The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-27

eastern football teams rank today, ac-
cording to Ted Coy, the famous Yale
player and head coach.
AS yet Harvard has not been scored
on" Coy says, land has proved great
ground gaining team. Her line is a
heavy, heady machine of unknown
power, but great power without doubt
while her back field is as fast and
clever as any working together this
season. Yale has proved a disappoint-
ment throughout. It seems hardly
possible with the material that she has
at hand that she will prove up to the
stuff at the end OF the season.
New York and Boston papers give
Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt eleven
credit for being a better trained and
better playing eleven than Yale and
claim that if the southern team had
possessed punter, they would have
defeated the fasteners in the first
meeting between the two sections. The
papers also credit the southerners with
being the best kind of sportsmen, as
! time after time their rush for the
Yale goal was stopped by heavy pen
| atty. Vanderbilt is universally given
credit for being the better eleven, and
the Yale team will get little encour-
agement for their meeting with the
J Harvard team except from their own
supporters.
Bad headwork on the part of the
ale captain ana cOdcn are given d
large part in the report of the game.
The game is largely victory for
Coach McGugin, who as the only west
ern coach in the entire south has had
to fight all of his associates, not only
in the matter of football problems, but
in the matter of officials, every Off
ciaI in the south being an eastern man.
McGugin was born and raised at Ting
ley, Ia, received his academy and col
legiate work at Drake, where he was
later went to Michigan, where he was
one of the great guards of that team.
He has been coach at Vanderbilt for
six years. in which time the team has
lost but a single game.
The Lincoln News takes an interest
! ing diving tackle at the Denver writer's
in regard to their reports of the Denver
drubbing by the Cornhuskers. The com
| ment follows:
! the newspaper critics are the hardest
sort of losers, being forced to the in
vention of the lamest sort of excuses
in an endeavor to explain away the
triumph of the Cornhuskers by an over
| whelming score. The Post says:
| GLOON hung thick and heavy out at
D. U. Saturday afternoon when it was
announced that the Ministers had gone
| down in defeat before the Cornhuskers
| by a score of 27 to 0. Local enthusl-
asts were not expecting a D. U. VIC
tory, but they hardly were prepared
for a runaway score like that.
Deacon Koehler probably figured
that the team would jeopardize its
chances for future games by putting
up too stiff a defense against the Corn
thuskers and advised his men to take
things easy
"To take things easy is rich with
| humor. The Denver players as mat
| ter of fact, We're completely played out
when the final whistle was sounded.
Crowley, their hustling captain, was
| on the verge of physical exhaustion.
The Denver Times, meanwhile, resorts
| to a deliberate fake. 1t printed the
following yesterday:
Coach Koehler and his Denver uni
versity squad have no excuses to Of
fer for their defeat at the hands OF
Nebraska by score Of q to 0. The
boys returned from Lincoln yesterday
| afternoon. They declared that they
simply went up in the air at the be-