good natured tackle proved to
the coaches that end was not his place.
Now Caldwell has been spoiled and he
ISN'T playing his old position with any
thing like the form he used to. In the
Washburn game the first down of the
battle Smiley went through Caldwell
for twenty yards; and in the second
down of the game, Burkhart for the
Congregationalists went through Cald-
well for eighteen yards. After that
Caldwell settled down but anyone IA
niliar with the veterans style of play,
could readily discern that Caldwell was
not beginning to put up the game he
did a year ago.
Line Is Weakened.
1t is the line that makes up the
fundamental part of a team and with
a weak line it makes no difference how
fast or strong the backfield may be,
an eleven is doomed. Kennedy said
that it was his fault that Caldwell is
not playing up to his old form. The
coach assumes all the blame for it. But
if Lovett shouldn't be able to so much
as be used in the lineup Saturday, what
will become of Kansas? This seems to
be the situation. The backfield isn't
worrying Kennedy SO much since Ma
gill has been discovered but scarcely
did Magill, the new man, get in the
limelight before Bond, the only veteran
halfback on last years team. was rele-
gated. Bond has not been himself all
season and every other first team man
was used in the Washburn game except
Bond. Jay Bond did not so much as go
to Topeka with the team but followed
later in the day.
The Nebraska situation is grave. The
students have not fully realized the
weakness of their team: for it is al
most impossible to get the students to
realize that the team is weak until a
game is lost. The Washburn victory
looks big to the students, but none
realize the difference between Wash
burn and Nebraska, better than the
coaches.
Kennedy Talks of Missouri.
Coach A. r. Kennedy, who spent Sun
day in Iowa City witnessing the Iowa
missouri game, said that the Tigers
should have had another three points,
thus making the score 16 to II. "They
missed a field goal by a very narrow
margin said Kennedy, land all in ali
Roper had the better team. I never
saw a Missouri team that was coached
so well as the one this year and in
stead of waiting for things to happen,
IT goes right and makes them happen
1T didn't seem to me that Iowa played
as good ball as it did against the Ne
braska team the week previous"
Fred Lake Resigns Boston Berth.
Boston, Nov. 2.-The announcement