The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
Last Game on the Local GridirOn
Saturday.
LOOK TO THE AGGIES.
Will Make the Thanksgiving
Struggle a Real Battle.
Also Expect to Make Good Show.
ing With Tarkio.

developed or shown anything like the
| form they are capable of. the Wash
maintain that the Blue will round into
shape and tender somebody the worst
beating in their history.
| The Aggie game on Thanksgiving
even does not look so very. big. The
Tarkio game next week, even though
Tarkio did whip Des Moines, looks
easy to some. The game here Satur-
day, the last of the season on the local
field, ought to be easy. All three re-
naming games look alike to the opti-
mistic. In spite of all the reverseS Of
the past three weeks, the optimistic
spirit has returned. The poor show
ing of the Aggies against Creighton is
responsible for the brighter hopes in
the Washburn camp.
eff Coach Stewart just can get them
to working harder" is the wall of the
Blue. The consensus of opinion is that
the men loaf on the field and in prac-
tice and are not particularly diligent
in keeping in condition.
The game Saturday was scheduled
as a re-starter. In supervising the
schedule, Stewart planned to point the
( team to the Kansas game and then,
/ beginning over, point it toward the
Aggies. There was every confidence
that there was no possibility of defeat
before reaching the Kansas game. The
record shows two previous disasters.
Perhaps the second half of the
Washburn schedule will be an i'm
! provement Everybody is boosting for
it.. The aim of the whole college is to
hold the seasons record up by strong
finish. The squad is working hard in
the attempt and there are no reported
failures to report for practice. either
on the varsity or the scrubs. From
the fact that all the players are regu-
lar in practice and no scrubs drop out
of next years running is a bracer to
the fallen spirits.
The Washburn seconds who are not
wanted as subs in the Saturday game
will make the trip to Oberlin for the
Decatur county high school game. The
county high has not been defeated in
four years and has an eastern coach
They have been complaining that
everybody is afraid to play them and
wrote Physical Director Driver for a
game with some seconds. Driver had
a bunch running together which he
will send out There is every posi-
bility that the highs will come vic
torious One rumor is that they have
the best drop kicker in the state out
at the high school and other rumors
from the short grass indicate the
bunch is heavy.
The championship of the Missouri
Valley will be settled almost beyond
; a doubt when Nebraska swoops down
|, onto thu Kansas camp Saturday The
matched makes the game one OF the
most interesting battles in Missouri
Valley history.
Early season predictions pointed
steadfastly to Nebraska as the vic
tors. Now the favor has shifted
around toward the Kansas side. The
; reason is that Kennedy's bunch is COM
ing up all the time while Coles pro-
; teges are thought to be slipping. Tile
Kansas team showed vast improve
! in I10 WaShb1IrT and
handily giving life to the theory that
the team still is capable of improve
ment.
In Nebraska, the university played =
ragged game and scarcely defeated
; Doane. Only one touchdown was made
which is a lower score than the U ever
experienced in the annual game with
! the Congregationalists.
| Should Kansas win the game Mis-
souri, still can figure in the champion
: ship even though she was laid away by
;; Ames. Nebraska has no game with
Missouri and Kansas would have t.
! defeat Missouri Thanksgiving to hold
a clear title. Nebraska has not yet
played Ames but it is thought since
Morningside defeated the Aggies thai
the Ames bunch can not get in again..
So important and so close will the
game evidently be that both Kansas
and Nebraska are building soft beds in
| which to alight in case of defeat. Both
claim injuries, poor development and
, many other things which with their
predictions Of likely defeat are only
intended to let themselves out easy
| if the exit is necessary.
/ The first and only interstate football
game between Kansas and Colorado
will be played in Colorado Springs Sat.
urday with the Kansas Aggies repre-.
senting the state against Colorado col.
lege, the Tigers of the Rocky mountain
conference.
The Aggies probably have the bes
| team in Kansas allowing them the ad.
vantage of their rules. Colorado col
1ege may prove the best team in the
western state though the university i;
slated to defeat them. The dope or
the Saturday game is long way
around. The college beat the Mines
to O, the Mines beat the Aggies IL
to 6, Denver beat the Aggies % to O
Marquette tied with Denver and beat
Creighton Is to 8; the Kansas Aggies
won from Creighton 6 to 2. BY the
Colorado dope then the college is II
points better than Creighton and the
Kansas Aggies proved they were but
four points better. One line is dope6
and the other proven. There is sus-
picion however, that the Kansas team
really is much better than it's last
showing, while the college standing is
/ held up by the doubted strength Of
, Denver against Marquette. Owing tt
the fact that the game is to be played
! in Colorado the powerful Farmers are
expected to be somewhat handicapped
and a hard fought even game is the
outlook.