The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-26
BLUES GO ON DIET.
Training Table is Established
at Elks' Club.
After Practice Dinners Now
Will Be the Result.
A BLACKBOARD COACH
Stewart Has New Method for
Developing Men.
Hospital Corps Still Holds Its
Full Quota.


With a hope of getting the players
into better condition. the washburn
football authorities have established a !
training table at the Elks' club for
after practice dinners. While the club
seems far away from the athletic field
and gymnasium, many of the players
live down town and ii was decided
upon as the most central place where
the sort of food desired could be OBJ
tanned. Sixteen men were named for
plates at the table and the first meal
there was taken last night Chef
Jacobs now is their diet chaperon and
the men have all praise for him.
Another idea embodied in the train
ing table is that of getting the men
together for blackboard exercise on
the plays and new rules. Coach Stew
art has had much difficulty in getting
each player to learn which of the OPP
ponents he is to try to take care of.
For that reason there have been many
disasters in former games. With the
blackboard, each one can be shown
easily what is expected of him.
The practice last night on the field
included slow scrimmaging. The hos
pital corps still holds its quota and
rough work is impossible with the re-
mainder. Tomlinson, Hardy, Lee
Reasin and McCarroll hardly will be in
| fit condition to play Saturday and can
take no training for the game. Whit
comb is taking the Rhodes examina-
tions at Lawrence this week and is
kept from practice for that reason.
A shock which Jared the Kansas
| game lineup and is direct result OF
the Missouri valley rules under which
the game is played was the announce
ment last night by the eligibility
boards representative, I. d. Card1ff,
THAT Jim Mcfarland is ineligible to
play in the Kansas game. McFarland
has been working at fullback, inter-
changing with Whitcomb when the
latter is placed at left end. With the
big blonde out of the contest. Coach
Stewart will have to- use substitute
ends. There are no reliable men who
can get down the field or tackle surely.
and the short time before the game Is
discouraging to the Blue.
The way hard luck and unexpected
troubles jump onto a team which is
down or losing is proverbial in foot
ball Washburn is getting its full
lshare all in a bunch. A little more
time may make the team show up well
again, but hope for Saturday is set
back by the shortness of just two days
ipractice.
Coach Cert Kennedy of the Kansas
squad however sure he is of victory
/ Saturday, when Washbllrn visits his
camp, is not letting confidence hinder
preparation. THE 5team and the uni
versity students and supporters are so
confident they are merely counting up
the K. U. touchdowns. Washburn al
ways did give the Jayhawkers a hard
Tight even when they played lfstless
ball against other teams 1t is that
(which Kennedy is watching for.
1t is the custom of the Kansas team
to develop late because of the late
heavy games. Washburn, already de-
Iveloped, has begun to go back. Play
ers are stale, stupid and in poor con-
: dition The original backfield is com
pletely broken up and the substitutes
are unable to fill the bill. The ends
as worked last week are about as good
as can be done and for fear of doing
=. worse no further shifts are likely to be
attempted. The lineup as made up fol
Normal probably will go against the
Kansas aggregation Saturday.
} While the Washburn and Topeka en-.
: thusiasts are respondent over the con-
dition of the Blue, there are many who
I will see them through the season, al
l Ways expecting something better. Il
is that spirit which has kept the loca
} | college on the map. Several hundred
people intend to go down to Lawrence
= for the game and come back that night
1 A special train has been granted by
: the Santa Fe for the excursion. 1t vii
3 leave Topeka shortly after the Kansas
:. City train or about 1870 and reach Law
renee in ample time for the game. The
2 return will be made directly after the
I contest.
I
t Nebraska, Kansas, Ames is the order
4 | in which the Missouri valley conference
football teams likely will run at the
/ close of the present season. missouri
t was edged out of the race last Satur'
t day by one point when Anes Aggies
whom Missouri has never beaten, WoI
y the battle 6 to 5.
; Dope is pretty strong to Nebraska
. over Ames by the showing of eacf
: against Minnesota and by Nebraska
I victory over Denver Saturday last. Ne
> graska has mighty line and good de.
! tense but Ames has some poWerfu
! braska has a mighty line and good de-
; the backfeld and may not be able t
: break through the Ames defense ever
= though it is weaker. Kansas gets in or
: the championship Of the valley very
: easily. She does not have to play eth
9 | er Ames or Iowa and now that MIS-
: souri, is counted out, the Nebraska
: | Kansas game at McCook field Novem
I Der 5, should Nebraska win from Ames
will be the K. us one hope and only
contest necessary. Should Nebraska
win and then be dewned by Arnes OF