The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-21
NORMALIS COMING
will Clash on Washburn Field
on Saturday Afternoon.
Game Expected to BE One of
Unusual Interest.
TEACHERS WILL ROOT
Coach Stewart Working to Wipe
Out Team Defects.
TEACHERS WILL ROOT
College Has Student MatricuIat.
ed Only in Football.

From the thousands of Kansas school
teachers gathered in Topeka it is quite
likely that the state normal football
team from Emporia will draw as many
rooters as will the Washburn team
when the two clash in the annual grid
iron battle on Washburn field Saturday.
That the game will be one of unusual
interest for that reason and because the
two teams are evenly matched this sea-
son, is undoubted
BY their defeat of Fairmont a week
ago the normal has come to be feared.
The smashing Kansas Aggies defeated
the normal team % to o but spectators
say they We're given a raw deal at
Manhattan and that half the score
would have been more than the farm
ers earned. If that is true then Wash
burn, who were defeated last Saturday
by the Ottawa bunch, has good reason
for fear.
Coach Stewart has been working his
men early and late in an attempt to
wipe out the defects in the teams work
week ago. The cool weather has
helped him by giving his warriors new
life. All week they have worked hard
er than ever before and accomplished
more than in the previous fortnight. 1t
is quite safe to say, spectators at the
WaShburn field will not witness again
such miserable tackIing on the part of
the Blue or such erratic handling of
punts as that seen in the last game.
While the team has been shaken up
to a great extent and crippled by the
loss of injured players, it probably will
have more snap and vim than it has
halves and those conceded the regular
positions, Hardy and Tomlinson, proba-
bly, will not be in the game at all. Hardy
is scarcely able to walk on account of
his knee which was Wrenched in the
Ottawa game and Tomlinson, who seems
always to have something wrong with
him, now has a peculiar pain in his
right side which the doctors have been
unable to diagnose.
In their places Burhart, who always is
on the job with all he has, and a new
tryout, Ben Franklin, probably will be
used as DR.. Stewart has worked them
there all week. WhitcOmb is being drill
ed for fullback and Jim Mcfarland rel
egated to the bench warmers. Big De
Frantz, besides having an liberated heel
on his left foot struck his right one on
a lonk spike Wednesday and is wearing
bedroom slippers. His chance to get
in the game Saturday, therefore, is
slight. Jerry tombstone is filing the
bill at center in his stead. Dick Lee
was bruised and battered so badly last
week that together with an liberated
foot he has been laid up and sent to the
hospital corps. Harrington will try to
fill his shoes.
A real vital change is the shifting of
Capt. McCarron from his command of
the team at quarter to right end. In
this position he has been showing fine
form in scrimmage work. He easily is
the best tackler on the squad and now
that his Charleyhorse has been worked
out he is showing good speed in get
ting down the field The problem of
the ends is one that most worried DR..
| Stewart and the McCarroll shift seems
to be about what was needed.
Crumbine has been sent in at quar-
ter and is running the team in great
shape. Each days experience to Crum-
bine, who is a new player, means a
great deal and he is learning fast. DR..
James Stewart, the niftiest little quar-
| ter Washburn ever had, was out help
| ing his brother whip Crumbine into
shape. His individual coaching seemed
to be of great benefit and the little
quarter got the team into smoother
running order almost Immediately. Nc
Intyre has been sent back to tackle
after a days work at end and Titus