The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
IN BEST FORM.
Washburn Holds Final Practice
for TarkiO Game.
Stewart Pleased With Team
Work and Condition of Men.
THE FIGHTING SPIRIT.
Stake TarkiO or Don't Never
Come Back Home"
Important Games in the East
and West Tomorrow.
THE FIGHTING SPIRIT.


The last scrimmage of the Wash
burn football team before the Tarkio
game was held last night. The new
lineup ran through the plays and
through the scrubs in a manner which
led onlookers to say that team ought
to beat everything they met Light SIG
nal practice tonight will finish off the
bunch for the trip to Kansas City in
the morning.
That the team will put up the best
exhibition of football to date is certain.
The men are all in good condition and
have finally learned what team play
means. '"On the high school team and
little town teams j have played on,
each one of us did what he saw to do.
Here we have to do the same thlng
every time a certain play is called or
the opponents come q certain way. L
have just found out that when l do
my stunt some other fellow does the
! rest. That's team work. said one of
the new men last night. The rest of
them have said practically the same
| thing.
! In fact, it has taken this much time
from the season to teach the men
team work They thought each was
responsible for the whole game and
had to get over it and do one thing
we'll. Coach Stewart has had an over
burden of the rudiments to teach but
| If the bunch really has solved the team
play then he has accomplished world
| of good for the next season..
While the main object for the team
now is the Aggies, Thanksgiving, they
are coached to take the Tarkio game
or never come back. That game has
| to be annexed for the sake of re-
spectacle showing. Hope is entertain
| ed of then being able to take the Man
haitian contest but the proves shown
| by the old six year players up there
leaves but slim chance of getting past
with 1t.
| The defensive work of the Blue Sat
urday will be better than anything
they have done yet. Each game has
served to instill a knowledge of the
art of breaking up passes and split
bucks which Coach Stewart tried re-
peatedly to give them by lecture. His
| lectures and their instructions quickly
left the players when the actual play
was pulled off on them. There will be
regular football game in Kansas
City Saturday.
The Washburn lineup is as follows:
Left end. Cowgirl; left tackle, McIn-
tosh; left guard. Johnstone; center,
De F1rantz; right guard, Realm; right
tackle, Rogers: right end, McIntire;
quarter. McCarroll, capt; left half,
Hardy; right half, Burkhart; fullback.
| Nc Farland.
| Nebraska is expected to hoist the
Missouri Valley championship rag to-
morrow night by beating the Ames
| Aggies, who play at Lincoln. Nebraska
has won everything in the Missouri
Valley conference so far and defeat
bv the Aegies is unlocked for, No
better team than the Cornhuskers II
this season has been seen in the valley
for years. The defensive line coached
| through the games by Center Collins
effectively blocks the opponents at
tacks by concerted effort and on Of
| holds the hacks
together and times the attack to a
nicely. The machinelike work is
easily the best in the valley.
But should Ames win and then Mis-
souri, defeat Kansas THANKSGIVING,
there would be a mix up in honors.
Then Ames would have clear title
but for Iowa, who beat the Aggies.
Yet Missouri won from Iowa and
would have a stout claim to honors.
Again, should Kansas win from Mis-
souri,, Ames beating Nebraska, then
Kansas even though beaten by Ne
! braska would have claim to the top
round It is up to the Cornhuskers to
| beat Ames and there is very little
doubt that they will.
The Kansas university bunch goes
! down to Oklahoma City tonight to play
Oklahoma university Saturday. The
Sooners are primed for the Jayhawkers
but Missouri a fortnight ago at Jop-
lin, showed them to be lacking in the
II finer points of the game. Missouri won,
IS to 0. That is the largest score the
Valley teams have been able to pile Up
on Benny Owens bunch since he wen.
there four years ago.
Oklahoma it is said, would like 20
get in on the Missouri Valley confer
ence To do that they must make a
creditable showing and that they in
| 70 with Kansas If the JAY
hawkers have not recovered from then
defeat by Nebraska, Bennys buncf
may have a chance.
In the far east the big noise will bt
at Princeton when Yale goes down Sat
urday TO have their annual battle will
the Tigers. 1t is almost sure to be
great shout for the Tigers and louC
wall for Yale but Old Ell has beer
known to turn decisively on the Ilgel
and some dOpesterS still THINK IL can d
done tomorrow.
Harvard meets Dartmouth at Cam
bridge Were Harvard not so strong
there would be cause for her to worr!
for Dartmouth sometimes wins and al
ways is apt to. Dartmouth is consld
/ cred the hardest fighters of all thu
/ secondary teams and the Crimson VII
I likely not find a WalkoVer.
The Saturday battles in Colorado ar
| the Mines against wyoming in Denver
I Denver q. against Utah at Salt Lax
City: Colorado college against the Ag
giles at Fort Collins Colorado univer
sity was scheduled to play the colleg'
| tomorrow but the recent smallpox cpl
i demic in Boulder forced the cancella
1 ton of the game. The college, which
holds first chances at the pennant wit.
the u out. refuses to play postponed
/ game and thereby cuts the unfortunate
Boulder aggregation out of a chanc
at the honors The Farmers and TIL
college arranged to play on Boulder
date, tomorrow.
III Oft but never too oft, repeated ad
vice was that given the Colorado Tiger
/ after their defeat of the strong Kansa
Aggies last Saturday. Coach Rothgeb'