The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-01
Washburn and College of En-
pOria Contest Today.
The Enthusiasm Has Not Been
Equaled Since 1904.
LINE is A BEEFY ONE.
"DOc" Stewart Optimistic Re-
garding Seasons Outlook.
Feeling Of Certainty Among
Supporters of the Blue.

SuDUUl VI GuO OluCs
The Washburn athletic park isl
ahutter with pennants and ribbons of
blue this afternoon as the students
and football fans pour into the stands
for a first sight of the team in action.
Not since 1904 has the opening of the
season witnessed such enthusiasm. The
feeling of certainty that the Blue has
come back into its own class again is
a rousing one to the supporters who
are accustomed to see it in the cham
pionship running.
That the depression, which the fail
ure of football in the last two sea-
sons at the Washburn camp cast upon
athletics is rapidly being forgotten is
everywhere apparent. Only talk of the
brilliant prospects can be heard about
the campus or in tanning bees down in
the city. Never was a coach so popu-
lar among both the college and city
folk as is the jovial, peppery DR..
Stewart
And his optimism is well founded.
The slight disappointment at the fail
ure of Walworth and Willard to return
to college and the return of He'll to
Kansas has been forgotten in the sight
of the big bunch of fast and beefy
fellows now training on the college
turf.
out of the squad of nearly forty
players nineteen evenly weighted men
have been selected by Coach Stewart
for the process of elimination. Of
thse nineteen every one is eligible to
play under Missouri Valley rules and
the strongest team Washburn has will
be the one which will meet Kansas un-
der those rules. Another year in all
probability, will find WaShburn in
cIuded in the Missouri Valley confer
ence with (. good freshman team back
ing it. The college has, in spite of it's
smaller enrolment, aimed at that con-
ference requirements for years and has
maintained good team to meet K. y.
under those rules.
NIcCarroH VIII Lead Team.
Captain Ralph McCarrou will lead
the team onto the field and start the
game at quarter. McCarrou has been
with the Washburn team two years,
but to date has been handicapped by
injuries and has not shown the class
which he is known to possess.
Half back Tomhnson has been stay
ing after practice many nights per-
fecting his place kicking. From 25
yards back to 45 yards, he has become
reasonably sure of goal and in prac-
tice is considered marvel. Whether
he will be able to do as well or any
where near as well in a game probably
will be proven this afternoon. If he
is, one of the strongest possible scor-
ing devises will have been effected.
The punting will be left to Hardy when
terbacks McCarroll or Crumbine will
boot the ball.
The game ought to prove fair try
out for the new rules. That all de-
ponds whether or not the visitors have
the possible new formations and
whether Coach Stewards men have
them learned well enough for a fair
trial. Simply that the game will be
divided into four quarters and the for
ward pass be allowed to go but 20
yards can not be considered a test of
the new rules as seems to be the popu-
lar conception. If the teams do not
take advantage of new and great pos
Eibilities the new rules should not be
condemned.
Rules Not to Erect Spectators.
But the worry about the new rules
is far beyond their effect on the game.
It is a football game still and the aver
rule had been tempered. Should
old Glenn Haughey be in the game
and tackle standing on the ground
anyone who ever saw him play would
know something had gone wrong but
for the average Kansas tackle no
change will be noticed in that division
of the game. In fact, Coach Stewart
was heard after practice last night
asking Prof Woods, the astronomer,
to train his telescope just over the
football field and scan the sky for pic
lures of Washburn's eyebrow tackling.
The WaShburn lineup as given out
by Coach Stewart for today is as fol-
lows: Left end, Dunn, Whitcomb; left
tackle, Titus, Mcintosh; left guard,
Rogers, De Frantz; center, tombstone,
De Frantz; right guard, Realm, Snick;
right tackle, tombstone, McIntire;
right end, Lee, Cowgirl; fu1lback, Nc
F'arland, Whitcomb; left half, Tomlin-
son, Burkhart; right half Hardy,
Franklin.
The lineup of the College of En-
poria includes the following IT names
forwarded to the eligibility committee:
Lyons, Ross, Odana, Polk, Oliver, He
grieVer, Engle, Marley, Palmer, Weld
rick, Bracken, J. Bracl1en, L. Willis,
Tits, Frazer, Granger, Briggs.
The lineups of the two teams was
as follows:
Washburn Seconds-Cowgill and
Weatherby, left end; Rogers, left
tackle; Smick, left guard; Brown,
center; Johnstone, right guard; Dimon,
right tackle; Harrington, right end;
Leland, fullback; Smiley, quarter;
Manga, left half; Palmer, right half.
Wentworth-Hoge Sutherland, left
end; Mckinney, left tackle; Strickland
Hedrick, Left guard; Jacobia, center;
Gundlach, right guard; Button, right
tackle; Postell, right end; Roberts,
fullback; Campbell, quarter; ILL., left
half: Workman, right half.
Summary: Touchdown, Rogers;
field goal, Martin; time of periods, 10
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