The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-03
/. COACH IN SIGHT.
E. b. Wingard, of Carlisle,
Selected by Washburn.
Only Awaits His o. X. on the
Proposition.
HAS A GOOD RECORD.
Won the Championship of South
at Louisiana.
Spring Practice to Be Held and
Spirit Awakened.
HAS A GOOD RECORD.

The football sky at Washburn is
clearing at last. It looked for q
while as If the college crowd had gone
to sleep on the job of getting a man
to take the place made vacant by
the resignation of DR.. Garfield Weede,
the Pennsylvania man who has coach
ed the local football squad for three
years. Good coaches are scarce, and
, it is especially hard for a small school
| like Washburn to get a man who will
turn out team satisfactory, both to
the students themselves and to the
town people who support the team.
That's why the local football bugs
have been kicking lately because the
college board having charge of the
matter didn't hire coach last fall.
But it looks now as though the next
week would definitely settle the ques-
ton OF next seasons coach. E. r.
Wingard has been rendered the po--
sition and will undoubtedly accept.
Wingard is the man who was assistant
coach of the Carlisle Indian team
last fall. In 1908 he put out a team
at Louisiana university that took the
southern championship. They defeat
ed Haskell $50, cleaned up several
other teams by similar scores, and
won the championship title by beat
ing Auburn Tech 1873. They claimed
down there that Wingard was the
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also want him back at Carlisle. The
Indian team last year tied Pennsyl-
vania, and held the Harvard team
60. Wingard has the very highest
recommendations as to personal char
acter as well as to his ability to make
men work-which is badly needed In
short his reputation seems to be of
the highest.
The question naturally arises: Why
hasn't either Louisiana or Carlisle
Q1Fa9d U hired this if hn'
wonder?
The answer is this: Down south the
Intercollegiate Conference will dis
qualify coach If it is found that he
played a man whom he knew to be
ineligible because of the summer base
ball rule. Moreover the ruling is very
strict. A case like that of Smith, the
Fredoina, Kan, boy who played with
Michigan last fall. but who turned
out to have once appeared as a pro-
fessional wrestler, would start a riot
down there. And It seems that there
was a man on the s08 team at Louis
lana who had played summer ball.
Wingard was accordingly disqualified.
AS to thes Carlisle job-the govern
ment pays the coaches there, but they
don't pay enough. In fact Washburn
can offer more thanrWingard got last
| fall
All this looks as though Washburn
still has chance at a first rate man.
Another applicant who has some sup
port downtown is Coach Bell of the
Kirksville Normals in Missouri. Bell
| offers to coach and manage football,
basketball, baseball and track. His
reputation at the Missouri school is
very good.
Will Hold Spring Practice.
AS soon as a coach is secured,
| spring practice will begin, according
to the promises of the physical direc-
| tors. Spring practice is considered
iT1oTa Mt tn <I4 OF 1a.
never been tried here. Phil Roper,
the man, who made Missouri beat K.
Z. last Thanksgiving day, has his
squad of Princeton Tigers hard at
work already-he has been hired by
Princeton in the hope that Yale can
| be humbled next fall, and he is get
| ting an early start. The situation at
Princeton however, is not any more
desperate than it is at Washburn.
| Washburn's winning teams in past
years gave her a bigger reputation
| than she has been able to live up to
for the last two years. And the de-
mand now is for somebody who can
make things hum next fall.
Everything possible is being done to
get the Washburn players together
for hard work during the coming
months. Experts claim that the big
| gest difference between eastern and
western football is the difference in
spirit. And plans are being made to
| supply the lOcdl DunCH lID0Tdlly WIFI
what is lacking. The football boys
will have a separate table for them
selves and their girls at the big
| Washburn day banquet next Monday
night, and the downtown fans are ar
ranging for monthly feed for the
entire squad-scrubs and all.
If everything turns out as it is lin
ing up now there is still hope for at
least a fairly good team next season.
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