The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-12
Washburn Football Team Tried
With New Faces.
Is Shifted From Gen.
ter to Tackle.
WHITCOMB AT FULL.
Handles the Team at
Quarter.
Smick Takes Roberts Place in
the Line.

The first general shakeup of the
Washburn football team occurred last
night when Coach DR.. Stewart lined
the men up in new positions and sent
some strange material into the forma-
lions. The crowd Of rooters gathered
to watch the practice were at a loss to
account for it and just what the doe
tor means is not known.
In the first place Ernest Titus. for
two years right tackle on the Varsity,
was shifted from his well earned place
to center and DeFrantz sent into
tackle. Smick, who since the first
week of strenuous work, has been laid
out with "charlie-horses," was put
back into the lineup at right guard,
displacing Rogers. Whitcomb was pull
ed back from left end to fullback and
Cowgirl substituted. Mcfarland was
sent into quarter and Weatherby ran
at left half.
With that lineup the Varsity was
matched against the academy team,
the freshmen team and the scrub
bunch by turns. Fifteen or twenty
minutes of hard fast scrinnmage COM
pletely tired each opposing team and
they retired from the field. Every
thing DR. Stewart has invented in the
way of plays was tried out by the new
combination with success. The bunch
has all the ginger in the world it would
seem and are fast reaching an untir-
ing condition which Stewart has been
striving at all season.
Hardy and Tomlinson Out.
That DR.. Stewart intends to point
the team just as he lined it up toward
the Ottawa game Saturday was the
consensus of opinion. Hardy and Tom
iinson may get in but the practice OF
the past two nights seems to show
fear on the part of Coach Stewart that
h.,oI f13f
condition rather than better and he is
working them out by easy stages.
The secret of the change may lie in
the fact that in the game with Baker
Saturday the right side of the Wash
burn line leaked frightfully and allow
ed many Baker gains. DeFrantz IS
expected to be able to hold any tackle
he may come against and stop that do
feet in the line. Whether Smick will
fill the guard bill is not so certain.
Another reason for getting De Frantz
at tackle is TO enable him to carry the
ball, probably. The big fellow has lot
of speed in spite of his weight ana
ought to make a ground gamer.
Ottawa, Normal, and then X. U. is
the way the football fanatics of the
local gridiron put it and all interest
seems to be centered in the Kansas
game. In fact, that game and the
game Thanksgiving Day with the A3-
gies are the two big games of the Blue
are being made for the excursion to
Manhattan on Turkey day Guy Card
ner of the U. p was around College
hill last night making arrangements
about the train and found prospects for
great holiday crowd. Slowly the
prospects for a great season at Wash
burn brighten. The students wait
anxious1y for each successive Saturday
for a further hint on the outcome of
the two big games. The fair co-eds,
who until the last two days have hard
ly dared to come upon the field, are
turning out in numbers. They apper-
emily have been afraid of the terrible
rough players and are only awakening
to an appreciation of their influence.
NormaIs Here October. ~.
The Kansas State Normal football
game scheduled by Washburn for No
vember 5, has been moved up to Oc-
tober %, in order that the game may
be played during the convention of
school teachers in Topeka. The change
was made both from a financial point
and for the entertainment of the states
pedagogues whose pride is the state
normal school at Emporia.
The Manhattan Aggies defeated the
Normal team % to 0 last Saturday,
scoring IL points in each of the first
and third quarters. The Aggies have
the strongest and oldest team in their
existence and were confidently expect
ing to beat the teachers at least 60